Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services

1. Front Matter

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2. Embedding data in 3D models

   • Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Hiroshi Masuda, Masaki Aono

   Pages 1-10

3. Estimation of motion parameters of a rigid body from a monocular image sequence for MPEG-4 applications

   • A. Smolic, B. Makai, G. Lin, T. Sikora

   Pages 11-19

4. System for screening objectionable images using Daubechies' wavelets and color histograms

   • James Ze Wang, Gio Wiederhold, Oscar Firschein

   Pages 20-30

5. MUSIC: an interactive multimedia service composition environment for distributed systems

   • Piergiorgio Bosco, Giovanni Martini, Giovanni Reteuna

   Pages 31-40

6. Achieving Networked Virtual Environments interoperability

   • Michel Soto, Hubert Lê VĂn Gông

   Pages 41-50

7. A redundant hierarchical structure for a distributed continuous media server

   • Cyrus Shahabi, Mohammad H. Alshayeji, Shimeng Wang

   Pages 51-64

8. Program caching and multicasting techniques in VoD networks

   • Giacinto Dammicco, Ugo Mocci

   Pages 65-76

9. PENGUIN: DAVIC and the WWW in coexistence

   • Reinhard Baier, Christian Gran, Petra Hoepner, Klaus Hofrichter, Angela Scheller

   Pages 77-86

10. mTunnel: A multicast tunneling system with a user-based quality-of-service model

    • Peter Parnes, Kåre Synnes, Dick Schefström

    Pages 87-96

11. A distributed delay-constrained dynamic multicast routing algorithm

    • Quan Sun, Horst LangendŐrfer

    Pages 97-106

12. An efficient software implementation of a Forward Error Correcting code

    • Jean-Charles Henrion

    Pages 107-118

13. Disk scheduling for variable-rate data streams

    • Jan Korst, Veras Pronk, Pascal Coumans

    Pages 119-132

14. A novel data placement scheme on optical discs for near-VOD servers

    • Shiao-Li Tsao, Yueh-Min Huang, Chia-Chin Lin, Shiang-Chun Liou, Chien-Wen Huang

    Pages 133-142

15. A priority feedback mechanism for distributed MPEG video player systems

    • Kam-yiu Lam, Chris C. H. Ngan, Joseph K. Y. Ng

    Pages 143-152

16. A soft real time scheduling server in UNIX operating system

    • Hao-hua Chu, Klara Nahrstedt

    Pages 153-162

17. Stored video transmission across ATM networks: RVBR versus RCBR service for interactive applications

    • Stefan Gumbrich, Jürgen Heller

    Pages 163-175

18. Improving clock synchronization for MPEG-2 services over ATM networks

    • R. Noro, J. P. Hubaux

    Pages 176-188

19. VoR: A network system framework for VBR over reserved bandwidth

    • Yasunori Matsui, Hideyuki Tokuda

    Pages 189-198

20. EPK-fix: Methods and tools for engineering electronic product catalogues

    • A. Knapp, N. Koch, M. Wirsing, J. Duckeck, R. Lutze, H. Fritzsche et al.

    Pages 199-209

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services, IDMS'97, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in September 1997. The 41 revised full papers presented in the book were selected from over 100 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on media coding and content processing, development and interoperability, on-demand systems, multicast and FEC, video server and systems, video transmission, production and authoring, multimedia applications, mobility, CSCW and system performance, MM communication over ATM networks, CSCW and teleteaching, QoS for media presentations, QoS and scaling.

• ATM
• CSCW
• Performance
• QoS
• Quality of Service
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• communication
• multimedia

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