| Technique
| Variation Description Scheme
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| Document
| MPEG-7 Committee Draft MDS, see Variation DS
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| Name
| John R. Smith (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
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| EMail
| jrsmith@watson.ibm.com
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| Contact
| jrsmith@watson.ibm.com
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| Type
| Application
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| External Libraries
| none
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| Related Ds/DSs
| none
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| Used Ds/DSs
| none
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| Input
| none
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| Extraction
| Generates a description of variations of a source audio-visual program
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| Client Appl
| Selects a variation of an audio-visual program
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| Summary
| The Variation DS describes variations of a source audio-visual program
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| Strong Points
| The Variation DS describes the relative fidelity of the different variations, along with their media attributes. This allows selection of the best one for Universal Multimedia Access
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| Limitations
| none
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| Known Problems
| none
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| Parameters
| none
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