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Multimedia 2005 invites your participation in the premierannual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimediacomputing: from underlying technologies to applications, theoryto practice, and servers to networks to devices.

Conference Programme

The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talkswith topics of interest in:

(a) Multimedia analysis, processing, and retrieval

(b) Multimedia networking and systems support

(c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications

Awards will be given to the best paper and the best studentpaper. In order to encourage sharing of implementations, thisyear will also initiate awards for best demo, best art programpaper, and the best contributed open-source software.

Panels will consist of discussions on timely and controversialtopics.

Short papers will be presented in poster format and are anopportunity for researchers to present new work and ideas in aninteractive setting.

State-of-the-Art Tutorials by leading experts will precede thetechnical program. The full- and half-day offerings will span awide variety of topics.

Brave New Topics is a special sessions track containing papers,which extend the boundaries of multimedia research.

Technical Demonstrations will include leading edge work inevery area of multimedia technology and its application. Anaward will be given to the best technical demo.

Interactive Art Program will include long and short papersdescribing interactive multimedia art works, tools, applications,and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia contentand technology. It will also include an Art Exhibition on"Presence/Absence:" art works that use multimedia to exploreissues of location, relocation and dislocation, particularly wheremultimedia technology overcomes or reinforces physical presenceor separation.

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School of Computing,National University of

Singapore

Hilton HotelOrchard, Singapore

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Video Demonstrations allow researchers and artists todemonstrate their tool, system or application without having tobring the equipment for a "live" demo.

Day-long Workshops on topics of great current interest tomembers of the multimedia research community will precede thetechnical program.

The Doctoral Symposium is a venue for doctoral students topresent their research and receive feedback from members of themultimedia research field.

Singapore, popularly known as "The Garden City", is situated atthe southern tip of the Malaysian Peninsula in South-East Asia.With a rich and interesting history tracking back from 1819,Singapore is a small but prosperous cosmopolitan nationdiversified with 4 main ethnic groups, namely, Chinese, Malays,Indians and Eurasians. With museums exhibiting rich collectionof historical information and relics as contrasted to the funtheme parks, holidaying spots as well as bustling shopping anddining heavens, Singapore is an excellent utopia to unwind fromthe daunting stress of today's society.

Cosmopolitan Singapore

National University of Singapore (NUS) is situated in thewestern side of the nation and is easily accessible via thecommon modes of public transportations namely, the SingaporeBus Service (SBS) and the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) trainservice. Ranked alongside top Universities in the world, NUS isnot just Singapore's pride but also an epitome in the highstandards of education that is advocated in the nation.

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22 Aug 2005 Notification of acceptance of Workshop, Open Source SoftwareCompetition, Technical Demonstration, Doctoral Symposium andInteractive Arts Exhibition

29 Aug 2005 All camera ready papers due

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5 Sep 2005 Registration deadline for authors

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14 Mar 2005 Proposals for Workshops, and Brave New Topics due

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15 Apr 2005 Notification of acceptance of Workshop, and Brave New Topicsproposals

30 May 2005 Submission deadline for Full Papers

20 Jun 2005 Submission deadline for Short Papers

Submission deadline for Full Papers and Arts Exhibits for InteractiveArts Program, and Full Papers for Video Program

Submission deadline for Short Papers for Interactive Arts Program, andVideo Program

Proposal for Panel due

29 Jul 2005 Notification of acceptance of Full Papers and Short Papers

Notification of acceptance (of all categories of papers) for InteractiveArts Program and Video Program

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CONTENTS 1. Message from the General Co-Chairs 2

2. Layout of Rooms at Main Conference Site 3

3. Program at Glance 4

4. Full Program for Main Conference 7 Tuesday 8 November 2005 7

Wednesday 9 November 2005 12

Thursday 10 November 2005 16

Friday 11 November 2005 19

5. Keynote Address 20

6. Poster (Short Papers) 21

7. Art Exhibition 26 Bus Schedule from Conference Hotel to Exhibition Site 27

8. Tutorials 28

9. Full Programs for Workshops 29 MIR (Multimedia Information Retrieval) 29

VSSN (Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks) 32

CARPE (Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences) 34

P2PMMS (Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming) 35

MSC (Multimedia Service Composition) 36

MHC (Multimedia for Human Communication) 37

10. Social Programs 38

11. Registration and Network Access 38

12. ACM Multimedia 2005 Organizing Committee 39

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1. MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Welcome to the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2005) held in Singapore from 6 – 11 November 2005 at the Hilton Hotel. ACM Multimedia is the premier academic conference in multimedia. The series started in 1993, at the start of multimedia era, and has quickly developed into the top conference in the field. Over the years, the concept of multimedia has evolved, from research in separate “non-textual” media such as image, video and audio in the early years, to truly “multimedia” approaches integrating information of multiple medium types, including text and metadata, in recent years. Today, the conference covers a wide range of topics on the foundations of multimedia, as well as multimedia applications, content and systems. The pervasive use of multimedia has permeated into almost every aspect of our life. This is reflected in a wide variety of programs incorporated into the conference. The conference features the usual high-quality technical paper presentations, short poster paper presentations, doctoral symposium for senior graduate students, brave-new emerging topics, as well as tutorials and workshops in various topical areas. One key aspect of this conference that is different from most other academic conferences is its emphasis on systems and applications. To this end, the conference also includes technical demonstrations of research prototypes and systems, open software competition, video demonstration of concepts and applications, as well as interactive arts which includes an exhibition of multimedia art. The interactive arts program, started in ACM MM 2004, is well integrated into the main activity of the conference this year. We are grateful to the hours of hard-work put in by the co-chairs of various tracks for this rich collection of events. Our special thanks to the local organizing team for diligently and meticulously putting the conference together. We also thank the reviewers, the ACM Staff, NUS Staff and Students for their significant efforts and to you the authors for submitting your papers and your continued interest. We would like to thank our corporate supporters: IBM Research, Microsoft Research, FXPAL, NUS Centennial Funds, Leonardo, and Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts – organizing this event would be difficult without their generous support. Finally we would like to acknowledge ACM and thank the special interests groups SIGMM and SIGGRAPH for co-sponsoring this event. Since its inception, this conference has been held mostly in US, except for two previous occasions that it went outside of US to Europe (1998 and 2002). This is the first time in the history of the conference that it is being held in Asia. We invite you to take this opportunity to immerse yourself in this diverse multimedia community and learn about the most recent and exciting advances in the field. We hope you enjoy the conference. Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore Hongjiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, Asia ACM Multimedia 2005 General Co-Chairs

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2. LAYOUT OF ROOMS AT MAIN CONFERNCE SITE

Conference Venue: Hilton Hotel, Orchard Road, Singapore

Layout of Rooms in Level 3 (Venues for registration, main conference activities, and wireless access)

Layout of Rooms in Level 5 (Venues for tutorials on 6-7 Nov, and 3 workshops on 11 Nov)

RegistrationArea

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3. PROGRAM AT GLANCE SUNDAY (6 November)

Malaysia Room (Level 5)

Singapore/Thailand Room (Level 5)

Lasalle-SIA College*

0900-1030

T1: MM Collaboration & Human-Centered Info

Systems

T3: Peer-to-peer Multimedia

1030-1100 Morning Tea (Foyer at Level 3)

1100-1300

T1 T3 ACM

1300-1400

Lunch (Restaurant, 24th Floor)

MM

1400-1600

T1 T3 Arts

1600-1630 Afternoon Tea (Foyer at Level 3) Exhibition

1630-1800

T1 T3

MONDAY (7 November)

Malaysia Room (Level 5)

Singapore/Thailand Room (Level 5)

Lasalle-SIA College*

0900-1030

T4: Media Semantics & Its Statistical Foundations

T5: SIP: A Protocol for Supporting MM in Next

Generation Networks

1030-1100 Morning Tea (Foyer at Level 3)

1100-1300

T4 T5 ACM

1300-1400

Lunch (Restaurant, 24th Fl.)

MM

1400-1600

T4 Arts

1600-1630 Afternoon Tea (Foyer at Level 3) Exhibition

1630-1800

T4

1800-1900

1900-2130

Reception for Arts Exhibition

* Art Gallery (FA 101&102), LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, 90 Goodman Road, Singapore 439053

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TUESDAY (8 November) Hall 1 Hall 2 Vista Room 1 Vista Room 2 Lasalle-SIA

College* 0830-1000

Opening Plenary and Keynote

1000-1030 Morning Tea (Foyer)

1030-1230

Content 1 Applications 1 Brave New Topics 1

ACM

1230-1330


MM

1330-1530

Content 2 Systems 1 Interactive Arts 1

Technical Demo 1

Arts

1530-1600 Afternoon Tea (Foyer) Exhibition

1600-1730

Best Student Papers

Video Demos & Visions

1730-1830 Break

1830-2100

Conference Reception and Poster Session (For Content, Systems, Applications and Art Tracks) (Foyer)

WEDNESDAY (9 November)

Hall 1 Hall 2 Vista Room 1 Vista Room 2 Lasalle-SIA College*

0830-1000

Plenary Papers Session


1030-1230

Panel (What is the State of our

Community)

Content 3 Interactive Arts 2

ACM

1230-1400

Lunch / ACM SIGMM Business Meeting (Restaurant, 24th Floor))

MM

1400-1600

Content 4 Applications 2 Brave New Topics 2

Technical Demo 2 Arts


1630-1730

Content 5 Systems 2 Open Source Software

Presentation

1730-1830 Travel to Sentosa Island

1830-2200

Conference Banquet (Siloso Beach, Rasa Sentosa Hotel)


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THURSDAY (10 November) HALL 1 HALL 2 Vista Room 1 Vista Room 2 Lasalle-SIA

College* 0830-1030

Content 6 Applications 3 Interactive Arts 3


1100-1230

Systems 3 Applications 4 Brave New Topics 3

ACM

1230-1400

Lunch (Restaurant, 24th Floor) MM

1400-1600

Panel (Foundations of

Multimedia)

MIR Workshop (Day 1)

Doctoral Symposium 1

Arts


1630-1800

MIR Workshop (Day 1)

Doctoral Symposium 2

FRIDAY (11 November)

HALL 2 (level 3)

Vista 1 (Level 3)

Vista 2 (Level 3)

M’sian Room

(Level 5)

Indonesian Room

(Level 5)

Philippine Room

(Level 5)

Lasalle-SIA

College* 0830-1000

MIR Workshop

(Day 2)

VSSN Workshop

CARPE Workshop

P2PMMS Workshop

MSC Workshop

MHC Workshop

1000-1030 Morning Tea (Foyer) ACM

1030-1230

MIR Workshop

(Day 2)

VSSN Workshop

CARPE Workshop

P2PMMS Workshop

MSC Workshop

MHC Workshop MM

1230-1330


Arts

1330-1530

MIR Workshop

(Day 2)

VSSN Workshop

CARPE Workshop

P2PMMS Workshop

MSC Workshop

MHC Workshop Exhibition

1530-1600 Afternoon Tea (Foyer)

1600-1800

MIR Workshop

(Day 2)

VSSN Workshop

CARPE Workshop

P2PMMS Workshop

MSC Workshop

MHC Workshop


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4. FULL PROGRAM FOR MAIN CONFERNECE

TUESDAY (8 November, 2005)

0830-0900 Venue: Hall 1 CONFERENCE OPENING 0900-1000 Venue: Hall 1

Chair: Hongjiang Zhang

KEYNOTE TALK

Future of home media Kazumasa Enami (NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

1000-1030 Venue: Foyer MORNING TEA

1030-1230 SESSION I Venue: Hall 1 Content 1: News Video Processing Chair:

Bernard Merialdo Tracking News Stories Across Different Sources Y. Zhai and M. Shah (Univ. of Central Florida)

Topic Transition Detection Using Hierarchical Hidden Markov and Semi-Markov Models D. Phung, T. Duong, H. Bui and S. Venkatesh (Curtin Univ. of Technology/AI center, SRI International)

Joint Visual-Text Modeling for Automatic Retrieval of Multimedia Documents G. Iyengar, P. Duygulu, S. Feng, P. Ircing, S. Khudanpur, D. Klakow, M. Krause, R. Manmatha, H. Nock, D. Petkova, B. Pytlik and P. Virga (IBM TJ Watson Research Center/Bilkent Univ./Univ. of Massachusetts/Univ. of West Bohemia/Johns Hopkins Univ./Univ. of Saarland/Georgetown Univ./Mount Holyoke College)

Multiple Instance Learning for Labeling Faces in Broadcasting News Video J. Yang, R. Yan and A. Hauptmann,(Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

Venue: Hall 2 Applications 1: Media Fusion for Communication and Presentation

Chair: Sasanne Boll

Complementing Your TV-Viewing by Web Content Automatically-Transformed into TV-program-type Content A. Nadamoto and K. Tanaka (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology/ Kyoto University)

Augmented Segmentation and Visualization for Presentation Videos A. Haubold and J. Kender (Columbia Univ.)

Exploring Media Correlation and Synchronization for Navigated Hypermedia Documents K.-Y. Liu, H.-Y. Chen (National Chi-Nan Univ.)

Designing a large-scale video chat application J Scholl, J McCarthy, A Sasse and P Parnes (Luleå Univ. of Technology/Univ. College London)

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TUESDAY (8 November, 2005) Venue: Vista 1 Brave New Topic Session 1: Multimedia Challenges for

Planetary Scale Applications Co-Chairs:

Milena Radenkovic; Dick Bultermann

Iris Net: An Internet-Scale Architecture for Multimedia Sensors J. Campbell, P.B. Gibbons, S. Nath, P. Pillai, S. Seshan and R. Sukthankar (Intel Research Pittsburgh/ Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

The Multimedia Challenges Raised by Pervasive Games M. Capra, M. Radenkovic, S. Benford, L. Oppermann, A. Drozd and M. Flintham (Univ. of Nottingham)

PLASMA: A PLAnetary Scale Monitoring Architecture D. Aksoy (Univ. of California, Davis)

Gates of Global Perception: Forensic Graphics for Evidence Presentation A.M. Burton, D. Schofield and L.M. Goodwin (Univ. of Nottingham)

1230-1330 Venue: Restaurant (24th Floor)

LUNCH

1330-1530 SESSION II Venue: Hall 1 Content 2: Image Clustering Chair:

Alberto Del Bimbo

Web Image Clustering by Consistent Utilization of Visual Features and Surrounding Texts B. Gao, T.-Y. Liu, T. Qin, X. Zheng, Q.-S. Cheng and W. Ma ((Peking Univ./ Microsoft Research Asia/ Tsinghua Univ.)

Iteratively Clustering Web Images Based on Link and Attribute Reinforcements X.-J. Wang, W. Ma, L. Zhang and X. Li (Tsinghua Univ./Microsoft Research Asia)

Image Clustering with Tensor Representation X. He, D. Cai, H. Liu and J. Han (Univ. of Chicago/UIUC)

Building and Tracking Hierarchical Geographical & Temporal Partitions for Image Collection Management on Mobile Devices M. Gelgon and A. Pigeau (Polytech'Nantes/ Université de Nantes)

Venue: Hall 2 Systems 1: Multi-camera Systems Chair:

Ralf Steinmetz Critical Video Quality for Distributed Automated Video Surveillance P. Korshunov and W.T. Ooi (National Univ. of Singapore)

A Real-Time Interactive Multi-View Video System J.-G. Lou, H. Cai and J. Li (Microsoft Research Asia)

MedSMan: A Streaming Data Management System over Live Multimedia B. Liu, A.Gupta and R. Jain (Georgia Institute of Technology/ University of California San Diego/ Univ. of California, Irvine)

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TUESDAY (8 November, 2005) Venue: Vista 1 Interactive Arts (Full-Paper) Session 1: Interfaces for

Audio and Music Creation Chair:

Lonce Wyse ‘flUId streams': Fountains that are keyboards with nozzle spray as keys that give rich tactile feedback and are more expressive and more fun than plastic keys S. Mann (Univ. of Toronto)

Facilitating Collective Music Creativity A. Tanaka, N. Tokui and A. Momeni (Sony CSL Paris)

MobiLenin: Combining A Multi-Track Music Video, Personal Mobile Phones and A Public Display into Multi-User Interface Entertainment J. Scheible and T. Ojala (University of Art and Design Helsinki / Univ. of Oulu)

Research & Art Jam #1: Can Artists & Researchers Play Mozart?

Venue: Vista 2 Technical Demonstration 1: Media Understanding and Browsing

Co-Chairs: Tian Qi; Michael Lew

D1-01: PhotoRouter: Destination-Centric Mobile Media Messaging S. Ahern, S. King, H. Qu and M. Davis (UC Berkeley)

D1-02: Content-based Music Audio Recommendation P. Cano, M. Koppenberger and N. Wack (IUA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

D1-03: MediaMetro: Browsing Multimedia Document Collections with a 3D City Metaphor P. Chiu, A. Girgensohn, S. Lertsithichai, W. Polak and F. Shipman (Xerox FX Research Laboratory, Silpakom Univ., Texas A&M Univ.)

D1-04: mCLOVER Demo: mobile Content-based Leaf Image Retrieval System S. Kim, Y.Tak , Y. Nam and E. Hwang (Ajou Univ., Korea Univ.)

D1-05: Video2Cartoon: Generating 3D Cartoon from Broadcast Soccer Video D. Liang, Y. Liu, Q. Huang, G. Zhu, S. Jiang, Z. Zhang and W. Gao (Harbin Institute of Tech., Chinese Academy of Sciences)

D1-06: Online Face Detection and User Authentication C. Mallauran, J.-L. Dugelay and C. Garcia (Institute Eurécom, France Telecom R&D)

D1-07: Intention-Based Home Video Browsing T. Mei and X.-S. Hua (Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Microsoft Research Asia)

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TUESDAY (8 November, 2005) D1-08: Photo LOI: Browsing Multi-user Photo

Collections R. Nair, N. Reid and M. Davis (Yahoo! Research Berkeley) D1-09: Mediamill: Exploring News Video Archives based on Learned Semantics C. Snoek, M. Worring, J. Gemert, J-M Geusebroek, D. Koelma, G. P. Nguyen, O. Rooij and F. Seinstra (Univ. of Amsterdam)

D1-10: A Repeated Video Clip Identification System X. Yang, P. Xue and Qi Tian (Nanyang Technological Univ./ Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore)

1530-1600 Venue: Foyer AFTERNOON TEA

1600-1730 SESSION III Venue: Hall 1 Best Student Papers Session

Chair: Chitra Dorai

SensEye: A Multi-tier Camera Sensor Network P. Kulkarni, D. Ganesan, P. Shenoy and Q. Lu (Univ. of Massachusetts)

Physics-Motivated Features for Distinguishing Photographic Images and Computer Graphics T.-T. Ng, S.-F. Chang, J. Hsu, L. Xie and M.-P. Tsui (Columbia Univ., University of Toledo)

Semantic Manifold Learning for Image Retrieval Y.-Y. Lin, T.-L. Liu and H.-T. Chen (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica)

Venue: Vista 1 Video Demonstrations and Visions

Co-Chairs: Frank Nack; Svetha Venkatesh

How Speech/Text Alignment Benefits Web-based Learning S.-W. Li, H.-T. Lin and H.-Y. Chen (National Chi-Nan Univ.)

My Digital Photos: Where and When? N. O'Hare, C. Gurrin, H. Lee, N. Murphy, A.F. Smeaton and G.J.F. Jones ((Dublin City Univ.)

Post-Bit: Embodied Video Contents on Tiny Stickies T. Matsumoto, T. Dunnigan and M. Back (KEIO Univ./FX Palo Alto Laboratory)

Natural Video Browsing C. Zhu, T. Mei and X.-S. Hua (University of Science and Technology of China, Microsoft Research Asia)

MMM2: Mobile Media Metadata for Media Sharing M. Davis, J. Canny, N. van House, N. Good, S. King, R. Nair, C. Burgener, B. Rinehart, R. Strickland, G. Campbell, S. Fisher, and N. Reid (Univ. of California, Berkeley, Yahoo! Research Berkeley)

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TUESDAY (8 November, 2005) Media Gallery TV View And Shop Your Photos On

Interactive Digital Television S. Thieme, A. Scherp, M. Albrecht and S. Boll (Oldenburg Research and Development Institute for Computer Science Tools and Systems, Univ. of Oldenburg, CeWe Color AG)

1730-1830 BREAK

1830-2100 Venue: Level 3 CONFERENCE RECEPTION POSTER PRESENTATION SESSIONS For Content, Applications, Systems and Art Tracks (See list in Section 6: Poster (Short Papers), pp 21-25)

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WEDNESDAY (9 November, 2005)

0830-1000 SESSION IV Venue: Hall 1 Plenary Papers Session Chairs:

Mohan Kankanhalli

Learning the Semantics of Multimedia Queries and Concepts from a Small Number of Examples A. Natsev, M. Naphade and J. Tesic (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

An Object-based Video Coding Framework for Video Sequences Obtained From Static Cameras A. Hakeem, K. Shafique and M. Shah (Univ. of Central Florida)

SEVA: Sensor-Enhanced Video Annotation X. Liu, M. Corner and P. Shenoy (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)


1030-1230 SESSION V Venue: Hall 1 Panel: What is the State of our Community?

Moderator: Yong Rui (Microsoft Research, Redmond) Panelists:

Ramesh Jain, SIGMM Chair (UC Irvine) Nicolas D. Georganas, EiC, ACM TOMCCAP (Univ. of

Ottawa) Hong-Jiang Zhang, EiC, IEEE TMM (Microsoft Research

Asia ATC) Klara Nahrstedt, EiC, MMSJ (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign) John Smith, Program Chair, ACM MM'03 (IBM T. J

Watson) Mohan Kankanhalli, Program Chair, ACM MM'05

(National Univ. of Singapore) Venue: Hall 2 Content 3: Audio and Security Chairs:

Shin’ichi Satoh Unsupervised Content Discovery in Composite Audio R. Cai , L. Lu and A. Hanjalic (Tsinghua Univ., Microsoft Research Asia, Delft Univ. of Technology)

Multimodal Content-based Structure Analysis of Karaoke Music Y. Zhu, K. Chen and Q. Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research)

A Unified Framework for Resolving Ambiguity in Copy Detection S. Roy and E.-C. Chang (National Univ. of Singapore)

Accurate Repeat Finding and Object Skipping Using Fingerprints C. Herley (Microsoft)

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WEDNESDAY (9 November, 2005) Venue: Vista 1 Interactive Arts (Full-Paper) Session 2: Performance,

Play, and Apperception Chair:

Alejandro Jaimes An Ambient Intelligence Platform for Physical Play R. Wakkary, M. Hatala, R. Lovell and M. Droumeva (Simon Fraser University)

Generating Dance Verbs and Assisting Computer Choreography C.-M. Hsieh and A. LUCIANI (INPG Lab. ACROE-ICA)

POEtic-Cubes: Acquisition of New Qualia Through Apperception using a Bio-inspired Electronic Tissue R. Paricio and Juan Manuel Moreno (Technical Univ. of Catalunya)

Research & Art Jam #2: Can Computers Dance? 1230-1400 Venue: Restaurant

(24th Floor) LUNCH / ACM SIGMM BUSINESS MEETING

1400-1600 SESSION VI Venue: Hall 1 Content 4: Image Analysis and Retrieval Chair:

Alan Hanjalic Coevolutionary Feature Synthesized EM Algorithm for Image Retrieval R. Li, B. Bhanu and A. Don (Univ. of California)

Image Annotations by Combining Multiple Evidence and WorldNet Y. Jin, L. Khan, L. Wang and M. Awad (Univ. of Texas at Dallas)

Robust Subspace Analysis for Detecting Visual Attention Regions in Images Y. Hu, D. Rajan and L.-T. Chia (Nanyang Technological Univ.)

Formulating Context-dependent Similarity Functions G. Wu, E. Chang and N. Panda (Univ. of California)

Venue: Hall 2 Applications 2: Automated Multimedia Authoring Chair:

Lynn Wilcox Automatic Generation of Personalized Music Sports Video J. Wang, C. Xu, E.-S. Chng, L. Duan, K.-W. Wan and Q. Tian (Institute for Infocom Research/ Nanyang Technological Uuiv.)

Automated Rich Presentation of a Semantic Topic L. Lu and Z. Li (Microsoft Research Asia)

Situated Event Bootstrapping and Capture Guidance for Automated Home Movie Authoring B. Adams and S. Venkatesh (Curtin Univ. of Technology)

Venue: Vista 1 Brave New Topic Session 2: Affective Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction

Co-Chairs: Nicu Sebe; Dick Bultermann

Affective Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction M. Pantic, N. Sebe, J.F. Cohn, T. Huang (Delft Univ. of Technology, Univ. of Amsterdam, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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WEDNESDAY (9 November, 2005) Multimodal Affect Recognition in Learning

Environments A. Kapoor and R.W. Picard (MIT Media Laboratory)

Multimodal Expressive Embodied Conversational Agents C. Pelachaud (Univ. of Paris 8)

Socially Aware Media A. P. Pentland (MIT Media Laboratory)

Venue: Vista 2 Technical Demonstration Session 2: Media Authoring and Processing

Co-Chairs: Tian Qi; Michael Lew

D2-01: MMM2: Mobile Media Metadata for Photo Sharing S. Ahern, S. King and M. Davis (Yahoo! Research Berkeley)

D2-02: LazyCut: Content-Aware Template-Based Video Authoring X.-S. Hua, Z. Wang and S. Li (Microsoft Research Asia, Sun Yat-Sen University)

D2-03: Simulated Virtual Market Place By Using voiscape Communication Medium Y. Kanada (Hitachi Central Research Lab)

D2-04: Perceptual Media Compression for Multiple Viewers with Feedback Delay O. Komogortsev (Kent State Univ.)

D2-05: MobiCon - Integrated Capture, Annotation, and Sharing of Video Clips with Mobile Phones J. Lahti, U. Westermann, M. Palola, J. Peltola and E. Vildjiounaite (VTT Electronics, Finland)

D2-06: Media Processing Workflow Design and Execution with ARIA L. Peng, G. Kwon, K.S. Candan, K. Ryu, K. Chatha and H. Sundaram and Y. Chen (Arizona State Univ.)

