5th International Workshop on Image Analysis
for Multimedia Interactive Services

April 21-23, 2004, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

Program Overview

 


 

Program Schedule

 

SESSION WedAmPS1: Invited: Advances on Facial Recognition
Date: 21.04.2004
Time: 09:00 - 10:00
Chair:
Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico/Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

1178
09:00
FACE RECOGNITION BY HUMAN AND BY COMPUTER: TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN, OR NOT
Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

 

SESSION WedAmOR1: Oral 1 - Facial Analysis and Recognition
Date: 21.04.2004
Time: 10:00 - 11:20
Chair:
Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

1033
10:00
AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF HUMAN FACES IN NATURAL SCENE IMAGES BY USE OF SKIN COLOUR AND EDGE DISTRIBUTION
Tsz Ying Lui, Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

1077
10:20
A STOCHASTIC APPROACH FOR APPEARANCE-BASED 3D FACE TRACKING
Fadi Dornaika, Franck Davoine, Mo Dang, CNRS, Compiegne University of Technology, France

1087
10:40
AN AUTOMATIC FEATURE-BASED FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM
Stefano Arca, Paola Campadelli, Raffaella Lanzarotti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

1109
11:00
FACE RECOGNITION: WHEN AUDIO COMES TO THE RESCUE OF VIDEO
Alberto Albiol, Technical University of Valencia, Spain; Luis Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain; Edward Delp, Purdue University, USA

 

SESSION WedAmPO1: Poster 1 - Facial Analysis Tools
Date: 21.04.2004
Time: 11:20 - 12:45
Chair:
Franck Davoine, University of Technology of Compiegne, France

1039
FACE APPEARANCE FACTORIZATION FOR EXPRESSION ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS
Bouchra Abboud, Franck Davoine, Heudiasyc Laboratory, University of Technology of Compiegne, France

1041
AN AUTOMATIC ALGORITHM FOR FACIAL FEATURE EXTRACTION IN VIDEO APPLICATIONS
Yun Sheng, Abdul-Hamid Sadka, Ahmet Kondoz, University of Surrey, UK

1057
AN EFFECTIVE LIP TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR ACOUSTIC-TO-ARTICULATORY INVERSION
JIngying Chen, LORIA-INRIA, France; Marie-Odile Berger, Yve Laprie, LORIA, France

1062
LDA WITH SUBGROUP PCA METHOD FOR FACIAL IMAGE RETRIEVAL
Wonjun Hwang, Tae-kyun Kim, Seok-Cheol Kee, Samsung AIT, Korea

1065
SHAPE AND SAMPLED-APPEARANCE MODEL FOR MOUTH COMPONENTS SEGMENTATION
Pierre Gacon, Pierre-Yves Coulon, LIS-INPG, France; Gérard Bailly, ICP-INPG, France

1071
EFFECT OF COMPRESSION ON FACE RECOGNITION
Kshitij Wat, S H Srinivasan, Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India

1074
3D HEAD TRACKING BY PARTICLE FILTERS
Fadi Dornaika, Franck Davoine, Mo Dang, CNRS, University of Technology of Compiegne, France

1082
A COMPONENT-BASED DCT/LDA FACE RECOGNITION METHOD FOR CHARACTER RETRIEVAL IN TV PROGRAMS
Byunghee Jung, Myunghwan Ha, Heejung Kim, Keunsoo Park, KBS, South Korea; Heunjin Lee, Whoiyul Kim, Hanyang University, South Korea

1084
LOCAL HISTOGRAM ENHANCEMENT FOR FACE RECOGNITION
Kshitij Wat, S H Srinivasan, Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India

1115
TRANSFORMATION OF THE YCGCR COLOR SPACE FOR FACE DETECTION
Juan J. De Dios, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Narciso Garcia, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

1133
FACE AS A MULTIMEDIA OBJECT
Ali Arya, Steve DiPaola, Simon Fraser University, Canada

1141
A NEURAL NETWORK-BASED FACIAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS SYSTEM
Ioanna-Ourania Stathopoulou, George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece

 

SESSION WedAmPO2: Poster 2 - Error Resilience and Rate Control
Date: 21.04.2004
Time: 11:20 - 12:45
Chair:
Christine Guillemot, IRISA/INRIA, France

1013
TEMPORAL SHAPE ERROR CONCEALMENT BY GLOBAL MOTION COMPENSATION
Luis Soares, Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico / Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

1040
JOINT SPATIO-SNR-TEMPORAL RATE CONTROL AND DISTORTION MODELING FOR QUALITY TRADEOFFS IN VIDEO TRANSCODING
Yong Ju Jung, Yong Man Ro, Information and Communications University, South Korea

