A report on the state of the art in multimedia information processing. The emphasis is on the convergence of information processing algorithms and associated technologies. The areas of interest include video/image coding, colour vision, 3D reconstruction, field programmable devices, and more.

Contents: Selected Topics in Medical Image Processing (J Cornelis et al.); A Restoration Method for Delay Proportional Differentiated Services (J Tsiligaridis & R Acharya); Massive Marching: A Parallel Computation of Distance Function (E Dejnonkova et al.); A Novel Intrusive Voice Transmission Quality Test System for Mobile Networks (J Holub et al.); FPAD Versus FPGA for Future Mobile Communications (S A Colsell & R Edwards); Nonuniform Sampling of Chrominance and Its Application to Intra-Frame Coding (M Doma ski et al.); Analytical Design of 2-D FIR Filters for Image Compression (P Zahradnik & M Vlcek); HMM-based Dance Gesture Recognition (F Cheneviere et al.); A Progressive Wavelet Oriented Watershed Technique for Image Segmentation (D K Bechtsis et al.); Spiking Neuron Auditory Model for Speech Processing Systems (A V Ivanov et al.); Focal Region-Based Volume Rendering (J Zhou & K D Toennies); On the Choice of Transform for Low Frequency Image Watermaking (D Taskovski et al.); Online Classification of EEG Signals Using Artificial Neural Networks for Biofeedback Training of Patients with Epilepsy (M Schroder et al.); Data Mining and Telecommunication Fraud Detection Using Artificial Neural Networks (A J Hussain & E Chew); Large Scale Features in Prokaryote and Eukaryote Genomics Signals (P D Cristea); A Basis of Invariant Moments for Color Images (R Bidoggia & S Gentili); Fast Segmentation of Color Images Using the Fuzzy K-Means Algorithm and Different Sampling Approaches (A G Yiannoulis et al.); and other papers.