Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques — ECMAST'98: Third European Conference Berlin, Germany, May 26–28 1998 Proceedings

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