2. MobiMedia 2006: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, MobiMedia 2006, Alghero, Italy, September 18-20, 2006. ACM 2006 ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 324
Regular papers
Wafa Berrayana, Ryad Ben-El-Kezadri, Farouk Kamoun, Guy Pujolle: DelayEDD-HCCA and RT-HCCA: two new IEEE 802.11 e schemes based HCCA supporting real-time applications. 10
Lihong Ma, Guifeng Cheng, Zhijian Wu, Xiaoxi Luo, Hanqing Lu: Phase-only transform based shaping for error concealment coding. 11
Naeem Ramzan, Ebroul Izquierdo: Joint source-channel coding for scalable video atomic bitstream by adaptive turbo code. 12
Xunqi Yu, James W. Modestino, Dian Fan: Evaluation of the residual packet-loss rate using packet-level FEC for delay-constrained media network transport. 2
Simone Zezza, Marco Grangetto, Maurizio Martina, Fabrizio Vacca, Guido Masera: Error correcting arithmetic coding for JPEG 2000: memory and performance analysis. 3
Maurizio Murroni: Broadcasting of digital cimema streams over wireless channels: a power-based unequal error protection approach. 5
Pietro Camarda, Giovanni Tommaso Carone, Domenico Striccoli: A smoothing algorithm for time slicing DVB-H video transmission with bandwidth constraints. 6
Ilias Politis, Michail Tsagkaropoulos, Tasos Dagiuklas, Stavros Kotsopoulos: Study of the QoS of video traffic over integrated 3G-WLAN systems. 7
Nikola Sprljan, Marta Mrak, Ebroul Izquierdo: Motion driven adaptive transform based on wavelet transform for enhanced video coding. 8
Arulsaravana Jeyaraj, Syed Ali Jafar, Magda El Zarki: A Slepian-Wolf based cross layer scheme suitable to sensor networks. 9
Video coding for wireless communication channels
Shuai Wan, Marta Mrak, Ebroul Izquierdo: Perceptually adaptive joint deringing - deblocking filtering for scalable video coding. 13
Thomas Stockhammer, Tiago Gasiba, Wissam Abdel Samad, Wen Xu, Hrvoje Jenkac, Thomas Schierl: A weighted layered broadcasting scheme for scalable video transmission with multiple site reception. 14
Nicola Conci, Francesco G. B. De Natale: Multiple description video coding by coefficients ordering and interpolation. 15
Toni Zgaljic, Nikola Sprljan, Ebroul Izquierdo: Bit-stream allocation methods for wavelet based scalable video coding. 16
Thomas Schierl, Karsten Gänger, Cornelius Hellge, Karsten Grüneberg, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Stockhammer, Thomas Wiegand: Video streaming in mobile ad hoc networks. 17
Multimedia communication over mobile wireless networks
Maria Teresa Carta, Tatiana Onali, Nicola Aste, Luigi Atzori: Video transmission over wireless networks: rate control for bursty throughput channels. 18
Annalisa Durantini, Romeo Giuliano, Franco Mazzenga: Rake performance for DS and TH based UWB system in a multipath channel. 19
Cristiano Monti, Romeo Giuliano, Franco Mazzenga, Pierpaolo Loreti: Interference evaluation for a cellular system based on OFDMA. 21
Automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content
Vesna Zeljkovic, Robert B. Vincelette, Marko Savic: Efficient shape recognition method using novel metric for complex polygonal shapes. 23
Pavel Praks, Jindrich Cernohorský, Vojtech Svátek: Human expert modelling using semantics-oriented video retrieval for surveillance in hard industry. 24
Divna Djordjevic, Ebroul Izquierdo: Relevance feedback for image retrieval in structured multi-feature spaces. 25
Maheshkumar H. Kolekar, Somnath Sengupta: Semantic concept extraction from sports video for highlight generation. 26
Nicola Adami, Sergio Benini, Riccardo Leonardi: An overview of video shot clustering and summarization techniques for mobile applications. 27
