Multimedia ‘99

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.