6. ICMCS 1999: Florence, Italy (Volume 1)
Security and Watermarking

Maurice Maes, Ton Kalker, Jaap Haitsma, Geert Depovere: Exploiting Shift Invariance to Obtain a High Payload in Digital Image Watermarking. 7-12
Mitchell D. Swanson, Bin Zhu, Ahmed H. Tewfik: Current State of the Art - Challenges and Future Directions for Audio Watermarking. 19-24
Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision in Multimedia
Roberto Cipolla, Duncan P. Robertson, Edmond Boyer: PhotoBuilder - 3D Models of Architectural Scenes from Uncalibrated Images. 25-31
Michael J. Swain: Searching for Multimedia on the World Wide Web. 32-37
Keith J. Hanna, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Rakesh Kumar, Yanlin Guo, Supun Samarasekera: Annotation of Video by Alignment to Reference Imagery. 38-43
Richard Szeliski, P. Anandan, Simon Baker: From 2D Images to 2.5D Sprites: A Layered Approach to Modeling 3D Scenes. 44-50
Andrew Zisserman, Andrew W. Fitzgibbon, Geoffrey Cross: VHS to VRML: 3D Graphical Models from Video Sequences. 51-57
Storage Architectures and Trends for Multimedia
Farshid Arman: Tape-Less Video Technologies: Issues in Workflow Transitions. 58-61
David Hung-Chang Du, Yen-Jen Lee: Scalable Server and Storage Architectures for Video Streaming. 62-67
Aloke Guha: The Evolution to Network Storage Architectures for Multimedia Applications. 68-73
Multimedia Software Engineering
Shi-Kuo Chang: Perspectives in Multimedia Software Engineering. 74-78
Timothy Arndt: The Evolving Role of Software Engineering in the Production of Multimedia Applications. 79-84
Masahito Hirakawa: Do Software Engineers Like Multimedia? 85-90
A. Bianchi, Paolo Bottoni, Piero Mussio: Issues in Design and Implementation of Multimedia Software Systems. 91-96
Usable Multimedia Applications
Albert N. Badre, Anne Jacobs: Usability, Aesthetics, and Efficiency: An Evaluation in a Multimedia Environment. 103-106
Mark T. Maybury: Putting Usable Intelligence into Multimedia Applications. 107-110
Paolo Paolini: Hypermedia, the Web and Usability Issues. 111-115
Alistair G. Sutcliffe: User-Centered Design for Multimedia Applications. 116-123
Maria Francesca Costabile: Usable Multimedia Applications. 124-127
Multimedia Standards
Ramesh Jain: A New Multimedia Technology Today - A Standards Challenge for the Future. 128-130
Maryline Charrier, Diego Santa Cruz, Mathias Larsson: JPEG2000, the Next Millennium Compression Standard for Still Images. 131-132
Leonardo Chiariglione: MPEG: Achievements and Future Projects. 133-138
Augusto de Albuquerque, Carlos Morais Pires: European R&D and Standardization in the Multimedia Domain: A Symbiotic Relationship. 139-144
Fernando C. N. Pereira: Multimedia Standards: Present and Future. 145-146
Quality of Service - Control/Scheduling
Wonjun Lee, Bikash Sabata: Admission Control and QoS Negotiations for Soft-Real Time Applications. 147-152
Shigang Chen, Klara Nahrstedt: Hierarchical Scheduling for Multiple Classes of Applications in Connection-Oriented Integrated-Service Networks. 153-158
In-Hwan Kim, Jeong-Won Kim, Seung-Won Lee, Ki-Dong Chung: VBR Video Data Scheduling Using Window-Based Prefetching. 159-164
Color/Texture-Based Retrieval of Single Images
Matthew Seaborn, Lee Hepplewhite, T. John Stonham: PISARO: Perceptual Color and Texture Queries Using Stackable Mosaics. 171-176
Ronald-Bryan O. Alferez, Yuan-Fang Wang: Image Indexing and Retrieval Using Image-Derived, Geometrically and Illumination Invariant Features. 177-182
Carla Brambilla, Anna Della Ventura, Isabella Gagliardi, Raimondo Schettini: Multiresolution Wavelet Transform and Supervised Learning for Content-Based Image Retrieval. 183-188
Aleksandra Mojsilovic, Jelena Kovacevic, Jian Hu, Robert J. Safranek, S. Kicha Ganapathy: Matching and Retrieval Based on the Vocabulary and Grammar of Color Patterns. 189-194
Virtual/Augmented Reality


