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Annotations for multiple versions of media content
Anoop Gupta,David M. Bargeron +1 more
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In this paper, multiple different versions of the same multimedia content are available to a multimedia server and an annotation server maintains annotations corresponding to the multimedia content, each such annotation corresponding to each of the different versions.Abstract:
Multiple different versions of the same multimedia content are available to a multimedia server. An annotation server maintains annotations corresponding to the multimedia content, each such annotation corresponding to each of the different versions of the multimedia content.read more
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