1 Signal Processing for Multimedia Communications.- Image Compression using Adaptive Wavelets and Trellis-Coded Quantization.- Synthesis Filter Bank Optimization in 1D and 2D Separable Subband Coding.- Multiple Descriptions Source-Channel Coding Methods for Communications.- A Robust Spatial Filtering Method for DOA Estimation of Coherent Sources in Impulsive Interference.- Signal Processing Considerations for Immersive Audio Rendering.- Real-Time Billboard Substitution in a Video Stream.- Signal Processing in Satellite Systems for Multimedia Services.- A Sketch-Based Approach for the Recovery of Transmission Errors in Coded Images.- An Algorithm for Fast Segmentation of Color Images.- Multi-Camera Strategies for High-Accuracy 3D Reconstruction.- 2 Multimedia Traffic: Modelling, Analysis, Measurements, and Performance Evaluation.- Providing Quality for Internet Video Services.- Video Traffic over Wireless Links: Issues and Performance.- Measurement-Based Admission Control with Aggregate Traffic Envelopes.- Coexistence of QoS and Best-Effort Flows.- Impact, Characterization and Modelling of Intermedia Relationships in a Multimedia System Performance Evaluation Framework.- Multimedia Network Management as Global Control.- Malleable Multimedia Presentations: Adaptive Streaming Tradeoffs for Best-Quality Fast-Response Systems.- Network Traffic Issues for Interactive Multipoint Multimedia Applications.- A Multi-Channel Approach to Voice Activity Detection in Noisy Environments Based on Time Delay Estimation.- Queuing Performance Evaluation by means of Traffic Sampling Methods.- Modelling DQDB Multimedia Sources at Cell/Segment Level.- A Novel Control Scheme for VBR Video Transmission over ATM Networks.- 3 Access Techniques.- Passive Optical Networks: Results from Project FSAN.- Resource Allocation Strategies for Multimedia Traffic in an ATM-Based PON.- DSL Technologies (HDSL2, ADSL, and VDSL), Improved Algorithms to Meet Wide Market Acceptance.- UMTS Access Network Architecture and Relevant Dimensioning Issues.- Wireless Multimedia Assessment with Traffic, Access and Transmission Protocols in Actual Environment at Millimeter Waves.- Error Propagation Stop Principle for CD3-OFDM: a Comparison with Perfect Coherent Demodulation.- Performance of a RS-Coded QPSK Cable Modem for TDMA Communication over the Return Channel of HFC Networks.- How Self-Similar Processes Persistence Determines the Queue Length Distribution Moments.- 4 Multimode Multimedia Terminals.- Multimode Multimedia Terminals: Issues and Trends.- Specification of Digital Interactive TV Systems.- MHEG-5 Common Application Interface for Broadcast and Interactive Services.- New Concepts for Multimode Multimedia Terminal Architectures.- Software Radio Technology: a Practical Example.- A Flexible Software Architecture for Multimedia Home Platforms.- PHS Mobile Communication System for Simultaneous Voice and Image Transmission.- Software Open Multimedia Interactive Terminal: an Open Terminal Architecture to Support Multimedia High-Quality Services.- Adaptive and Embedded Java-Codecs for Multimedia Terminals.- 5 Multimedia Services and Applications.- Multimedia Applications and Services.- Multimodal Human/Machine Communication.- Multimedia Processing for Advanced Communications Services.- Progressive Content-Based Retrieval of Image Databases through the Internet.- Content-Based Searching and Filtering of Visual Information.- Internet Video-Streaming.- Software Design and Simulation of a DS/CDMA Multimedia Transmission System for Remote Video-Surveillance Applications.- Rendering and Animation of a Proprietary Face Model into the MPEG-4 3D Player.- Authors’ Index.
