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NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 6, Big Data Reference Architecture

October 22, 2015
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang, Orit Levin, David Boyd, NBD-PWG NIST Big Data Public Working Group
Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information-driven world. While opportunities exist with Big Data, the data can overwhelm traditional technical approaches and the growth of data is

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 7, Big Data Standards Roadmap

October 22, 2015
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang, David Boyd, Carl Buffington , NBD-PWG NIST Big Data Public Working Group
Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information-driven world. While opportunities exist with Big Data, the data can overwhelm traditional technical approaches and the growth of data is

The NIST IAD Data Science Research Program

October 19, 2015
Author(s)
Bonnie J. Dorr, Peter C. Fontana, Craig S. Greenberg, Mark A. Przybocki, Marion Le Bras, Cathryn A. Ploehn, Oleg Aulov, Martial Michel, Edmond J. Golden III, Wo L. Chang
We examine foundational issues in data science including current challenges, basic research questions, and expected advances, as the basis for a new Data Science Research Program and evaluation series, introduced by the Information Access Division of the

MPEG-7 Multimedia-based Query Format

August 15, 2006
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang
Searching multimedia content for image, audio, and video is getting more attention especially for personal media content due to the affordability of consumer electronic devices such as MP3 recordable players, digital cameras, DV camcorders, and well

Embedding MPEG-7 Metadata Within a Media File Format

October 1, 2005
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang
Embedding metadata within a media file format becomes evermore popular for digital media. Traditional digital media files such as MP3 songs and JPEG photos do not carry any metadata structures to describe the media content until these file formats got

MPEG-7: Standard Metadata for Multimedia Content

October 1, 2005
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang
The XML metadata technology of describing media contents has emerged as a dominant mode of making media searchable both for human and machine consumptions. To realize this promise, many online Web applications are pushing this concept to its full potential

Embeding MPEG-7 Metadata Within a Media File Format

August 1, 2005
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang
Embedding metadata within a media file format becomes evermore popular for digital media. Traditional digital media files such as MP3 songs and JPEG photos do not carry any metadata structures to describe the media content until these file formats got

MPEG-A: A Step Forward in MPEG Standardization

August 1, 2005
Author(s)
Diepold Klaus, F Pereira, Wo L. Chang
MPEG standards are shaping the multimedia landscape since the beginning of the nineties. After the MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 multimedia coding standards, the MPEG-7 content description standard and the MPEG-21 multimedia framework standard, MPEG is taking

Web-Based Annotation Collaboration Tool

February 1, 2000
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang
The Web has emerged as a dominant mode of making information available and is increasingly seen as the medium to support collaboration across boundaries of geography and time. To realize this potential the Web must support viewing and manipulating of multi

Annotation Collaboration Tool via SMIL (ACTS)

July 26, 1999
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang
The Web has emerged as a dominant mode of making information available and is increasingly seen as the medium to support collaboration across boundaries of geography and time. To realize this potential, the Web must support viewing and manipulating of

Supporting Manufacturing Process Analysis and Trouble Shooting with ACTS

June 1, 1999
Author(s)
Michelle P. Steves, Wo L. Chang, Amy Knutilla
This paper presents a prototype tool called ACTS (Annotation Collaboration Tool via SMIL), which was designed to meet the user requirements of a distributed, collaborative team performing remote analysis of robotic welds. ACTS is a web-based collaboration

S2M2 A Java Applet-Based SMIL Player

December 17, 1998
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang, J Yu
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a simple but powerful declarative language, which extends the current multimedia technology on the Web with temporal synchronization capabilities. It uses the

Advanced Digital Image Archival System Using MPEG Technologies

Author(s)
Wo L. Chang
Digital information and records are vital to the human race regardless of the nationalities and eras in which they were produced. Digital image contents are produced at a rapid pace from cultural heritages via digitalization, scientific and experimental