Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services: 4th International Workshop, IDMS '97 Darmstadt, Germany, September 10–12, 1997 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Hiroshi Masuda (auth.), Ralf Steinmetz, Lars C. Wolf (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 478
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1309
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services, IDMS'97, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in September 1997. The 41 revised full papers presented in the book were selected from over 100 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on media coding and content processing, development and interoperability, on-demand systems, multicast and FEC, video server and systems, video transmission, production and authoring, multimedia applications, mobility, CSCW and system performance, MM communication over ATM networks, CSCW and teleteaching, QoS for media presentations, QoS and scaling.

✦ Table of Contents

Embedding data in 3D models....Pages 1-10
Estimation of motion parameters of a rigid body from a monocular image sequence for MPEG-4 applications....Pages 11-19
System for screening objectionable images using Daubechies' wavelets and color histograms....Pages 20-30
MUSIC: an interactive multimedia service composition environment for distributed systems....Pages 31-40
Achieving Networked Virtual Environments interoperability....Pages 41-50
A redundant hierarchical structure for a distributed continuous media server....Pages 51-64
Program caching and multicasting techniques in VoD networks....Pages 65-76
PENGUIN: DAVIC and the WWW in coexistence....Pages 77-86
mTunnel: A multicast tunneling system with a user-based quality-of-service model....Pages 87-96
A distributed delay-constrained dynamic multicast routing algorithm....Pages 97-106
An efficient software implementation of a Forward Error Correcting code....Pages 107-118
Disk scheduling for variable-rate data streams....Pages 119-132
A novel data placement scheme on optical discs for near-VOD servers....Pages 133-142
A priority feedback mechanism for distributed MPEG video player systems....Pages 143-152
A soft real time scheduling server in UNIX operating system....Pages 153-162
Stored video transmission across ATM networks: RVBR versus RCBR service for interactive applications....Pages 163-175
Improving clock synchronization for MPEG-2 services over ATM networks....Pages 176-188
VoR: A network system framework for VBR over reserved bandwidth....Pages 189-198
EPK-fix: Methods and tools for engineering electronic product catalogues....Pages 199-209
CHEOPS: Adaptive hypermedia on World Wide Web....Pages 210-219
Application Output Recording for instant authoring in a distributed multimedia annotation environment....Pages 220-230
Video data management in Media Controller: A distributed multimedia surveillance system....Pages 231-240
Personalised News On Demand: The “HyNoDe” service....Pages 241-250
Broadband Video Conference Customer Premises Equipment....Pages 251-260
Radio webs — Support architecture for mobile web access....Pages 261-271
An approach for an adaptive visualization in a mobile environment....Pages 272-282
Multimedia client implementation on Personal Digital Assistants....Pages 283-295
Combining CORBA and ITU-T.120 to an efficient conferencing service....Pages 296-307
Supportive environments for executing multimedia applications....Pages 308-319
Patterns for constructing CSCW applications in TINA....Pages 320-329
Performance evaluation of the Fuzzy Policing Mechanism for still picture in ATM networks....Pages 330-341
Implementation of an audio/video conferencing application over native ATM....Pages 342-351
A native ATM API suited for multimedia communication....Pages 352-363
A model for collaborative services in distributed learning environments....Pages 364-375
Using distributed multimedia infrastructures for advanced teleteaching applications....Pages 376-385
A scalable scheme to access multimedia documents with quality of service guarantees....Pages 386-396
A client-controlled adaptation framework for multimedia database systems....Pages 397-409
Interactive multimedia communications at the presentation layer....Pages 410-419
Modeling of adaptable multimedia documents....Pages 420-429
QoS aware browsing in distributed multimedia systems....Pages 430-439
An object-oriented client/server architecture for video-on-demand applications....Pages 440-449
Interactive remote recording and playback of Multicast videoconferences....Pages 450-463

✦ Subjects

Multimedia Information Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computer Communication Networks; Computers and Society; Communications Engineering, Networks