1. Editor’s Note

   • Klara Nahrstedt

   Editor’s Note Pages: 397 - 397

2. Directory-based composite routing and scheduling policies for dynamic multimedia environments

   • Zhenghua Fu
   • Nalini Venkatasubramanian

   OriginalPaper Pages: 398 - 410

3. Comparison of stream merging algorithms for media-on-demand

   • Amotz Bar-Noy
   • Justin Goshi
   • Kenneth Tam

   OriginalPaper Pages: 411 - 423

4. Web-based image indexing and retrieval in JPEG compressed domain

   • J. Jiang
   • A. Armstrong
   • G. C. Feng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 424 - 432

5. Watermarking with retrieval systems

   • Sujoy Roy
   • Ee-Chien Chang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 433 - 440

6. A secure and flexible authentication system for digital images

   • Takeyuki Uehara
   • Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
   • Philip Ogunbona

   OriginalPaper Pages: 441 - 456

7. Introduction to the ACM MMSJ special issue on multimedia software engineering

   • Jen-Yao Chung
   • Haifei Li

   Editorial Pages: 457 - 457

8. Personal orchestra: a real-time audio/video system for interactive conducting

   • Jan Borchers
   • Eric Lee
   • Max Mühlhäuser

   OriginalPaper 26 February 2004 Pages: 458 - 465

9. A per-object-granularity tracking mechanism and systemfor interactive TV viewership estimation and program rating in real time

   • Liang-Jie Zhang
   • Lurng-Kuo Liu
   • Jen-Yao Chung

   OriginalPaper Pages: 466 - 476

10. Internet-based interactive HDTV

    • Bin Yu
    • Klara Nahrstedt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 477 - 489