Hiroyuki Tarumi, Ken Morishita, Megumi Nakao, Yahiko Kambayashi: SpaceTag: An Overlaid Virtual System and Its Applications. 207-212
Masayuki Kanbara, Takashi Okuma, Haruo Takemura, Naokazu Yokoya: Real-Time Composition of Stereo Images for Video See-Through Augmented Reality. 213-219
Video Servers
Padmavathi Mundur, Robert Simon, Arun K. Sood: Integrated Admission Control in Hierarchical Video-on-Demand Systems. 220-225
Yitzhak Birk, Ron Mondri: Tailored Transmissions for Efficient Near-Video-on-Demand Service. 226-231
Hugh M. Smith, Matt W. Mutka, Eric Torng: Bandwidth Allocation for Layered Multicasted Video. 232-237
Benjamin W. Wah, Xiao Su: Streaming Video with Transformation-Based Error Concealment and Reconstruction. 238-243
Compression
Web-Search of Single Images
Kyoji Hirata, Sougata Mukherjea, Wen-Syan Li, Yoshinori Hara: Integrating Image Matching and Classification for Multimedia Retrieval on the Web. 257-263
Computer Graphics and Animation
Mahesh Ramasubramanian, Anurag Mittal: Three-Dimensional Metamorphosis Using Multiplanar Representation. 270-275
Aldo Paradiso, Frank Nack, Georg Fries, Karlheinz Schuhmacher: The Design of Expressive Cartoons for the Web - Tinky. 276-281
Alexandre R. J. François, Gérard G. Medioni: A Human-Assisted System to Build 3-D Models from a Single Image. 282-288
Network Management
Robert Simon: Predictable Path Establishment in Multimedia Communication Networks. 289-295
Multimedia on the Internet
Rakesh Mohan, John R. Smith, Chung-Sheng Li: Adapting Content to Client Resources in the Internet. 302-307
Difu Su, Jaideep Srivastava, Jey-Hsin Yao: Investigating Factors Influencing QoS of Internet Phone. 308-313
Hung Q. Ngo, Srivatsan Varadarajan, Jaideep Srivastava: Error Spreading: Reducing Bursty Errors in Continuous Media Streaming. 314-319
Reinhard Lüling: Managing Large Scale Broadband Multimedia Services on Distributed Media Servers. 320-325
Software Engineering Tools/Hardware Middleware
Allen Ginsberg: View-Rules and Representations: A Framework for Dynamic Control of Multimedia in Virtual Environments. 326-332
Farzad Pezeshkpour, Ian Marshall, Ralph Elliott, J. Andrew Bangham: Development of a Legible Deaf-Signing Virtual Human. 333-338
Masahiro Mochizuki, Hideyuki Tokuda: Possession System: Adaptation Support Middleware for Collaborative Multimedia Applications in Java. 339-344
Compression

Yi-Shin Tung, Chia-Chiang Ho, Ja-Ling Wu: MMX-Based DCT and MC Algorithms for Real-Time Pure Software MPEG Decoding. 357-362
MPEG-2/MPEG-4/MPEG-7

Eran A. Edirisinghe, Jianmin Jiang: A Contour Analysis Based Technique to Extract Objects for MPEG-4. 369-374
Eric Paquet, Marc Rioux: The MPEG-7 Standard and the Content-Based Management of Three-Dimensional Data: A Case Study. 375-380
Video Browsing/Access
Michael G. Christel, Andreas M. Olligschlaeger: Interactive Maps for a Digital Video Library. 381-387
Savitha Srinivasan, Dulce B. Ponceleon, Arnon Amir, Dragutin Petkovic: ``What is in that Video Anyway?'' In Search of Better Browsing. 388-393
Silvia Hollfelder, André Everts, Ulrich Thiel: Designing for Semantic Access: A Video Browsing System. 394-399
Zhigang Zhu, Guangyou Xu, Edward M. Riseman, Allen R. Hanson: Fast Generation of Dynamic and Multi-Resolution 360° Panorama from Video Sequences. 400-406
Multimodal Interfaces


Reinhold Behringer, Steven Chen, Venkataraman Sundareswaran, Kenneth Wang, Marius Vassiliou: A Novel Interface for Device Diagnostics Using Speech Recognition, Augmented Reality Visualization, and 3D Audio Auralization. 427-432
Authoring Tools for Video/Images

Shoji Tanaka, Jun Kurumizawa, Andre Plante, Yuichi Iwadate, Seiji Inokuchi: Image Re-Composer: A Post-Production Tool Using Composition Information of Pictures. 439-444
Audio/Music Content Based Retrieval
Chih-Chin Liu, Jia-Lien Hsu, Arbee L. P. Chen: An Approximate String Matching Algorithm for Content-Based Music Data Retrieval. 451-456
François Pachet, Pierre Roy, Daniel Cazaly: A Combinatorial Approach to Content-Based Music Selection. 457-462
Multimedia Support for Medical Applications
Jesper Fredriksson: Design of an Internet Accessible Visual Human Brain Database System. 469-474
Sven Loncaric, T. Markovinovic, T. Petrovic, D. Ramljak, Erich Sorantin: Construction of Virtual Environment for Endoscopy. 475-480
Voula C. Georgopoulos: An Investigation of Audio-Visual Speech Recognition as Applied to Multimedia Speech Therapy Applications. 481-486
Quality of Service - Control/Scheduling


