2. ACM Multimedia 1994: San Francisco, California

Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Multimedia '94, October 15-20, 1994, San Francisco, CA. ACM Press, 1994, ISBN 0-89791-686-7

Video on Demand

Asit Dan, Dinkar Sitaram, Perwez Shahabuddin: Scheduling Policies for an On-Demand Video Server with Batching. 15-23
Jayanta K. Dey, James D. Salehi, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley: Providing VCR Capabilities in Large-Scale Video Servers. 25-32
Harrick M. Vin, Pawan Goyal, Alok Goyal: A Statistical Admission Control Algorithm for Multimedia Servers. 33-40

Tools

Earl Craighill, Martin W. Fong, Keith Skinner, Ruth E. Lang, K. Gruenefeldt: SCOOT: An Object-Oriented Toolkit for Multimedia Collaboration. 41-49
Philipp Ackermann: Direct Manipulation of Temporal Structures in a Multimedia Application Framework. 51-58
R. Mines, J. Friesen, C. Yang: DAVE: A Plug and Play Model for Distributed Multimedia Application Development. 59-66

Panel

Dragutin Petrovic, Farshid Arman, Charlie Judice, Alex Pentland, James O. Normile: Multimedia Databases and Information Systems (Panel). 67

Compressed Stream Processing

Michael E. Lukacs: The Personal Presence System - Hardware Architecture. 69-76
Brian C. Smith: Fast Software Processing of Motion JPEG Video. 77-88
John M. Danskin: Higher Bandwidth X. 89-96

Presentation Issues

Farshid Arman, Remi Depommier, Arding Hsu, Ming-Yee Chiu: Content-Based Browsing of Video Sequences. 97-103
Mike Bearne, Sara Jones, John Sapsford-Francis: Towards Usability Guidelines for Multimedia Systems. 105-110
Ivan Herman, Paul J. W. ten Hagen, Graham J. Reynolds, George S. Carson, J. Davy, David A. Duce, W. Terry Hewitt, Klaus Kansy, B. Lurvey, H. Stenzel, Richard Puk: PREMO: An ISO Standard for Presentation Environment for Multimedia Objects. 111-118

Panel

Bonnie A. Nardi, Sara A. Bly, Ellen Isaacs, Sha Xin Wei, Steve Whittaker: Collaborative Multimedia: Getting Beyond the Obvious (Panel). 119-120

Special Presentations

Brenda Laurel, Rachel M. Strickland: Placeholder: Landscape and Narrative in Virtual Environments. 121-127
Rob Tow: Placeholder: Technology and the Senses. 129-132

Synchronization

Jean-Pierre Courtiat, Roberto C. de Oliveira, Luiz F. Rust da Costa Carmo: Towards a New Multimedia Synchronization Mechanism and its Formal Definition. 133-140
Nipun Agarwal, Sang Hyuk Son: Synchronization of Distributed Multimedia Data in an Application-Specific Manner. 141-148
Keith Waters, Thoms M. Levergood: An Automatic Lip-Synchronization Algorithm for Synthetic Faces. 149-156

Documents and Authoring

Klaus Lenßen: Enabling Hypermedia Messaging: BPRM - A Body Part Relationship Module. 157-163
Wendy E. Mackay, Daniele Pagani: Video Mosaic: Laying Out Time in a Physical Space. 165-172
Scott E. Hudson, Chen-Ning Hsi: The Walk-Through Approach to Authoring Multimedia Documents. 173-180

Panel

Marc Davis, Catherine Baudin, Smadar Kedar, Daniel M. Russell: No Multimedia Without Representation (Panel). 181-182

Real-Time Networking

Anindo Banerjea, Edward W. Knightly, Fred Templin, Hui Zhang: Experiments with the Tenet Real-Time Protocol Suite on the Sequoia 2000 Wide Area Network. 183-191
G. Cruz, R. Hill: Capturing and Playing Multimedia Events with STREAMS. 193-200
Howard P. Katseff, Bethany S. Robinson: Predictive Prefetch in the Nemesis Multimedia Information Service. 201-209

Retrieval Techniques

Tat-Seng Chua, S.-K. Lim, Hung Keng Pung: Content-Based Retrieval of Segmented Images. 211-218
Nevenka Dimitrova, Forouzan Golshani: Rx for Semantic Video Database Retrieval. 219-226
J. Gabbe, Allen Ginsberg, Bethany S. Robinson: Towards Intelligent Recognition of Multimedia Episodes in Real-Time Applications. 227-236

Panel

Robert J. Semper, Arnold Kramer: Museums and Multimedia: Extending the Experience Beyond the Museum's Walls (Panel Abstract). 237

