{"title":"A dual visualizer method for interactive topology","authors":"Y. Ohtake, S. Yukita, T. Kunii","doi":"10.1109/MULMM.1998.722996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MULMM.1998.722996","url":null,"abstract":"A new method for visual and interactive topology is presented. While many classical and modern textbooks on topology contain beautiful illustrations for learners, and much excellent video software has been produced for animating geometrical phenomena, they are all based on static scenarios. This means their geometrical presentations fail to meet the demand for interactivity. With the progress of multimedia technology, dynamic scenarios, which enable learners to make mathematical experiments as many times as they like, are now well within reach. However, an appropriate methodology for interactive mathematical visualization is still lacking. The authors present a dual visualizer method in which the operational visualizer and the geometrical visualizer play complementary roles. The process graph is a key technique in the operational visualizer The method illuminates crucial factors to be considered in the methodology.","PeriodicalId":305422,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1998 MultiMedia Modeling. MMM'98 (Cat. No.98EX200)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130201306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporal partial order and partial reliability service for distributed multimedia applications","authors":"L. Rojas-Cardenas, P. Sénac, L. Dairaine, M. Diaz","doi":"10.1109/MULMM.1998.722985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MULMM.1998.722985","url":null,"abstract":"A partial order and partial reliable connection (POC) is an end-to-end transport connection authorized to deliver objects in an order that can differ from the transmitted one. The service that this connection provides is also authorized to lose a number of objects. The POC approach establishes a conceptual link between both connectionless best-effort (CL) and connection oriented (OC) protocols. This approach is motivated by the fact that heterogeneous CL networks such as the Internet are plagued by unordered delivery of packets and losses, which tar the performances of current protocols. Moreover, it has been showed, in several research works, that out of order delivery is able to alleviate the use of network resources such as memory and bandwidth, and reduces end-re-end transit delay. But, in order to take advantage of these benefits, applications must be able to relax some transport constraints. A temporal extension of POC, called TPOC (for Temporal POC), is introduced. TPOC offer a conceptual framework, which allow the QoS of distributed multimedia applications to be fully taken into account. The architecture for offering a TPOC transport service is introduced and evaluated for the transport of MPEG video streams. The authors demonstrate that POC connections fill not only the conceptual gap between CL protocols (such as UDP) and OC protocols (such as TCP) but also provides real performances improvements for the transport of multimedia streams such as MPEG video.","PeriodicalId":305422,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1998 MultiMedia Modeling. MMM'98 (Cat. No.98EX200)","volume":"66 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113971783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Rutledge, L. Hardman, J. V. Ossenbruggen, D. Bulterman
{"title":"Implementing adaptability in the standard reference model for intelligent multimedia presentation systems","authors":"L. Rutledge, L. Hardman, J. V. Ossenbruggen, D. Bulterman","doi":"10.1109/MULMM.1998.722969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MULMM.1998.722969","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the implementation of adaptability in environments that are based on the standard reference model for intelligent multimedia presentation systems. This adaptability is explored in the context of style sheets, which are represented in such formats as DSSSL. The use of existing public standards and tools for this implementation of style sheet-based adaptability is described. The Berlage environment is presented, which integrates these standards and tools into a complete storage-to-presentation hypermedia environment. The integration of the SRM into the Berlage environment is introduced in this work. This integration illustrates the issues involved in implementing adaptability in the model.","PeriodicalId":305422,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1998 MultiMedia Modeling. MMM'98 (Cat. No.98EX200)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123445440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiresolution volume data structure for shape modeling","authors":"Nobuyuki Umezu, Y. Shinagawa, T. Kunii","doi":"10.1109/MULMM.1998.722995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MULMM.1998.722995","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the rapid progress of computer hardware, handling large volume data is getting easier. Although a number of methods have been developed for rendering volumetric datasets, very few have been proposed for shape modeling of such datasets. The paper describes a multiresolution structure for shape modeling with volume data, and the voxel interaction method capable of modeling shapes at arbitrary resolution level. In the voxel interaction method, each voxel acts in a similar way to a cellular automaton. The shape of an object is represented by the internal variables in the voxels. Unlike cellular automata, the interacting voxels can change the speed of the information propagation by selecting an appropriate resolution in the hierarchical structure, which plays an important role in modeling the rigidity of objects in our method. For the acceleration of rendering for 2D image generation, the sampling ratio along the eye-ray in the volume space is determined according to the resolution of the volume data. Experimental results include the examples of shape deformation of human CT data.","PeriodicalId":305422,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1998 MultiMedia Modeling. MMM'98 (Cat. No.98EX200)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131264078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erika Madja, A. Hafid, R. Dssouli, G. Bochmann, J. Gecsei
{"title":"Meta-data modelling for quality of service (QoS) management in the World Wide Web (WWW)","authors":"Erika Madja, A. Hafid, R. Dssouli, G. Bochmann, J. Gecsei","doi":"10.1109/MULMM.1998.723010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MULMM.1998.723010","url":null,"abstract":"The World-Wide Web has been a remarkably successful system for distributing hypertext documents. The basic model for Web interaction is that a client requests a page of data which can include images and hyperlinks within it. This interaction model is inadequate for real-time multimedia (MM) applications, since the Web and its associated set of protocols, e.g. HTTP, do not support the real-time transfer of the continuous media (Audio/Video). Several solutions have been proposed to support real-time playout of continuous media via the Web, e.g. Netscape. Most of these solutions do not provide means to the user to negotiate the desired presentation quality (in terms of quality of service (QoS) parameters settings); even the proposals that provide QoS negotiation (more generally QoS management) are used in a rather static manner, that is, the video/audio servers