Multimedia '96: Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Rostock, Federal Republic of Germany, May 28-30, 1996: Eurographics

In the last few years multimedia hardware and applications have become widely available on PC and workstations. Moreover, through the tremendous development and the wide usage of the World Wide Web multimedia applications have been brought over the network to many people. This book presents the results of the fourth in a well established series of international workshops on Multimedia organized by the EUROGRAPHICS Association, and held from May 28 to 30, 1996, in Rostock, Germany. The workshop had the special topic Multimedia on the Net and was the follow up of the EUROGRAPHICS Symposium and Workshop on Multimedia held in Graz in June 1994. The workshop program consisted of an invited keynote speech and five technical sessions. The fifteen contributions selected for this volume treat topics of particular interest in current research and address actual problems of the use of multimedia in distributed applications over the network. According to the technical sessions they can be roughly structured in the parts concepts for handling multimedia data, still and motion pictures on the net, WWW and multimedia, collaborative multimedia, and multimedia and education. Concepts for handling multimedia data are addressed in two contributions. The first treats a frame based presentation model for distributed information systems (Kirste), the other one presents a temporal logic formalism for specifying navigational transformation in hypermedia applications (Mere et al.). Front Matter....Pages I-VII A flexible presentation model for distributed information systems....Pages 1-19 Specifying navigational transformations in hypermedia. A temporal logic framework....Pages 20-31 Quality and Resource Controlled Transmission of Images....Pages 32-43 Components for video processing applications....Pages 44-52 Analysing the Quantization Parameters for Quality Assessment of Digital Video....Pages 53-67 Three-Dimensional Information System on the World Wide Web....Pages 68-78 A Multimedia Approach of Information Integration....Pages 79-87 World Wide Conference: An easy conference connection via a Java application....Pages 88-95 Collaborative Multimedia Applications and Platforms Integrated with Video-on-Demand....Pages 96-107 Collaboration with Multimedia Documents....Pages 108-116 “Media-On-Demand” Multimedia Electronic Mail: An Approach to Support Online Services....Pages 117-125 Interactive Teletraining Using Real-Time Computer Mediated Communication: Usability Evaluation from Experiences....Pages 126-141 A Content Based Retrieval Video System for Educational Environments....Pages 142-150 Evaluation and communication techniques in multimedia product design for “on the net university education”....Pages 151-165 adVISer —Application of a Visualization Paradigm to Multimedia Design....Pages 166-178 Back Matter....Pages 179-183 This book represents the results from the fourth Eurographics workshop on Multimedia, May 28-30, 1996, Rostock, Germany. The special topic of the workshop was "Multimedia on the Net". The fifteen contributions selected for this volume treat topics of particular interest in current research and address actual problems of the use of multimedia in distributed applications over the network. Concepts for handling multimedia data, still and motion pictures on the net, WWW and multimedia, collaborative multimedia, and multimedia and education are dealt with. The reader will profit in getting up-to-date information about current trends in multimedia/hypermedia services and applications in open distributed environments. Theoretical concepts are treated as well as specific applications