This book constitutes the refereeed proceedings of the Third European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques, ECMAST '98, held in Berlin, Germany, in May 1998. The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book by the program committee. The topics covered include multimedia networks and protocols; coded representation of images, sound, and data; multimedia delivery on broadcast and telecom networks; servers and storage architechtures; advanced multimedia terminals and in house networks; multimedia services; Internet and multimedia scenario; and multimedia trials.
Author(s): Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Michael G. Strintzis (auth.), David Hutchison, Ralf Schäfer (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1425
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 540
Tags: Multimedia Information Systems; Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Communications Engineering, Networks
3D representation of videoconference image sequences using VRML 2.0....Pages 1-12
An autonomous sensor for 3D reconstruction....Pages 13-25
Incomplete 3D for multiview representation and synthesis of video objects....Pages 26-41
An execution architecture for synchronized multimedia presentations....Pages 42-55
Presenting multimedia on the web and in TV broadcast....Pages 56-69
MHEG-5 application development....Pages 70-82
The SICMA multimedia server and virtual museum application....Pages 83-96
A parallel continuous media server complying to the RTSP protocol....Pages 97-110
Media streaming in a multimedia annotation application....Pages 111-120
A multimedia service and management architecture using APIS over CORBA platform....Pages 121-134
Open interface support for heterogeneous network services....Pages 135-148
A CORBA-assisted multimedia proxy server....Pages 149-162
Image indexing by using a rotation and scale invariant partition....Pages 163-176
A study on automatic shot change detection....Pages 177-189
A block based watermarking technique for MPEG2 signals: Optimization and validation on real digital TV distribution links....Pages 190-206
Scalable security mechanisms in transport systems for enhanced multimedia services....Pages 207-220
The SECOMS broadband satellite network in the multimedia services and multi-environment coverage scenario....Pages 221-232
DIGISAT-S3M: The interactivity for SMATV users....Pages 233-245
MOMENTS — Multimedia services in a narrow-bandwidth cellular environment....Pages 246-259
Musist browser and navigation concept....Pages 260-273
SimDS — An approach to service modelling....Pages 274-287
Controlling multimedia streams across internet and ATM network....Pages 288-299
Native ATM protocol stack for internet applications in residential broadband networks....Pages 300-311
Integrated QoS architecture for IP switching....Pages 312-325
Design and implementation of an ATM based distributed musical rehearsal studio....Pages 326-339
Automating the multimedia content production lifecycle....Pages 340-351
ATMAN: Trading of digital audio visual contents....Pages 352-365
A perceived quality of service optimization for video communication in ‘best-effort’ networks....Pages 366-379
Performance of TCP over cable modems and ADSL....Pages 380-387
A decentralized prefetching protocol for VBR video on demand....Pages 388-401
Error-robustness of polar contour-coding....Pages 402-414
Efficient representation of chrominance for very low bitrate coding....Pages 415-424
Real-time constraints and prediction of video decoding time for multimedia systems....Pages 425-438
Video quality and bit rates in thematic television channels....Pages 439-452
A system design for a wireless home multi-media LAN....Pages 453-466
On the performance of the DVB-T system in mobile environments....Pages 467-480
VALIDATE — A virtual laboratory to accelerate the launch of digital terrestrial television....Pages 481-492
MEMO: A hybrid DAB/GSM communication system for mobile interactive multimedia services....Pages 493-503
MPEG-4 systems, concepts and implementation....Pages 504-517
New audio applications for multimedia and MPEG-4 : Complexity and hardware....Pages 518-530
