Today, multimedia applications on the Internet are still in their infancy. They include personalized communications, such as Internet telephone and videophone, and interactive applications, such as video-on-demand, videoconferencing, distance learning, collaborative work, digital libraries, radio and television broadcasting, and others. Handbook of Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, a companion to the author's Handbook of Multimedia Computing probes the development of systems supporting Internet and multimedia applications. Part one introduces basic multimedia and Internet concepts, user interfaces, standards, authoring techniques and tools, and video browsing and retrieval techniques. Part two covers multimedia and communications systems, including distributed multimedia systems, visual information systems, multimedia messaging and news systems, conference systems, and many others. Part three presents contemporary Internet and multimedia applications including multimedia education, interactive movies, multimedia document systems, multimedia broadcasting over the Internet, and mobile multimedia.

Table of Contents:
Tools and Standards Middleware Platforms to Support Multimedia Applications, J. Bates DAVIC and Multimedia Standards, H. Kalva, H. Okuda, S.-F. Chang, and A. Eleftheriadis Interactive Multimedia User Interfaces, M. Blattner Content-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval, H. J. Zhang Cross-Modal Information Retrieval and Applications, C. B. Owen and F. Makedon Automatic and Dynamic Video Manipulation, J. Chung-Mong Lee, Q. Li, and W. Xiong Detection and Recognition of Television Commercials, R. Lienhart, C. Kuhmuench, and W. Effelsberg Authoring Techniques for Temporal Scenarios of Multimedia Documents, M. Jourdan, N. Layaida, and C. Roisin Generating Hypermedia Documents from Transcriptions of Television Programs Using Parallel Text Alignment, D. C. Gibbon Quality of Service in Networked Multimedia Systems, K. Nahrstedt An Experimental Study of Multimedia Applications over International ATM Networks, H. Fujii, Y. Harada, S. Tanimoto, S. Kihara, H. Miyashiro, K. Hokamura, M. Yamada, T. Kato, and L. Galasso A Framework for Building Adaptive Continuous Media Applications Using Service Proxies, T. Nakajima Systems Multimedia Database Management Systems, K. Aberer, H. Thimm, and E. J. Neuhold Multimedia Information Systems, S. Dustdar and M. C. Angelides Distributed Multimedia Systems, V. O.K. Li and W.-J. Liao Visual Information Systems, C.H.C. Leung and W.W.S. So Interactive Systems for Learning and Teaching, W. Hall, S. White, and B. Park Woolf Automatic Digital Video Production Concepts, G. Ahanger and T.D.C. Little Multimedia Messaging Systems, A. Pizano, M. Yan, and A. Hsu Multimedia News Systems, B. Falchuk and A. Karmouch Multimedia Publishing Systems, S. A. Rebelsky, J. Ford, F. Makedon, and C. Owen Conferencing and Collaborative Computing, E. M. Schooler Video-on-Demand Systems, V. O.K. Li and W.-J. Liao QoS Guarantees for Multimedia Traffic in Wireless Systems, O. Marques-Filho Applications Multimedia Education, R. Rada Interactive Movies, R. Nakatsu and N. Tosa Multimedia and Virtual Organizations, A. Michailidis and R. Rada Multimedia Applications on the Internet, M. Wynblatt, D. Benson, and A. Hsu Multimedia Document Systems from Authoring Perspective, P. Liu and L. H. Hsu Multimedia Document Systems - Asian Perspective, H.H.S. Ip, K.C.K. Law, S.L. Chan, F.Y. Mong, and H.T.F. Wong Delivering Interactive Services to Home Using Digital Video Broadcast Infrastructure, M. Milenkovic Virtual Reality for Browsing Multimedia, A. Massari, L. Saladini, F. Sisinni, W. Napolitano, M. Hemmje, A. Paradiso, and M. Leissler Multimedia in Control and Automation Applications, A. Guha and J. Huang Multimedia Archiving, Logging, and Retrieval, R. Hjelsvold, S.-P. Liou, and R. Depommier Hypermedia Systems and Applications, C. Chen and R. Rada Java and Related Applications, K. Takeda and Y. Takefuji Multimedia Broadcasting on the Internet, R. Westwater, J. Ice, and B. Furht, Mobile Multimedia: Concepts, Services, and Systems, S. Chakraborty