D2-07: Context Driven Smart Authoring Of Multimedia Content with xSMART A. Scherp and S. Boll (Oldenburg Research and Development Institute for Computer Science Tools and Systems, Univ. of Oldenburg)

D2-08: Video Inpainting and Restoration Techniques R.-C. Chang, L.H. Lin, C.-T. Tan and T.-K. Shih (Tamkang Univ.)

D2-09: Reading SCORM Compliant Multimedia Courses Using Heterogeneous Pervasive Devices T-H Wang, H-P Chang, Y-L Sie, M-T Tzou and T.K. Shih (Tamkang Univ.)

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WEDNESDAY (9 November, 2005)

D2-10: An Automated EndtoEnd Lecture Capturing and Broadcasting System C. Zhang, J. Crawford, Y. Rui and L.-W. He (Microsoft Research)

1600-1630 Venue: Foyer AFTERNOON TEA

1630-1730 SESSION VII Venue: Hall 1 Content 5: Video Abstraction Chair:

Wei-Ying Ma Scenario based Dynamic Video Abstractions using Graph Matching J.K. Lee, J.H. Oh and S. Hwang (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)

Evaluation of Video Summarization for a Large Number of Cameras in Ubiquitous Home G. De Silva, T. Yamasaki and K. Aizawa (The Univ. of Tokyo)

Venue: Hall 2 Systems 2: Mobility and Video Chair:

Roger Zimmermann

Can Small Be Beautiful? Assessing Image Size Requirements for Mobile TV H. Knoche, J. McCarthy and A. Sasse (Univ. College London)

Chameleon: Application Level Power Management with Performance Isolation X. Liu, P. Shenoy and M. Corner (Univ. of Massachusetts)

Venue: Vista 1 Open Source Software Competition Chair:

Ketan Mayer-Patel

OpenVIDIA: A Parallel GPU Computer J. Fung, S. Mann and C. Aimone (Univ. of Toronto)

1730-1830 Travel to Sentosa Island

1830-2200 Venue: Siloso Beach, Sentosa Island

CONFERENCE BANQUET (Award presentations)

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THURSDAY (10 November, 2005)

0830-1030 SESSION VIII Venue: Hall 1 Content 6: Multimodal Processing Chair:

Rainer Leinhart Multimodal Metadata Fusion Using Causal Strength Y. Wu, E. Chang and B. Tseng (Univ. of California/ NEC Research)

Graph Based Multi-Modality Learning H. Tong, J. He, M. Li, C. Zhang and W. Ma (Tsinghua Univ./ Microsoft Research Asia)

Generation of Views of TV Content Using TV Viewers' Perspectives Expressed in Live Chats on the Web H. Miyamori, S. Nakamura, and K. Tanaka (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

Automatic Discovery of Query-Class-Dependent Models for Multimodal Search L. S. Kennedy, A. Natsev and S.-F. Chang (Columbia Univ./IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

Venue: Hall 2 Applications 3: Tools for Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval

Chair: Michael Christel

A Web-based System for Collaborative Annotation of Large Image and Video Collections T. Volkmer, J. Smith, A. Natsev, M. Campbell, M. Naphade (RMIT Univ./I BM T. J. Watson Research Center)

Putting Active Learning into Multimedia Applications; Dynamic Definition and Refinement of Concept Classifiers M.-Y. Chen, M. Christel, A. Hauptmann and H. Wactlar (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

Automatic Measurement of Quality Metrics for Colonoscopy Videos S. Hwang, J.H. Oh, J.K. Lee, Y. Cao, W. Tavanapong, D. Liu, J. Wong and P.C. de Groen, (Univ. of Texas at Arlington/ Iowa State University / Mayo Clinic College of Medicine)

Venue: Vista 1 Interactive Arts (Full-Paper) Session 3: Interaction in Social and Virtual Environments

Chair: Alejandro Jaimes

Censor Chair: Exploring Censorship and Social Presence through Psychophysiological Sensing E. Aley, T. Cooper, R. Graeber, A. Kerne, K. Overby, and Z. Toups (Texas A&M Univ.)

Tensegric Mobile Controlled by Pseudo Forces K.G. Kobayashi, T. Ichizawa, K. Nakano and K. Ootsubo (Toyama Prefectural Univ.)

Echology: An Interactive Spatial Sound and Video Artwork M. Deutscher, R. Hoskinson, S. Takahashi and S. Fels (University of British Columbia)

Research & Art Jam #3: New Sensors, New Models: New Art or New Science?

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THURSDAY (10 November, 2005)


1100-1230 SESSION IX Venue: Hall 1 Systems 3: Searching and Streaming Chair:

Prashant Shenoy PRISM: Indexing Multi-Dimensional Data in P2P Networks using Reference Vectors O. Sahin, A. Gulbeden, F. Emekci, D. Agrawal and A. El Abbadi (Univ. of California Santa Barbara)

Supporting Multimedia Streaming Between Mobile Peers with Link Availability Prediction M. Qin, R. Zimmermann and L. Liu (Univ. of Southern California)

Scalable Media Streaming to Interactive Users M. Rocha, M. Maia, I. Cunha, J. Almeida and S. Campos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

Venue: Hall 2 Applications 4: Interactive Multimedia Systems Chair:

Yong Rui Digital Violin Tutor: An Integrated System for Beginning Violin Learners J. Yin, Y. Wang and D. Hsu (National Univ. of Singapore)

Pervasive Views; Area Exploration and Guidance using Extended Image Media J. Zheng and X. Wang (IUPUI)

A Flexible System for Creating Music while Interacting with the Computer Z. Obrenovic (Univ. of Belgrade)

Venue: Vista 1 Brave New Topic Session 3: Advanced Methods for Medical Image Retrieval and Applications

Co-Chairs: Changsheng Xu; Dick Bultermann

Data Grid for Large-Scale Medical Image Archive and Analysis H.K. Huang, A. Zhang, B. Liu, Z. Zhou, J. Documet, N. King and L.W.C. Chan (Univ. of Southern California)

Evaluation axes for medical image retrieval systems - the Imageclef experience H. Müller, P. Clough and W. Hersh (Univ. and Univ. Hospitals of Geneva, Univ. of Sheffield, Oregon Health and Science Univ.)

MultiPRE: A Novel Framework With Multiple Parallel Retrieval Engines For Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval W. Xiong, B. Qiu, Q. Tian, C. Xu, S.H. Ong, K. Foong, J.-P. Chevallet (Institute for Infocomm Research, National Univ. of Singapore, IPAL-CNRS)

1230-1400 Venue: Restaurant (24th Floor)

LUNCH

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THURSDAY (10 November, 2005) 1400-1600 PANEL, WORKSHOP and DOCTORIAL SYMPOSIUM Venue: Hall 1 Panel: Foundations of Multimedia computing,

communication and interaction Moderator:

Mohan Kankanhalli (National Univ of Singapore) Panelists:

Alex Pentland (MIT Media Laboratory) Ramesh Jain (UC Irvine) Hong-Jiang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia ATC) Alberto Del Bimbo (Università di Firenze)

Venue: Hall 2 Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) Workshop (Day 1) (Refer to page 29 for the detailed program)

Venue: Vista 1 Doctoral Symposium 1 Chair:

Horace Ip Ontology-driven Content Search for Personalized Education W.P. Fok (City Univ. of Hong Kong)

Content-based Video Indexing for Sports Applications using Integrated Multi-Modal Approach D. Tjondronegoro, Y.-P. Phoebe Chen B. Pham (Deakin University / Queensland Univ. of Technology)

Designing Time-Based Interactions with Multimedia E. Lee (RWTH Aachen Univ.)

Estimating Illumination Parameters in Real Space with Application to Image Relighting F. Xie, L. Tao and G. Xu (Tsinghua Univ.)

Game State and Event Distribution using Proxy Technology and Application Layer Multicast K.-H. Vik (Univ. of Oslo)

1600-1630 Venue: Foyer AFTERNOON TEA 1630-1800 Venue: Hall 2 Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) Workshop

(Day 1) Venue: Vista 1 Doctoral Symposium 2 Co-Chairs:

Ye Wang; Chong-Wah Ngo

Multimodal Analysis of Recorded Video for E-Learning T. Martin, A. Boucher and J.-M. Ogier(Hanoi University of Technology/ IFI/ Université de la Rochelle)

Enhancing Quality of Service by Exploiting Delay Tolerance in Multimedia Applications S. Krithivasan and S. Iyer (IIT Bombay)

Threading Stories and Generating Topic Structures in New Videos across Different Sources X. Wu (City Univ. of Hong Kong)

uPen: Laser-based, Personalized, Multi-User Interaction on Large Displays X. Bi, Y. Shi, X. Chen and P. Xiang(Tsinghua Univ.)

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FRIDAY (11 November, 2005) WORKSHOPS 0830-1800 Venue: Hall 2

(Level 3) Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005) (Day 2)

Venue: Vista 1 (Level 3)

Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN 2005)

Venue: Vista 2 (Level 3)

Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences (CARPE 2005)

Venue: Malaysia Room (Level 5)

Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming (P2PMMS 2005)

Venue: Indonesian Room (Level 5)

Multimedia Service Composition (MSC 2005)

Venue: Philippine Room (Level 5)

Multimedia for Human Communication - From Capture to Convey (MHC 05)

Please refer to Section 9 (pp 29-35) or the Workshop Web Sites for the detailed programs.

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5. KEYNOTE ADDRESS Future of Home Media Kazumasa Enami Director-General, Science and Technical Research Laboratories NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) [email protected]

ABSTRACT In the future, the television set at home will be a key device for providing integrated information services through broadcasting, communication and storage media. In this environment, users will be able to receive any type of information, e. g., HDTV programs, in real-time and whenever s/he wants. Moreover, the advent of advanced mobile terminals means that this new environment will eventually expand to anywhere outside the home. In this speech, I will introduce the services in the future and some topics of the technologies being developed by the NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories (STRL) to achieve such services.

1. INTRODUCTION It is widely expected that a new kind of broadcasting environment will emerge allowing anyone to obtain the information they need anytime and anywhere. By connecting TV to the Internet, the TV can assume the role of the total information gateway giving people access to whatever information they need anytime they want. Anywhere means that people can enjoy access to digital broadcasts via mobile terminals. And to create an environment in which everyone can access information when they need it, a diverse range of people-oriented services are being developed including services especially for senior citizens, the vision-impaired, hearing-impaired, and other people with special needs.

2. KEY TECHNOLOGIES To achieve above services and a system, NHK STRL are studying the following key technologies; • An intelligent software agent-based TV system for

easy operation. • A metadata extraction method using image and

speech recognition from scenes of TV programs for retrieval from home servers or VOD services.

• Automatically information generation allowing anyone to produce TV programs easily.

• A conditional access system for secure and reliable

content utilization. • Expandable system construction technologies.

3. RESEARCH APROACH Another essential aspect of our research is that it embodies a “human sciences” approach. The process whereby producers express their intentions in the form of a program, which then changes the psychological state of a viewer, deeply involves the intellection of human beings. We seek a means of automatic collection and systemization of the knowledge and behavioral patterns of producers and viewers, to incorporate such knowledge into research that delves into the high-order brain functions, such as sensibility and cognition. We hope that doing so will be a means to enhance media and services.

4. CONCLUSIONS We are aiming for future systems that are user-oriented, by instilling the program producers’ intentions and sensibilities into the content and enabling viewers to enjoy the programs they want to see any time and anywhere using a simple interface.

Figure 1. Idealized image of the total information

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6. POSTERS (SHORT PAPERS) Systems Track S-01 Content-adaptive Transmission of Reconstructed Soccer Goal Events over Low Bandwidth

Networks Q. Tang and I. Koprinska (Univ. of Sydney)

S-02 A New Selection Method for H.264 Based Fine Granular Scalable Video Coding W.-H. Yoo, J. Cha, W.-S. Cheong, K. Kim and G.H. Park (ETRI/ Kyunghee Univ.)

S-03 JADE: Jabber-based Authoring in Distributed Environments Roczniak and A. El Saddik (Univ. of Ottawa)

S-04 Streaming with Causality: A Practical Approach Plesca, R. Grigoras, P. Queinnec and G. Padiou (ENSEEIHT, France)

S-05 A Peer-to-Peer Network for Live Media Streaming - Using a Push-Pull Approach M. Zhang, J.-G. Luo, L. Zhao, S.-Q. Yang (Tsinghua Univ.)

S-06 Power-aware Bandwidth and Stereo-image Scalable Audio Decoding W. Huang, S. Chakraborty and Y. Wang (National Univ. of Singapore)

S-07 TrustStream: A Novel Secure and Scalable Media Streaming Architecture H. Yin, C. Lin, F. Qiu , X. Liu and D. Wu (Tsinghua Univ./ University of Florida)

S-08 Using Offline Bitstream Analysis for Power-Aware Video Decoding in Portable Devices Y. Huang, S. Chakraborty and Y. Wang (National Univ. of Singapore)

S-09 Supporting Multi Party Voice over IP services with Peer-to-peer stream processing X. Gu, Z. Wen, P. Yu and Z.-Y. Shae (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

S-10 rStream: Resilient Peer-To-Peer Streaming With Rateless Codecs Wu and B. Li (Univ. of Toronto)

S-11 INCA: Impact of Incentive Mechanisms on Quality of Experience Roczniak and A. El Saddik (Univ. of Ottawa) Applications Track A-01 ClickRemoval: Interactive Pinpoint Image Object Removal F. Nielsen and R. Nock Nielsen (Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc/ Antilles-Guyane

University)

A-02 Motion Picture Inpainting on Aged Films T.K Shih, R.-C. Chang and Y.-P. Chen (Tamkang Univ.)

A-03 Implementation of a Mobile MPEG-21 Peer S. Lauf (Univ. of Wollongong)

A-04 Exploiting Self-Adaptive Posture-based Focus Estimation for Lecture Video Editing F. Wang (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology)

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A-05 IMAGINATION: A Robust Image-based CAPTCHA Generation System R. Datta, J. Li and J.Z. Wang (The Pennsylvania State Univ.)

A-06 [hid] toolkit: a unified framework for instrument design H.-C. Steiner (New York Univ.)

A-07 Hierarchical Voting Classification Scheme for Improving Visual Sign Language Recognition L.-G. Zhang, X. Chen, C. Wang and W. Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

A-08 Real Time Advertisement Insertion in Baseball Video Based on Advertisement Effect Y. Li, K.W. Wan, X. Yan and C. Xu (Institute for Infocomm Research)

A-09 Providing On-Demand Sports Video to Mobile Devices Q. Liu, Z. Hua, C. Zang, X. Tong and H. Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

A-10 An Adaptive Edge Detection Based Colorization Algorithm and Its Applications Y.C. Huang, Y.S. Tung, J.-C. Chen, S.-W. Wang and J.-L. Wu (National Taiwan Univ.)

A-11 Recognition of Hands-free Speech and Hand Pointing Action for Conversational TV Y. Ariki, T. Takiguchi and A. Sako (Kobe Univ.)

A-12 A Corpus-based Singing Voice Synthesis System for Mandarin Chinese C.-Y. Lin, T.-Y. Lin and J.-S. R. Jang (National Tsing Hua Univ.)

A-13 Dynamic Shot Suggestion Filtering for Home Video Based on User Performance B. Adams and S. Venkatesh (Curtin Univ. of Technology)

A-14 Creating MAGIC: System for Generating Learning Object Metadata for Instructional Content

Y. Li, C. Dorai and R. Farrell (IBM T. J. Waton Research Center)

A-15 Cooking Navi: Assistant for Daily Cooking in Kitchen R. Hamada, J. Okabe, I. Ide, S. Satoh, S. Sakai and H. Tanaka ((Univ. of Tokyo/IIT/Nagoya Univ./

NII/IISEC)

A-16 Personal Media Sharing and Authoring On the Web X.-S. Hua and S. Li (Microsoft Research Asia)

A-17 Automatic Generating Detail-on-Demand Hypervideo Using MPEG-7 and SMIL T. Zhou, T. Gedeon and J. Jin (Univ. of Newcastle/ The Australian National Univ.)

A-18 OFFICE BLOGGER B. Erol and J.J. Hull (Ricoh California Research Center)

A-19 Haptic: The New Biometrics-embedded Media to Recognizing and Quantifying Human Patterns.

M. Orozco, I. Shakra and A. El Saddik (Univ. of Ottawa)

A-20 Attention Region Selection with Information from Professional Digital Camera S. Liu, L.-T. Chia and D. Rajan (Nanyang Technology Univ.)

Content Track C-01 Automatic Video Annotation Using Ontologies Extended With Visual Information M. Bertini, A. Del Bimbo and C. Torniai (Università di Firenze)

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C-02 Early versus Late Fusion in Semantic Video Analysis C. Snoek, M. Worring and A. Smeulders (Univ. of Amsterdam)

C-03 Detecting Group Activities using Rigidity of Formation S. Khan and M. Shah (Univ. of Central Florida)

C-04 A Probabilistic Template-based Approach to Discovering Repetitive Patterns in Broadcast Videos

P. Wang, Z.-Q. Liu and S.-Q. Yang (Tsinghua Univ./ City Univ. of Hong Kong)

C-05 Learning with Non-Metric Proximity Matrices G. Wu, E.Y. Chang and Z. Zhang (Univ. of California)

C-06 Semantic Feedback for Interactive Image Retrieval C. Yang, M. Dong and F. Fotouhi (Wayne State Univ.)

C-07 Image Region Entropy: A Measure of ``Visualness'' of Web Images Associated with One Concept

K. Yanai and K. Barnard (Univ. of Electro-Communications/Univ. of Arizona)

C-08 To Learn Representativeness of Video Frames H.-W. Kang and X.-S. Hua (University of Science and Technology of China/ Microsoft Research

Asia)

C-09 Affect-Based Indexing and Retrieval of Films C.H. Chan and G. Jones (Dublin City Univ.)

C-10 Toward Emergent Representations for Video R. Shaw and M. Davis (UC Berkeley)

C-11 Region Based Image Annotation through Multiple-Instance Learning C. Yang and M. Dong and F. Fotouhi (Wayne State Univ.)

C-12 Spatio-Temporal Quality Assessment for Home Videos T. Mei, C.-Z. Zhu, H.-Q. Zhou and X.-S. Hua (University of Science and Technology of China /

Microsoft Research Asia)

C-13 Light Weight MP3 Watermarking Method for Mobile Terminals K. Takagi, S. Sakazawa and Y. Takishima (KDDI R&D Labs Inc.)

C-14 GPU-Assisted Decoding of Video Samples Represented in the YCoCg-R Color Space W. De Neve, D. van Rijsselbergen, C. Hollemeersch, J. De Cock, S. Notebaert and R. van de Walle

(Ghent Univ./ Splash Damaga Ltd.)

C-15 Learning an Image-Word Embedding for Image Auto-Annotation on the Nonlinear Latent Space

W. Liu and X. Tang (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong/ Microsoft Research Asia)

C-16 Exciting events detection in broadcast soccer video with mid-level description and incremental learning

Q. Ye, Q. Huang, S. Jiang and W. Gao (Chinese Academy of Science)

C-17 A Method for Retrieving Music Data with Different Bit Rates using MPEG-4 TwinVQ Audio Compression

M. Kobayakawa, M. Hoshi and K. Onishi (Univ. of Electro-Communications)

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C-18 Sound Source Location Cue Coding System for Compact Representation of Multi-channel Audio

Jang, J. Seo, S. Beack, K. Kang and H.-G. Moon, (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)/ Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)

C-19 Semantic Knowledge Extraction and Annotation for WWW Images Z. Hua, X. Wang, Q. Liu and H. Lu (Chinese Academy of Science)

C-20 On indexing of 3D scenes using MPEG-7 I.M. Bilasco, J. Gensel, M. Villanova-Oliver and H. Martin (LSR IMAG)

C-21 Natural Language Processing of Lyrics J.P. Mahedero, A. Martinez and Pedro Cano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

C-22 Building a Visual Ontology for Video Retrieval L. Hollink, M. Worring and A. Schreiber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / University of Amsterdem)

C-23 Towards Context-Aware Face Recognition M. Davis, M. Smith, J. Canny, N. Good, S. King and R. Janakiraman (UC Berkeley/ France

Telecom/ Yahoo! Research Berkeley/ National Univ. Singapore)

C-24 A Novel Framework for SVM-Based Image Retrieval on Large Databases L. Wang, X. Li, P. Xue and K.L. Chan (Nanyang Technological Univ.)

C-25 Automatic Image Orientation Determination with Natural Image Statistics S. Lyu (Dartmouth College)

C-26 Determining Structure in Continuously Recorded Videos Y. Zhai and M. Shah (Univ. of Central Florida)

C-27 Two-Scale Image Retrieval with Significant Meta-Information Feedback J. Li (The Pennsylvania State Univ.)

C-28 A Multiview Video Transcoder B. Bai, P. Boulanger and J. Harms (Univ. of Alberta)

C-29 Emotion-based Music Recommendation by Association Discovery from Film Music F.-F. Kuo, M.-F. Chiang, M.-K. Shan and S.-Y. Lee (National Chiao-Tung Univ./ National Cheng-

Chi Univ.)

C-30 An Improved QTCQ Wavelet Image Coding Method Using DCT and Coefficient Reorganization

L. Chen and J. Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)

C-31 Automatic Identification Of Digital Video Based On Shot-Level Sequence Matching J. Zhou and X.-P. Zhang (Ryerson Univ.)

C-32 Highlight Ranking for Sports Video Browsing X. Tong, Q. Liu, Y. Zhang and H. Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

C-33 SSF Fingerprint for Image Authentication: An Incidental Distortion Resistant Scheme S. Tang, J.-T. Li and Y.-D. Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

C-34 Validating cardiacn echo diagnosis through video Similarity T. Syeda-Mahmood, D.e Ponceleon and J. Yang (IBM Almaden Research Center/ Yale Univ.)

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C-35 Tracking Users' Capture Intention: A Novel Complement View for Home Video Content Analysis

T. Mei, X.-S. Hua and H.-Q. Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China / Microsoft Research Asia)

C-36 Evaluation of Subjective Video Quality of Mobile Devices S. Jumisko-Pyykko and J. Hakinen (Tampere Univ./ Univ. of Helsinki /Nokia Research Center)

C-37 A Unified Shot Boundary Detection Framework Based on Graph Partition Model Y. Jinhui, J. Li, F. Lin and B. Zhang (Tsinghua Univ.)

C-38 Part-Based Shape Retrieval M. Tanase and R. Veltkamp (Utrecht Univ.)

C-39 Co-Active Intelligence for Image Retrieval M. Truran, J. Goulding and H. Ashman (Univ. of Nottingham)

Art Track Art-01 Face to face - a Media-art using a Face Detection System and its Exhibition Y. Nakanishi (Keio Univ.)

Art-02 The Dancing Genome Project Generation of a Human-Computer Choreography using a Genetic Algorithm

F.-J. Lapointe and M. (Université de Montréa / Université du Québec à Montréal)

Art-03 The Control of Fear:An Interactive Art Experiencing and Presenting System with Multimodal Sensors and Media

C. Yang, L. Liu and J. Chen (Panasonic R&D Company of America/ 66 Communications Inc.)

Art-04 MusicStory: a Personalized Music Video Creator D. Shamma, B. Pardo and K. J. Hammond (Infolab, Northwestern Univ.)

Art-05 Impossible Geographies of Belonging P. Gemeinboeck (Univ. of Sydney)

Art-06 The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA stay Kazuhiro JO, K. Furudate, D. Ishida and M. Noguchi (Japan)

Art-07 Seven Mile Boots - Implications of an Everyday Interface M. Pichlmair (Vienna Technical Univ.)

Art-08 A New Approach to Interactive Performance Systems H. Kuscu and B. Akgün (Yildiz Technical Univ.)

Art-09 Mulholland Drive&: A Movie with No Image D.S. Hessels (UCLA Design | Media Art )

Art-10 An Adaptation Framework for New Media Artworks Ouali, B. Kerhervé and P. Landon (UQAM, Canada))

Art-11 Man in e-space/ Motion Analysis in 3D Space W. Ka (France)

Art-12 Organum: Individual Presence through Collaborative Play G. Niemeyer, D. Perkel and R. Shaw (UC Berkeley, USA)

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7. ART EXHIBITION Dates: 6-12 November, 2005 Time: 1000-1800 hours Venue: Art Gallery (FA 101&102) LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts 90 Goodman Road, Singapore 439053 Reception: 7 November 2005 (Monday), 1900-2130 The list of exhibits: • Seven Mile Boots

by Martin Pichlmair This exhibit mixes physical space with the virtual world: as the wearer walks, wearing networked boots, she enters different internet chat rooms to overhear real-time conversations.

• Ere Be Dragons: an Interactive Artwork by Stephen Boyd Davis, Magnus Moar, John Cox, Chris Riddoch, Karl Cooke, Rachel Jacobs, Matt Watkins, Richard Hull and Tom Melamed

This work measures a player’s heart rate and uses a combination of media in a GPS/enhanced reality game to encourage exercise.

• Body Degree Zero by Alan Dunning, Paul Woodrow, Morley Hollenberg It uses biological sensors to create a virtual presence of two participants.

• Immersing ME-the disappearing digitize presence by Yu-Chuan Tseng and Chia-Hsiang Lee Jason Lee

This exhibit mixes the virtual and the real as images of viewers of the work are captured and divided into many pieces.

• Impossible Geographies 01 by Petra Gemeinboeck, Mary Agnes Krell

This work explores memory by interactively redisplaying complex combinations of video previously captured in the space.

• Tangible Weather Channel by Yu-Cheng Hsu It uses tangible media to experience remote presence, in particular, it uses air and water to convey presence in the weather conditions of a remote location.

• SmallConnection: Designing of Tangible Communication Media over Networks by Hideaki Ogawa, Noriaki Ando, Satoshi Onodera

This work also uses tangible media to experience remote presence, instead, it creates an intimate communication channel with light and touch.

• "KODAMA" -Mischievous Echoes- by Hisako Kroiden Yamakawa

This work creates a world by capturing voices of the visitors to the installation and representing them as bubbles in a forest.

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• Vanishing Point by Mauricio Arango

It uses news sources to render a map in which countries disappear if they are not mentioned in the news sources.