Peter Triantafillou, Stavros Harizopoulos: Prefetching into Smart-Disk Caches for High Performance Media Servers. 500-505
KyungOh Lee, Jin B. Kwon, Heon Young Yeom: Exploiting Caching for Realtime Multimedia Systems. 506-511
Color and Spatial Relationship-Based Retrieval of Single Images
Christophe Meilhac, Chahab Nastar: Relevance Feedback and Category Search in Image Databases. 512-517
Aditya Vailaya, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Anil K. Jain, HongJiang Zhang: Content-Based Hierarchical Classification of Vacation Images. 518-523
Yi Tao, William I. Grosky: Spatial Color Indexing: A Novel Approach for Content-Based Image Retrieval. 530-535
Visual Interaction
Vincent Oria, M. Tamer Özsu, Bing Xu, L. Irene Cheng, Paul Iglinski: VisualMOQL: The DISIMA Visual Query Language. 536-542
Steve R. Harrison, Scott L. Minneman, Joshua Marinacci: The DrawStream Station or the AVCs of Video Cocktail Napkins. 543-549
Chitta Baral, Graciela Gonzalez: Specifying Generic Multimedia 3D Visualizations and Temporal Presentations from Database Queries. 550-555
Jürgen Assfalg, Alberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala: Querying by Photographs: Using Virtual Reality for Content-Based Image Retrieval. 556-561
Electronic Commerce/Watermarking
Ton Kalker: System Issues in Digital Image and Video Watermarking for Copy Protection. 562-567
Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Rajmohan, K. R. Ramakrishnan: Adaptive Visible Watermarking of Images. 568-573
Ron G. van Schyndel, Andrew Z. Tirkel, Imants D. Svalbe: Key Independent Watermark Detection. 580-585
Multimedia for Education
Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, Naomi Ribner: Experiences from Teaching an Interdisciplinary Multimedia Course. 586-591
Christos M. Papaterpos, Georgios D. Styliaras, George K. Tsolis, Theodore S. Papatheodorou: Architecture and Implementation of a Network-Based Educational Hypermedia System. 592-597
Remigiusz J. Rak, Mariusz Szafraniec: A System for Presentation of Wavelet Transform Properties in Image Coding. 598-603
Susanne Boll, Wolfgang Klas, Utz Westermann: Multimedia Document Models - Sealed Fate or Setting out for New Shores? 604-610
Object-Based Retrieval of Single Images


Aleix M. Martínez, Joan R. Serra: Semantic Access to a Database of Images: An Approach to Object-Related Image Retrieval. 624-629
Multimodal Interfaces

