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1999 International Workshop on
Multimedia Signal Processing

September 13 - 15, 1999
Copenhagen, Denmark

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Sunday, September 12, 1999
19:30 Welcome Reception

Monday, September 13, 1999
8:15 Opening Remarks  
8:30-9:30 Invited Speaker Professor Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab.
9:30-9:45 Coffe Break  
9:45-12:00 Lecture 1 Multimedia Communications.
12:00 Lunch  
13:00-14:00 Lecture 2 Joint Audio-Video Processing.
14:00-15:00 Lecture 3 Human-machine Interface and Perception I.
15:00-15:30 Coffe Break  
15.30-17:00 Poster 1 Speech, Audio and Music.
Video and Compressed Domaine Processing.
17:00-18.00 Panel Discussion Human-Machine Interfaces: Bridging Algorithms and Expectations.

Tuesday, September 14, 1999
8:30-9:30 Invited Speaker Professor S.Y. Kung, Princeton University, NJ.
9:30-9:45 Coffe Break  
9:45-11:00 Lecture 4 Human-machine Interface and Perception II.
11:00-12:00 Lecture 5 Scene Analysis and Reconstruction.
12:00 Lunch  
13:00-15:00 Lecture 6 Multimedia Database.
15:00-15:30 Coffe Break  
15.30-17:00 Poster 2 Image/Video Processing, Coding, and Compression.
17:00-18.00 Poster 3 Multimedia Communications.
Multimedia Database.
19:00 Banquet  

Wednesday, September 15, 1999
8:30-9:30 Invited Speaker Dr. Jos Huisken, Philips, Eindhoven.
9:30-9:45 Coffe Break  
9:45-12:00 Lecture 7 Multimedia Systems and Applications I.
12:00 Lunch  
13:00-15:00 Lecture 8 Multimedia Systems and Applications II.
15:00-15:30 Coffe Break  
15.30-17:00 Poster 4 Design/Implementation.
Multimedia Applications.
17:00-18.00 Poster 5 Perceptual Quality, Compression, and Processing.
18:00 Closing Remarks  

> Monday, September 13, 1999
8:15 Opening Remarks
General Co-Chairs:
       Ed Deprettere, Delft University of Technology
       Bastiaan Kleijn, Royal Institute of Technology
Technical Co-Chairs:
       K.J. Ray Liu, University of Maryland
       J.Aa. Sørensen, Tech. Univ. of Denmark

8:30-9:30 Invited Speaker:
Professor Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab
Smart Rooms, Smart Clothes: Personalized Multimodal Interfaces for Everyday Living.
Chair: K.J. Ray Liu, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Maryland.

9:30-9:45 Coffe Break

9:45-12:00 Lecture 1: Multimedia Communications.
Chair: Antonio Ortega, Integrated Media Systems Center, University of Southern California.

  1. An End-to-end Congestion Control Mechanism for Internet Video.
    Young-Gook Kim (1), Yon Jun Chung (2), Jongwon Kim (1), C.-C. Jay Kuo (1)
    (1) Integrated Media Systems Center, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California; (2) Philips Multimedia Center, Palo Alto, CA

  2. The Error Resilient Entropy Code Applied to Zerotree Coded Image Data.
    Steven Whitehouse, Nick Kingsbury
    Signal processing Group, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK

  3. Efficient Multimedia Delivery over Digital Subscriber Line.
    Haitao Zheng, K.J. Ray Liu
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

  4. A Concept for a Mobile Multi-media Communication System.
    Frank Spaan, Inald Lagendijk, Jan Biemond
    Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Information and Communication Theory Group, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  5. Mobile Video Communications in Wireless Environments.
    Jozsef Vass, Shelley Zhuang, Jia Yao, Xinhua Zhuang
    Multimedia Communications and Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Engineering & Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, USA

  6. Agent-based Conferencing Using Mobile IP-telephony.
    Saku Kaukonen, Jaakko Sauvola, Timo Ojala
    MediaTeam, MVMP Group Infotech Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland

  7. Robust Coding of Images using EBCOT and RVLC.
    Te-Chung Yang, Sunil Kumar, Yiliang Bao, C.-C. Jay Kuo
    Integrated Media Systems Center, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