1044
SHOT-BASED RATE CONTROL FOR SINGLE-LAYER AND SCALABLE VIDEO ENCODING
Luk Overmeire, Vlaamse Radio en Televisie, Belgium; Fabio Verdicchio, Joeri Barbarien, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Guy Lateur, Vlaamse Radio en Televisie, Belgium; Lode Nachtergaele, Interuniversity MicroElectronics Center, Belgium; Peter Schelkens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

1046
ERROR CONCEALMENT IN MPEG4
Winyu Pongpadpinit, Alan Pearmain, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

1073
HIGH-REDUNDANCY EMBEDDED MULTIPLE-DESCRIPTION SCALAR QUANTIZERS FOR ROBUST COMMUNICATION OVER UNRELIABLE CHANNELS
Augustin Ion Gavrilescu, Adrian Munteanu, Peter Schelkens, Jan Cornelis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

1114
COMBINED ADAPTIVE SPREADING GAIN CONTROL AND UNEQUAL ERROR PROTECTION FOR REAL-TIME VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS OVER WCDMA SYSTEMS.
Chandrika Kodikara, Stewart Worrall, Ahmet Kondoz, Abdul-Hamid Sadka, University of Surrey, UK

1145
ERROR-RESILIENT AND PROGRESSIVE TRANSMISSION AND DECODING OF COMPRESSED IMAGES
Hervé Jégou, Thomas Guionnet, Christine Guillemot, IRISA/INRIA, France

1146
ANALYSIS OF RD MODELS FOR CODING EFFICIENCY IN H.264 STANDARD
Piotr Bobiñski, Wladyslaw Skarbek, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

1159
A HYBRID APPROACH FOR ERROR CONCEALMENT IN STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES
Carsten Clemens, Matthias Kunter, Sebastian Knorr, Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, Germany

1168
RATE AND DISTORTION MODELING ANALYSIS FOR MPEG-4 VIDEO INTRA CODING
Paulo Nunes, Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico/Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

 

SESSION WedPmOR1: Oral 2 - Watermarking
Date: 21.04.2004
Time: 14:00 - 15:20
Chair:
Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA

1036
14:00
DIGITAL WATERMARKING FOR INTEGRITY PROTECTION OF SYNTHETIC IMAGES
Huajian Liu, Martin Steinebach, Lucilla Croce Ferri, Fraunhofer IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems, Germany

1037
14:20
OPTIMUM SIGNAL COMBINING EXTRACTION OF DWT-BASED WATERMARKS
João Barata, Diogo Romão, Maria Paula Queluz, António Rodrigues, Instituto Superior Técnico/Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

1157
14:40
SEMI-FRAGILE WATERMARKING FOR STILL IMAGES AUTHENTICATION AND CONTENT RECOVERY
Alessandro Piva, CNIT, Italy; Roberto Caldelli, Franco Bartolini, University of Florence, Italy; Mauro Barni, University of Siena, Italy

1078
15:00
IMPROVED BINARY DITHER-MODULATION WITH PERCEPTUAL CONSTRAINTS
Fernando Pérez-González, Pedro Comesaña Alfaro, University of Vigo, Spain

 

SESSION WedPmSS1: Panel: Facial Analysis: Tools and Applications
Date: 21.04.2004
Time: 15:20 - 16:35
Chair:
Joern Ostermann, Technical University of Hannover, Germany

1181
FACE ANIMATION FOR HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES
Joern Ostermann, Technical University of Hannover, Germany

1182
IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR FACE RECOGNITION?
Luis Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

1183
INITIALIZATION - AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM IN MODEL-BASED CODING
Robert Forchheimer, Linköping University, Sweden

1193
PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR FACIAL IMAGES
Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

 

SESSION WedPmPO1: Poster 3 - Data Hiding and Protection
Date: 21.04.2004
Time: 16:35 - 18:00
Chair:
Fernando Pérez-González, University of Vigo, Spain

1001
AC ESTIMATION-BASED IMAGE WATERMARKING METHOD
Yulin Wang, Alan Pearmain, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

1038
IMAGE AUTHENTICATION USING AUTOMATIC DETECTED ROIS
Huajian Liu, Hichem Sahbi, Lucilla Croce Ferri, Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems, Germany

1042
AN AUDIO PATCHWORK SHAPING FRAMEWORK WITH PSYCHOACOUSTIC MODEL 2
Maurizio Murroni, Mirko Luca Lobina, Ivana Schirru, University of Cagliari, DIEE, Italy

1043
SSB-4 SYSTEM OF STEGANOGRAPHY USING BIT 4
José Marconi Rodrigues, LIRMM, University of Montpellier II, France; Riverson Rios, Computer Department, University Federal of Ceará, Brazil; William Puech, LIRMM, University of Montpellier II, France

