Multimedia Systems, Volume 9

Volume 9, Number 1, July 2003

• Klara Nahrstedt:
  Editor's Note. 1
  
• Brian Neil Levine, Sanjoy Paul, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves:
  Organizing multicast receivers deterministically by packet-loss correlation. 3-14
  
• Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu:
  Evaluation of MPEG-7 shape descriptors against other shape descriptors. 15-30
  
• Xingquan Zhu, Jianping Fan, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Xindong Wu:
  Hierarchical video content description and summarization using unified semantic and visual similarity. 31-53
  
• Introduction to "Multimedia Distribution". 54-55
  
• Pål Halvorsen, Thomas Plagemann, Vera Goebel:
  Improving the I/O performance of intermediate multimedia storage nodes. 56-67
  
• Jinsoo Kim, Byeong-her Roh:
  An adaptive multiplexing algorithm of delay-sensitive multiple VBR-coded bit streams. 68-77
  
• Michael K. Bradshaw, Bing Wang, Subhabrata Sen, Lixin Gao, James F. Kurose, Prashant J. Shenoy, Donald F. Towsley:
  Periodic broadcast and patching services - implementation, measurement and analysis in an internet streaming video testbed. 78-93
  
• Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Otto Carlos Muniz Bandeira Duarte, Guy Pujolle:
  Distinguishing video quality through differential matrices. 94-103
  
• Yatin Chawathe:
  Scattercast: an adaptable broadcast distribution framework. 104-118
  

Volume 9, Number 2, August 2003

• Klara Nahrstedt:
  Editor's Note. 119
  
• Ee-Chien Chang, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Xin Guan, Zhiyong Huang, Yinghui Wu:
  Robust image authentication using content based compression. 121-130
  
• Tao Wang, Yong Rui, Shi-Min Hu, Jia-Guang Sun:
  Adaptive tree similarity learning for image retrieval. 131-143
  
• Liu Wenyin, Zheng Chen, Fan Lin, HongJiang Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma:
  Ubiquitous media agents: a framework for managing personally accumulated multimedia files. 144-156
  
• Yihong Gong, Xin Liu:
  Video summarization and retrieval using singular value decomposition. 157-168
  
• Prashant J. Shenoy, Ketan Mayer-Patel:
  Introduction to selected papers from MMCN 2002. 169
  
• Stefan Saroiu, P. Krishna Gummadi, Steven D. Gribble:
  Measuring and analyzing the characteristics of Napster and Gnutella hosts. 170-184
  
• Surendar Chandra:
  Wireless network interface energy consumption: Implications for popular streaming formats. 185-201
  
• Malena R. Mesarina, Yoshio Turner:
  Reduced energy decoding of MPEG streams. 202-213
  

Volume 9, Number 3, September 2003

• Jana Dittmann, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Nasir D. Memon:
  Editorial. 215
  
• Dimitrios Simitopoulos, Nikolaos Zissis, Panagiotis Georgiadis, Vasileios Emmanouilidis, Michael G. Strintzis:
  Encryption and watermarking for the secure distribution of copyrighted MPEG video on DVD. 217-227
  
• Marcus Peinado, Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, Darko Kirovski:
  Digital rights management for digital cinema. 228-238
  
• Ahmet M. Eskicioglu:
  Multimedia security in group communications: recent progress in key management, authentication, and watermarking. 239-248
  
• Huiping Guo, Nicolas D. Georganas:
  A novel approach to digital image watermarking based on a generalized secret sharing scheme. 249-260
  
• In-Kwon Yeo, Hyoung Joong Kim:
  Generalized patchwork algorithm for image watermarking. 261-265
  
• André Adelsbach, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi:
  Watermark detection with zero-knowledge disclosure. 266-278
  
• Andreas Pommer, Andreas Uhl:
  Selective encryption of wavelet-packet encoded image data: efficiency and security. 279-287
  
• Jessica J. Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, Dorin Hogea, David Soukal:
  Quantitative steganalysis of digital images: estimating the secret message length. 288-302
  
• Rajarathnam Chandramouli:
  A mathematical framework for active steganalysis. 303-311
  

Volume 9, Number 4, October 2003

• Klara Nahrstedt:
  Editorial. 313-314
  
• Cai Hong Zhang, Hung Keng Pung:
  The design and implementation of a Jini/Java-based A/V stream control and management. 315-326
  
