Advances in Multimedia Information Processing — PCM 2002: Third IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 16–18, 2002 Proceedings

Leveraging Information Appliances: A Browser Architecture Perspective in the Mobile Multimedia Age....Pages 1-8
Seamless Service Handoff for Ubiquitous Mobile Multimedia....Pages 9-16
Design of Secure Mobile Application on Cellular Phones....Pages 17-24
Ubiquitous Displays for Cellular Phone Based Personal Information Environments....Pages 25-32
Context-Aware Service Delivery to Mobile Users....Pages 33-40
The Design and Implementation of Network Service Platform for Pervasive Computing....Pages 41-49
Improved Error Detection Method for Real-Time Video Communication Using Fragile Watermarking....Pages 50-57
Digital Geographical Map Watermarking Using Polyline Interpolation....Pages 58-65
Watermarking MPEG-4 2D Mesh Animation in Multiresolution Analysis....Pages 66-73
Rotation, Scaling, and Translation Resilient Image Watermarking with Side Information at Encoder....Pages 74-81
A High Capacity Data Hiding Scheme Based on DFT....Pages 82-88
An Algorithm for Data Hiding Using Median Cut Segmentation....Pages 89-96
An Optimized Spatial Data Hiding Scheme Combined with Convolutional Codes and Hilbert Scan....Pages 97-104
Research on Technology of Chaos Secrecy Communications in Digital Watermarking....Pages 105-111
EFBLA: A Two-Phase Matching Algorithm for Fast Motion Estimation....Pages 112-119
A New Adaptive Return Prediction Search Algorithm for Block Matching....Pages 120-126
A 2-Stage Partial Distortion Search Algorithm for Block Motion Estimation....Pages 127-134
A Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation Algorithm with Motion Modeling and Motion Analysis....Pages 135-142
Video Coding Using Supplementary Block for Reliable Communication....Pages 143-150
A Robust, Efficient, and Fast Global Motion Estimation Method from MPEG Compressed Video....Pages 151-158
Querying Image Database by Video Content....Pages 159-166
An ICA-Based Illumination-Free Texture Model and Its Application to Image Retrieval....Pages 167-174
A Novel Hierarchical Approach to Image Retrieval Using Color and Spatial Information....Pages 175-182
A Semantic Model for Video Description and Retrieval....Pages 183-190
A Texture Segmentation Method Using Hierarchical Correlations of Wavelet Coefficients....Pages 191-199
An Abstraction of Low Level Video Features for Automatic Retrievals of Explosion Scenes....Pages 200-208
A Region-Based Image Retrieval System Using Salient Point Extraction and Image Segmentation....Pages 209-216
Effects of Codebook Sizes, Codeword Dimensions, and Colour Spaces on Retrieval Performance of Image Retrieval Using Vector Quantization....Pages 217-228
A Stochastic Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 229-236
Audio Retrieval with Fast Relevance Feedback Based on Constrained Fuzzy Clustering and Stored Index Table....Pages 237-244
Semi-automatic Video Content Annotation....Pages 245-252
Shot Classification of Sports Video Based on Features in Motion Vector Field....Pages 253-260
Movie Content Retrieval and Semi-automatic Annotation Based on Low-Level Descriptions....Pages 261-270
An Index Model for MPEG-2 Streams....Pages 271-278
MORF: A Distributed Multimodal Information Filtering System....Pages 279-286
Personalization of Interactive News through J2EE, XML, XSLT, and SMIL in a Web-Based Multimedia Content Management System....Pages 287-294
Deploy Multimedia-on-Demand Services over ADSL Networks....Pages 295-302
An Experiment on Generic Image Classi.cation Using Web Images....Pages 303-310
An Authoring Tool Generating Various Video Abstractions Semi-automatically....Pages 311-318
Motion Activity Based Semantic Video Similarity Retrieval....Pages 319-327
Content-Based Audio Classification with Generalized Ellipsoid Distance....Pages 328-335
A Motion-Aided Video Shot Segmentation Algorithm....Pages 336-343
MPEG IPMP Concepts and Implementation....Pages 344-352
A Visual Model for Estimating Perceptual Redundancy Inherent in Color Image....Pages 353-360
Simultaneous Color Clipping and Luminance Preserving for High Quality Entertainment Movie Coding....Pages 361-368
A Dynamic Color Palette for Color Images Coding....Pages 369-376
A Two-Stage Switching-Based Median Filter....Pages 377-385
A Fast and Efficient Noise Reduction Method Suitable for Low Noise Density....Pages 386-392
A Cross-Type Peak-and-Valley Filter for Error Prevention and Resilience in Image Communications....Pages 393-400
Adaptive-Hierarchical-Filtering Technique for Image Enhancement....Pages 401-408
A Design Method for Compactly Supported Sampling Function Generator....Pages 409-416