1047
A WEB MULTI-TIER PLATFORM FOR ADAPTIVELY PROTECTING AND SECURELY DELIVERING MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS ON THE WEB
Michele Ceccarelli, University of Sannio, Dept. of Biological and Environmental Studies, Italy; Michele Di Santo, Salvatore D'Onofrio, Franco Frattolillo, University of Sannio, Dept. of Engineering, Italy

1058
BLIND TURBO DECODING OF SIDE-INFORMED DATA HIDING USING ITERATIVE CHANNEL ESTIMATION
Felix Balado, University College Dublin, Ireland; Fernando Pérez-González, University of Vigo, Spain

 

SESSION WedPmPO2: Poster 4 - Analysis for Surveillance
Date: 21.04.2004
Time: 16:35 - 18:00
Chair:
Jenny Benois-Pineau, University of Bordeaux, France

1021
CHANGE DETECTION-BASED VIDEO SEGMENTATION FOR SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS
Paulo Lobato Correia, Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico/Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

1054
MOTION SENSOR FOR VIDEO SURVEILLANCE IN THE MPEG DOMAIN
Rui Marcelino, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Faro, Portugal; Vitor Silva, Instituto de Telecomunicações/University of Coimbra, Portugal; Sérgio Faria, Instituto de Telecomunicações/I.P.Leiria, Portugal

1060
CONDENSATION TRACKER FOR SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS
Tal Nir, Alfred Bruckstein, Technion, Israel

1064
OPTIMIZED REAL TIME H264 ENCODER FOR VIDEOSURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS
Laurent Primaux, Jenny Benois-Pineau, LaBRI, France

1023
A VIDEO SYSTEM FOR URBAN SURVEILLANCE: FUNCTION INTEGRATION AND EVALUATION
Ricardo Oliveira, Pedro Ribeiro, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal; Jorge Marques, Instituto Superior Técnico/Instituto Sistemas Robótica, Portugal; João Lemos, Instituto Superior Técnico/INESC-ID, Portugal

1142
MULTISTAGE MORPHOLOGY-BASED LICENSE-PLATE LOCATION ALGORITHM
Tomás Brandão, Manuel Sequeira, Miguel Albuquerque, ISCTE, Portugal

1143
EVALUATION OF LICENSE-PLATE LOCATION ALGORITHMS
Manuel Sequeira, Tomás Brandão, Miguel Albuquerque, ISCTE, Portugal

 

SESSION ThuAmPS1: Invited: Analysis for Content Protection
Date: 22.04.2004
Time: 09:00 - 10:00
Chair:
Paula Queluz, Instituto Superior Técnico/Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

1179
09:00
THE SENSE AND NONSENSE OF WATERMARKING
Ton Kalker, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 

SESSION ThuAmSS1: Semantic-based Multimedia Analysis and Access - I
Date: 22.04.2004
Time: 10:00 - 11:20
Chair:
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece

1170
10:00
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES AND MULTIMEDIA
Pierre-Paul Sondag, European Commission, Luxembourg

1171
10:20
METOKIS -TOWARDS A SEAMLESS CONTENT AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE INFRASTRUCTURE
Wernher Behrendt, Sunil Goyal, Rupert Westenthaler, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria

1175
10:40
VISNET: NOE ON NETWORKED AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
Abdul-Hamid Sadka, University of Surrey, UK

1173
11:00
THE MEDIANET PROJECT
Serge Travert, THOMSON/Research & Innovation, France; Michel Lemonier, L-up, France

 

SESSION ThuAmOR1: Oral 3 - Segmentation
Date: 22.04.2004
Time: 10:00 - 11:20
Chair:
Murat Tekalp, Koc University, Turkey

1156
10:00
SHAPE GRADIENT FOR MULTI-MODAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING JOINT INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS
Ariane Herbulot, I3S Laboratory, France; Stéphanie Jehan Besson, GREYC-images Laboratory, France; Michel Barlaud, I3S Laboratory, France; Gilles Aubert, Dieudonné Laboratory, France

1076
10:20
AN ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL FOR VIDEO SEGMENTATION
Daniele Giusto, Francesco Massidda, Cristian Perra, University of Cagliari, DIEE, Italy

1160
10:40
ROBUST MOVING OBJECT SEGMENTATION BY BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION
Paolo Spagnolo, Marco Leo, Tiziana D'Orazio, Arcangelo Distante, CNR-ISSIA, Italy

1103
11:00
SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING OF MULTIPLE OBJECTS IN VIDEO SEQUENCES
Michele Aprile, Andrea Colombari, Andrea Fusiello, Vittorio Murino, University of Verona, Italy

 

SESSION ThuAmPO1: Poster 5 - Indexing and Retrieval
Date: 22.04.2004
Time: 11:20 - 12:45
Chair:
Nikos Doulamis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

