About the Book
Table of Contents:
Multimedia'99 Conference Committee.
Multimedia'99 Program Committee.
Multimedia'99 Corporate Supporters.
Message from the Conference Chairs.
Author Index TECHNICAL PROGRAM.
Session TUA1: Opening Plenary and Keynote.
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, 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 Hypemedia, 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.
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.
Multimedia Research: the Grand Challenges for the Next Decade Panel members: Philippe Aigrain, 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.
Video Portals for the Next Century Panel members: Nevenka Dimitrova, 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 Leea, Dario Luparello.
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.
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 Summarie
