Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques - Ecmast'99: 4th European Conference, Madrid, Spain, May 26-28, 1999, Proceedings (Paperback, 1999)

Services & Applications.- The SICMA Teleteaching Trial on ADSL and Intranet networks.- Usability Assessment of Collaborative Shared-Space Telepresence Shopping Services.- Risk Methodology for Multimedia Projects Assessments.- Multimedia Terminals.- Efficient End-Host Resource Management with Kernel Optimizations for Multimedia Applications.- SOMMIT Project: Enabling New Services for the Next Generation of Digital TV Receivers.- Content Creation.- An Approach for Script-Based Broadcast Application Production.- The ATLANTIC Audio Demonstration System.- Object-Based Motion Parameterization Using Shape Adaptive Bilinear Warping.- MPEG-4 PC - Authoring and Playing of MPEG-4 Content for Local and Broadcast Applications.- Physical Broadcast Infrastructure.- Single Frequency Networks for Digital Video Broadcasting.- The Return Channel in Collective Installations.- Feasibility Model Implementation and Evaluation of an HFC S-CDMA Broadband Return Channel Concept.- Analysis of a Multiple Service MAC Layer For Two-Way Two-Layer LMDS Networks.- Multimedia Over The Internet - Part I.- Integrating MPEG-4 into the Internet.- New Services on an Advanced Internet.- Adaptive Video on Demand Service on RSVP Capable Network.- An Engineering Approach to QoS Provisioning over the Internet.- Multimedia Over The Internet - Part II.- A Charging Model for Sessions on the Internet.- COMIQS System for Commercial Presentations on the Internet.- The CATI Project: Charging and Accounting Technology for the Internet.- Metadata.- A Conceptual Framework to Support Content-Based Multimedia Applications.- High Level Description of Video Surveillance Sequences.- Enabling Flexible Services Using XML Metadata.- 3D Imaging.- VIDAS Analysis/Synthesis Tools for Natural-to-Virtual Face Representation.- Face Location and Recognition for Video Indexing in the Hypermedia Project.- Object Articulation Based on Local 3D Motion Estimation.- Three Dimensional Model Adaptation and Tracking of a Human Face.- Multicast Protocols.- H.323 Videoconference over Native ATM.- Some Design Issues of SRMTP, a Scalable Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol.- A Multicast Gateway for Dial-In Lines.- Security & Protection.- Fast Multimedia Encryption in JAVA.- Watermarking in the MPEG-4 Context.- Protecting Intellectual Proprietary Rights through Secure Interactive Contract Negotiation.- Mobility.- Multimedia Dialogue Management in Agent-Based Open Service Environments.- MEMO: The Specification of a Hybrid System for Interactive Broadcast and Internet Access using DAB and GSM.- A Mobile Middleware Component Providing Voice Over IP Services to Mobile Users.- Introducing Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Services.