  8. Experiments with Error Correcting RTP Gateways.
    Jason Yao (1) and Jie Song (2)
    (1) Open Network Research, Fujitsu Laboratories of America; (2) Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, USA

  9. Architecture for a Windows NT Wireless LAN Multimedia Terminal.
    Marko Hännikäinen (1), Timo Vanhatupa (1), Jussi Lemiläinen (2), Timo Hämäläinen (1), Jukka Saarinen (1)
    (1) Signal Processing Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology; (2) Nokia Wireless Business Communications, Tampere, Finland

12:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Lecture 2: Joint Audio-Video Processing.
Chair: Tsuhan Chen, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

  1. Baum-Welch HMM Inversion For Reliable Audio-To-Visual Conversion.
    Kyoung Ho Choi, Jenq-Neng Hwang
    Information Processing Lab., Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  2. Audio-visual Speaker Recognition for Video Broadcast News.
    Chalapathy Neti, Andrew Senior
    IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr, Yorktown Heights, NY

  3. Realtime Audio-Visual Decoding on Standard Multimedia Processors.
    Anssi Huttunen, Irek Defee
    Digital Media Institute, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

  4. SMALTO: Advising Interface Designers on the Use of Speech in Multimodal Systems.
    Niels Ole Bernsen, Saturnino Luz
    NIS Laboratory, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

14:00-15:00 Lecture 3: Human-machine Interface and Perception I.
Chair: Ryohei Nakatsu, ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories.

  1. Towards a High Quality Finnish Talking Head.
    Jean-luc Olivès(1), Toomas Altosaar(2), Matti Karjalainen(2), Janne Kulju (1), Sami Lemmetty (2), Mikko Sams (1), Otto Seppälä (1), Kristian Töyrä (2) and Martti Vainio (2)
    (1) Laboratory of Computational Engineering; (2) Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

  2. Subjective Evaluation of Animated Talking Faces.
    Jörn Ostermann (1), David Millen (1), Igor S. Pandzic (2)
    AT&T Labs-Research, Red Bank, USA

  3. Effects of IP Packet Loss and Picture Frame Reduction on MPEG1 Subjective Quality.
    Takanori Hayashi (1), Shin'ichiro Yamasaki (1), Naoto Morita (1), Hitoshi Aida (2), Masato Takeichi (2), Norihisa Doi (3)
    (1) Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan, (2) The University of Tokyo, (3) Keio University, Japan

  4. An Approach Towards Mapping Quality of Perception to Quality of Service in Multimedia Communications.
    G. Ghinea, J.P. Thomas
    Department of Computer Science, University of Reading, UK

15:00-15:30 Coffe Break

15.30-17:00 Poster 1: Speech, Audio and Music (SAM), Video and Compressed Domaine Processing (VCDP).
Chair: Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University.

  1. SAM. Automatic Music Score Recognition/Play System based on Decision Based Neural Network.
    Toyokazu Hori (1), Shinichiro Wada (1), Howzan Tai (2), S.Y.Kung (1)
    (1) Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, NJ; (2) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  2. SAM. Audio Coding Using Steady State Harmonics and Residuals.
    Khaled N. Hamdy, Ahmed H. Tewfik
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA

  3. SAM. Robust Speech Recognition for Mobile Applications.
    Saf Asghar, Lin Cong
    Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, TX, USA

  4. SAM. An Hybrid Audio Coder for very Low Bit Rate with Two-level Psychoacoustic Modeling.
    Laurent V(1), Philippe Guillemain (2), Richard Kronland-Martinet (2), Bruno Torresani (1)
    (1) Laboratoire d'Analyse Topologie et Probabilites, Universite de Provence; (2) Laboratoire de Mecanique et d'Acoustique, CNRS UPR7051, Marseille, France

  5. SAM. Designing a PC-Based Real-Time Speech Communication System.
    Christopher K.C. Yap, Xiao Lin
    Centre for Signal Processing, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  6. SAM. AM-FM Extraction Based on Logarithmic Differential Decomposition.
    Nobutaka Ono, Mototsugu Abe, Shigeru Ando
    Dept. Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  7. SAM. Spatial Filtration of Sound for Multimedia Systems.
    B. Kostek (1), A. Czycewski (1,2), J. Lasecki (1)
    (1) Technical Univ. of Gdansk, Sound Eng. Dept.; (2) Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing Warsaw, Polen

