Multimedia'99 Conference Committee

Multimedia'99 Program Committee

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Message from the Conference Chairs

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Session TUA1: Opening Plenary and Keynote 1

Welcome

John F. Buford

Scott M. Stevens

Evolution of the Internet Architecture for Multimedia Traffic

David Clark

Coffee Break and Posters

Session TUA2: Video Processing and Indexing

Modeling Focus of Attention for Meeting Indexing

Rainer Stiefelhagen

Jie Yang

Alex Waibel

Automatic Modeling of a 3D City Map from Real-world Video

Hiroshi Kawasaki

Tomoyuki Yatabe

Katsushi Ikeuchi

Masao Sakauchi

Short papers: Text Enhancement in Digital Video Using Multiple Frame Integration

Huiping Li

David Doermann

An Efficient Video Segmentation Scheme for MPEG Video Stream using Macroblock Information

Jongho Nang

Seungwook Hong

Youngin Ihm

Session TUA3: Customization and Adaptation

Improving Collaborative Filtering with Multimedia Indexing Techniques to Create User-Adapting Web Sites

Arnd Kohrs

Bernard Merialdo

A Cross-Media Adaptation Strategy for Multimedia Presentations

Susanne Boll

Wolfgang Klas

Jochen Wandel

A Calculus for Dynamic Customization of Virtual Environments

Allen Ginsberg

Ramesh Viswanathan

Lunch Break and Posters

Session TUP1: Audio and Music Retrieval

Melodic Matching Techniques for Large Music Databases

Alexandra Uitdenbogerd

Justin Zobel

Heuristic Approach for Generic Audio Data Segmentation and Annotation

Tong Zhang

C.-C. Jay Kuo

Short papers: Visualizing Music and Audio using Self-Similarity

Jonathan Foote

Musical Content-Based Retrieval: an Overview of the Melodiscov Approach and System

Pierre-Yves Rolland

Gailius Raskinis

Jean-Gabriel Ganascia

Session TUP2: Information Resources, Sharing and Implications

CRIM: Curricular Resources in Interactive Multimedia

Edward A. Fox

Rachelle S. Heller

Anna Long

David Watkins

An RTP-based Synchronized Hypermedia Live Lecture System for Distance Education

Herng-Yow Chen

Yen-Tsung Chia

Gin-Yi Chen

Jen-Shin Hong

Taming the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Privacy in Multimedia Communications

Anne Adams

Martina Angela Sasse

Short paper: Finding Redundant Paths in Hypermedia

Roland Hubscher

Coffee Break and Posters

Session TUP3: Media Delivery

Robust Compression and Transmission of MPEG-4 Video

Steven Gringeri

Roman Egorov

Khaled Shuaib

Arianne Lewis

Bert Basch

A QoS Architecture for Collaborative Virtual Environments

Chris Greengalgh

Steve Benford

Gail Reynard

Scalable Multimedia Delivery for Pervasive Computing

John R. Smith

Rakesh Mohan

Chung-Sheng Li

Short papers: Dynamic Frame Rate Control for Video Streams

Sassan Pejhan

Ti-Hao Chiang

Ya-Qin Zhang

A Prefetching Scheme based on Analysis of User Access Pattern in News-On-Demand System

Tae-uk Choi

Young-Ju Kim

Ki-Dong Chung

Session TUP4: Virtual Meetings

NoteLook: Taking Notes in Meetings with Digital Video and Ink

Patrick Chiu

Ashutosh Kapuskar

Sarah Reitmeier

Lynn Wilcox

Multimodal People ID for a Multimedia Meeting Browser

Jie Yang

Xiaojin Zhu

Ralph Gross

John Kominek

Yue Pan

Alex Waibel

Immersive Teleconferencing: A New Algorithm to Generate Seamless Panoramic Video Imagery

Aditi Majumder

Gopi Meenakshisundaram

W. Brent Seales

Henry Fuchs

Geometrically Correct Imagery for Teleconferencing

Ruigang Yang

Michael S. Brown

W. Brent Seales

Henry Fuchs

Session WEA1: Panel 1

Multimedia Research: the Grand Challenges for the Next Decade Panel members: Philippe Aigrain EU Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Dick Bulterman

Lawrence A. Rowe

Brian Smith

Session WEA2: Video-on-Demand Servers

Zero-Delay Broadcasting Protocols for Video-on-Demand

Jehan-Francois Paris

Darrell D. E. Long

Patrick E. Mantey

Short papers: Optimal and Efficient Merging Schedules for Video-on-Demand Servers

Derek Eager

Mary Vernon

John Zahorjan

Catching and Selective Catching: Efficient Latency Reduction Techniques for Delivering Continuous Multimedia Streams

Lixin Gao

Zhi-Li Zhang

Don Towsley

Optimizing Video-on-Demand through Requestcasting

Julie Pochueva

Ethan V. Munson

Denis Pochueva

An Efficient Bandwidth-Sharing Technique for True Video on Demand Systems

Ying Cai

Kien A. Hua

Coffee Break and Posters

Session WEA3: Video and Image Indexing

An Approach for Video Meta-Data Modeling and Query Processing

Wasfi Al-Khatib

Arif Ghafoor

SamMatch: A Flexible and Efficient Sampling-Based Image Retrieval Technique for Large Image Databases

