IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society,
and The
Signal & Multimedia Processing Lab. - University of Sydney
The First IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia
(2000 International Symposium on Multimedia Information Processing)
December
13-15, 2000,
University of Sydney, Australia
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Tuesday (12/12/2000):
09:00 - 12:30 Tutorial: From Speech reading to Building Virtual
Collaborative Environments
(Carslaw Theatre 173)
13:30 - 17:00 Tutorial: Streaming Video Profile in MPEG-4 (Carslaw
Theatre 173)
Wednesday (13/12/2000):
08.00 - 08.10 Opening Address (Dr. Ling Guan, Wallace Theatre)
08.10 - 09.10 Keynote Speaker
(Wallace Theatre). S. Y.
Kung – Adaptive Techniques for Intelligent
Internet Multimedia Communication. Session
Chair: Ling Guan
09.10 - 10.30 CONV (special
session) & MCC.
| Time | CONV
(Carslaw Theatre 173) Session Chair: Tsuhan Chen |
MCC
(Carslaw Theatre 175) Session Chair: Longwen Chang |
| 09:10 ~ 09:30 | S191 Extraction of Object Features in Compressed Domain Video T.-S. Chua |
P6 A new fast search block-matching motion estimation algorithm for video compression on custom computer Y.-Y. Chung, M. T. Wong, N. Bergmann |
| 09:30 ~ 09:50 | S192 3D Facial Model Estimation from Single Front-View Image Chung J. Kuo |
P18 A Perceptual Wavelet Scheme for Image Compression S.-Y. Zhu, K. N. Plataniotis, and A. Venetsanopoulos |
| 09:50 ~ 10:10 | S195 IBR by Differently Focused Images K. Aizawa |
P22 Image classification and indexing by EM based Multiple-Instance Learning Y.Y. Xu, H.C. Fu |
| 10:10 ~ 10:30 | S198 Transmission of Images Using OFDM and Smart Antenna R. Liu |
P29 Compression of Concentric Mosaic with Rebinning of Slits (ROSS) Y. Wu, J. Li |
10.30 - 10.50 Coffee break.
10.50 - 12.50 Applications &
Database.
| Time | Applications
(Carslaw Theatre 173) Session Chair: Tat-Seng Chua |
Database
(Carslaw Theatre 175) Session Chair: Suhuai Luo |
| 10:50 ~ 11:10 | P25 DINA - System Architecture for a Large-scale Fully Interactive VOD System on Hybrid ... C.-H. Ng, K.-C. Chan, K.-W. Chan, C.-H. Chan, C.-Y. Tam, K.-W. Cheung |
P5 A Cross-Media, Multiresolution Search Algorithm for Content-Based Video Retrieval Punpiti Piamsa-nga |
| 11:10 ~ 11:30 | P34 Extraction of Musical Performance Parameters from Audio Data Simon Dixon |
P11 A Continuous Media File System for a CM Read-Write Server Y.M. Liow, Tony K.Y. Chan, F.B.S. Lee |
| 11:30 ~ 11:50 | P38 An artificial life music auto-making system using GA X.-P. Ling, J.-B. Huang, K. Ishizaka |
P30 Rotation- and Scale-Invariant Content-based Retrieval of Trademarks J.-G. Park, S.-H. Cho, H.-M. Choi |
| 11:50 ~ 12:10 | P67 Development of a Multi-user Virtual Conference System Using a Layered Audio-Visual Integration Y.-J. Chang, C.-C. Chen, J.-C. Chou, Y.-C. Chen |
P45 CHILMA - An Efficient High Dimensional Indexing Structure for Image Databases S. Sumanasekara, M.V. Ramakrishna |
| 12.10 ~ 12.30 | P21 Role of Shot Length in Characterizing Tempo and Dramatic Story Sections in Motion Pictures B. Adams, C. Dorai, S. Venkatesh |
P2 Textual information extraction and its application in digital library Suhuai Luo |
| 12.30 ~ 12.50 | P9 Networked Theater K. Takahashi, J. Kurumisawa, T. Yotsukura |
12.50 - 14.10 Lunch.
