Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques - ECMAST'98: Third European Conference, Berlin, Germany, May 26-28, 1998, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1425)

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. 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 The incorporation of real scenes into such environments is called Virtualised Reality [61. Like Virtual Reality (VR).