Computer information representation through text, graphics, images, sound, audio, animation, video, processing, storage, generation, manipulation, rendition, transmission of multimedia information, psycho acoustic models, synthesis and recognition, color models for video, television, video formats, text in multimedia and internet, image compression, video indexing and content based image/video retrieval, audio coding, storage, retrieval and presentation of media, multimedia annotation and indexing, multimedia recommendation and summarization, multimodal translation between language and vision, DLT for audio, multimedia synchronization, multimedia databases, multimedia communications, network applications, distributed multimedia systems, multimedia system integration.