This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2002, held in Hsinchu, Taiwan in December 2002.The 154 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mobile multimedia, digitial watermarking and data hiding, motion analysis, mulitmedia retrieval techniques, image processing, mulitmedia security, image coding, mulitmedia learning, audio signal processing, wireless multimedia streaming, multimedia systems in the Internet, distance education and multimedia, Internet security, computer graphics and virtual reality, object tracking, face analysis, and MPEG-4.
Inhalt
Mobile Multimedia.- Leveraging Information Appliances: A Browser Architecture Perspective in the Mobile Multimedia Age.- Seamless Service Handoff for Ubiquitous Mobile Multimedia.- Design of Secure Mobile Application on Cellular Phones.- Ubiquitous Displays for Cellular Phone Based Personal Information Environments.- Context-Aware Service Delivery to Mobile Users.- The Design and Implementation of Network Service Platform for Pervasive Computing.- Digital Watermarking and Data Hiding.- Improved Error Detection Method for Real-Time Video Communication Using Fragile Watermarking.- Digital Geographical Map Watermarking Using Polyline Interpolation.- Watermarking MPEG-4 2D Mesh Animation in Multiresolution Analysis.- Rotation, Scaling, and Translation Resilient Image Watermarking with Side Information at Encoder.- A High Capacity Data Hiding Scheme Based on DFT.- An Algorithm for Data Hiding Using Median Cut Segmentation.- An Optimized Spatial Data Hiding Scheme Combined with Convolutional Codes and Hilbert Scan.- Research on Technology of Chaos Secrecy Communications in Digital Watermarking.- Motion Analysis.- EFBLA: A Two-Phase Matching Algorithm for Fast Motion Estimation.- A New Adaptive Return Prediction Search Algorithm for Block Matching.- A 2-Stage Partial Distortion Search Algorithm for Block Motion Estimation.- A Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation Algorithm with Motion Modeling and Motion Analysis.- Video Coding Using Supplementary Block for Reliable Communication.- A Robust, Efficient, and Fast Global Motion Estimation Method from MPEG Compressed Video.- Multimedia Retrieval Techniques.- Querying Image Database by Video Content.- An ICA-Based Illumination-Free Texture Model and Its Application to Image Retrieval.- A Novel Hierarchical Approach to Image Retrieval Using Color and Spatial Information.- A Semantic Model for Video Description and Retrieval.- A Texture Segmentation Method Using Hierarchical Correlations of Wavelet Coefficients.- An Abstraction of Low Level Video Features for Automatic Retrievals of Explosion Scenes.- A Region-Based Image Retrieval System Using Salient Point Extraction and Image Segmentation.- Effects of Codebook Sizes, Codeword Dimensions, and Colour Spaces on Retrieval Performance of Image Retrieval Using Vector Quantization.- A Stochastic Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval.- Audio Retrieval with Fast Relevance Feedback Based on Constrained Fuzzy Clustering and Stored Index Table.- Semi-automatic Video Content Annotation.- Shot Classification of Sports Video Based on Features in Motion Vector Field.- Movie Content Retrieval and Semi-automatic Annotation Based on Low-Level Descriptions.- An Index Model for MPEG-2 Streams.- MORF: A Distributed Multimodal Information Filtering System.- Personalization of Interactive News through J2EE, XML, XSLT, and SMIL in a Web-Based Multimedia Content Management System.- Deploy Multimedia-on-Demand Services over ADSL Networks.- An Experiment on Generic Image Classi.cation Using Web Images.- An Authoring Tool Generating Various Video Abstractions Semi-automatically.- Motion Activity Based Semantic Video Similarity Retrieval.- Content-Based Audio Classification with Generalized Ellipsoid Distance.- A Motion-Aided Video Shot Segmentation Algorithm.- MPEG IPMP Concepts and Implementation.- Image Processing.