• Interactions, an Interactive Multimedia Installation by David Birchfield

This work mixes images and sounds created by two virtual artists who compete with each other given user input.

• Non_sensor by Raquel Renno, Rafael Marchetti and Gonzague Defos du Rau

This exhibit subverts a magnetic position-sensing device using everyday electrical or metallic objects as impromptu tools of artistic expression.

• Tastes like by Miha Ciglar

This work does away with technology altogether—the body itself serves as a conductor of electrons to generate audio-visual collages.

• The King Has... by Krister Olsson and Takashi Kawashima

It solicits anonymous secrets via text message and memorializes them on wooden tablets displayed in public places.

• Diorama table by Keiko Takahashi and Shinji Sasada

This exhibit playfully mixes physical elements with virtual ones: tableware placed on a table cause virtual objects to appear and interact.

• The Bomar Gene: fictiobiography, digiart, hypertext by Jason Nelson

This work creates a web of narratives in which the lives of several individuals can be discovered. It explores non-linear narrative structures using multiple media.

• Playas: Homeland Mirage by Jack Stenner, Andruid Kerne and Yauger Williams

It creates a virtual reality game environment from real and synthetic images of a town in New Mexico BUS SCHEDULE FROM CONFERNCE HOTEL TO EXHIBITION SITE (The journey takes approximately half-an-hour)

Date Hotel Exhibition Site Exhibition Site Hotel Monday (7 Nov) 1100

1830 1230 2115

Tuesday (8 Nov) 1015 1645

1145 1800

Wednesday (9 Nov) 1015 1515

1145 1645

Thursday (10 Nov) 1045 1615

1200 1745

Friday (11 Nov) 1045 1615

1200 1745

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8. TUTORIALS 1. T1 (Full day, 6 November 2005, Sunday) Multimedia Collaboration and Human-Centered Multimedia Information Systems Yong Rui (Microsoft Research, Remond) Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes (FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd) 2. T3 (Full day, 6 November 2005, Sunday) Peer-to-peer Multimedia Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt Univ. of Technology) 3. T4 (Full day, 7 November 2005, Monday) Media Semantics and the Statistical Foundations for Understanding It AM: Marc Davis (UC Berkeley), Chitra Dorai (IBM Research), Frank Nack (CWI, Netherlands) PM: Edward Chang (UC Santa Barbara) 4. T5 (Half day, Morning, 7 November 2005, Monday) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): A Protocol for Supporting Multimedia in Next Generation

Networks Arup Acharya (IBM Research), Archan Mishra (IBM Research) and Avshalom Houri (IBM Research)

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9. FULL PROGRAMS FOR WORKSHOPS

9.1 MIR (Multimedia Information Retrieval)

Venue: Hall 2, Level 3, Hilton Hotel (10-11 November, 2005) THURSDAY (10 November 2005)

1400-1500 OPENING REMARKS Hongjiang Zhang (Microsoft Research ATC, China) KEYNOTE SPEECH From Relevance to Intelligence: Toward Next Generation Web Search

(Weiying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia) 1500-1700 POSTER SESSION

Chair: Qi Tian (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) Poster Session 1: Video Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval

• Enhanced Ontologies for Video Annotation and Retrieval (Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, and Carlo Torniai)

• Semi-Automatic Video Annotation Based on Active Learning with Multiple Complementary Predictors (Song Yan, Xian-Sheng Hua, Li-Rong Dai, Meng Wang, and Hong-Jiang Zhang)

• A Motion-Flow-Based Fast Video Retrieval System (Chih-Wen Su, Kuo-Chin Fan, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao, Chia-Wen Lin, Hsiao-Rong Tyan)

• Video Booklet – A Natural Video Searching and Browsing Interface (Caizhi Zhu)

• A New General Framework for Shot Boundary Detection and Key-Frame Extraction (Huamin Feng)

• Unified Framework for Semantic Shot Representation of Sports Video (Xiaofeng Tong, Hanqing Lu, Lingyu Duan, and Qingshan Liu)

Poster Session 2: Image/WWW-based System and Applications • Semantic Image Classification with Hierarchical Feature Subset Selection

(Yuli Gao) • Photo-to-Search: Using Multimodal Queries to Search the Web from

Mobile Devices (Xin Fan, Xing Xie, Mingjing Li, Zhiwei Li, and Wei-Ying Ma)

• Multiple Random Walk and Its Application (Mingjing Li, Jingrui He, and Hanghang Tong)

• Scenario optimization for interactive category search (Giang Phuong Nguyen and Marcel Worring)

• Macroblock Mode Decision for H.264 (Tran Duc Hai Du)

1600-1630 AFTERNOON TEA

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1700-1840 Special Session 1: Machine Learning for Visual Information Retrieval

Chair: Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA, France) A Cluster-wise Semantics Endorsement Approach to Image Retrieval (Jia Li) Exploiting Temporal Discontinuities for Event Detection and Manipulation in

Video Streams (Hugh Denman, Erika Doyle, Anil Kokaram, Niall Rea, Rozenn Dahyot, and Ray Fuller)

An Interactive System for Mental Face Retrieval (Yuchun Fang, Donald Geman)

Discriminant Local Features Selection using Efficient Density Estimation in a Large Database (Alexis Joly and Olivier Buisson)

Hybrid visual and conceptual image representation within active relevance feedback context (Marin Ferecatu, Nozha Boujemaa, and Michel Crucianu)

FRIDAY (11 November 2005)

0900-1000 KEYNOTE SPEECH Video Search: Opportunities & Challenges (Ramesh Sarukkai, Yahoo! Inc)

1000-1030 MORNING TEA

1030-1210 ORAL SESSION 1: Image/Video/Learning Chair: John Smith (IBM T. J Watson Research Center, USA)

Active Semi-Supervised Fuzzy Clustering for Image Database Categorization (Nizar Grira, Michel Crucianu, and Nozha Boujemaa)

Mutual Relevance Feedback for Multimodal Query Formulation in Video Retrieval (Arnon Amir, Marco Berg, and Haim Permuter)

Player Identification in Soccer Videos (Alberto Del Bimbo, Marco Bertini, and Walter Nunziati)

Tracking Concept Drifting with an Online-Optimized Incremental Learning Framework (Jun Wu, Dayong Ding, Xian-Sheng Hua, and Bo Zhang)

Low-cost Distributed Learning of A Probabilistic Mixture Model for Multimedia Content-based Indexing on A Large Scale (Afshin Nikseresht, Marc Gelgon)

1210-1310 LUNCH (Restaurant: 24th Floor)

1310-1450 ORAL SESSION 2: Web Searching and Applications Chair: Hongjiang Zhang (Microsoft Research ATC, China)

SSP: Similarity Space Projection, A Novel Framework for Web Image Search and Annotation (Tie-Yan Liu, Ying Liu, Tao Qin, Lei Zhang, and Wei-Ying Ma)

Probabilistic Web Image Gathering (Keiji Yanai and Kobus Barnard) Multi-Graph Enabled Active Learning for Multimodal Web Image Retrieval

(Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma, Lei Zhang, and Xing Li) Inferring Similarity Between Music Objects with Application to Playlist

Generation (Chris Burges, Cormac Herley, and Robert Ragno) Framework for Personalized Multimedia Summarization (Lalitha Agnihotri,

John Kender, Nevenka Dimitrova, and John Zimmerman)

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1510-1650 SPECIAL SESSION 2: Multimedia Information Retrieval: Challenges and Real-world Applications Chair: James Z. Wang (The Penn State University, USA)

Evaluation Strategies for Image Understanding and Retrieval (Keiji Yanai, Nikhil Shirahatti, Prasad Gabbur, and Kobus Barnard)

Localized Content-Based Image Retrieval (Rouhollah Rahmani, Sally Goldman, Hui Zhang, and Jason Fritts)

A Content-Based Image Retrieval System for Fish Taxonomy (Yixin Chen, Henry L. Bart, Jr., and Fei Teng)

Extracting Information from Multimedia Meeting Collections (Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dong Zhang, and Samy Bengio)

Content-Based Image Retrieval - Approaches and Trends in the New Age (Ritendra Datta, Jia Li, and James Z. Wang)

1700-1830 PANEL SESSION: Multimedia Information Retrieval: What is it and Why isn't Anyone Using It? Chair: Alejandro (ALEX) Jaimes (FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.) Ramesh Sarukki, Yahoo! Inc Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia Sbastien Gilles, LTU technologies Mike Christel, Carnegie Mellon University

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9.2 VSSN (Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks)

Venue: Vista 1, Level 3, Hilton Hotel (Friday, 11 November, 2005)

0830-0940 KEYNOTE SPEECH Observation Systems (R. Jain - University of California, Irvine)

0940-1030 SESSION 1: Image and Video Processing for Multimedia Surveillance Systems

Multimedia Surveillance Systems (R. Cucchiara - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

An Image Mosaicing Module for Wide-Area Surveillance (M. Heikkilä, M. Pietikainen - University of Oulu, Finland)


1100-1240 SESSION 1: cont. Calibration of Visual Sensors and Actuators in Distributed Computing

Platforms (E. Hoerster, R. Lienhart - University of Augsburg, Germany;W. Kellermann - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; J.-Y. Bouguet - Intel Corp., Santa Clara, USA)

Exemplar based background model initialization (A. Colombari, M. Cristani, V. Murino, A. Fusiello - University of Verona, Italy)

Real-Time Surveillance Video Display with Salience (W. Guangyu, T. Wong, P.A. Heng - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Classifying Spatiotemporal Object Trajectories using Unsupervised Learning (A. Naftel, S. Khalid - University of Manchester, UK)


1330-1440 SESSION 2: Open Source Algorithm Competition Bayesian Background Modeling for Foreground Detection (F. Porikli -

Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA) Reliable Real-Time Foreground Detection for Video Surveillance

Applications (J. Lluís – Davantis, Barcelona) Adaptive Parametric Statistical Background Subtraction for Video

Segmentation (S. Aramvith - Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) A Multi-Criteria Model for Robust Foreground Extraction (A H. Kamkar-

Parsi, Univ. of Ottawa, Ont., Canada) Presentation of the results of the competition (R. Lienhart - Universität

Augsburg) 1440-1555 SESSION 3: Enlarge and enhance the view with video, audio and sensor

networks A Video Analysis Framework for Soft Biometry Security Surveillance (Y.-F.

Wang, E. Chang - University of California, Santa Barbara; K. Cheng - Proximex Corporation)

An Integrated Architecture for Surveillance and Monitoring in an Archaeological Site (G. Lo Re, E. Ardizzone, M. La Cascia, M. Ortolani - University of Palermo, Italy)

Towards Event Detection in an Audio-Based Sensor Network (M. McHugh, A. F. Smeaton - Dublin City University, Ireland)

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1615-1705 SESSION 3: cont. An Integrated Multi-Modal Sensor Network for Video Surveillance (A. Prati,

R. Vezzani - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; L. Benini, E. Farella, P. Zappi - University of Bologna)

Timelinebased Information Assimilation in Multimedia Surveillance and Monitoring Systems (P. K. Atrey, M. Kankanhalli - National University of Singapore; R. Jain - University of California, Irvine, USA)

1705-1920 SESSION 4: Explore multi-resolution views with PTZ and coordinated camera networks

Automatic Pan-Tilt-Zoom Calibration in the Presence of Hybrid Sensor Networks (C. R. Wren, MERL; M. Erdem, Boston University; A. Azarbayejani, MERL)

Acquisition of High-resolution Images through Online Saccade Sequence Planning (A.D. Bagdanov, A. Del Bimbo, F. Pernici - University of Firenze, Italy)

Surveillance Camera Scheduling: A Virtual Vision Approach (F. Z. Qureshi - University of Toronto, Canada; D. Terzopoulos - New York University, USA)

Constructing Task Visibility Intervals for a Surveillance System (S.-N. Lim - University of Maryland, USA; A. Mittal - Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA; L. Davis - University of Maryland, USA)

Coopetitive Visual Surveillance using Model Predictive Control (V. K. Singh, P. Atrey - National University of Singapore)

1920-1930 CLOSING

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9.3 CARPE (Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences)

Venue: Vista 2, Level 3, Hilton Hotel (Friday, 11 November, 2005)

0845-0915 INTRODUCTION

0915-1000 Event-based Multimedia Chronicling Systems (Pilho Kim, Ullas Gargi, Ramesh Jain)


1030-1200 Continuous Archival and Analysis of User Data in Virtual and Immersive Game Environments (Kiyoung Yang,Tim Marsh, Minyoung Mun, Cyrus Shahabi)

Straight (and tell me what I did today): A Human Posture Alarm and Activity Summarization System (Alejandro Jaimes, Jianyi Liu)


1330-1430 POSTER SESSION Experience Retrieval for a Ubiquitous Home (Gamhewage de Silva,

Byoungjun Oh, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Kiyoharu Aizawa) Why and How CARPE Should Be Personal? (Leslie Seymour) Semantic Framework for Meeting Data Retrieval (Weisheng He, Peifeng

Xiang, Yuanchun Shi) Practical Experience Recording and Indexing of Life Log Video (Datchakorn

Tancharoen, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Kiyoharu Aizawa) iam: Experiences with Persistent Video Recording, Publishing and Sharing

(Tripp Millican) 1430-1530 PANEL DISCUSSION


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9.4 P2PMMS (Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming)

Venue: Malaysia Room, Level 5, Hilton Hotel (Friday, 11 November, 2005)

0930-1030 SESSION 1: Peer-to-Peer Systems I Chair: Shiqiang Yang (Tsinghua University)

On the Frame Forwarding in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming C.-C. Yeh, L. S. Pui (National Taiwan Ocean University)

Adaptive Bitstream Switching of Pre-encoded PFGS Video O. Lotfallah, M. Reisslein, S. Panchanathan (Arizona State University)


1030-1200 SESSION 2: Peer-to-Peer Systems II Chair: Shiqiang Yang (Tsinghua University)

Large-Scale Live Media Streaming over Peer-to-Peer Networks through Global Internet M. Zhang, L. Zhao, Y. Tang, J.-G. Luo, S.-Q. Yang (Tsinghua University)

Distributed Prefetching Scheme for Random Seek Support in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Applications C. Zheng (Shanghai Jiaotong University), G. Shen, S. Li (Microsoft Research Asia)

Rate-Distortion Optimized Video Peer-to-Peer Multicast Streaming E. Setton, J. Noh, B. Girod (Stanford University)


1330-1530 SESSION 3: Peer-to-Peer Tree Construction Chair: Jacky G. Shen (Microsoft Research Asia)

Tree-Based Application Layer Multicast using Proactive Route Maintenance and its Implementation T. Kusumoto, Y. Kunichika, J. Katto, S. Okubo (Waseda University)

A New Approach for the Construction of ALM Trees using Layered Video Coding Y. Okada, M. Oguro, J. Katto, S. Okubo (Waseda University)

Optimal Peer Selection for Minimum-Delay Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Rateless Codes C. Wu, B. Li (University of Toronto)

High-Bandwidth Routing in Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Streaming Y. Cui (Vanderbilt University), K. Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


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9.5 MSC (Multimedia Service Composition)

Venue: Indonesian Room, Level 5, Hilton Hotel (Friday, 11 November, 2005)

0830-1000 WELCOME and KEYNOTE Building Large-Scale Multimedia Systems: Should We Use More SOAP to Clean Up Our Act? (Roger Zimmermann USC)


1030-1230 SESSION 1 Chair: Wolf-Tilo Balke

Seamless Service Composition (SeSCo) in Pervasive Environments (Swaroop Kalasapur, Mohan Kumar, and Behrooz Shirazi)

A Distributed Scheme for Autonomous Service Composition (Stephen Herborn, Yoann Lopez, and Aruna Seneviratne)

Transparent End-Host-Based Service Composition through Network Virtualization (Stefan Goetz and Klaus Wehrle)


1330-1530 SESSION 2 Chair: Klara Nahrstedt

ResourceAware Service Composition for Video Multicast to Heterogeneous Mobile Users (Shuichi Yamaoka, Tao Sun, Morihiko Tamai, Keiichi Yasumoto, Naoki Shibata, and Minoru Ito)

Digital Media and Entertainment Service Delivery Platform (Christopher J. Pavlovski and Quentin Staes-Polet)

Supporting Meetings with a Goal-Driven Service-Oriented Multimedia Environment (Karin Anna Hummel, Wolfgang Jochum, Stefan Leitich, and Bernhard Schandl)


1600-1800 WRAP UP SESSION

Towards Building Large Scale Multimedia Systems and Applications: Challenges and Status (Klara Nahrstedt and Wolf-Tilo Balke)

Open Discussion of Lessons Learned, Future Challenges, Feedback, Suggestions

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9.6 MHC (Multimedia for Human Communication)

Venue: Philippine Room, Level 5, Hilton Hotel (Friday, 11 November, 2005) Note that this workshop is organized as a brainstorming session. Participants are requested to get involved before, during and after the meeting.

0830-0845 WELCOME

0845-0915 SESSION 1: Models Canonical Processes of Media Production (Lynda Hardman) A Component-based Multimedia Model (Alejandro Jaimes) 0915-1000 SESSION 2: Applications Design and Production of New Media Artworks (Brigitte Kerhervé) Capture and Transfer of Metadata During Video Production (Frank Nack) Supporting Personal Media Authoring (Nicholas Diakopoulos) 1000-1030 MORNING TEA

1030-1230 SESSION 3: Modeling


1330-1530 SESSION 4: Discussions on Modeling


1600-1730 SESSION 5: Final modeling and wrap-up discussion

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9. SOCIAL PROGRAMS 7 November 2005 (Monday), 1900-2130

Reception for ACM MM Arts Exhibition Location: Art Gallery (FA 101&102) LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts 90 Goodman Road, Singapore 439053 (Bus transfers will be provided from Hilton hotel at 1830, and back after the reception at 2115) 8 November 2005 (Tuesday), 1830-2100

Reception for ACM MM cum Poster Presentations Location: Hilton Hotel, Level 3 9 November 2005 (Wednesday), 1900-2200

Conference Banquet Location: Siloso beach, Rasa Sentosa Hotel, Sentosa Island (Bus transfers will be provided from and back to Hilton hotel after the Banquet) 10. REGSITRATION AND NETWORK ACCESS Registration Registration desk will be open from 0830 – 1700 from 6-11 November 2005. The registration will take place in Level 3 outside Hall 2. Wireless Internet Access Internet access will be provided at the conference site at Level 3 through the use of a wireless broadband network. To access the wireless network, the participant must have a computer notebook with built-in wireless network card or a PCMCIA wireless network card (IEEE 802.11 b/g compliant). In addition, some notebooks with Internet connection will be placed near the registration area during the day. You may approach our technical staff at the conference if you require assistance in connecting to the network.

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11. ACM Multimedia 2005 Organizing Committee General Program Co-Chairs: Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore Hongjiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China Program Co-Chairs:

Multimedia Content: Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore Multimedia Applications: Lynn Wilcox, FXPAL, USA

Multimedia Systems: Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Short Paper Co-Chairs: Multimedia Content: Chitra Dorai, IBM, USA Multimedia Applications: Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Multimedia Systems: Roger Zimmermann, USC, USA Workshop Co-Chairs: Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, USA Tutorial Chair: Milind R. Naphade, IBM, USA Publicity Co-Chairs: Michael Vernick, Avaya Labs, USA Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, The Netherlands Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Masayuki Nakajima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Francis, Bu-Sung Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Technical Demo Co-Chairs: Tian Qi, I2R, Singapore Michael Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands Video Program Co-Chairs: Frank Nack, CWI, The Netherlands Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin University, Australia Doctoral Symposium Chair: Horace Ip, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Panel Co-Chairs: Edward Chang, UCSB, USA Yong Rui, Microsoft Research, USA

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Interactive Art Program Co-Chairs: Alejandro Jaimes, FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd., Japan Andrew Senior, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Wolfgang Muench, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore Brave New Topics Co-Chairs: Dick Bulterman, CWI, The Netherlands Jonathan Foote, FXPAL, USA Best Open Source Software Co-Chairs: Ketan Mayer-Patel, University of North Carolina, USA Ching-Yung Lin, IBM, USA Proceedings Co-Chairs: Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany Lekha Chaisorn, National University of Singapore, Singapore Exhibition Chair: Clement Chia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Qibin Sun, I2R, Singapore Terence Sim, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ee-Chien Chang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Registration Chair: Wei-Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Web Site Co-Chairs: Chee-Kit Leon Leong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Sze-Leung Leon Poon, National University of Singapore, Singapore Shiyong Neo, National University of Singapore, Singapore Conference Secretariat: Catharine Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore ACM SIGMM Chair: Ramesh Jain, UC Irvine, USA

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The tutorials provide a comprehensive in-depth view of the state-of-the-art multimedia relatedresearch.

6 November 2005 (Sunday)

1. T1 (Full day)Multimedia Collaboration and Human-Centered Multimedia Information Systems[Info]

AM: Yong Rui (Microsoft Research)PM: Nicu Sebe (U. Amsterdam) and Alex Jaimes (Fuji-Xerox Research)

2. T3 (Full day)Peer-to-peer Multimedia [Info]

Ralf Steinmetz (T. U. Darmstadt)

7 November 2005 (Monday)

1. T4 (Full day)Media Semantics and the Statistical Foundations for Understanding It[Info: Part 1 Part 2]

AM: Marc Davis (UC Berkeley), Chitra Dorai (IBM Research), Frank Nack (CWI)PM: Edward Chang (UCSB)

2. T5 (Half day, morning)Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): A Protocol for Supporting Multimedia in NextGeneration Networks [Info]

Arup Acharya (IBM Research), Archan Mishra (IBM Research) and Avshalom Houri(IBM Research)

Please note that Tutorials T2, T6, T7 and T8 have been cancelled due to lack of interests.

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For any questions regarding tutorials please email the co-chair:

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All of the talks were designated by the PC Committee as either Oral or Poster Presentation. Thetype of talk was stated in the acceptance email sent to you and also can be verified on theACMMM 2005 website.

Conference venue: Hilton Hotel, Singapore

Instructions for "Oral Presentation":

i. Presenting Your Paper

You should be present in the conference hall in time for your presentation, from where you willbe called to the stage by the Session Chair. Your presentation should last around 30 minutes(25 minutes for the talk and 5 minutes for question-answering). Please remember to keep aneye on the Session Chair, who will give you a signal when the time is approaching to bring yourpresentation to a close. The order of the talks is given in the program or it can be verified onthe ACM MM2005 website (http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/pdfdocs/final-program.pdf).

ii. Equipment

The following equipment will be made available in conference hall: PC and data projectorequipped with Windows Office (including PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Instructions for "Poster Presentation":

There will be ONE poster session (FOUR tracks) cum conference reception on Tuesday 8November, 2005. The first three tracks are for technical program short papers: content,applications and systems; and the fourth track is for interactive arts short papers. These will beheld at the Lobby of the conference site. Your poster ID can be verified on the conferenceprogramme.

Please keep your poster to A1 paper size (594mm by 841mm) or smaller. You may orient itportrait or landscape, it doesn't matter which, as the exhibition panel is square.

An exhibition panel, with adhesive velcro tape, will be provided for you to display your poster.There is a limited number of small tables and electrical outlets if you wish to give a demo.Please ask if you need them. (Note: Singapore's electrical power is 220-240V, 50Hz, andelectrical outlets require a 3-pin square plug. See Type G plug here:http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm#plugs. Please bring your own adaptorsas we will not be providing them.)

Wireless networking will be available.

To avoid confusion, please stick your poster on the panel that bears your Poster ID, (Y- xxwhere `Y' indicates the track and `xx' is poster number). You can verify your poster ID in theprogramme on the conference web site.

Most of all, enjoy yourself!

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The list of workshops for ACM Multimedia 2005 is:

1. Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005) - 10-11 Nov 2005Organizers: HongJiang Zhang (Microsoft Research ATC), John Smith (IBM T.J. WatsonLab), Qi Tian (Univ of Texas at San Antonio)

The content extraction, indexing, and retrieval of multimedia data continue to be one ofthe most challenging and fast-growing research areas. Following the success of the fiveprevious MIR workshops held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conference, thepurpose of the 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia InformationRetrieval (MIR 2005) is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners fromacademia and industry. MIR2005 is calling for originals, high-quality submissions thataddress innovative research in the broad field of multimedia information retrieval.

Note: This is a one and a half day workshop.

URL: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~mir/

2. Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN 2005) - 11 Nov 2005Organizers: Edward Chang (UC Santa Barbara), Jake Aggarwal (Univ of Texas atAustin), Rita Cucchiara (Univ of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Yuan-Fang Wang (UC SantaBarbara)

VSSN 2005 is the 3rd edition of the workshop organized in conjunction with ACMConference of Multimedia. Following the strong interest of the past editions, theworkshop will present new results and discuss both theoretical aspects and practicalimplementations of new generations of multimedia systems based on video surveillanceand sensor networks technologies.

URL: http://imagelab.ing.unimo.it/vssn05/

3. Multimedia Service Composition (MSC 2005) - 11 Nov 2005Organizers: Wolf-Tilo Balke (Univ of Hannover), Klara Nahrstedt (UIUC)

Service-oriented architectures promise to introduce a maximum of flexibility andreusability of components into multimedia applications. Since most multimediaapplications consist of several complex steps, the composition of basic services toachieve more complex goals is a mission critical problem. The ACM MM'05 workshop onmultimedia service composition provides a forum for presenting new challenges andcurrent research results. We invite researchers, and industrial practitioners to participateand share their knowledge in this forum.

URL: http://www.l3s.de/msc05/

4. Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences (CARPE 2005)- 11 Nov 2005Organizers: Jim Gemmell (Microsoft Research), Hari Sundaram (Arizona State Univ)

Progress in storage, sensor, and computing technology has made it both feasible andaffordable to capture, archive and retrieve entire lifetimes of media. This workshopbrings together researchers interested in the many issues related to CARPE, includingcapture, storage, management, retrieval, content analysis, data mining, UI, security andprivacy.

URL: http://research.microsoft.com/CARPE2005/

5. Multimedia for Human Communication - From Capture to Convey (MHC 05)- 11 Nov 2005Organizer: Frank Nack (CWI)

The goal of this workshop is to work towards an initial formulation of a model, namely toidentify commonly carried-out tasks in media creation, manipulation and organization andconsumption and to create preliminary descriptions of input and output specifications.The aim of this workshop is to establish the task set and possible paths among tasks,and gain a better understanding of the inputs and outputs for the identified tasks as wellas their inner process structure.