1012
AQUISAR: IMAGE RETRIEVAL IN UNDERWATER WEBCAM IMAGES
Tanja Kämpfe, Neuroinformatics Group, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, Germany; Tim W. Nattkemper, Applied Neuroinformatics Group, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, Germany; Helge Ritter, Neuroinformatics Group, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, Germany

1018
A RECURSIVE MATCHING METHOD FOR CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL
Hyunwoo Kim, SAMSUNG AIT, South Korea; Tae-kyun Kim, Wonjun Hwang, Seok-Cheol Kee, Samsung, South Korea

1031
AN OPEN PLATFORM FOR DYNAMIC MULTIMEDIA INDEXING
Bassem Haidar, Philippe Joly, Jean-Paul Bahsoun, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France

1032
AUTOMATIC VIDEO SEQUENCE ANALYSIS AND INDEXING
Cataldo Guaragnella, Politecnico di Bari, Electrics and Electronics Dept., Italy; Tiziana D'Orazio, Italian National Research Council, Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation, Italy

1066
A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO TEXTURE IMAGE RETRIEVAL VIA ALPHA-STABLE MODELING OF WAVELET DECOMPOSITIONS
George Tzagkarakis, Panagiotis Tsakalides, University of Crete, Greece

1089
SEMANTICALLY MEANINGFUL MUSIC RETRIEVAL WITH CONTENT-BASED FEATURES AND FUZZY CLUSTERING
Aristomenis Lampropoulos, George Tsihrintzis, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece

1095
CONSTRUCTION OF A FLOWER IMAGE DATABASE WITH FEATURE AND INDEX-BASED SEARCHING MECHANISM
Tomoaki Okamura, Mikito Toguro, Waseda University, Department of Applied Physics, Japan; Masajirou Iwasaki, RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Japan; Pitoyo Hartono, Shuji Hashimoto, Waseda University, Department of Applied Physics, Japan

1101
WEB IMAGE INDEXING: COMBINING IMAGE ANALYSIS WITH TEXT PROCESSING
Luís A. Alexandre, Manuela Pereira, Sara C. Madeira, João Cordeiro, Gaël Dias, Beira Interior University, Portugal

1123
FEATURES MINING FOR MULTIMEDIA INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL
Laure Berti-Equille, Anicet Kouomou-Choupo, Annie Morin, University of Rennes I, France

1128
BUIDLING AUDIO CLASSIFIERS FOR BROADCAST NEWS RETRIEVAL
George Tzanetakis, Ming-Yu Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

 

SESSION ThuAmPO2: Poster 6 - Quality Evaluation
Date: 22.04.2004
Time: 11:20 - 12:45
Chair:
Dominique Barba, IRCCyN, France

1024
FRAME DROPPING EFFECTS ON USER QUALITY PERCEPTION
Ricardo Rafael Pastrana-Vidal, Jean-Charles Gicquel, Catherine Colomes, France Telecom R&D, DIH/EQS/MAI, France; Hocine Cherifi, LIRSIA, Université de Bourgogne, France

1055
MASKING EFFECT IN VISUAL ATTENTION MODELING
Olivier Le Meur, THOMSON, France; Patrick Le Callet, Dominique Barba, IRCCyN, France; Dominique Thoreau, THOMSON, France

1072
VIDEO QUALITY ANALYSIS USING A WATERMARKING TECHNIQUE
Rosa Lancini, Francesco Mapelli, Sergio Saviotti, CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

1090
A PROPOSAL FOR THE QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF 3D VIDEO OBJECTS
Marco Rittermann, Institute of Media Technology, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany

1111
VIDEO QUALITY EVALUATION FOR UMA
Odd Inge Hillestad, Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan, Ajit Bopardikar, Andrew Perkis, Center for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, Norway

1153
IMPACT OF TOPOLOGY CHANGES IN VIDEO SEGMENTATION EVALUATION
Elisa Drelie Gelasca, Touradj Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland; Mylene Farias, Sanjit Mitra, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

 

SESSION ThuAmSS2: Semantic-based Multimedia Analysis and Access - II
Date: 22.04.2004
Time: 11:30 - 12:50
Chair:
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece

1174
11:30
PRESTOSPACE: AN INTEGRATED SOLUTION FOR AUDIO-VISUAL PRESERVATION AND ACCESS
Daniel Teruggi, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, France

1172
11:50
INTEGRATING KNOWLEDGE, SEMANTICS AND CONTENT FOR USER-CENTRED INTELLIGENT MEDIA SERVICES: THE ACEMEDIA PROJECT
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Yannis Avrithis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece; Paola Hobson, Motorola Ltd, UK; Michael G. Strintzis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

1176
12:10
DIRECT - INFO MEDIA MONITORING AND MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS OF TIME CRITICAL DECISIONS
Herwig Rehatschek, Institute of Information Systems & Information Management, Austria