14.10 - 16.10 MVS (special
session) & MC.
| Time | MVS
(Carslaw Theatre 173) Session Chair: K. Aizawa |
MC
(Carslaw Theatre 175) Session Chair: Svetha Venkatesh |
| 14:10 ~ 14:30 | S144 Modeling Cultural Heritage through Observation K. Ikeuchi |
P13 Supervised Gaussian Mixture Models For Text-independent Speaker Verification J.-Y. Ma, W. Gao |
| 14:30 ~ 14:50 | S145 Video Avatar Communication for Multimedia Virtual Laboratory T. Ogi, T.Yamada, M. Kano, M.Hirose |
P15 On the recognition of American Football formations from images M. L. Mugurel, S. Venkatesh |
| 14:50 ~ 15:10 | S146 NetICE: A Shared Virtual Space Tsuhan Chen |
P41 OFDM with Reduced Peak-to-Average Power Ratio by Interleaving A.D.S. Jayalath, K. Sathanandan, C. Tellambura |
| 15:10 ~ 15:30 | S147 Modeling and Representaion of Large-scale 3D Image Space for Multimedia Ambiance Communication T. Ichikawa, K. Yamada, K. Aizawa , T. Saito |
P44 Formal Specification of Multimedia Synchronization Protocols in Duration Calculus H.-D. Ma, Q.-W. Xu and J.-F. He |
| 15:30 ~ 15:50 | S148 Immersion-type Shared Communication Environment T. Kouno, S. Honda, Y. Suzuki, S. Ishibashi |
P152 The Impact of Relationship Between MDCT and DFT Audio Compression: A Step Towards Solving the Mismatch Ye Wang. |
| 15:50 ~ 16:10 | S149 Development of Image-Based Virtual Studio System (Experimental Evaluation of Image based VS System Y.Yamanouchi, H.Mitsumine, S.Inoue |
P87 (Invited
Paper) Video summarization by efficient clustering of compressed chromaticity signatures Mark Drew |
7.00 - 11.00 Harbour Cruise.
Thursday (14/12/2000):
08.00 - 09.10 Keynote Speaker: C. H. Lee –
Voice User Interface to Multimedia Services over
Converging Networks. (Carslaw Theatre), Session Chair:
Peter Beadle.
09.10 - 10.30 SV (Special
Session) & MCC II.
| Time | SV
(Carslaw Theatre 173) Session Chair: Weiping Li |
MCC
II (Carslaw Theatre 175) Session Chair: Shipeng Li |
| 09:10 ~ 09:30 | S172 A video rate-buffer management scheme for MPEG transcoder Xuemin Chen |
P31 Image coding using Variable block sized discrete cosine transform C.-Y. Wang, S.-M. Lee and L.-W. Chang |
| 09:30 ~ 09:50 | S173 Error Resilience Methods for FGS Video Enhancement Bitstream R. Yan, F. Wu, S.-P. Li and R. Tao |
P39 Removal of blocking artifacts in smooth areas of low bit rate decompressed images T. Kieu and T. Nguyen |
| 09:50 ~ 10:10 | S174 Carriage of MPEG-4 Contents on IP Networks Young-Kwon Lim |
P48 A Wavelet Video Coder Using 3-D Embedded Subband Coding with Optimized Truncation J.-Z. Xu, S.-P. Li, Y.-Q. Zhang, Z.-X. Xiong |
| 10:10 ~ 10:30 | S175 QoS-Adaptive Proxy Caching for Multimedia Streaming Over the Internet F. Yu, Q. Zhang, W.-W. Zhu, Y.-Q. Zhang |
P49 Lossy Lempel-Ziv Compression for Speech Coding C.-H. Cheung, S.-W. Chiang, L.-M. Po |
10.30 - 10.50 Coffee.
10.50 - 12.10 Database II &
HCI.
| Time | Database
II (Carslaw Theatre 173) Session Chair: Philip K. C. Tse |
HCI
(Carslaw Theatre 175) Session Chair: Wen Gao |
| 10:50 ~ 11:10 | P64 Database Architecture to Support VRML Streaming in Geographic Information System Ping'an Cao; K.-Y. Chan, E. C. Prakach |
P12 A Fast Search Technique for Large Vocabulary Sign Language Recognition J.-Y. Ma, W. Gao, Y.-Q. Chen |
| 11:10 ~ 11:30 | P69 Performance of Large Multimedia Databases on Hierarchical Storage Systems Philip K. C. Tse, Clement H.C. Leung |
P16 Rigid Hand Motion Tracking Based on a Generic Model for Manipulating 3-D Models of Objects K. Sugimoto, F. Tomita |
| 11:30 ~ 11:50 | P80 A Non-Linear RBF Model For Adaptive Content-Based Image Retrieval P. Muneesawang, L. Guan |
P19 Relevance Feedback of Video Retrieval Y. Wu, Y.-T. Zhuang, Y.-H. Pan |
| 11:50 ~ 12:10 | P85 An Array Based Speech Detector J.-F.Chen, Wee Ser |
P20 Adaptive Multi-Modal Person Verification System C. Sanderson, K. K. Paliwal |
12.10 - 13.40 Lunch.