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6. Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming (P2MS 2005) - 11 Nov 2005Organizers: S.-H. Gary Chan (The Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology),Shiqiang Yang (Tsinghua Univ), Qian Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia), Jin Li (MicrosoftResearch Redmond)

Workshop on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming, addressing p2p streamingissues such as architecture design, emerging applications, technologies, quality ofservices, security, and deployment experiences.

URL: http://mwnet.cs.ust.hk/P2Pstreaming2005/

General Workshop Co-chairs

Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University: [email protected]

Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research: [email protected]




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The website for submitting the final version of the accepted papers is now open. Please go tothe relevant links below to access the copyright form and submission web site:

The instructions are organized as follows:

Overview of deadlines and maximum number of pagesCamera ready copy and the copyright formFormatting instructions and uploading camera ready copyThe ACM computing classificationThe Shepherding process (full papers only)Printed proceedings and ACM digital libraryContact the proceedings coordinator, Lisa M. Tolles at Sheridan PrintingContact the MM05 Proceedings Chairs, Susanne Boll and Lekha Chaisorn

Overview of the page limits and deadlines

Paper type number of pages deadlineFull papers 10 August 29, 2005Short papers 4 August 29, 2005Demo papers 2 August 29, 2005Panel description 2 August 29, 2005Art full paper 10 August 29, 2005Art short paper 4 August 29, 2005Art exhibit paper 2 August 29, 2005Brave new topics 6/8/10 August 29, 2005Video paper 2 August 29, 2005Doctoral symposium paper 2 August 29, 2005OSS competition 4 August 29, 2005MIR Workshop 8 August 29, 2005VSSN Workshop 10 August 29, 2005MSC Workshop 10 August 29, 2005CARPE Workshop 10 August 29, 2005MHC Workshop 10 August 29, 2005P2SM Workshop 10 August 29, 2005

Overview of camera ready and copyright form

Authors of accepted full papers/short papers/demos/videos/art exhibit/doctoral symposium forthe ACM MM 2005 conference will receive an email from Lisa M. Tolles from Sheridan Printing,the publisher that will produce the conference proceedings. The email contains all the details forsubmitting the camera ready copy and copyright form.

Formatting instructions and uploading camera ready copy

The camera ready copy of each submission must strictly adhere to the Sheridan PrintingInstructions for the ACM MM05 Proceedings.

We kindly ask you to read carefully through the instructions from Sheridan and start preparingthe camera ready copy as early as possible to avoid any delays due to formatting problems,paper length, or lacking a copyright form. For an appealing print of your contribution in theconference proceedings please do NOT change the given paper style, e.g., by increasing textwidth and height or reducing line spacing in order to get more space for your paper.

The Sheridan web page also contains information on the files and their required naming for thesubmission as well as the URL where to upload the files of the final version.

If you have any questions left regarding the preparation of the camera ready copy, pleasecontact the proceedings coordinator Lisa M. Tolles at Sheridan printing. For questions regardingthe shepherding process and further general questions, please contact the proceedings chairsSusanne Boll and Lekha Chaisorn.

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ACM SIGMM aims to encourage student participation in its flagship conference, theACM Multimedia. To this end, the conference is making available a grant to support upto 10 students to attend the conference. The grants are sponsored by IBM andMicrosoft. The grant will provide free-registration for the full conference package thatincludes registration to the main conference, one workshop and any number oftutorials, subject to schedule. Awardees, however, will be responsible for their owntravel arrangements, including health insurance if necessary. Selected students will berecognized at the ACM Multimedia 2005 award session.

To qualify for the student conference grant, a recipient must be a registered, full-time student.

Selection is based on regions where the recipient is from, and the reasons for seeking studentconference grant. Preferences will be given to student authors presenting their work in theconference.

To apply for the grant, students must send an email to [email protected]. Thesubject of the email should be "ACM Multimedia Student Grant Program -- $LASTNAME", where$LASTNAME should be replaced by the last name of the applicant. The following informationshould be included (not attached) in the email in plain text (HTML, PDF, Postscript or any othertype of data are not accepted):

1. Current academic status, including institution and number of years until graduation.2. The program your paper appears in and the title of your paper.3. Indication if you are going to present the paper.4. The reason for seeking student conference grant.

To confirm the application and the need to support the student, the applicant's advisor needs tosend an email to [email protected] with the subject "ACM Multimedia Student GrantProgram NOMINATION -- $LASTNAME". $LASTNAME in the subject should be replaced by the lastname of the applicant.

The decisions made by the ACM SIGMM Student Grant Committee are final. The Committeereserves the right to not award the grants to any applicant. We look forward to receiving a largenumber of applications.

Important Dates

Program Committee:

Wei-Tsang Ooi (Chair), National University of Singapore.Frank Nack, CWI, Netherlands.Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, USA.

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Advance registrations are encouraged. On-site registration will be available at the conferencesite from 6th to 11th of November, 2005.

Non-ACMMember(SGD)

ACMMember(SGD)

Student(SGD)

MAIN CONFERENCEAdvance 1000 800 400

Late/On-Site 1150 900 500

HALF-DAY TUTORIALAdvance 250 200 175


FULL-DAY TUTORIALAdvance 400 350 300


ONE-DAY WORKSHOPAdvance 250 200 150


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Advance 1800 1400 850

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PACKAGE B(Main Conference + Tutorials)

Advance 1550 1200 700

Late/On-Site 1850 1450 875

Notes

All conference fees are in Singapore Dollars (SGD). Main conference registration includes: 1. Attendance to the following sessions: full papers, short paper presentation, brave new

topics, techncial demos, video program, panel, doctoral symposium, arts full papers, artsshort papers, and arts exhibition.

2. Main conference proceedings

On-line registration has closed. Kindly please proceed to on-site registration counterat the conference venue for registration.

5 September 2005 At least one author of each accepted paper must register withfull payment received and cleared into ACM Multimedia 2005account before 5 September 2005 for the paper to be includedin the final program.

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3. Attendance to social programs:reception to arts exhibition (7 November, Mon, 1900-2130)reception cum short paper presentation (8 November, Tue, 1830-2100)conference banquet (9 November, Wed, 1830-2200)

4. Lunches, morning and afternoon teas on 8-10 November, 2005.

Tutorial registration includes: 1. Attendance to tutorial sessions of the registered tutorial.2. Notes of the registered tutorials.3. Lunch (for full day tutorial attendees), morning and afternoon teas on the day of the

tutorial.

Workshop registration includes: 1. Attendance to workshop sessions and other activities of the registered workshop2. Proceedings of the registered workshop3. Lunch, morning and afternoon teas on day of workshop

If claiming student rate, please email documentation of full-time status [email protected] and include your registration number which is generated at theend of the online registration process. Full refund will be given before the advance registration deadline, 12 September, 2005. After12 September, 2005, no refunds will be made. Additional banquet ticket is SGD 100 per guest. We only accept payment through Master Card or Visa Card. Registration receipts will be issued during the conference at the registration desk. Package A includes registrations to the main conference, one workshop, and any number oftutorials (subject to schedule) Package B includes registration to the main conference and any number of tutorials (subjectto schedule) The conference banquet will be held on Wednesday, 9 November 2005 at 6:30pm, at SilosoBeach, Sentosa Island. Guests of conferences participants are invited to attend the dinnerthrough purchase of additional banquet ticket. The conference reception will be held on Tuesday, 8 November 2005 at 6:30pm, at the mainconference lobby together with the poster session.

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Hilton Hotel is located in Orchard Road, right in the heart of thebusiness, entertainment and shopping district, close to majorembassies and consulates. It is within a 5 minutes walk from theMass Rapid Transit (underground rail network) station.

Please note that the offer of discounted rate rooms secured forACM MM 2005 participants has been expired. The hotel is nowfully booked. If you still want to stay in Hilton, please try tobook through other sources.

Other Hotels

A good selection of hotels can be found from the following websites:

http://hotels.online.com.sg/http://www.visitsingapore.com/

Most probably you want to stay somewhere along OrchardRoad or Scotts Road, which is only a short walk away from theConference Hotel. Other areas that are either reachable by shortMRT or taxi ride are: City Central, China Town, and HavelockRoad areas. A taxi ride from these areas costs less than SGD$6-00.

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The ACM Multimedia 2005 Conference is to be held in HiltonHotel, Singapore on 6-11 November 2005.

Hilton Hotel is located in Orchard Road, right in the heart of thebusiness, entertainment and shopping district, close to majorembassies and consulates. It is within a 5 minutes walk from theMass Rapid Transit (underground rail network) station.

Guests also enjoy easy accessibility via buses and taxis at thedoorstep of the hotel. The hotel offers a wide range of businessand leisure facilities.

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As Singapore is a small country, accessibility is relatively high. InSingapore, we have 3 main modes of public transportation andbelow is the relevant travel instructions from SingaporeInternational Airport to Hilton Orchard:

SMRT Train Service

There is a MRTstation in the Airportand the station nameis "Changi Airport"station. Board atrain from thatstation and travel to"Orchard" Station.The journey wouldtake approximately30 minutes.

Taxi/Cab Service

Taxis would provide a faster,though more costly, mode oftransportation. They can beflagged anywhere along the roadbut in the airport there are Taxistands where taxis would stop byspecifically. Upon boarding thecab, inform the driver that youare going to "Hilton Hotel"; thejourney would take approximately15 minutes.

For more information about getting around Singapore, visit ourofficial tourist guide here.

Travel Requirements

Information on visa requirements can be found athttp://app.ica.gov.sg/travellers/entry/visa_requirements.asp.

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Future of Home Media

Yutaka TANAKAon behalf of Kazumasa ENAMIScience and Technical Research Laboratories

NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

8 November, 2005

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Present status of and trends in home media

Diversification of multimedia services

The TV set will become Integrated Services Television

Agenda for developing future home media

NHK STRL’s approach to research

NHK STRL’s research on related technologies

Summary

OutlineOutline

(STRL: Science and Technical Research Laboratories)

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Present status of and trends in home media

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Problem of present home mediaProblem of present home media

TV, PC, and phone systems are built from physically separate components.A wide variety of non-networked cables are in use.No linkage exists between the information in terminals and broadcasting/communication media.No easy access to the desired information.Individual remote control devices for every system, with too many buttons for easy operation.Incomplete copyright protection system.

AV systems PC systems

×Home network system

Agent system

Internet

Internet

Are there any interesting programs on?

Here is a list of “recommended”

programs of interest.

Phone

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ACM MM 2005Development of infrastructure Development of infrastructure surrounding home media systemsurrounding home media system

Digitization of broadcasting

Advancing broadband communications

Storage technology (smaller size, larger capacity)

Home Server

Development of portable terminals

Watching TV

iPod --- Podcasting

Home network

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Digital broadcasting services in JapanDigital broadcasting services in Japan

High picture quality / sound quality HDTV and 5.1 surround stereo system

Data broadcasting (program related data services, interactive data services)

Multiprogramming

High performanceElectronic Program Guide (EPG)

Digital terrestrial TV broadcastingAlong with digital satellite broadcasting services, there are

Services for mobile reception terminals (1 segment broadcasts)

Regional broadcasts

NHK Data Online

New service using the Internet connection of digital broadcasting receivers

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Conventional Analog TV

Digital Terrestrial TV

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BS Analog TV

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Launched on Dec.1, 2003

Started on Dec.1, 2000

Ceases by 2007

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Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka Metro Area

Other major capital cities（by Year 2006）

Switch-over in July 24, 2011

Reaching all of Japan

Experimental Broadcasts started in Oct. 2003 in Tokyo, Osaka Metro Area

CATV (re-transmission)

Ceases by 2011

BS DigitalDigital Terrestrial

Fully digital

(expected)

(expected)

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ACM MM 2005Growth in digital BS subscribers Growth in digital BS subscribers and digital receivers in Japanand digital receivers in Japan

10.52 million

8.69 million

6.18 million

(As of September, 2005)

BS Digital ReceiversBS Digital Hi-Vision TVBS Digital TunerBS Digital PDP ReceiversBS Digital LCD TV Receivers

BS Digital Subscribers(including NTSC Conversion on Cable)

Digital Terrestrial Receivers

Total number of households in Japan: 48 million

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Communications infrastructure development in JapanCommunications infrastructure development in Japan

Increase in Internet population and its penetration rate

Trend of broadband subscribers

（Source：Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; “Communications usage trend survey”）

（Source：Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; 2005 White Paper; “Information and communications in Japan”）

Notes:The values for 2004 are those as of the end of December.Broadband: Total for FTTH, DSL, cable Internet, and wireless(FWA)

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Market prediction for storageMarket prediction for storage

(Source: NRI (Nomura Research Institute))

Market penetration rate for hard disk recorders in Japan (prediction)

Demand projection for DVD and VCR in the world

(Source: JEITA (Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association))

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120

100

80

60

40

20

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(million units)

DVD VCR

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Market prediction for displayMarket prediction for display

(Source: JEITA (Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association))

Demand projection for TV in the world

Flat panel TV

CRT + Projection TV

Rate of flat panel TV

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

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Portable terminals Portable terminals -- Watching TV Watching TV --

Service will start

next spring

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Portable terminals Portable terminals -- iPodiPod --

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Portable music with HDD

Podcasting has become popular, especially in the United States

HDD digital TV＋Portable devices

Easy to use

ＬＰ(Analog)Audio

VideoVideo

(Analog)

Ｄ－ＶＨＳ

(digital) DVD/HDD recorder

Can also view content through Podcasting

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Main home network technologiesMain home network technologies

Max. transmission speed

Main purpose

Main application

Networking technology

Classification

High-speed (400Mbps)

Digital content sharing, etc.

TV, audio system, etc.

IEEE1394IEEE802.11, etc.

AV systems

Medium or High-speed(1Mbps to 1Gbps)

Internet access, sharing a printer and other devices, data sharing, etc.

PC, PC peripherals.

IEEE802.3, IEEE802.11,Power-line communication (2MHz to 30MHz), HomePNA, Bluetooth, etc.

PC systems

Low-speed

(9.6kbps and higher)

Heating and cooling, lighting management, home security, etc.

Home appliances, security systems, etc.

Power-line communication (10kHz to 450kHz), ECHONETZ, igBee, etc.

Home appliances

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Diversification of multimedia services

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Diversification of multimedia servicesDiversification of multimedia services

Diversifying demands from viewers

Media trend moves toward visualization

Increase in broadband users

Increase in users who want to transmit information

Linkage between TV and the Internet

Progress on media handling technologies

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Opinions on Internet use on a TV (1)Opinions on Internet use on a TV (1)

Satisfaction level of Internet use on a TV

Future of Internet use on a TV

Will be popular： 60.7%

Satisfied: 35.5%

Dissatisfied: 25.6%

Questionnaires given to advanced users

Very satisfied Satisfied

Neither satisfied or dissatisfied

Somewhat dissatisfied

Very dissatisfied

Will diffuse to general publicWill diffuse to some extentWill not diffuse to general publicDo not know

(Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; ”Survey on trends concerning a ubiquitous network society (Web survey)”)


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Advantages of Internet use on a TV

Unsatisfactory aspects of Internet use on a TV

Opinions on Internet use on a TV (2)Opinions on Internet use on a TV (2)

Easier to view with a display larger than a PC.

Easier operation with a remote control device.

Faster startup compared to a PC.

Internet use in a living room or other place at my convenience.

Easy initial system setup.

Better sound than a PC.

Use Internet together with family in a living room or other place.

Faster loading and switching between web pages than on a PC.

Reasonable pricing for TV with Internet access capability.

Other.

No particular advantage.

Remote control device’s operability does not match that of PC.

Harder to view general websites with TV monitor.

Difficult to use the Internet while watching a TV program.

Higher prices for a TV with Internet access capability.

Difficult initial system setup.

Sharing TV with family makes it difficult to use the Internet.

Slower loading and switching between web pages than on a PC.

Slower system startup than a PC.

Poorer sound quality than a PC.

Other.

No particular unsatisfactory factor.



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The TV set will become Integrated Services Television.

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Connection with communication network

Communication network

Broadcast-wave (analog)

Installation of large-capacity storage function

Receiver for broadcasting based on home serversAnalog broadcasting receiver

Receiver for present-day digital broadcasting

Large-capacity storage system

Analog broadcasting

Storage function

Digitization and utilization of communication function

Utilization of storage function

Digital broadcasting

Interactive programming

Data download

Automatic storage and retrieval, digest viewing

Broadcasting based on home servers

： New functions by broadcasting based on home servers

Usage image example

Present digital broadcasting

Ad

vances in

b

road

casting

Fusing broadcasting, communications, and storageFusing broadcasting, communications, and storage

Communication function

Storage function

Storage function



Digital broadcasting

Recipient retransmits broadcast content over the Internet

Broadcast-wave (digital)

Broadcast-wave (digital)

Communication network

Ad

vances in

receivers

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Broadcasting based on home serversBroadcasting based on home servers

Home Server: large-capacity storage unit for TV programs

Metadata enables “anytime viewing.”

Program+ Metadata

Service will start

around 2007

High-functionality EPG

Favorite program

Related informationHighlight viewing

Home serverInternet

Stored programs and information collected over several months

Explanation

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Conceptual image of future home mediaConceptual image of future home media

Home Network

Home server

Internet

Broadcasting

Agent

Digest viewingSpoken command

“I want to watch the program that I missed yesterday.”

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Conceptual image of future home mediaConceptual image of future home media

Home NetworkElectronic service

Video on-demand service

Remote medical care

Educational use

Broadcastingstation server

Hospitals

Municipality

School Home server

Digest viewing

Internet

Broadcasting

Agent

Spoken command“I want to watch the program

that I missed yesterday.”

Integrated Services Television

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Agenda for developing future home mediaAgenda for developing future home media

Easy-to-use interface for everybody

Easy content-production for everybody

Anytime program viewing/data acquisition

Anywhere program viewing/data acquisition

Safe connection and fee-charging

Latest function updates

Easy connection between devices

Display tailored to viewing style

Rich video/audio expressions

Required functions

Security

Human interface

Search

Metadata

Media handling

Media conversion

Content production technologies

Middleware

Media art

Technical agenda

Seamless services using broadcasting, communication, and storage media

Content copyright protection

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NHK STRL’s approach to research

NHK STRL Vision “NEXT”

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NHK STRL Vision “NEXT”

View

Know Use

To utilize information media for a broad range of daily activities

and in times of emergency

To enable sender and viewers to share

information and emotions

To view a faraway scene as if it were nearby in real time

To

To To

“Human-oriented” system

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R&D Framework

Broadcasting technology that learns from human possibilities

Advanced content production and a mobile news-reporting system

Ubiquitous and universal services

Systems technology

<

Audio-video technology conveying a heightened

sensation of reality

Content production technology that incorporates the knowledge

of production experts

Network technology; Security technology

Highly functional wireless

transmission technology

Flexible system construction technology

Human science Fundamental device technology

Image/speech recognition,language processing

Analysis and application for knowledge and

sensibility

Psychology; Physiology

Ultrahigh-resolution video devices,

Ultra large-capacity recording devices

Devices with new functions

Nanophotonicsmaterials

<Approach>

Ultimate broadcasting system with a heightened sensation of reality

View Know UseTo To To

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NHK STRL’s research on related technologies

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Metadata production system

Program script and shooting plan can be used for metadata production for drama and documentary program.Metadata can be efficiently produced for sports programs by combining image recognition, speech recognition, natural language processing, etc.

Services for mobile receivers

Data broadcasting

Archives

Live program production

Video data Audio data

Textual data

Cheers

Metadata production system

Image recognition

Speech recognition

Natural language

processing

Service based on home servers

Metadata;10 minutes 30 secondsA shot on goalby Nakata

Internet

Nakata shoots!Wow!

Explanation

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TVML (TV program Making Language)

・・・BOB = "Hello"camera=close-upBOB = "Today..."movie = startsuper = ”NHK"・・・・・

Personal Computer

TVML Player TV program

TVML script

User Human interface

(TVML Editor)

A new program production mechanism that automatically generates programs from a script written in a computer language

Function-"Studio Shots" using real-time computer graphics and voice synthesis. -Superimposition of text -Title displays for textual information -Replay of movie files -BGM using audio playback

TV Creator

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Configuration of axi-vision camera

Conventional method

Uses chroma-key

Difficult to synthesize camera image and CG in three dimensions

Axi-vision’s method

Doesn’t need specific background

Can synthesize camera image and CG in three dimensions in real-time by using depth information

Depth image

Color imageCamera

Signal processing

Colorcamera

CCDcamera

Subject

Near-infrared lightVisible light

Visible lighting

Color separation prism

LED array light source

Image intensifier

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Axi-vision camera

Camera image Imaginary component

Synthesized image

HDTV axi-vision camera is capable of detecting depth information of an object in real-time as well as colour HDTV video images.

By using this camera, depth can be a key signal of synthesizing two images instead of chroma-key.

HDTV axi-vision camera

Explanation

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Dynamic 3D modeling

Dynamic 3D models are generated from video images captured by multiple cameras.

Virtual PuppetA Human-Computer Interaction

Dynamic 3D modeling

The modeling studio ・diameter : 8 ｍ height : 2.5 ｍ・22 fire-wire cameras are used ・XGA（1024x768 pixels）, 10 frames/sec

3D Video SystemArchiving Traditional Performing Art

Explanation

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Speech Rate Conversion Technology

•• It allows the listener to reduce the rate of speech of program wIt allows the listener to reduce the rate of speech of program while hile maintaining the voice pitch, quality and the time frame of the pmaintaining the voice pitch, quality and the time frame of the program.rogram.•• It is also convenient for all generations to listen foreign langIt is also convenient for all generations to listen foreign language. uage. ••Some elderly viewers have commented that the speech in recent Some elderly viewers have commented that the speech in recent

broadcasting program seems too rapid for easy listening.broadcasting program seems too rapid for easy listening.

BarrierBarrier--Free InformationFree Information

• New radio and TV set built-in this function have been on a market for the first time by an consumer-electronics maker with our technical collaboration.

•• New radio and TV set builtNew radio and TV set built--in in this function have been on a this function have been on a market for the first time market for the first time by an consumerby an consumer--electronics electronics makermaker with our technical with our technical collaboration. collaboration.

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Speech Rate Conversion Technology

Temporal duration of waveform is changed to keep Temporal duration of waveform is changed to keep fundamental periodfundamental period

× ×

slowertime

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fastertime

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originaltime

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Fundamental periodFundamental period is enlarged is enlarged and pitch becomes lowerand pitch becomes lower

Slower playbackof

tape recording

Slower playbackSlower playbackof of

tape recordingtape recording

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Morphovision−Distorted House

What is Morphovision?Three-dimensional presentation system that can be seen by

changing shape of solid objects within real time.

Actual model Morphovision image

Purpose of developmentThe observer does not need special glasses to see an actual

object take on different shapes and the effect can be seen from various angles.

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Content protection,

licensing

Domain management

Metadata protection

Encryption technology

Copyright protection and promotion of broadcasting content

Promoting rich information distribution

Integrated security for broadcasting networks with Integrated security for broadcasting networks with broadband communicationbroadband communication

Assurance of content reliability

User-friendliness

Authentication, protection against impersonation

Personal data protection

Safe, secureusage environment

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TV agent system

Let’s anyone easily operate digital broadcasting receivers

New Q&A function with a spoken dialogue TV operation capability.

ExplanationTV Agent responding to a viewer’s question

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Mobile terminals

Get information related to a program with low-bit-rate video from data broadcasting or Internet

Information from broadcasting and communication channel

Low-bit-rate video from broadcasting channel

Video:AVC/H.264 (about 128 kbps)

Audio: AAC-SBR (about 48 kbps)

Data Broadcasting

Closed caption

Wake up function in case of

emergency

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Intention to use portable communication device

Do you intend to use the following digital content services on the Internet via portable mobile communication device?

Reasons for the lack of interest in viewing digital terrestrial broadcast on cellular phones

Subjects who had responded that “I am not interested very much” to the question, “When do you think that you would start watching digital terrestrial broadcasting on a cellular phone after the service becomes available?” were asked for the reasons for their lack of interest.

Due to small screen

Wants to use TV reception function: 27.6%

Requires design to display content on a small screen, or a larger screen

Satisfied with current functions

Do not know

Possible heavier cell phone

Operation will become more complex

Possible quicker battery depletion

Possible higher price of cell phone

Will not watch TV while outside home

Do not want to carry cell phone

Small screen

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(Based on “Survey on awareness of digital broadcasting” (February 2005) by NHK.)

(Based on “Survey on networks and people’s lives” (January 2005) by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. )

Camera (Still picture)

Camera (Video)

TV telephone

Fm radio reception

TV reception

Electronic money

GPS

QR code reader

Infrared data communication

Music player

Application

I want to use none of the above

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Flexible displays

Flexible liquid crystal display

Flexible Organic Electroluminescence Display

Organic TFT-driven Liquid Crystal Display (5x5

elements)

Flexible organic electroluminescence (EL) display

Flexible Liquid Crystal Display(A4 size)

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EffectsStrong sensation of reality (as if you are there)More exciting live TV programs

Our objectivesExamine physical and psychological effectsEnhance the reality sensation for future TV systems

Future TV System with Greater Sensation of Reality

Super Hi-Vision(Ultra-high-definition, Wide-screen System with 4000 Scanning Lines)

4320 Lines(1080 x4)

7680 pixels(1920x4)

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R&D based on NHK STRL Vision: “NEXT”“NEXT”: NHK EX Technology (Express, Excel and Expand)Broadcasting technology that “learns” from the human potential

Ultimate broadcasting systems

Advanced program production and news-reporting systems

Ubiquitous and universal services

Broadcasting will play an important role in the creation of culture and in the lives of people in environment of linkage between broadcasting and communication

Multimedia processing technologies for content production and home media will be more important.

