This paper introduces a multicast based architecture for supporting large scale Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs). The paper begins by defining CVEs, discussing the motivat...
In the framework of the European ACTS programme, the AMUSE project aims to develop, specify, implement and trial advanced multimedia services using an end-to-end ATM infrastructure...
: This paper attempts to evaluate quantitatively the performance trade-offs involved in applying object-oriented software methodologies to region-based representations of images an...
This paper investigates the main issues related to the translation of SMIL into MHEG-5 documents. This is driven by the more general objective to achieve interoperability between ...
Warner ten Kate, Dick C. A. Bulterman, Patrick Deu...
For communication using digital video, compression is mandatory because of the high bit-rate requiring a large bandwidth or storage capacity. Recent developments as well as upcomi...
Frank H. P. Spaan, Reginald L. Lagendijk, Jan Biem...
We have de ned an execution architecture for playing back synchronized multimedia documents. We suppose that such documents i ed by means of several abstractions including hypertim...
Combining eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and Active Layer Networking may yield strong benefits for networked services. A Wide range of new Multimedia applications can be develope...
The objectives of the CATI project (Charging and Accounting Technology for the Internet) include the design, implementation, and evaluation of charging and accounting mechanisms f...
One of the goals of the ACTS project MODEST is to build an automatic video-surveillance system from a sequence of digital images. The overall system can be divided into the followi...
Patrick Piscaglia, Andrea Cavallaro, Michel Bonnet...