TY - BOOK AU - International Society on Virtual Systems and Multimedia TI - Proceedings VSMM 98 futurefusion application realities for the virtual age 4th international conference on virtual systems and multimedia VSMM98, 18-20 Nov 1998, Gifu, Japan Vol.1 SN - 9051994699 U1 - 006 PY - 1998/// CY - Amsterdam PB - IOS Press KW - N1 - CONTENTS Preface V Conference Committees xv Introduction xvi Invited Session 2 Technical Session: Interactive Environments 48 Technical Session: Object Modeling 98 Technical Session: Robotics and Teleoperation 146 Creative session: VR Art and Aesthetics 188 VWH Session: Techniques and Approaches 244 Technical Session: Gesture and Human Communication 294 Technical Session: Rendering and CAD 326 Technical Session: Systems and Applications 366 Com. Session: Reality Issues for a Virtual Age 410 VWH Session: Applications 438 Session: Technical Workshop: Speech and NLP in Virtual Environments 466 Technical Session: Display and Geometric Modeling 498 Technical Session: Multisensory Image Database 548 VWH Session: Archaelogy and sites 600 Session: Technical Workshop: Ontologies for MPEG7 668 Reviewers 693 Author Index 695 ER -