A MPEG-21 Based Architecture for Data Visualization in Multimedia Web Applications

The development of an open architecture for multimedia data integration and visualization in template based distributed applications is a challenge for the scientific researches. Because of characteristics of multimedia data, their management and querying techniques are unlike than those of traditional data. We can increase the potential use of multimedia data across various applications by storing and managing data using multimedia databases. A standard solution to define the architecture of multimedia systems assures the integration of multimedia web application with the other applications.The goal of the paper is to propose an architecture based on MPEG-21 (moving picture experts group) standard for various multimedia data types integration, managing and visualization into web applications.