ACM Multimedia

2005 13th Annual Conference, November 6-12, 2005

Singapore

Multimedia analysis, processing and retrieval Multimedia networking and system support

Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications

FEATURING Papers Short Papers Brave New Topics Workshops Panels

Technical Demonstrations Interactive Art Program Video Demonstrations Tutorials Doctoral Symposium Open Software Competition

IMPORTANT DATES 15 Apr 2005

23 May 2005

20 Jun 2005

29 Jul 2005

22 Aug 2005 29 Aug 2005

Finalize proposals for Workshop, Tutorials and Brave New Topics proposals Full Papers due (also Full Papers and Arts Exhibits for Interactive Arts Program, and Full Papers for Video Program) Short Papers due (also Short Papers for Interactive Arts Program, and Video Program) Panel proposal due Notification of acceptance of Full Papers and Short Papers Notification of acceptance (of all categories of papers) for Interactive Arts Program and Video Program Submission of Workshop, Open Source Software Competition, Technical Demonstration, and Doctoral Symposium Papers Notification of acceptance of all remaining categories Camera-ready Papers Due

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Conference Co-Chairs: Hongjiang Zhang (Microsoft Asia) Tat-Seng Chua (NUS) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt U) Mohan Kankanhalli (NUS) Lynn Wilcox (FX Pal, USA) Short Paper Co-Chairs: Chitra Dorai (IBM) Kiyoharu Aizawa (U of Tokyo) Roger Zimmermann (USC) Workshop Co-Chairs: Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Asia) Hari Sundaram (Arizona State U) Tutorial Chair: Milind R. Naphade (IBM) Brave New Topics Co-Chairs: Dick Bulterman (CWI) Jonathan Foote (FX Palo Alto Lab)

Publicity Co-Chairs: Michael Vernick (Avaya) Lloyd Rutledge (CWI, Netherland), Mark Liao (Acad. Sinica, Taiwan) Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Inst. Tech) Francis Lee (NTU, Singapore) Technical Demo Co-Chairs: Tian Qi (I2R, Singapore) Michael Lew (LIACS, Netherland) Video Program Co-Chairs: Frank Nack (CWI, Netherlands) Svetha Venkatesh (Curtin U, Aus) Doctoral Symposium Chair: Horace Ip (City U, Hong Kong) Panel Co-Chairs Edward Chang (UCSB, USA) Yong Rui (Microsoft) Interactive Art Program Co-Chairs: Andrew Seinor (IBM) Alejandro Jaimes (Fuji Xerox) Irina Aristarkhova (NUS, Singapore)

Best Open Source Software Co-Chairs: Ketan Mayer-Patel (UNC Chapel Hill) Ching-Yung Lin (IBM) Proceedings Co-Chairs: Susan Boll (U Oldenburg, Germany) Lekha Chaisorn (NUS, Singapore) Exhibition Chair: Clement Chia (NTU, Singapore) Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Qibin Sun (I2R, Singapore) Terence Sim (NUS, Singapore) Ee-Chien Chang (NUS, Singapore) Registration Chair: Wei-Tsang Ooi (NUS, Singapore) Web Site Co-Chairs: Chee-Kit Leong (NUS, Singapore) Shiyong Neo (NUS, Singapore) Conference Secretariat: Catharine Tan (NUS, Singapore) ACM SIGMM Chair: Ramesh Jain (Georgia Tech)

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The 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005) will be heldin Singapore, November 06-11, 2005. ACM Multimedia is the premier technicalmultimedia conference attended by an international community of researchers fromboth academia and industry. MM 2005 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering allaspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theoreticalfoundations to experimental systems, and servers to networks to devices. MM 2005 seeks high-quality, original papers that will set the standard in the field and stimulate the trends for yearsto come. We especially encourage introduction of novel media such as haptic, olfactory, multiplesensors, etc.

Technical Program

The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in:

Multimedia analysis, processing, and retrieval, including multimedia semantics,aesthetics, modeling, assimilation/fusion, audio/video/multi-modal processing, multi-sensor processing, multimedia content description and indexing, multimedia digital rightsmanagement (protection and attribution), content-based retrieval with emphasis onmultiple and novel media.

Technical Program Committee for Content Track

Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications, including new UI metaphors,usable distributed collaboration, authoring, multi-modal interaction and integration,multimedia in e-learning, entertainment, personal media, assisted living, and virtualenvironments.

Technical Program Committee for Applications Track

Multimedia networking and systems, including context-aware multimediacommunications, Internet telephony, peer-to-peer streaming, audio/video streaming,multimedia content distribution, wireless multimedia, adaptive support for scalablemedia, Internet protocols, multimedia servers, operating systems, middleware and QoS.

Technical Program Committee for Systems Track

The above list is not exhaustive. We particularly encourage submissions in new and emergingareas.

Submission Instructions [ Submission period has already closed ]

The Deadline for Full Paper submission has been extended till 30 May 2005.

Prepare a paper (not more than 10 pages) using the ACM template for the conference --Portable Document Format (PDF) or PostScript (version 2 or later), formatted in two-columnconference style. Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. Papersshould properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate theinnovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. We will not accept any paperwhich, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or acceptedfor publication in a journal or another conference. Please see the ACM proceedings templateavailable at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. All submitted papers willundergo a double-blind review process.

Please note that the formatting template given above refers to final format of accepted papers.For the purpose of double blind review, please remove names of authors and affiliations from thepaper heading, and all references to (your own) papers or systems that may reveal youridentity. In place of names of authors and affiliations in the heading, please replace it by thepaper id as "Paper xxx". For some references to your own papers, you may want to leave thereference id but remove the details of references by stating: "reference removed for the purposeof anonymous review."

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For any questions regarding full papers, please email the co-chairs:

Mohan Kankanhalli (National Univ. of Singapore) - Content ([email protected])

Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt Univ., Germany) - Systems([email protected])

Lynn Wilcox (FX PAL, USA) - Applications ([email protected])

May 2005 Paper submission site open

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The 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005) will be heldin Singapore, November 06-11, 2005. ACM Multimedia is the premier technicalmultimedia conference attended by an international community of researchers fromboth academia and industry. We are currently seeking outstanding short paper submissions that will be presented in aninteractive poster format at the conference.

Short papers should present interesting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that arenot quite ready for a regular full-length paper. We are looking for interesting and bold papers inall areas of multimedia technology and its application. Submissions are encouraged in areasincluding multimedia databases, content analysis, media processing, compression, multimediastorage, networking, multimedia and hypermedia authoring, multimedia user interfaces andinnovative applications. Submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality. Accepted shortpapers will be presented in an interactive poster format at the conference.

Technical Program Committee

Content TrackApplications TrackSystems Track


Prepare a four page paper using the ACM template for the conference -- Portable DocumentFormat (PDF) or PostScript (version 2 or later), formatted in two-column conference style.Please see the ACM proceedings template available athttp://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

All submitted papers will undergo a double-blind review process. Please note that the formattingtemplate given above refers to final format of accepted papers. For the purpose of double blindreview, please remove names of authors and affiliations from the paper heading, and allreferences to (your own) papers or systems that may reveal your identity. In place of names ofauthors and affiliations in the heading, please replace it by the paper id as "Paper xxx". Forsome references to your own papers, you may want to leave the reference id but remove thedetails of references by stating: "reference removed for the purpose of anonymous review."

Important Dates

Contacts

For any questions regarding short papers please email the co-chair:

Chitra Dorai (IBM) - Content [email protected]

Kiyoharu Aizawa (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) - Applications [email protected]

Roger Zimmermann (USC, USA) - Systems [email protected]

20 Jun 2005 Deadline for submission

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The 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005) will be heldin Singapore, November 06-11, 2005. ACM Multimedia is the premier technicalmultimedia conference attended by an international community of researchers fromboth academia and industry.

The tutorials provide a comprehensive in-depth view of the state-of-the-art multimedia relatedresearch.

Call for Tutorials

Proposals are solicited for tutorials of either a half day (3 hours plus breaks) or full day (6 hoursplus breaks). Submissions should be made to the Tutorials Chair and should include a coversheet and an extended abstract. The cover sheet should specify: (1) the length of the tutorial;(2) the intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced); (3) complete contactinformation for the contact person and other presenters; and (4) a brief biography (max. 2paragraphs) for each presenter. The extended abstract should be 4 to 6 pages, and shouldinclude an outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the course objectives and coursematerials.

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1 Apr 2005 Deadline for submission of Proposal

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ACM Multimedia 2005 plans to include a number of day-long workshops on topics innew and emerging areas of interest to members of the multimedia researchcommunity. The workshops are scheduled to be on 10 - 11 November 2005, after themain conference.

The tentative list of scheduled workshops includes:

1. Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005) - 10-11 Nov 2005Organizers: HongJiang Zhang (Microsoft Research ATC), John Smith (IBM T.J. WatsonLab), Qi Tian (Univ of Texas at San Antonio)

The content extraction, indexing, and retrieval of multimedia data continue to be one ofthe most challenging and fast-growing research areas. Following the success of the fiveprevious MIR workshops held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conference, thepurpose of the 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia InformationRetrieval (MIR 2005) is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners fromacademia and industry. MIR2005 is calling for originals, high-quality submissions thataddress innovative research in the broad field of multimedia information retrieval.

Note: This is a one and a half day workshop.

URL: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~mir/

2. Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN 2005) - 11 Nov 2005Organizers: Edward Chang (UC Santa Barbara), Jake Aggarwal (Univ of Texas atAustin), Rita Cucchiara (Univ of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Yuan-Fang Wang (UC SantaBarbara)

VSSN 2005 is the 3rd edition of the workshop organized in conjunction with ACMConference of Multimedia. Following the strong interest of the past editions, theworkshop will present new results and discuss both theoretical aspects and practicalimplementations of new generations of multimedia systems based on video surveillanceand sensor networks technologies.

URL: http://imagelab.ing.unimo.it/vssn05/

3. Multimedia Service Composition (MSC 2005) - 11 Nov 2005Organizers: Wolf-Tilo Balke (Univ of Hannover), Klara Nahrstedt (UIUC)

Service-oriented architectures promise to introduce a maximum of flexibility andreusability of components into multimedia applications. Since most multimediaapplications consist of several complex steps, the composition of basic services toachieve more complex goals is a mission critical problem. The ACM MM'05 workshop onmultimedia service composition provides a forum for presenting new challenges andcurrent research results. We invite researchers, and industrial practitioners to participateand share their knowledge in this forum.

URL: http://www.l3s.de/msc05/

4. Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences (CARPE 2005)- 11 Nov 2005Organizers: Jim Gemmell (Microsoft Research), Hari Sundaram (Arizona State Univ)

Progress in storage, sensor, and computing technology has made it both feasible andaffordable to capture, archive and retrieve entire lifetimes of media. This workshopbrings together researchers interested in the many issues related to CARPE, includingcapture, storage, management, retrieval, content analysis, data mining, UI, security andprivacy.

URL: http://research.microsoft.com/CARPE2005/

5. Multimedia for Human Communication - From Capture to Convey (MHC 05)- 11 Nov 2005Organizer: Frank Nack (CWI)

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URL: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/conferences/mhc05/mhc05.html

6. Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming (P2MS 2005) - 11 Nov 2005Organizers: S.-H. Gary Chan (The Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology),Shiqiang Yang (Tsinghua Univ), Qian Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia), Jin Li (MicrosoftResearch Redmond)

Workshop on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming, addressing p2p streamingissues such as architecture design, emerging applications, technologies, quality ofservices, security, and deployment experiences.

URL: http://mwnet.cs.ust.hk/P2Pstreaming2005/

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Please refer to the respective workshop sites for the detailed call for papers and on-linesubmission instructions. If you have any questions regarding the workshops, please contact therespective Workshop Chairs.

General Workshop Co-chairs

Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University: [email protected]

Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research: [email protected]

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The panels at Multimedia 2005 will provide a forum venturous position statements and vividdebates of controversial, unresolved, or emerging issues related to all aspects of multimedia.

Special focus will be set on the "multi" part of the "multimedia" with its specific challenges. Withthe panels we would like to stimulate discussions on challenges and research trends. Theconference will host two panels, one each on the first and the second day of the conference.

Potential Topics

We solicit proposals in, but not limited to, the following topics:

+ Are we really filling the semantic gap in multimedia?

+ Smart, early metadata acquisition versus late, tedious media analysis?

+ Personalization of multimedia content beyond name recognition

+ Are we drowning in a vast amount of life media streams or do we learn to swim?

+ Multimedia digital rights management - between protection and constriction

+ New multimodal user interface metaphors - making multimedia data explorable andexperiencable


The panel proposal (2-3 pages) should include:

+ panel title

+ panelists (name, position, affiliation, country)

+ panel topic (motivation, issues to be discussed)

+ panel structure (time needed, schedule of presentations and discussions)

+ proposers of the panel (name, position, affiliation, country)

Please e-mail your panel proposal in PDF to the panel chairs. Best panel proposals will beselected by the panel chair supported by a Panel Selection Board comprised of members fromthe ACM MM 2005 Program Committee.

Important Dates

20 Jun 2005 Deadline for Submission

29 Jul 2005 Notice of acceptance

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For any questions regarding panels please email the co-chair:

Edward Chang (UCSB, USA) - [email protected]

Yong Rui (Microsoft, USA) - [email protected]



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The 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005) will be heldin Singapore, November 06-11, 2005. ACM Multimedia is the premier technicalmultimedia conference attended by an international community of researchers fromboth academia and industry. ACM Multimedia 2005 is seeking to extend theboundaries of multimedia research presented at the conference through theintroduction of its Brave New Topics Sessions.

We solicit proposals for special sessions dealing either with topics not usually covered at ACMMultimedia or which introduce entirely new research areas. Example topics include but are notlimited to: biomedical applications, multimodal biometrics, multimedia use experience, sensor-based systems, gaming, and pervasive computing.

Each Brave New Topics session is expected to consist of a coordinated set of papers managedby the session organizer. An initial proposal is expected that outlines the scope of the sessionand the expected participants. Session organizers, together with the Brave New Topics chairs,work together on organizing a final session.

The Brave New Topics session is being handled as a separate track at this year's conference. Weexpect to accommodate between 2 and 4 Brave New Topics sessions. Since acceptance is likelyto be highly selective, we encourage you to submit a short session proposal well in advance ofthe final submission dates. We can provide feedback on your proposal or help bring groupstogether in expanded sessions.


What to submit:Session proposals should include a title, a one-page abstract describing the scope of thesession, names and bios of the organizers, names of the participants, and abstracts for each ofthe proposed papers.

Where to submit: Please submit your proposal by sending email with the abstract and other supporting materialsas attachments to the Brave new topic co-chair.

Important Dates

14 Mar 2005 Deadline for submission of Proposal

15 Apr 2005 Notice of acceptance (tentative)

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Dick Bulterman (CWI, Amsterdam): [email protected]

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The open-source software competition is a recent addition to the ACM Multimediaprogram and 2005 will be our second year in running the competition.

The competition celebrates the invaluable contribution of researchers who advance the field byproviding the community with implementations of codecs, middleware, frameworks, toolkits,libraries, and other multimedia software. This kind of activity has been largely unrecognized inthe past, although all of us can point to software generously provided by others which haveformed the basis for our own research systems and experiments.

To qualify, software must be provided with source code and licensed in such a manner that itcan be used free of charge in academic and research settings. For the competition, the softwarewill be built from the sources. Submissions should be made in the form of a compressed zip ortar archive file and must include the following:

+ A text file named README.txt which summarizes the purpose of the software and itsoverall design and use.

+ A text file named INSTALL.txt which includes any and all instructions on building andinstalling the software and any system requirements. The judging committee will make areasonable effort to build any submitted software. However, if we are unable to make thesoftware run given a reasonable effort, we must unfortunately exclude it from thecompetition. Therefore, complete and clear build and install instructions are a crucialcomponent of any submission.

Additionally, authors are highly encouraged to provide as much documentation as possible,including examples of how the provided software might be used. Entries may be made availableto the research community via the ACM Multimedia SIG website and the judging committee mayemploy feedback from the community at large to help determine the winning entry. In order toencourage participation, non-winning entries will be encouraged to submit again in the future.Student-led efforts are particularly encouraged. Authors of the winning entry will be recognizedformally at ACM Multimedia 2005, awarded a prize (to be announced), and invited todemonstrate their software as part of the conference demonstration program.


People interested in submitting an entry to the open source software competition should sendthe following information via email to the competition co-chairs Ketan Mayer-Patel([email protected]) and Ching Yung Lin ([email protected]).

+ Names and affiliations of authors (indicate if student as well).

+ Title of submission.

+ Brief overview of submission (i.e., purpose, intended audience, main features, etc.)

+ Compressed tar or zip archive file with all source code and documentation.

Please note: If the archive file is more than 5MB in size, please place the file in a webaccessible location and send a URL for that location instead.

If you have questions about what can or should be submitted, please feel free to address thesequestions to the competition co-chairs Ketan Mayer-Patel and/or Ching Yung Lin and we willdo our best to answer. We are excited to be organizing this innovative and creative addition tothe ACM Multimedia program. Please help us make this venture a continuing success bysubmitting your entry to the competition. We look forward to your participation.

Important Dates

29 Jul 2005 Deadline for submission

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Ketan Mayer-Patel (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected]

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This year's Technical Demonstrations will showcase leading edge work and work in progress inevery area of multimedia, including:

+ Multimedia analysis, processing, and retrieval

+ Multimedia networking and system support

+ Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications

Submissions are particularly encouraged in the areas of haptics, smell, sensors, novel interfacedesign, immersive technologies, wireless multimedia applications, multimedia-based securityapplications, digital rights management, multimedia databases, content analysis, content-basedretrieval, multimedia storage, multimedia networking, media processing, entertainment,compression, hypermedia authoring, and innovative applications.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality. An award will be given for the besttechnical demonstration, as judged by an evaluation panel. Demonstrators will be provided withspace and access to a local (wired) network. Participants will be required to provide their owncomputing equipment and any additional network, display, haptic, sensor, etc., hardware neededfor the demonstration.


What to submit:

+ A short paper (two page maximum) describing your technical demo. Please use thestandard ACM format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html)

+ In addition to the two page short paper, you may optionally submit one or more of thefollowing multimedia documents that describe or illustrate the demonstration:

- a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation

- a Macromedia Flash presentation, or

- an MPEG video clip (not more than 3 minutes long)

What to submit:

Please submit your demonstration proposal by sending email with the short paper and othersupporting materials as attachments to the Technical demonstration co-chair.

Important Dates

29 Jul 2005 Technical Demo Submission Deadline

22 Aug 2005 Technical Demo Acceptance Notification


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For any questions regarding panels please email the co-chair:

Tian Qi (I2R, Singapore) - [email protected]


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ACM Multimedia 2005 is the premier annual multimedia conference, covering allaspects of multimedia computing. The ACM MM Interactive Art Program seeks to bringtogether the arts and multimedia communities to create the stage to explore, discuss,and push the limits for the advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts,and the arts through multimedia technology.

The Interactive Art Program will consist of a conference track and an art exhibition.We invite artists working with digital media and researchers in technical areas tosubmit their original contributions to the following tracks:

• Conference track: we solicit papers describing interactive multimedia art works,tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia contentand technology. Emphasis will be given to novel works that use a rich variety ofmedia and those that are interactive, particularly works that exploit non-conventionalhuman-computer interfaces or sensors in new and emerging areas. We stronglyencourage papers with a strong technical content written by artists.

• Multimedia art exhibition: “Presence/Absence.” We seek art works that usemultimedia to explore issues of location, relocation and dislocation, particularly wheremultimedia technology overcomes or reinforces physical presence or separation. Theemphasis for the exhibition is on interactive art works that realize powerful artisticconcepts using multimedia content and technologies. See the exhibition statement.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Multimedia Conferenceproceedings. A selection of the works accepted to the art program will be published in aLeonardo Gallery in the Leonardo Journal and on line in the LeonardoElectronic Almanac.

The conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Singapore and the art exhibition will beheld at the LASALLE-SIA Gallery, Singapore.

Important Dates

June 20, 2005 Long papers and art exhibition submission deadline.June 20, 2005 Short papers submission deadline.July 29, 2005 Notification of Acceptance of Full and Short papers. August 22, 2005 Notification of Acceptance of Interactive Arts Exhibition. August 29, 2005 Camera-ready papers due.

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ACM Multimedia 2005 INTERACTIVE ART PROGRAM November 6-11, Singapore http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/

EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE Presence/Absence ACM Multimedia, the premier international multimedia conference, in conjunction with LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts and with the support of Leonardo Journal, is pleased to announce "Presence/Absence," a group exhibition of interactive multimedia art featuring 16 works by more than 30 international artists and their collaborators. The exhibition opens on Monday, 6th November and closes on Saturday, 12th November with a reception for the artists on Tuesday, November 7 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The gallery is open 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m every day. For centuries, artists and philosophers have explored the notion of presence from multiple perspectives, considering its physical, psychological, and cultural dimensions. In that exploration, technology has played an important role, not only in the development of the tools used for the “representation” of presence, but also in defining it: from the revolution in painting brought by photography, to the new concepts of presence brought by technological advances in the last sixty years (virtual reality, telepresence, etc.). Such technologies, and in particular those that combine multiple media (video, images, computer graphics, audio, haptics), seem to increase “presence,” questioning our embodied, singular sense of being in this world as the only way of positioning ourselves. That questioning is closely linked to cultural, social, and economic factors: presence can be used to reaffirm power or control structures; it can multiply our sense of being by erasing distance barriers and allow us to take on new, virtual identities, or it can be interpreted as leading to absence as in the belief in some cultures that photographs steal the soul. Artists have worked with “technologies of presence”, in traditional art for a long time. However, while the rapid spread of technology has brought unprecedented changes in the very basic notions of presence, advances in transportation have lowered costs and changed the physical landscape: those with enough resources are able to travel to be “anywhere” in short periods of time, and opportunities for the less fortunate have also opened up, allowing the unprecedented movement of people creating great challenges for humanity in the 21st century. The exhibition consists of inter-disciplinary art works that address the issue of presence both in artistic and technological, but also, in political (migration, home, sense of belonging and identification) contexts. The following artists are featured in the exhibition: M. Arango, D. Birchfield, S. B. Davis, R. Jacobs, M. Watkins, M. Moar, J. Cox, C. Riddoch, K. Cooke, R. Hull, T. Melamed, A. Dunning, P. Woodrow, M. Hollenberg, M. Ciglar, P. Gemeinboeck, M. A. Krell, J. Nelson, H. Ogawa, N. Ando, S. Onohera, K. Olsson, T. Kawashima, M. Pichlmair, R. Renno, R. Marchetti, G. D. du Rau, J. Stenner, A. Kerne, Y. Williams, K. Takahashi, S.Sasada, Y.-C. Tseng, C.-H. Lee, Y.-C. Hsu, H. K. Yamakawa “Body Degree Zero” by Dunning, Woodrow & Hollenberg uses biological sensors to create a virtual presence of two participants. Nelson’s “Bomar Gene” creates a web of narratives in which the lives of several individuals can be discovered. Takahashi & Sasada’s “Diorama table” playfully mixes physical elements with virtual ones: virtual objects interact with objects placed on a table. Active Ingredient and Middlesex University's "Ere be Dragons" is a game for pocket PC that encourages exercise by mapping unknown territories to create a virtual landscape, controlled by GPS and the player's heart rate. Tseng & Lee’s “Immersing ME” also mixes the virtual and the real as images of viewers of the work are captured and divided into many pieces. Gemeinboeck & Krell’s work “Impossible Geographies 01” explores memory by interactively redisplaying complex combinations of video previously captured in the space. Birchfield’s “Interactions” mixes images and sounds from two virtual artists who compete with each other given user input. “KODAMA” by Yamakawa creates a world by capturing voices of the visitors to the installation and representing them as bubbles in a forest. Renno, Marchetti & G. D. du Rau’s “Non_sensor” subverts a magnetic position-sensing device using everyday electrical or metallic objects as impromptu tools of artistic expression. Stenner, Kerne & Williams’s “Playas” creates a virtual reality game environment from real and synthetic images of a New Mexico town. Hsu’s “Tangible Weather Channel” and “Small Connection” by Ogawa, Ando & Onohera use tangible media to experience remote presence, the latter creating an intimate communication channel with light and touch, while the former uses air and water to convey presence in the weather of a remote location. Ciglar’s “Tastes Like” does away with technology—the body itself serves as a conductor of electrons to generate audio-visual collages. “The King Has…” by Olsson & Kawashima solicits anonymous secrets via SMS and memorializes them on publicly displayed wooden tablets. Pichlmair’s “Seven mile boots” mixes physical space with the virtual world: as the wearer walks, wearing networked boots, she enters different internet chat rooms to overhear real-time conversations. Arango’s “Vanishing point” renders a map in which countries disappear if they are not mentioned in on-line news sources. Works in the exhibition underwent a rigorous selection process by an international technical committee and by the curatorial committee: Jeffrey Shaw (University of New South Wales, Australia), Yukiko Shikata (NTT InterCommunication Center. Japan), Eugene Tan (LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore) and Alejandro Jaimes (FXPAL, Fuji Xerox, Japan). Andrew Senior (IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA) and Wolfgang Muench (Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore) For further information please contact exhibition coordinator Yelizaveta Marchenko, NUS ([email protected] Tel. +65 68744362), or, Lawrence Tio, Senior Exhibition coordinator, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore ([email protected] Tel. + 65 63409102).

Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts. Fine Arts Block 2 - 2FA 101&102, 90 Goodman Road, Singapore 439053

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Call for Video Demonstrations for The 13th Annual ACM International Conference onMultimedia (MM2005) We invite you to make a video for ACM Multimedia 2005. This forum is an ideal way todemonstrate your tool, system, application or brave new idea without having to bring theequipment for a "live" demo. Even if you have never made a video before, we encourage you toconsider this opportunity for Video Submissions at ACM Multimedia 2005.

Video Submissions Category

There are three categories of video submissions:

Video demonstrations (8 minutes) - gives a self-explanatory demo of a tool, system,or application. In addition we would like to encourage media artists to submit work thatexemplifies new trends in video art or describes an interactive multimedia art application. Video visions (8 minutes) - describes a new brave idea of multimedia technology. Video figures (3 minutes) - accompanies a regular or short paper submission andserves as an illustration.

Accepted video demonstrations and video visions are presented during the video demonstrationsession, whereas video figures are presented together with the paper during the allocatedsession.

