Is That a Fish in Your Ear? A Universal Metalanguage for Multimedia

Authors

Joseph Thomas-Kerr, University of WollongongFollow
I. Burnett, University of WollongongFollow
C. H. Ritz, University of WollongongFollow
S. Devillers, France Telecom
D. de Schrijever, Ghent University, Belgium
R. Van de Walle, Ghent University, Belgium

RIS ID

22876

Publication Details

This article was originally published as: Thomas-Kerr, JAI, Burnett, I, Ritz, CH, Devillers, S, De Schijver, D & Van de Walle, R, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? A Universal Metalanguage for Multimedia, IEEE Multimedia, 2007, 14(2), 72-77. Copytight 2007 IEEE.

Abstract

Universal Multimedia Access promises to adaptively deliver multimedia content to users according to their needs?whether it's their device, context, or preferences. Central to UMA is the development of metadata standards for describing multimedia resources to allow their adaptation. In this article, the authors report on the development of the Bitstream Syntax Description Language (BSDL) and describe applications for scalable content adaptation, format independent streaming, and delivery and configurable media coding.