MSE 2004 Conference Program

    East Ballroom Middle Ballroom West Ballroom
Dec. 13, 2004 (8:30~9:00) Breakfast (provided by conference)
(8:30~8:40) Welcome from Conference Chair (Middle Ballroom)
(8:40~8:50) Greetings from Program Chair (Middle Ballroom)
(8:50~9:00) Introduction to MSE Conference Series (Middle Ballroom)
(9:00~10:00) Keynote (1): Harald Braun (Middle Ballroom)
(10:00~10:30)  Coffee Break
(10:30~12:00) Session 1 1A: MSE (1) 1B: MSE (2) 1C: W_MWD (1)
(12:00~13:30) Lunch (provided by conference) (Middle Ballroom)
(13:30~15:00) Session 2 2A: MSE (3) 2B: MSE (4) 2C: W_MWD (2)
(15:00~15:30)  Coffee Break
(15:30~17:00) Session 3 3A: MSE (5) 3B: MSE (6) 3C: S_MSFDR
17:30~19:30 Conference Reception
    East Ballroom Middle Ballroom West Ballroom
Dec. 14, 2004 (8:30~9:00) Breakfast (provided by conference)
(9:00~10:00) Keynote (2): James C. French  (Middle Ballroom)
(10:00~10:30)  Coffee Break
(10:30~12:00) Session 4 4A: MSE (7) 4B: S_MES 4C: W_WM (1)
(12:00~13:30) Lunch (provided by conference) (Middle Ballroom)
(13:30~15:00) Session 5 5A: MSE (8) 5B: S_Bio 5C: W_WM (2)
(15:00~15:30)  Coffee Break
(15:30~17:00) Panel Panel Session (Middle Ballroom)
19:00~end Conference Banquet (Dinner Cruise)
    East Ballroom Middle Ballroom West Ballroom
Dec. 15, 2004 (8:30~9:00) Breakfast (provided by conference)
(9:00~10:00) Keynote (3): Benjamin W. Wah (Middle Ballroom)
(10:00~10:30)  Coffee Break
(10:30~12:00) Session 6 6A: MSE (9) 6B: MSE (10) 6C: W_MCBAR (1)
(12:00~13:30) Lunch (provided by conference) (Middle Ballroom)
(13:30~15:00) Session 7 7A: MSE (11) 7B: MSE (12) 7C: W_MCBAR (2)
(15:00~15:30)  Coffee Break
(15:50~17:00) Session 8   8B: MSE (13) 8C: W_MCBAR (3)

 

December 13, 2004

8:30~9:00 Breakfast (provided by conference)
8:30~8:40 Welcome from Conference Chair
8:40~8:50 Greetings from Program Chair
8:50~9:00 Introduction to MSE Conference Series
9:00~10:00 Keynote (1)
Unifying the User Experience
Harald Braun,
Carrier Networks Division, Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc.
10:00~10:30 Coffee Break
10:30~12:00 Session 1
Session 1A

MSE (1): Distributed Multimedia Systems and Applications

Session Chair Dr. Min Chen
Region of Interest Displays: Addressing a Perceptual Problem?
S. R. Gulliver and G. Ghinea
A Knowledge and Component Based Multimedia Adaptation Framework
Klaus Leopold, Dietmar Jannach and Hermann Hellwagner
Synchronization of Acoustic Sensors for Distributed Ad-hoc Audio Networks and its Use for Blind Source Separation
Stefan Wehr, Walter Kellermann, Igor Kozintsev and Rainer Lienhart
Session 1B

MSE (2): Multimedia Streaming, Networking and QoS (I)

Session Chair Dr. Bernd Freisleben
Advanced Pyramid Broadcasting for Video-on-Demand
Haibin Lu, Junqiang Lan and Xinhua Zhang
A Bayesian Framework-based End-to-End Packet Loss Prediction in IP Networks
A. Backhouse and I.Y.H. Gu
Second-Order Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation to Control Delay of Multicast Multimedia Streams in DiffServ Router
Mong-Fong Horng, Yaw-Hwang Kuo, J.-P. Hsu, and R.-H. Cheng
Session 1C W_MWD (1): Workshop on Multimedia and Web Design (I)
Session Chair Dr. Masahito Hirakawa
A Combined Visualization of Multiple Relational Structures in Shared Collaborative Workspaces
Q. V. Nguyen and M. L. Huang
Access Control Mechanism for Collaborative Video Database Production Applications
S. S. M. Chan, Q. Li and J. A. Pino
A Comparative Study of Online News Retrieval and Presentation Strategies
S. Morrison and J. Jose
A Collaborative Augmented Reality System using Transparent Display
M. Hirakawa and S. Koike
12:00~13:30 Lunch (provided by conference)
13:30~15:00 Session 2
Session 2A MSE (3): Multimedia Enabled E-learning (I)
Session Chair Dr. Ming Ouhyoung
A Technological Framework for TV-supported Collaborative Learning
Martin Lopez-Nores, Andres Elexpuru-Eguia, Yolanda Blanco-Fernandez, Jose J. Pazos-Arias, Alberto Gil-Solla, Jorge Garcia-Duque, Belen Barragans-Martinez and Manuel Ramos-Cabrer
Re-engineering Method for Multimedia System in Education
Alain Corbiere and Christophe Choquet