Videos will be published on a dedicated web site at the SIGMM website (seehttp://www.sigmm.org/apache/video2004/ - for previous years). The best video demonstrationand video vision will get a special podium.

Video Submissions Format

Videos in the categories demonstration and vision need to be accompanied with a 2 pagedescription of the video content using the ACM template. The descriptions of the selected videoswill become part of the conference proceedings.

The format for videos is MPEG-2, although we will accept other digital formats for the reviewprocess, such as MPEG1, MOV or AVI. Please note: for the final video version MPEG-2 isobligatory.


Note: For all submissions please indicate the type: demonstration, vision or short.

For all categories: Prepare video for review in MPEG-2 format (preferred - other possibleformats: mpeg1, mov or avi). Make the video available at a stable url. The url must beaccessible at least until the 1st of October 2005. Please make the url known [email protected] and [email protected].

For those submitting a video figure: send the following information to [email protected] [email protected]: Title of paper, paper track, submission number, authors,affiliations, address, and primary contact.

For those submitting a video demonstration or video vision: Prepare a 2-page description(using the ACM template). Note, there is no double-blind review applied at the video track.Submit the paper to the official submission environment as indicated at the conference webpage.

Important Dates

23 May 2005 Submission deadline for video figures associated with a paper

20 June 2005 Submission deadline for video demonstrations, video visions andvideo figures for short papers

29 Jul 2005 Notification of Acceptance for all categories

29 Aug 2005 Submission of final video version and submission of camera-papers





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ACM MM Video Committee

Frank Nack, CWI (co-chair)Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin University (co-chair) Annet Dekker, Netherlands Media Art Institute & Montevideo Time Based ArtsAndreas Girgensohn, FXPALAlejandro Jaimes, FujiXeroxAndruid Kerne, Texas A&M University, Department of Computer ScienceLynn Wilcox, FXPAL

Questions? Send e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected]

Video track web page: http://www.sigmm.org/apache/video2004/

Conference web site: http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/




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The Doctoral Symposium is an opportunity for students involved in the preparation of a PhD inany area of Multimedia to interactively discuss their research issues and ideas with seniorresearchers, receive constructive feedback from members of the research community andexpose themselves as up and coming multimedia researchers.

During the Doctoral Symposium, selected students will present their thesis topic, the work theyhave performed so far and the results that they have obtained. They will also reveal thedifficulties, problems and questions that they encounter in the continuation of their work andcan ask for comments from the audience.


Interested students should submit 2-3 page abstracts describing their research using thestandard paper submission template for the conference - Portable Document Format (PDF) -formatted in two-column conference style. Please see the ACM proceedings template available athttp://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Please email your proposal abstract to theDoctoral Symposium Chairs.

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29 Jul 2005 Doctoral Symposium submission deadline

22 Aug 2005 Notification of acceptance for full papers


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Horace Ip (City Univ. of Hong Kong) - [email protected]


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General Submission Instructions for all Papers

Formatting of Papers

Please prepare your paper using the ACM template for the conference -- Portable DocumentFormat (PDF) or PostScript (version 2 or later), formatted in two-column conference style.

Please see the ACM proceedings template available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

Contents of Papers

Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. Papers should properlyplace the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects ofthe work and its contribution to the field. We will not accept any paper which, at the time ofsubmission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in ajournal or another conference.

The submitted Full Papers will undergo a double-blind review process.

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- Full Papers: not more than 10 pages - Short Papers: not more than 4 pages - Others: Not more than 2 pages

On-line Submission

Please refer to individual tracks for on-line submission instructions.

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Conference Co-Chairs: Hongjiang Zhang (Microsoft Research, Asia) Tat-Seng Chua (National Univ. of Singapore)

Program Co-Chairs: Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt Univ., Germany) - Systems Mohan Kankanhalli (National Univ. of Singapore) - Content Lynn Wilcox (FX Pal, USA) - Applications

Short Paper Co-Chairs: Chitra Dorai (IBM) Kiyoharu Aizawa (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) Roger Zimmermann (USC, USA)

Workshop Co-Chairs: Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research, Asia) Hari Sundaram (Arizona State Univ., USA)

Tutorial Chair: Milind R. Naphade (IBM, USA)

Publicity Co-Chairs: Michael Vernick (Avaya) Lloyd Rutledge (CWI, Netherlands), Mark Liao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Francis, Bu-Sung Lee (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)

Technical Demo Co-Chairs: Tian Qi (I2R, Singapore) Michael Lew (LIACS Media Lab, Netherlands)

Video Program Co-Chairs: Frank Nack (CWI, Netherlands) Svetha Venkatesh (Curtin Univ., Australia)

Doctoral Symposium Chair: Horace Ip (City Univ. of Hong Kong)

Panel Co-Chairs Edward Chang (UCSB, USA) Yong Rui (Microsoft, USA)

Interactive Art Program Co-Chairs Alejandro Jaimes (FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox) Andrew Senior (IBM) Wolfgang Muench (Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore)

Brave New Topics Co-Chairs Dick Bulterman (CWI, Amsterdam) Jonathan Foote (FX Palo Alto Lab)

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Best Open Source Software Co-Chairs Ketan Mayer-Patel (UNC Chapel Hill) Ching-Yung Lin (IBM, USA)

Proceedings Chair: Susan Boll (U Oldenburg, Germany) Lekha Chaisorn (National Univ, of Singapore)

Exhibition Chair: Clement Chia (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Qibin Sun (I2R, Singapore) Terence Sim (National Univ. of Singapore) Ee-Chien Chang (National Univ. of Singapore)

Registration Chair: Wei-Tsang Ooi (National Univ. of Singapore)

Web Site Co-Chairs: Chee-Kit Leong (National Univ, of Singapore) Shiyong Neo (National Univ, of Singapore)

Conference Secretariat: Catharine Tan (National Univ. of Singapore)

ACM SIGMM Chair Ramesh Jain (Georgia Inst. of Technology)


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Lalitha Agnihotri (Philips Research)

Andrea Cavallaro (University of London, UK)

Noboru Babaguchi (Osaka University, Japan)

Edward Chang (UCSB, USA)

Tsuhan Chen (CMU, USA)

Alberto Del Bimbo (Univ of Florence, Italy)

Ajay Divakaran (Mitsubishi Labs)

Alex Eleftheriadis (Columbia University, USA)

Dan Ellis (Columbia University, USA)

Stephan Fischer (SAP Research)

Forouzan Golshani (Wright State University, USA)

William Grosky (Univ of Michigan, USA)

Alan Hanjalic (Delft University, Netherlands)

Alexander Hauptmann (CMU, USA)

Kien Hua (University of Central Florida, USA)

John Kender (Columbia University, USA)

Irwin King (Chinese Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Dongge Li (Motorola Labs)

Rainer Lienhart (Univ of Augsberg, Germany)

Mark Liao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Weiying Ma (Microsoft Research, China)

B S Manjunath (UCSB, USA)

Nasir Memon (Polytechnic University, USA)

Bernard Merialdo (Eurecom, France)

Philippe Mulhem (IMAG/CNRS, France)

Gopal Pingali (IBM Research, USA)

Shin'ichi Satoh (NII, Japan)

Bo Shen (HP Labs)

Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, Ireland)

John Smith (IBM Research, USA)

Hari Sundaram (Arizona State University, USA)

Svetha Venkatesh (Curtin University, Australia)

Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Heather Yu (Panasonic)

Applications Track

Brian Bailey (University of Illinois, USA)

Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

Dick Bulterman (CWI, Netherlands)

Milton Chen (VSee, USA)

Michael Christel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

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Andreas Girgensohn (FXPAL, USA)

Vera Goebel (University of Oslo, Norway)

Wolfgang Klas (University of Vienna, Austria)

MingJing Li (Microsoft Research, China)

Frank Nack (CWI, Netherlands)

Chandra Narayanaswami (IBM TJ Watson, USA)

Thomas Plagemann (University of Oslo, Norway)

Dulce Ponceleon (IBM Almaden, USA)

Nicolas Roussel (Universite de Paris-Sud, France)

Lawrence A. Rowe (University of California Berkeley, USA)

Yong Rui (Micrososft Research, USA)

Abed el Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

Michelle Zhou (IBM TJ Watson, USA)

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Sid Ahuja (Bell Labs, USA)

Pedro Cuenca (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Carsten Griwodz (University of Oslo, Norway)

Junzhong Gu (East China Norma University, China)

Thorsten Herfet (Saarland University, Germany)

Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada)

Jiang Li (Microsoft Research, China)

Andreas Mauthe (Lancaster University, UK)

Sue Moon (KAIST CS, Korea)

Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Ketan Mayer-Patel (University of North Carolina, USA)

Silvia Pfeiffer (CSIRO, Australia)

Milena Radenkovic (University of Nottingham, UK)

Utz Roedig (University College Cork, Ireland)

Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)

Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Shervin Shirmohammadi (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Eckehard Steinbach (Munich University of Technology, Germany)

Wei Tsang Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

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Listed below are the links to the previous years' ACM Multimedia Conferences.

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Singapore - The Garden City

Location: Situated at one of the most important crossroads of theworld, Singapore is a fusion of East and West, modernity and oldworld charm. When you meet in New Asia Singapore, you are atthe centre for business and pleasure. Singapore represents a blendof cultures, customs and cuisines that is as diverse as it iscaptivating.

Climate: Singapore has a tropical climate, with warm days andbalmy nights all year round. Temperatures range from a low of 24degrees celsius to a high of 31 degrees celsius everyday, andrelative humidity is high, especially in the early morning hours.

Clothing: For your comfort, bring light summer wear to Singapore.Blouses, lightweight slacks or summer dresses are ideal for ladies,while for men, open-neck shirts and slacks are all that's needed.There is air-conditioning in most of the buildings, so those sensitiveto changes in temperatures might want to bring along an extralayer.

People: What makes Singapore such a special destination is themulti-cultural mix of people. The population is just over 4 million,and around 77.2% are Chinese, 14.1% Malay and 7.4% Indian.The remaining 1.3% comprises people from all over the world whohave chosen to make Singapore their home. Singapore's manyraces live together in harmony, united by the motto, Many races,one Singapore, and it is this ethnic diversity that is one ofSingapore's strengths.

Language: Singaporeans speak a variety of languages and dialectsamongst family and friends, but English is a common languagespoken by all. Visitors will find English used everywhere they go.Signs in Singapore are also written in English.

You may want to visit our nation's official website fortourist information www.visitsingapore.com for moredetails.

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A tour to Singapore is never complete without a visit to the variousplaces of interest. Singapore features tourism spots ranging fromanimal sanctuaries like the Zoological Gardens and Bird Park toplaces of flora and fauna like the Botanical Gardens as well asresearch venues like the Science Center.

Sentosa is Singapore's premierisland resort getaway with multi-faceted appeal, teeming with eventsall year round. Just 15 minutesfrom the city, it is a unique blend ofleisure and recreational facilitiesincluding family attractions, seasports, golf as well as hotelaccommodation and retreats. Acanopy of secondary rainforestcovers 70 per cent of the 500-hectare island and is home tomonitor lizards, monkeys,peacocks, parrots as well as othernative fauna and flora.

Visit http://www.sentosa.com.sg formore information.

The Singapore ZoologicalGardens is acclaimed as one of theworld's most spectacular zoos. Theuse of natural barriers like streams,rock walls and vegetation toseparate animals from visitorsenhances the "open" zoo concept.Spreading over 28 hectares, it ishome to over 3,600 mammals,birds and reptiles, including rareand endangered species.

Visit http://www.zoo.com.sg formore information.

Jurong Bird Park is a 20.2hectare open-concept park. It is thelargest in the Asia Pacific and oneof the finest bird parks in the world.Its collection of more than 9,000birds from 600 species is amongthe largest in the world. The Parkspecialises in birds from SoutheastAsia and the more exotic andcolourful tropical birds.

Visit http://www.birdpark.com.sgfor more information.

The world's first wildlife park builtfor visits at night, the Night Safariis not like any ordinary zooilluminated by the night or amodern version of nocturnal housesfound in many zoos around the

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globe. Nestled in 40 hectares oflush secondary forest, the NightSafari offers guests the uniqueexperience of exploring wildlife in atropical jungle at night. Through theuse of subtle lighting technique,guests are able to view over 1,000nocturnal animals of 100 species invast naturalistic habitats.

Visit http://www.nightsafari.com.sgfor more information.

The Singapore BotanicalGardens sweep across an area of52 hectares constituted by primaryforest and specialty gardens inclose proximity to the city centre.The park contains many rare plantspecimens in addition to thespecialty gardens decorated withfrangipanis, roses, ferns and desertplants. Outdoor concerts in thegardens can be enjoyed on theSymphony Lake or French cuisinecan be savoured at the Au Jardinrestaurant.

Visit http://www.sbg.org.sg formore information.

Science Center The Singapore Science Centre isa non-formal educational institutionfor the promotion of science andtechnology among students andmembers of the public. It has thecountry's largest collection ofeducational and exhibit materialsdevoted to science and has beenacclaimed as one of the top sciencecentres in the world. More than amillion visitors come to theSingapore Science Centre everyyear.

Visit http://www.science.edu.sg formore information.

For even more of exciting places to visit, you may want torefer to our office tourist guide here.

Places of interest in Singapore are not just restricted to theabovementioned but they are definitely places in a tourist's "must-go" list. Singapore's tourism spots entails unique historical valueand beauty and proves to be fondly memorable for visitors.

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Besides being a food heaven, Singapore is also known to be ashopping utopia. One would find shopping avenues almostanywhere in Singapore but it would be helpful to remember someof the big names like Orchard Road, Chinatown and the Colonialarea where the shopping atmosphere is the most dense.

Orchard Road is where the centralshopping area is concentrated. Itrivals all other areas in terms ofsheer volume, quality, and choice.Many of its shopping centers arefilled with a variety of productsfrom around the world. Most mallscarry the concept of "everythingunder one roof". Virtuallyeverything that is desired can befound in these shopping centers.

Colonial Singapore Area issituated in the heart of nation; hereis one of Singapore's main businessdistricts where numerous high riseoffice buildings are located. Whatmakes this place interesting is thefact that it houses mega computerand electronics marts like FunanCenter and Sim Lim square whereboth locals and foreigners convergeto purchase computers andelectronics at competitve prices.

Chinatown brings an exquisiteexperience of sights and sounds:medical halls mix snake skin, herbsand spices and other exoticingredients into potions for allailments; traditional delicacies likesea cucumbers lie drying in thestreet; fruit sellers squat nearmounds of rambutan, strong-smelling durian, mangosteen andother seasonal fruits; fortune-tellerssit at make-shift tables waiting foreager customers to know theirfuture; hawkers grill thin slices ofpork for passers-by over home-made barbecues.

More places to make your purchases can be found in theofficial tourist guide here.

A shopping utopia would definitely not be limited to just a fewshopping concentrations. At every corner in Singapore there isalways a popular shopping haunt; such as Jurong Point in Jurong,Tampines Mall in Tampines, Parkway Parade for people residing inKatong area; the list is just endless! One just needs to bear inmind a simple notion: Wherever you are in Singapore, there isalways fun, food and shopping!

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To the locals, Singapore is truly a heaven for food. There are quitea number of local specials which never fails to keep Singaporeanscraving for more. It is indeed a must for tourists to give some ofthese local specials a try and bring home stories of the unique andmouth-watering taste.

Chilli Crab, one of the local's hotfavourites, is cooked with chillipowder such that they become redand hot. With the addition of blackpepper and served with hotsteamed rice, it is definitely one ofthe top local seafood delights.

Satay, is a malay cuisine but ishighly popular with all races inSingapore. Satay is basically smallpieces of meat skewered with astick; it is available in chicken,mutton or beef. Mutton comeshighly recommended since it's thesoftest of the three. Good satayshould be sweet, coriander-scentedand slightly charred at the edges;it's best eaten with a cruchy peanutdip. Also served is "ketupat" -malay rice dumplings wrapped incoconut leaf, onion slices andcucumbers.

"Dim Sum" is one of the mainparts of Chinese Gastronomy. It isa collection of appetizers, snacksand pastries prepared in manyvariations. Dim Sum is made froma variety of meat, vegetables andseafood which are steamed, panfried, boiled, braised, stewed orbaked. The attraction of "Dim Sum"lies in its variety of selections whichcan be enjoyed as an appetizer ormain dish and is both economicaland satisfying.

Chicken rice is fundamentallysteamed chicken served with ricecooked in chicken stock. The pointof judgement lies in fragrance ofthe rice and the way the chicken iscooked; the chicken should becooked such that it is not oily andyet juicy to the bite. Chicken rice isusually served with cucumbers andlocals like to add some pork andeven an egg. Together with blacksauce and the specially madeChicken rice chilli, it all sums up toa perfect dish. Chicken rice is truly

Lau Pa Sat(Old Market)

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a religion in vast field of food and isa local delicacy preferred by mostforeigners.

For even more of mouth watering food, take a look in ourofficial tourist guide here.

The list of local delicacies is definitely not just restricted to thesefew but these are definitely some of the pinnacles. Besidespurchasing local souvenirs and artifacts... bringing home anexquisite oriental taste would be definitely more endearing.


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Multimedia 2005 invites your participation in the premierannual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimediacomputing: from underlying technologies to applications, theoryto practice, and servers to networks to devices.

Conference Programme

The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talkswith topics of interest in:

(a) Multimedia analysis, processing, and retrieval

(b) Multimedia networking and systems support

(c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications

Awards will be given to the best paper and the best studentpaper. In order to encourage sharing of implementations, thisyear will also initiate awards for best demo, best art programpaper, and the best contributed open-source software.

Panels will consist of discussions on timely and controversialtopics.

Short papers will be presented in poster format and are anopportunity for researchers to present new work and ideas in aninteractive setting.

State-of-the-Art Tutorials by leading experts will precede thetechnical program. The full- and half-day offerings will span awide variety of topics.

Brave New Topics is a special sessions track containing papers,which extend the boundaries of multimedia research.

Technical Demonstrations will include leading edge work inevery area of multimedia technology and its application. Anaward will be given to the best technical demo.

Interactive Art Program will include long and short papersdescribing interactive multimedia art works, tools, applications,and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia contentand technology. It will also include an Art Exhibition on"Presence/Absence:" art works that use multimedia to exploreissues of location, relocation and dislocation, particularly wheremultimedia technology overcomes or reinforces physical presenceor separation.


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Video Demonstrations allow researchers and artists todemonstrate their tool, system or application without having tobring the equipment for a "live" demo.

Day-long Workshops on topics of great current interest tomembers of the multimedia research community will precede thetechnical program.

The Doctoral Symposium is a venue for doctoral students topresent their research and receive feedback from members of themultimedia research field.

Singapore, popularly known as "The Garden City", is situated atthe southern tip of the Malaysian Peninsula in South-East Asia.With a rich and interesting history tracking back from 1819,Singapore is a small but prosperous cosmopolitan nationdiversified with 4 main ethnic groups, namely, Chinese, Malays,Indians and Eurasians. With museums exhibiting rich collectionof historical information and relics as contrasted to the funtheme parks, holidaying spots as well as bustling shopping anddining heavens, Singapore is an excellent utopia to unwind fromthe daunting stress of today's society.


National University of Singapore (NUS) is situated in thewestern side of the nation and is easily accessible via thecommon modes of public transportations namely, the SingaporeBus Service (SBS) and the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) trainservice. Ranked alongside top Universities in the world, NUS isnot just Singapore's pride but also an epitome in the highstandards of education that is advocated in the nation.


1) T1: Full Day (6 November 2005) Multimedia Collaboration and Human-Centered Multimedia Information Systems Yong Rui (Microsoft Research, Remond) Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes (FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd) Synopsis: This tutorial will take a holistic view on the research issues and applications of Multimedia Collaboration and Human-Centered Multimedia Information Systems focusing on four main areas: (1) multimedia data: conceptual analysis at different levels (feature, cognitive, and affective); (2) indexing algorithms: context modeling, cultural issues, and machine learning for user-centric approaches; (3) multimodal interaction: visual (body, gaze, gesture), audio (emotion) analysis, body tracking, and sensor fusion; (4) multimedia collaboration: systems for automated lecturing, meetings, and real-time conferencing. Motivation: Multimedia lies at the crossroads of many research areas (psychology, artificial intelligence, HCI, etc.) and is used in a wide range of applications. In particular, there are many applications in which humans directly interact with multimedia data. On one hand, the fact that computers are quickly becoming integrated into everyday objects (ubiquitous and pervasive computing) implies that effective natural human-computer interaction is becoming critical (in many applications, users need to be able to interact naturally with computers the way face-to-face human-human interaction takes place). On the other hand, the wide range of applications that use multimedia, and the amount of multimedia content currently available, imply that building successful multimedia applications requires a deep understanding of multimedia content. Another important aspect is that of multimedia communication and collaboration. It can facilitate students to attend classes from remote, and it can greatly increase information worker’s productivity. The success of these systems, therefore, depends highly on two joint aspects: (1) the human factors that pertain to multimedia data (human subjectivity, levels of interpretation), and (2) the way humans interact naturally with such systems (using speech and body language) to express emotion, mood, attitude, and attention. In this tutorial, we take a holistic approach to the multimedia collaboration aspects and to human-centered issues in multimedia information systems. We aim to identify the important research issues, and to ascertain potentially fruitful future research directions in relation to the two aspects above. In particular, we introduce key concepts, discuss technical approaches, and open issues in four areas: (1) multimedia data: conceptual analysis at different levels (feature, cognitive, and affective); (2) indexing algorithms: context modeling, cultural issues, and machine learning for user-centric approaches; (3) multimodal interaction: visual (body, gaze, gesture), audio (emotion) analysis, body tracking, and sensor fusion; (4) multimedia collaboration: systems for automated lecturing, meetings, and real-time conferencing.

The focus of the tutorial, therefore, is on two aspects. First we discuss the interaction techniques formulated from the perspective of key human factors in a user-centered approach to developing Human-Centered-Multimedia Information Systems. Second, we will cover examples of collaboration systems to motivate the work, and the underlying technologies to drill deep into fundamental research problems. Specifically, for systems, we will cover a) an automated lecture capture system, b) RingCam: a 360-degree meeting recording system, and c) a real-time room conferencing system with live whiteboard capture. For the technologies, we will cover microphone array sound source localization, real-time person tracking, and probabilistic sensor fusion for speaker tracking using particle filters. Benefits & List of Topics This tutorial will enable the participants to understand key concepts, state-of-the-art techniques, and open issues in the following areas:

• Multimedia indexing: an overview of how humans perceive, index, organize, and search multimedia content. Discussion of studies in art, psychology, library sciences, and the development of conceptual frameworks for computational frameworks.

• Human issues: the role of memory, subjectivity, culture, context, and examples of technical approaches to multimedia analysis and interaction that consider these factors.

• Multimodal emotion recognition for affective retrieval and in affective interfaces: approaches to multimedia content analysis and interaction that use speech and facial expression recognition.

• Machine learning: adaptive multimodal interfaces and learning of visual concepts from user input for automatic detection and recognition (detection of scenes, objects, or events of interest).

• Vision for multimodal interaction: overview of techniques and state of the art in body tracking, gaze detection, and gesture recognition.

• Multimodal fusion: technical approaches and issues in combining multiple media (e.g., audio-visual) for multimodal interaction and multimedia analysis.

• Applications: traditional and emerging application areas will be described with specific examples in smart conference room research, arts, interaction for people with disabilities, entertainment, and others.

Intended Audience The tutorial is intended for PhD students, scientists, engineers, application developers, computer vision specialists and others interested in the areas of multimedia information retrieval and human-computer interaction. A basic understanding of image processing and machine learning is a prerequisite. Schedule & Format The tutorial will consist of presentations by the organizers and will encourage discussion by the attendees.

Materials Handouts will include presentation slides. In addition, the following papers (partial list) will be used as references:

• A.T. Duchowski, “A Breadth-First Survey of Eye Tracking Applications,” Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computing, 34(4):455-70, 2002.

• A. Hanjalic and L-Q. Xu, “Affective video content representation and modeling,” IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, 7(1):143– 154, 2005.

• A. Jaimes and N. Sebe, "Multimodal Human Computer Interaction: A Survey," IEEE International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, October,2005.

• A. Jaimes and S.-F. Chang, "A Conceptual Framework for Indexing Visual Information at Multiple Levels", Internet Imaging 2000, IS&T/SPIE. January 2000.

• T. P. Minka and R. W. Picard, “Interactive Learning using a ‘Society of Models’,” Pattern Recognition, 30(4), 1997.

• M.R. Naphade and T.S. Huang, “Extracting semantics from audio-visual content: the final frontier in multimedia retrieval,” IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 13(4):793- 810, 2002.

• S.L. Oviatt and P. Cohen, “Multimodal interfaces that process what comes naturally,” Communications of the ACM, 43(3):45-48, 2000.

• V.I. Pavlovic, R. Sharma and T.S. Huang, “Visual interpretation of hand gestures for human-computer interaction: a review”, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, 19(7):677-695, 1997.

• N. Sebe, I. Cohen, and T.S. Huang, “Multimodal emotion recognition,” in Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, C.H. Chen and P.S.P. Wang eds, chapter 4.1, pp. 387-419, World Scientific, January 2005.

• L. Wang, W. Hu and T. Tan “Recent developments in human motion analysis,” Pattern. Recognition, 36, 585-601, 2003.

• Yong Rui, Anoop Gupta, Jonathan Grudin and Liwei He, Automating lecture capture and broadcast: technology and videography, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal (Springer), 10:3-15 (2004)

• Yong Rui and Zicheng Liu, ARTiFACIAL: Automated Reverse Turing test using FACIAL features, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal (Springer), May 2004

• Yunqiang Chen and Yong Rui Real-time Speaker Tracking Using Particle Filter Sensor Fusion, Proceedings of the IEEE , vol. 92, no. 3, pp. 485-494, Mar. 2004.

• Tao Wang, Yong Rui, Jia-guang Sun, Constraint Based Region Matching for Image Retrieval, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV),, vol.56(1/2), 2004, pp.37-45

• Xiang Sean Zhou, Yong Rui and Thomas Huang, Exploration of Visual Data, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7569-3 August 2003, 208 pp.

