Final Program ICME 2005, 5-8 July 2005, Amsterdam

 

Tuesday 5 July 2005

Time

Room tba

Room tba

Room tba

9:00

Tutorial

Face Recognition: Past, Present & Future (Moghaddam)

Tutorial

Design and Optimization of Adaptive Multimedia Systems (Akella, v.d. Schaar, Gupta)

Tutorial

Multimedia Collaboration: Systems & Technologies (Rui)

13:00

Lunch Break

 

14:00

Tutorial

Human-Centered Multimedia Information Systems (Sebe, Jaimes)

Tutorial

Multimedia Processing on Multiprocessor SoC Platforms (Marculescu, Chakraborty, Stravers)

 

18:00

End

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 6 July 2005

 

Time

Grand Ballroom

Volmer I + II

Foyer

Volmer III

St. John's I + II

 

 

 

 

Entrance

8:45

Keynote

Michael Franklin: Database-sensor networks

 

 

 

 

9:35

Action recognition

 

 

Video conference applications

Video indexing

Concealment &

information

recovery

 

 

 

 

 

10:15

 

 

 

 

Posters on

 

 

 

 

Human-machine Interface & Interaction

10:55

Coffee Break

Streaming

11:25

Face detection & tracking

 

Video conferencing & interaction

Audio & video

segmentation

Security

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:00

12:45

Lunch Break

14:15

Special session:

E-meetings &

e-learning

Video streaming

Music

H.264

 

 

 

 

 

15:00

 

 

 

 

Posters on

 

 

 

 

Content Analysis

15:35

Coffee Break

Compressed Domain

16:05

E-meetings &

e-learning cntd

Wireless multimedia streaming

Audio processing & analysis

Authentication,

protection & DRM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16:45

17:25

End

 

 

Reception – Town Hall

 

 

Thursday 7 July 2005

 

Time

Grand Ballroom

Volmer I + II

Foyer

Volmer III

St. John's I + II

 

 

 

 

Entrance

8:45

Special session:

Emotion detection

 

 

3D

Video

classification

Watermarking 1

 

 

 

 

 

10:15

 

 

 

 

Expo

 

 

 

 

 

10:05

Coffee Break

 

10:35

Emotion detection

cntd

 

Multidimensional

signal processing

Feature

extraction

Coding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:55

Lunch Break

13:25

Special session:

Enterprise

streaming

Home video analysis

Interactive retrieval & annotation

Multimedia

hardware and

software design

 

 

 

 

 

15:00

 

 

 

 

Expo

 

 

 

 

 

14:45

Keynote

Emile Aarts: Multimedia in Ambient Intelligence

 

 

 

 

15:35

Coffee Break

16:05

Media conversion

Faces

Audio event detection

Multimedia systems analysis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16:45

 

 

 

 

 

17:30

Keynote

Gopal Pingali:

Electronic Chronicles

 

 

 

 

18:00

End

 

Conference Dinner – West India House

 

 

Friday 8 July 2005

 

Time

Grand Ballroom

Volmer I + II

Foyer

Volmer III

St. John's I + II

 

 

 

 

Entrance

8:45

Keynote

Elisabeth Andre:

Man-machine interaction

 

 

 

 

9:35

Annotation &

ontologies

Interfaces for multimedia

Motion estimation

Hardware

 

 

 

 

 

10:15

 

 

 

 

Posters on

 

 

 

 

Security, Architectures, Systems & Networks, Wireless

10:55

Coffee Break

 

11:25

Machine learning

 

Compression

CBIR

Multimedia traffic management

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:00

12:45

Lunch Break

14:15

Special session:

Sports

Hypermedia & internet

Speech processing & analysis

Transcoding

 

 

 

 

 

15:00

 

 

 

 

Posters on

 

 

 

 

Concealment, Databases, Features,

15:35

Coffee Break

Segmentation, Videoconferencing, and

16:05

Sports cntd

Multimedia communication & networking

Shape retrieval

Watermarking 2

Watermarking, encryption & hiding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16:45

17:25

End

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2005

 

08:45 - 9:35 Keynote speaker Michael Franklin, Univ. of California, Berkeley, “Data Management Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Home

(abstract)
Session Chair: Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands


SESSION Action recognition (Wed, 9:35-10:55, Grand Ballroom)

Session Chair: Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy


09:35 SPATIOTEMPORAL SALIENCY FOR HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION
Antonios Oikonomopoulos, Ioannis Patras, Maja Pantic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands


09:55 HUMAN POSTURE RECOGNITION WITH CONVEX PROGRAMMING
Hao Jiang, Ze-Nian Li, Mark S. Drew, Simon Fraser University, Canada


10:15 HMM-BASED DECEPTION RECOGNITION FROM VISUAL CUES
Gabriel Tsechpenakis, Dimitris Metaxas, Rutgers University, United States of America; Mark Adkins, John Kruse, Matthew Jensen, Thomas Meservy, Douglas Twitchell, Amit Deokar, Jay Nunamaker, Judee Burgoon, The University of Arizona, United States of America


10:35 A STUDY OF SYNTHESIZING NEW HUMAN MOTIONS FROM SAMPLED MOTIONS USING TENSOR DECOMPOSITION
Rovshan Kalanov, Jieun Cho, Jun Ohya, Waseda University, Japan

 

SESSION Video conference applications (Wed, 9:35-10:55, Volmer I + II)

Session Chair: Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, The Netherlands

9:35 PARTIAL LINEAR REGRESSION FOR AUDIO-DRIVEN TALKING HEAD APPLICATION
Chao-Kuei Hsieh, Yung-Chang Chen, EE, NTHU, Taiwan

9:55 RAPID FEATURE SPACE SPEAKER ADAPTATION FOR MULTI-STREAM HMM-BASED AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION
Jing Huang, Etienne Marcheret, Karthik Visweswariah, IBM, United States of America

10:15 LOW-COMPLEXITY AUTOMATIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION IN THE COMPRESSED GSM AMR DOMAIN
Matteo Petracca, Antonio Servetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Juan Carlos De Martin, IEIIT - CNR, Italy

10:35 FACE AND EYE RECTIFICATION IN VIDEO CONFERENCE USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
Ben Yip, University of Sydney, Australia

 
SESSION Video indexing (Wed, 9:35-10:55, Foyer)

Session Chair: Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands


09:35 MULTI-MODAL VIDEO CONCEPT EXTRACTION USING CO-TRAINING
Rong Yan, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America; Milind Naphade, IBM TJ Watson Reserach Center, United States of America


09:55 SCALABLE TEMPORAL INTEREST POINTS FOR ABSTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF VIDEO EVENTS
Seung-Hoon Han, Samsung Electronics Co., Korea; In-So Kweon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea


10:15 COMPARISON OF VISUAL FEATURES AND FUSION TECHNIQUES IN AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF CONCEPTS FROM NEWS VIDEO
Mika Rautiainen, Tapio Seppänen, University of Oulu, Finland


10:35 FINDING THE OPTIMAL TEMPORAL PARTITIONING OF VIDEO SEQUENCES
Ba Tu Truong, Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin University of Technology, Australia


SESSION Concealment & information recovery (Wed, 9:35-10:55, Volmer III)

Session Chair: Pierangelo Migliorati, University of Brescia, Italy


09:35 PROXY-BASED REFERENCE PICTURE SELECTION FOR REAL-TIME VIDEO TRANSMISSION OVER MOBILE NETWORKS
Wei Tu, Eckehard Steinbach, Munich Univerisity of Technology, Germany


09:55 GLOBALLY OPTIMAL UNEVEN ERASURE-PROTECTED MULTI-GROUP PACKETIZATION OF SCALABLE CODES
Sorina Dumitrescu, Xiaolin Wu, McMaster University, Canada


10:15 ERROR RESILIENT CODING BASED ON REVERSIBLE DATA EMBEDDING TECHNIQUE FOR H.264/AVC VIDEO
Wen-Nung Lie, Tom Lin, Dung-Chan Tsai, Guo-Shiang Lin, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan


10:35 SPEECH-ADAPTIVE LAYERED G.729 CODER FOR LOSS CONCEALMENTS OF REAL-TIME VOICE OVER IP
Batu Sat, Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America


POSTERS ON "Human machine interface and interaction" and "Streaming" (Wed, 10:15-12:00, St. John’s I + II)

 
DJAMMER: A NEW DIGITAL, MOBILE, VIRTUAL, PERSONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Mat Hans, April Slayden, Mark Smith, HP Labs, United States of America; Banny Banerjee, Arvind Gupta, IDEO, United States of America


A NEWS CONTENT SUMMARIZER FOR CHINESE CELL PHONES
Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan


A PERCEPTUAL PERFORMANCE MEASURE FOR ADAPTIVE ECHO CANCELLERS IN PACKET-BASED TELEPHONY
James Gordy, Rafik Goubran, Carleton University, Canada


VIDEO BOOKLET
Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China


FACIAL EXPRESSIONS RECOGNITION WITH RELEVANCE VECTOR MACHINES
Dragos Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands


MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE FRAME RATE UP CONVERSION
Tak-Song Chong, Oscar C. Au, Wing-San Chau, Tai-Wai Chan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong


PERSONALIZING QUALITY ASPECTS IN SCALABLE VIDEO CODING
Sam Lerouge, Robbie De Sutter, Rik Van de Walle, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium


WEB-BASED DATABASE FOR FACIAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS
Maja Pantic, Michel Valstar, Ron Rademaker, Ludo Maat, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands


CONTEXT-AWARE SEMANTIC ADAPTATION OF MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS
Mariam Kimiaei Asadi, ENST, France; Jean-Claude Dufourd, Streammezo, France


A PROBABILISTIC DESCRIPTION OF MAN-MACHINE SPOKEN COMMUNICATION
Olivier Pietquin, Supélec, France


RETRIEVING, ADAPTING AND DELIVERING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT USING A MOBILE AGENT ARCHITECTURE
Nikolaos Papadakis, Anastasios Doulamis, Dimitrios Skoutas, Antonios Litke, Nikolaos Doulamis, Theodora Varvarigou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece


ANALYSIS OF EXPRESSING AUDIENCES IN A CYBER-THEATER
DongWan Kang, Kay Huang, Jun Ohya, Waseda University, Japan


EXPRESSIVE AVATARS IN MPEG-4
Maurizio Mancini, Bjoern Hartmann, Catherine Pelachaud, University of Paris 8, France; Amaryllis Raouzaiou, Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece


A USER-ORIENTED MULTIMODAL INTERFACE FRAMEWORK FOR GENERAL CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL
J. Ren, T. Vlachos, V. Argyriou, University of Surrey, United Kingdom


AUDIO-VISUAL AFFECT RECOGNITION IN ACTIVATION-EVALUATION SPACE
Zhihong Zeng, Zhenqiu Zhang, Brian Pianfetti, Jilin Tu, Thomas Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America


SPEAKER INDEPENDENT SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION BY ENSEMBLE CLASSIFICATION
Björn Schuller, Stephan Reiter, Ronald Müller, Marc Al-Hames, Manfred Lang, Gerhard Rigoll, Technische Universität München, Germany


LEARNING LOCAL DESCRIPTORS FOR FACE DETECTION
Hongliang Jin, Qingshan Liu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaoou Tang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Hanqing Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China


FROM PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS TO EMOTIONS: IMPLEMENTING AND COMPARING SELECTED METHODS FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION
Johannes Wagner, Jonghwa Kim, Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Germany

SELF CONFIGURABLE QUERIES FOR DIGITAL IMAGE LIBRARIES
Panagiotis Karagiannis, Nikolaos Doulamis, George Varkas, Konstantinos Paparrizos, University of Macedonia, Greece

A MULTIMODAL COMPLEXITY COMPREHENSION-TIME FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATED PRESENTATION SYNTHESIS
Harini Sridharan, Ankur Mani, Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, United States of America

