Foreword - Edward A. Fox Acknowledgments Introduction -K evin jeffay and HongJiang ZhangPart I: Multimedia Processing and RetrievalIntroductionby HongJiang ZhangChapter 1 - Digital Audioedited HongJiang Zhang and Hao JiangAudio Engineering and Psychoacoustics: Matching Signals to the Final Receiver, the Human Auditory Systemby E. Zwicker and U. T. ZwickerAdvances in Speech and Audio Compression by A. GershoA Tutorial on MPEG/Audio Compression by D. Pan Structured Audio and Effects Processing in the MPEG-4 Multimedia Standard by E. D. ScheirerFundamental and Technological Limitations of Immersive Audio Systems by C. KyriakakisChapter 2 - Digital Image and Video Compression and Processingedited by Bing ZengImage and Video Coding—Emerging Standards and Beyond by B. G. Haskell, P. G. Howard, Y. A. LeCun, A. Puri, J. Ostermann, M. R. Civanlar, L. Rabiner, L. Bottou, and P. HaffnerComparison of International Standards for Lossless Still Image Compression by R. Arps and T. TruongEmbedded Image Coding Using Zerotrees of Wavelet Coefficients by J. M. ShapiroThe MPEG-4 Video Standard Verification Model by T. SikoraMultimedia Data-Embedding and Watermarking Technologies by M. D. Swanson, M. Kobayashi, and A. H. TewfikAlgorithms for Manipulating Compressed Images by B. C. Smith and L. A. RoweManipulation and Compositing of MC-DCT Compressed Video by S.-F. Chang and D. G. MesserschmittChapter 3 - Audio Retrieval and Navigation Interfacesedited by Philippe AigrainRepresentation-Based User Interfaces for the Audiovisual Library of Year 2000 by P. Aigrain, P. Joly, P. Lepain, and V. LonguevilleQuery by Humming: Music Information Retrieval in an Audio Database by A. Ghias, J. Logan, D. Chamberlain, and B. C. SmithContent-Based Classification, Search, and Retrieval of Audio by E. Wold , T. Blum, D. Keislar, and J. WheatonToward Content-Based Audio Indexing and Retrieval and a New Speaker Discrimination Technique by L. Wyse and S. W. SmoliarOpen-Vocabulary Speech Indexing for Voice and Video Mail Retrieval by M. G. Brown, J. T. Foote, G.J.F. Jones, K. Spärck Jones, and S. J. YoungChapter 4 - Content-Based Image Indexing and retrievaledited by HongJiang ZhangQuery by Image and Video Content: The QBIC System by M. Flickner, H. Sawhney, W. Niblack, J. Ashley, Q. Huang, B. Dom, M. Gorkani, J. Hafner, D. Lee, D. Petkovic, D. Steele, and P. YankerColor Indexing by M. J. Swain and D. H. BallardA Scheme for Visual Feature Based Image Indexing by H.J. Zhang and D. ZhongInteractive Learning with a "Society of Models" by T. P. Minka and R. W. PicardThe Bayesian Image Retrieval System; Pic Hunter Theory, Implementation, and Psychophysical Experiments by I. J. Cox, M. L. Miller, T. P. Minka, T. V. Papathomas, and P. N. YianilosChapter 5 - Content-Based Video Browsing and Retrievaledited by HongJiang ZhangAutomatic Partitioning of Full-Motion Video by H.J. Zhang, A. Kankanhalli, and S. W. SmoliarStructured Video Computing by Y. Tonomura, A. Akutsu, Y. Taniguchi, and G. SuzukiVideo Parsing, Retrieval and Browsing: An Integrated and Content-Based Solution by H.J. Zhang, C. Y. Low, S. W. Smoliar, and J. H. WuExtracting Story Units from Long Programs for Video Browsing and Navigation by M. Yeung, B.-L. Yeo, and B. LiuVideo Skimming and Characterization through the Combination of Image and Language Understanding Techniques by M. A. Smith and T. KanadePart II: Systems, Networking and ToolsIntroductionby Kevin JeffayChapter 6 - Multimedia Database Systemsedited by Aidong ZhangA Unified Data Model for Representing Multimedia, Timeline, and Simulation Data by J.D.N. Dionisio and A. F. CárdenasQuerying Multimedia Presentations Based on Content by T. Lee, L. Sheng, T. Bozkaya, N. H. Balkir, Z. M. Özsoyoglu, and G. ÖzsoyogluNetView: Integrating Large-Scale Distributed Visual Databases by A. Zhang, W. Chang, G. Sheikholeslami, and T. F. Syeda-MahmoodThe X-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Data by S. Berchtold, D. A. Keim, and H.