About the Organizers Yong Rui is a Researcher in and the manager of the Multimedia Collaboration team at Microsoft Research Redmond. Dr. Rui is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of ACM. He is an Editor of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, and on the editorial board of International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications. He received his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Dr. Rui’s research interests include computer vision, signal processing, machine learning, and their applications in communication, collaboration, and multimedia systems. He has published one book (Exploration of Visual Data, Kluwer Academic Publishers), six book chapters, and over sixty referred journal and conference papers in the above areas. Dr. Rui was on Organizing Committees and Program Committees of ACM Multimedia, IEEE CVPR, IEEE ECCV, IEEE ACCV, IEEE ICIP, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE ICME, SPIE ITCom, ICPR, CIVR, among others. He is a Program Chair of Int. Conf. Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2006, a Program Area Chair of ICME 2002 and ICME 2005, and Program Co-Chair of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration (WOMTEC) 2003. He was on NSF review panel and National Academy of Engineering's Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering for outstanding researchers. Dr. Rui’s gives many public speeches at conferences, tradeshows, and internal training sessions. His tutorial on “Multimedia Collaboration” at Pacific-Rim Multimedia (PCM) 2004 is one of the highest rated tutorials.

Yong Rui, PhD., Microsoft Research, Redmont, USA email: [email protected] Web: http://www.research.microsoft.com/~yongrui/

Nicu Sebe is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he is doing research in the areas of multimedia information retrieval and human-computer interaction in computer vision applications. He is the author of the book Robust Computer Vision—Theory and Applications (Kluwer, April 2003) and of the upcoming book Machine Learning in Computer Vision (Springer, Spring 2005). He was a guest editor of a CVIU special issue on video retrieval and summarization (December 2003) and was the co-chair of ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshops, MIR’03 & MIR'04 (in conjunction with ACM Multimedia conferences). He also was the co-chair of the first Human Computer Interaction Workshop, HCI ’04 (in conjunction with ECCV 2004) and is the co-chair of the upcoming IEEE Workshop on Human computer Interaction Workshop (in conjunction with ICCV 2005). He is the guest editor of two special issues on multimedia information retrieval and human computer interaction in ACM Multimedia Systems journal and Image and Vision Computing Journal. He was the technical program chair for the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2003. He was a visiting researcher in the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002) and was a research fellow of the British Telecomm in Ipswich (2003). He has published more than 50 technical papers in the areas of computer vision, content-based retrieval, pattern recognition, and human-computer interaction and has served on the program committee of several conferences in these areas. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM. Nicu Sebe, PhD., Intelligent Sensory & Information Systems Group Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam direct tel: +31-20-525-7552, fax: +31-20-525-7490 email: [email protected] Web: http://www.science.uva.nl/~nicu

Alejandro Jaimes is an Advanced Multimedia Specialist at FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox, where he leads the efforts in Multimedia Analysis and Interaction. Dr. Jaimes received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2003) and a M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University (1997) in New York City. He holds a Computing Systems Engineering degree from Universidad de los Andes (1994) in Bogota, Colombia. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program at Columbia he was a member of Columbia's Robotics and Computer Graphics groups, where he worked on projects related to computer vision and computer graphics. He has held summer research positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Siemens Corporate Research, and IBM (TJ Watson and Tokyo Research Laboratories). His recent professional activities include co-chairing the ACM Multimedia 2005 and 2004 Interactive Art program, and the PCM 2004 and ICME 2004 special sessions on “Immersive Conferencing: Novel Interfaces and Paradigms for Remote Collaboration,” and “Novel Techniques for browsing in Large Multimedia Collections” respectively. He is co-founder and co-chair of the Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries (TEDC ’05, TEDC ’04, TEDC ‘03), and serves as the TPC member for several international conferences (ICME, ICIP, CIVR, ICCV and ECCV Workshops on HCI, etc.), among others. His work has led to over 35 technical publications in international conferences and journals, and to numerous contributions to the MPEG-7 standard. He has 7 patents pending. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM. Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes, Ph.D., FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. direct tel: +81-465-80-2081, fax: +81-465-81-8951 email: [email protected] Web: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~ajaimes

T3 (Full day, 6 November 2005) Emerging Peer-to-peer Technology

(Prof. Dr.) Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt Univ. of Technology Target audience and prerequisite knowledge and experience Target Audience

• Researchers interested in a broader notion of what Peer-to-Peer means • Computer Scientist interested in a more detailed picture going beyond the ordinary file

sharing • Practitioners who like to know either where this technology is applicable or what the

potential of this paradigm is. Basics of computer science and networking are useful prerequisites in order to better follow all details. Abstract Roughly 10 years ago the advent of the World Wide Web with the related browsers and tools started to change our Perception of the Internet. Multimedia research and development strongly influenced this technology push. Since 2000 we encounter an increasing interest in the so called Peer-to-Peer technology. Peer-to-Peer Internet applications have recently been popularized through file sharing applications like Napster, Gnutella, FreeNet, KaZaA and others. Within these applications the Peer-to-Peer concept is mainly used to share files, i.e. the exchange of diverse media data, like music, movies and programs. The growth in the usage of these applications is enormous and even more rapid than the growth of the World Wide Web. Even well established business models of e.g. the music industry have to be rethought or adapted. While most of the attention has been focused on the copyright issues of the shared content, the concept of Peer-to-Peer architectures offers many other interesting issues. At some point of time they may even be more significant than the pure share of files. It is the purpose of this tutorial to work out these challenges and allow the participants to further understand the potential of this emerging technology. We will therefore (1) review well known peer-to-peers applications and systems, (2) provide a common notion of what peer-to-peer is, (3) present distributed search mechanisms used for peer-to-peer, (4) discuss peer-to-peer intrinsic issues (like overlay networks), and (5) identify crucial challenges of peer-to-peer in research and development. Namely, this tutorial will address

• Novel Peer-to-Peer applications and systems • Napster, Gnutella, Seti@home, FreeNet, • Peer-to-Peer service development • Peer-to-Peer infrastructure and overlay networks • Protocols for locating discovering, management and/or scheduling of resources • Measurements issues and performance behavior of Peer-to-Peer systems

• Dependability and reliability in P2P networks (fault tolerance, scalability, availability, accessibility, security)

• Anonymity and anti-censorship • Workload characterization for Peer-to-Peer systems • Peer-to-Peer mechanisms using other resources than data

The increasing number of research efforts in the area of Peer-to-Peer indicate that there is an enormous interest in and potential for Peer-to-Peer research. Table of contents Motivation World Wide Access, World Wide Web, World Wide Peering Notion of Peer-to-Peer Characteristics Specification Architectures Overall Application Domains File Sharing, Distributed Storage, Collaboration, Distributed Computing, Security & Reliability Some Applications and Systems: 1st Generation File Sharing with Central Server (like Napster) Processing Sharing with Central Server (like Seti@home) Decentralized File Sharing (like Gnutella) Anonymous File Sharing (like Freenet) Some Applications and Systems: 2nd Generation Decentralized Filesharing with Distributed Servers (e.g. eDonkey 2000) Decentralized File Sharing with Supernodes (e.g. KaZaA) Sharing with Charging (e.g. Mojo Nations) P2P Virus Protection Peer-to-Peer & Related Mechanisms Revised Architectures: Client-Server, Hybrid Peer-to-Peer, Peer-to-Peer GRID Computing Some Peer-to-Peer Intrinsic Issues Overlay Phenomenon Small World Networks Search: Distributed Hash Tables Motivation Principles Systems: Pastry, Chord, CAN - Content Addressable Network, Tapestry Major Research Challenges in P2P Networking As already discussed: Overlay networks, Search, .. Performance, Scalability, Free Riders, Trust, Interoperability Conclusion Annex: References

About the Speaker: Since early 1996, Dr. Ralf Steinmetz has been a professor at the dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology as well as at the dept. Computer Science of the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. There he is in charge of a chair position as managing director of the "Multimedia Communications Lab". From late 1996 until late 2001 he directed the Fraunhofer (former GMD) Integrated Publications and Information Institute IPSI. In 1999 he founded the Hessian Telemedia Technology Competence Center (httc e.V.). On whose board he has since served as chair. As dean of the department since 2002 he manages the department. His research interests cover networked multimedia issues with the vision of "seamless multimedia communications"; i.e. network dependability and security (e.g. gateways, firewalls), quality of service (e.g. network engineering), content distribution networks (e.g. streaming), context aware communications (e.g. peer-to-peer mechanisms), media semantics (e.g. ontology enrichment, metadata). At Darmstadt he relates these research issues often very closely to mobility, Internet telephony and telemedia learning. He has been the editor and co-author of a multimedia course, which reflects the major issues of the first (updated in several versions) in-depth technical book on multimedia technology. He has worked as an editor of various IEEE, ACM and other journals. He has served as chair, vice-chair and member of numerous program and steering committees of communications and multimedia workshops and conferences. He is a member of the GI and VDE-ITG. He was awarded as ICCC Governor, the honour of Fellow of both, the IEEE and the ACM.

Tel: 49.6151.16.6151 fax: 49.6151.16.6152 mailto:[email protected] http://www.KOM.tu-darmstadt.de Multimedia Communications Lab, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Merckstr. 25, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany

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T4 (Full day) Media Semantics and the Statistical Foundations for Understanding It AM: Marc Davis (UC Berkeley), Chitra Dorai (IBM Research), Frank Nack (CWI, Netherlands) PM: Edward Chang (UC Santa Barbara) Part 1 (AM): Focus: Understanding Media Semantics Presentors: Marc Davis, University of California at Berkeley

Chitra Dorai, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Frank Nack, CWI

Introduction The current goal of multimedia research is to make multimedia information pervasively accessible and useable. Achieving this goal requires bridging “the semantic gap,” which describes the gulf between the meaningful descriptions that users expect systems to associate with media and the low-level features that systems actually compute. One promising approach to bridging the semantic gap and building high-level semantic descriptions of media content is founded on understanding the semantics of various media within a computationally informed and systematic study of media production and reception. The purpose of this tutorial is to provide an understanding of the role, technologies, and applicability of media semantics to the tasks of managing and reusing various media. Understanding media semantics is essential for progress in media content analysis and applications and will be of great interest to many attendees at the ACM Multimedia 2005. In our tutorial we address a number of specific issues, including some recent advances and new areas: • The challenge of the semantic gap and strategies for bridging it • The basic communication, semiotic, and media theories underlying media semantics • The particular semantics of audio-visual media • The semantics of media combination (especially in video sequencing and editing) • The applicability of media semantics to capturing, representing, processing, managing, repurposing,

and personalizing media • The future of media semantics • Emerging new areas in multimedia and the role of media semantics

Due to the widespread interest and participation from the community in the tutorial we organized at the 2003 ACM Multimedia conference in Berkeley and the 2004 ACM Multimedia conference in New York centred on the same theme, we suggest this tutorial be offered again this year at ACM MM. Our 2003 tutorial in Berkeley, California was successful and attended by a total of 18 participants, with 12 of them as registered attendees. Our tutorial at New York in 2004 was again well-attended, with 22 registered attendees (the most popular of all the tutorials). From the surveys filled out by the participants, the ranking of our New York tutorial was 1.7 on a scale from 1 (exceptional) to 5 (extremely bad). Audience / Format / Requirements/Schedule

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This tutorial is designed for researchers and practitioners who would like to learn how to understand the semantics of various media, how to describe them, and how to make use of such descriptions in the whole value chain of media creation, management, distribution, delivery, and reuse. While the tutorial is focused on Media Semantics, given Media Semantics’ fundamental import to multimedia systems, the tutorial should also be of interest to people working in: Wireless Multimedia Systems, XML and Multimedia, Content-Based Indexing and Retrieval, Desktop Video Editing, Multimedia on the Web, Digital Asset Management, Media-Rich Homes / Digital Entertainment, Practical Digital Libraries, Multimedia User Interface Design, Multimedia in Collaboration, TREC Video Retrieval, and Multimedia Information Retrieval. The tutorial will include lectures, demonstrations and audience participation. The preliminary but proven schedule is as follows: Outline: Welcome Welcome participants, provide overview of tutorial goals, schedule, and ground rules Sections: Welcome Participants Provision with tutorial material – printout of all slides plus annotated bibliography

(suggestions of books, journals, conferences and other fields of interest) plus additional information on media standards (annotated list of relevant industrial, W3C and ISO standards).

Introduce Tutorial Organizers Overview of Tutorial (goals, schedule, ground rules) Bridging the semantic gap (20 minutes) Presenter: Chitra Dorai Explain the limits of signal-based media analysis and the need for media semantics (and

syntax) Sections: Media Signal Analysis Promises and Problems The Semantic Gap The Sensory Gap Bridging the Semantic Gap The Need for Media Semantics cs and Computation Fundamentals of Media Semantics (30 minutes) Presenter: Marc Davis Explain the basic concepts of communication theory and semiotics as foundations for media

semantics Sections: Communications Theory Introduction to Semiotics Semiotics for Media Formalist and Cognitivist Media Theory Computational Media Theory Semantics of Images (30 minutes) Presenter: Frank Nack Introduce the main semantic concepts of static visuals and how these can be computationally

described Examples are taken from existing applications

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Sections: Image Semantics Mise-en-scene Properties Cinematographic Properties Semantic Descriptions of Images (Media Streams, W3C and ISO standards as applied to

images) Introduction to Metadata Structures (hierarchy, inheritance, facets) Semantics of Audio (45 minutes) Presenter: Chitra Dorai Provide an overview of audio semantics and representational structures for audio metadata Examples are taken from existing applications Sections: Audio Analysis (sounds, sound effects, music) Audio Semantics (describing affect) Standards for Audio Content Description Semantics of Video (45 minutes) Presenter: Marc Davis Introduce the main semantic concepts of video and how these can be computationally

described Examples are taken from existing applications Sections: Relationship to Image Semantics Semantics of Time and Motion Montage, or the Semantics and Syntax of Editing and Sequencing Representing Space, Time, People, and Actions in Video Metadata Systems for Temporal Media (Media Streams, MPEG-7, SMIL) Final Discussion Provide participants the possibility to reflect once again on the various concepts introduced in

the Tutorial and allow for feedback, discussion, and questions and answers on the impact on their own research directions. Provide an outlook on the future of Media Semantics. We outline a few exciting emerging topics in multimedia in which media semantics becomes a central underpinning and describe new challenges and open problems

Sections: Tutorial Summary Questions and Answers The equipment comprises: a video projector and audio speakers to be used with a laptop, a projection screen or surface. Organizing Committee and Backgrounds Marc Davis University of California at Berkeley Tel.: (510) 643-2253, Fax: (510) 642-5814 Email: [email protected], Web: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~marc

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Marc Davis is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California at Berkeley where he directs Garage Cinema Research (http://garage.sims.berkeley.edu). His work is focused on creating the technology and applications that will enable daily media consumers to become daily media producers. Prof. Davis’ research and teaching encompass the theory, design, and development of digital media systems for creating and using media metadata to automate media production, sharing, and reuse. Garage Cinema Research is researching and developing media metadata frameworks, smart cameras, automatic video editing systems, mobile media metadata technology and applications, and the social uses of personal media. Prof. Davis earned his B.A. in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, his M.A. in Literary Theory and Philosophy at the University of Konstanz in Germany, and his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory. As part of his doctoral dissertation at the MIT Media Laboratory, he developed Media Streams, an iconic visual language for annotating, retrieving, and repurposing digital video. At the MIT Media Laboratory, Marc Davis co-founded the Narrative Intelligence Reading Group, which innovated interdisciplinary discourse at the intersection of literary and media theory, artificial intelligence, and media technology and design. From 1993 to 1998 at Interval Research Corporation, he led research and development teams in automatic media production technology for which a patent was awarded in 2001. In 1997, he was an invited contributor to the 50th Anniversary Edition of the Communications of the ACM, for which he wrote a vision piece about the next 50 years of media technology. From 1999 to 2002, Marc Davis was Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Amova, Inc., a developer of media automation and personalization technology. At UC Berkeley, Prof. Davis is a Co-Founder and Executive Committee Member of the new interdisciplinary Center for New Media (CNM), an Advisory Board Member of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium (ATC), and an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Berkeley Institute of Design (BiD). Prof. Davis is on the editorial boards of leading journals in the field of multimedia: IEEE MultiMedia and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications. Chitra Dorai IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Tel.: (914) 784-6049, Fax: (914) 784-7455 Email: [email protected], Web: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/d/dorai Dr. Chitra Dorai is a Research Staff Member and Manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, where she leads the Media Semantics and e-Learning Media projects. Her research interests are in the areas of multimedia systems and digital video analysis, computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Her current research focuses on developing technologies for digital media analysis and content management in various domains, such as education and training media and motion pictures that are useful in content-based structuring, annotation and search and smart browsing. Dr. Dorai created the new research approach, jointly with Svetha Venkatesh, called “Computational Media Aesthetics” to address the problem of the semantic gap in automatic content annotation and management systems. Computational Media Aesthetics is defined as the algorithmic study of a variety of image and aural elements in media, founded on their patterns of use in film grammar, and the computational analysis of the principles that have emerged underlying their manipulation, individually or jointly, in the creative art of clarifying, intensifying, and interpreting some event for the audience. This media production-guided semantic analysis approach has been well received in the research community with awards. She recently served as a Guest-Editor of a special issue of IEEE Multimedia dedicated to this theme in spring 2003 which includes an article by Prof. Marc Davis. She also edited a volume titled Media Computing: Computational Media Aesthetics published in June 2002 by Kluwer Academic

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Publishers, which includes a chapter by Dr. Frank Nack. She was an author and contributor of the Videotext Multimedia Description Scheme, which is now part of the MPEG-7 standard. Chitra received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University, where she was a recipient of the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award from the College of Engineering. She is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM. Frank Nack Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) Tel.: +31 20 592 4223, Fax: +31 20 592 4312 Email: [email protected], Web: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~nack Dr. Frank Nack is a senior researcher at CWI, currently working in the Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction group. He obtained his Ph.D. with a thesis on “The Application of Video Semantics and Theme Representation for Automated Film Editing,” at Lancaster University, UK. The main thrust of his research is on the representation, retrieval and reuse of media in distributed hypermedia systems, educational hypermedia systems that enhance human communication and creativity, computational assistance for the development, maintenance and usage of hypermedia systems and distributed hypermedia systems, computational applications of media theory & semiotics, automated video editing, interactive storytelling, and computational humour theory. He was member of the MPEG-7 standardization group where he served as the editor of the Context and Objectives Document and the Requirements Document, and chaired the MPEG-7 DDL development group. Frank is on the editorial board of IEEE Multimedia, where he serves as associated editor in chief and edits the Media Impact column.

T4 (Full day) Media Semantics and the Statistical Foundations for Understanding It AM: Marc Davis (UC Berkeley), Chitra Dorai (IBM Research), Frank Nack (CWI, Netherlands) PM: Edward Chang (UC Santa Barbara) Part 2 (PM): Focus: Statistical Foundation for Multimodal Multimedia Data Analysis and Fusion Presenter: Edward Chang, University of California, Santa Barbara Intended Audience: Intermediate Overview: Multimedia consists of metadata of multiple modalities. For example, a video consists of visual and audio tracks, and captions. An image can be depicted by perceptual features and keywords. Effective analysis and fusion of multimodal metadata plays a key role in the success of annotating, organizing, and indexing multimedia data. This tutorial aims to provide an overview on statistical methods for conducting multimodal data analysis and fusion. The workshop will be divided into four segments as follows: 1. Overview and Examples

We start by introducing two challenging research problems in Multimedia: bridging the semantic gap, and metadata fusion. We use examples to illustrate that the current statistical or machine-learning models cannot address the technical challenges arouse from these two problems. Specifically, when the training data is scarce, when the data dimension is high, or when the distribution of training data is imbalanced, no traditional method can conduct reliable statistical inference for even single modality. Furthermore, it is not clear what is the best model for fusing metadata of multiple modalities.

2. Supervised Learning We survey key algorithms of the generative and discriminant approaches. For the generative approach, we present Bayesian Networks. We discuss the shortcomings of this model in terms of computational complexity,

and its inability to infer causality in certain conditions. For the discriminant approach, we present kernel methods.

3. Manifold Learning We discuss recently developed non-linear feature-reduction algorithms. We will survey several manifold learning algorithms including LLE, Isomap, MDS, kernel PCA, and advanced methods.

4. Multimodal Fusion Techniques Building upon the above materials, we will introduce three fusion models: super-kernel fusion, Bayesian fusion, and inference fusion. We will detail their similarities and differences, and point out their pros and cons. If time permits, we will discuss learning methods in a non-metric space. This is a critical topic in Multimedia, since many effective distance functions or fusion techniques are non-metric. SVMs cannot deal with a non-metric function.

In summary, this tutorial will not only pinpoint some key research problems in Multimedia, it will also provide an overview on solutions and potential research directions for solving these challenging problems. Outline: Overview and Examples Problem statement Primal & dual models Supervised Learning Kernel Methods Bayesian Networks (Dirichlet Process if time permits) Manifold Learning Isomap, LLE, kernel PCA, etc. Fusion Techniques Graph model

Super kernel model Inference model Advanced Topics Materials: Slides and papers will be made available two weeks before the tutorial. Short Bio: Professor Edward Chang received his M.S. in Computer Science and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1994 and 1999, respectively. Since 2003, he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent research activities are in the areas of machine learning, data mining, high-dimensional data indexing, and their applications to image databases and video surveillance. Recent research contributions of his group include methods for learning image/video query concepts via active learning, formulating distance functions via dynamic associations and kernel alignment, managing and fusing distributed video-sensor data, and categorizing and indexing high-dimensional image/video information. Professor Chang has served on several ACM, IEEE, and SIAM conference program committees. He co-founded the annual ACM Video Sensor Network Workshop and co-chaired it in 2003 and 2004, and will co-chair three major conferences (ACM MM 06, MMM 06, SIPE 06) in the next two years. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and ACM Multimedia Systems Journal. Professor Chang is a recipient of the IBM Faculty Partnership Award and the NSF Career Award. He is a co-founder of VIMA Technologies, which provides image searching and filtering solutions. Contact Information:

Presenter: Edward Chang, University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of California

Santa Barbara, CA, 93106 [email protected]

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T5 (Half day, Morning, 9 November 2005) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): A Protocol for Supporting Multimedia in Next

Generation Networks Arup Acharya (IBM Research), Archan Mishra (IBM Research) and Avshalom Houri (IBM Research) Abstract: This tutorial will describe the transformation of circuit-switched telecommunication networks to a packet-based network currently underway in a global scale and the central role of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) in this transformation. This transformation is occurring in both wireline and wireless service provider networks, as well as in enterprise networks, with Voice-over-IP (VoIP) as the most visible effect of this transformation. Networks built from monolithic switching systems are giving way to organically built networks based on SIP. The building blocks of NGN comprise standard server hardware and software, with open interfaces that allow network managers to mix-and-match SIP components from multiple vendors. In addition, SIP clients are becoming standard components of important client platforms (such as Microsoft Windows and J2ME-enabled cellular phones). This is already evident in new applications enabled by SIP, such as IP Softphones and Instant Messaging clients on desktop machines and Push-to-Talk client on mobile phones. This tutorial will cover the fundamental shift in voice networks due to SIP, protocol-level description of SIP, new applications that leverage SIP (such as Instant Messaging or device control), programming interfaces for building SIP-based network services, current standardization efforts and open-source projects. This tutorial is intended for R&D professionals in industry as well faculty members and graduate students from academic institutions. Tutorial outline: (list of topics) • INTRODUCTION [ 1 Hr]

o Brief Overview of SIP Introduction to VoIP, Instant Messaging & Push-to-talk Historical perspective (H.323)

o Role/Impact of SIP in Next Generation Networks Service Provider Networks (PSTN, Data operators) Mobile Operators Enterprise Networks 802.11 Hotspots

o Comparing SIP and PSTN Circuit-switched model of PSTN Overlay network of SIP servers and software Moving intelligence from the core to the edge

o SIP in relation to Web / HTTP Client-side converged applications Server-side integration

o SIP devices IP Phones, Softphones, WiFi SIP phones

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Softswitches Media gateways

• TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION [1.75 Hrs]

o SIP Protocol Architecture Architectural Principles Place of SIP in the IP protocol stack Naming, Message structure, Message Types and functionality, Message flows SIP building blocks : User Agents, Proxy, Redirect Servers, Location servers,

Back2back user agents Message Routing Call flow examples Supporting protocols : RTP, RTCP, RSVP

o Enabling Voice-over-IP (VoIP) with SIP SIP based VoIP Architecture Integration with PSTN Call flows Examples of new service providers offering VoIP AAA (Authentication, Accounting and Authorization) and Security with VoIP

o Use of SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence (SIMPLE) Messages for IM and Presence Publish/ Subscribe mechanisms Event packages

o Security Issues Authentication and User Identity Firewalls, Border Session Controllers Anonymity Preferences Privacy Architectures and Preference Processing

o Managing SIP-based Networks and Devices Load-Balancing and Dynamic Routing SIP extensions for Device Control

• SIP in ACCESS NETWORKS (0.5 hour) o SIP in 3G networks

3GPP and 3GPP2 architecture overview (IMS) IP based call control Use of SIP for • Presence and Push-to-talk

o VoIP over wireless LANs Architecture Integrating wireless LAN and 3G

o SIP over Residential Broadband Access Vonage, AT&T’s CallVantage, Cable operators

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• PROGRAMMING INTERFACES TO SIP [1 Hr]

o SIP servlets and SIP-CGI o JAIN-SIP APIs, PARLAY APIs o J2ME Specifications o Interaction with Web Services

• STANDARDS ACTIVITIES AND EMERGING TOPICS[1.5 Hrs]

o IETF Working Groups : SIP, SIMPLE, SIPPING, XCON, GEOPRIV o 3GPP and 3GPP2 o SIP in peer-to-peer networks o Use of SIP in multi-player networked games

• OPEN-SOURCE SIP PROJECTS [0.5 Hrs]

• SUMMARY and CONCLUSIONS

Intended audience: The intended audience includes industry professionals as well as graduate students and faculty members from the academia looking to understand the basics of NGNs and related applications. The tutorial is expected to be especially helpful to telecommunications or IT practitioners wishing to understand the technical details of SIP. The audience is expected to be familiar with the basic IP protocol stack and the function of services such as DNS, routing etc. References or supplemental materials: Selected Publications related to SIP • SIP-based Mobility Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks. N. Banerjee, S. Das

and A. Acharya.3rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom), 2005.

