Table of Contents

• A Multimedia VR SystemTsuneo Ikedo. 4-11
• Life-Like Communication Agent - Emotion-Sensing Character MIC and Feeling Session Character MUSE Naoko Tosa, Ryohei Nakatsu. 12-19
• CALVIN: An Immersimedia Design Environment Utilizing Heterogeneous PerspectivesJason Leigh, Andrew E. Johnson. 20-23
• Dynamic LoD for QoS Management in the Next Generation VRMLMasatoshi Arikawa, Akira Amano, Kaori Maeda, Reiji Aibara, Shinji Shimojo, Yasuaki Nakamura, Kaduo Hiraki, Kouji Nishimura, Mutsuhiro Terauchi. 24-27
• Emotion Enhanced Multimedia Meetings Using the Concept of Virtual Space TeleconferencingLiyanage C. De Silva, Tsutomu Miyasato, Fumio Kishino. 28-33
• Supporting Ultrasound Diagnosis Using an Animated 3D Model of the HeartThomas Berlage, Thorsten Fox, Gernoth Grunst, Klaus-Jürgen Quast. 34-39
• Systhesizing Human Motion in a CG Authoring Environment for NonprofessionalsHajime Yoshikawa, Jun-ichi Yokosato, Satoshi Tanaka. 40-45
• On Supporting Mision-Critical Multimedia ApplicationsJiandong Huang, Peng-Jun Wan. 46-53
• A Direct ATM Multicast Service with Quality-of-Service GuaranteesLek Heng Ngoh, Hong Yi Li, Hung Keng Pung. 54-61
• A Protocol Composition-Based Approach to QoS Control in Collaboration SystemsAmit G. Mathur, Atul Prakash. 62-69
• Resource Management System for a Broadband Multipoint BridgeCormac J. Sreenan. 70-77
• Dynamic QoS Control Based on the QoS-Ticket ModelKiyokuni Kawachiya, Hideyuki Tokuda. 78-85
• Declarative Scheduling for Optimally Graceful QoS DegradationMartin Moser. 86-94
• A Dynamic QoS Control based on Optimistic Processor ReservationTatsuo Nakajima. 95-103
• XCAP: A Multistream Routing Algorithm for Multimedia TrafficRobert Simon, Taieb Znati, Robert J. Sclabassi. 104-107
• Video Server Retrieval Scheduling for Variable Bit Rate Scalable VideoSeungyup Paek, Shih-Fu Chang. 108-112
• A Negotiation and Resource Reservation Protocol (NRP) for Configurable Multimedia ApplicationsGabriel Dermler, Walter Fiederer, Ingo Barth, Kurt Rothermel. 113-117
• A Permutation-Based Pyramid Broadcasting Scheme for Video-on-Demand SystemsCharu C. Aggarwal, Joel L. Wolf, Philip S. Yu. 118-126
• Providing VCR Functionality in a Constant Quality Video-On Demand Transportation ServiceWu-chi Feng, Farnam Jahanian, Stuart Sechrest. 127-135
• A Greedy-but-Safe Dynamic Scheduling Strategy for an Interactive Video-On-Demand ServerTsun-Ping J. To, Babak Hamidzadeh. 136-143
• Design and Performance Tradeoffs in Clustered Video ServersRenu Tewari, Rajat Mukherjee, Daniel M. Dias, Harrick M. Vin. 144-150
• Constant Data Length Retrieval for Video Servers with Variable Bit Rate StreamsErnst Biersack, Frédéric Thiesse, Christoph Bernhardt. 151-155
• Real-Time Guaranteed Video Transport for Video-On-Demand SystemsHung-Ju Lee, Jyh-Charn Liu. 156-159
• Consumption-Based Buffer Management for Maximizing System Throughput of a Multimedia SystemKun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu. 164-171
• Buffer Replacement Algorithms for Multimedia Storage SystemsBanu Özden, Rajeev Rastogi, Abraham Silberschatz. 172-180
• A Dynamic Buffer Management Technique for Minimizing the Necessary Buffer Space in a Continuous Media ServerYeonseung Ryu, Kern Koh. 181-185
• Buffer Management in Multimedia Database SystemsSreenivas Gollapudi, Aidong Zhang. 186
• An Algorithm for Content-Based Retrieval in Multimedia DatabasesVenkat N. Gudivada, Gwang S. Jung. 193-200
• A Flexible Content-Based Image Retrieval System with Combined Scene Description KeywordsAtsushi Ono, Masashi Amano, Mitsuhiro Hakaridani, Takashi Satou, Masao Sakauchi. 201-208
• A Content-Based Query Language for Video DatabasesTony C. T. Kuo, Arbee L. P. Chen. 209-214
• Image Retrieval by Elastic Matching of Shapes and Image PatternsAlberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala, Simone Santini. 215-218
