CS4624 Text - Ch 7

Key Ideas:

1. Handling multimedia extends the reach of automation, if proper workflow is devised for distributed processing (around documents, or mail, or transactions, or objects, or AI).

Outline:

AC Unit (pp. 380-421)

1. Application Classes
2. Types of Multimedia Systems
3. Virtual Reality
4. Components of Multimedia Systems
5. Organizing Multimedia Databases
6. Application Workflow Design Issues

NC Unit (pp. 421-432): Distributed Application Design Issues

• Networking and Communications: Location independence, Protocols and functions, Network independence, Extended networks
• Cache storage management: For multimedia objects, To manage workflow
• Compression and decompression: Integration in workflow, Traffic considerations, Storage and caching considerations
• Workflow integration of indexing and QC: Object indentification indexing, Content-based indexing, Voice and picture synch
• Annotation: Images, Sound and video