A COMPARISON OF SUBJECTIVE PICTURE QUALITY WITH OBJECTIVE MEASURE USING SUBJECTIVE SPATIAL FREQUENCY
Yasushi Sugama, Takahiro Yoshida, Takayuki Hamamoto, Seiichiro Hangai, Tokyo University of Science, Japan; Choong Seng Boon, Sadaatsu Kato, NTT DoCoMo, Japan

EFFICIENT DEPTH IMAGE BASED RENDERING WITH EDGE DEPENDENT DEPTH FILTER AND INTERPOLATION
Wan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lin Chang, NTU, Taiwan; Shyh-Feng Lin, Avermedia, Taiwan; Li-Fu Ding, Liang-Gee Chen, NTU, Taiwan

COMMUNICATION IN CRISIS SITUATIONS USING ICON LANGUAGE
Siska Fitrianie, Leon Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

EMOTIONAL SPEECH CLASSIFICATION USING GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS AND THE SEQUENTIAL FLOATING FORWARD SELECTION ALGORITHM
Dimitrios Ververidis, Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

JOINT RATE CONTROL FOR MULTIPLE SEQUENCES CODING BASED ON H.264 STANDARD
Jing Yang, Xiangzhong Fang, Hongkai Xiong, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

SEAMLESS CHANNEL TRANSITION FOR PYRAMID-BASED NEAR-VOD SERVICES
Wei-De Chien, National Chip Implementation Center, NARL, Taiwan

OBJECT-BASED AUDIO STREAMING OVER ERROR-PRONE CHANNELS
Stuart Marks, Ruben Gonzalez, Griffith University, Australia

FAST MACROBLOCK INTRA AND INTER MODES SELECTION FOR H.264/AVC
Enrico Arsura, Luca Del Vecchio, Rosa Lancini, Luca Nisti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

TECHNIQUES OF RECONSTRUCTING OVERLAY MULTICAST TREES FOR MULTIMEDIA STREAMING
Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky, United States of America

GRIDMEDIA: A MULTI-SENDER BASED PEER-TO-PEER MULTICAST SYSTEM FOR VIDEO STREAMING
Meng Zhang, Yun Tang, Li Zhao, Jian-Guang Luo, Shi-Qiang Yang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

URBAN TRAFFIC CONTROL: A STREAMING MULTIMEDIA APPROACH
Carlos E. Palau, Manuel Esteve, Javier Martinez, Benjamin Molina, Israel Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

BITSTREAM BINDING LANGUAGE - MAPPING XML CONTAINERS INTO STREAMS
Joseph Thomas-Kerr, Ian Burnett, Philip Ciufo, University of Wollongong, Australia

DISTRIBUTED ADMISSION CONTROL OF VIDEO ON DEMAND SERVICES OVER EXISTING TELEPHONE NETWORK
Md. Shamsul Alam, Md. Mahmudul Hasan, M. N. I Mondal, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh

RELIABLE VIDEO COMMUNICATION WITH MULTI-PATH STREAMING USING MDC
Ivan Lee, University of Sydney, Australia; Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada

PERFORMANCE STUDIO OF MULTICAST VIDEO STREAMING USING SRMSH
Oscar Martínez Bonastre, Operations Research Centre. Miguel Hernandez University, Spain; Carlos E. Palau, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

LOSS-COMPENSATED REFERENCE FRAME OPTIMIZATION FOR MULTI-PATH VIDEO STREAMING
Gene Cheung, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Japan; Wai-Tian Tan, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, United States of America

WIRELESS BROADCASTING USING THE SCALABLE EXTENSION OF H.264/AVC
Thomas Schierl, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Germany

STREAMING LAYERED ENCODED VIDEO USING PEERS
Yanming Shen, Zhengye Liu, Shivendra Panwar, Keith Ross, Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, United States of America

OPTIMIZING PREFETCH IN A RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY WITH NETWORKED STORAGE SYSTEMS
Eunsam Kim, Jonathan Liu, University of Florida, United States of America

RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZED PACKET SCHEDULING OVER BOTTLENECK LINKS
Jacob Chakareski, Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland

MODELLING OF DISTORTION CAUSED BY PACKET LOSSES IN VIDEO TRANSPORT
Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, United States of America; Zhenyu Wu, Jill Boyce, Thomson Corporate Research, United States of America; Xiaoan Lu, Polytechnic University, United States of America

A MULTI-BUFFER SCHEDULING SCHEME FOR VIDEO STREAMING
Hongli Luo, Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, United States of America; Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, United States of America

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MULTIMEDIA SERVICES OVER IP NETWORKS
Odd Inge Hillestad, Bjørnar Libæk, Andrew Perkis, NTNU, Norway

EVALUATION OF INTERLEAVED SOURCE CODING (ISC) WITH GILBERT PARAMETER PAIRS USING PACKET CORRELATION
Jin Lee, ETRI, Korea; Hayder Radha, Michigan State University, United States of America

A DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM FOR CONGESTION-MINIMIZED MULTI-PATH ROUTING OVER AD HOC NETWORKS
Xiaoqing Zhu, Bernd Girod, Stanford University, United States of America

NEW MBAC ALGORITHM FOR VIDEO STREAMING BASED ON AUTOREGRESSIVE ADAPTIVE FILTERING
Pietro Camarda, Cataldo Guaragnella, Domenico Striccoli, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

ON COMPENSATION TECHNIQUE IN MULTIMEDIA STREAMING SYSTEM
Yongfeng Li, Kenneth Ong, National University of Singapore, Singapore


SESSION Face detection & tracking (Wed, 11:25-12:45, Grand Ballroom)

Session Chair: Yong Rui, Microsoft Research, USA

11:25 NEIGHBOR COMBINATION AND TRANSFORMATION FOR HALLUCINATING FACES
Wei Liu, Dahua Lin, Xiaoou Tang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

11:45 IMPROVED FACE FINDING IN VISUALLY CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENTS
Jintao Jiang, House Ear Institute, United States of America; Gerasimos Potamianos, Giridharan Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, United States of America

12:05 FACE TRACKING USING TWO COOPORATIVE STATIC AND MOVING CAMERAS
Pichai Amnuaykanjanasin, Supavadee Aramvith, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; Thanarat Chalidabhongse, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Lardkrabang, Thailand

12:25 EVALUATION OF MULTIPLE CUE HEAD POSE ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS IN NATURAL ENVIRONEMENTS
Sileye O. Ba, Jean-Marc Odobez, IDIAP, Switzerland

 

SESSION Video conferencing & interaction (Wed, 11:25-12:45, Volmer I + II)

Session Chair: Emile Hendriks, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

11:25 MUTUALCAST: A SERVERLESS PEER-TO-PEER MULTIPARTY REAL-TIME AUDIO CONFERENCING SYSTEM
Jin Li, Microsoft Research, United States of America

11:45 HEAD TRACKING USING PARTICLE FILTER WITH INTENSITY GRADIENT AND COLOR HISTOGRAM
Xinyu Xu, Baoxin Li, Arizona State University, United States of America

12:05 EFFECTS OF AUTOMATIC VIDEO EDITING SYSTEM USING STEREO-BASED HEAD TRACKING FOR ARCHIVING MEETINGS
Yoshinao Takemae, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan

12:25 RAVITAS: REALISTIC VOICE CHAT FRAMEWORK FOR COOPERATIVE VIRTUAL SPACES
Keiichi Yasumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan; Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America


SESSION Audio & video segmentation (Wed, 11:25-12:45, Foyer)

Session Chair: Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore

11:25 ON THE SURPLUS VALUE OF SEMANTIC VIDEO ANALYSIS BEYOND THE KEY FRAME
Cees Snoek, Marcel Worring, Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Dennis Koelma, Frank Seinstra, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

11:45 IMPROVED SEMANTIC REGION LABELING BASED ON SCENE CONTEXT
Matthew Boutell, University of Rochester, United States of America; Jiebo Luo, Eastman Kodak Company, United States of America; Christopher Brown, University of Rochester, United States of America

12:05 MULTI-KERNEL OBJECT TRACKING
Fatih Porikli, MERL, United States of America

12:25 EVALUATING PERCEPTUALLY PREFILTERED VIDEO
Olivier Steiger, Touradj Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom


SESSION Security (Wed, 11:25-12:45, Volmer III)
Lalitha Agnihotri, Philips Research, USA


11:25 PERSISTENT AUDIO MODELLING FOR BACKGROUND DETERMINATION
Simon Moncrieff, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff West, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

11:45 AN ASSOCIATION-BASED GRAPHICAL PASSWORD DESIGN RESISTANT TO SHOULDER-SURFING ATTACK
Zhi Li, Qibin Sun, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Daniele Giusto, University of Cagliari, Italy; Yong Lian, National University of Singapore, Singapore

12:05 STEGANALYSIS BASED ON MOMENTS OF CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS USING WAVELET DECOMPOSITION, PREDICTION-ERROR IMAGE, AND NEURAL NETWORK
Yun Shi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America; Guorong Xuan, Tongji University, China; Dekun Zou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America; Jianjiong Gao, Chengyun Yang, Zhenping Zhang, Peiqi Chai, Tongji University, China; Wen Chen, Chunhua Chen, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America

12:25 SEGMENTING LAYERS IN AUTOMATED VISUAL SURVEILLANCE
Lijuan Qin, Yueting Zhuang, Yunhe Pan, Fei Wu, Zhejiang University, China

SPECIAL SESSION E-meetings & e-learning (Wed, 14:15-15:35, Grand Ballroom)
Session Chair: Berna Erol, Ricoh Corporation, USA


14:15 AN OVERVIEW OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR E-MEETING AND E-LECTURE
Berna Erol, Ricoh California Research Center, United States of America; Ying Li, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States of America

14:55 SPEECH ACQUISITION IN MEETINGS WITH AN AUDIO-VISUAL SENSOR ARRAY
Iain McCowan, Maganti Hari Krishna, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darren Moore, Sileye Ba, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland

15:15 HEAD-SIZE EQUALIZATION FOR BETTER VISUAL PERCEPTION OF VIDEO CONFERENCING
Zicheng Liu, Michael Cohen, Microsoft Research, United States of America

 

SESSION Video streaming (Wed, 14:15-15:35, Volmer I + II)

Session Chair: Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superio Technico Lisabon, Portugal


14:15 DECENTRALIZED PERIODIC BROADCASTING FOR LARGE-SCALE VIDEO STREAMING
Ka Ki To, Jack Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; G. S. H. Chan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong


14:35 ESTIMATING PACKET ARRIVAL TIMES IN BURSTY VIDEO APPLICATIONS
Ali C. Begen, Yucel Altunbasak, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America


14:55 OPTIMIZED WIRELESS VIDEO TRANSMISSION USING CLASSIFICATION
Raymond Wong, Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, Davis, United States of America; Deepak Turaga, IBM Research, United States of America


15:15 JOINT SENDER/RECEIVER OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR MULTI-PATH VIDEO STREAMING USING HIGH RATE ERASURE RESILIENT CODE
Changxi Zheng, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; Guobin Shen, Shipeng Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China; Qianni Deng, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

 

SESSION Music (Wed, 14:15-15:35, Foyer)

Session Chair: Horace Ip, City University, Hong Kong


14:15 POLYPHONIC AUDIO KEY FINDING USING THE SPIRAL ARRAY CEG ALGORITHM
Ching-Hua Chuan, Elaine Chew, University of Southern California, United States of America

14:35 SEPARATION OF VOICE AND MUSIC BY HARMONIC STRUCTURE STABILITY ANALYSIS
Yun-Gang Zhang, Chang-Shui Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

14:55 PERCEPTUAL VISUALIZATION OF A MUSIC COLLECTION
Jiajun zhu, Fudan University, China; Lie Lu, Microsoft Research Asia, China

15:15 EXTRACTING VOCAL MELODY FROM KARAOKE MUSIC AUDIO
Yongwei Zhu, Sheng Gao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore


SESSION H.264 (Wed, 14:15-15:35, Volmer III)

