Multimedia Databases and Image Communication

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Invited Talks

   1. MAWC Operations for the Growing Book

      • Shi-Kuo Chang

      Pages 3-15

   2. Motion Mining

      • Stan Sclaroff, George Kollios, Margrit Betke, Romer Rosales

      Pages 16-30

3. Image and Visual Competing Applications

   1. The Riddles of Murecine: The Role of Anthropological Research by Images and Visual Computing

      • Andrea F. Abate, Giuseppe Sasso, Anthony C. Donadio, Francesco S. Sasso

      Pages 33-41

   2. Information Retrieval from Medical Database

      • Angelo Balestrieri, Antonella Balestrieri, Aristide Barone, Andrea Casanova, Matteo Fraschini

      Pages 42-52

4. Multimedia Technology

   1. M-CODD: A Technique for the Conceptual Design of Multimedia Databases

      • Gennaro Costagliola, Rita Francese, Annamaria Musto, Giuseppe Polese

      Pages 55-66

   2. Controlling Concurrent Accesses in Multimedia Database Systems

      • Woochun Jun

      Pages 67-76

   3. Transformation Dataflow in Multimedia Software Engineering Using TAO_XML: A Component-Based Approach

      • Paolo Maresca, Angela Guercio, Tim Arndt, Pasquale Donadio

      Pages 77-89

   4. Monitoring Electromagnetic Pollution: A GIS-Based Visual Approach

      • Luca Paolino, Monica Sebillo, Genoveffa Tortora, Giuliana Vitiello

      Pages 90-101

5. Image and Visual Information Querying and Browsing

   1. Querying and Browsing Multimedia Presentations

      • Augusto Celentano, Ombretta Gaggi

      Pages 105-116

   2. Content Image Retrieval: A New Query Paradigm Toward Analogy Based Indexing

      • Maurizio Cibelli, Michele Nappi, Maurizio Tucci

      Pages 117-129

   3. Robust Image Retrieval Based on Texture Information

      • Riccardo Distasi, Sergio Vitulano

      Pages 130-139

   4. Symbolic Tile Categories for Spatial Reasoning on Objects Represented in Multiple-Resolution

      • Erland Jungert, Fredrik Lantz

      Pages 140-151

   5. Content-Based Indexing and Retrieval Supported by Mobile Agent Technology

      • Harald Kosch, Mario Döller, László Böszörményi

      Pages 152-166

   6. Display Optimization For Image Browsing

      • Qi Tian, Baback Moghaddam, Thomas S. Huang

      Pages 167-176

6. Video Indexing and Communication

   1. Semantic Characterization of Visual Content for Sports Videos Annotation

      • Jürgen Assfalg, Marco Bertini, Carlo Colombo, Alberto Del Bimbo

      Pages 179-191

   2. Dialogue Scenes Detection in MPEG Movies: A Multi-expert Approach

      • Massimo De Santo, Gennaro Percannella, Carlo Sansone, Mario Vento

      Pages 192-201

   3. A Proposal of a QoS Control Method for Digital Video Libraries

      • Yuka Kato, Katsuya Hakozaki

      Pages 202-212

   4. Enhanced Video Communication Using Gaze Correction with Simplified 3D Warping and Single Camera

      • Insuh Lee, Byeungwoo Jeon

      Pages 213-224

7. Back Matter

   Pages 225-225

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Multimedia technologies are rapidly attracting more and more interest every day. The Internet as seen from the end user is one of the reasons for this phenomenon, but not the only one. Video on Demand is one of the buzzwords today, but its real availability to the general public is yet to come. Content providers – such as publishers, broadcasting companies, and audio/video production ?rms – must be able to archive and index their productions for later retrieval. This is a formidable task, even more so when the material to be sorted encompasses many di?erent types of several media and covers a time span of several years. In order for such a vast amount of data to be easily available, existing database design models and indexing methodologies have to be improved and re?ned. In addition, new techniques especially tailored to the various types of multimedia must be devised and evaluated. For archiving and trasmission, data compression is another issue that needs to be addressed. In many cases, it has been found that compression and indexing can be successfully integrated, since compressing the data by ?ltering out irrelevancy implies some degree of und- standing of the content structure.

• Broadband Networking
• Image Retrieval
• Multimedia Communication
• Multimedia Databases
• Multimedia Retrieval
• Multimedia Services
• Multimedia Systems
• Quality of Service
• Video on Demand
• Videoconferencing
• Visual Computing
• communication
• database
• information
• multimedia

• Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Salerno, Baronissi, Italy

  Maurizio Tucci

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