  8. SAM. Pitch Independent Prototyping of Musical Sounds.
    Kristoffer Jensen
    Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  9. VCDP. Fast Image/video Retrieval on Compressed Image and Video Databases.
    Hong Heather Yu
    Panasonic Information and Networking Technology Lab, Princeton, NJ, USA

  10. VCDP. Audio Scene Change Detection and Scene Analysis in the MPEG Compressed Domain.
    Sarat K. Venugopal (1), K.R. Ramakrishnan (1), S.H. Srinivasan (2), N. Balakrishanan (1)
    (1) Dept. EE, Indian Institute of Science; (2) Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Bangalore, India

  11. VCDP. Preprocessing Tool for Compressed Video Editing.
    Gozde Bozdagi, Taha Sencar
    Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey

  12. VCDP. A Probability Based Model for Subjective Quality Evaluation of MPEG-2 Coded Sequences.
    M. Caramma, R. Lancini, M. Marconi
    CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

  13. SAM. Echo and Noise Reduction Methods for Multimedia Communication Systems.
    A. Czyzewski, R. Krolikowski, S. Zielinski, B. Kostek
    Sound Engineering Department of the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland

17:00-18.00 Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. Richard V. Cox, AT&T Labs Research, NJ
Theme: Human-Machine Interfaces: Bridging Algorithms and Expectations.
Panelists:
> Tuesday, September 14, 1999
8:30-9:30 Invited Speaker:
Professor S.Y. Kung, Princeton University, NJ
State of the Art of Application and Technology of Multimedia Signal Processing.
Chair: Bastiaan Kleijn, Royal Institute of Technology.

9:30-9:45 Coffe Break

9:45-11:00 Lecture 4: Human-machine Interface and Perception II.
Chair: Matti Karjalainen, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Helsinki University of Technology.

  1. Emotion Recognition and Its Application to Computer Agents with Spontaneous Interaction Capabilities.
    Ryohei Nakatsu, Joy Nicholson, Naoko Tosa
    ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan

  2. Rhythm and Periodicity Detection in Polyphonic Music.
    Masoud Alghoniemy, Ahmed H. Tewfik
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

  3. Multi-Source Face Tracking with Audio and Visual Data.
    Ce Wang, Michael S. Brandstein
    Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA

  4. Analysis and Reproduction of Facial Expressions for Communicating Clones.
    Stephane Valente, Jean-Luc Dugelay
    Institut Eurecom, Dpt of Multimedia Communications, Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France

  5. Lip Signatures for Automatic Person Recognition.
    J.S.D. Mason, J. Brand, R. Auckenthaler; F. Deravi; C. Chibelushi,
    Dept. of Elect. Engin.; Elect. Engin. Lab.; School of Computing, University of Wales Swansea; University of Kent; Staffordshire University, UK

11:00-12:00 Lecture 5: Scene Analysis and Reconstruction.
Chair: Russ Mersereau, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.

  1. Neural Network Based Scene Change Detection for Video Classification.
    R.K. Mallikarjuna Rao (1), S.H. Srinivasan (2), K.R. Ramakrishnan (1), N. Balakrishanan (1)
    (1) Multimedia Systems Lab, Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute Of Science; (2) Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Bangalore, India.

  2. MPEG Encoding Algorithm with Scene Adaptive Dynamic GOP Structure.
    Akio Yoneyama, Yasuyuki Nakajima, Hiromasa Yanagihara, Masaru Sugano
    Internet Applications Laboratory, KDD R&D Laboratories Inc., Saitama, Japan

  3. Scene Content Classification from MPEG Coded Bit Streams.
    Ali M. Dawood, Mohammed Ghanbari
    Essex University, ESE Department, Colchester, UK

  4. Sudden Scene Change Detection in MPEG-2 Video Seqences.
    W.A.C. Fernando, C.N. Canagarajah, D.R. Bull
    Image Communications Group, Centre for Communications Research, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

12:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00 Lecture 6: Multimedia Database.
Chair: Jean-Luc Dugelay, Institut Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France.

