Intelligent Integrated Media Communication Techniques

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. I: Hypermedia Management. 1. Content and Presentation Adaptation in Hypermedia Systems; U. Burnik, M. Pogacnik. 1. Personalized Communication Services. 2. Personalized Information Search. 3. Adaptive Information Retrieval. 4. System Architecture and Functionality. 5. Conclusions. 2. Annotation, Storage, Retrieval and Analysis of Digital Video; Honglin Yi, et al. 1. Introduction. 2. Proposed System Architecture. 3. Video Query Applied to Fixed-View Motion Imagery. 4. Automatic Video Annotation - One Supervised Annotation Example. 5. Syntactic Video Analysis. 6. Conclusions. 3. Segmentation Techniques for Video Sequences in the Domain of MPEG-Compressed Data; I. Koprinska, S. Carrato. 1. Introduction. 2. Temporal Video Segmentation in the Uncompressed Domain. 3. Temporal Video Segmentation in the Compressed Domain. 4. Conclusions. II: Robust Video Data Protection and Watermarking. 4. Digital Watermarking for the Copyright Protection of Compressed Video; D. Simitopoulos, et al. 1. Introduction. 2.Video Watermarking System Requirements. 3. Preprocessing of MPEG-1/2 Multiplexed Streams. 4. Perceptual Watermarking in the Compressed Domain. 5. Detection. 6. Video Watermark Detector Implementation. 7. Data Hiding in MPEG Video Sequences. 8. Experimental Evaluation. 9. Conclusions. 5. Robust Watermarking of Video for Copyright Protection; M. Barni, et al. 1. Introduction. 2. How Can Video be Watermarked. 3. A Raw Video Frame-Based Watermarking Algorithm. 4. The MPEG-4 Standard. 5. A Compressed Domain Object-Based Watermarking Algorithm. 6. A Raw Video Object-Based Watermarking Algorithm. 7. Conclusion. III: Video and Image Coding. 6. Error-Resilient Coding for Multimedia Communications; N.V. Boulgouris, et al. 1. Introduction. 2. Error-Resilient Layered Coding of Images and Video. 3. Protection of Compressed Streams Using Forward Error Correction. 4. Error Handling. 5. Channel Rate Allocation. 6. Multimedia Transmission over Noisy Channels. 7. Conclusions. Appendix: Rate Compatible Punctured Convolutional Codes. Appendix: List-Viterbi Decoding of Convolutional Codes. 7. Wavelet Centric Video Coding and Coding Artifact Concealment; B. Marušič, et al. 1. Introduction. 2. Context and Overview. 3. Approach. 4. Experiment. 5. Conclusion. 8. Bit-Rate Control for the JPEG Algorithm; J. Bracamonte, et al. 1. Introduction. 2.JPEG: A Variable Compression Bit-Rate Algorithm. 3. Modifying the Compression Ratio. 4. Modeling the CR-SF Characteristic. 5. General Bit-Rate Control