RhythmPix: a multimedia composition and albuming system for consumer images

With the advent of new digital consumer electronic devices, the interest and demand for audiovisual media and content authoring has increased in recent years. The RhythmPix project is to explore, develop, and demonstrate technology for albuming and authoring of multimedia image content for playback on consumer electronic devices such as DVD players, as well as PCs. In this paper, we describe an end-to-end multimedia albuming system that we have developed as a platform for combining images and sound/music content. The three main functional modules-media composition, media encoding, custom recording, and related implementation issues, are described. A set of APIs has been developed for rapid system adaptation. Various user studies and focus groups have been conducted in the US and Asia to validate the concept and functionality of the system.