  1. Content-Based Image Retrieval of Coat of Arms.
    Christian Breiteneder (1), Horst Eidenberger (2)
    (1) Institute for Applied Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Vienna, (2) Ministry of Science and Transport, Austrian Libraries Network, Vienna, Austria

  2. Perceived Visual Motion Descriptors from MPEG-2 for Content-Based HDTV Annotation and Retrieval.
    Chitra Dorai (1), Vikrant Kobla (2)
    (1) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York; (2) Center for Automation Research, University Of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

  3. Detection of Slow-motion Replay Sequences for Identifying Sports Videos.
    Vikrant Kobla, Daniel DeMenthon, David Doermann
    Laboratory for Language and Media Processing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

  4. A Novel Indexing Approach for Multimedia Image Database.
    Mathieu Vissac (1), Jean-Luc Dugelay (1), Kenneth Rose (2)
    (1) Dept. of Multimedia Communication, Institut Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France; (2) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

  5. A Stochastic Framework for Optimal Key Frame Extraction from MPEG Video Databases.
    Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Anastasios D. Doulamis, Yannis Avrithis, Stefanos D. Kollias
    National Technical University of Athens, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Greece

  6. Bidirectional Motion Tracking for Video Indexing.
    How-Lung Eng, Kai-Kuang Ma
    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  7. Integration of Multimodal Features for Video Classification based on HMM.
    Jincheng Huang (1), Zhu Liu (1), Yao Wang (1), Yu Chen (2), Edward K. Wong (2)
    (1) Dept. of EE; (2) Dept. of CIS; Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, USA

  8. VTonDemand: A Framework for Indexing, Searching and On-Demand Playback of RTP-Based Multimedia Conferences.
    Baldine Paul, Dave Gibbon, Glenn Cash, M. Reha Civanlar
    AT&T Labs-Research, Red Bank, NJ, USA.

15:00-15:30 Coffe Break

15.30-17:00 Poster 2: Image/Video Processing, Coding, and Compression.
Chair: Jörn Ostermann, AT&T Labs-Research

  1. Automatic Video Object Segmentation Via Voronoi Ordering and Surface Optimization.
    I-Jong Lin, S.Y. Kung
    Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, NJ

  2. Context Based Optimal Shape Coding.
    Gerry Melnikov (1) Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (1) Guido M. Schuster (2)
    (1) ECE Department, Northwestern University, Evaston,; (2) Advanced Technologies Research Center, 3Com, IL, USA

  3. Blocking Effect Removal Using Robust Statistics And Line Process.
    S. Yang, Y.H. Hu, D. Tull
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

  4. Adaptive Lifting Coding Scheme for Video Scene Changes.
    Wade Trappe, Haitao Zheng, K.J.R. Liu
    Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

  5. An Optimized Multiscanning Approach for Still Image Compression.
    David Akopian (1), Mika Helsingius (2), Jaakko Astola (2)
    (1) Nokia Moble Phones; (2) Signal Processing Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland.

  6. Implementation-driven Selection of Wavelet Filters for Still Image Compression based on Bitrange Expansion.
    Bart Masschelein, Bart Vanhoof, Lode Nachtergaele, Jan Bormans, Ivo Bolsens
    IMEC/DESICS, Leuven, Belgium

  7. Pattern Colour Separable Image Coding for Content based Indexing.
    Guoping Qiu
    School of Computing & Maths, University of Derby, United Kingdom

  8. An Accurate Region Based Object Tracking for Video Sequences.
    Dongxiang Xu (1), Jenq-Neng Hwang (1), Jun Yu (2)
    (1) Information Processing Lab, Dept. of Electrical Engineering; (2) Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, USA

  9. Moment Based Normalization of Color Images.
    Reiner Lenz (1), Linh Viet Tran (1), Peter Meer (2)
    (1) ITN, Campus Norrkoping, Linkoping University, Norrkoping, Sweden, (2) Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA

  10. Wavelet-Based Embedded Memory Reduction for MPEG-2 Decoder.
    Chen-Wei Jeff Shih (1), Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (1), Nam Ling (2)
    (1) Electrical Engineering Department, (2) Computer Engineering Department, Santa Clara University, USA