Tomas Piatrik, Krishna Chandramouli, Ebroul Izquierdo: Image classification using biologically inspired systems. 28
Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, P. Panagi, Stamatia Dasiopoulou: A learning approach to semantic image analysis. 29
Janko Calic, Neill W. Campbell: Optimising video summaries for mobile devices using visual attention modelling. 30
Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Konstantinos Rapantzikos, Yannis S. Avrithis: Priority coding for video-telephony applications based on visual attention. 31
Reede Ren, Joemon M. Jose: Attention guided football video content recommendation on mobile devices. 32
Image and video processing for mobile multimedia
Heechan Park, Abhir Bhalerao, Graham R. Martin, Andy C. Yu: An affine symmetric approach to natural image compression. 33
Susanna Spinsante, Ennio Gambi, Damiano Falcone, S. Morichetti: Low complexity concealment of H.264/AVC encoded video for DVB-H devices. 34
Vittorio Baroncini, D. Ciavatta, Giancarlo Gaudino, Renzo Felice, Giovanni Iacovoni, Fabio Ubaldi: Variable frame rate video for mobile devices. 35
Ivan Damnjanovic, Ebroul Izquierdo: Perceptual watermarking using just noticeable difference model based on block classification. 36
Work in progress papers
Cunxun Zang, Qingshan Liu, Xiaofeng Tong, Hanqing Lu: A framework for providing adaptive sports video to mobile devices. 37
Annalisa Durantini, Romeo Giuliano, Franco Mazzenga, Jorge Hernandez: UWB interference mitigation technique on UMTS terminal in non-cooperative scenario. 39
Daniele D. Giusto, Maurizio Murroni, Giulio Soro: Fractal coding of color images using earth mover's distance. 41
Pål Backe, Anita Andersen, Thomas Plagemann, Anders Spilling: Mobile services for horse-race betting: a QoS study of streaming horse-race videos to 3G phones. 42
Giaime Ginesu, Tatiana Onali, Daniele D. Giusto: Efficient scrambling of wavelet-based compressed images: a comparison between simple techniques for mobile applications. 43
Gabriele Cecchetti, Anna Lina Ruscelli: A framework for enhanced QoS support in IEEE802.11e networks. 44
Francesco Bertagnolli, Matteo Lanati, Lorenzo Favalli, Francesco Gruppi: Open loop transcoding using perceptually adaptive requantization of DCT coefficients. 45
Athanasios D. Marousis, Philip Constantinou: Performance evaluation of a channel estimator applied in SFBC MIMO systems for W-MANs. 46
Jobst Löffler, Jochen Schon, Joachim Köhler: SHARE: supporting large-scale rescue operations with communication and information services over mobile networks. 47
Forthcoming standards and mobile multimedia services
Xavier Jaspar, Luc Vandendorpe: Turbo techniques for joint source-channel decoding of multimedia content. 48
Viraj S. Ambetkar, Paul Bender, Jianing Ma, Yong Pei, James W. Modestino: Distributed flow admission control for real-time multimedia services over wireless ad hoc networks. 49
Gianluca Guidoni, Romeo Giuliano, Franco Mazzenga: On the interference of ultra wideband devices on fixed wireless systems in a distributed scenario. 50
Ernestina Cianca, Antonella Molinaro, Mauro De Sanctis, Antonio Iera, Giuseppe Araniti, Marina Ruggieri: Location/situation-aware architecture for mobility management over heterogeneous networks. 51
Mohamed Marey, Heidi Steendam: The effect of narrowband interference on ML fractional frequency offset estimator for OFDM. 52
Leandro D'Orazio, Claudio Sacchi, Fabrizio Granelli, Francesco G. B. De Natale: Situation-aware radio resource management for multi-rate MC-CDMA wireless networks targeted at multimedia data exchanges in local areas. 53