• Querying and Retrieving Pictorial Data Using Semantics Induced by Colour Quality and ArrangementJacopo M. Corridoni, Alberto Del Bimbo, Silvio De Magistris. 219-222
• Shape Discrimination Using Integral FeaturesAtsushi Hiroike, Yasuhide Mori, Akito Sakurai. 223-228
• Focussed Color Intersection with Efficient Searching for Image Detection and RetrievalVasudevan V. Vinod, Hiroshi Murase, Chie Hashizume. 229
• A Comparison of Hardware Prefetching Techniques for Mulimedia BenchmarksDaniel F. Zucker, Michael J. Flynn, Ruby B. Lee. 236-244
• Continuous Media Playback and Jitter ControlSanjay Jha, Michael Fry. 245-252
• On Optimal Batching Policies for Video-on-Demand Storage ServersCharu C. Aggarwal, Joel L. Wolf, Philip S. Yu. 253-258
• Performance Issues in CD-ROM based Storage Systems for MultimediaVijnan Shastri, P. Venkat Rangan, V. Rajaraman, A. Pittet, Srihari Sampath Kumar. 259
• Multimedia Instructional Software for Visual Reasoning: Visual Reasoning Tutor (VRT)Carol Hubbard, Ole J. Mengshoel, Chris Moon, Yong Se Kim. 261-268
• A Flexible Architecture for Integrating Heterogeneous Media on Replayable WorkspacesNelson R. Manohar, Atul Prakash. 274-278
• Towards a Theory of Collaborative MultimediaK. Selçuk Candan, V. S. Subrahmanian, P. Venkat Rangan. 279-282
• Interval Expressions - A Functional Model for Interactive Dynamic Multimedia PresentationsChérif Keramane, Andrzej Duda. 283-286
• Interactive Multi-User Multimedia Environments on the Internet: An Overview of DAMSEL and Its ImplementationPaul Pazandak, Jaideep Srivastava. 287-290
• Refining the MATILDA Multimedia Authoring Framework with a Visual FormalismDavid B. Lowe, Mark Sifer. 291-295
• Extracting Story Units from Long Programs for Video Browsing and NavigationMinerva M. Yeung, Boon-Lock Yeo, Bede Liu. 296-305
• Integrated Image and Speech Analysis for Content-Based Video IndexingYuh-Lin Chang, Wenjun Zeng, Ibrahim Kamel, Rafael Alonso. 306-313
• The MoCA Workbench: Support for Creativity in Movie Content AnalysisRainer Lienhart, Silvia Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Effelsberg. 314-321
• Content-Based Drama Editing Based on Script EditingYoshitomo Yaginuma, Masao Sakauchi. 322-329
• Content-based Structuring of Video InformationMasahiro Shibata, Yeun-Bae Kim. 330-333
• Video/Text Linkage System Assisted by a Concept Dictionary and Image RecognitionMitsukazu Washisaka, Toshihiro Takada, Shigemi Aoyagi, Rikio Onai. 334-340
• Real-Time Gesture Recognition Using Maskable Template ModelTakahiro Watanabe, Chil-Woo Lee, Akitoshi Tsukamoto, Masahiko Yachida. 341-348
• 3D Image Display with Motion Parallax by Camera Matrix StereoKiyohide Satoh, Itaru Kitahara, Yuichi Ohta. 349-357
• An Emerging Medium: Interactive Three Dimensional Digital VideoSaied Moezzi, Arun Katkere, Don Y. Kuramura, Ramesh Jain. 358
• An Open Framework for Integrating Widely Distributed Hypermedia ResourcesStuart Goose, Jonathan Dale, Gary Hill, David De Roure, Wendy Hall. 364-371
• Intra- and Inter-Stream Synchronization of Stored Multimedia StreamsErnst Biersack, Christoph Bernhardt, Werner Geyer. 372-381
• End-to-End Synchronization Control Support for Multiservice ApplicationsXiaobao Chen. 382-385
• Intelligent Browsing for Multimedia ApplicationsChris Drummond, Dan Ionescu, Robert Holte, Nicolas D. Georganas, Emil M. Petriu. 386-389
• Multimedia Synchronization System for MPEG Video Based on Quality of PicturesAkio Ichikawa, Katsunori Yamaoka, Toshiyuki Yoshida, Yoshinori Sakai. 390-393
• Generalized Synchronization Model and Description Language for Multimedia SystemsMinglu Li, Yongqiang Sun, Huanye Sheng. 394-398
• A Formal Framework for the Specification, Analysis and Generation of Standardized Hypermedia DocumentsRoberto Willrich, Patrick Sénac, Michel Diaz, Pierre de Saqui-Sannes. 399-406