1177
12:30
CHIL - COMPUTERS IN THE HUMAN INTERACTION LOOP
Alex Waibel, Interactive Systems Labs (ISL), University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Hartwig Steusloff, Fraunhofer Institut für Informations- und Datenverarbeitung (IITB), Germany; Rainer Stiefelhagen, Interactive Systems Labs (ISL), University of Karlsruhe, Germany

 

SESSION ThuPmOR1: Oral 4 - Indexing and Retrieval
Date: 22.04.2004
Time: 14:00 - 15:20
Chair:
Noel Murphy, Dublin City University, Ireland

1112
14:00
REGION-BASED RELEVANCE FEEDBACK IN CONCEPT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL
José Torres, Alan Parkes, Lancaster University, UK; Luis Corte-Real, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto/INESC-Porto, Portugal

1137
14:20
FAST VIDEO SHOT RETRIEVAL BASED ON A SEQUENCE TRACE IN THE PRINCIPAL COMPONENT SPACE
Zhu Li, Motorola Labs, USA; Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA; Bhavan Gandhi, Motorola Labs, USA

1113
14:40
A NOVEL MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUE: PROGRESSIVE QUERY (WHY WAIT)
Serkan Kiranyaz, Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

1124
15:00
AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SEMANTIC PREFERENCES FROM MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTS
Manolis Wallace, Phivos Mylonas, Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

 

SESSION ThuPmSS1: Panel: Segmentation and Indexing: Where are we?
Date: 22.04.2004
Time: 15:20 - 16:35
Chair:
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

1184
VIDEO SEGMENTATION AND INDEXING
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

1185
INDEXING AND SEGMENTATION: WHAT RELATIONS?
Henri Sanson, France Telecom R&D, France

1186
THE STONE AGE
Thomas Sikora, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

1188
AUTOMATIC VIDEO SEGMENTATION AND INDEXING : WHERE ARE WE?
Murat Tekalp, Koc University, Turkey

 

SESSION ThuPmPO1: Poster 7 - Detection and Tracking
Date: 22.04.2004
Time: 16:35 - 18:00
Chair:
Mário Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Técnico/Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

1009
VIDEO SEGMENTATION AND ANNOTATION USING GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS
Roland Wilson, University of Warwick, UK

1079
A NEW METHOD FOR EDGE FEATURE DETECTION AND MATCHING WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO EDGE PYRAMID
Alireza Behrad, Seyed Ahmad Motamedi, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran; Kurosh Madani, University PARIS XII, France

1093
OUTLIER REMOVAL FOR PLAYER IDENTIFICATION IN INTERACTIVE SPORT SCENES USING REGION ANALYSIS
Ernesto Andrade, John Woods, Mohammed Ghanbari, University of Essex, UK

1110
COMPRESSED-DOMAIN OBJECT DETECTION FOR VIDEO UNDERSTANDING
Vasileios Mezaris, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Michael G. Strintzis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

1116
AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND EXTRACTION OF ARTIFICIAL TEXT IN VIDEO
Jovanka Malobabic, Noel O'Connor, Noel Murphy, Sean Marlow, Centre for Digital Video Processing, DCU, Ireland

1129
2D/3D HYBRID MODELING FOR VIDEO SEQUENCE
Eric Morillon, Raphaèle Balter, France Telecom, France; Luce Morin, IRISA, France; Stéphane Pateux, France Telecom, France

1134
A REGION-BASED ALGORITHM FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND PARAMETRIC MOTION ESTIMATION
Camilo Dorea, Montse Pardas, Ferran Marques, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

1144
A NOVEL APPROACH TO THE NOISE REMOVAL AND DETECTION OF SMALL OBJECTS WITH LOW CONTRAST
Feng-Yang Hsieh, Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan; Chin-Chuan Han, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chung-Hua University, Taiwan; Nai-Shen Wu, Kuo-Chin Fan, Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan

1167
FAST TWO-STEP UNASSISTED VIDEO SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUE EVALUATED BY TOLERANT GROUND TRUTH
Piotr Stec, University of Zielona Gora, Poland; Marek Domanski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

 

SESSION ThuPmPO2: Poster 8 - Extraction, Structuring and Classification
Date: 22.04.2004
Time: 16:35 - 18:00
Chair:
Jose M. Martinez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

1069
GRID-BASED CLUSTERING IN THE CONTENT-BASED ORGANIZATION OF LARGE IMAGE DATABASES
Iivari Kunttu, Leena Lepisto, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Juhani Rauhamaa, ABB Oy, Finland; Ari Visa, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

1070
A HASHING TECHNIQUE FOR AUTOMATIC VIDEO IDENTIFICATION
Rosa Lancini, Francesco Mapelli, Antonio Mucedero, CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

1085
SPATIAL ANALYSIS IN KEY-FRAME EXTRACTION USING VIDEO SEGMENTATION
Janko Calic, Barry T. Thomas, University of Bristol, UK