• Jürgen Vogel, Martin Mauve, Volker Hilt, Wolfgang Effelsberg:
  Late join algorithms for distributed interactive applications. 327-336
  
• Prashant J. Shenoy, Pawan Goyal, Sriram Rao, Harrick M. Vin:
  Design considerations for the symphony integrated multimedia file system. 337-352
  
• Li-Qun Chen, Xing Xie, Xin Fan, Wei-Ying Ma, HongJiang Zhang, He-Qin Zhou:
  A visual attention model for adapting images on small displays. 353-364
  
• Cham Athwal, Jimmy Robinson:
  Synchronised multimedia for engineering and scientific analysis. 365-377
  
• Xiang Cao, Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan:
  Video shot motion characterization based on hierarchical overlapped growing neural gas networks. 378-385
  
• Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros, Arun Iyengar:
  Network-aware partial caching for Internet streaming media. 386-396
  

Volume 9, Number 5, March 2004

• Klara Nahrstedt:
  Editor's Note. 397
  
• Zhenghua Fu, Nalini Venkatasubramanian:
  Directory-based composite routing and scheduling policies for dynamic multimedia environments. 398-410
  
• Amotz Bar-Noy, Justin Goshi, Richard E. Ladner, Kenneth Tam:
  Comparison of stream merging algorithms for media-on-demand. 411-423
  
• Jianmin Jiang, Andrew James Armstrong, Guo-Can Feng:
  Web-based image indexing and retrieval in JPEG compressed domain. 424-432
  
• Sujoy Roy, Ee-Chien Chang:
  Watermarking with retrieval systems. 433-440
  
• Takeyuki Uehara, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Philip Ogunbona:
  A secure and flexible authentication system for digital images. 441-456
  
• Jen-Yao Chung, Haifei Li:
  Editorial: Introduction to the ACM MMSJ special issue on multimedia software engineering. 457
  
• Jan O. Borchers, Eric Lee, Wolfgang Samminger, Max Mühlhäuser:
  Personal orchestra: a real-time audio/video system for interactive conducting. 458-465
  
• Liang-Jie Zhang, Lurng-Kuo Liu, James S. Lipscomb, Qun Zhou, Dong Xie, Jen-Yao Chung:
  A per-object-granularity tracking mechanism and systemfor interactive TV viewership estimation and program rating in real time. 466-476
  
• Bin Yu, Klara Nahrstedt:
  Internet-based interactive HDTV. 477-489
  

Volume 9, Number 6, June 2004

• Klara Nahrstedt:
  Editor's Note. 491-491
  
• Yong Rui, Zicheng Liu:
  ARTiFACIAL: Automated Reverse Turing test using FACIAL features. 493-502
  
• Martin Reisslein, Despina Saparilla, Keith W. Ross:
  Periodic broadcasting with VBR-encoded video. 503-516
  
• Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Saverio Mascolo:
  Adaptive rate control for streaming flows over the Internet. 517-532
  
• Ashfaq A. Khokhar, Arif Ghafoor:
  Special Issue on Multimedia Document Management Systems. 533-534
  
• Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Sharad Mehrotra:
  Relevance feedback techniques in the MARS image retrieval system. 535-547
  
• Y. Alp Aslandogan, Clement T. Yu, Ravishankar Mysore, Bo Liu:
  Robust content-based image indexing using contextual clues and automatic pseudofeedback. 548-560
  
• Alireza Nasiri Avanaki, Babak Hamidzadeh, Faouzi Kossentini:
  Multireference object pose retrieval with volume feedback. 561-574
  
• Walid G. Aref, Ann Christine Catlin, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Jianping Fan, Moustafa A. Hammad, Ihab F. Ilyas, Mirette S. Marzouk, Sunil Prabhakar, Yi-Cheng Tu, Xingquan Zhu:
  VDBMS: A testbed facility for research in video database benchmarking. 575-585
  
• Serhan Dagtas, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb:
  Multimodal detection of highlights for multimedia content. 586-593
  
• Jan Borchers, Eric Lee, Wolfgang Samminger, Max Mühlhäuser:
  Personal orchestra: a real-time audio/video system for interactive conducting. 594-594