A Smooth Interpolation Method for Nonuniform Samples Based on Sampling Functions Composed of Piecewise Polynomials....Pages 417-424
Motion Vector Based Error Concealment Algorithms....Pages 425-433
A New Steganalysis Approach Based on Both Complexity Estimate and Statistical Filter....Pages 434-441
Quantization Watermarking Schemes for MPEG-4 General Audio Coding....Pages 442-450
Asymptotic Analyses of Visual Distortions: A New Approach to Defining Transparency....Pages 451-459
An Information Hiding Technique for Binary Images in Consideration of Printing Process....Pages 460-467
Image Watermarking Synchronization by Significant MSB Plane Matching....Pages 468-476
Secure Watermark Verification Scheme....Pages 477-484
A Foveation-Based Rate Shaping Mechanism for MPEG Videos....Pages 485-492
A Stereo Image Coding Using Hierarchical Basis....Pages 493-501
A Method on Tracking Unit Pixel Width Line Segments for Function Approximation-Based Image Coding....Pages 502-509
Object Assisted Video Coding for Video Conferencing System....Pages 510-517
Inter-subband Redundancy Prediction Using Neural Network for Video Coding....Pages 518-525
Building the Software Infrastructure for Smart Classroom: From Open Agent Architecture (OAA) to Smart Platform....Pages 526-533
Self-Guided Adaptive and Interactive Hypermedia Courseware System....Pages 534-539
Combining Hybrid Media Tools for Web-Based Education....Pages 540-547
X-WALTZ: The Framework of an Interactive Multimedia Math E-learning....Pages 548-555
Hybrid Learning Schemes for Multimedia Information Retrieval....Pages 556-563
Lecturer Position Detection for Distribution System Using High Resolution Partial Images....Pages 564-572
Boosting Speech/Non-speech Classi.cation Using Averaged Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients Features....Pages 573-580
Statistical Analysis of Musical Instruments....Pages 581-588
Text-to-Visual Speech Synthesis for General Objects Using Parameter-Based Lip Models....Pages 589-597
Speaker Verification from Coded Telephone Speech Using Stochastic Feature Transformation and Handset Identification....Pages 598-606
Recognition of Visual Speech Elements Using Hidden Markov Models....Pages 607-614
Robust and Inaudible Multi-echo Audio Watermarking....Pages 615-622
Kernel-Based Probabilistic Neural Networks with Integrated Scoring Normalization for Speaker Verification....Pages 623-630
An On-the-Fly Mandarin Singing Voice Synthesis System....Pages 631-638
Popular Song Retrieval Based on Singing Matching....Pages 639-646
Improving Audio Watermark Robustness Using Stretched Patterns against Geometric Distortion....Pages 647-654
A Digital Audio Watermarking Using Two Masking Effects....Pages 655-662
On the Possibility of Only Using Long Windows in MPEG-2 AAC Coding....Pages 663-670
A Call Admission Control Algorithm Based on Stochastic Performance Bound for Wireless Networks....Pages 671-679
Management of Multiple Mobile Routers for Continuous Multimedia in Mobile WLANs....Pages 680-687
VoIP Quality Evaluation in Mobile Wireless Networks....Pages 688-695
Connection Removal Algorithms for Multimedia CDMA Wireless Networks....Pages 696-703
Integration of GPRS and Wireless LANs with Multimedia Applications....Pages 704-711
Adaptive Multimedia System Architecture for Improving QoS inWireless Networks....Pages 712-719
A New Improvement of JPEG Progressive Image Transmission Using Weight Table of Quantized DCT Coefficient Bits....Pages 720-728
 MediaView : A Semantic View Mechanism for Multimedia Modeling....Pages 729-736
The Connection between Pyramidal Algorithm and Wavelet Series....Pages 737-742
A Hybrid Motion Data Manipulation: Wavelet Based Motion Processing and Spacetime Rectification....Pages 743-750
Foreground Segmentation Using Motion Vectors in Sports Video....Pages 751-758
Color Image Segmentation Using Anisotropic Diffusion and Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering....Pages 759-766
Extraction of Text Regions and Recognition of Characters from Video Inputs....Pages 767-774
Target Tracking via Region-Based Confidence Computation with the CNN-UM....Pages 775-782
Improved Scheme for Object Searching Using Moment Invariants....Pages 783-790
Segmenting People in Meeting Videos Using Mixture Background and Object Models....Pages 791-798
A Framework for Background Detection in Video....Pages 799-805
High Speed Road Boundary Detection with CNN-Based Dynamic Programming....Pages 806-813
A New Error Resilient Coding Scheme for H.263 Video Transmission....Pages 814-822
A Bit-Plane Coding Scheme of MPEG-4 FGS with High Efficiency Based on the Distribution of Significant Coefficients....Pages 823-830