1098
COMMERCIALS DETECTION USING HMMS
Alberto Albiol, Maria Jose Fulla, Antonio Albiol, Technical University of Valencia, Spain; Luis Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

1099
EFFECTIVE IMAGE FINGERPRINT EXTRACTION BASED ON RANDOM BUBBLE SAMPLING
Fabrizio Guerrini, Riccardo Leonardi, Pierangelo Migliorati, Sergio Benini, University of Brescia, Italy

1104
GENERALIZED RADON TRANSFORM BASED 3D FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR 3D OBJECT RETRIEVAL
Petros Daras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Dimitrios Zarpalas, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece; Michael G. Strintzis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece

1117
FUSION OF STRUCTURAL AND COLOR LOCAL DESCRIPTORS FOR ENHANCED OBJECT RECOGNITION
Pedro Quelhas, Jean-Marc Odobez, IDIAP, Switzerland

1118
VIDEO SEGMENTATION BASED ON 1D-MOSAICS REPRESENTATION
Anne Manoury, Henri Nicolas, INRIA, France

1126
CONTOUR METRIC BASED IN THE CURVATURE EXTREMES OF THE DIFFUSED CONTOUR
Antonio Pinheiro, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

1127
PLANELETS: A NEW ANALYSIS TOOL FOR PLANAR FEATURE EXTRACTION
Nasir Rajpoot, Roland Wilson, Zhen Yao, University of Warwick, UK

 

SESSION FriAmPS1: Invited: Recent Advances on Video Coding
Date: 23.04.2004
Time: 09:00 - 10:00
Chair:
Paulo Lobato Correia, Instituto Superior Técnico/Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

1180
09:00
WAVELET VIDEO CODING
Jens-Rainer Ohm, Aachen University of Technology, Germany

 

SESSION FriAmOR1: Oral 5 - Content Adaptation
Date: 23.04.2004
Time: 10:00 - 11:20
Chair:
Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA

1150
10:00
SEMANTIC ANNOTATION AND TRANSCODING FOR SPORT VIDEOS
Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, Italy; Andrea Prati, Rita Cucchiara, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

1132
10:20
VMAP: VIDEO VISUALIZATION AND SUMMARIZATION ON EMBEDDED MANIFOLD ARTICULATION PRIMITIVES
Yingge Wang, Independent, USA; Qiang Cheng, Wayne State University, ECE Dept., USA; Jie Cheng, Independent, USA; Thomas Huang, UIUC, ECE Dept, USA

1121
10:40
OPTIMAL VIDEO ADAPTATION FOR RESOURCE CONSTRAINED MOBILE DEVICES BASED ON UTILITY THEORY
Ozgur Deniz Onur, Tubitak Bilten, Turkey; A. Aydin Alatan, M.E.T.U, Turkey

1063
11:00
APPLYING MPEG-21 BSDL TO THE JVT H.264/AVC SPECIFICATION IN MPEG-21 SESSION MOBILITY SCENARIOS
Wesley De Neve, Frederik De Keukelaere, Koen De Wolf, Ghent University, Belgium; Rik Van de Walle, Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium

 

SESSION FriAmPO1: Poster 9 - Scalability, Transcoding and Transmoding
Date: 23.04.2004
Time: 11:20 - 12:45
Chair:
Rik Van de Walle, Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium

1017
MULTIKEYS FOR THE SCALABLE MULTIMEDIA SERVICE
Robert Kutka, Andreas Hutter, Klaus Illgner, Jürgen Pandel, Marcel Wagner, Siemens AG, Germany

1025
TOWARDS UNIVERSAL AND PERSONALIZED ACCESS TO AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT IN THE DYMAS SYSTEM
Jose M. Martinez, Luis Herranz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

1028
STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO ADAPTATION IN MPEG-21 DIA
Manbae Kim, Haksoo Kim, Donghee Hong, Kangwon National University, South Korea

1052
VIDEO CONTENT ADAPTATION USING TRANSCODING FOR ENABLING UMA OVER UMTS
Safak Dogan, Sertac Eminsoy, Abdul-Hamid Sadka, Ahmet Kondoz, CCSR, UK

1083
REDUCTION OF BIT RATE FOR NOISY SEQUENCES BY THE INTEGRATION OF A MARKOV MOTION DETECTION ALGORITHM IN MPEG4 CODEC
Khalil Hachicha, David Faura, Patrick Garda, LISIF, France

1088
MODALITY CONVERSION FOR UNIVERSAL MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
Truong Cong Thang, Yong Ju Jung, Jae Wook Lee, Yong Man Ro, Information and Communications University, South Korea

1096
A KNOWLEDGE BASED APPROACH FOR MULTI-STEP MEDIA ADAPTATION
Dietmar Jannach, Klaus Leopold, Hermann Hellwagner, Christian Timmerer, University Klagenfurt, Austria

1108
MULTIMEDIA ADAPTATION BY TRANSMODING IN MPEG-21
Mariam Kimiaei Asadi, Jean-Claude Dufourd, ENST, France

1131
SCALABILITY EVALUATION OF STILL IMAGE CODERS
Nikola Sprljan, Divna Djordjevic, Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

1152
TRANSCODING OF MPEG-2 VIDEO SIGNALS INTO MPEG-4 VISUAL OBJECTS FOR E-LEARNING APPLICATIONS
Nuno Santos, Pedro Assunção, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

1166
SCALABILITY OF MODIFIED AVC/H.264VIDEO CODECS
Lukasz Blaszak, Marek Domanski, Rafal Lange, Slawomir Mackowiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

1169
H.264/AVC FINE GRAIN SCALABILITY USING BITPLANE CODING
João Ascenso, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal/Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal; Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

 

SESSION FriAmPO2: Poster 10 - Image and Video Coding
Date: 23.04.2004
Time: 11:20 - 12:45
Chair:
Abdul-Hamid Sadka, University of Surrey, UK

1034
MOTION ESTIMATION USING THE EDGES DETECTION AND WAVELET TRANSFORM
Bing Wang, Rong Chun Zhao, Ying Lei Cheng, Guang Jian Tian, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China

1050
IMAGE COMPRESSION USING A CARTOON-TEXTURE DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUE
Nikola Sprljan, Marta Mrak, Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

1075
PROPAGATION MODEL FOR UNCERTAINTY OF REFERENCE PIXELS AND MODEL-BASED INTRA REFRESHMENT FOR H.264 BITSTREAMS
Dong Wook Kang, Ki-Doo Kim, Kookmin University, Korea; Seung Jun Lee, MCubeWorks Inc., Korea

1119
EXPERIMENTS ON TRANSMITTING MPEG-4 CONTENT OVER MPEG-2 TRANSPORT STREAM
Son Tran, Lajos Konyha, Balazs Enyedi, Csaba Szombathy, Kalman Fazekas, BME, Hungary

1154
MINIMUM DISTORTION SAMPLING OF MULTIPLE IMAGE SEQUENCES BASED ON JOINT TEMPORAL ANALYSIS
Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA

1161
ANALYSIS OF MOJETTE TRANSFORM PROJECTIONS FOR AN EFFICIENT CODING
Pierre Verbert, Vincent Ricordel, Jeanpierre Guedon, IRCCyN/IVC, France

1162
A NUMERICAL COMPARISON OF COMPRESSED DOMAIN APPROXIMATIONS TO OPTICAL FLOW
Miguel Coimbra, Mike Davies, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

1163
IMPROVED VIDEO CODING THROUGH TEXTURE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS
Patrick Ndjiki-Nya, Christoph Stueber, Thomas Wiegand, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Germany

1165
HYBRID VIDEO CODER MODELING USING HISTOGRAMS OF TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS
Adam Luczak, Marek Domanski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

 

SESSION FriPmOR1: Oral 6 - Object Detection and Tracking
Date: 23.04.2004
Time: 14:00 - 15:20
Chair:
Jorge Salvador Marques, Instituto Superior Técnico/Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal

1086
14:00
A MODIFIED SHADING MODEL METHOD FOR BUILDING DETECTION
Vesna Zeljkovic, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia and Montenegro; Andres Dorado, Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

1125
14:20
SPATIAL-TEMPORAL VIDEO ANALYSIS FOR PEDESTRIAN DETECTION. APPLICATION TO DENSITY ESTIMATION AND TRACKING IN DEMONSTRATIONS
Josep R. Casas, Aleix Puig, Pere Puig, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

1135
14:40
A SEAMLESS MODULAR APPROACH FOR REAL-TIME VIDEO ANALYSIS FOR SURVEILLANCE
Xavier Desurmont, Arnaud Bastide, Jean-François Delaigle, Multitel A.S.B.L., Belgium; Benoit Macq, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

1005
15:00
ON-LINE OBJECT TRACKING WITH BAYESIAN NETWORKS
Pedro Jorge, ISEL/ISR, Portugal; Arnaldo Abrantes, ISEL, Portugal; Jorge Marques, Instituto Superior Técnico/Instituto Sistemas Robótica, Portugal

 

SESSION FriPmSS1: Panel: Image and Video Analysis: Trends and Challenges
Date: 23.04.2004
Time: 15:20 - 16:35
Chair:
Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland

1189
IMAGE AND VIDEO ANALYSIS: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES (1)
Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland

1190
IMAGE AND VIDEO ANALYSIS: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES (2)
Edward Delp, Purdue University, USA

1191
IMAGE AND VIDEO ANALYSIS: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES (3)
Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA

1192
IMAGE AND VIDEO ANALYSIS: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES: INTERACTIVE PROCESSING AND VISUALIZATION
Riccardo Leonardi, University of Brescia, Italy

 

SESSION FriPmPO1: Poster 11 - Applications
Date: 23.04.2004
Time: 16:35 - 18:00
Chair:
Sérgio Faria, Instituto de Telecomunicações/I. P. Leiria, Portugal

1004
GLOBAL ELECTRONIC MEDIUM CONSTELLATION FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT INTEGRATION - THE GEMINI PERSPECTIVE
Ioannis Chochliouros, Anastasia Spiliopoulou-Chochliourou, George Lalopoulos, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., Greece

1019
VIDEO HYPERMEDIA AUTHORING FOR VIDEO DELIVERING SERVICE BASED ON A COMBINATION OF AUTOMATIC TRACKING AND MANUAL EDITING
Hironobu Abe, Junshiro Kanda, Koji Wakimoto, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan; Hiroshi Shigeno, Kenichi Okada, Keio University, Japan

1029
MEDICAL VISUALISATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT ANALYSIS AND UNDERSTANDING
Marek Ogiela, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Lidia Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

1051
TEXTURE CHARACTERISATION USING CONSTRAINED OPTIMISATION TECHNIQUES WITH APPLICATION TO MAMMOGRAPHY
Sarah Lee, Tania Stathaki, Imperial College London, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UK

1056
USING FREE TECHNOLOGY TO STORE AND RETRIEVE MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES BY INTERNET
Fátima Nunes, Centro Universitário Eurípides de Marília, Brazil; Homero Schiabel, Claudio Góes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; José Alaor Oliveira Jr, Centro Universitário Eurípides de Marília, Brazil; Rodrigo Benatti, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

1067
ROCK IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND CLASSIFICATION BASED ON GRANULARITY
Leena Lepisto, Iivari Kunttu, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Jorma Autio, Saanio & Riekkola Consulting Engineers, Finland; Ari Visa, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

1091
OCTREE VOXEL MODELING WITH MULTI-VIEW TEXTURING
Karsten Müller, Aljoscha Smolic, Birgit Kaspar, Philipp Merkle, Thobias Rein, Peter Eisert, Thomas Wiegand, FhG-HHI, Germany

1100
A MOBILE AR KIT AS A HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACE FOR COGNITIVE VISION
Hannes Siegl, Axel Pinz, Graz University of Technology, Austria

1151
A TOOLSET FOR BROADCAST AUTOMATION FOR THE C-SPAN NETWORKS
Cuneyt Taskiran, Anthony Martone, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA; Robert Browning, Department of Political Science, Purdue University, USA; Edward Delp, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA

 

SESSION FriPmPO2: Poster 12 - Personalization
Date: 23.04.2004
Time: 16:35 - 18:00
Chair:
Nuno Guimarães, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences, Portugal

1011
FAST IMPLEMENTATIONS OF MAX/MIN TREE FOR INTERACTIVE IMAGE SEGMENTATION
Xiaoqiang Huang, Mark Fisher, Yanong Zhu, CMP, UEA, UK

1015
USER PREFERENCE BASED INFORMATION PERSONALIZATION FOR EASY ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS
Jeongyeon Lim, Sanggil Kang, Munchurl Kim, Information and Communications University, South Korea

1068
SHOT-ADAPTIVE SAMPLING FOR VIDEO SUMMARIZATION
Nagul Cooharojananone, Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan

1080
FINDING AND PRESENTING VIDEO DUPLICATES
S H Srinivasan, Satyam, India

1092
FEATURE SELECTION-BASED RELEVANCE FEEDBACK IN CONTENT-BASED RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
Dionisios Sotiropoulos, George Tsihrintzis, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece

1107
PARTITION SAMPLING FOR ACTIVE VIDEO DATABASE ANNOTATION
Fabrice Souvannavong, Bernard Merialdo, Benoit Huet, Institut Eurecom, France

1136
MINMAX OPTIMAL VIDEO SUMMARIZATION
Zhu Li, Motorola Labs, USA; Guido Schuster, Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, Switzerland; Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA; Bhavan Gandhi, Motorola Labs, USA

1140
GENERALIZED ADAPTIVE PERSONALIZATION OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT
Nikolaos Doulamis, National Technical University of Athens, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Greece

1155
ACTIVE SHADOWS: REAL-TIME VIDEO SEGMENTATION WITHIN A CAMERA-DISPLAY SPACE
I-Jong Lin, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, USA

1158
AUTOMATIC USER PREFERENCE SERVICE IN EPG SYSTEM USING ROUGH FUZZY MLP
Yongju Cho, Jinwoo Hong, Jinwoong Kim, ETRI, Korea