Digital Content Creation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Access and Retrieval of Digital Content

   • Jim Thomas, Alan Turner

   Pages 1-8

3. Screen Play: Film and the Future of Interactive Entertainment

   • Andy Clarke, Grethe Mitchell

   Pages 9-19

4. Harnessing The Power of Music and Sound Design in Interactive Media

   • Stephen Deutsch

   Pages 20-24

5. Comparative Content Analysis of Virtual Environments Using Perceptual Opportunities

   • Clive Fencott

   Pages 25-51

6. Digitization — An Agent for Creativity, Expression and Interaction?

   • D. Lawrence, C. Sanders, I. Amado

   Pages 52-59

7. Multimedia Challenging Epistemology; Epistemology Challenging Multimedia: Noting this Reciprocity for Multimedia Design

   • Hendrik Kleinsmiede

   Pages 60-91

8. Virtual Education — Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

   • Bob Gomersall

   Pages 92-96

9. An Architecture of a Personalized, Dynamic Interactive Video System

   • Matthias Finke

   Pages 97-107

10. Buffy, an SL Development Environment

    • Ian Stephenson

    Pages 108-116

11. Generating Interactive Television Programs in the PANIVE architecture

    • Chris Flerackers, Chris Raymaekers, Gert Vansichem, Frank Van Reeth

    Pages 117-126

12. Interactive Control of Robots on the Internet

    • M.D.J. McNeill, A. Hutton

    Pages 127-139

13. Smart Documents for Web-Enabled Collaboration

    • Mikael Jern

    Pages 140-162

14. A Video Annotation Methodology for Interactive Video Sequence Generation

    • Craig A. Lindley

    Pages 163-183

15. The Creation of an Interactive Virtual Theatre: The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

    • I.J. Palmer, N. Chilton, P. Ingham, A. Robinson, C.M. Reeve

    Pages 184-201

16. Subjective Assessment of a Model-Based Video Codec Compared to H.263

    • Ali Al-Qayedi, A. F. Clark

    Pages 202-228

17. Model-Based Interactive TV: Scene Capture and Transmission Density Distribution Functions for Bandwidth Reduction

    • A. G. Serrano, H. Sue, A. L. Thomas, H. Wei

    Pages 229-271

18. Enhanced Avatar Control Using Neural Networks

    • H. Amin, C. M. Reeve, R. Earnshaw

    Pages 272-280

19. Virtual Heritage:Challenges and Opportunities

    • David Arnold

    Pages 281-293

20. Marvin:Supporting Awareness through Audio in Collaborative Virtual Environments

    • Martin Kaltenbrunner, Avon Huxor

    Pages 294-303

The very word "digital" has acquired a status that far exceeds its humble dictionary definition. Even the prefix digital, when associ­ ated with familiar sectors such as radio, television, photography and telecommunications, has reinvented these industries, and provided a unique opportunity to refresh them with new start-up companies, equipment, personnel, training and working practices - all of which are vital to modern national and international economies. The last century was a period in which new media stimulated new job opportunities, and in many cases created totally new sectors: video competed with film, CDs transformed LPs, and computer graphics threatened traditional graphic design sectors. Today, even the need for a physical medium is in question. The virtual digital domain allows the capture, processing, transmission, storage, retrieval and display of text, images, audio and animation without familiar materials such as paper, celluloid, magnetic tape and plastic. But moving from these media to the digital domain intro­ duces all sorts of problems, such as the conversion of analog archives, multimedia databases, content-based retrieval and the design of new content that exploits the benefits offered by digital systems. It is this issue of digital content creation that we address in this book. Authors from around the world were invited to comment on different aspects of digital content creation, and their contributions form the 23 chapters of this volume.

• 3D
• 3DTV
• Animation
• Audio
• Digital Media
• Interactive Multimedia
• Internet
• Virtual Environments
• calculus
• database
• multimedia
• networks
• neural networks
• verification
• video

• Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, University of Bradford, Bradford

  Rae Earnshaw

• School of Media, Arts and Communication, Bournemouth University, Poole

  John Vince

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