Kien A. Hua

Khanh Vu

Jung-Hwan Oh

Short papers: Query Refinement for Multimedia Similarity Retrieval in MARS

Kriengkrai Porkaew

Kaushik Chakrabarti

Sharad Mehrotra

Robust Color Indexing

Nicu Sebe

Michael S. Lew

Session WEA4: Media Coding and Processing-1

Video Transcoder Architectures for Bit-Rate Scaling of H.263 Bit Streams

Jeongnam Youn

Ming-Ting Sun

Jun Xin

NAIVE - Network Aware Internet Video Encoding

Hector M. Briceno

Steven Gortler

Leonard McMillan

Short papers: Global Motion Estimation in Image Sequences using Robust Motion Vector Field Segmentation

Joerg Heuer

Andre Kaup

Designing an Interactive Tool for Video Object Segmentation and Annotation

Huitao Luo

Alexandros Eleftheriadis

Lunch Break and Posters

Session WEP1: Panel 2

Video Portals for the Next Century Panel members: Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research

Rob Koenen

Heather Yu

Avideh Zakhor

Francis Galliano

Charles Bouman

Session WEP2: Media Coding and Processing-2

Minimum-Drift Digital Video Down-Conversion

Osama Alshaykh

Homer Chen

Efficient Frequency Domain Digital Video Scrambling for Content Access Control

Wenjun Zeng

Shawmin Lei

Short papers: Progressive Quantized Projection Watermarking Scheme

Masoud Alghoniemy

Ahmed H. Tewfik

Preservation of Local Sound Periodicity with Variable-Rate Video

D. Knox

T. Itagaki

I. Stewart

A. Nesbitt

I. J. Kemp

Coffee Break and Posters

Session WEP3: Construction, Storage and Retrieval

Visual Digests for News Video Libraries

Michael G. Christel

Natural Language Navigation in Multimedia Archives: An Integrated Approach

Ingo Glockner

Alois Knoll

Automatic Construction of Personalized TV News Programs

Bernard Merialdo

Kyung Tak Lee

Dario Luparello

Jeremie Roudaire

A Synchronization Model for Recorded Presentations and its Relevance for Information Retrieval

Wolfgang Hurst

Rainer Muller

Session WEP4: Interactive Applications

Emotion Recognition and Its Application to Computer Agents with Spontaneous Interactive Capabilities

Ryohei Nakatsu

Joy Nicholson

Naoko Tosa

Video Based Human Animation Technique

Xiaoming Liu

Yueting Zhuang

Yunhe Pan

A 3D Audio Only Interactive Web Browser: Using Spatialization to Convey Hypermedia Document Structure

Stuart Goose

Carsten Moller

Audio-Visual Tracking for Natural Interactivity

Gopal Pingali

Gamze Tunali

Ingrid Carlbom

Session THA1: Keynote 2

Experienced-Based Entertainment Merging Media into the Physical World through Location Based Entertainment (LBE)

Chris Stapleton

Coffee Break and Posters

Session THA2: Media Summarization and Retrieval

Video Manga: Generating Semantically Meaningful Video Summaries

Shingo Uchihashi

Jonathan Foote

Andreas Girgensohn

John Boreczky

Towards Robust Features for Classifying Audio in the Cue Video System

Savitha Srinivasan

Dragutin Petkovic

Dulce Ponceleon

Short papers: An Excitation Level based Psychoacoustic Model for Audio Compression

Ye Wang

Miikka Vilermo

Inquiry with Imagery: Historical Archive Retrieval with Digital Cameras

Brian K Smith

Erik Blankinship

Alfred Ashford III

Michael Baker

Timothy Hirzel

Session THA3: Case Studies

A Multicast Control Scheme for Parallel Software-only Video Effects Processing

Ketan Mayer-Patel

Lawrence A. Rowe

Formal Verification and Analysis of Multimedia Systems

Sergio Campos

Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

Autran Macedo

Luciano Bertini

Computer-Aided Parallelization of Continuous Media Applications: the 4D Beating Heart Slice Server

J. Tarraga

V. Messerli

O. Figueiredo

B. Gennart

R.D. Hersch

Lunch Break and Posters

Session THP1: Panel 3

Multimedia Access and Retrieval: The State of the Art and Future Directions

Gwendal Auffret

Shih-Fu Chang

Jonathan Foote

Chung-Sheng Li

Behzad Shahraray

Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood

Hongjiang Zhang

Session THP2: Multimedia File and Storage Systems and Networking

Phoenix: A Low-Power Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Network-Attached Storage Device

Anindya Neogi

Ashish Raniwala

Tzi-cker Chiueh

Architectural Considerations for Next Generation File Systems

Prashant Shenoy

Pawan Goyal

Harrick M. Vin

Short papers: Combined Path and Server Selection in Dynamic Multimedia Environments

Zhenghua Fu

Nalini Venkatasubramanian

Multimedia, Network Protocols and Users - Bridging the Gap

G. Ghinea

J.P. Thomas

R.S. Fish

Coffee Break and Posters

Best Papers and Closing Plenary

Best student paper: Passive Capture and Structuring of Lectures

Sugata Mukhopadhyay

Brian Smith

Best paper: Auto-Summarization of Audio-Video Presentations

Liwei He

Elizabeth Sanocki

Anoop Gupta

Jonathan Grudin

Author Index