SIGMAP 2006: Setúbal, Portugal
Pedro A. Amado Assunção, Sérgio M. M. de Faria (Eds.): SIGMAP 2006 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Setúbal, Portugal, August 7-10, 2006, SIGMAP is part of ICETE - The International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications. INSTICC Press 2006 ISBN 972-8865-64-3
Invited Speakers
Keynote Lectures
David A. Marca: E-Business Strategy - Charting a Way through Uncertain Waters of Electronic Commerce. ...
Manu Malek: IT Security Forensics: Promises and Shortcomings. ...
Les Barclay: Wireless Communications, a new Emphasis for Effective Use of the Radio Spectrum. ...
Fernando Pereira: Multimedia Representation in MPEG Standards: Achievements and Challenges. ...
Jan Jürjens: Model-Based Security Engineering. ...
Anisse Taleb: Advances in Speech and Audio Coding and its Applications for Mobile Multimedia. ...
Thomas Greene: Redefining the Market Place: Only the Numbers are Different? ...
Tutorial
David A. Marca: Project Management for E-Business Initiatives . Project Framework, Proven Practices, Coordinated Work, Focused Sub-Teams. ...
Multimedia Communications
Full Papers
R. Marques, Vítor Manuel Mendes da Silva, Sérgio M. M. de Faria, Antonio Navarro, Pedro A. Amado Assunção: Fast Conversion of H.264/AVC Integer Transform Coefficients into DCT Coefficients. 5-8
Peter Lambert, Wesley De Neve, Davy De Schrijver, Yves Dhondt, Rik Van de Walle: Using Placeholder Slices and MPEG-21 BSDL for ROI Extraction in H.264/AVC FMO-Encoded Bitstreams. 9-16
Marco Alexandre Cravo Gomes, Gabriel Falcão Paiva Fernandes, João Gonçalves, Vítor Manuel Mendes da Silva, Miguel Falcão, Pedro Faia: HDL Library of Processing Units for Generic and DVB-S2 LDPC Decoding. 17-24
Pietro Camarda, Cataldo Guaragnella, Domenico Striccoli: A Predictive Multi-Channel MBAC Technique for On-Line Video Streaming. 25-32
Jia-Ming Chen, Jenq-Shiou Leu, Hsin-Wen Wei, Li-Ping Tung, Yen-Ting Chou, Wei-Kuan Shih: Design and Implementation of Video on Demand Services over a Peer-To-Peer Multioverlay Network. 33-41
Gianmarco Panza, Valentin Besoiu, Catherine Lamy-Bergot, Filippo Sidoti, Roberto Bertoldi: Weight Updating Methods for a Dynamic Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ) Scheduler. 42-49
Ahmed Abd El Al, Tarek N. Saadawi, Myung J. Lee: Streaming Low-Delay Video over AIMD Transport Protocols. 50-57
Antonio Estepa, Rafael Estepa, Juan M. Vozmediano: Traffic Trunk Parameters for Voice Transport over MPLS. 58-64
Antonio Estepa, Rafael Estepa, Juan M. Vozmediano: An Efficient Packetization Scheme for VOIP. 65-69
Short Papers
Carlos Friaças, José Baptista, Mónica Domingues, Paulo Jorge S. G. Ferreira: Videoconference over IPV6 - IPv6 Networks Advanced Developments. 73-80
Andreas Schorr, Franz J. Hauck, Bernhard Feiten, Ingo Wolf: A Comparative Study of State-Of-The-Art Adaptation Techniques for Scalable Multimedia Streams. 81-88
E. A. Jammeh, Martin Fleury, Mohammed Ghanbari: Congestion Control across a Video-Dominated Internet Tight Link. 89-94
Posters
Hyeon Park, Byung-Ho Ye, Donghun Lee, Sang-Ha Kim: Balanced Resource Share Mechanism in Optical Networks. 97-100
Multimedia Signal Processing
Full Papers
Tarig Ballal, Nedelko Grbic, Abbas Mohammed: A Simple and Comutationally Efficient Algorithm for Real-Time Blind Source Separation of Speech Mixtures. 105-109
Suzana Maranhão, Rogério Rodrigues, Luiz Fernando Soares: On-The-Fly Time Scaling for Compressed Audio Streams. 110-117
Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, Eduardo A. B. da Silva, Murilo B. de Carvalho, Sérgio M. M. de Faria, Vítor Manuel Mendes da Silva: Improving Multiscale Recurrent Pattern Image Coding With Deblocking Filtering. 118-125
