Multimedia Communications

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Image Compression Using Adaptive Wavelets and Trellis-Coded Quantization....Pages 3-17
Synthesis Filter Bank Optimization in 1D and 2D Separable Subband Coding....Pages 18-31
Multiple Descriptions....Pages 32-45
A Robust Spatial Filtering Method for DOA Estimation of Coherent Sources in Impulsive Interference....Pages 46-56
Signal Processing Considerations for Immersive Audio Rendering....Pages 57-70
Real-Time Billboard Substitution in a Video Stream....Pages 71-84
Signal Processing in Satellite Systems for Multimedia Services....Pages 85-99
A Sketch-Based Approach for the Recovery of Transmission Errors in Coded Images....Pages 100-109
An Algorithm for Fast Segmentation of Color Images....Pages 110-119
Multi-Camera Strategies for High-Accuracy 3D Reconstruction....Pages 120-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Providing Quality for Internet Video Services....Pages 133-146
Video Traffic over Wireless Links: Issues and Performance....Pages 147-160
Measurement-Based Admission Control with Aggregate Traffic Envelopes....Pages 161-174
Coexistence of QoS and Best-Effort Flows....Pages 175-188
Impact, Characterization and Modeling of Intermedia Relationships in a Multimedia-System Performance Evaluation Framework....Pages 189-206
Multimedia Network Management as Global Control....Pages 207-222
Malleable Multimedia Presentations: Adaptive Streaming Tradeoffs for Best-Quality Fast-Response Systems....Pages 223-236
Network Traffic Issues for Interactive Multipoint Multimedia Applications....Pages 237-250
A Multi-Channel Approach to Voice Activity Detection in Noisy Environments based on Time Delay Estimation....Pages 251-260
Queueing performance evaluation by means of traffic sampling methods....Pages 261-270
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Modelling DQDB multimedia sources at cell/segment level....Pages 271-280
A Novel Control Scheme for VBR Video Transmission over ATM Networks....Pages 281-287
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Passive Optical Networks: Results from project FSAN....Pages 293-304
Resource Allocation Strategies for Multimedia Traffic in an ATM-based PON....Pages 305-319
DSL Technologies (HDSL2, ADSL and VDSL), Improved Algorithms to Meet Wide Market Acceptance....Pages 320-333
UMTS Access Network Architecture and Relevant Dimensioning Issues....Pages 334-348
Wireless Multimedia Assessment with Traffic, Access and Transmission Protocols in Actual Environment at Millimeter Waves....Pages 349-359
Error Propagation Stop Principle for CD3-OFDM: a Comparison with Perfect Coherent Demodulation....Pages 360-373
Performance of a RS-coded QPSK cable modem for TDMA communication over the return channel of HFC networks....Pages 374-382
How self-similar processes persistence determines the queue length distribution moments....Pages 383-392
Front Matter....Pages 393-393
Multimode multimedia terminals: issues and trends....Pages 395-400
Specification of digital interactive TV systems....Pages 401-408
MHEG-5 common application interface for broadcast and interactive services....Pages 409-420
New concepts for Multimode Multimedia Terminal Architectures....Pages 421-434
Software Radio Technology: a Practical Example....Pages 435-446
A Flexible Software Architecture for Multimedia Home Platforms....Pages 447-455
PHS Mobile Communication System for Simultaneous Voice and Image Transmission....Pages 456-468
Software Open Multimedia Interactive Terminal: an open terminal architecture to support multimedia high-quality services....Pages 469-479
Adaptive and Embedded Java-Codecs for Multimedia Terminals....Pages 480-489
Front Matter....Pages 491-491
Multimedia Applications and Services....Pages 493-501
Front Matter....Pages 491-491
Multimodal Human/Machine Communication....Pages 502-509
Multimedia Processing for Advanced Communications Services....Pages 510-523
Progressive Content-based Retrieval of Image Databases through the Internet....Pages 524-537
Content-Based Searching and Filtering of Visual Information....Pages 538-546
Internet Video-Streaming....Pages 547-556
Software Design and Simulation of a DS/CDMA Multimedia Transmission System for Remote Video—Surveillance Applications....Pages 557-568
Rendering and animation of a proprietary face model into the MPEG-4 3D Player....Pages 569-578
Back Matter....Pages 579-580