Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques - ECMAST'98

3D representation of videoconference image sequences using VRML 2.0.- An autonomous sensor for 3D reconstruction.- Incomplete 3D for multiview representation and synthesis of video objects.- An execution architecture for synchronized multimedia presentations.- Presenting multimedia on the web and in TV broadcast.- MHEG-5 application development.- The SICMA multimedia server and virtual museum application.- A parallel continuous media server complying to the RTSP protocol.- Media streaming in a multimedia annotation application.- A multimedia service and management architecture using APIS over CORBA platform.- Open interface support for heterogeneous network services.- A CORBA-assisted multimedia proxy server.- Image indexing by using a rotation and scale invariant partition.- A study on automatic shot change detection.- A block based watermarking technique for MPEG2 signals: Optimization and validation on real digital TV distribution links.- Scalable security mechanisms in transport systems for enhanced multimedia services.- The SECOMS broadband satellite network in the multimedia services and multi-environment coverage scenario.- DIGISAT-S3M: The interactivity for SMATV users.- MOMENTS — Multimedia services in a narrow-bandwidth cellular environment.- Musist browser and navigation concept.- SimDS — An approach to service modelling.- Controlling multimedia streams across internet and ATM network.- Native ATM protocol stack for internet applications in residential broadband networks.- Integrated QoS architecture for IP switching.- Design and implementation of an ATM based distributed musical rehearsal studio.- Automating the multimedia content production lifecycle.- ATMAN: Trading of digital audio visual contents.- A perceived quality of service optimization for video communication in ‘best-effort’ networks.- Performance of TCP over cable modems and ADSL.- A decentralized prefetching protocol for VBR video on demand.- Error-robustness of polar contour-coding.- Efficient representation of chrominance for very low bitrate coding.- Real-time constraints and prediction of video decoding time for multimedia systems.- Video quality and bit rates in thematic television channels.- A system design for a wireless home multi-media LAN.- On the performance of the DVB-T system in mobile environments.- VALIDATE — A virtual laboratory to accelerate the launch of digital terrestrial television.- MEMO: A hybrid DAB/GSM communication system for mobile interactive multimedia services.- MPEG-4 systems, concepts and implementation.- New audio applications for multimedia and MPEG-4 : Complexity and hardware.