Multimedia 2001: Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Manchester, United Kingdom, September 8-9, 2001 (Eurographics)

This book presents the results of EG Multimedia'2001, the Sixth Eurographics th th Workshop on Multimedia, held in Manchester, UK, on the 8 and 9 of September, 2001. All six such workshops are successful examples of fruitful international cooperation under the auspices of the Eurographics working group on Multimedia. The workshop covered a wide range of subjects, from media production to content processing and delivery, with a special focus on issues related to interactive video environments. These Dcluded standards and approaches for interactive television, hypervideo, collaborative video, augmented reality, mobile multimedia, the integration of TV and the Web, content analysis, processing and presentation. The program consisted of two invited keynote presentations, eighteen technical papers and one demonstration, attracting a diverse world-wide group of thirty attendees. Technical papers were organized in six sessions spanning the two days: 3D in Multimedia, Multimedia Architectures and Authoring, \ideo and Coding, Content Based Retrieval and Security, Interactive Media and Interactive TV. The demonstration presented a multimedia system for aerobics and fitness training, exploring the combination of sound and interactive graphics in an effective manner. The keynote presentation by V. Michael Bove provided insights into new architectures for large scale pervasive computing. The second invited presentation by Glorianna Davenport discussed the relations between creativity and interactive movies as participatory art enabled by new media. Front Matter....Pages I-X Self-Organizing Multimedia and Extremely Distributed Architectures (Keynote Presentation)....Pages 1-6 Story Networks: “The medium is the message”; The content, your souvenir (Keynote Presentation)....Pages 7-7 Adaptive Visualization of Distributed 3D Documents Using Image Streaming Techniques....Pages 9-19 Reusing Motions and Models in Animations....Pages 21-32 3D-dvshop: a 3D Dynamic Virtual Shop....Pages 33-42 Realising Real Time Multimedia Groupware on the Web....Pages 43-54 Abstractions in Multimedia Authoring: The MAVA Approach....Pages 55-64 Extended Format Definition and Quality-driven Format Negotiation in Multimedia Systems....Pages 65-74 A Server-based Interactive Remote Walkthrough....Pages 75-86 Sobol Partial Distortion Algorithm for Fast Full Search in Block Motion Estimation....Pages 87-94 DynaVideo — A Dynamic Video Distribution Service....Pages 95-106 Content Based Retrieval of VRML Objects — An Iterative and Interactive Approach....Pages 107-118 Authentication of Volume Data Using Wavelet-Based Foveation....Pages 119-130 Buoy Indexing of Metric Feature Spaces for Fast Approximate Image Queries....Pages 131-140 Non-Conventional Interfaces using Stamp Controllers....Pages 141-152 Interactive, Evolutionary Textured Sound Composition....Pages 153-164 Screen Space: Depiction and the Space of Interactive Media....Pages 165-176 Spatial Video....Pages 177-188 Live @ Web.Com — Using CBIR Technology in Interactive Web-TV....Pages 189-197 2BeOn — Interactive Television Supporting Interpersonal Communication....Pages 199-208 Effective Exercise Instruction System Using Virtual Human (Demo)....Pages 209-209 Back Matter....Pages 210-214

This book includes 2 keynote presentations, 18 papers and 1 demonstration presented at this year's Eurographics multimedia workshop.
A wide range of subjects were covered, from media production to content processing and delivery, with a special focus on issues related to interactive video environments. These included standards and approaches for interactive television, hypervideo, collaborative video, augmented reality, mobile multimedia, the integration of TV and the web, content analysis, processing and presentation. The papers are organized in six sessions: 3D in multimedia, multimedia architectures and authoring, video and coding, content based retrieval and security, interactive media and interactive TV.
The keynote presentation by V. M. Bove provided insights into new architectures for large scale pervasive computing and the one by G. Davenport discussed the relations between creativity and interactive movies as participatory art enabled by new media. The demonstration presented a multimedia system for aerobics and fitness training.