Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services: 4th International Workshop, Idms '97, Darmstadt, Germany, September 10-12, (Paperback, 1997)

Embedding data in 3D models.- Estimation of motion parameters of a rigid body from a monocular image sequence for MPEG-4 applications.- System for screening objectionable images using Daubechies' wavelets and color histograms.- MUSIC: an interactive multimedia service composition environment for distributed systems.- Achieving Networked Virtual Environments interoperability.- A redundant hierarchical structure for a distributed continuous media server.- Program caching and multicasting techniques in VoD networks.- PENGUIN: DAVIC and the WWW in coexistence.- mTunnel: A multicast tunneling system with a user-based quality-of-service model.- A distributed delay-constrained dynamic multicast routing algorithm.- An efficient software implementation of a Forward Error Correcting code.- Disk scheduling for variable-rate data streams.- A novel data placement scheme on optical discs for near-VOD servers.- A priority feedback mechanism for distributed MPEG video player systems.- A soft real time scheduling server in UNIX operating system.- Stored video transmission across ATM networks: RVBR versus RCBR service for interactive applications.- Improving clock synchronization for MPEG-2 services over ATM networks.- VoR: A network system framework for VBR over reserved bandwidth.- EPK-fix: Methods and tools for engineering electronic product catalogues.- CHEOPS: Adaptive hypermedia on World Wide Web.- Application Output Recording for instant authoring in a distributed multimedia annotation environment.- Video data management in Media Controller: A distributed multimedia surveillance system.- Personalised News On Demand: The "HyNoDe" service.- Broadband Video Conference Customer Premises Equipment.- Radio webs - Support architecture for mobile web access.- An approach for an adaptive visualization in a mobile environment.- Multimedia client implementation on Personal Digital Assistants.- Combining CORBA and ITU-T.120 to an efficient conferencing service.- Supportive environments for executing multimedia applications.- Patterns for constructing CSCW applications in TINA.- Performance evaluation of the Fuzzy Policing Mechanism for still picture in ATM networks.- Implementation of an audio/video conferencing application over native ATM.- A native ATM API suited for multimedia communication.- A model for collaborative services in distributed learning environments.- Using distributed multimedia infrastructures for advanced teleteaching applications.- A scalable scheme to access multimedia documents with quality of service guarantees.- A client-controlled adaptation framework for multimedia database systems.- Interactive multimedia communications at the presentation layer.- Modeling of adaptable multimedia documents.- QoS aware browsing in distributed multimedia systems.- An object-oriented client/server architecture for video-on-demand applications.- Interactive remote recording and playback of Multicast videoconferences.