This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques, ECMAST'97, held in Milan, Italy, in May 1997.
The volume presents 48 revised full papers selected from more than 120 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on multimedia networks evaluation, production of multimedia content, multimedia networks and protocols, content creation and integration, multimedia delivery, coded representation, multimedia services, multimedia servers, Internet and multimedia, trials, terminal architecture, and applications.
Author(s): Kai Achtmann, Karl-Heinz Döring, Ralf Herber (auth.), Serge Fdida, Michele Morganti (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1242
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 776
Tags: Multimedia Information Systems; Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Coding and Information Theory
An ATM-based demonstration model for multimedia services using different access networks....Pages 1-17
A transnational IN/B-ISDN integrated network for the provision of multimedia services....Pages 19-36
Divide your systems to conquer the market....Pages 37-50
trigg&link a new dimension in television program making....Pages 51-65
The ATLANTIC news studio: Reference model and field trial....Pages 67-78
The design and implementation of a multimedia system for the interactive and time-synchronised analysis of vehicle crash tests....Pages 79-94
Resource management for distributed multimedia applications....Pages 95-111
A multicast network architecture for large scale Collaborative Virtual Environments....Pages 113-128
Consensus making activities in Europe: The example of multimedia in ACTS....Pages 129-152
Low cost watermarking based on a human visual model....Pages 153-167
Image database indexing and retrieval using the Fractal Transform....Pages 169-182
DIANE: A multimedia annotation system....Pages 183-198
Connectionless ATM using an ATM switch router....Pages 199-212
Engineering aspects of an architecture for non-real-time VBR video services....Pages 213-227
Video on Demand distribution over ATM Virtual Private Networks....Pages 229-244
An authoring and run-time environment for interactive multimedia services....Pages 245-260
Tools for multimedia content creation, manipulation and management: The ACTS perspective....Pages 261-276
Interaction with digital broadcast services through a terrestrial return channel....Pages 277-292
Dynamic multiplexing for digital TV broadcasting....Pages 293-308
The work of ACTS in Interactive Distribution and Transmission: Towards interoperable Interactive Multimedia Services....Pages 309-325
User interfaces for interactive TV — A case study with end users....Pages 327-341
Use of object articulation and motion estimation for video production....Pages 343-357
A multi-site teleconferencing system using V. R. paradigms....Pages 359-374
Object encapsulation of multiscale image region representations....Pages 375-394
Subjective assessment of a multimedia system for distance learning....Pages 395-408
The impact of service competition on navigation....Pages 409-422
Copyright protection in video delivery networks by watermarking of pre-compressed video....Pages 423-436
A fully configurable secure environment for multimedia applications....Pages 437-455
Temporal and interactive relations in a multimedia database system....Pages 457-473
Validation of video retrieval systems....Pages 475-490
The KYDONIA multimedia information server....Pages 491-506
A critique of modern internet protocols: The issue of support for multimedia....Pages 507-522
A congestion control scheme for multimedia traffic in packet switching ‘best-effort’ networks....Pages 523-536
User requirements and resource control for cooperative multimedia applications....Pages 537-552
Multimedia multicast routing....Pages 553-569
Swiss Top Vision, the trial with interactive content....Pages 571-580
Consumer interactivity in Cambridge....Pages 581-592
Using DAB and GSM to provide interactive multimedia services to portable and mobile terminals....Pages 593-607
ISIS Project Demonstration System and Pilot Trials....Pages 609-620
An open software architecture for multimedia consumer terminals....Pages 621-634
Using an asset model for integration of agents and multimedia to provide an open service architecture....Pages 635-650
Definition and implementation of a TINA based terminal architecture....Pages 651-667
Integrated multi-media project: A case study in lesson sharing using video-conferencing technology....Pages 669-680
Telelearning: New trends in education through global multimedia networks....Pages 681-692
The BONAPARTE telemedicine ATM multimedia applications....Pages 693-708
InfoCity NRW a phased approach to multimedia....Pages 709-722
DIGISAT: A technological solution via satellite for interactive SMATV networks in the DVB environment....Pages 723-737
Multimedia service provisioning in the Munich trial of the AMUSE project....Pages 739-754
VIDAS workshop on Synthetic Natural Hybrid Coding....Pages 755-769