13.40 - 15.40 VAS (special session)
& MCC III.
| Time | VAS
(Carslaw Theatre 173) Session Chairs: Andre von Schaik |
MCC
III (Carslaw Theatre 175) Session Chairs: Amar Mukherjee |
| 13:40 ~ 14:00 | S122 An efficient method for the rendering of high fidelity Virtual Auditory Space J. Leung, C. Jin, S. Carlile |
P52 Multi-Colored Snakes in the RGB Color Space A. Dumitras, A. Venetsanopoulos |
| 14:00 ~ 14:20 | S123 Continuous Virtual Auditory Space Using Hrtf Interpolation: Acoustic & Psychophysical Errors S. Carlile, C. Jin and V. van Raad |
P66 Secure Compression using Adaptive Huffman Coding C.Kailasanathan, R.S. Naini, P.Ogunbona |
| 14:20 ~ 14:40 | S124 The spatial fidelity of virtual audio K. McAnally, R. Martin,and M. Senova |
P71 Block-artifact reduction in fractal image compression by collage error weighting M. Breazu, G. Toderean, D. Volovici |
| 14:40 ~ 15:00 | S125 Distance Cues for Virtual Auditory Space B. G. Shinn-Cunningham |
P81 RMF Based Adaptive Block-wise Image Compression T. Tao and A. Mukherjee |
| 15:00 ~ 15:20 | S126 The Generation Of Motion In Virtual Auditory Space And The Sensitivity of Human Listener to Velocity V. Best and S. Carlile |
P83 Road Traffic Monitoring System using Content-based Scalable H.263 Video Coding Scheme Wallace K.-H. Ho and Daniel P.-K. Lun |
| 15:20 ~ 15:40 | S127 Enabling Individualized Virtual Auditory Space using Morphological Measurements C. Jin, P. Leong, J. Leung, A. Corderoy and S. Carlile |
|
15.40 - 16.00 Coffee.
16.00 - 18.00 MAR & HCI II.
| Time | MAR
(Carslaw Theatre 173) Session Chair: Hongjiang Zhang |
HCI
II (Carslaw Theatre 175) Session Chair: Opas Chutatape |
| 16:00 ~ 16:20 | P27 An Adaptive Refining Approach for Content-Based Image Retrieval L.-J. Duan, W. Gao, J.-Y. Ma |
P35 Constructing xDSL Systems for Design Collaboration Based on Video User-Scenario K. Yamazaki, K. Hirano |
| 16:20 ~ 16:40 | P33 Motion Capture Using Color-Block Tracking And Skeleton Restruction Q. Zhu,Y.-T. Zhuang,Y.-H. Pan |
P40 Techniques for Combining Emotions, Visual Speech and Gestures of Multimedia Talking Faces S. Karunaratne and H. Yan |
| 16:40 ~ 17:00 | P50 On the color image segmentation problem N.Ikonomakis, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos |
P51 Determination of Fundamental Matrix by Levenberg-Marquardt Method O. Chutatape, Liu Yang |
| 17:00 ~ 17:20 | P57 Content-Based Classification of Audio Signals Using Source and Structure Modeling M. Abe, J. Matsumoto, M. Nishiguchi |
P56 Recognizing Human Emotion in Speech M. W. Bhatti, J. Montague, L. Guan |
| 17:20 ~ 17:40 | P60 Entropy-based Image Segmentation by Boundary Detection C.F. Sin, C.K. Leung |
P59 Histogram Based Temporal Object Segmentation for VOP Extraction in MPEG-4 N. Habili, A. Moini, N. Burgess |
| 17:40 ~ 18:00 | P61 A Hierarchical MRF Model with An Accelerated Annealing Scheme for Texture Segmentation Huawu Deng and Jun Liu |
P86 A neural network approach for predicting network resource requirement in video transmission systems H.-S. Wong, M. Wu, R. A. Joyce, L. Guan, S.-Y Kung |
Friday (15/12/2000):
08.00 - 09.10 Keynote Speaker:
X. Zhang – Multimedia Services based on MPEG-4 over Mobile
Networks (Carslaw Theatre) Session Chair: Ray
Liu
09.10 - 11.10 MSec (Special
session)
& MIR (Special session).
