This book presents the results of EG Multimedia'2001, the Sixth Eurographics th th Workshop on Multimedia, held in Manchester, UK, on the 8 and 9 of September, 2001. All six such workshops are successful examples of fruitful international cooperation under the auspices of the Eurographics working group on Multimedia. The workshop covered a wide range of subjects, from media production to content processing and delivery, with a special focus on issues related to interactive video environments. These Dcluded standards and approaches for interactive television, hypervideo, collaborative video, augmented reality, mobile multimedia, the integration of TV and the Web, content analysis, processing and presentation. The program consisted of two invited keynote presentations, eighteen technical papers and one demonstration, attracting a diverse world-wide group of thirty attendees. 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. The demonstration presented a multimedia system for aerobics and fitness training, exploring the combination of sound and interactive graphics in an effective manner. The keynote presentation by V. Michael Bove provided insights into new architectures for large scale pervasive computing. The second invited presentation by Glorianna Davenport discussed the relations between creativity and interactive movies as participatory art enabled by new media.

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Keynote Presentations.- Self-Organizing Multimedia and Extremely Distributed Architectures.- Story Networks: "The medium is the message"; The content, your souvenir.- 3D in Multimedia.- Adaptive Visualization of Distributed 3D Documents Using Image Streaming Techniques.- Reusing Motions and Models in Animations.- 3D-dvshop: a 3D Dynamic Virtual Shop.- Multimedia Architectures and Authoring.- Realising Real Time Multimedia Groupware on the Web.- Abstractions in Multimedia Authoring: The MAVA Approach.- Extended Format Definition and Quality-driven Format Negotiation in Multimedia Systems.- Video and Coding.- A Server-based Interactive Remote Walkthrough.- Sobol Partial Distortion Algorithm for Fast Full Search in Block Motion Estimation.- Dyna Video - A Dynamic Video Distribution Service.- Content Based Retrieval and Security.- Content Based Retrieval of VRML Objects - An Iterative and Interactive Approach.- Authentication of Volume Data Using Wavelet-Based Foveation.- Buoy Indexing of Metric Feature Spaces for Fast Approximate Image Queries.- Interactive Media.- Non-Conventional Interfaces using Stamp Controllers.- Interactive, Evolutionary Textured Sound Composition.- Screen Space: Depiction and the Space of Interactive Media.- Interactive TV.- Spatial Video Exploring Space Using Multiple Digital Videos.- Live@web.com - Using CBIR Technology in Interactive Web-TV.- 2BeOn - Interactive Television Supporting Interpersonal Communication.- Demonstration.- Effective Exercise Instruction System Using Virtual Human.