A SMIL Browser with an Enhanced Image, Audio and Video Effect Library for Multimedia Rich Presentations

This paper describes the enhancement of SMIL 2.0 through the inclusion of a comprehensive set of multimedia processing effects that can be described through XML alike syntax. The enhancements are fully integrated with the time control module in SMIL 2.0 which provides the necessary object synchronization. Such enhancement not only results in better quality Internet presentation, the text based, XML alike syntax also improved the editing environment of the presentation. Furthermore, it improves the reuseability, and partial extraction of the Internet presentation.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

   Kathy Cheung, Cindy Hung, C. W. Kok & Mansun Chan

Editors and Affiliations

1. Microsoft Research China, 5/F Beijing Sigma Center 49 Zhichung Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100080, China

   Heung-Yeung Shum

2. Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

   Mark Liao

3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

   Shih-Fu Chang

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