Session Chair: Bernd Girod, Stanford University, USA

14:15 RATE-DISTORTION ESTIMATION FOR H.264/AVC CODERS
Yu-Kuang Tu, Jar-Ferr Yang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington, United States of America

14:35 IMPLEMENTATION OF H.264 DECODER ON SANDBLASTER DSP
Vaidyanathan Ramadurai, Sanjay Jinturkar, Mayan Moudgill, John Glossner, Sandbridge Technologies, United States of America

14:55 H.264 ERROR RESILIENCE CODING BASED ON MULTI-HYPOTHESIS MOTION COMPENSATED PREDICTION
Yuh-Chou Tsai, Chia-Wen Lin, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

15:15 H.264 HDTV DECODER USING APPLICATION-SPECIFIC NETWORKS-ON-CHIP
Jiang Xu, Wayne Wolf, Princeton University, United States of America; Joerg Henkel, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Srimat Chakradhar, NEC Laboratories America, Inc, United States of America

 

 
POSTER ON "Content analysis" and "Compressed domain" (Wed, 15:00-16.45, St. John’s I + II)

HYBRID ALGORITHM WITH ADAPTIVE COMPLEXITY FOR INTEGER PEL MOTION ESTIMATION OF H.264
Li Zhang, Wen Gao, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, China

AREA OF SURFACE AS A BASIS FOR VERTEX REMOVAL BASED MESH SIMPLIFICATION
Insu Park, Shahram Shirani, David Capson, McMaster University, Canada

DYNAMIC GOP STRUCTURE DETERMINATION FOR REAL-TIME MPEG-4 ADVANCED SIMPLE PROFILE VIDEO ENCODER
Yu-Lin Wang, Jing-Xin Wang, Yen-Wen Lai, Alvin W.Y. Su, Studio of the Computer Research on the Music & Media(SCREAM), Taiwan

A PERCEPTUAL BIT ALLOCATION SCHEME FOR H.264
Hongtao Yu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Feng Pan, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Zhiping Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Yin Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore

COMBINED SCALABILITY SUPPORT FOR THE SCALABLE EXTENSION OF H.264/AVC
Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand, Thomas Schierl, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany

FAST INTER FRAME ENCODING BASED ON MODES PRE-DECISION IN H.264
Dongming Zhang, Yanfei Shen, Shouxun Lin, Yongdong Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

LOSSLESS IMAGE COMPRESSION WITH TREE CODING OF MAGNITUDE LEVELS
Hua Cai, Jiang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China

A 3D PREDICT HEXAGON SEARCH ALGORITHM FOR FAST BLOCK MOTION ESTIMATION ON H.264 VIDEO CODING
Tsung-Han Tsai, Yu-Nan Pan, National Central University, Taiwan

A SIMPLE TECHNIQUE FOR SNR-SCALABLE VIDEO CODING USING MACROBLOCK SPIRAL RE-ORDERING
Lukasz Blaszak, Marek Domanski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY REDUCTION OF INTRA-FRAME PREDICTION IN MPEG-2/H.264 VIDEO TRANSCODERS
Gerardo Fernandez-Escribano, Pedro Cuenca, Luis Orozco-Barbosa, Antonio Garrido, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

FAST SEARCH METHOD FOR IMAGE VECTOR QUANTIZATION BASED ON EQUAL-AVERAGE EQUAL-VARIANCE AND PARTIAL SUM CONCEPT
Zhibin Pan, Koji Kotani, Tadahiro Ohmi, Tohoku University, Japan

CSR: SPEAKER RECOGNITION FROM COMPRESSED VOIP PACKET STREAM
Charu Aggarwal, David Olshefski, Saha Debanjan, Zon-Yin Shae, Philip Yu, IBM, United States of America

A FAST FRAME-ACCURATE H.264/MPEG-4 AVC EDITING METHOD
Akio Yoneyama, Yasuhiro Takishima, Yasuyuki Nakajima, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan

EMBEDDED KEY-FRAME EXTRACTION FOR CG ANIMATION BY FRAME DECIMATION
Shiyu Li, Masahiro Okuda, Shinichi Takahashi, The University of Kitakyushu, Japan

AN ARBITRARY FRAME-SKIPPING VIDEO TRANSCODER
Vasant Patil, Rajeev Kumar, IIT Kharagpur, India

EFFECT OF SEGMENTATION METHOD ON VIDEO RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE
David Grangier, Alessandro Vinciarelli, IDIAP Resarch Institute, Switzerland

A NEURAL-FIELD-LIKE APPROACH FOR MODELING HUMAN GROUP ACTIONS IN MEETINGS
Stephan Reiter, Gerhard Rigoll, Technische Universität München, Germany

WHAT HAPPENS IN FILMS?
Andrew Salway, Andrew Vassiliou, Khurshid Ahmad, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

OVERCOMPLETE ICA-BASED MANMADE SCENE CLASSIFICATION
Matthew Boutell, University of Rochester, United States of America; Jiebo Luo, Eastman Kodak Company, United States of America

DYNAMIC LANGUAGE MODEL ADAPTATION USING LATENT TOPICAL INFORMATION AND AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTS
Berlin Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

CO-CLUSTERING OF TIME-EVOLVING NEWS STORY WITH TRANSCRIPT AND KEYFRAME
Xiao Wu, Chong Wah Ngo, Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

INTEGRATION OF RULE-BASED AND MODEL-BASED DECISION METHODS FOR BASEBALL EVENT DETECTION
Wei-Ta Chu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Ja-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

SEGMENTATION OF 3D OBJECTS USING PULSE-COUPLED OSCILLATOR NETWORKS
Eva Ceccarelli, Alberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala, University of Firenze, Italy

MULTIMEDIA DATA MINING FOR BUILDING RULE-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
Dianhui Wang, Xiaohang Ma, La Trobe University, Australia

AUDIO, VIDEO AND AUDIO-VISUAL SIGNATURES FOR SHORT VIDEO CLIP DETECTION: EXPERIMENTS ON TRECVID2003
Benjamin Senechal, Denis Pellerin, LIS, France; Laurent Besacier, CLIPS/IMAG, France; Isabelle Simand, Stéphane Brès, LIRIS, France

VIDEO HANDOVER FOR RETRIEVAL IN A UBIQUITOUS ENVIRONMENT USING FLOOR SENSOR DATA
Gamhewage de Silva, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Takayuki Ishikawa, Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan

PROJEKT QUEBEX: A QUERY BY EXAMPLE SYSTEM FOR AUDIO RETRIEVAL
Balaji Thoshkahna, K.R. Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, India

A HMM-EMBEDDED UNSUPERVISED LEARNING TO MUSICAL EVENT DETECTION
Sheng Gao, Yongwei Zhu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

MEETING VIDEO RETRIEVAL USING DYNAMIC HMM MODEL SIMILARITY
Dar-Shayng Lee, Jonathan Hull, Berna Erol, Ricoh Innovations, Inc., United States of America

MULTIMODAL SEGMENTAL-BASED MODELING OF TENNIS VIDEO BROADCASTS
Manolis Delakis, IRISA/University of Rennes 1, France; Guillaume Gravier, Patrick Gros, IRISA/CNRS, France

SUPERVISED SEMI-DEFINITE EMBEDING FOR IMAGE MANIFOLDS
Ning Liu, Tsinghua University, China; Jun Yan, Peking University, China; Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China

AFFECTIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS IN COMEDY AND HORROR VIDEOS BY AUDIO EMOTIONAL EVENT DETECTION
Min Xu, Liang-Tien Chia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Jesse Jin, University of Newcastle, Australia

A MID-LEVEL VISUAL CONCEPT GENERATION FRAMEWORK FOR SPORTS ANALYSIS
Xiaofeng Tong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lingyu Duan, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Hanqing Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Changsheng Xu, Qi Tian, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Jesse S Jin, University of Newcastle, Australia

PERIODICITY DETECTION OF LOCAL MOTION
Xiaofeng Tong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lingyu Duan, Changsheng Xu, Qi Tian, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Hanqing Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jinjun Wang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Jesse S Jin, University of Newcastle, Australia

EVENT DETECTION BASED ON GENERIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FIELD SPORTS
David Sadlier, Noel O'Connor, Centre for Digital Video Processing, Ireland

SEMANTIC INDEXING FOR INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO VIA COMBINATION OF HANDWRITING RECOGNITION AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Lijun Tang, John Kender, Columbia University, United States of America

PART-BASED SHAPE RETRIEVAL WITH RELEVANCE FEEDBACK
Mirela Tanase, Remco Veltkamp, Utrecht University, Netherlands

REPLAY SCENE CLASSIFICATION IN SOCCER VIDEO USING WEB BROADCAST TEXT
Jinhui Dai, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences,, China; Lingyu Duan, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Xiaofeng Tong, Institute of Automation ,Chinese Academy of Sciences,, China; Changsheng Xu, Qi Tian, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Hanqing Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences,, China; Jesse S Jin, University of Newcastle, Australia

AUTOMATIC PARSING OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL VIDEOS BY INTERMODAL COLLABORATION BASED ON TRANSITION RULES
Naoko Nitta, Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka University, Japan

VIDEO OBJECT BOUNDARY RECONSTRUCTION BY 2-PASS VOTING
Like Zhang, Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States of America; Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Jingsheng Ma, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

SPORTS EVENT RECOGNITION USING LAYERED HMMS
Mark Barnard, Jean-Marc Odobez, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland

INTEGRATING CO-TRAINING AND RECOGNITION FOR TEXT DETECTION
Wen Wu, Datong Chen, Jie Yang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America

VIDEO SUMMARIZATION FOR LARGE SPORTS VIDEO ARCHIVES
Yoshimasa Takahashi, Naoko Nitta, Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka University, Japan

EXTENT: INFERRING IMAGE METADATA FROM CONTEXT AND CONTENT
Chang-Ming Tsai, Arun Qamra, Edward Chang, University of California Santa Barbara, United States of America

A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF MUSIC SPORTS-VIDEO
Weigang Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Liyuan Xing, Qingming Huang, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Wen Gao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

ONLINE END DETECTION FOR LIVE-BROADCAST SPORTS TV PROGRAMS
Hao-Da Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China

A PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK FOR TV-NEWS STORIES DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION
Francesco Colace, Università di Salerno, Italy; Pasquale Foggia, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy; Gennaro Percannella, Università di Salerno, Italy

AFFECTIVE MEETING VIDEO ANALYSIS
Alejandro Jaimes, Takeshi Nagamine, Jianyi Liu, Kengo Omura, FX Pal Japan, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Japan; Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

AUTOMATIC OBJECT TRAJECTORY-BASED MOTION RECOGNITION USING GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS
Faisal Bashir, Ashfaq Khokhar, Dan Schonfeld, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America

 

SPECIAL SESSION E-meetings & e-learning cntd (Wed, 16:05-17:25, Grand Ballroom)

Session Chair: Ying Li, IBM Research, USA

16:05 HYBRID SPEAKER TRACKING IN AN AUTOMATED LECTURE ROOM
Cha Zhang, Yong Rui, Li-Wei He, Microsoft Research, United States of America; Michael Wallick, University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States of America

16:25 SEMI-SUPERVISED MEETING EVENT RECOGNITION WITH ADAPTED HMMS
Dong Zhang, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Samy Bengio, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland

16:45 A MULTI-MODAL MIXED-STATE DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORK FOR ROBUST MEETING EVENT RECOGNITION FROM DISTURBED DATA
Marc Al-Hames, Gerhard Rigoll, Technische Universitaet Munchen, Germany

17:05 SMART HANDOUTS: PERSONALIZED E-PRESENTATION DOCUMENTS
Berna Erol, Dar-Shyang Lee, Jonathan J. Hull, Ricoh California Research Center, United States of America


SESSION Wireless multimedia streaming (Wed, 16:05-17:25, Volmer I + II)
Session Chair: Michaela van der Schaar, University of Californa, Davis, USA


