Advanced Multimedia Content Processing : First International Conference AMCP ’98 Osaka Japan November 9–11 1998 Proceedings This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Multimedia Content Processing AMCP98 held in Osaka Japan in November 1998.The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 45 submissions. Also included are eight invited papers. The book is divided in topical sections on content summarization augmented reality content based video indexing and classification content based retrieval system environments for virtual reality content broadcast systems video images and virtual space video databases interactive content creation visual modeling and dynamic media contest