Video Transmission

Lian Li, Nicolas D. Georganas: MPEG-2 Coded- and Uncoded-Stream Synchronization Control for Real-Time Multimedia Transmission and Presentation over B-ISDN. 239-246
Terry Talley, Kevin Jeffay: Two-Dimensional Scaling Techniques for Adaptive, Rate-Based Transmission Control of Live Audio and Video Streams. 247-254
Ioanis Nikolaidis, Ian F. Akyildiz: A Cell Loss Equalization Protocol for Video Multiplexers. 255-262

Databases

F. Sauer, Mansur R. Kabuka: Multimedia Technology in the Radiology Department. 263-269
Gerhard A. Schloss, Michael J. Wynblatt: Building Temporal Structures in a Layered Multimedia Data Model. 271-278
Jonathan M. Smith, Shih-Fu Chang: Quad-Tree Segmentation for Texture-Based Image Query. 279-286

Panel

Rich Gold, Char Davies, Michael Naimark, Mark Petrakis, Stephen Wilson, Sara Roberts: Artists in Multimedia: Creating Meaningful Roles (Panel). 287-288

System Support

Tatsuo Nakajima, Hiroshi Tezuka: A Continuous Media Application Supporting Dynamic QOS Control on Real-Time Mach. 289-297
Gordon S. Blair, Michael Papathomas, Geoff Coulson, Philippe Robin, Laurent Hazard, Jean-Bernard Stefani, François Horn: Supporting Real-Time Multimedia Behaviour in Open Distributed Systems: An Approach Based on Synchronous Languages. 299-306
Christopher Lindblad, David Wetherall, David L. Tennenhouse: The VuSystem: A Programming System for Visual Processing of Digital Video. 307-314

Education

Andrew Large, Jamshid Beheshti, Alain Breuleux, Andre Renaud: The Influence of Multimedia on Learning: A Cognitive Study. 315-319
J. Castellanos, J. Delicado, C. Dominguez, C. Rigo: Hypermedia Method to Teach Concepts of Colour through Art. 321-327
Pedro Hepp, L. Rehbein, E. Hinostroza, Ernesto Laval, C. Dreves, M. Ripoll: "Enlaces" A Multimedia Based Educational Network. 329-336

Panels

Abbe Don, Laura Teodosio, Joe Lambert, Dana Atchley: From Generation to Generation: Multimedia, Community and Personal Stories (Panel). 337
William E. Johnston: BAGNet: An ATM-Based Multimedia Applications Testbed (Panel). 339

Video Analysis

John L. Furlani, Leonard McMillan, Lee Westover: Adaptive Color Map Selection Algorithm for Motion Sequences. 341-348
Akihito Akutsu, Yoshinobu Tonomura: Video Tomography: An Efficient Method for Camerawork Extraction and Motion Analysis. 349-356
Arun Hampapur, Terry E. Weymouth, Ramesh Jain: Digital Video Segmentation. 357-364

Audio

Masataka Goto, Yoichi Muraoka: A Beat Tracking System for Acoustic Signals of Music. 365-372
D. Anderson, R. Doris, James Anderson Moorer: A Distributed Computer System for Professional Audio. 373-379
Amit G. Mathur, Atul Prakash: Protocols for Integrated Audio and Shared Windows in Collaborative Systems. 381-388

Panel

Sylvia Wilbur, Garry Beirne, Jon Crowcroft, J. Robert Ensor, John C. Tang: Getting the Model Right for Video-Mediated Communication (Panel Abstract). 389-390

Video Servers

Ming-Syan Chen, Dilip D. Kandlur, Philip S. Yu: Support for Fully Interactive Playout in Disk-Array-Based Video Server. 391-398
Brian Tierney, Jason Lee, Ling Tony Chen, Hanan Herzog, Gary Hoo, Guojun Jin, William E. Johnston: Distributed Parallel Data Storage Systems: A Scalable Approach to High Speed Image Servers. 399-405
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Cyrus Shahabi: On Multimedia Repositories, Personal Computers, and Hierarchical Storage Systems. 407-416

Collaboration

T. Imai, K. Yamaguchi, T. Muranaga: Hypermedia Conversation Recording to Preserve Informal Artifacts in Realtime Collaboration. 417-424
F. Gong: Multipoint Audio and Video Control for Packet-Based Multimedia Conferencing. 425-432
Hania Gajewska, James J. Kistler, Mark S. Manasse, David D. Redell: Argo: A System for Distributed Collaboration. 433-440

Panel

Ina Risman, Maurice Welsh, Megan Waters Pierson, Kevin R. Sullivan: Should the Multimedia Industry be Regulated? A Legal Debate (Panel). 441

Award Papers

Louis Weitzman, Kent Wittenburg: Automatic Presentation of Multimedia Documents Using Relational Grammars. 443-451 (Best Student Paper)
David G. Boyer, Michael E. Lukacs: The Personal Presence System - A Wide Area Network Resource for the Real Time Composition of Multipoint Multimedia Communications. 453-460 (Best Paper)

Demonstrations

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S. C. Kau, J. Tseng: MQL - A Query Language for Multimedia Databases. 511-516

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