Distant E-Learning Using Synchronous Collaborative Environment "Platine"
David Raymond, Veronique Baudin-Thomas, Kazuhide Kanenishi, Thierry Gayraud, Kenji Matsuura, Michel Diaz and Yoneo Yano

Session 2B

MSE (4): Multimedia Streaming, Networking and QoS (II)

Session Chair Dr. Giovanni Maria Sacco
Adaptive MAP Error Concealment for Dispersively Packetized Images
Ivan V. Bajic
On-line Measurement Based Admission Control on VBR Video Servers
Wei-shi Qi and An-ni Cai
A New Spatial Interpolation Method for Error Concealment
Yu Feng Ma, Anni Cai and Jing-ao Sun
Session 2C W_MWD (2): Workshop on Multimedia and Web Design (II)
Session Chair Dr. Latifur Khan
On Cognitive Relevance in Automatic Multimodal Systems
N. Elouazizi and Y. Bachvarova
Context-aware Design of Adaptable Multimodal Documents
A. Celentano and O. Gaggi
Automatic Image Annotation and Retrieval using Weighted Feature Selection
L. Wang, L. Liu, L. Khan and W. Wu
EB2000: a Structured Approach to the Creation of E-Books
R. Paiano and A. Pandurino
15:00~15:30 Coffee Break
15:30~17:00 Session 3
Session 3A MSE (5): Multimedia Enabled E-learning (II)
Session Chair Dr. Akmal Younis
On the Bitmap-Image Based Presenting
Liang Zhao and Hideo Yamamoto
Comparing Prescribed and Observed for the Re-engineering of E-learning Systems
Sébastien Iksal, Vincent Barré, Christophe Choquet and Alain Corbière
Extending Dynamic Web-Based Multimedia Templates to Reach Users of Pervasive Computing Devices in an e-Learning Environment
Edouard Ma Poon, Deng-Jyi Chen and David T. K. Chen
Session 3B

MSE (6): Multimedia Tools Including Authoring, Analyzing, User Interfaces, and Interaction Models

Session Chair Dr. Haibin Lu
A Device Independent XML User Agent for Multimedia Terminals
Mikko Honkala, Pablo Cesar and Petri Vuorimaa

Towards an Integrated Personalized Interactive Video Environment
Phivos Mylonas, Kostas Karpouzis, Giorgos Andreou and Stefanos Kollias

Managing Interaction and Interests - through the Keyhole of Noughts and Crosses Games
Siti Z. Zainal Abidin, Min Chen and Phil W. Grant
Session 3C S_MFSDR: Special Session on "Multimedia File Systems, Databases and Retrieval"
Session Chair Dr. Ivan Bajic
CLVQ: Cross-Language Video Question/Answering system
Chia-Hui Chang, Yu-Chyeh Wu and Yue-Shi Lee
VSUM: Summarizing from Videos
Yue-Shi Lee, Chia-Hui Chang and Yu-Chyeh Wu

A Text Detection, Localization and Segmentation System for OCR in Images
Julinda Gllavata, Ralph Ewerth and Bernd Freisleben

17:30~19:30 Conference Reception
GC Ball Room

December 14, 2004

8:30~9:00 Breakfast (provided by conference)
9:00~10:00 Keynote (2)
Using Multiple Viewpoints to Improve Retrieval Effectiveness in Content-based Image Retrieval
James C. French,
National Science Foundation
10:00~10:30 Coffee Break
10:30~12:00 Session 4
Session 4A MSE (7): Multimedia Security Including Digital Watermark and Encryption
Session Chair Dr. Suprakash Datta

Visual Modelling of Role-Based Security Policies in Distributed Multimedia Applications
Massimiliano Giordano, Giuseppe Polese, Giuseppe Scanniello and Genoveffa Tortora

