Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques - ECMAST'98: Third European Conference, Berlin, Germany, May 26-28, 1998, Proceedings, Volume 3David Hutchinson, Ralf Schäfer 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. |
Contents
3D Representation of Videoconference Image Sequences Using VRML 20 | 1 |
An Autonomous Sensor for 3D Reconstruction | 13 |
Incomplete 3D for Multiview Representation and Synthesis of Video Objects | 26 |
An Execution Architecture for Synchronized Multimedia Presentations | 42 |
Presenting Multimedia on the Web and in TV Broadcast | 56 |
MHEG5 Application Development | 70 |
The SIGMA Multimedia Server and Virtual Museum Application | 83 |
A Parallel Continuous Media Server Complying to the RTSP Protocol | 97 |
Controlling Multimedia Streams across Internet and ATM Network | 288 |
Native ATM Protocol Stack for Internet Applications in Residential Broadband Networks | 300 |
Integrated QoS Architecture for IP Switching | 312 |
Design and Implementation of an ATM Based Distributed Musical Rehearsal Studio | 326 |
Automating the Multimedia Content Production Lifecycle | 340 |
Trading of Digital Audio Visual Contents | 352 |
A Perceived Quality of Service Optimization for Video Communication in BestEffort Networks | 366 |
Performance of TCP over Cable Modems and ADSL | 380 |
Media Streaming in a Multimedia Annotation Application | 111 |
A Multimedia Service and Management Architecture Using APIs over CORBA Platform | 121 |
Open Interface Support for Heterogeneous Network Services | 135 |
A CORBAAssisted Multimedia Proxy Server | 149 |
Image Indexing by Using a Rotation and Scale Invariant Partition | 163 |
A Study on Automatic Shot Change Detection | 177 |
Optimization and Validation on Real Digital TV Distribution Links | 190 |
Scalable Security Mechanisms in Transport Systems for Enhanced Multimedia Services | 207 |
The SECOMS Broadband Satellite Network in the Multimedia Services and Multienvironment Coverage Scenario | 221 |
The Interactivity for SMATV Users | 233 |
MOMENTS Multimedia Services in a NarrowBandwidth Cellular Environment | 246 |
MUSIST Browser and Navigation Concept | 260 |
SimDS An Approach to Service Modelling | 274 |
A Decentralized Prefetching Protocol for VBR Video on Demand | 388 |
ErrorRobustness of Polar ContourCoding | 402 |
Efficient Representation of Chrominance for Very Low Bitrate Coding | 414 |
RealTime Constraints and Prediction of Video Decoding Time for Multimedia Systems | 424 |
Video Quality and Bit Rates in Thematic Television Channels | 438 |
A System Design for a Wireless Home MultiMedia LAN | 452 |
On the Performance of the DVBT System in Mobile Environments | 466 |
VALIDATE A Virtual Laboratory to Accelerate the Launch of Digital Terrestrial Television | 480 |
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Complexity and Hardware | 517 |
Author Index | 530 |
Common terms and phrases
algorithm architecture ATM network ATMAN audio bandwidth bit rate block broadcast browser buffer cache camera chrominance client coding coefficients complexity components compression Computer configuration connection contour CORBA database DAVIC decoding defined delay distributed domain DSM-CC DVB-T encoding encryption environment error Event Channel flow frame function hypertime implementation integrated interactive interface Internet interworking ITU-T KYDONIA layer Mbit/s media objects MHEG mobile module MPEG multimedia service navigation nodes P-loss packet parameters performance pixels prefetching presented protocol protocol stack proxy server QPSK real-time rehearsal request requirements retrieval RTSP satellite scene sequence service provider shot change signal SimDS simulation slot SMATV SMIL specific standard stream switch synchronization techniques terminal tests traffic transmission transmitted vector Video on Demand VRML