16:05 ON THE RATE-DISTORTION PERFORMANCE OF DYNAMIC BITSTREAM SWITCHING MECHANISMS
Bo Xie, PacketVideo Corporation, United States of America; Wenjun Zeng, University of Missouri-Columbia, United States of America

16:25 DEADLINE-AWARE SCHEDULING FOR WIRELESS VIDEO STREAMING
Guenther Liebl, Munich University of Technology, Germany; Mark Kalman, Bernd Girod, Stanford University, United States of America

16:45 ERROR RESILIENCE TRANSCODING USING PRIORITIZED INTRA-REFRESH FOR VIDEO MULTICAST OVER WIRELESS NETWORKS
Chih-Ming Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Yuh-Ruey Lee, Chia-Wen Lin, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan; Yung-Chang Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

17:05 OPTIMIZED H.264-BASED BITSTREAM SWITCHING FOR WIRELESS VIDEO STREAMING
Thomas Stockhammer, Michael Walter; Günther Liebl, Nomor Research, Germany


SESSION Audio processing & analysis (Wed, 16:05-17:25, Foyer)

Session Chair: Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research, The Netherlands

16:05 COMPRESSION TRANSPARENT LOW-LEVEL DESCRIPTION OF AUDIO SIGNALS
Jason Lukasiak, Chris McElroy, Eva Cheng, University of Wollongong, Australia

16:25 A METHOD FOR EXTRACTING A MUSICAL UNIT TO PHRASE MUSIC DATA IN THE COMPRESSED DOMAIN OF TWINVQ AUDIO COMPRESSION
Motohiro Nakanishi, Michihiro Kobayakawa, Mamoru Hoshi, Tadashi Ohmori, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

16:45 FEATURE SELECTION AND STACKING FOR ROBUST DISCRIMINATION OF SPEECH, MONOPHONIC SINGING, AND POLYPHONIC MUSIC
Björn Schuller, Bernardo José, Brüning Schmitt, Dejan Arsic, Stephan Reiter, Manfred Lang, Gerhard Rigoll, Technische Universität München, Germany

17:05 EXTRACTING NOTE ONSETS FROM MUSICAL RECORDINGS
Miguel ALONSO, Gaël RICHARD, Bertrand DAVID, ENST - Télécom Paris, France

 
SESSION Authentication, protection & DRM (Wed, 16:05-17:25, Volmer III)

Session Chair: Jean-Luc Dugelay, EURECOM, France
 
16:05 HASH-BASED COUNTER SCHEME FOR DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Mikko Löytynoja, Tapio Seppänen, MediaTeam, University of Oulu, Finland

16:25 ON THE SECURITY OF MESH-BASED MEDIA HASH-DEPENDENT WATERMARKING AGAINST PROTOCOL ATTACKS
Chun-Shien Lu, Chia-Mu Yu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

16:45 IMAGE AUTHENTICATION UNDER GEOMETRIC ATTACKS VIA STRUCTURE MATCHING
Vishal Monga, Divyanshu Vats, Brian Evans, University of Texas, Austin, United States of America

17:05 A PROPOSAL OF BUTTERFLY-GRAPH BASED STREAM AUTHENTICATION OVER LOSSY NETWORKS
Zhishou Zhang, Qibin Sun, Wai-Choong Wong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
 

 

THURSDAY 7 JULY 2005

 

SPECIAL SESSION Emotion detection (Thu, 08:45-10:05, Grand Ballroom)
Session Chairs: Stefanos Kollias and Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece


8:45 MULTIMODAL EMOTION RECOGNITION AND EXPRESSIVITY ANALYSIS
Kostas Karpouzis, Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

9:25 SEGMENT-BASED APPROACH TO THE RECOGNITION OF EMOTIONS IN SPEECH
Mohammad Shami, Mohamed Kamel, University of Waterloo, Canada

9:45 COMPARING FEATURE SETS FOR ACTED AND SPONTANEOUS SPEECH IN VIEW OF AUTOMATIC EMOTION RECOGNITION
Thurid Vogt, Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany

 

 

SESSION 3D (Thu, 08:45-10:05, Volmer I + II)

Session Chair: Fatih Porikli, MERL, USA
 
08:45 A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT 3D SHAPE REJECTION ALGORITHM
Yinpeng Chen, Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, United States of America

09:05 3D MESH PARTITIONING FOR RETRIEVAL BY PARTS APPLICATIONS
Gianni Antini, Stefano Berretti, Alberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

09:25 TREE ANIMATION FOR A 3D INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION SYSTEM FOR HURRICANE IMPACTS
Peter Singh, Na Zhao, Shu-Ching Chen, Keqi Zhang, Florida International University, United States of America

09:45 A COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY-BASED APPROACH FOR 3D SHAPE RETRIEVAL
Sean Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Ja-Chen Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

 

SESSION Video classification (Thu, 08:45-10:05, Foyer)

Session Chair: Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka University, Japan
 
08:45 ROBUST LEARNING-BASED TV COMMERCIAL DETECTION
Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China

09:05 CLUSTERING OF VIDEO OBJECTS BY GRAPH MATCHING
JeongKyu Lee, JungHwan Oh, Sae Hwang, University of Texas at Arlington, United States of America

09:25 ESTIMATION OF SPEAKING SPEED FOR FASTER FACE DETECTION IN VIDEO-FOOTAGE
Osamu Ikeda, Takushoku University, Japan

09:45 JOINT INTER AND INTRA SHOT MODELING FOR SPECTRAL VIDEO SHOT CLUSTERING
Jianning Zhang, Lifeng Sun, Shiqiang Yang, Yuzhuo Zhong, Tsinghua University, China


SESSION Watermarking 1 (Thu, 08:45-10:05, Volmer III)

Session Chair: Job Oostveen, Philips Research, The Netherlands
 
08:45 CONTENT-BASED BLOCK WATERMARKING AGAINST CUMULATIVE AND TEMPORAL ATTACK
Ju Wang, Virginia Commonwealth Univ, United States of America; Jonathan Liu, Univ of Florida, United States of America

09:05 REWRITABLE DATA EMBEDDING ON MPEG CODED DATA DOMAIN
Katsuhiro Nakajima, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Shinshu University, Japan; Tetsuya Matsuoka, EPSON AVASYS Corp, Japan; Yasuyuki Nakajima, KDDI R\&D Laboratories Inc, Japan

09:25 AN AUDIO SPREAD-SPECTRUM DATA HIDING SYSTEM WITH AN INFORMED EMBEDDING STRATEGY ADAPTED TO A WIENER FILTERING BASED RECEIVER
Cléo Baras, Nicolas Moreau, GET - ENST, France

09:45 DETECTOR DESIGN FOR PARAMETRIC SPEECH WATERMARKING
Aparna Gurijala, John R. Deller, Jr., Michigan State University, United States of America

 
SESSION Expo (Thu, 10:15-12:00 and 15:00-16:45, St. John’s I + II)

Session Chairs: Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research, The Netherlands

                         Jurgen den Hartog, TNO, The Netherlands

MEDIAMILL: SEARCHING MULTIMEDIA ARCHIVES BASED ON LEARNED SEMANTICS
Cees Snoek, Dennis Koelma, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Jeroen van Rest, Nellie Schipper, TNO, The Netherlands; Frank Seinstra, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Andrew Thean, TNO, The Netherlands; Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

INTERACTIVITY AND MULTIMODALITY IN THE IMIX DEMONSTRATOR
Lou Boves, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands; Els den Os, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

INFOLINK: ANALYSIS OF DUTCH BROADCAST NEWS AND CROSS-MEDIA BROWSING
Jeroen Morang, Franciska de Jong, Roeland Ordelman, Arjan van Hessen, University of Twente, The Netherlands

AUTHENTIC: COMPUTERIZED BRUSHSTROKE ANALYSIS
Igor Berezhnoy, Eric Postma, Jaap van den Herik, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

PERSONALIZED PRESENTATION AND NAVIGATION
Lora Aroyo, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Lloyd Rutledge, Rogier Brussee, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands; Paul De Bra, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Peter Gorgels, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Natalia Stash, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Mettina Veenstra, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands

INTEGRATED HEALTH LOG: SHARE MULTIMEDIA PATIENT DATA
Rogier Brussee, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands; Leon van den Oord, IBM Dynatos, Netherlands; Paul Porskamp, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands; Erik Rongen, IBM Dynatos, Netherlands; Hans Bloo, Victorien Erren, Leendert Schaake, Roessingh Research & Development, Netherlands

REAL-TIME AND DISTRIBUTED AV CONTENT ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR CONSUMER ELECTRONICS NETWORKS
Jan Nesvadba, Pedro Fonseca, Alexander Sinitsyn, Fons de Lange, Martijn Thijssen, Patrick van Kaam, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Hong Liu, Rien van Leeuwen, Philips Applied Technologies, The Netherlands; Johan Lukkien, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; Andrei Korostelev, Jan Ypma, Bart Kroon, Hasan Celik, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Alan Hanjalic, Umut Naci, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; Jenny Benois-Pineau, Université Bordeaux-1 Labri, France; Peter de With, Jungong Han, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

CANDELA - STORAGE, ANALYSIS AND RETRIEVAL OF VIDEO CONTENT IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: REAL-TIME VIDEO SURVEILLANCE AND RETRIEVAL
Egbert Jaspers, Rob Wijnhoven, Rob Albers, Bosch Security Systems, The Netherlands

CANDELA - STORAGE, ANALYSIS, AND RETRIEVAL OF VIDEO CONTENT IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - PERSONAL MOBILE MULTIMEDIA MANAGEMENT
Paavo Pietarila, Utz Westermann, Sari Järvinen, Jari Korva, Janne Lahti, Henri Löthman, VTT Electronics, Finland

THE MULTIMEDIAN CONCERT-VIDEO BROWSER
Ynze van Houten, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands; Umut Naci, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Bauke Freiburg, Stichting Fabchannel, Netherlands; Robbert Eggermont, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Sander Schuurman, Danny Hollander, Stichting Fabchannel, Netherlands; Jaap Reitsma, Maurice Markslag, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands; Justin Kniest, Stichting Fabchannel, Netherlands; Mettina Veenstra, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands; Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

OBJECT RECOGNITION BY A ROBOT DOG CONNECTED TO A WIDE-AREA GRID SYSTEM
Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Frank Seinstra, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

NIGHT SCENE LIVE - A MULTIMEDIA APPLICATION FOR MOBILE REVELLERS ON THE BASIS OF A HYBRID NETWORK, USING DVB-H AND IP DATACAST
Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany; Joerg Baldzer, Sabine Thieme, OFFIS, Oldenburg, Germany; Hans-Juergen Appelrath, University of Oldenburg, Germany; Niels Rosenhaeger, Technical University at Brunswick, Germany

PICTUREFINDER: DESCRIPTION LOGICS FOR SEMANTIC IMAGE RETRIEVAL
Jean-Pierre Schober, Thorsten Hermes, Otthein Herzog, University of Bremen, Germany

 

 

SPECIAL SESSION Emotion detection cntd (Thu, 10:35-11:55, Grand Ballroom)

Session Chairs: Stefanos Kollias and Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 
10:35 AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR FACIAL EMOTION RECOGNITION
Roddy Cowie, Ellen Douglas-Cowie, Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom; John Taylor, King's College, United Kingdom; Spiros Ioannou, Manolis Wallace, Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

10:55 ANNOTATION AND DETECTION OF BLENDED EMOTIONS IN REAL HUMAN-HUMAN DIALOGS RECORDED IN A CALL CENTER
Laurence Vidrascu, Laurence Devillers, LIMSI-CNRS, France

11:15 A REAL-TIME LIP SYNC SYSTEM USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR AUTOMATIC NEURAL NETWORK CONFIGURATION
Goranka Zoric, Igor S. Pandzic, University of Zagreb, Croatia

11:35 VISUAL/ACOUSTIC EMOTION RECOGNITION
Cheng-Yao Chen, Yue-Kai Huang, Princeton University, United States of America; Perry Cook, Princeton University, United States of America

