Multimedia applications, services, and techniques : ECMAST '97, second European conference, Milan, Italy, May 21-23, 1997 : proceedings

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. 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

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 prools, content creation and integration, multimedia delivery, coded representation, multimedia services, multimedia servers, Internet and multimedia, trials, terminal architecture, and applications.

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 topics covered include multimedia networks and protocols; multimedia delivery on broadcast and telecom networks;