-P. KriegelChapter 7 - Multimedia Operating systemsedited by Klara NahrstedtAn Overview of the Rialto Real-Time Architecture by M. B. Jones, J. S. Barrera III, A. Forin, P. J. Leach, D. Rosu, and M. C. RosuResource Kernels: A Resource-Centric Approach to Real-Time and Multimedia Systems by R. Rajkumar, K. Juvva, A. Molano, and S. OikawaA Hierarchical CPU Scheduler for Multimedia Operating Systems by P. Goyal, X. Guo, and H. M. VinThe Design, Implementation and Evaluation of SMART: A Scheduler for Multimedia Applications by J. Nieh and M. S. LamChapter 8 - Videoconferencingedited by Kevin JeffayAn Empirical Study of Delay Jitter Management Policies by D. L. Stone and K. JeffayMedia Scaling for Audiovisual Communication with the by Heidelberg Transport System L. Delgrossi, C. Halstrick, D. Hehmann, R. G. Herrtwich, O. Krone, by J. Sandvoss, and C. VogtRetransmission-Based Error Control for Interactive Video Applications over the Internet by I. Rhee What Video Can and Can't Do for Collaboration: A Case Study by E. A. Isaacs and J. C. Tangvic: A Flexible Framework for Packet Video by S. McCanne and V. JacobsonChapter 9 - Networking and Media Streamingedited by Ketan Mayer-PatelThe Performance of Two-Dimensional Media Scaling for Internet Videoconferencing by P. Nee, K. Jeffay, and G. DanneelsReceiver-driven Layered Multicast by S. McCanne, V. Jacobson, and M. VetterliA Survey of Packet Loss Recovery Techniques for Streaming Audio by C. Perkins, O. Hodson, and V. HardmanAdaptive FEC-Based Error Control for Internet Telephony by J.-C. Bolot, S. Fosse-Parisis, and D. TowsleyRSVP: A New Resource ReSerVation Protocol by L. Zhang, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Shenker, and D. ZappalaInternet Telephony: Architecture and Protocols—An IETF Perspective by H. Schulzrinne and J. RosenbergChapter 10 - Multimedia storage Serversedited by Prashant J. Shenoy and Harrick M. VinMultimedia Storage Servers: A Tutorial by D. J. Gemmell, H. M. Vin, D. D. Kandlur, P. V. Rangan, and L. A. RoweRandom RAIDs with Selective Exploitation of Redundancy for High Performance Video Servers by Y. BirkDisk Scheduling in a Multimedia I/O System by A. L. Narasimha Reddy and J. WyllieA Statistical Admission Control Algorithm for Multimedia Servers by H. M. Vin, P. Goyal, A. Goyal, and A. GoyalA Generalized Interval Caching Policy for Mixed Interactive and Long Video Workloads by A. Dan and D. SitaramOn Optimal Piggyback Merging Policies for Video-On-Demand Systems by C. Aggarwal, J. Wolf, and P. S. YuChapter 11 - Multimedia Synchronizationedited by Lawrence A. RoweA Temporal Reference Framework for Multimedia Synchronization by M. J. J. Pérez-Luque and T.D.C. LittleHuman Perception of Media Synchronization by R. Steinmetz and C. EnglerImproved Algorithms for Synchronizing Computer Network Clocks by D. L. MillsNsync—A Toolkit for Building Intractive Multimedia Presentations by B. Bailey, J. A. Konstan, R. Cooley, and M. DejongA Method and Apparatus for Measuring Media Synchronization by B. K. Schmidt, J. D. Northcutt, and M. S. LamChapter 12 - Authoring Systemsedited by Dick C. A. BultermanThe Amsterdam Hypermedia Model: Adding Time and Context to the Dexter Model by L. Hardman, D.C.A. Bulterman, and G. van RossumHDM—A Model-Based Approach to Hypertext Application Design by F. Garzotto, P. Paolini, and D. SchwabeAutomatic Temporal Layout Mechanisms by M. C. Buchanan and P. T. ZellwegerGRiNS: A GRaphical INterface for Creating and Playing SMIL Documents by D.C.A. Bulterman, L. Hardman, J. Jansen, K. Sjoerd Mullender, and L. RutledgeMultiviews Interfaces for Multimedia Authoring Environments by M. Jourdan, C. Roisin, and L. TardifA Multimedia System for Authoring Motion Pictures by R. Baecker, A. J. Rosenthal, N. Friedlander, E. Smith, and A. Cohenauthor index Subject index about the authors