 

SESSION Multidimensional signal processing (Thu, 10:35-11:55, Volmer I + II)

Session Chair: Ian Burnett, University of Wollongong, Australia
 
10:35 UNSTRUCTURED LIGHT FIELD RENDERING USING ON-THE-FLY FOCUS MEASUREMENT
Keita Takahashi, Takeshi Naemura, University of Tokyo, Japan

10:55 A NEW APPROACH FOR REAL TIME MOTION ESTIMATION USING ROBUST STATISTICS AND MPEG DOMAIN APPLIED TO MOSAIC IMAGES CONSTRUCTION.
Lluis Barcelo, Ramon L. Felip, Xavier Binefa, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

11:15 ENHANCING CURVATURE SCALE SPACE FEATURES FOR ROBUST SHAPE CLASSIFICATION
Stephan Kopf, Thomas Haenselmann, Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany

11:35 VIRTUAL CAMERAWORK FOR GENERATING LECTURE VIDEO FROM HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES
Takao Yokoi, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Chubu University, Japan


SESSION Feature extraction (Thu, 10:35-11:55, Foyer)

Session Chair: Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
10:35 AN OPTIMIZED KEY-FRAMES EXTRACTION SCHEME BASED ON SVD AND CORRELATION MINIMIZATION
Klimis Ntalianis, Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

10:55 LEARNED COLOR CONSTANCY FROM LOCAL CORRESPONDENCES
Tijmen Moerland, Frédéric Jurie, LEAR - INRIA/CNRS, France

11:15 ROTATION INVARIANT TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION USING BAMBERGER PYRAMIDS
Jose Gerardo Rosiles, University of Texas at El Paso, United States of America; Mark Smith, Purdue University, United States of America; Russell Mersereau, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America

11:35 MODELING DYNAMIC TEXTURES USING SUBSPACE MIXTURES
Che-Bin Liu, Ruei-sung Lin, Narendra Ahuja, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America


SESSION Coding (Thu, 10:35-11:55, Volmer III)

Session Chair: Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
 
10:35 HIGH-PERFORMANCE LOW-COMPLEXITY BIT-PLANE CODING SCHEME FOR MPEG-4 FGS
Hong-Yu Chao, Jia-Shung Wang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Chien-Ming Wu, Chun-Ming Huang, Lan-Da Van, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taiwan; Juin-Long Lin, Kai-Chao Yang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

10:55 A HIGH-PERFORMANCE MEMORY-EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE OF THE BIT-PLANE CODER IN JPEG 2000
Grzegorz Pastuszak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

11:15 A NEW BIT-PLANE ENTROPY CODER FOR SCALABLE IMAGE CODING
Rong Zhang, Rongshan Yu, Qibin Sun, Wai-Choong Wong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

11:35 SCALABLE SHAPE CODING OF VIDEO OBJECT USING TEMPORAL PREDICTION
Mingyou Hu, Stewart Worrall, Abdul Sadka, Ahmet Kondoz, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

 
SPECIAL SESSION Enterprise streaming (Thu, 13:25-14:45, Grand Ballroom)

Session Chairs: Deepak Turaga, IBM Research, USA and Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, Davis, USA
 
13:25 ENTERPRISE MULTIMEDIA STREAMING: ISSUES, BACKGROUND AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Deepak Turaga, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States of America; Mihaela van der Schaar, Univesity of California, Davis, United States of America; Krishna Ratakonda, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States of America

13:45 RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZED BANDWIDTH ADAPTATION FOR DISTRIBUTED MEDIA DELIVERY
Jacob Chakareski, Pascal Frossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
 
14:05 ADAPTIVE LIVE STREAMING OVER ENTERPRISE NETWORKS
Deepak Turaga, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States of America; Ahmed Abd El Al, City University of New York, United States of America; Chitra Venkatramani, Olivier Verscheure, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States of America

14:25 ENTERPRISE STREAMING: DIFFERENT CHALLENGES FROM INTERNET STREAMING
John Apostolopoulos, Mitchell Trott, Ton Kalker, Wai-Tian Tan, HP Labs, United States of America

 

SESSION Home video analysis (Thu, 13:25-14:45, Volmer I + II)

Session Chair: Ajay Divakaran, MERL, USA

13:25 AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF HOME VIDEOS
Yun Zhai, Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida, United States of America

13:45 INJECTION, DETECTION AND REPAIR OF AESTHETICS IN HOME MOVIES
Brett Adams, Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

14:05 VIDEO QUALITY CLASSIFICATION BASED HOME VIDEO SEGMENTATION
Si Wu, Jinan University, China; Yu-Fei Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China

14:25 CAMERA NOTES
Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China

 

 

SESSION Interactive retrieval & annotation (Thu, 13:25-14:45, Foyer)

Session Chair: Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 
13:25 INTERACTIVE CLUSTERING OF VIDEO SEGMENTS FOR MEDIA STRUCTURING
Yukihiro Kinoshita, Naoko Nitta, Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka University, Japan

13:45 I2A: AN INTERACTIVE IMAGE ANNOTATION SYSTEM
Changbo Yang, Ming Dong, Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, United States of America

14:05 RELEVANCE FEEDBACK METHODS IN CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL AND VIDEO SUMMARIZATION
Micha Haas, Michael Lew, Ard Oerlemans, LIACS Media Lab, Netherlands

14:25 CONTENT-FREE IMAGE RETRIEVAL BASED ON RELATIONS EXPLOITED FROM USER FEEDBACKS
Shingo Uchihashi, Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America


SESSION Multimedia hardware and software design (Thu, 13:25-14:45, Volmer III)

Session Chair: Venkatesh Akella, University of California, Davis, USA

13:25 AN HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR 3D OBJECT TRACKING AND MOTION ESTIMATION
Patrick Lanvin, Jean-Charles Noyer, Mohammed Benjelloun, LASL-ULCO, France

13:45 EFFICIENT SEGMENT-BASED VIDEO TRANSCODING PROXY FOR MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
Kuei-Chung Chang, Ren-Yo Wu, Tien-Fu Chen, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

14:05 A VIRTUAL SOCKET FRAMEWORK FOR RAPID EMULATION OF VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA DESIGNS
Paul Schumacher, Xilinx, United States of America; Marco Mattaveilli, EPFL, Switzerland; Adrian Chirila-Rus, IMEC, Belguim; Robert Turney, Xilinx, United States of America

14:25 NEARLY LOSSLESS CONTENT-DEPENDENT LOW-POWER DCT DESIGN FOR MOBILE VIDEO APPLICATIONS
Chia-Ping Lin, Po-Chih Tseng, Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

 

14:45 – 15:35 Keynote speaker Emile Aarts, Philips Research, “Multimedia in Ambient Intelligence
(abstract)

Session Chair: John R. Smith, IBM Research, USA

 

 
SESSION Media conversion (Thu, 16:05 - 17:25, Grand Ballroom)

Session Chair: Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University London, UK
 
16:05 ADVANCED MOTION SEARCH AND ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES FOR DEINTERLACING
Kefei Ouyang, Tsinghua University, China; Guobin Shen, Shipeng Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China; Ming Gu, Tsinghua University, China

16:25 EFFICIENT CONVERSION METHOD BETWEEN SUBBAND DOMAIN REPRESENTATIONS
Abdellatif Benjelloun Touimi, Adil Mouhssine, France Telecom Research and Development, France

16:45 AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF PENCIL-SKETCH LIKE DRAWINGS FROM PERSONAL PHOTOS
Jin Zhou, Baoxin Li, Arizona State University, United States of America

17:05 THE PHOTODYNAMIC TOOL: GENERATION OF ANIMATION FROM A SINGLE TEXTURE IMAGE
Hidetomo Sakaino, NTT Communications, Japan

 

SESSION Faces (Thu, 16:05 - 17:25, Volmer I + II)

Session Chair: Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
16:05 AUTO CROPPING FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS
Mingju Zhang, Dalian Univ. of Tech., China; Lei Zhang, Yanfeng Sun, Microsoft Research Asia, China; Lin Feng, Dalian Univ. of Tech., China; Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China

16:25 AN EFFICIENT APPROACH TO MULTIMODAL PERSON IDENTITY VERIFICATION BY FUSING FACE AND VOICE INFORMATION
Hsien-Ting Cheng, Yi-Hsiang Chao, Shih-Liang Yeh, Chu-Song Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Yi-Ping Hung, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

16:45 A SOM-WAVELET NETWORKS FOR FACE IDENTIFICATION
Yang Zhi, Gu Ming, Tsinghua University, China

17:05 A METHODOLOGY FOR IMPROVING RECOGNITION RATE OF LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS IN VIDEO-BASED FACE RECOGNITION USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES
Sreekar Krishna, Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State University, United States of America


SESSION Audio event detection (Thu, 16:05 - 17:25, Foyer)

Session Chair: Jonathan Foote, FXPAL, USA
 
16:05 AUTOMATIC SURVEILLANCE OF THE ACOUSTIC ACTIVITY IN OUR LIVING ENVIRONMENT
Aki Härmä, Martin McKinney, Janto Skowronek, Philips Research, Netherlands

16:25 THE SOUND WAVE RAY-SPACE
Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani, Yasushi Hirano, Toshiaki Fujii, Shoji Kajita, Kazuya Takeda, Masayuki Tanimoto, Kenji Mase, Nagoya University, Japan

16:45 EASIER SAMPLING FOR AUDIO EVENT IDENTIFICATION
Surong Wang, Min Xu, Liang-Tien Chia, Manonranjan Dash, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

17:05 EVENTS DETECTION FOR AN AUDIO-BASED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
Chloé Clavel, Thibaut Ehrette, Thales Research and Technology France, France; Gaël Richard, GET-ENST, France


SESSION Multimedia systems analysis (Thu, 16:05 - 17:25, Volmer III)

Session Chair: Peter van Beek, Sharp Labs of America, USA
 
16:05 PROACTIVE ENGERY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS FOR WAVELET-BASED VIDEO CODECS ON POWER-AWARE PROCESSORS
Venkatesh Akella, Mihaela van der Schaar, Wen-Fu Kao, University of California, Davis, United States of America

16:25 MAXIMIZING THE PROFIT FOR CACHE REPLACEMENT IN A TRANSCODING PROXY
Hao-Ping Hung, Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

16:45 ESTIMATION OF MPEG-7 TRANSCODING HINTS IN THE COMPRESSED DOMAIN
Marco Fumagalli, Rosa Lancini, Cefriel - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

17:05 PROCESSOR LOAD ANALYSIS FOR MOBILE MULTIMEDIA STREAMING: THE IMPLICATION OF POWER REDUCTION
Min Li, Xiaobo Wu, Zhejiang University, China; Zihua Guo, Microsoft Research Asia, China; Richard Yao, Microsoft Research, United States of America; Xiaolang Yan, Zhejiang University, China

 

17:30-18:00 Keynote speaker Gopal Pingali, IBM Research, “Electronic Chronicles: Empowering Individuals, Groups, and Organizations”
(abstract)

Session Chair: Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

 

 

FRIDAY 8 JULY 2005

 

 

08:45-10:05 Keynote speaker Elisabeth Andre, Univ. of Augsburg, “Towards Emotional Sensitivity in Human-Computer Interaction
(abstract)

Session Chair: Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland


SESSION Annotation & ontologies (Fri, 9:35 – 10:55, Grand Ballroom)

Session Chair: Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
09:35 USING RHETORICAL ANNOTATIONS FOR GENERATING VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES
Stefano Bocconi, Frank Nack, Lynda Hardman, CWI, Netherlands

09:55 SPEECH-BASED VISUAL CONCEPT LEARNING USING WORDNET
Xiaodan Song, University of Washington, United States of America; Ching-Yung Lin, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States of America; Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington, United States of America

10:15 ONTOLOGY DESIGN FOR VIDEO SEMANTIC THREADS
John Kender, Columbia University, United States of America; Milind Naphade, IBM Research, United States of America

