Documentation for MDS/Variation

Technique Variation Description Scheme
Document MPEG-7 Committee Draft MDS, see Variation DS
Name John R. Smith (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
EMail jrsmith@watson.ibm.com
Contact jrsmith@watson.ibm.com
Type Application
External Libraries none
Related Ds/DSs none
Used Ds/DSs none
Input none
Extraction Generates a description of variations of a source audio-visual program
Client Appl Selects a variation of an audio-visual program
Summary The Variation DS describes variations of a source audio-visual program
Strong Points The Variation DS describes the relative fidelity of the different variations, along with their media attributes. This allows selection of the best one for Universal Multimedia Access
Limitations none
Known Problems none
Parameters none