An Efficient Role-Based Access Control Mechanism for Multicasting Environments
Akmal A. Younis and Gamal A. Ebrahim
A Fragile Watermarking Scheme for Image Authentication with Localization and Recovery
Phen-Lan Lin, Po-Whei Huang and An-Wei Peng
Session 4B S_MES: Special Session on "Multimedia in e-Society"
Session Chair Dr. Charles A. Shoniregun
Uniform Access to Multimedia Information Bases through Dynamic Taxonomies
Giovanni M. Sacco
OntoELAN. An Ontology-based Linguistic Multimedia Annotator
A.Chebotko, Y.Deng, S.Lu, F.Fotouhi, H.Brugman, A.Klassmann, H.Sloetjes, A.Russel and P.Wittenburg
A Life-Log Search Model Based on Bayesian Network
Taketoshi Ushiiama
Streaming and Security of Original Art Works on the Web
C.A. Shoniregun, O.Logvynovskiy, Z.Duan and S.Bose
Session 4C W_WM (1): Workshop on Wireless Multimedia (I)
Session Chair Dr. Hari Kalva
Partitioned Quadrature Amplitude Modulation for Mobile Video Transmission
Vasileios Theodorakopoulos and Michael E. Woodward
Content-Aware Streaming of Lecture Videos over Wireless Networks
Tiecheng Liu and Chekuri Choudary
On Using Buffered bandwidth to Support Real-time Mobile Video Playback in Cellular Networks
Kam-Yiu Lam, Joe Yuen and Edward Chan
Beyond 3G Video Mobile Conversational Services: An Overview of 3G-324M Based Messaging and Streaming
Andrea Basso
and Hari Kalva
12:00~13:30 Lunch (provided by conference)
13:30~15:00 Session 5
Session 5A MSE (8): BioInformatics, Multimedia and Grid Computing
Session Chair Dr. Ishwar Sethi
A Distributed Multimedia Database Visualization within an Immersive Environment for Bioinformatics
N. Férey, P-E. Gros, J. Hérisson and R. Gherbi
Prediction of Protein Coding Regions in DNA Sequences Using Fourier Spectral Characteristics
Suprakash Datta, Amir Asif and Haoyuan Wang
Grid Services for Distributed Video Cut Detection
Ralph Ewerth, Thomas Friese, Mathias Grube and Bernd Freisleben
A Linear Time Algorithm for High Quality Mesh Simplification
Hung-Kuang Chen, Chin-Shyurng Fahn, Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, Rong-Ming Chen and Ming-Bo Lin
Session 5B S_Bio: Special Session on "Bioinformatics"
Session Chair Dr. Giri Narasimhan
A Tool for Structure Alignment of Molecules
Pei-Ken Chang, Chien-Cheng Chen and Ming Ouhyoung
Reduced-search Dynamic Programming for Linear-space Sequence Alignment
Hsueh-Foo Lin and Jun-Ming Liang
Distributed Discovery of Asynchronous Partial Periodic Patterns in Sequence Data Using Modified Periodicity Transform
Han-Wen Hsiao, Meng-Shu Tsai and Jeffrey J.P. Tsai
Prediction of Gene Regulatory Networks using Differential Expression of cDNA Microarray Data
K.C. Shih, F.M. Liu, R.M. Chen, R.M. Hu, H.K. Chen and Jeffrey J.P. Tsai
Session 5C W_WM (2): Workshop on Wireless Multimedia (II)
Session Chair Dr. Oge Marques
The IP Multimedia Domain in Wireless Networks: Concepts, Architecture, Protocols, and Applications
Vassilios Koukoulidis and Mehul Shah
Accelerating Mobile Multi-media with Intel Wireless MMXTM technology
N.C. Paver, B. Aldrich and M. Khan
Cache Optimization for Mobile Devices Running Multimedia Applications
Abu Asaduzzaman, Imad Mahgoub, H. Kalva, R. Shankar, and B. Furht

Application of Video Error Resilience Techniques for Mobile Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS)
Praveenkumar Sanigepalli, Hari Kalva and Borko Furht

15:00~15:30 Coffee Break
15:30~17:00 Panel Session: The Convergence of Fixed and Mobile Communications: Applications, Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Subramanyam Vdaygiri, Program Manager, Siemens Corporate Research
TBA
Siemens Carrier Networks
Prof. Petri Vuorimaa
Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Prof. M. Muehlhaeuser
Head of Telecooperation Division within the Informatics Department Darmstadt
University of Technology, Germany
Dr. Hanafy Meleis
President and CEO of Trendium, Inc., USA
Dr. Stefan Hild
IBM Research, USA
19:00~end Conference Banquet  (Dinner Cruise)

December 15, 2004

8:30~9:00 Breakfast (provided by conference)
9:00~10:00 Keynote (3)
Loss Concealments for Low Bit-Rate Packet Voice in Voice over IP
Benjamin W. Wah
10:00~10:30 Coffee Break
10:30~12:00 Session 6
Session 6A

MSE (9): Multimedia File Systems, Databases and Retrieval (I)