  11. Image Compression Using Optimal Variable Block Truncation Coding.
    Long-Wen Chang, Ching-Yang Wang
    (1) Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University; Telecommunication Laboratories, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan

  12. A Novel Scheme for Progressive Polygon Approximation of Shape Contours.
    Prabhudev I. Hosur, Kai-Kuang Ma
    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  13. Automatic Caption Generation for Video Data.
    Katsuyuki Watanabe, Masahide Sugiyama
    Graduate School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Aizu, Japan

  14. Visual Quality Assessment Using a Contrast Gain Control Model.
    Stefan Winkler
    Signal Processing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

  15. A Fractals-inspired Approach to Data Embedding in Digital Images for Authentication Services.
    Jean-Luc Dugelay, C. Rey, S. Roche
    Institute Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France

17:00-18:00 Poster 3: Multimedia Communications (MC), Multimedia Database (MD).
Chair: Nick Kingsbury, Signal Processing Lab., Engineering Department, Cambridge University.

  1. MC. Erasure Recovery in Predictive Coding Environments Using Multiple Description Coding.
    Raghavendra Singh, Antonio Ortega
    Integrated Media Systems Center, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  2. MC. Rate Control of A Region-based H.263 Video Codec under Time-varying Channels.
    Hwangjun Song, C.-C. Jay Kuo
    Integrated Media Systems Center, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  3. MC. Noise-robust Recursive Motion Estimation for H.263-based Videoconferencing Systems.
    Stefano Olivieri (1), Gerard de Haan (2), Luigi Albani (1)
    (1) Philips Research Laboratories, Monza, Italy; (2) Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  4. MC. Modeling VBR Video Traffic by Markov-Modulated Self-Similar Processes.
    Hai Liu, Nirwan Ansari, Yun Q. Shi
    NJ Center for Wireless Telecommunications, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

  5. MC. An Analysis of Multi-Player Network Games Traffic.
    Ricky A. Bangun, E. Dutkiewicz, G.J. Anido
    Telecommunications and Information Technology Research Institute (TITR), University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW Australia

  6. MD. Progressive Browsing of 3D Models.
    Bengliang Koh, Tsuhan Chen
    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

  7. MD. The THISL System for Indexing and Retrieval Broadcast News.
    Steve Renals (1), Dave Abberley (1), David Kirby (2), Tony Robinson (3)
    (1) Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield; (2) BBC Research & Development; (3) SoftSound, UK

  8. MD. Generic Metadata Browsing System For Multimedia Documents Retrieval.
    Julián Cabrera, José M. Martínez, Jesús Bescós, José M. Menéndez, and Guillermo Cisneros
    Grupo de Tratamiento de Imagenes, Dept. of Signals, Systems, and Radio Communications, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  9. MD. Efficient Use of Content-based Retrieval in Quick Browsing: A Realization.
    George Votsis, Yiannis Xirouhakis, Kostas Karpouzis, Stefanos Kollias
    Computer Science Devision, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

  10. MD. Video Abstraction of Video.
    Jeho Nam, Ahmed H. Tewfik
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA

  11. MD. A Pyramidal Graph Representation for Efficient Image Content Description.
    Anastasios D. Doulamis, Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Stefanos D. Kollias
    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

19:00 Banquet
> Wednesday, September 15, 1999
8:30-9:30 Invited Speaker:
Dr. Jos Huisken, Philips, Eindhoven
Components for Hand-Held Multimedia Devices.
Chair: Ed Deprettere, Delft University of Technology.

9:30-9:45 Coffe Break

9:45-12:00 Lecture 7: Multimedia Systems and Applications I.
Chair: Jose Moura, ECE Department, Carnegie Mellon University.