10:35 VIDEO ANNOTATION WITH PICTORIALLY ENRICHED ONTOLOGIES
Carlo Torniai, Alberto Del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, Italy; Rita Cucchiara, Università di Modena, Italy; Marco Bertini, Università di Firenze, Italy

 


SESSION Interfaces for multimedia (Fri, 9:35 – 10:55, Volmer I + II)

Session Chair: John R. Smith, IBM Research, USA
 
09:35 INTERACTIVE, DYNAMIC VIDEO BROWSING WITH THE ZOOMSLIDER INTERFACE
Wolfgang Hürst, Philipp Jarvers, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, Germany

09:55 PLAYWATCH: CHART-STYLE VIDEO PLAYBACK INTERFACE
Kiyoshi Tanaka, Tsutomu Sasaki, Yoshinobu Tonomura, Tadashi Nakanishi, NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories, Japan; Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka University, Japan

10:15 AN INTUITIVE GRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT FOR NAVIGATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTS
Marco Campanella, Riccardo Leonardi, Pierangelo Migliorati, University of Brescia, Italy

10:35 CONTEXT-AWARE DYNAMIC PRESENTATION SYNTHESIS FOR EXPLORATORY MULTIMODAL ENVIRONMENTS
Harini Sridharan, Ankur Mani, Hari Sundaram, Jennifer Brungart, David Birchfield, Arizona State University, United States of America


SESSION Motion estimation (Fri, 9:35 – 10:55, Foyer)

Session Chair: Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland
 
09:35 FAST PREDICTIVE VARIABLE-BLOCK-SIZE MOTION ESTIMATION FOR H.264/AVC
Zhi Yang, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen, Xu Li, Zhejiang University, China

09:55 FAST VIDEO MOTION ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR MOBILE DEVICES
Ho-Jae Lee, Panos Nasiopoulos, Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada

10:15 A QUARTER PEL FULL SEARCH BLOCK MOTION ESTIMATION ARCHITECTURE FOR H.264/AVC
Choudhury Rahman, Wael Badawy, University of Calgary, Canada

10:35 QUAD-TREE MOTION ESTIMATION IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN
Vasileos Argyriou, Theodore Vlachos, University of Surrey, United Kingdom


SESSION Hardware (Fri, 9:35 – 10:55, Volmer III)

Session Chair: Wayne Wolf, Princeton University, USA
 
09:35 AN ADAPTIVE MICROPHONE ARRAY WITH LOCAL ACOUSTIC SENSITIVITY
Jianfeng Chen, Koksoon Phua, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

09:55 ADDRESS ACCELERATION MECHANISMS FOR AN ADAPTIVE CELLULAR TELEPHONY (ACT) COPROCESSOR
Ali Ibrahim, Al Davis, University of Utah, United States of America

10:15 ENHANCED PREDICTIVE MOTION VECTOR FIELD ADAPTIVE SEARCH TECHNIQUE (E-PMVFAST) ¡V BASED ON FUTURE MV PREDICTION
Hoi-Ming Wong, Oscar C. Au, Chi-Wang Ho, Shu-Kei Yip, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

10:35 AN EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE FOR LIFTING-BASED FORWARD AND INVERSE DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM
Aroutchelvame Mayilavelane, Kaamran Raahemifar, Ryerson University, Canada


POSTERS ON "Architectures", "Security", "Systems and networks" and "Wireless" (Fri, 10:15-12:00, St. John’s I + II)
 
A SPATIAL-TEMPORAL DE-INTERLACING ALGORITHM
Tak-Song Chong, Oscar C. Au, Tai-Wai Chan, Wing-San Chau, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

FAST ROTATION CENTER IDENTIFICATION METHODS FOR VIDEO SEQUENCES
Ka Yan Wong, Chi Lap Yip, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

ENHANCE SPEAKER SEGMENTATION BY ELABORATING UTTERANCE DETECTION
Min Yang, Zhaohui Wu, Yingchun Yang, Zhejiang University, China

GOAL BASED OPTIMAL SELECTION OF MEDIA STREAMS
Pradeep Kumar Atrey, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore

A GRIDDING HOUGH TRANSFORM FOR DETECTING THE STRAIGHT LINES IN SPORTS VIDEO
Xinguo Yu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Hoe Chee Lai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Sophie Xiao Fan Liu, Oral Roberts University, United States of America; Hon Wai Leong, National University of Singapore, Singapore

PRECISE VISIBILITY DETERMINATION OF DISPLAYS IN CAMERA IMAGES
Eva Hoerster, Rainer Lienhart, University Augsburg, Germany; Walter Kellermann, University Erlanger-Nuremberg, Germany; Jean-Yves Bouguet, Intel Corporation, United States of America

NON-LINEAR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT FOR DIGITAL TV APPLICATIONS USING GABOR FILTERS
Yue Yang, Baoxin Li, Arizona State University, United States of America

USER STUDY FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED SUMMARY PROFILES
Lalitha Agnihotri, Philips Research USA, United States of America; John Kender, Columbia University, United States of America; Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research USA, United States of America; John Zimmerman, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America

ARCHITECTURE FOR AREA-EFFICIENT 2-D TRANSFORM IN H.264/AVC
Yu-Ting Kuo, Tay-Jyi Lin, Chih-Wei Liu, NCTU, Taiwan; Chein-Wei Jen, ITRI, Taiwan

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELING USING SHORT TIME FOURIER TRANSFORM FEATURES FOR AUDIO FINGERPRINTING
Arunan Ramalingam, Sridhar Krishnan, Ryerson University, Canada

EXPLOTING LIMITED UPSTREAM BANDWIDTH IN PEER-TO-PEER STREAMING
Yingfei Dong, University of Hawaii, United States of America; Ewa Kusmierek, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland; Zhenhai Duan, Florida State University, United States of America

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF VIDEO ENCRYPTION FOR MOBILE HANDHELD DEVICES
Kyoungwoo Lee, Nikil Dutt, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, United States of America

TEXTURE-BASED REMOTE-SENSING IMAGE SEGMENTATION
Dihua Guo, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Nabil Adam, Rutgers University, United States of America

AN EXTENDED MOTION-ESTIMATION ARCHITECTURE APPLIED TO SHAPE RECOGNITION
Jason Schlessman, Princeton University, United States of America; Sankalita Saha, University of Maryland, United States of America; Wayne Wolf, Princeton University, United States of America; Shuvra Bhattacharya, University of Maryland, United States of America

AGGREGATING SIGNATURES OF MPEG-4 ELEMENTARY STREAMS
Yongdong Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

LICENSE MANAGEMENT SCHEME WITH ANONYMOUS TRUST FOR DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Jiang Zhang, Bin Li, Li Zhao, ShiQiang Yang, Tsinghua University, China

INDICISIVE CLASSIFIER
Zhenqiu Zhang, Xun Xu, Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

WATERMARKING BASED IMAGE AUTHENTICATION USING FEATURE AMPLIFICATION
Shuiming Ye, Ee-Chien Chang, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Qibin Sun, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

WATERMARKING DIGITAL 3D VOLUMES IN THE DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM DOMAIN
Vassilios Solachidis, Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

USING PARTIAL INFORMATION FOR FACE RECOGNITION AND POSE ESTIMATION
Antonio Rama, Francesc Tarres, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain; Davide Onofrio, Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano (PdM), Italy

GENDER IDENTIFICATION USING FRONTAL FACIAL IMAGES
Amit Jain, Jeffrey Huang, Shiaofen Fang, IUPUI, United States of America

NEIGHBORHOOD ISSUE IN SINGLE-FRAME IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION
Xu Su, Qi Tian, Qing Xue, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States of America; Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Jingsheng Ma, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

DISTANCE-LEVEL FUSION STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION
Tobias Scheidat, Claus Vielhauer, Jana Dittmann, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany

VISION-BASED ONLINE MULTI-STREAM BEHAVIOR DETECTION APPLYING BAYESIAN NETWORKS
Dejan Arsic, Frank Wallhoff, Bjoern Schuller, Gerhard Rigoll, Marc Al Hames, Munich University of Technology, Germany

ATTACKS AND FORENSIC ANALYSIS FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT PROTECTION
Hongxia Jin, Jeffery Lotspiech, IBM Almaden Research center, United States of America

AN ELASTIC TRAFFIC POLICER FOR MPEG VIDEO STREAMS
Emre Gunduzhan, Nortel Networks, United States of America

OPTIMIZATION OF SOURCE AND CHANNEL CODING FOR VOICE OVER IP
Yicheng Huang, Jari Korhonen, Ye Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

EXCHANGING XML MULTIMEDIA CONTAINERS USING A BINARY XML PROTOCOL
Stephen Davis, Ian Burnett, University of Wollongong, Australia

AN ADAPTIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING PROTOCOL FOR MULTIMEDIA OVERLAY MULTICAST APPLICATIONS
Peng Cheng, Qionghai Dai, Qiufeng Wu, Tsinghua University, China

MPEG-7 MDS-BASED APPLICATION SPECIFIC METADATA MODEL FOR PERSONALIZED MULTI-SERVICE ACCESS IN A DTV BROADCAST ENVIRONMENT
Sofia Tsekeridou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

A TEMPORAL QUALITY SMOOTH METHOD FOR WAVELET VIDEO CODERS
Jiann-Jone Chen, Kun-Wei Wang, National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taiwan

DYNAMIC SERVER REDIRECT FOR MULTIMEDIA SERVICE IN DISTRIBUTED PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK
Ming-Ho Hsiao, Suh-Yin Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

NETWORK-ADAPTIVE FRAME-EXPANSION-BASED PACKET VIDEO CODING FOR ERASURE CHANNELS
Andrew Backhouse, Irene Y.H. Gu, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

REVENUE AWARE PREEMPTION POLICY IN MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Iftekhar Ahmad, Joarder Kamruzzaman, Srinivas Aswathanarayaniah, Monash University, Australia

FAST MOTION ESTIMATION BY MOTION VECTOR MERGING PROCEDURE FOR H.264
Kai-Chung Hou, Mei-Juan Chen, Ching-Ting Hsu, National Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan

AN ITERATIVE POWER ALLOCATION ALGORITHM IN OFDM SYSTEM BASED ON POWER RELAXATION
Ju Wang, Virginia Commonwealth Univ, United States of America; Jonathan Liu, Univ of Florida, United States of America

PROACTIVE HOT-ZONE FLOW CONTROL FOR SEAMLESS STREAM HANDOFF UNDER MOBILE MULTICAST NETWORKS
Sheau-Ru Tong, Sheng-Hsiung Yang, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

AN ADAPTIVE UEP_BTC_STBC SYSTEM FOR ROBUST H.264 VIDEO TRANSMISSION
Yue Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; Yinggang Du, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Songyu Yu, Yantao Qiao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; Chan Kam Tai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

A CLIENT-DRIVEN SCALABLE CROSS-LAYER RETRANSMISSION SCHEME FOR 3G VIDEO STREAMING
Liu Hao, Zhang Wenjun, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Cai Jun, University of Calgary, Canada; Yu Songyu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

CENTRALIZED PEER-TO-PEER VIDEO STREAMING OVER HYBRID WIRELESS NETWORK
Yifeng He, Ryerson University, Canada, Ivan Lee, University of Sydney, Australia; Xijia Gu, Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada

CHANNEL-ADAPTIVE HYBRID ARQ/FEC FOR ROBUST VIDEO TRANSMISSION OVER 3G
Jianwei Wen, Qionghai Dai, Yihui Jin, Tsinghua University, China

VIDEO STREAMING OVER 802.11 WLAN WITH CONTENT-AWARE ADAPTIVE RETRY
Mei-Hsuan Lu, Peter Steenkiste, Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America

H.264/AVC INTERLEAVING FOR 3G WIRELESS VIDEO STREAMING
Thomas Schierl, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Germany; Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research Germany, Germany; Thomas Wiegand, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Germany