Session Chair Dr. Giuseppe Scanniello
A Multi-Agent Open Architecture for a TV Recommender System: A Case Study using a Bayesian Strategy
Yolanda Blanco-Fernandez, Jose J. Pazos-Arias, Alberto Gil-Solla, Manuel Ramos-Cabrer, Belen Barragans-Martinez and Martin Lopez-Nore
Detecting Tactics Patterns for Indexing and Retrieving Tennis Video Clips
Jenny R. Wang and Nandan Parameswaran
Unit Detection in American Football TV Broadcasts Using Average Energy of Audio Track
Mei-Ling Shyu, Guy Ravitz and Shu-Ching Chen
Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Multimedia Information Retrieval and Composition with XDD
Napat Sukthong
Session 6B

MSE (10): Multimedia Web Services

Session Chair Dr. Akira Onoma
A Configurable XForms Implementation
Mikko Honkala and Petri Vuorimaa
Semantic Consistency within Web Services Interactions
Xiang Gao and Jen-Yao Chung
Streaming Route Panoramas for Large Area Visualization
J. Zheng, X. Wang, and M. Shi
Session 6C W_MCBAR (1): Workshop on Multimedia Content-based Analysis and Retrieval (I)
Session Chair Dr. Tiecheng Liu
Automatic Selection and Combination of Descriptors for Effective 3D Similarity Search
Benjamin Bustos, Daniel Keim, Dietmar Saupe, Tobias Schreck and Dejan V. Vranic
Pathfinder Networks for Content Based Image Retrieval Based On Automated Shape Feature Discovery
Rishi Mukhopadhyay, Aiyesha Ma and Ishwar K. Sethi
Retrieving Event-Based Semantics from Images
Kathleen Hornsby
Semantic Kernel Updating for Content-Based Image Retrieval
Philippe H. Gosselin and Matthieu Cord
12:00~13:30 Lunch (provided by conference)
13:30~15:00 Session 7
Session 7A MSE (11): Multimedia File Systems, Databases and Retrieval (II)
Session Chair Dr. Alberto Gil-Solla
Fast and Robust Object Detection Framework in Compressed Domain
Ashraf M. A. Ahmad, Bashar M. A. Ahmad and Suh-Yin Lee
Models for Extensible Multimedia Document Retrieval
Branko Milosavljevic
An Extendible Semantic-Based Content Representation Method for Distributed Image Databases
Bo Yang and Ali R. Hurson
A Flexible and Effective XML Storage and Retrieval System
Li Yang and Naphtali Rishe
Session 7B

MSE (12): Intelligent Agents for Multimedia Content Creation, Distribution and Analysis

Session Chair Dr. Jiang Zheng

Multi-Noise Removal from Images by Wavelet-Based Bayesian Estimator
X.Huang, A.C. Madoc and A.D.Cheetham

Automatic Program Translation - A Third Way
David P. Clark, Min Chen and John V. Tucker
System Architecture for 3D TerraFly Online GIS
Naphtali Rishe, Yanli Sun, Maxim Chekmasov, Andriy Selivonenko and Scott Graham
Session 7C W_MCBAR (2): Workshop on Multimedia Content-based Analysis and Retrieval (II)
Session Chair Dr. Kathleen Hornsby
View-Invariant Human Activity Recognition Based on Shape and Motion Features
Feng Niu and Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb
A Multi-modal Virtual Environment with Text-independent Real-Time Speaker Identification
Mustafa Sarimollaoglu, Kamran Iqbal and Serhan Dagtas
Video Data Management Using a Seeded Region Growing Technique
Jinsong Wang, Nilesh Patel and William Grosky
A Fast Off-line Stroke-based Handwritten Word Segmentation and Recognition Method for Low-Quality Educational Videos
Lijun Tang and John R. Kender
15:00~15:30 Lunch
15:30~17:00 Session 8
Session 8B

MSE (13): Software Development using Multimedia Techniques

Session Chair Dr. Xu Huang
Model-based Testing and Maintenance
D. Deng, T. Wang, P. C.-Y. Sheu and A. K. Onoma
Transform Domain Steganography Detection using Fuzzy Inference Systems
Vignesh Kumar Munirajan, Eric Cole and Sandy Ring
Session 8C W_MCBAR (3): Workshop on Multimedia Content-based Analysis and Retrieval (III)
Session Chair Dr. Serhan Dagtas
Analysis and Visualization of Index Words from Audio Transcripts of Instructional Videos
Alexander Haubold and John R. Kender
Lecture Videos for E-Learning: Current Research and Challenges
Tiecheng Liu and John R. Kender
An Efficient Mechanism for Searching Arabic Audio Libraries
Ibrahim Kamel and Habib Talhami
Evidence Combination for Multi-Point Query Learning in Content-Based Image Retrieval
Jana Urban and Joemon M. Jose


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