A VBR Rate Control Using MINMAX Criterion for Video Streaming....Pages 831-838
Implementation of Real-Time MPEG-4 FGS Encoder....Pages 839-846
MPEG-4 Video Streaming with Drift-Compensated Bitstream Switching....Pages 847-855
Flexible and Efficient Switching Techniques between Scalable Video Bitstreams....Pages 856-864
Robust Video Transmission Using RSE-Code-Based FEC....Pages 865-872
A Peer-to-Peer Communication System....Pages 873-879
A Project Management Model for Multimedia System Development....Pages 880-887
TCP-Friendly Congestion Control Algorithm on Self-Similar Traffic Network....Pages 888-895
Adaptive Call Admission Control for Mobile Multimedia Network....Pages 896-903
Providing Multimedia Traffic with Predictability....Pages 904-911
Dynamic Service Extensibility through Programmable Network in a Mobility Context....Pages 912-919
The Adaptive Feedback Scheduling Framework for Streaming VBR Videos with Wireless ATM ABR Service....Pages 920-927
Support Vector Machine Learning for Music Discrimination....Pages 928-935
Dynamic Network Adaptation Framework Employing Layered Relative Priority Index for Adaptive Video Delivery....Pages 936-943
Peer-to-Peer Support for File Transfer and Caching Mechanism....Pages 944-951
Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for Multi-constrained Path Selection Problem....Pages 952-959
W-CoSIM (Web-Based Hardware-Software CoSimulator) - A Design-Time Simulation Tool for Estimating the Performance of Online Multimedia Applications....Pages 960-967
Distance Education Based on a Multimedia Mix Provided by a Virtual Organization....Pages 968-975
Media-on-Demand for Agent-Based Collaborative Tutoring Systems on the Web....Pages 976-984
Design a Web-Based Assessment Tool with Multiple Presentation Styles for Language Training....Pages 985-992
Design and Development of a Multimedia Interactive Lab for Distance Learning Applications in the WWW....Pages 993-1000
The System Resource Management in a Distributed Web-Based E-learning Platform....Pages 1001-1008
The Design and Implementation of a Web-Based Discovery-Based Instruction Model....Pages 1009-1016
A Quantitative Assessment Method with Course Design Model for Distance Learning....Pages 1017-1024
On (In)security of “A Robust Image Authentication Method”....Pages 1025-1032
A Software Protection System for Internet Commerce....Pages 1033-1040
Design of a New Cryptography System....Pages 1041-1048
Texture Extraction and Blending without Prior Knowledge of Lighting Conditions....Pages 1049-1056
Sharp and Dense Disparity Maps Using Multiple Windows....Pages 1057-1064
Interpolation of CT Slices for 3-D Visualization by Maximum Intensity Projections....Pages 1065-1072
Responsive Transmission of 3D Scenes over Internet....Pages 1073-1079
Using Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions for 3D Geometry Processing....Pages 1080-1087
Multimodal Gumdo Game: The Whole Body Interaction with an Intelligent Cyber Fencer....Pages 1088-1095
An Enhanced Transmission Service with 3-Priority Queue Management for Real-Time Interaction in Virtual World....Pages 1096-1104
Enhancing 3D Graphics on Mobile Devices by Image-Based Rendering....Pages 1105-1111
A Guided Interaction Approach for Architectural Design in a Table-Type VR Environment....Pages 1112-1119
A Gaze-Direction Controlled Wavelet Packet Based Image Coder....Pages 1120-1127
Qualitative Camera Motion Classification for Content-Based Video Indexing....Pages 1128-1136
Feature-Based Object Tracking with an Active Camera....Pages 1137-1144
A Depth Measurement System Associated with a Mono-camera and a Rotating Mirror....Pages 1145-1152
Human Behavior Recognition for an Intelligent Video Production System....Pages 1153-1160
A Robust Algorithm for Video Based Human Motion Tracking....Pages 1161-1168
Estimating Head Pose from Spherical Image for VR Environment....Pages 1169-1176
An Efficient Algorithm for Detecting Faces from Color Images....Pages 1177-1184
An Illumination-Insensitive Face Matching Algorithm....Pages 1185-1192
Facial Expression Analysis under Various Head Poses....Pages 1193-1200
Region-of-Interest Video Coding Based on Face Detection....Pages 1201-1211
An Error Resilient Scheme for MPEG-4 FGS Video over Packet Erasure Channel That Exhibits Graceful Degradation....Pages 1212-1220
MPEG4 Compatible Video Browsing and Retrieval over Low Bitrate Channel....Pages 1221-1226
Multiple Granularity Access to Navigated Hypermedia Documents Using Temporal Meta-information....Pages 1227-1234
Authoring Temporal Scenarios in Interactive MPEG-4 Contents....Pages 1235-1242
Implementation of Live Video Transmission in MPEG-4 3D Scene....Pages 1243-1250