Damjan Zazula, Ales Holobar, Matjaz Divjak: Convolution Kernel Compensation Applied to 1D and 2D Blind Source Separation. 126-133
Susanna Minasyan, Karen O. Egiazarian, Jaakko Astola, David Guevorkian: Signal Denoising Based on Parametric Haar-Like Transforms. 134-139
Niranjan Mulay: Direction Biased Search Algorithms for Fast Block Motion Estimation. 140-147
Short Papers
E. Didiot, Irina Illina, Odile Mella, Dominique Fohr, Jean Paul Haton: Speech/Music Discrimination Based on Wavelets for Broadcast Programs. 151-156
Gaoyong Luo: Real-Time Image Wavelet Coding for Low Bit Rate Transmission. 157-163
Andreas Ahrens, Christoph Lange: Optimal Power Allocation in a MIMO-OFDM Twisted Pair Transmission System with Far-End Crosstalk. 164-169
Modris Greitans: Processing of Non-Stationary Signal Using Level-Crossing Sampling. 170-177
Sven Klomp, Yuri Vatis, Jörn Ostermann: Side Information Interpolation with Sub-Pel Motion Compensation for WYNER-ZIV Decoder. 178-182
Posters
Jeremy Philippeau, Julien Pinquier, Philippe Joly: Intervenant Classification in an Audiovisual Document. 185-188
Multimedia Systems and Applications
Full Papers
Yuka Kato, Katsuya Hakozaki: A Video Classification Method for User-Centered Streaming Services. 200-207
Serge Linckels, Christoph Meinel: An e-Librarian Service that Yields Pertinent Resources from a Multimedia Knowledge Base. 208-215
Toshiki Iso, Kenichi Yamazaki: Extracting Personal User Context with a Three-Axis Sensor Mounted on a Freely Carried Cell Phone. 224-231
Bart Lehane, Noel E. O'Connor, Hyowon Lee: Searching Movies Based on User Defined Semantic Events. 232-239
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Donald Baker: Providing Physical Security via Video Event Awareness. 240-251
Amir Houmansadr, Hamed Pirsiavash, Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami: Robust Content-Based Video Watermarking Exploiting Motion Entropy Masking Effect. 252-259
Javier Balladini, Leandro Souza, Remo Suppi: A Network Traffic Scheduler for a VoD Server on the Internet. 260-268
Dimitrios Rigas, Antonio Ciuffreda: Multi-Modal Web-Browsing - An Empirical Approach to Improve the Browsing Process of Internet Retrieved Results. 269-276
Pedro A. Amado Assunção, Carla Lopes, Rafael F. S. Caldeirinha: A b-Learning Approach for Electrical Engineering Based on Wireless Access to Pedagogical e-Content. 277-285
Short Papers
Jarmo Hiipakka: A Component-Based Software Architecture for Realtime Audio Processing Systems. 289-294
Dan Komosny: Subgroup Feedback for Source-Specific Multicast. 295-301
Luis A. Morales Rosales, Saúl E. Pomares Hernández: A Temporal Synchronization Mechanism for Real-Time Distributed Continuous Media. 302-309
Claudia Pinto P. Sena, Celso A. S. Santos: Development of Voice-Based Multimodal User Interfaces. 310-316
Stephan Repp, Christoph Meinel: Segmenting of Recorded Lecture Videos - The Algorithm VoiceSeg. 317-322
Posters
Sergio Cavaliere, Carmine Colucci: Personal Sound Browser - A Collection of Tools to Search, Analyze and Collect Audio Files in a LAN and in the Internet. 335-338
Kyungsook Bae, Keun-Chang Kwak, Soo-Young Chi: Speaker's Gender Identification for Human-Robot Interaction. 339-342
Hrvoje Mlinaric, Mario Kovac, Josip Knezovic: Application of Dynamically Reconfigurable Processors in Digital Signal Processing. 343-346
Liana Stanescu, Dumitru Dan Burdescu: Content-Based Visual Retrieval on Multiple Features in the Image Databases Obtained from DICOM Files. 347-350
Alcina Prata, Nuno Guimarães, Piet Kommers, Teresa Chambel: iTV Model - An HCI Based Model for the Planning, Development and Evaluation of iTV Applications. 351-355
Dong-Chul Kim, Jonghoon Seo, Cheolho Cheong, Tack-Don Han: Tag Interface For Pervasive Computing - Paper Tag Interface using Imae Code. 356-359



