Harald Kosch - Distributed Multimedia Database Technologies Supported by MPEG-7 and MPEG-21

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DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA DATABASE TECHNOLOGIESSupportedMPEG-7 MediabyMPEG-21

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kosch, Harald.
Distributed multimedia database technologies supported by MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 / by
Harald Kosch.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-84930-1854-8 (alk. paper)
1. MPEG (Video coding standard) 2. Multimedia systems. 3. Distributed databases. I.
Title.
TK6680.5.K67 2003
006.7dc22
2003055582

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