Multimedia ‘99 Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Milano, Italy, September 7–8, 1999

Multimedia '99 covers technological and scientific areas of media production, processing and delivery. 24 contributions from research laboratories and universities worldwide give a broad perspective on multimedia research with a special focus on media convergence. The topics treated in this volume: image and sound content analysis and processing, paradigms and metaphors for multimedia authoring and display, applications such as education or entertainment, and multimedia content authentication and security.

Keynote Address.- Shaping Creative Research in New Media.- Technical Papers.- Content Analysis and Processing.- Replay Detection in Sports Video Sequences.- Segmentation of Video Sequences using Volumetric Image Processing.- Visual Speech Analysis for Spoken Chinese Training of Oral Deaf Children.- Content Based Retrieval and Security.- Extracting Bimodal Representations for Language-Based Image Retrieval.- A Dissimilarity Measure for Query by Example Retrieval.- Content-based Video Retrieval by Example Clip on WWW.- Digital Sound Watermarks Based on Improved Sinusoidal Analysis/Synthesis Model.- Distributed Multimedia Systems.- Video on Demand Servers: Storage Architecture with Disk Arrays.- Object Carousel Simulator for Broadcast Applications.- MM Framework - Distributed Environment for Control and Management of Multimedia Data.- Object Models and Multimedia.- Manipulating 3D Character Animation Media Objects.- Realization of an Extensible Multimedia Document Model.- Object Coherence in Distributed Interaction.- Authoring Paradigms and Media Integration.- Integration of Structured Video in a Multimedia Authoring System.- Head-Tracked Light Field Movies - A New Multimedia Data Type.- Hypermedia and Web.- Visually Critiquing Web Pages.- ANTS: An Automatic Navigability Testing Tool for Hypermedia.- Education and Entertainment.- Educational Applications of WWW-Based Asynchronous Video.- EcoVasco, an Ecological Multimedia Adventure.- Involving the Audience in Distributed, Interactive Entertainment Systems.- Multi-Media Access and Presentation in a Theatre Information Environment.- Demos.- Representing Contemporary Architecture Using Hypermedia: Eight Italian Architectures in the Postwar Period.- ETNIAS: Multimedia Performance Involving Music, Dance and Images.