1 Multimedia Application Development Techniques. - 1 Background. - 2 Multimedia Objects. - 3 Multimedia Data Modelling. - 4 Synchronisation. - 5 Event-driven programming. - 6 Controlling Groups of Objects. - 7 Conclusions. - 2 Photobook: Content-Based Manipulation of Image Databases. - 1 Introduction: The Problem. - 2 Semantics-Preserving Image Compression. - 3 Photobook. - 4 Appearance Photobook. - 5 Shape Photobook. - 6 Texture Photobook. - 7 Other Issues. - 8 Conclusion. - 3 Selection and Dissemination of Digital Video Via the Virtual Video Browser*. - 1 Introduction. - 2 VOD Databases. - 3 The Virtual Video Browser. - 4 Discussion. - 5 Conclusion. - References. - 4 Production Model Based Digital Video Segmentation. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Modeling Digital Video. - 3 Video Segmentation: Problem Definition. - 4 Video segmentation using production model based classification. - 5 Classification and Segmentation. - 6 Comparison to existing work. - 7 Error Measures for Video Segmentation. - 8 Experimental Results. - 9 Summary and Future Work. - 5 An Interactive Multimedia News Service over an ATM Network. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Terminology. - 3 Feature Set. - 4 Multimedia News System Platform. - 5 The News Video Browser. - 6 Conclusions. - References. - 6 Courseware Coordination and Reuse. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Educational Hypermedia. - 3 Coordination. - 4 Reuse. - 5 University Examples. - 6 Organizational Issues. - 7 Commercial Examples. - 8 Refined WWW Projects. - 9 One Commercial System. - 10 Conclusion. - References. - 7 Interactive Television Systems. - 1 Introduction. - 2 An Architecture for Interactive Television. - 3 Network Topologies for Interactive Multimedia Services. - 4 Multimedia Server Architectures. - 5 Interactive TV Set-Top Box. - 6 Types of Interactive Services. - 7 Experimental ITV and VOD Systems. - 8 Conclusion. -8 Techniques for the Creation and Exploration of Digital Video Libraries. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Issues with Video in a Digital Video Library. - 3 Techniques Addressing Digital Video Library Issues. - 4 The Informedia Digital Video Library Project. - 5 Conclusion. - 9 Multimedia Messaging Systems. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Message Composition. - 3 Message Delivery. - 4 Message Processing. - 5 Storage and Retrieval. - 6 E-mail/Voice-mail/Fax Interrogation. - 7 Mail-Enabled Applications. - 8 Conclusion. - References. - 10 Interactive Multimedia Publishing Systems. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Design of IMMpubs. - 3 Features to Support IMMpubs. - 4 Foundational Multimedia Publishing Systems. - 5 SGML-based Multimedia Publishing. - 6 Multimedia Authoring Issues. - 7 Summary. Language: English