Advanced Multimedia Content Processing

Content Summarization.- Video Summarization Based on Semantic Representation.- Valbum: Album-Oriented Video Storyboard for Editing and Viewing Video.- Augmented Reality Technology and Applications.- Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Toward More Effective Display, Interaction, and Telecollaboration in the Office of the Future via a Multitude of Sensors and Displays.- A Method for Estimating Illumination Distribution of a Real Scene Based on Soft Shadows.- Integrating Real Space and Virtual Space in the 'Invisible Person' Communication Support System.- Content-Based Video Indexing and Classification.- News Dictation and Article Classification Using Automatically Extracted Announcer Utterance.- Automatic Video Indexing Based on Shot Classification.- Mutual Spotting Retrieval between Speech and Video Image Using Self-Organized Network Databases.- Content-Based Retrieval.- Content-Based Retrieval in Multimedia Databases Based on Feature Models.- An Efficient Index Structure for High Dimensional Image Data.- Color-Based Pseudo Object Model for Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback.- System Environments for Virtual Reality.- InvenTcl: A Fast Prototyping Environment for 3D Graphics and Multimedia Applications.- The NAVL Distributed Virtual Reality System.- Content Broadcast Systems and Applications.- Research in Data Broadcast and Dissemination.- Multimedia Database System for TV Newscasts and Newspapers.- A TV News Recommendation System with Automatic Recomposition.- Extended Digital Video Broadcasting with Time-Lined Hypermedia.- Video Images and Virtual Space.- Active Image Capturing and Dynamic Scene Visualization by Cooperative Distributed Vision.- Videoplex: A New System Framework for Constructing Video-Based Three-Dimensional Space.- Construction of Virtual Environment from Video Data with Forward Motion.- Spatial Browsing for Video Databases.- Video Databases.- AI-STRATA: A User-Centered Model for Content-Based Description and Retrieval of Audiovisual Sequences.- Use