- A Visual Model for Estimating Perceptual Redundancy Inherent in Color Image.- Simultaneous Color Clipping and Luminance Preserving for High Quality Entertainment Movie Coding.- A Dynamic Color Palette for Color Images Coding.- A Two-Stage Switching-Based Median Filter.- A Fast and Efficient Noise Reduction Method Suitable for Low Noise Density.- A Cross-Type Peak-and-Valley Filter for Error Prevention and Resilience in Image Communications.- Adaptive-Hierarchical-Filtering Technique for Image Enhancement.- A Design Method for Compactly Supported Sampling Function Generator.- A Smooth Interpolation Method for Nonuniform Samples Based on Sampling Functions Composed of Piecewise Polynomials.- Motion Vector Based Error Concealment Algorithms.- Multimedia Security.- A New Steganalysis Approach Based on Both Complexity Estimate and Statistical Filter.- Quantization Watermarking Schemes for MPEG-4 General Audio Coding.- Asymptotic Analyses of Visual Distortions: A New Approach to Defining Transparency.- An Information Hiding Technique for Binary Images in Consideration of Printing Process.- Image Watermarking Synchronization by Significant MSB Plane Matching.- Secure Watermark Verification Scheme.- Image Coding.- A Foveation-Based Rate Shaping Mechanism for MPEG Videos.- A Stereo Image Coding Using Hierarchical Basis.- A Method on Tracking Unit Pixel Width Line Segments for Function Approximation-Based Image Coding.- Object Assisted Video Coding for Video Conferencing System.- Inter-subband Redundancy Prediction Using Neural Network for Video Coding.- Multimedia Learning.- Building the Software Infrastructure for Smart Classroom: From Open Agent Architecture (OAA) to Smart Platform.- Self-Guided Adaptive and Interactive Hypermedia Courseware System.- Combining Hybrid Media Tools for Web-Based Education.- X-WALTZ: The Framework of an Interactive Multimedia Math E-learning.- Hybrid Learning Schemes for Multimedia Information Retrieval.- Lecturer Position Detection for Distribution System Using High Resolution Partial Images.- Audio Signal Processing.- Boosting Speech/Non-speech Classi.cation Using Averaged Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients Features.- Statistical Analysis of Musical Instruments.- Text-to-Visual Speech Synthesis for General Objects Using Parameter-Based Lip Models.- Speaker Verification from Coded Telephone Speech Using Stochastic Feature Transformation and Handset Identification.- Recognition of Visual Speech Elements Using Hidden Markov Models.- Robust and Inaudible Multi-echo Audio Watermarking.- Kernel-Based Probabilistic Neural Networks with Integrated Scoring Normalization for Speaker Verification.- An On-the-Fly Mandarin Singing Voice Synthesis System.- Popular Song Retrieval Based on Singing Matching.- Improving Audio Watermark Robustness Using Stretched Patterns against Geometric Distortion.- A Digital Audio Watermarking Using Two Masking Effects.- On the Possibility of Only Using Long Windows in MPEG-2 AAC Coding.- Wireless Multimedia Networks.- A Call Admission Control Algorithm Based on Stochastic Performance Bound for Wireless Networks.- Management of Multiple Mobile Routers for Continuous Multimedia in Mobile WLANs.- VoIP Quality Evaluation in Mobile Wireless Networks.- Connection Removal Algorithms for Multimedia CDMA Wireless Networks.- Integration of GPRS and Wireless LANs with Multimedia Applications.- Adaptive Multimedia System Architecture for Improving QoS inWireless Networks.- Multimedia Processing Techniques.- A New Improvement of JPEG Progressive Image Transmission Using Weight Table of Quantized DCT Coefficient Bits.- MediaView : A Semantic View Mechanism for Multimedia Modeling.- The Connection between Pyramidal Algorithm and Wavelet Series.- A Hybrid Motion Data Manipulation: Wavelet Based Motion Processing and Spacetime Rectification.- Image Segmentation.- Foreground Segmentation Using Motion Vectors in Sports Video.- C…