Paper Info
Title
NinSuna: a fully integrated platform for format-independent multimedia content adaptation and delivery using Semantic Web technologies
Abstract
The current multimedia landscape is characterized by a significant heterogeneity in terms of coding and delivery formats, usage environments, and user preferences. The main contribution of this paper is a discussion of the design and functioning of a fully integrated platform for multimedia adaptation and delivery, called NinSuna. This platform is able to efficiently deal with the aforementioned heterogeneity in the present-day multimedia ecosystem, thanks to the use of format-agnostic adaptation engines (i.e., engines independent of the underlying coding format) and format-agnostic packaging engines (i.e., engines independent of the underlying delivery format). Moreover, NinSuna also provides a seamless integration between metadata standards and adaptation processes. Both our format-independent adaptation and packaging techniques rely on a model for multimedia bitstreams, describing the structural, semantic, and scalability properties of these multimedia streams. News sequences were used as a test case for our platform, enabling the user to select news fragments matching his/her specific interests and usage environment characteristics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s11042-009-0354-0
Multimedia Tools Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
BSDL,Format-independent,Multimedia adaptation,Multimedia delivery,Multimedia model,Semantic Web,XML
Metadata,XML,Multimedia delivery,Computer science,Semantic Web,Coding (social sciences),Multimedia streams,Multimedia,Content adaptation,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
46
2-3
1380-7501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
1.36
16
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Davy Van Deursen122528.22
Wim Van Lancker29411.20
Wesley De Neve352554.41
Tom Paridaens4495.91
Erik Mannens567199.58
Rik Van de Walle62040238.28