Multimedia Databases and Image Communication: Second International Workshop, MDIC 2001, Amalfi, Italy, September 17-18, 2001. Proceedings

Multimedia technologies are rapidly attracting more and more interest every day. The Internet as seen from the end user is one of the reasons for this phenomenon, but not the only one. Video on Demand is one of the buzzwords today, but its real availability to the general public is yet to come. Content providers – such as publishers, broadcasting companies, and audio/video production—rms – must be able to archive and index their productions for later retrieval. This is a formidable task, ev...