Contents

• Executive Summary
  • The Workshop
  • Overview
  • Findings and Recommendations
    • Grand Challenges
    • Cooperative Research in Key Areas
    • Standard Databases
    • Standards for Tool Validation
    • Human Interface
    • Interactive Teaching
    • Public Education about NII
  • Conclusions
• Findings and Recommendations
  • Introduction
  • Grand Challenges
    • Universal Access for Education
    • Tools to Support Content Analysis
    • Data Quality Validation
  • Cooperative Research in Key Areas
  • Standard Databases
  • Standards for Tool Validation
  • Human Interface
  • Interactive Teaching
  • Public Education about NII
• Introduction
  • The National Information Infrastructure
  • Signal Processing in the NII
  • Standards
  • The Panel and the Report
• Signal Processing in the NII:
  Past and Present
  • Introduction
  • State of the Art
    • Signal Acquisition and Synthesis
    • Signal Decomposition
    • Signal compression
    • Progressive and Multiresolution Signal Transmission and Representation
    • Digital Filtering
    • Modulation
    • Adaptive Signal Processing
    • Error Control Coding
    • Classification and Recognition
    • Imagery Data Fusion
  • Standards
  • Applications
  • A Signal Processing Example: Commercial Video Compression
• Signal Processing for the NII: Future
  • Introduction
  • Compression
    • Off-Line Lossless Algorithms
    • Parallel and Distributed Implementations
    • Lossy Compression Algorithms
      • Wavelets
      • Quantization Techniques
    • Universal and Adaptive Compression
    • Multiresolution and Scalable Compression
    • Multisignal Compression
    • Hardware
  • Perceptual Coding
  • Quality and Utility Evaluation
  • Communications
  • Joint Source and Channel Coding
  • Image Processing
  • Imagery Data Fusion
  • Intelligent Information
    Agents
  • The Human Interface
    • ``Reading'' Information in the <NII
    • User-friendly Multimedia
  • Enhanced User Functionality with Images
  • Telecommuting
  • Signal Processing for Mining Information
  • Signal Processing and Virtual Reality
  • Standards
  • Education and Libraries
  • Image Analysis
• Application Areas
  • Introduction
  • Geographical Information Systems
    • Background
    • Characteristics of Geographic Data Sets
    • Research Issues
      • Tight Integration of Images and Features
      • Support for Browse
  • Planetary Science
    • NASA's Galileo Mission to Jupiter
  • Health Care
    • Technology
      • Communication Technology
      • Image Compression and Coding
      • Storage Arrays
      • Displays
    • Algorithm Development
      • Segmentation
      • Extraction of Image Content
      • Image Registration
    • Database Integration and Knowledge Extraction
  • Medical Databases
    • SP and Other Tools
  • Education
  • Employment Services
• Participants: Addresses
• Participants: Biographies
• About this document ...