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Current Multimedia Applications
Taxonomy of Multimedia Applications
Multimedia Conferencing
Further Information
Multimedia Groupware
HyperMedia Applications
Microcosm
Hyperwave
Key Features of Hyperwave
Further Reading
RMM
Further Reading
Virtual Reality
What is Virtual Reality?
Virtual Reality:Hardware and Software
VR Hardware
Computers
Process Acceleration Cards
Sensory Displays
Input Devices
Tracking Systems
Other Input Devices
VR Software
Virtual Reality Authoring Tools
VRML
Sensors - Interaction with the User
Scripts and Interpolators - Behavior and Animation
Sound
Geometry - Polygonal Description of the World
VRML Objects and Events
Summary
VRML Scripts
A broken script
Virtual Reality Applications
Further Information
Future Directions for Multimedia
Digital Libraries: Content-Based Retrieval
Introduction
Digital Library
Content-Based Retrieval (CBR)
Applications of Content-Based Retrieval
CBR in Image and Video Databases
Basic problems
A Note on Edge Detection
Implementation of the gradient-based edge detection
Some Existing CBR Systems/Applications
QBIC (Query by Image Content)
CBR in Video
Further Reading
Interactive Television
Basics of Interactive TV
Solutions under Experiment
Telephone Company Solutions
Cable Company Solutions
Set-top Box
Further Reading
HDTV
Basic ideas for HDTV
Issues in HDTV
Bandwidth limitations
Distribution - terrestrial? satellite? cable?
Interlaced versus non-interlaced
Compression
MUSE - Japanese HDTV
All digital HDTV and the future
History
The basic standard
Compression
Further Information
Dave Marshall
5/21/1999