| Time | Msec
(Carslaw Theatre 173) Session Chair: Reihaneh Safavi-Naini |
MIR
(Carslaw Theatre 175) Session Chair: Guojun Lu |
| 09:10 ~ 09:30 | S109 Chosen DCT Coefficients Attack on MPEG Encryption Scheme T. Uehara, R. Safavi-Naini |
S90 Current Status and Open Issues of Content-Based Image Retrieval Guojun Lu |
| 09:30 ~ 09:50 | S202 Capacity of Text Marking Channel S. H. Low and N. F. Maxemchuk |
S91 An interactive approach using non-linear RBF for content-based image retrieval of JPEG database P. Muneesawang, J. A. Lay and L. Guan |
| 9:50 ~ 10:10 | S207 Pseudonoise Patterns for Watermarking A.Z. Tirkel and T.E. Hall |
S92 A survey on fuzzy rule based image segmentation techniques G. Karmakar, L. Dooley and S. Rahman |
| 10:10 ~ 10:30 | S221 Standard MIDI Files Steganography Tsumotomu Matsumoto |
S93 Image Compression, Indexing and Retrieval Based on Vector Quantization Are Promising Shyhwei Teng and Guojun Lu |
| 10:30 ~ 10:50 | P28 Securing Wavelet Compression with Random Permutations T. Uehara and R. Safavi-Naini |
S94 Content-based audio classification and retrieval using SVM learning Stan Li and Guodong Guo |
| 10:50 ~ 11:10 | P1 High Performance Image Authentication Using Signature Analysis. A. Dumitras and F. Kossentini |
S95 Speechbot: A content-based search index for multimedia on the web Petro Moreno et al |
11.10 - 11.30 Coffee.
11.30 - 12.30 MAR II & Face
Recognition.
| Time | MAR
II (Carslaw 173) Session Chair: Zheru Chi |
Face
Recognition (Carslaw 175) Session Chair: Kenneth K.-M. Lam |
| 11:30 ~ 11:50 | P62 Unsupervised Segmentation of Textured Images Using Anisotropic Diffusion with Annealing Function Huawu Deng and Jun Liu |
P7 A Face Recognition Aproach Using Wavelet-Based Edge Detection and Hausdroff Distance Comparing B.-F. Guo, K-M. Lam, S.-Y. Yang |
| 11:50 ~ 12:10 | P68 Image segmentation based on (U,V,W) coordinate Chung J. Kuo and Ming C. Kan |
P76 A Reliable Approach for Detecting Human Face Under Different Conditions K.-W. Wong, K.-M. Lam, W.-C. Siu |
| 12:10 ~ 12:30 | P70 Document Structure Analysis using Back-Propagation Network Henry K.-C. Chang, Y.-K. Wang, S.-J. Horng |
P77 A Reliable Method for Extracting the Chin Contour K.-H. Lin, K.-M. Lam, W.-C. Siu |
12.30 ~ 13.50 Lunch
13.50 ~ 15.30 MAR II (cont’d)
& Standards.
| Time | MAR
II (Carslaw Theatre 173) Session Chair: Zheru Chi |
Standards
(Carslaw Theatre 175) Session Chair: Anthony Vetro |
| 13.50 ~ 14.10 | P73 Leaf Image Retrieval with Centroid-contour Distance Curve Z.-Y. Wang, Z.-R.Chi and D.-G. Feng |
P3 The Integer Discrete W Transform Y.-H. Zeng and Guoan Bi |
| 14.10 ~ 14.30 | P78 A New Active Contour Model For Highly Irregular Boundaries W.-P. Choi, K.-M. Lam, W.-C. Siu |
P58 Adaptive Transcoding System Based on MPEG-7 Meta-data A. Vetro, T. Poon, A. Divakaran, H.-F. Sun |
| 14.30 ~ 14.50 | P84 New Two-phase Approach for Dominant Point Detection C.-P. Chau and W.-C. Siu |
P79 A Pre-processing Technique for Improving MPEG-4 Coding Performance W.-F. Cheung, Y.-H. Chan |
| 14.50 ~ 15.10 | P88
(Invited Paper) Content-based Image Retrieval Using Gabor Texture Features D.-S. Zhang, A.-W. Wong, M. Indrawan, and G. Lu |
P82 Realizing matching pursuits with partial search algorithm K.-P. Cheung and Y.-H. Chan |
| 15.10 ~ 15.30 | P26 Study on High Efficient Color Image Compression for the Internet Image Communication Y.-Q. Zhu and Jesse S. Jin |
P23 New Media on the Internet - Instrumentation and Measurement over IP K.-F. Xue, J. Jean, and H. Lang |
Regular Sessions:
MC = Multimedia Computation.
MAR = Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval.
MCC= Multimedia Coding and Compression.
HCI = Human Computer Interaction.
Special Sessions:
MIR : Multimedia Information Indexing and Retrieval
VAS: Virtual Auditory Space
MVS: Modeling and Interaction for Virtual Visual Space
SV: Streaming Video
CONV: Convergence of IP, CG, CV, and WC
Msec: Multimedia Security