are a priori known. The authors propose to integrate in the WWW a dynamic QoS management approach that allows (1) the user to negotiate the desired QoS; and (2) and to select the \"best\" video/audio server which might support the user requirements. This activity is based on the general structure of multimedia documents and associated QoS parameters, called meta-data, which they developed under an ongoing CITR project. The main objective of the paper is to integrate meta-data associated with MM document in WWW e.g. Netscape; this will allow one to use dynamic QoS management protocols.","PeriodicalId":305422,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1998 MultiMedia Modeling. MMM'98 (Cat. No.98EX200)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134515562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiviews interfaces for multimedia authoring environments","authors":"Muriel Jourdan, C. Roisin, L. Tardif","doi":"10.1109/MULMM.1998.722978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MULMM.1998.722978","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the interface needs for the emergence of new authoring tools for the creation of multimedia documents. We think that it is possible to break down the specify-and-run process of most existing tools to have more direct editing functions close to a \"wysiwyg\" approach. After identifying the requirements of direct editing for multimedia documents, we describe an authoring environment based on a set of synchronized views and we illustrate its usefulness through many authoring situations.","PeriodicalId":305422,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1998 MultiMedia Modeling. MMM'98 (Cat. No.98EX200)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125552872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"N-TSVS: a videoconference tool for generic cooperative groups","authors":"T. Villemur, P. Owezarski, M. Diaz","doi":"10.1109/MULMM.1998.722981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MULMM.1998.722981","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the architecture and the design of a distributed videoconferencing application called N-TSVS. The structure of the cooperative groups supported by N-TSVS is defined and modelled by graphs: their vertices describe the group members and their edges represent the information sharing between the cooperative agents. The group dynamicity is modelled by valid configurations that are subgroups of members in which data exchanges can occur. A group membership service and an associated protocol that manage the dynamic cooperative groups are formally designed, validated and integrated inside N-TSVS. The multimedia data processing is developed in a separate way using multithreading functionalities and is coupled to the group membership service.","PeriodicalId":305422,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1998 MultiMedia Modeling. MMM'98 (Cat. No.98EX200)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122201232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Operator localization of virtual objects","authors":"S. Ellis, B. Menges","doi":"10.1109/MULMM.1998.722998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MULMM.1998.722998","url":null,"abstract":"Errors in the localization of nearby virtual objects presented via see-through, helmet mounted displays are examined as a function of viewing conditions and scene content. Monocular, biocular or stereoscopic presentation of the virtual objects, accommodation (required focus), subjects' age, and the position of physical surfaces are examined. Nearby physical surfaces are found to introduce localization errors that differ depending upon the other experimental factors. The apparent physical size and transparency of the virtual objects and physical surfaces respectively are also influenced by their relative position when superimposed. Design implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":305422,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1998 MultiMedia Modeling. MMM'98 (Cat. No.98EX200)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126939963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Color co-occurrence descriptors for querying-by-example","authors":"V. Kovalev, Stephan Volmer","doi":"10.1109/MULMM.1998.722972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MULMM.1998.722972","url":null,"abstract":"Multimedia documents are different from traditional text documents, because they may contain encodings of raw sensorical data. This fact has severe consequences for the efficient indexing and retrieval of information from documents in large unstructured collections (e.g. WWW), because it is very difficult to automatically identify generic meanings from visual or audible objects. A novel method for image retrieval from large collections is proposed in this paper. The method is based on color co-occurrence descriptors that utilize compact representations of essential information of the visual image content. The set of descriptor elements represents \"elementary\" color segments, their borders, and their mutual spatial distribution on the image frame. Such representation is flexible enough to describe image scenes ranging from simple combinations of color segments to high frequency color textures equally well. At the retrieval stage the comparison between a given query descriptor and the database descriptors is performed by a similarity measure. Image descriptors are robust versus affine transformations and several other image distortions. The consideration of the descriptors as sets of elements allows the combination of several images or subimages into a single query. Basic properties of the method are demonstrated experimentally on an image database containing 20000 images.","PeriodicalId":305422,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1998 MultiMedia Modeling. MMM'98 (Cat. No.98EX200)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131166921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relevance feedback techniques for color-based image retrieval","authors":"Tat-Seng Chua, Wai-Chee Low, Chun-Xin Chu","doi":"10.1109/MULMM.1998.722971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MULMM.1998.722971","url":null,"abstract":"Color has been widely used in content-based image retrieval systems. The problem with using color is that its representation is low level and hence its retrieval effectiveness is limited. This paper investigates techniques for improving the effectiveness of image retrieval based on colors. It examines the choice of suitable color space and color resolution. It describes two techniques for image retrieval with relevance feedback (RF). The first uses machine learning algorithms to extract significant color intervals and build the decision tree from the relevant image set to support effective RF. The second employs color coherent vector (CCV), in which the pseudo object information encoded in CCV is used for RF. Both techniques have been tested on a large image database containing over 12000 images. Tests were also performed to evaluate the effectiveness of retrieval at different color resolutions. The results demonstrate that our RF techniques are effective and a medium color resolution of 176 colors performs the best.","PeriodicalId":305422,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1998 MultiMedia Modeling. MMM'98 (Cat. No.98EX200)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127629339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}