INVITED PAPERS -- Problems and Solutions for the 3D Aceurate Functional Modelling ofthe Hip and Shoulder -- Simulating a Human Society: The Challenges -- Content-based Image Indexing and Retrieval in Compressed Domain -- Visual Data Navigators" Collaboratories " -- What is Your Relationship with Your Information Space? -- State of Art in Digital Media -- MODELLING -- A Body and Garment Creation Method for an Internet Based Virtual Fitting Room -- Procedural Simulation oflnterwoven Structures -- An Approach to Blend Surfaces -- Borders, Semi-Sharp Edges and Adaptivity for Hexagonal Subdivision Surface Schemes -- Mesh Smoothing with Shape or Feature Preservation -- Reconstructing Surface Discontinuities by Intersecting Tangent Planes of Advancing Mesh Frontiers -- Progressive Gap Closing for Mesh Repairing -- An Isosurface Continuity Algorithm for Super Adaptive Resolution Data -- Acceleration of Elastic Model's Motion Computation Based on Elastic Element Reduction -- Explosive Impact on Real-time Deformable Terrain -- Image-Based Modeling Using Viewpoint Entropy -- ANIMATION -- Automatic Generation of Non-Verbal Facial Expressions from Speech -- Experimental Investigation of Linguistic and Parametric Descriptions of Human Motion for Animation -- A Novel Multi-resolution Anthropometrical Algorithm For Realistic Simulation and Manipulation of Facial Appearance -- Real Time Animation of Running Waters Based on Spectral Analysis of Navier-Stokes Equations -- RENDERING -- Factoring a Specular Reflection Field Into Added Diffuse Reflection Fields -- A Hardware Based Implementation of the Multipath Method -- Fuzzy Random Walk -- Shadow Mapping for Hemispherical and Omnidirectional Light Sources -- A Sky Light Illuminational Model in Specular Environment -- High Quality Final Gathering for Hierarchical Monte Carlo Radiosity for General Environments -- New Contrast Measures for Pixel Supersampling -- Visibility Maps: A Topological Structure for Fast Antialised Ray Tracing -- Realtime Shading of Folded Surfaces -- Rendering Natural Waters: Merging Computer Graphics with Physics and Biology -- A System for Image Based Rendering of Walk-throughs -- VISUAL INTERACTION -- Interaction in Virtual Worlds: Application to Music Performers -- Enhancing Archive Television Programmes for Interactivity -- Author Index.