Multimedia Communications and Video Coding

MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS: Multimedia Networks and Systems: Videoondemand: Killer App or Siren's Song? (J.J. Sie). ATMbased System Architecture for Multimedia Networking (D.Raychaudhuri). Kaleido: A System for Dynamic Composition and Processing of Multimedia Flows (A. Asthana et al.). Performance Issues in Multimedia Networks: Effects of Smoothing on Endtoend Performance Guarantees for VBR Video (E.W. Knightly, P. Rossaro). Detection and Control of Bursty Video and Packet Data Traffic (C. Thompson et al.). A Traffic Descriptorbased Flow Control Scheme for Efficient Video Transmission over ATM (S. Jung, J.S. Meditch). Multimedia Synchronization: Synchronization Issues on Software MPEG Playback Systems (G. Zuniga, E. Feig). Adaptive Synchronization in Realtime Multimedia Applications (C. Liu et al.). A Synchronization Mechanism for Multimedia Presentation (Y. Cai, G.E. Pantziou). Video Server Architecture and Implementation: Architecting Videoondemand Systems: DAVIC 1.0 and Beyond (A. Eleftheriadis). Business Video Server: The LAN/WAN Connections (M.S. Chen et al.). VIDEO CODING: Object and Model Based Video Coding: ModelbasedVideo Coding (T.S. Huang, L.A. Tang). Exploitation of Spatiotemporal Intercorrelation among Motion, Segmentation and Intensity Fields for Very Low Bit Rate Coding of Video (A.K. Katsaggelos, T. Ozcelik). Audiovisual Interaction in Multimedia Communications: Automatic Lipreading Research: Historic Overview and Current Work (E. Petajan, H.P. Graf). On the Production and the Perception of Audiovisual Speech by Man and Machine (C. Benoit). VideoCoding Algorithms: Timevarying Motion Estimation on a Sequence of Images (R. Leonardi, A. Iocco). A Logarithmictime Adaptive Blockmatching Algorithm for Estimating Largedisplacement Motion Vectors (M.C. Chen, A.N. Willson, Jr.).Standardsand New Directions of Video Coding: Status and Direction of the MPEG4 Standard (A. Puri). A Rateconstrained Encoding Strategy for H.263 Video Compression (T. Wiegand et al.). INTERACTIONS BETWEEN VIDEO CODING AND NETWORK CONTROL: Video Transmission over ATM Networks: Statistical Analysis of MPEG2coded VBR Movie Source (D.P. Heyman et al.). Source Traffic Descriptor for VBR MPEG in ATM Networks (J. Mata, S. Sallent). Video Transmission over Wireless Networks: MPEG2 Based Digital Video Transmission over Satellite Channels (K.H. Tzou). Data Partitioning and Unbalanced Error Protection for H.263 Video Transmission over Wireless Channels (H. Liu, M. El Zarki). Video Coding for Time Varying and Lossy Channels: The Interaction of Source and Channel Coding in Wireless and Packet Video (M. Vetterli et al.). Scalable Video Coding with Multiscale Motion Compensation and Unequal Error Protection (B. Girod et al.). 35 additional articles. Index.