In the last few years multimedia hardware and applications have become widely available on PC and workstations. Moreover, through the tremendous development and the wide usage of the World Wide Web multimedia applications have been brought over the network to many people. This book presents the results of the fourth in a well established series of international workshops on Multimedia organized by the EUROGRAPHICS Association, and held from May 28 to 30, 1996, in Rostock, Germany. The workshop had the special topic Multimedia on the Net and was the follow up of the EUROGRAPHICS Symposium and Workshop on Multimedia held in Graz in June 1994. The workshop program consisted of an invited keynote speech and five technical sessions. The fifteen contributions selected for this volume treat topics of particular interest in current research and address actual problems of the use of multimedia in distributed applications over the network. 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. Concepts for handling multimedia data are addressed in two contributions. The first treats a frame based presentation model for distributed information systems (Kirste), the other one presents a temporal logic formalism for specifying navigational transformation in hypermedia applications (Mere et al.).

Inhalt

A Flexible Presentation Model for Distributed Information Systems.- Specifying Navigational Transformations in Hypermedia. A Temporal Logic Framework.- Quality and Resource Controlled Transmission of Images.- Components for Video Processing Applications.- Analysing the Quantization Parameters for Quality Assessment of Digital Video.- Three-Dimensional Infoi!nation System on the World Wide Web.- A Multimedia Approach of Information Integration.- World-Wide Conference: An Easy Conference Connection via a Java Application.- Collaborative Multimedia Applications and Platforms Integrated with Videoon-Demand.- Collaboration with Multimedia Documents.- "Media-on-Demand" Multimedia Electronic Mail: An Approach to Support Online Services.- Interactive Teletraining Using Real-Time Computer Mediated Communication: Usability Evaluation from Experiences.- A Content Based Retrieval Video System for Educational Environments.- Evaluation and Communication Techniques in Multimedia Product Design for "On the Net University Education".- adVISer - Application of a Visualization Paradigm to Multimedia Design.