STANDARD COMPATIBLE ERROR CORRECTION FOR MULTIMEDIA TRANSMISSIONS OVER 802.11 WLAN
Enrico Masala, Antonio Servetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Juan Carlos De Martin, IEIIT-CNR, Italy

PERSONALIZED PREFETCHING FOR MANETS
S H Srinivasan, Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India

ASYNCHRONOUS MEDIA STREAMING OVER WIRELESS BROADCAST CHANNELS
Hrvoje Jenkac, Munich University of Technology, Germany; Thomas Stockhammer, Siemens AG, Mobile Phones, Germany

PERSONALLY CUSTOMIZABLE GROUP NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING CELLULAR PHONES AND WIRELESS AD-HOC COMMUNICATION
Yoshitaka Nakamura, Guiquan Ren, Masatoshi Nakamura, Takaaki Umedu, Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan

SEMANTIC ROUTING AND FILTERING FOR LARGE-SCALE VIDEO STREAMS MONITORING
Ching-Yung Lin, Olivier Verscheure, Lisa Amini, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States of America


SESSION Machine learning (Fri, 11:25 – 12:45, Grand Ballroom)

Session Chair: Michael Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands
 
11:25 CONDITIONALLY POSITIVE DEFINITE KERNELS FOR SVM BASED IMAGE RECOGNITION
Sabri Boughorbel, Inria Rocquencourt, France; Jean-Philippe Tarel, LCPC, France; Nozha Boujemaa, Inria Rocquencourt, France

11:45 MANIFOLD LEARNING, A PROMISED LAND OR WORK IN PROGRESS?
Mei-Chen Yeh, I-Hsiang Lee, Gang Wu, Yi Wu, Edward Chang, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States of America

12:05 ADAPTIVE HIERARCHICAL MULTI-CLASS SVM CLASSIFIER FOR TEXTURE-BASED IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Song Liu, Haoran Yi, Liang-Tien Chia, Deepu Rajan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

12:25 VIDEO FRAME IDENTIFICATION FOR LEARNING MEDIA CONTENT UNDERSTANDING
Ying Li, Chitra Dorai, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States of America


SESSION Compression (Fri, 11:25 – 12:45, Volmer I + II)

Session Chair: Jan Biemond, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
 
ERROR RESILIENT MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING BASED ON WAVELET TREE CODING AND EREC FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS
Daewon Song, Florida Insitute of Technology, United States of America; Lei Cao, University of Mississippi, United States of America; Chang Wen Chen, Florida Insitute of Technology, United States of America

AN EFFICIENT MULTIVIEW VIDEO COMPRESSION SCHEME
Baochun Bai, Janelle Harms, Pierre Boulanger, University of Alberta, Canada

ON THE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF H.264 THROUGH FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND ANALYSES
Zhe-Kuan Lin, Horng-Horng Lin, Yu-Hsin Chen, Jen-Hui Chuang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

PERFORMANCE OF MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING IN SENSOR NETWORKS WITH FINITE BUFFERS
Enrico Baccaglini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Guillermo Barrenetxea, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland


SESSION CBIR (Fri, 11:25 – 12:45, Foyer)

Session Chair: Arjen de Vries, CWI, The Netherlands
 
11:25 FUZZY RELEVANCE FEEDBACK IN CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS USING RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORK
Kim-Hui Yap, Kui Wu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

11:45 A MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNING APPROACH FOR CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING ONE-CLASS SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE
Chengcui Zhang, Xin Chen, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States of America; Min Chen, Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, United States of America; Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, United States of American

12:05 NATURAL IMAGE RETRIEVAL WITH SKETCHES
Jinyi Yao, Mingjing Li, Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China

12:25 A TWO-LEVEL CBIR PLATFORM WITH APPLICATION TO BRAIN MRI RETRIEVAL
John Moustakas, Kostas Marias, ICS-FORTH, Greece; Socrates Dimitriades, Brown University, United States of America; Stelios Orphanoudakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece


SESSION Multimedia traffic management (Fri, 11:25 – 12:45, Volmer III)

Session Chair: John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA
 
11:25 FAIRNESS AMONG GAME PLAYERS IN NETWORKED HAPTIC ENVIRONMENTS: INFLUENCE OF NETWORK LATENCY
Yutaka Ishibashi, Hiroyuki Kaneoka, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

11:45 MEDIA AWARE ROUTING IN LARGE SCALE NETWORKS WITH OVERLAY
Dan Jurca, Sanja Petrovic, Pascal Frossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

12:05 DATA PREFETCHING FOR SMOOTH NAVIGATION OF LARGE SCALE JPEG 2000 IMAGES
Antonin Descampe, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; Jihong Ou, NUS Business School, Singapore; Philippe Chevalier, Benoit Macq, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

12:25 STRIPING DELAY-SENSITIVE PACKETS OVER MULTIPLE BURSTY WIRELESS CHANNELS
Gene Cheung, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Japan; Puneet Sharma, Sung-Ju Lee, Hewlett-Packard Labs, United States of America

 

SPECIAL SESSION Sports (Fri, 14:15-15:35, Grand Ballroom)

Session Chair: Dirk Farin, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
 
14:15 CURRENT AND EMERGING TOPICS IN SPORTS VIDEO PROCESSING
Xinguo Yu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Dirk Farin, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands

14:35 FREE VIEWPOINT VIDEO SYNTHESIS AND PRESENTATION FROM MULTIPLE SPORTING VIDEOS
Naho Inamoto, Hideo Saito, Keio University, Japan

14:55 FAST CAMERA CALIBRATION FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SPORT SEQUENCES
Dirk Farin, Jungong Han, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands; Peter de With, Technical University Eindhoven / LogicaCMG, Netherlands

15:15 HIGHLIGHTS EXTRACTION FROM SPORTS VIDEO BASED ON AN AUDIO-VISUAL MARKER DETECTION FRAMEWORK

Ziyou Xiong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Ajay Divakaran, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA, Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA


SESSION Hypermedia & internet (Fri, 14:15-15:35, Volmer I + II)

Session Chair: Frank Nack, CWI, The Netherlands
 
14:15 AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION OF LOCATION INFORMATION FOR WWW IMAGES
Zhigang Hua, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chuang Wang, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China; Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China; Hanqing Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China

14:35 SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE BUILDING FOR IMAGE DATABASE BY ANALYZING WEB PAGE CONTENTS
Yung-Kwang Lai, Song Liu, Liang-Tien Chia, Syin Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

14:55 RETHINKING THE PRESENTATION OF RESULTS FROM WEB SEARCH
Rahul Singh, Ya-Wen Hsu, Wen-Cheng Sun, Dil Chitaure, Liu Yan, San Francisco State University, United States of America

15:15 WA-TV: WEBIFYING AND AUGMENTING BROADCAST CONTENT FOR NEXT-GENERATION STORAGE TV
Hisashi Miyamori, Qiang Ma, Katsumi Tanaka, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan


SESSION Speech processing & analysis (Fri, 14:15-15:35, Foyer)

Session Chair: Richard Heusdens, Delft University of Technology
 
14:15 SPOKEN DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION USING ACOUSTIC, PROSODIC AND SEMANTIC INFORMATION
Chien-Lin Huang, Chia-Hsin Hsieh, Chung-Hsien Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan,

14:35 AUTOMATIC SPEECH ACTIVITY DETECTION, SOURCE LOCALIZATION, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION ON THE CHIL SEMINAR CORPUS
Dusan Macho, Jaume Padrell, Alberto Adad, UPC, Spain; John McDonough, Matthias Wolfel, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Alessio Brutti, Maurizio Omologo, ITC-irst, Italy; Gerasimos Potamianos, Stephen Chu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, United States of America; Ulrich Klee, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Piergiorgio Svaizer, ITC-irst, Italy; Climent Nadeu, Javier Hernando, UPC, Spain

14:55 PLAYING SPEECH BACKWARDS FOR CLASSIFICATION TASKS
Wolfgang Hürst, Tobias Lauer, Cedric Bürfent, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

15:15 MULTI-SENSORY SPEECH PROCESSING: INCORPORATING AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTED HIDDEN DYNAMIC INFORMATION
Amarnag Subramanya, University of Washington., United States of America; Li Deng, Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, United States of America


SESSION Transcoding (Fri, 14:15-15:35, Volmer III)

Session Chair: Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
 
14:15 PRE-ATTENTIONAL FILTERING IN COMPRESSED VIDEO
Juan M. Sanchez, Visual Century Research, Spain; Ramon L. Felip, Xavier Binefa, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

14:35 SEPARABLE BILATERAL FILTERING FOR FAST VIDEO PREPROCESSING
Tuan Pham, Lucas van Vliet, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

14:55 VIDEO ADAPTATION FOR TRANSMISSION CHANNELS BY UTILITY MODELING
Özgür Deniz Önür, Tubitak Bilten, Turkey; A. Aydin Alatan, M.E.T.U., Turkey

15:15 QUALITY-TEMPORAL TRANSCODER DRIVEN BY THE JERKINESS
Giovanni Iacovoni, Salvatore Morsa, CoRiTel/Ericsson Lab Italy, Italy; Renzo Felice, CoRiTel, Italy

 
POSTERS ON "Applications", "Authoring and editing", "Concealment", "Databases", "Features", "Segmentation", "Videoconferencing", " Watermarking, encryption & data hiding" (Fri, 15:00-16:45, St. John’s I + II)


ERROR RESILIENCE AND ERROR CONCEALMENT FOR EMBEDDED WAVELET CODERS
Shih-Hsuan Yang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan; Po-Feng Cheng, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan

ERROR CONCEALMENT FOR FACIAL ANIMATION BASED ON PREDICTION OF MUSCLE DATA
Insu Park, Shahram Shirani, David Capson, McMaster University, Canada

OPTIMAL PACKETIZATION OF VLC AND CONVOLUTION CODED MARKOV SEQUENCES
Xiaohan Wang, Xiaolin Wu, McMaster University, Canada

SPATIAL ERROR CONCEALMENT BASED ON BEZIER CURVES
Rogelio Hasimoto-Beltran, Center for Research in Mathematics, Mexico; Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America

IMAGE DATABASE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON CONCEPT VECTOR MODEL
Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, State Univ. of New York at Binghamton, United States of America

XML PATH BASED RELEVANCE MODEL FOR AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANNOTATION
Manjeet Rege, Ming Dong, Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, United States of America

APPROXIMATING THE SELECTIVITY OF MULTIMEDIA RANGE QUERIES
Harald Kosch, Mario Döller, University Klagenfurt, Austria

AN INDEXING SYSTEM FOR PHOTOS BASED ON SHOOTING POSITION AND ORIENTATION WITH GEOGRAPHIC DATABASE
Kiyoko Iwasaki, Kazumasa Yamazawa, Naokazu Yokoya, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

EFFICIENT HARDWARE SEARCH ENGINE FOR ASSOCIATIVE CONTENT RETRIEVAL OF LONG QUERIES IN HUGE MULTIMEDIA DATABASES
Christophe Layer, Hans-Jörg Pfleiderer, University of Ulm, Germany

COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF WEB IMAGE SEARCH ENGINES FOR MILTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS
Keon Stevenson, Clement Leung, Victoria University, Australia

SOFT REGION CORRESPONDENCE ESTIMATION FOR GRAPH-THEORETIC IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH
Chuech-Yu Li, Chiou-Ting Hsu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Taiwan

KPYR: AN EFFICIENT INDEXING METHOD
Thierry Urruty, LIFL - UMR CNRS 8022, France; Fatima Belkouch, STID : Departement Statistique et Traitement Informatique des Données, France; Chabane Djeraba, LIFL - UMR CNRS 8022, France

COMPRESSED DOMAIN IMAGE INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL BASED ON THE MINIMAL SPANNING TREE
Christos Theoharatos, Vassilios Pothos, George Economou, Spiros Fotopoulos, University of Patras, Greece