Benedetto Allotta, Valentina Colla, Gianluca Bioli: A Mechatronic Device for Simulating Push-Buttons and Knobs. 636-642
Antonio Camurri, Matteo Ricchetti, Riccardo Trocca: EyesWeb - Toward Gesture and Affect Recognition in Dance/Music Interactive Systems. 643-648
Distributed Environments
K. Selçuk Candan, Yifeng Yang: Least-Cost High-Quality Object Retrieval for Distributed Multimedia Collaborations. 649-654
Werner Geyer, Martin Mauve: Integrating Support for Collaboration-Unaware VRML Models into Cooperative Applications. 655-660
Markus Mielke, Aidong Zhang: Optimally Ensured Interactive Service in Distributed Multimedia Presentation Systems. 661-666
Video Content Analysis/Indexing
Sofia Tsekeridou, Ioannis Pitas: Audio-Visual Content Analysis for Content-Based Video Indexing. 667-672
Chitra Dorai, Vikrant Kobla: Extracting Motion Annotations from MPEG-2 Compressed Video for HDTV Content Management Applications. 673-678
F. Coudert, Jenny Benois-Pineau, P.-Y. Le Lann, Dominique Barba: Binkey: A System for Video Content Analysis ``On the Fly''. 679-684
Rainer Lienhart, Silvia Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Effelsberg: Scene Determination Based on Video and Audio Features. 685-690
Pattern Recognition/Computer Vision for Multimedia
Marc Liévin, Patrice Delmas, Pierre-Yves Coulon, Franck Luthon, Vincent Fristot: Automatic Lip Tracking: Bayesian Segmentation and Active Contours in a Cooperative Scheme. 691-696
Qian Chen, Haiyuan Wu, Tadayoshi Shioyama, Tetsuo Shimada: 3D Head Pose Estimation Using Color Information. 697-702
Christophe Garcia, G. Zikos, George Tziritas: Face Detection in Color Images Using Wavelet Packet Analysis. 703-708
Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Michael G. Strintzis: Spatiotemporal Segmentation and Tracking of Objects for Visualization of Videoconference Image Sequences. 709-713
Usability
Stéphane Crozat, Olivier Hû, Philippe Trigano: A Method for Evaluating Multimedia Learning Software. 714-719
Roxana Moreno, Richard E. Mayer: Deriving Instructional Design Principles from Multimedia Presentations with Animations. 720-725
Marcello Federico: Usability Evaluation of a Spoken Data-Entry Interface. 726-731
Mireille Bétrancourt: Sequential Display of Multimedia Instructions: Effect on Users' Understanding. 732-737
Video Segmentation
Jinghong Mao, Kai-Kuang Ma: Semantic Spatio-Temporal Segmentation for Extracting Video Objects. 738-743
Chong-Wah Ngo, Ting-Chuen Pong, Roland T. Chin: Camera Break Detection by Partitioning of 2D Spatio-Temporal Images in MPEG Domain. 750-750
Poster Session I
Hieu Tat Nguyen, Marcel Worring, Anuj Dev: Motion Statistics Based Region Merging in Video Sequences. 762-766
Benoit Huet, Andrew D. J. Cross, Edwin R. Hancock: Shape Retrieval by Inexact Graph Matching. 772-776
Shankar Narayanaswamy, Jianying Hu, Ramanujan S. Kashi: User Interface for a PCS Smart Phone. 777-781
Noboru Babaguchi, Shigekazu Sasamori, Tadahiro Kitahashi, Ramesh Jain: Detecting Events from Continuous Media by Intermodal Collaboration and Knowledge Use. 782-786
Junji Mano, Lifeng He, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Enowaki, Atsuko Mutoh, Hidenori Itoh: A Method to Generate Writing-Brush-Style Japanese Hiragana Character Calligraphy. 787-791
Thomas G. Richards, Edmund J. Hughes, Derek G. Tilley: A Multimedia Approach to Fluid Power System Design. 792-796
Kim Shearer, Svetha Venkatesh: Detection of Setting and Subject Information in Documentary Video. 797-801
Mihai Lazarescu, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff A. W. West, Terry Caelli: On the Automated Interpretation and Indexing of American Football. 802-806
Michael J. Evans: Mapping an Auditory Space onto a Graphical User Interface. 807-811
Tim Wark, Sridha Sridharan, Vinod Chandran: The Use of Speech and Lip Modalities for Robust Speaker Verification under Adverse Conditions. 812-816

Hyeokman Kim, Jinho Lee, Samuel Moon-Ho Song: An Efficient Graphical Shot Verifier Incorporating Visual Rhythm. 827-834
Eder Arroyo, José Luis Los Arcos: SRV: A Virtual Reality Application to Electrical Substations Operation Training. 835-839
Stefano Berretti, Alberto Del Bimbo, Enrico Vicario: Weighting Spatial Arrangement of Colors in Content Based Image Retrieval. 845-849
Yihong Gong: An Accurate and Robust Method for Detecting Video Shot Boundaries. 850-854
Simon So, Clement H. C. Leung: A New Paradigm in Image Indexing and Retrieval Using Composite Bitplane Signatures. 855-859
Sakti Pramanik, Scott Alexander, Jinhua Li: An Efficient Searching Algorithm for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Queries in High Dimensions. 865-869
Shelby Pereira, Joseph Ó Ruanaidh, Frédéric Deguillaume, Gabriela Csurka, Thierry Pun: Template Based Recovery of Fourier-Based Watermarks Using Log-Polar and Log-Log Maps. 870-874
Francisco Ibarra Picó, Andrés Fuster Guilló, José Colom López: Remote Web Server of Digital Signal Processors Cards and Its Applications in Education. 880-884
Seok Kang, Yoshinao Aoki: Image Data Embedding System for Watermarking Using Fresnel Transform. 885-889
Tat-Seng Chua, Chun-Xin Chu, Mohan S. Kankanhalli: Relevance Feedback Techniques for Image Retrieval Using Multiple Attributes. 890-894
Hiroyuki Kii, Junji Onishi, Shinji Ozawa: The Digital Watermarking Method by Using both Patchwork and DCT. 895-899
Kazushi Nishimoto, Kenji Mase, Sidney Fels: Towards Multimedia Orchestra: A Proposal for an Interactive Multimedia Art Creation System. 900-904



