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Digital Content Annotation
and Transcoding
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Digital Content Annotation
and Transcoding
Katashi Nagao
Artech House
Boston * London

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nagao, Katashi.
Digital content annotation and transcoding / Katashi Nagao.
p. cm. —(Artech House digital audio and video library)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-58053-337-X (alk. paper)
1. File processing (Computer Science). 2. Data structures (Computer Science).
3. Information storage and retrieval systems. 4. Digital media.
5. File conversion (Computer Science). I. Title. II. Series.
2003
’1—dc21 2002043691
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Nagao, Katashi
Digital content annotation and transcoding. —(Artech House digital audio and
video library)
1. Digital media 2. Multimedia systems
I. Title

ISBN 1-58053-337-X
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Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
1 Introduction: Survival in Information Deluge 1
Digital Content Technolog