  1. Internet Distance Learning: The Problems, the Pitfalls, and the Future.
    Monson H. Hayes (1), Michele L. Jamrizik (2)
    (1) School of Elect. & Comp. Engin., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA; (2) School of Elect. & Comp. Engin., Georgia Tech Lorraine, Metz, France

  2. Development of an Avatar Language Chatting System and Its Communication Experiment Using a Japanese Communications Satellite.
    Y. Aoki (1), S. Tanahashi (1), J. Li (1), A. Hashimoto (1), N. Sugio (1), R. Mitsuhashi (2), T. Hatsuda (2)
    (1) Division of Information Media Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan; (2) Hokkaido Institute of Technology, Japan

  3. Content Model for Mobile Adaptation of Multimedia Information.
    Maija Metso, Antti Koivisto, Jaakko Sauvola
    MediaTeam, MVMP group, Infotech Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland

  4. Fast 3D Modeling from Video.
    Pedro M.Q. Aguiar (1), Jose M.F. Moura (2)
    Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, IST, Lisboa, Portugal; Electrical and Computer Eng. Dep., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  5. Implementation of a Virtual Chat Room for Multimedia Communications.
    Yao-Jen Chang, Yun-Chin Li, Yung-Chang Chen
    Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  6. A Multi-Feature Description Scheme for Image and Video Database Retrieval.
    Jens-Rainer Ohm, F. Bunjamin, W. Liebsch, B. Makai, K. Müller, A. Smolic, D. Zier
    Heinrich Hertz Institute for Communications Technology, Image Processing Department, Berlin, Germany

  7. An Interactive Virtual Classroom - Multimedia Distance Learning System
    Sachin G. Deshpande, Jenq-Neng Hwang
    Information Processing Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

  8. WebMessenger: A New Framework to Produce Multimedia Content by Combining Synthesized Speech and Moving Pictures in the WWW Environment.
    Masanobu Abe, Hideyuki Mizuno, Tsubasa Shinozaki
    NTT Cyber Space Labs, Knanagawa, Japan

  9. Region of Interest coding in JPEG2000 for Interactive Client/server Applications.
    Diego Santa Cruz (1), Mathias Larsson (2), Joel Askelof (2), Touradj Ebrahimi (1), Charilaos Christopoulos (2)
    (1) Signal Processing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland; (2) Compression Lab, TX/ETX/PN/XML Ericsson Telecom AB, Stockholm, Sweden

12:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00 Lecture 8: Multimedia Systems and Applications II.
Chair: Monson Hayes, School of Electrical and Computer Eng. Georgia Institute of Technology.

  1. Generation of Emotion Spaces Based on the Synesthesia Phenomenon.
    Tsutomu Miyasato
    ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Labs., Kyoto, Japan

  2. Visual Interactive Environment for Image Retrieval by Subjective Parameters.
    Nadia Bianchi Berthouze (1), Luc Berthouze (1), Toshikazu Kato (1,2)
    (1) Intelligent Systems Division, Electrotechnical Laboratories, Tsukuba; (2) Dept. Indus. and Syst. Engin., Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

  3. Head Related Transfer Function Representation of Directional Sound for Spatial Acoustic Events Modeling.
    Mikio Toyama (1), Michiki Uchiyama (1), Hiroaki Nomura (2)
    (1) Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan; (2) East-Asia University, Yamaguchi, Japan

  4. Human Visual System Based VOP Extraction.
    R.J. Fergusson, M. Currie, J.J. Soraghan
    Signal Processing Division, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

  5. Meeting Browser: A System for Visualising and Accessing Audio in Multicast Meetings.
    Saturnio Luz, David M. Roy
    Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Odense University, Odense, Denmark

  6. Audio-Visual large Vocabulary Continuous Speech recognition in the Broadcast Domaine.
    S. Basu (1), C. Neti (1), N. Rajput (2), A. Senior (2), L.V. Subramaniam (2), A. Verma (2)
    (1) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA; (2) IBM Solutions Research Center, New Delhi, India

  7. Recognition of Emotional State from Spoken Sentences.
    Xiao Lin (1), Yanqiu Chen (2), Soonleng Lim (2), Choonban Lim (2)
    (1) Centre for Signal Processing, School of EEE; (2) School of EEE; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

15:00-15:30 Coffe Break

15:30-17:00 Poster 4: Design/Implementation (DI), Multimedia Applications (MA).
Chair: Søren Forchhammer, Department of Telecommunications, Tech. Univ. of Denmark.

