Volume 1, Number 1, March 1999

Media Compression

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  Guido M. Schuster, Gerry Melnikov, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos: A Review of the Minimum Maximum Criterion for Optimal Bit Allocation Among Dependent Quantizers. 3-17

3-D Processing

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  Chun-Jen Tsai, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos: Dense Disparity Estimation with a Divide-and-Conquer Disparity Space Image Technique. 18-29

Transcoding of Compressed Multimedia Objects

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  Jeongnam Youn, Ming-Ting Sun, Chia-Wen Lin: Motion Vector Refinement for High-Performance Transcoding. 30-40

Multimodal and Multimedia Environments

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  Siegmund Pastoor, Jin Liu, Sylvain Renault: An Experimental Multimedia System Allowing 3-D Visualization and Eye-Controlled Interaction Without User-Worn Devices. 41-52

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

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  Ulrich Neumann, Suya You: Natural Feature Tracking for Augmented Reality. 53-64

Image and Video Segmentation for Interactive Services

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  Jürgen Stauder, Roland Mech, Jörn Ostermann: Detection of Moving Cast Shadows for Object Segmentation. 65-76

Multimedia Traffic Management

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  Ali M. Dawood, Mohammed Ghanbari: Content-Based MPEG Video Traffic Modeling. 77-87

Wireless Multimedia Communication

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  Haitao Zheng, K. J. Ray Liu: Robust Image and Video Transmission Over Spectrally Shaped Channels Using Multicarrier Modulation. 88-103

WWW, Hypermedia and Internet, Internet II

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  Rakesh Mohan, John R. Smith, Chung-Sheng Li: Adapting Multimedia Internet Content for Universal Access. 104-114

Volume 1, Number 2, June 1999

Low-Power Digital and Analog Circuits for Multimedia

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  Ricardo Carmona-Galán, Ángel Rodríguez-Vázquez, Servando Espejo-Meana, Rafael Domínguez-Castro, Tamás Roska, Tibor Kozek, Leon O. Chua: An 0.5-µm CMOS Analog Random Access Memory Chip for TeraOPS Speed Multimedia Video Processing. 121-135

Virutal Reality and Augmented Reality

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  Jürgen Stauder: Augmented Reality with Automatic Illumination Control Incorporating Ellipsoidal Models. 136-143

Content Analysis and Synthesis

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  Jia-Ching Cheng, José M. F. Moura: Capture and Representation of Human Walking in Live Video Sequences. 144-156

Image and Video Segmentation for Interactive Services

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  John R. Smith: VideoZoom Spatio-Temporal Video Browser. 157-171

Multimedia Traffic Management

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  Wai-tian Tan, Avideh Zakhor: Real-Time Internet Video Using Error Resilient Scalable Compression and TCP-Friendly Transport Protocol. 172-186

Wireless Multimedia Communication

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  Jyh-Chen Chen, Krishna M. Sivalingam, Prathima Agrawal, Raj Acharya: Scheduling Multimedia Services in a Low-Power MAC for Wireless and Mobile ATM Networks. 187-201

CAD Tools and Synthesis for Multimedia Systems

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  Erik Brockmeyer, Lode Nachtergaele, Francky Catthoor, Jan Bormans, Hugo De Man: Low Power Memory Storage and Transfer Organization for the MPEG-4 Full Pel Motion Estimation on a Multimedia Processor. 202-216

System Performance

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  Yong He, Ishfaq Ahmad, Ming L. Liou: Real-Time Interactive MPEG-4 System Encoder Using a Cluster of Workstations. 217-233

Volume 1, Number 3, September 1999

Integration of Synthetic and Natural Audio/Video

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  Eric D. Scheirer, Riitta Väänänen, Jyri Huopaniemi: AudioBIFS: Describing Audio Scences with MPEG-4 Multimedia Standard. 237-250

Synchronization

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  Christos Tryfonas, Anujan Varma: Timestamping Schemes for MPEG-2 Systems Layer and Their Effect on Receiver Clock Recovery. 251-263

Content Recognition and Understanding

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  Christophe Garcia, George Tziritas: Face Detection Using Quantized Skin Color Regions Merging and Wavelet Packet Analysis. 264-277

Transport Protocols

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  Ruay Shiung Chang, Chin-Dong Wang: Improved WWW Multimedia Transmission Performance in HTTP/TCP over ATM Networks. 278-290

Videoconferencing and Collaboration Environment

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  Panayiotis G. Georgiou, P. Tsakalides, Chris Kyriakakis: Alpha-Stable Modeling of Noise and Robust Time-Delay Estimation in the Presence of Impulsive Noise. 291-301

Correspondence

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  Wu-chang Feng, Jennifer Rexford: Performance Evaluation of Smoothing Algorithms for Transmitting Prerecorded Variable-Bit-Rate Video. 302-313

Volume 1, Number 4, December 1999

Compressed Domain Processing

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  Soo-Chang Pei, Yu-Zuong Chou: Efficient MPEG Compressed Video Analysis Using Macroblock Type Information. 321-333

Multimodal and Multimedia Environments

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  Lizhong Wu, Sharon L. Oviatt, Philip R. Cohen: Multimodal Integration - A Statistical View. 334-341

Error Concealment and Information Recovery

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  Benjamin W. Wah, Dong Lin: Transformation-Based Reconstruction for Real-Time Voice Transmissions over the Internet. 342-351

Quality of Service

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  Nick G. Duffield, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Amy R. Reibman: Issues of Quality and Multiplexing When Smoothing Rate Adaptive Video. 352-364