Frontiers of Audiovisual Communications: New Convergences of Broadband Communications, Computing, and Rich Media

The papers in this collection are diverse, and address multiple application genres: entertainment, collaboration, surveillance, and healthcare, all powered by new combinations of enablers - scientific, technological, and standards driven. The expositions are generally too multifaceted to permit simple categorization. However, we have arranged these contributions in a sequence that the reader may find useful.