MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS

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2 THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Recently Published Titles: Consulting Editor Borko Furht Florida Atlantic University VIDEO AND IMAGE PROCESSING IN MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS, by Borko Furht, Stephen W. Smoliar, HongJiang Zhang ISBN -13: MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES, edited by Borko Furht ISBN-13: =' '!'J.;..., r.iiil -- r- I =. $--:!S MULTIMEfJIA S'lnEMS AND APPLICATIONS Advanced Book Series

3 MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS edited by Borko Furht Florida Atlantic University ~. " KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS Boston / Dordrecht / London

4 Distributors for North America: Kluwer Academic Publishers 10 1 Philip Drive Assinippi Park Norwell, Massachusetts USA Distributors for all other countries: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Distribution Centre Post Office Box AH Dordrecht, THE NETHERLANDS Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN-13: DOl: / e-isbn-13: Copyright 1996 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1 st edition 1996 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photo-copying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park, Norwell, Massachusetts Printed on acid-free paper.

5 CONTENTS PREFACE Xl 1 MULTIMEDIA APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES John Bates and Jean Bacon 1 1 Background 2 2 Multimedia Objects 10 3 Multimedia Data Modelling 22 4 Synchronisation 26 5 Event-driven programming 28 6 Controlling Groups of Objects 34 7 Conclusions 38 2 PHOTOBOOK: CONTENT-BASED MANIPULATION OF IMAGE DATABASES A. Pentland, R. W. Picard, and S. Sclaroff 43 1 Introduction: The Problem 43 2 Semantics-Preserving Image Compression 46 3 Photobook 51 4 Appearance Photobook 53 5 Shape Photobook 58 6 Texture Photo book 62 7 Other Issues 70 8 Conclusion 75 3 SELECTION AND DISSEMINATION OF DIGITAL VIDEO VIA THE VffiTUAL VIDEO

6 MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND ApPLICATIONS BROWSER* T.D.G. Little, G. Ahanger, H.-J. Chen, R.J. Folz, J.F. Gibbon, A. Krishnamurthy, P. Lumba, M. Ramanathan, and D. Venkatesh 81 1 Introduction 82 2 VOD Databases 84 3 The Virtual Video Browser 91 4 Discussion Conclusion 106 REFERENCES PRODUCTION MODEL BASED DIGITAL VIDEO SEGMENTATION Arnn Hampapur, Ramesh Jain, and Terry E. Weymouth Introduction Modeling Digital Video Video Segmentation: Problem Definition Video segmentation using production model based classification Classification and Segmentation Comparison to existing work Error Measures for Video Segmentation 8 Experimental Results 9 Summary and Future Work AN INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA NEWS SERVICE OVER AN ATM NETWORK Ben Falchuk and Ahmed Karmouch 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Feature Set 4 Multimedia News System Platform 5 The News Video Browser 6 Conclusions REFERENCES COURSEWARE COORDINATION AND REUSE Roy Rada

7 Contents 1 Introduction Educational Hypermedia Coordination Reuse University Examples Organizational Issues Commercial Examples Refined WWW Projects One Commercial System Conclusion 228 REFERENCES INTERACTIVE TELEVISION SYSTEMS Borko Furht, Deven Kalra, and Arturo A. Rodriguez Introduction An Architecture for Interactive Television Network Topologies for Interactive Multimedia Services Multimedia Server Architectures Interactive TV Set-Top Box Types of Interactive Services Experimental ltv and VOD Systems Conclusion TECHNIQUES FOR THE CREATION AND EXPLORATION OF DIGITAL VIDEO LIBRARIES Michael Christel, Scott Stevens, Takeo Kanade, Michael Mauldin, Raj Reddy, and Howard Wactlar Introduction Issues with Video in a Digital Video Library Techniques Addressing Digital Video Library Issues The Informedia Digital Video Library Project Conclusion MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SYSTEMS Tai- Yuan Hou, Arturo Pizano, and Arding Hsu 329

8 MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND ApPLICATIONS 1 Introduction Message Composition Message Delivery Message Processing Storage and Retrieval /Voic /Fax Interrogation Mail-Enabled Applications Cog.clusion 352 REFERENCES INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING SYSTEMS James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Charles B. Owen, and Samuel A. Rebelsky Introduction De:sign of IMMpubs Features to Support IMMpubs FoundatiQnal Multimedia P\1.Qlishing Systems SGML-based Multimedia Publishing Multimedia Authoring Issu~ Summary 386 INDEX 393

9 CONTRIBUTORS G. Ahanger Jean Bacon University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom John Bates University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom H.-J. Chen Michael Christel Ben Falchuck University of Ottawa Ottawa, Canada R. J. Folz James Ford Darmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Borko Furht Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida, USA J. F. Gibbon Arun Hampapur Vir age Inc. San Diego, California, USA Tai-Yuan Hou Siemens Corporate Research Princeton, New Jersey, USA Arding Hsu Siemens Corporate Research Princeton, New Jersey, USA Ramesh Jain Vir age Inc. San Diego, California, USA Deven Kalra Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, California, USA Takeo Kanade Ahmed Karmouch University of Ottawa Ottawa, Canada A. Krishnamurthy

10 CONTRIBUTORS T. D. C. Little P. Lumba Fillia Makedon Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Michael Mauldin Charles Owen Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Alex Pentland The Media Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA R. W. Picard The Media Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Raj Reddy Arturo A. Rodriguez Scientific Atlanta Norcross, Georgia, USA S. Sclaroff Scott Stevens D. Venkatesh Howard Wactlar Terry E. Weymouth University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Arturo Pizano Siemens Corporate Research Princeton, New Jersey, USA Roy Rada University of Liverpool Liverpool, United Kingdom M. Ramanathan Samuel A. Rebelsky Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

11 PREFACE This book is the second book of two-volume books on Multimedia Systems and Applications. The first book entitled Multimedia Systems and Techniques, published in January of 1996, covers fundamental concepts and techniques used in multimedia systems. The topics include multimedia objects and related models, multimedia compression techniques and standards, multimedia interfaces, multimedia storage techniques, multimedia communication and networking, multimedia synchronization techniques, multimedia information systems, scheduling in multimedia systems, and video indexing and retrieval techniques. The second book on Multimedia Tools and Applications covers selected tools applied in multimedia systems and key multimedia applications. It comprises ten chapters which include topics such as multimedia application development techniques, techniques for content-based manipulation of image databases, techniques for selection and dissemination of digital video, and tools for digital video segmentation. Selected key applications, described in the book, include multimedia news services, multimedia courseware and training, interactive television systems, digital video libraries, multimedia messaging systems, and interactive multimedia publishing systems. This book is intended for anyone involved in multimedia system design and applications and can be used as a textbook for a graduate course on multimedia. I would like to thank to all authors of the chapters for their contributions to this book. Special thanks for formatting and finalizing the book goes to Donna Rubinoff from Florida Atlantic University. Borko Furht Boca Raton, Florida January 1996.

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