  1. DI. Hardware Implementation of Four-Step Genetic Search Algorithm.
    Man F. So, Angus Wu
    Electronic Design Automation Center, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

  2. DI. Software MPEG-2 Video Decoder on a DSP Enhanced Memory Module.
    Ngai-Man Cheung, Tsugio Kawashima, Yoshihide Iwata, Steven Trautmann, Jeff Tsay, B.I. Pawate
    Texas Instruments Tsukuba R&D Center, Ibaraki, Japan

  3. DI. A Low Memory Video Compression Algorithm for Hardware Implementation.
    Wen-Kuo Lin, Neil Burgess
    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Australia

  4. DI. Software Support for Low Latency Communication in Scalable Multimedia DSP System.
    Pasi Kolinummi, Pasi Pulkkinen, Timo Hämäläinen, Jukka Saarinen
    Signal Processing Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

  5. DI. Fast 2D-DCT Implementations for VLIW Processors.
    Oliver Sohm, David Bull, Nishan Canagarajah
    Center for Communications Research, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

  6. DI. Low-Power Array Architectures for Motion Estimation.
    Leonel Sousa, Nuno Roma
    Dept. of Electrical Engin., Instituto Superior Tecnico/INST, Lisboa-Portugal

  7. DI. A Low Power Data-Adaptive Motion Estimation Algorithm.
    Jayanto Minocha (1), Naresh R. Shanbhag (2)
    Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL, USA

  8. DI. Sophisticated Speech Processing Middleware on Microprocessors.
    N. Hataoka, H. Kokubo, N. Nukaga, Y. Obuchi, A. Amano, Y. Kitahara
    Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

  9. DI. A Java-Based System for Remote Correction of CRT Color Distortion.
    A. Abrardo (1), M. Barni (1), L. Fabiani (2), V. Cappellini (2), M. Zappalorti (2)
    (1) Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Italy; (2) Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Florence, Italy

  10. MA. Design and Implementation of IMAT (Internet Multimedia Authoring Tool) Using a Unified Spatio-temporal Relationship Model.
    June Kim (1), Sun Shin An (2)
    (1) Dept. Information and Communications, Seokyeong University, (2) Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Korea University; Seoul, Korea.

  11. MA. Distributed Processing of Multimedia Extended Documents.
    Jaakko Sauvola (1), Omid Kia (2)
    (1) MediaTeam, MVMP Unit, Infotech Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; (2) Information Technology Laboratory, NIST, Maryland, USA

  12. MA. A Post-Processing Algorithm for Performance Enhancement of Remote Video-Based Monitoring Systems.
    Claudio Sacchi, Fabrizio Granelli, Carlo S. Regazzoni
    Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy

  13. MA. Virtual Seminar Room - Modelling and Experimentation in Horizontal and Vertical Integration.
    S. Forchhammer (4), A. Fosgerau (1), P.S.K. Hansen (3), S.D. Hansen (3), O.R. Jensen (4), R. Sharp (2), J.Aa. Sørensen (3)
    (1) Research Center COM; (2) Department of Information Technology; (3) Department of Mathematical Modelling; (4) Department of Telecommunication, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

17.00-18:00 Poster 5: Perceptual Quality, Compression, and Processing.
Chair: Yu-Hen Hu, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  1. Multimodal Quality Perception: The Effects of Attending to Content on Quality Perception.
    David Hands
    BT Laboratories, Ipswich, UK

  2. The significance of cross-modal interaction in audio-visual quality perception.
    Dr Andrew Rimell, Dr Mike Hollier
    Advanced Communications Research, BT Laboratories, Ipswich, UK

  3. Low Complexity Binary Description Wavelet Codec.
    Yiliang Bao, C.-C. Jay Kuo
    Integrated Media Systems Center, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

  4. Embedded Lossless Wavelet-Based Image Coding Algorithm With Successive Partitioning And Hybrid Bit Scanning.
    Sheung-Yeung Wang, Chun-Ho Cheung, Kwok-Wai Cheung, Lai-Man Po
    Dept. of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong

  5. An Adaptive Model Generation Technique for Model-based Video Coding.
    Manson Siu, Yuk-Hee Chan
    Center of Multimedia Signal Processing, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

  6. Content Progressive Coding of Limited Bits/Pixel Images.
    Ole Riis Jensen, Søren Forchhammer
    Department of Telecommunication, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

  7. Modeling and Adaptive Prediction of VBR MPEG Video Sources.
    Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Anastasios D. Doulamis, Stefanos D. Kollias
    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

18:00 Closing Remarks.
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