Using Mpeg-4 Scene Description for Offering Customizable and Interactive Multimedia Presentations

MPEG-4 (Coding of Audiovisual Objects) is a collection of standards that enables the creation of rich media. The latter are usually defined as multimedia content with local and client-server based interactivity, natural audio and video mixed with their synthetic variants, 2D and 3D graphics, scripting, ... In this paper, we will discuss how technology, as available in the MPEG-4 toolkit, can be used for the creation of advanced and interactive multimedia presentations. We hereby pay attention to their deployment in the current ecosystem of heterogeneous networks and devices. We also present some ideas on how to customize some of the scenes to the preferences of the end-user.