ADAPTIVE LOCAL CONTEXT SUPPRESSION OF MULTIPLE CUES FOR SALIENT VISUAL ATTENTION DETECTION
Yiqun Hu, Deepu Rajan, Liang-Tien Chia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

AUTOMATIC 3D FACE RECOGNITION USING TOPOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES
Chafik Samir, Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, MIIRE (INT/LIFL UMR CNRS 8022), France; Mohamed Daoudi, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Tours EA 2101, France

ON THE EARTH MOVER'S DISTANCE AS A HISTOGRAM SIMILARITY METRIC FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL
Zhenghua Yu, Gunawan Herman, National ICT Australia, Australia

COMPARISON OF SHOT BOUNDARY DETECTORS
Jan Nesvadba, Fabian Ernst, Jernej Perhavc, Philips Research, Netherlands; Jenny Benois-Pineau, Laurent Primaux, Labri, Univ of Bordeaux, France

HMM-BASED SEGMENTATION AND RECOGNITION OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES FROMA VIDEO SEQUENCES
Feng Niu, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, University of Miami, United States of America

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR GENERIC OBJECT DETECTION USING KERNEL PCA AND BOOSTING
Saad Ali, Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida, United States of America

ANALYSIS OF PAINTINGS USING ARTISTIC COLOR CONCEPTS
Yelizaveta Marchenko, Tat-Seng Chua, Irina Aristarkhova, National University of Singapore, Singapore

A MODEL BASED ENERGY MINIMIZATION METHOD FOR 3D FACE RECONSTRUCTION
Davide Onofrio, Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico Di Milano, Italy

A COLLABORATIVE ANNOTATION FRAMEWORK
Bageshree Shevade, Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, United States of America; Min Yen-Kan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

RECOGNIZING AND DISCOVERING HUMAN ACTIONS FROM ON-BODY SENSOR DATA
Thad Starner, David Minnen, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America; J. Ward, P. Lukowicz, G. Troester, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

DISCRIMINATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR KEYFRAME SELECTION
Matthew Cooper, Jonathan Foote, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, United States of America

SNAKES FOR OBJECT CONTOUR TRACKING IN STEREO SEQUENCES
Shin-Hyoung Kim, Jong Whan Jang, PaiChai University, Korea

FUZZY IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING SHAPE INFORMATION
Mohammad Ameer Ali, Gour C Karmakar, Laurence S Dooley, Monash University, Australia

USING SPATIAL CUES FOR MEETING SPEECH SEGMENTATION
Eva Cheng, Jason Lukasiak, Ian Burnett, David Stirling, University of Wollongong, Australia

AN ONLINE VIDEO COMPOSITION SYSTEM
Qiong Liu, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, United States of America; Xiaojin Shi, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States of America; Don Kimber, Frank Zhao, Frank Raab, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, United States of America

AUTOMATIC HEAD-SIZE EQUALIZATION IN PANORAMA IMAGES FOR VIDEO CONFERENCING
Ya Chang, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States of America; Ross Cutler, Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang, Alex Acero, Microsoft Research, United States of America; Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States of America

A REVERSIBLE WATERMARKING SCHEME FOR JPEG-2000 COMPRESSED IMAGES
Sabu Emmanuel, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Chee Kiang Heng, Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd, Singapore; Amitabha Das, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

ROTATION, SCALING, AND TRANSLATION-INVARIANT MULTI-BIT WATERMARKING BASED ON LOG-POLAR MAPPING AND DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM
Wilson Fung, Akiomi Kunisa, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Japan

SUPPORTING RIGHTS CHECKING IN AN MPEG-21 DIGITAL ITEM PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT
Frederik De Keukelaere, Ghent University, Belguim; Thomas DeMartini, ContentGuard, United States of America; Jeroen Bekaert, Rik Van de Walle, Ghent University, Belguim

EVALUATING KEYPOINT METHODS FOR CONTENT-BASED COPYRIGHT PROECTION OF DIGITAL IMAGES
Larry Huston, Intel Research Pittsburgh, United States of America; Rahul Sukthankar, Intel Research and Carnegie Mellon, United States of America; Yan Ke, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America

IP MULTICAST VIDEO BROADCASTING SYSTEM WITH USER AUTHENTICATION
Hiroki Onishi, Tetsutaro Uehara, Kyoto University, Japan; Takashi Satoh, The University of Kitakyushu, Japan; Katsunori Yamaoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

LOSSLESS DATA HIDING USING INTEGER WAVELET TRANSFORM AND THRESHOLD EMBEDDING TECHNIQUE
Guorong Xuan, Tongji University, China; Yun Shi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America; Chengyun Yang, Yizhan Zheng, Tongji University, China; Dekun Zou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America; Peiqi Chai, Tongji University, China

AUTOMATIC CROSSOVER FREQUENCY SELECTION FOR MULTICHANNEL HOME-THEATER APPLICATIONS
Sunil Bharitkar, Chris Kyriakakis, Audyssey Labs., Inc., and University of Southern California, United States of America

HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL BASED CHARACTERIZATION OF CONTENT ACCESS PATTERNS IN AN E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
H S Wong, Apple Fok, Yisong Chen, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

PERSONALIZATION OF HYPERLINKED VIDEO IN INTERACTIVE TELEVISION
Benoit Huet, Joakim Jiten, Bernard Merialdo, Institut Eurecom, France

HYPERLINKED VIDEO WITH MOVING OBJECTS IN DIGITAL TELEVISION
Fausto de Carvalho, PT Inovação, S.A, Portugal; Gabriel Fernandez, Ramon Llull University, Spain; Bernard Merialdo, Institut Eurécom, France; Antonio Navarro, Telecommunications Institute, Portugal; Georg Thallinger, Joanneum Research GmbH, Austria

RHYTHMPIX: A MULTIMEDIA COMPOSITION AND ALBUMING SYSTEM FOR CONSUMER IMAGES
Alexander Loui, Bryan Kraus, Eastman Kodak Company, United States of America; Jon Riek, VirtualScopics LLC, United States of America

A CONSTRAINT-BASED APPROACH FOR THE AUTHORING OF MULTI-TOPIC MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, United States of America; Elena Ferrari, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy; Andrea Perego, Diego Santi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 
VIDEO QUALITY ANALYSIS FOR AN AUTOMATED VIDEO CAPTURING AND EDITING SYSTEM FOR CONVERSATION SCENES
Takashi Nishizaki, Ryo Ogata, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan; Yoshinari Kameda, Yuichi Ohta, University of Tsukuba, Japan

DSP IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL IMAGE STABILIZER
Yu-Chun Peng, Meng-Ting Lu, Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

AUDIO-ENHANCED PANORAMIC IMAGE CAPTURING AND RENDERING ON MOBILE DEVICES
Gerald Clemens, Christophe Beaugeant, Siemens AG, COM, Mobile Phones, Germany; Francesc Sanahuja, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Germany

FLAT-REGION DETECTION AND FALSE CONTOUR REMOVAL IN THE DIGITAL TV DISPLAY
Wonseok Ahn, Jae-Seung Kim, Samsung Electronics, Co., LTD., Korea

EYE DETECTION UNDER UNCONSTRAINED BACKGROUND BY THE TERRAIN FEATURE
Jun Wang, Lijun Yin, State University of New York at Binghamton, United States of America

TELLING STORIES WITH MYLIFEBITS
Jim Gemmell, Microsoft Research, United States of America; Aleks Aris, University of Maryland, United States of America; Roger Lueder, Microsoft Research, United States of America

HIDDEN AUXILIARY MEDIA CHANNELS IN AUDIO SIGNALS BY PERCEPTUALLY INSIGNIFICANT COMPONENT REPLACEMENT
Tim Jackson, Francis Li, Keith Yates, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

RESEARCH ON WAVELET DOMAIN FRACTAL CODING IN DIGITAL WATERMARKING
Li Yang, Du Sidan, Nanjing University, China

 


SPECIAL SESSION Sports cntd (Fri, 16:05 – 17:25, Grand Ballroom)

Session Chair: Xinguo Yu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
 
16:05 A PLAYER-POSSESSION ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR BROADCAST SOCCER VIDEO
Xinguo Yu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Tze Sen Hay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Xin Yan, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Engsiong Chng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

16:25 AUTOMATIC MOBILE SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Kongwah WAN, Xin YAN, Changsheng XU, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

16:45 FUSION OF MULTIPLE ASYNCHRONOUS INFORMATION SOURCES FOR EVENT DETECTION IN TEAM SPORTS VIDEO
Huaxin Xu, Tat-Hoe Fong, Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore

17:05 COMBINING CAPTION AND VISUAL FEATURES FOR SEMANTIC EVENT CLASSIFICATION OF BASEBALL VIDEO
Wen-Nung Lie, Sheng-Hsiung Shia, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

 

 

SESSION Multimedia communication & networking (Fri, 16:05 – 17:25, Volmer I + II)

Session Chair: Juan Carlos de Martin, Politechnico di Torino, Italy
 
16:05 PLAYBACK DELAY OPTIMIZATION IN SCALABLE VIDEO STREAMING
Jean-Paul Wagner, Pascal Frossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

16:25 CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZATION FOR WIRELESS VIDEO STREAMING - PERFORMANCE AND COST
Shoaib Khan, TU Muenchen, Germany; Marco Sgroi, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories GmbH, Germany; Eckehard Steinbach, TU Muenchen, Germany; Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories GmbH, Germany

16:45 BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION AND ROBUST VIDEO STREAMING OVER 802.11E WIRELESS LANS
Mehmet Demircin, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America; Peter van Beek, Sharp Laboratories of America, United States of America

17:05 MEDIATED MEETING INTERACTION FOR TELECONFERENCING
Kazumasa Murai, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Japan; Don Kimber, Jon Foote, Qiong Liu, John Doherty, FXPAL, United States of America


SESSION Shape retrieval (Fri, 16:05 – 17:25, Foyer)

Session Chair: Remco Veltkamp, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
 
16:05 SPHERICAL HARMONICS DESCRIPTOR FOR 2D-IMAGE RETRIEVAL
Atul Sajjanhar, Deakin University, Australia; Guojun Lu, Dengsheng Zhang, Monash University, Australia

16:25 HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL BASED WEIGHTED LIKELIHOOD DISCRIMINANT FOR MINIMUM ERROR SHAPE CLASSIFICATION
Ninad Thakoor, Jean Gao, Sungyong Jung, Univeristy of Texas at Arlington, United States of America

16:45 RETRIEVAL OF 3D OBJECTS USING CURVATURE CORRELOGRAMS
Gianni Antini, Stefano Berretti, Alberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala, University of Firenze, Italy

17:05 DESIRE: A COMPOSITE 3D-SHAPE DESCRIPTOR
Dejan Vranic, University of Leipzig, Germany


SESSION Watermarking 2 (Fri, 16:05 – 17:25, Volmer III)

Session Chairs: Jana Dittmann, Otto-von-Guericke Universitat Magdeburg, Germany and Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
 
16:05 PROTOCOLS FOR DATA-HIDING BASED TEXT DOCUMENT SECURITY AND AUTOMATIC PROCESSING
Frédéric Deguillaume, Yuriy Rytsar, Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy, Thierry Pun, CUI - University of Geneva, Switzerland

16:25 CORRELATION-BASED MODEL OF COLOR PICTURE WATERMARKING AGAINST RANDOM GEOMETRIC DISTORTION
Isao Echizen, Yasuhiro Fujii, Takaaki Yamada, Satoru Tezuka, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan; Hiroshi Yoshiura, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

16:45 AN ADAPTIVE SCALABLE WATERMARK SCHEME FOR HIGH-QUALITY AUDIO ARCHIVING AND STREAMING APPLICATIONS
Zhi Li, Qibin Sun, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Yong Lian, National University of Singapore, Singapore

17:05 JOINT IMAGE HALFTONING AND WATERMARKING IN HIGH-RESOLUTION DIGITAL FORM
Chao-Yong Hsu, Chun-Shien Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan