Welcome to the second IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (IEEE PCM 2001) held in Zhongguanchun, Beijing, China, October 22 24, 2001. Building upon the success of the inaugural IEEE PCM 2000 in Sydney in December 2000, the second PCM again brought together the researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators of multimedia in the Pacific area. Theoretical breakthroughs and practical systems were presented at this conference, thanks to the sponsorship by the IEEE Circuit and Systems Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society, China Computer Foundation, China Society of Image and Graphics, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Tsinghua University, and Microsoft Research, China. IEEE PCM 2001 featured a comprehensive program including keynote talks, regular paper presentations, posters, demos, and special sessions. We received 244 papers and accepted only 104 of them as regular papers, and 53 as poster papers. Our special session chairs, Shin'ichi Satoh and Mohan Kankanhalli, organized 6 special sessions. We acknowledge the great contribution from our program committee members and paper reviewers who spent many hours reviewing submitted papers and providing valuable comments for the authors. The conference would not have been successful without the help of so many people. We greatly appreciated the support of our honorary chairs: Prof. Sun Yuan Kung of Princeton University, Dr. Ya Qin Zhang of Microsoft Research China, and Prof.
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Wearable Computing.- Linux Watch: Hardware Platform for Wearable Computing Research.- Wearable Computer Application for Open Air Exhibition in EXPO 2005.- Automatic Summarization of Wearable Video - Indexing Subjective Interest -.- A Novel Video Retrieval Method to Support a User's Recollection of Past Events Aiming for Wearable Information playing.- Experience of Immersive Virtual World Using Cellular Phone Interface.- VizWear: Toward Human-Centered Interaction through Wearable Vision and Visualization.- Retrieval Techniques.- Face Indexing and Retrieval in Personal Digital Album.- An Image Retrieval System Based on Local and Global Color Descriptors.- A New Shot Boundary Detection Algorithm.- An Adaptive Index Structure for High-Dimensional Similarity Search.- Combining Hierarchical Classifiers with Video Semantic Indexing Systems.- Mismatch MB Retrieval for MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 Transcoding.- Coding Techniques.- On the Optimal Coding.- Dynamic Multi-reference Prediction in Video Coding for Improved Error Resilience over Internet.- Motion-Based Semantic Event Detection for Video Content Description in MPEG-7.- Fast and Robust Sprite Generation for MPEG-4 Video Coding.- Fast Motion Estimation Using N-Queen Pixel Decimation.- Improved MPEG-4 Visual Texture Coding Using Perceptual Dithering for Transparent Image Coding.- Systems.- SPEM Rate Control.- A Real-Time Large Vocabulary Continuous Recognition System for Chinese Sign Language.- Object Modeling, Coding, and Transmission for Multimedia Communications.- Live Events Accessing for Multi-Users with Free Viewpoints Using Stereo Omni-directional System.- Unsupervised Analysis of Human Gestures.- User Modeling for Efficient Use of Multimedia Files.- Vision and Graphics.- A Feature-Based Vehicle Tracking System in Congested Traffic Video Sequences.- Movie Event Detection by Using AudioVisual Information.- Double Hierarchical Algorithm for Video Mosaics.- Automatic Segmentation and Tracking of Moving Objects.- Text Area Detection from Video Frames.- Interacting with 3D Graphic Objects in an Image-Based Environment.- Face.- Robust Face Recognition with Light Compensation.- Robust Head Pose Estimation Using Textured Polygonal Model with Local Correlation Measure.- A Face Verification Algorithm Integrating Geometrical and Template Features.- E-Partner: A Photo-Realistic Conversation Agent.- A Robust and Fast Face Modeling System.- Automatic Human Face Recognition System Using Fractal Dimension and Modified Hausdorff Distance.- Multimedia Retrieval.- Similarity Retrieval in Image Databases by Boosted Common Shape Features Among Query Images.- Combining Configurational and Statistical Approaches in Image Retrieval.- Digital Image Coding with Hybrid Wavelet Packet Transform.- Texture Retrieval with Linguistic Descriptions.- Multimedia Education.- Implementation of the Virtual School: Best Cyber Academy.- Applying Process Improvement Approach to the Design and Development of a Multimedia-Based Training Management System.- IP Traffic Monitoring: An Overview and Future Considerations.- Multimedia Presentation and Databases.- Efficient Dynamic Image Retrieval Using the Á Trous Wavelet Transformation.- Image Retrieval in Multimedia with Emergence Index.- Efficient Multimedia Database Indexing Using Structural Join Index Hierarchy.- Modeling of the HLA-Based Simulation System.- An End-to-End Delivery Scheme for Robust Video Streaming.- Data Hiding.- Customer Identification for MPEG Video Based on Digital Fingerprinting.- Performance Analysis of Data Hiding.- Data Encryption Using MRF with an RSA Key.- Digital Watermarking for Forgery Detection in Printed Materials.- Improvement and Comments on Image Watermarking Using Complementary Modulation.- Image and Video Coding.- An Eye-Movement Controlled Wavelet Based Image Coder.- Variable Frame-Rate Video Coding Bbased on Global Motion Analysis.- Efficient Blind Image Restoration Based on 1-D Generalized Cross Validation.- Block Reordering Wavelet Packet SPIHT Image Coding.- A Motion Activity Descriptor and Its Extraction in Compressed Domain.- A Fast and Effective Block-Matching Error Concealment Scheme.- Bit Allocation for Video Coding with Temporal-Spatial Tradeoff.- Retrieval.- An Evaluation of the Robustness of Image Retrieval Based on Vector Quantization.- Search for Multi-modality Data in Digital Libraries.- Compressed Domain Summarization of Digital Video.- Automatic Segmentation of News Items Based on Video and Audio Features.- Association Feedback: A Novel Tool for Feature Elements Based Image Retrieval.- Query by Visual Example: Assessing the Usability of Content-Based Image Retrieval System User Interfaces.- Using Keyblock Statistics to Model Image Retrieval.- Speech and Sound.- Pitch Tracking and Melody Slope Matching for Song Retrieval.- Analysis of Environmental Sounds as Indexical Signs in Film.- A Low Missing Rate Audio Search Technique for Cantonese Radio Broadcast Recording.- Emotion Detection from Speech to Enrich Multimedia Content.- Networking.- Proxy Caching Based on Patching Scheme and Prefetching.- A Stateless Active Queue Management Scheme for Approximating Fair Bandwidth Allocation and Stabilized Buffer Occupation.- QOS-based Checkpoint ProtOcOl for Multimedia Network Systems.- An Interactive Audio and Video Station over Internet.- Spoken Dialog.- Query by Tapping: A New Paradigm for Content-Based Music Retrieval from Acoustic Input.- Multi-modal Sign Icon Retrieval for Augmentative Communication.- Comparison of Word and Subword Indexing Techniques for Mandarin Chinese Spoken Document Retrieval.- Interactive Web Multimedia Search Using Query-Session-Based Query Expansion.- Codec Schemes Selection for Wireless Voice over IP (VoIP).- Multimedia Security.- On the Use of Error Correction Codes in Spread Spectrum Based Image Watermarking.- Correlation Detection of Asymmetric Watermark.- Watermarking Music Sheets.- BCH Coded Watermarks for Error-Prone Transmission of MPEG Video.- Systems.- Smart Classroom - an Intelligent Environment for Tele-education.- Movie Video Hypermedia Authoring System.- Design Considerations for the Video Analyzer SDK.- Multimedia Networking.- Network-Adaptive Cache Management Schemes for Mixed Media.- Robust Scalable Image Transmission over Wireless Fading Channel.- A Dynamic Regulation with Scheduler Feedback Information for Multimedia Networks.- A New Scheduling Scheme for Multicast True VoD Service.- Itelligent Multi-hop Video Communications.- Learning and Recognition.…