Schedule of Discussions

• (March 31) Large scale media server project (ppt)   (ps)
• (April 2)Bolosky, et al., "Distributed Schedule Management in the Tiger Video FileServer". (ppt)   (ps)
• (April 4)Nelson, et al., "A Highly Available Scalable ITV System".
• (April 9)Lippman, et al., "Media Banks: Entertainment and the Internet".
• (April 9)Minneman, et al., "A confederation of tools for capturing and accessing collaborative activity".
• (April 14)D.P. Anderson, "Device Reservation in Audio/Video Editing Systems".
• (April 16)Flickner, et al., "The QBIC system".
• (April 21)Hauptmann, et al., "Informedia: News-on-Demand Multimedia Information Acquisition and Retrieval".
• (April 23) Nieh and Lam, "The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of SMART: A scheduler for multimedia applications", SOSP-16, 1997.
• (April 28) Jones, Rosu, and Rosu, "CPU reservations and time constraints: Efficient, predicable scheduling of independent activities", SOSP-16, 1997.
• (April 30)
  • Gemmel, et al., "Multimedia Storage Servers: A Tutorial", May 1995, IEEE Computer.
  • Reddy, et al. "I/O issues in a multimedia system", March 1994, IEEE Computer.
• (May 5) Invited Talk, Brian Eberman, DEC CRL (Abstract)
• (May 7) Vries, et al., "The design and implementation of an infrastructure for multimedia digital libraries." (This has details of DEC CRL's MediaVista project)
• (May 12) Invited Talk, Sardy Bernard, CNN Interactive (Video) (bbc) (quicktime) (Mag) (SMPTE)
• (May 14)
  • Natural Language retrieval of images based on descriptive captions, by Guglieimo, et al.
  • Color and Texture-based image segmentation using EM and its applications to image querying and classification, by Carson et al.
  • Indexing of Multimedia Data, Faloustsos
• (May 19) Class project review
• (May 21) Commercial media-oriented systems:
  • Apple's Quicktime
  • Real-Media Architecture
  • Magnifi Enterprise Server
  • Networked Non-linear Editors
• (May 26) "Stampede: A Programming system for emerging scalable interactive multimedia applications", DEC CRL
• (May 28) No meeting in class, students to explore different commercial media systems (such as RealMedia, Netshow, VIVO, QuickTime) on their own.
• (June 2) Students to present their investigation of commercial media systems (VIVO, QuickTime) through demos.
• (June 4)
  • Students to present their investigation of commercial media systems (RealMedia, Netshow) through demos.
  • Padhye and Kurose, "An Empirical study of client interactions with a continuous media courseware server"
  • A status report on current media oriented processor architectures, by Nissim Harel.