Bücher der Reihe Eurographics

Technical papers were organized in six sessions spanning the two days: 3D in Multimedia, Multimedia Architectures and Authoring, \ideo and Coding, Content Based Retrieval and Security, Interactive Media and Interactive TV.

Multimedia '99 covers technological and scientific areas of media production, processing and delivery. The topics treated in this volume: image and sound content analysis and processing, paradigms and metaphors for multimedia authoring and display, applications such as education or entertainment, and multimedia content authentication and security.

In the last few years multimedia hardware and applications have become widely available on PC and workstations. According to the technical sessions they can be roughly structured in the parts concepts for handling multimedia data, still and motion pictures on the net, WWW and multimedia, collaborative multimedia, and multimedia and education.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop held in Budapest in September 1997. It covers issues such as human motion capture, human animation, physics-based modelling, natural phenomena and collision processing.

Visualization is now recognized as a powerful approach to get insight in large datasets produced by scientific experimentations and simulations.

An increasing recognition of the role of the human-system interface is leading to new extensions and styles of specification. This book reflects the state of the art in this important area and also contains a summary of working group discussions about how the various techniques represented might be applied to a common case study.