• Modeling Timed User-Interactions in Multimedia DocumentsJunehwa Song, Yurdaer N. Doganata, Michelle Y. Kim, Asser N. Tantawi. 407-416
• Extending Styles to Hypermedia DocumentsAndrea Caloini, Eiichiro Tanaka. 417-424
• Using Interval Temporal Logic and Inference Rules for the Automatic Generation of Multimedia PresentationsTimothy K. Shih, Steven K. C. Lo, Szu-Jan Fu, Julian B. Chang. 425-428
• User Interface for a Digital Library to Support Construction of a Virtual Personal Library Hideaki Kikuchi, Yusuke Mishina, Minoru Ashizawa, Naoko Yamazaki, Hiromichi Fujisawa. 429-432
• The Digital Album: A Personal File-tainment SystemYuichi Yagawa, Noriyuki Iwai, Kunihiro Yanagi, Keiji Kojima, Kiyoshi Matsumoto. 433-440
• Spatio-Temporal Indexing for Large Multimedia ApplicationsYannis Theodoridis, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Timos K. Sellis. 441-448
• HG-Tree: An Index Structure for Multimedia DatabasesGuang-Ho Cha, Chin-Wan Chung. 449-452
• V-QBE: Video Database Retrieval by Means of Example Motion of ObjectsAtsuo Yoshitaka, Masanori Yoshimitsu, Masahiko Hirakawa, Tadao Ichikawa. 453-457
• Multimedia Applications using a Database Programming Language-INADAKunihiko Kaneko, Akifumi Makinouchi, Masayoshi Aritsugi. 458-461
• Design of Multimedia Database and a Query Language for Video Image DataHiroshi Arisawa, Takashi Tomii, Kiril Salev. 462
• Digital Watermarks for Audio SignalsLaurence Boney, Ahmed H. Tewfik, Khaled N. Hamdy. 473-480
• Knowledge Extraction from Diagram and Text for Media IntegrationYuichi Nakamura, Miwa Takahashi, Masayuki Onda, Yuichi Ohta. 488-492
• User Interface of a Document-processing Reader for the BlindChieko Asakawa. 493-496
• A Method to Fuse Two Kinds of Digital Road MapsYutaka Ohsawa, Masako Miyazaki. 497-500
• Forming Square-Styled Brush Written Kanji through Calligraphic Skill KnowledgeToshinori Yamasaki, Tetsuo Hattori. 501-505
• Scene Adaptive MPEG Encoding Algorithm Using the P-picture Based AnalysisHain-Ching Liu, Gregory L. Zick. 506-513
• Embedding a Seal into a Picture under Orthogonal Wavelet TransformJunji Ohnishi, Kineo Matsui. 514-521
• MPEG2 Based Digital CATV and VOD System on ATM-PON ArchitectureNoriyuki Terada, Hiroshi Ishii, Takeshi Tachi, Yasuyuki Okumura, Hiroshi Kotera. 522-531
• New Algorithms for Admission Control and Scheduling to Support Multimedia Feedback Remote Control ApplicationsKlara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith. 532-539
• Fast Algorithms for Compositing Multi-Way Compressed VideoZhang Maojun, Hu Xiaofeng, Yang Bing, Ku Xishu. 540-543
• Genetic Block Matching Algorithm for Video CodingChun-Hung Lin, Ja-Ling Wu. 544-548
• Burst Handling of Digital Video TrafficTzi-cker Chiueh, L. C. Chang. 549-556
• Reservation Mechanisms for Efficient Resource Management in InternetworksSpyridon Damaskos, Hussein F. Salama. 557-561
• Failure Recovery for Multi-Party Real-Time CommunicationAmit Gupta, Kurt Rothermel. 562-565
• Ensuring High Availability of Distributed Multimedia ApplicationsManuel Billot, Valérie Issarny, Isabelle Puaut, Michel Banâtre. 566-571
• A Time Scale Dependent Disk Scheduling Scheme for Multimedia-on-Demand ServersHuanxu Pan, Lek Heng Ngoh, Aurel A. Lazar. 572-579
• Disk Striping in Video Server EnvironmentsBanu Özden, Rajeev Rastogi, Abraham Silberschatz. 580-589
• Disk Striping and Block Replication Algorithms for Video File ServersRobert Flynn, William H. Tetzlaff. 590-597
• SEP: A Space Efficient Pipelining Technique for Managing Disk Buffers in Multimedia ServersJames Zijun Wang, Kien A. Hua, Honesty C. Young. 598-607
• Analysis on Disk Scheduling for Special User FunctionsK. W. Ng, K. H. Yeung. 608-611
• A Probabilistic Multi-cycle Model for Serving Continuous Streams from DisksFreddy Deppner, Benoit A. Gennart, Roger D. Hersch. 612-617