• Using Session Initiation Protocol to build Context-aware VoIP support for Multiplayer

Networked Games. A. Singh and A. Acharya. ACM Workshop on Network and Systems support for Games (NetGames) 2004..

• Design and Implementation of SIP Network and Client Services for enabling Collaborative

Applications. A. Singh, P. Mahadevan, A. Acharya, Z. Shae. 13th Intl Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN) 2004.

• Unleashing the power of Wearable Devices in a SIP infrastructure. S. Berger, A. Acharya and

C. Narayanaswami. IBM Research Report RC 23288. Percom 2005.

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• Enabling SIP-based Session Setup in Ad Hoc Networks. N. Banerjee, A. Acharya, S. Das.

IBM Research Report RC 23270. Submitted to Infocom 2005. • Peer-to-peer Instant Messaging and Presence Services over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. N.

Banerjee, A. Acharya, S. Das. 1st Intl Workshop on Broadband Wireless Multimedia (BroadWiM), 2004 in conjunction with BroadNets 2004.

• Misra, S. Das and P. Agrawal, Application-Centric Analysis of IP-based Mobility

Management Techniques, Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley Interscience, Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2001 (ISSN: 1530-8677).

• S Das, A Mcauley, A Misra and S K Das, A Comparison of Mobility Protocols for

Quasi-Dynamic Networks, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), September 2000, Chicago, USA.

IETF Internet Drafts • A Houri, T. Hiller, A. Audu, T. Hansen. SIP/SIMPLE Based Presence and IM Architecture

(http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-houri-simple-arch-02.txt) • P. Saint-Andre, A. Houri, J. Hildebrand. Interoperability between the Extensible Messaging

and Presence Protocol (XMPP) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Extensions for Instant Messaging and Presence (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-saintandre-xmpp-simple-01.txt)

• O. Levin, A. Houri, A. Aoki. Inter-domain Requirements for SIMPLE

(http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-levin-simple-interdomain-reqs-01.txt) Related Patents (Awarded/ Filed) related to SIP Patents filed by Arup Acharya: a) Method and apparatus for integrating wearable devices within a SIP Infrastructure. Filed Aug

2004. b) SIP based VoIP MultiPlayer Network Games. Filed Feb 2004. c) System and apparatus for geographically distributed VoIP Conference Service with Enhanced

QoS. Filed Oct 03. d) Enabling Collaborative Applications using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based Voice over

Internet Protocol Networks (VoIP). Filed Oct 03) e) A method and apparatus for providing quality of service to VoIP over 802.11 wireless LANS.

Filed Nov 03. f) Differentiated handling of SIP messages for VoIP call control. Filed Nov 03. Patents by A. Houri:

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a) WO0073919A1: VISUAL INDICATOR OF NETWORK USER STATUS BASED ON USER INDICATOR Recent patents filed by Archan Misra : a) Method for Establishment and Maintenance of Collaborative Associations based on Multiple

Contextual Criteria . (Filed Feb 04)

Instructor’s tutorial experience Arup Acharya’s tutorial experience : ACM Mobicom 1997, l “Wireless ATM : Standards, Architectures, Protocols and Implementation, Full-Day Tutorial, Sept 26 1997, Budapest, Hungary. Jointly with Dr Delaverson, Dr CK Toh. Archan Misra’s tutorial experience: - MOBWISER (Workshop on Mobile, Wireless and Sensor Networks), March 2004, Singapore,

Half-day Tutorial “Research Challenges in High Performance Wireless Multi-Hop Networks” - ICON (Intenational Conference on Networking), October 2003, Sydney, Multi-Hop Wireless

Networks: Current Trends, Research Direction and Challenges (jointly with Dr. S. Banerjee and Dr. S Mohapatra)

- HiPC (International Conference on High Performance Comptuing), December 200, Bangalore, IP-Based Mobility Management Techniques (jointly with Dr. S. Das).

Instructor’s biography Dr Arup Acharya works in the Network Server Systems Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and also leads the Advanced Networking micropractice in On-Demand Innovation Services. He has been working on SIP for the past three years, through research projects, customer consulting engagements and providing subject matter expertise in corporate strategy teams. Presently, he is leading a IBM Research project on scalability and performance of SIP servers for large workloads. His other projects enabling SIP-based applications, controlling wearable devices using SIP, role of SIP/ SIMPLE in multi-player networked games and location-based services such as e911. He is involved with a joint industry/academia NSF project on a testbed for next generation wireless networks, where he is investigating peer-to-peer SIP architectures and mobility control architectures for dual-mode devices. His other interests include networking architectures such as IPv6 and wireless mesh networks. He has published extensively in conferences/journals, and is currently the Vice-Chair of IEEE ICDCS 2006 and IEEE MASS 2005. He was the past co-chair of the Global Internet and Next Generation Networks Symposium 2004. He has been awarded five patents and has also contributed to standards bodies such as the IETF and ATM Forum. Before joining IBM, he was

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with NEC C&C Research Laboratories, Princeton between May '95 and Nov'99. He holds a Visiting Professor position at WINLAB, Rutgers University. He received a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and a PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers University in 1995. Further information is available at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/a/arup/ Dr. Archan Misra is a Research Staff Member with the Next Gen Web Infrastructure Department at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY. He has been working on infrastructural components and protocols for context-based computing and pervasive applications for the past 3 years. In particular, he works on IBM’s mobile computing product line, designing software for retrieving context-information from mobile and intermittently connected devices and for intelligently routing messages to appropriate pervasive terminals. As part of this work, his group is exploring the use of SIP for retrieving an individual’s activity on different communication channels and thereby enhanching presence to reflect an individual’s availability for various tasks. As part of his earlier job as a researcher at Telcordia Technologies (Bellcore), Archan worked on mobility management architectures for IP-based cellular networks, including both network-layer (extensions to Mobile IP) and application-layer (extensions to SIP) handoff techniques. At present, Archan is also involved on behalf of IBM Research in the NSF-funded ORBIT project, in particular for building MAC-layer techniques (reliable multicasting, pipelined forwarding etc.) that allow applications such as VoIP and SIP-based conferencing to operate efficiently in wireless mesh networks. His other ongoing research efforts and interests include mobility protocols for next-generation (4G) wireless networks, protocols for high-performance wireless meshes and query middleware for wireless sensor networks. He has published extensively in the areas of wireless networking, congestion control and mobility management and was a co-author on papers that received the Best Paper awards in ACM WOWMOM 2002 and IEEE MILCOM 2001. He serves on the technical program committees of several conferences, such as IEEE INFOCOM and IEEE WOWMOM and is currently the Untethered Technologies chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC). Archan received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in May, 2000, and his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India in July 1993. Professional details are available at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/a/archan. Avshalom Houri is an architect that specializes in SIP standards and architecture. Currently, Avshalom is working in IBM as a SIP standards expert and as SIP architect to the SIP infrastructure of IBM’s Lotus Workplace™. He is a regular participant in the IETF since 1997 and is concentrating in the activities of SIP related groups in the IETF. He is working in IBM since 1996 and was one of the main architects that have designed the IBM Sametime™ servers. Prior to joining IBM he worked in Ubique™ that was one of the first Internet companies in Israel. Ubique was bought by America Oline and created Virtaul Places for them. After a while Ubique was spinned out from AOL and was bought by IBM. Avshalom received his Msc. in computer science from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot Israel.

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Content Track

Lalitha Agnihotri (Philips Research)

Noboru Babaguchi (Osaka Univ, Japan)

Andrea Cavallaro (Univ of London, UK)

Alberto Del Bimbo (Univ of Florence, Italy)

Ajay Divakaran (Mitsubishi Labs)

Alex Eleftheriadis (Columbia Univ, USA)

Dan Ellis (Columbia Univ, USA)

William Grosky (Univ of Michigan, USA)

Alan Hanjalic (Delft Univ, Netherlands)

Benoit Huet (Eurocom, France)

John Kender (Columbia Univ, USA)

Ying Li (IBM Research, USA)


Rainer Lienhart (Univ of Augsberg, Germany)

John Mateer (Univ of York, UK)

Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA)

Gopal Pingali (IBM Research, USA)

Shin'ichi Satoh (NII, Japan)

Alan Smeaton (Dublin City Univ, Ireland)

Svetha Venkatesh (Curtin Univ, Australia)

Marcel Worring (Univ of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Heather Yu (Panasonic)

Applications Track

Susanne Boll (Univ of Oldenburg, Germany)

Dick Bulterman (CWI, Netherlands)

Tsuhan Chen (CMU, USA)

Andreas Girgensohn (FXPAL)

Vera Goebel (Univ of Oslo, Norway)

Ichiro Ide (Nagoya Univ, Japan)

Alejandro Jaimes (Fuji Xerox. Japan)

Yoshinari Kameda (Tsukuba Univ, Japan)

Wolfgang Klas (Univ of Vienna, Austria)

Jay Kuo (USC, USA)

Michael Lew (LIACS Media Lab, Netherlands)

Mingjing Li (Microsoft Asia, China)


Ching-Yung Lin (IBM TJ Watson, USA)

Weiying Ma (Microsoft Asia, China)

Frank Nack (CWI, Netherlands)

Yuichi Nakamura (Kyoto Univ, Japan)

Chandra Narayanaswami (IBM, USA)

Thomas Plagemann (Univ of Oslo, Norway)

Abed el Saddik (Univ of Ottawa, Canada)

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Tim Shih (Tamkang Univ, Taiwan)

Qi Tian (Univ of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

Wen Zen (IBM TJ Watson, USA)

Systems Track

Kevin Almeroth (UC Santa Barbara, USA)

Junzhong Gu (East China Norma Univ, China)

Baochun Li (Univ of Toronto, Canada)

Jiang Li (Microsoft Research Asia)

Ketan Mayer-Patel (Univ of North Carolina, USA)

Klara Nahrstedt (Univ if Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Wei-Tsang Ooi (National Univ of Singapore, Singapore)

Christian Poellabauer (Univ of Notre Dame, USA)

Milena Radenkovic (Univ of Nottingham, UK)

Sumit Roy (HP Labs)

Nicu Sebe (Univ of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Shervin Shirmohammadi (Univ of Ottawa, Canada)

Jonathan Walpole (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA)

Wanghong Yuan (DoCoMo Labs)

Magda El Zarki (UC Irvine, USA)

Michael Zink (Univ of Massachusetts, USA)


ACM Multimedia 2005 Interactive Art Program

Chairs

Alejandro Jaimes FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.

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Andrew Senior IBM T.J.Watson Research Center

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Wolfgang Muench Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts

[email protected] Curatorial Committee

Jeffrey Shaw University of New South Wales Australia Yukiko Shikata NTT InterCommunication Center Japan Eugene Tan LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Singapore W. Muench, A. Jaimes, A. Senior

Technical Program Committee Please see website. Submission: art exhibition submissions should consist of the following: (1) a one to two page publishable statement that includes artistic motivation, project description, and technical details; (2) a project information sheet stating stage of completion of the work and installation requirements; (3) supporting materials (web-links, CDs/DVDs). Do not send original materials.

Best Paper Awards will be given with an emphasis on novel uses of multimedia technology. Selection Process: all submissions will be refereed by a committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity. Artistic merit will be of special consideration in the exhibition.

Sponsored by ACM SIGMM, SIGGRAPH, and SIGCOMM.


ACM Multimedia 2005 is the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing. The ACM MM Interactive Art Program seeks to bring together the arts and multimedia communities to create the stage to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia technology.

The Interactive Art Program will consist of a conference track and an art exhibition. We invite artists working with digital media and researchers in technical areas to submit their original contributions to the following tracks: • Conference track: we solicit papers describing interactive multimedia art works,

tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology. Emphasis will be given to novel works that use a rich variety of media and those that are interactive, particularly works that exploit non-conventional human-computer interfaces or sensors in new and emerging areas. We strongly encourage papers with a strong technical content written by artists. Papers may be long (10 pages) or short (2 to 4 pages). Long papers are presented in front of an audience and short papers are presented in poster format.

• Multimedia art exhibition: “Presence/Absence.” We seek art works that use

multimedia to explore issues of location, relocation and dislocation, particularly where multimedia technology overcomes or reinforces physical presence or separation. The emphasis for the exhibition is on interactive art works that realize powerful artistic concepts using multimedia content and technologies.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Multimedia Conference proceedings.

The conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Singapore. The art exhibition will be held at the LASALLE-SIA Gallery, Singapore.

Important Dates

June 20, 2005 Long papers and art exhibition submission deadline. June 20, 2005 Short papers submission deadline. August 22, 2005 Notification of acceptance. August 29, 2005 Camera-ready papers due.

Registration

Authors whose works are accepted in the conference track must register and attend the conference. Artists whose work is selected for the art exhibition are highly encouraged, but not required to register and attend the conference. Artists, however, are fully responsible for installation, delivery, and return of artworks. Anyone who attends the conference must register. The exhibition, however, will be open to the public (no registration needed). Please see website for details.

Interactive Art Program 2005Call for Papers & Art

http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/artprogram.htm

ACM Multimedia 2005 Interactive Art Program November 6-12, Singapore

CALL FOR EXHIBITION ENTRIES: Exhibition theme: Presence/Absence For centuries, artists and philosophers have explored the notion of presence from multiple perspectives, considering its physical, psychological, and cultural dimensions. In that exploration, technology has played an important role, not only in the development of the tools used for the “representation” of presence, but also in defining it: from the revolution in painting brought by photography, to the new concepts of presence brought by technological advances in the last sixty years (virtual reality, telepresence, immersive presence, experiential systems, etc.). Such technologies, and in particular those that combine multiple media (video, images, computer graphics, audio, haptics), seem to increase “presence,” questioning our embodied, singular sense of being in this world as the only way of positioning ourselves. That questioning is closely linked to cultural, social, and economic factors: presence can be used to reaffirm power or control structures; it can multiply our sense of being by erasing distance barriers and allow us to take on new, virtual identities, or it can be interpreted as leading to absence as in the belief in some cultures that photographs steal the soul. Artists have worked with “technologies of presence” (e.g., image, light, reflection, emotion), in traditional art for a long time. However, while the rapid spread of technology has brought unprecedented changes in the very basic notions of presence (“being there” can be interpreted as being “on-line”), advances in transportation have lowered costs and changed the physical landscape: those with enough resources are able to travel to be “anywhere” in short periods of time, and opportunities for the less fortunate have also opened up, allowing the unprecedented movement of people creating great challenges for humanity in the 21st century. In the scope of these new challenges and opportunities, we invite inter-disciplinary works that address the issue of presence both in artistic and technological, but even more, in political (migration, home, sense of belonging and identification) contexts. We particularly seek interactive multimedia works that by combining multiple media, technologies, and novel technical ideas, realize strong artistic concepts that give a new perspective on any aspect of presence. Exhibition deadline: June 20, 2005. The Interactive Art Program will also include papers in a conference track (open topic). We solicit long or short papers (2-4 or 8 pages) describing interactive multimedia art works, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology. Emphasis will be given to novel works that use a rich variety of media and those that are interactive, particularly works that exploit non-conventional human-computer interfaces or sensors in new and emerging areas. We strongly encourage papers with a strong technical content written by artists. Conference deadline: June 20 (long papers and short papers). The “Presence/Absence” exhibition is part of the Interactive Art Program for the ACM Multimedia 2005 conference that will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Singapore. The exhibition will be held at the LASALLE-SIA Gallery, Singapore. The exhibition will be open to the public, but registration is required to attend the conference.

A selection of the works accepted to the ACM Multimedia Interactive Art Program 2005 will be published in a Leonardo Gallery in the Leonardo Journal and on line in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

Online Submission Deadline: June 20, 2005

Interactive Art Program Co-Chairs Alejandro Jaimes FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Wolfgang Muench, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Andrew Senior IBM T.J.Watson Research Center

Exhibition Curatorial Committee: Wolfgang Muench, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore Alejandro Jaimes FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Japan Andrew Senior IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA Jeffrey Shaw University of New South Wales, Australia Yukiko Shikata NTT InterCommunication Center, Japan Eugene Tan LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore

Please refer to the web site for detailed information about the submission process.

http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/artprogram.htm

Sponsored by ACM SIGMM, SIGGRAPH, SIGCOMM.


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Alejandro Jaimes [*] [*]FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.alex.jaimes [AT] fujixerox.co.jp Andrew Senior [*] [*]IBM T.J.Watson Research Centeraws [AT] us.ibm.com Wolfgang MuenchLasalle-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore) wolfgang.muench [AT] lasallesia.edu.sg *Replace [AT] with @ sign. Exhibition Curatorial Committee Jeffrey Shaw [*] [*]University of New South WalesAustralia Yukiko ShikataNTT InterCommunication CenterJapan Eugene TanLASALLE-SIA College of the ArtsSingapore Wolfgang MuenchLasalle-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore) Singapore Alejandro Jaimes [*] [*]FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.Japan Andrew Senior [*] [*]IBM T.J.Watson Research CenterUSA


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Exhibition Coordinators Yelizaveta MarchenkoNational University of SingaporeSingapore

Lawrence TioLASALLE-SIA College of the ArtsSingapore Interactive Art Program Committee Peter Anders, Independent (USA)Federico Barbagli, Stanford University and University of Siena (USA/Italy)Jeffrey Boyd, University of Calgary (Canada)Andres Burbano, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)Sheldon Brown, University of California at San Diego (USA)Antonio Camurri, University of Genoa (Italy) Annette Dekker, Netherlands Media Arts Institute (The Netherlands)Jonathan Foote, FX Palo Alto Laboratory (USA) Elisa Giaccardi, University of Colorado at Boulder (USA/Italy)Douglas Irving Repetto, Columbia University (USA)Nisar Keshvani, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Singapore) (USA)Akihiro Kubota, Tama Art University (Japan)Craig Lindley, Gotland University (Sweden)Michael J. Lyons, ATR (Japan)Roger Malina, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (France)Steve Mann, University of Toronto (Canada)Jose-Carlos Mariategui, Alta Technologia Andina (Peru) (USA)Anne Nigten, V2 (The Netherlands)Kazushi "TAKAMARU" Nishimoto, Japan Advanced Institute of Scienceand Technology (Japan)Hugo Ortega, Columbia Unviersity (USA)Claudio Pinhanez, IBM TJ Watson (USA)Nicolas Roussel, Universita Paris-Sud (France)Bill Seaman, Rhode Island School of Design (USA)Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Flavia Sparacino, Sensing Places and MIT (USA)David G. Stork, Ricoh Innovations (USA)Hari Sundaram, Arizona Sate University (USA)Atau Tanaka, SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris (France)Nicolas Tsingos, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France)Ron Wakkary, Simon Fraser University (Canada) Lonce Wyse, Institute for Infocomm Research & NUS (Singapore)Thomas G. Zimmerman, IBM Almaden (USA)

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Art Program Frequently Asked Questions

- What to submit?- Which track to submit to?- Dual submission policy?- Publication of selected works?- Registration requirements?

NOTE: please be sure to adhere to anonimity guidelinesbelow (papers should NOT reveal authors' identities).

1. What to submit?

The submission process for the art program conference track is different fromthe submission process for the art program exhibition. Papers submitted to the art program conference track may be long (10 pages) orshort (2 to 4 pages). Long papers are presented in front of an audience and shortpapers are presented in poster format. After the review process is complete, theorganizers may ask an author who submitted a long paper to submit a short paperinstead or vice versa. Art exhibition submissions should consist of a one to two page publishablestatement that includes artistic motivation, project description, and technicaldetails. A project information sheet stating stage of completion of the work andinstallation requirements, as well as supporting materials should be included(web-links and copies of CDs/DVDs only if on-line submission is not possible).Do not send original materials. Specific submission details will be posted on theexhibition page. All papers must be submitted using the ACM template. Please check back thesubmissions page for detailed information on the format of the papers (for theconference and exhibition).

2. Which track to submit to? What is the selection process? Art Program Conference Track: papers submitted to this track will bereviewed by a Technical Program Committee and judged by the same standardsas regular ACM Multimedia submissions. The emphasis will be on noveltechnical contribution, and the use of multimedia technology to develop artisticconcepts. There are no theme restrictions for this track.


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Exhibition: papers will be reviewed by the Technical Committee for technicalcorrectness and quality. They will also be judged by the Exhibition Curatorial Committee.The selection criteria will be artistic merit, and alignment with the theme of theexhibition. Works that are unrelated to the theme will not be selected for theexhibition. The project statement will be published in the conference proceedings, andtherefore the quality of the paper, and not just the quality of the art work, will have animpact on the selection.

3. What is the double submission policy? Papers submitted to the art program conference track must not be underreview elsewhere and must not have been previously published. By submitting,authors acknowledge that no paper of substantially similar content has beenpublished or will be submitted to another conference or workshop during theACM MM review period.Art works submitted to the exhibition may have been exhibited elsewhere.However, the publishable statement (one to two page paper) must adhere tothe double submission guidelines above.

4. Publication All papers describing work selected will be part of the conference and willtherefore be published in the ACM Multimedia Conference proceedings. Thisincludes long and short papers as well as papers describing works selected forthe exhibition. Authors are responsible for obtaining all of the necessarypermissions to publish their works.

5. Registration requirements

Authors whose works are accepted in the conference track must register and attendthe conference. Artists whose work is selected for the art exhibition are highlyencouraged, but not required to register and attend the conference. Artists, however,are fully responsible for installation, delivery, and return of artworks. Anyone who attendsthe conference must register. The exhibition, however, will be open to the public (noregistration needed).

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PRESENCE/ABSENCE EXHIBITION

For centuries, artists and philosophers have explored the notion ofpresence from multiple perspectives, considering its physical,psychological, and cultural dimensions. In that exploration,technology has played an important role, not only in thedevelopment of the tools used for the “representation” ofpresence, but also in defining it: from the revolution in paintingbrought by photography, to the new concepts of presence broughtby technological advances in the last sixty years (virtual reality,telepresence, immersive presence, experiential systems, etc.).Such technologies, and in particular those that combine multiplemedia (video, images, computer graphics, audio, haptics), seem toincrease “presence,” questioning our embodied, singular sense ofbeing in this world as the only way of positioning ourselves. Thatquestioning is closely linked to cultural, social, and economicfactors: presence can be used to reaffirm power or controlstructures; it can multiply our sense of being by erasing distancebarriers and allow us to take on new, virtual identities, or it can beinterpreted as leading to absence as in the belief in some culturesthat photographs steal the soul. Artists have worked with “technologies of presence” (e.g., image,light, reflection, emotion), in traditional art for a long time.However, while the rapid spread of technology has broughtunprecedented changes in the very basic notions of presence(“being there” can be interpreted as being “on-line”), advances intransportation have lowered costs and changed the physicallandscape: those with enough resources are able to travel to be“anywhere” in short periods of time, and opportunities for the lessfortunate have also opened up, allowing the unprecedentedmovement of people creating great challenges for humanity in the21st century. In the scope of these new challenges and opportunities, we invite inter-disciplinary works that address the issue of presence both in artistic andtechnological, but even more, in political (migration, home, sense ofbelonging and identification) contexts. We particularly seek interactivemultimedia works that by combining multiple media, technologies, and


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novel technical ideas, realize strong artistic concepts that give a newperspective on any aspect of presence. The conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Singapore and the art exhibition will beheld at the LASALLE-SIA Gallery, Singapore. Please read the Art Program Submission instructions (to be posted in due course) for submissiondetails. Exhibition Curatorial CommitteeJeffrey Shaw [*] [*]University of New South WalesAustralia Yukiko ShikataNTT InterCommunication CenterJapan Eugene TanLASALLE-SIA College of the ArtsSingapore Wolfgang MuenchLasalle-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore) Singapore Alejandro Jaimes [*] [*]FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.Japan Andrew Senior [*] [*]IBM T.J.Watson Research CenterUSA

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ACM Multimedia Interactive Art Program 2005 conference track is part of themain ACM Multimedia conference. Papers in the conference track must describe high-quality, original, and unpublishedresearch, or artworks that have a strong novel technical component. We solicit papersfrom technical researchers and artists that describe interactive multimedia art works,tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content andtechnology. Emphasis will be given to novel works that use a rich variety of media and those that areinteractive, particularly works that exploit non-conventional human-computer interfaces orsensors in new and emerging areas. We strongly encourage papers with a strongtechnical content written by artists.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Interactive storytelling and authoring• Multimedia content analysis (for automatic video editing, search art, etc.)• Multimedia software as art (collaborative and open source)• Network analysis and network art• Tangible interfaces for art• Tools for multimedia performance• Immersive multimedia• Perceptual, haptic, affective, and multi-modal interfaces and architectures for art• Sonification and electronic music• Context aware multi-modal sensing• Computational applications of art media theory and semiotics• Experiential systems• Generative multimedia art• Mobile multimedia art• Museum• Sensors for multimedia art• Novel multimedia performance instruments

Papers submitted to the art program conference track may be long (10pages) or short (2 to 4 pages). Long papers are presented in front of anaudience and short papers are presented in poster format. After the reviewprocess is complete, the organizers may ask an author who submitted a longpaper to submit a short paper instead or vice versa. Papers should be written in the 2-column ACM Multimedia format.

Papers submitted to the art program conference track must not be under reviewelsewhere and must not have been previously published. By submitting, authorsacknowledge that no paper of substantially similar content has been published or


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The Interactive Art Program conference track submission information will be postedhere in due course.

Please read the Interactive Art Program FAQ before you submit.


Prepare a paper (not more than 10 pages for full papers and no more than 4 pages forshort papers) using the ACM template for the conference -- Portable Document Format(PDF) or PostScript (version 2 or later), formatted in two-column conference style.Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. Papers shouldproperly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate theinnovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. We will not accept anypaper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already beenpublished or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Please see theACM proceedings template available athttp://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. All submitted papers will undergo adouble-blind review process.

Full paper submission (Art Program ONLY): https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/MM05_ART_FULL/

Short paper submission (Art Program ONLY): https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/MM05_ART_SHORT/

NOTE: Organizers reserve the right to assign a category most appropriate for thesubmitted work. A full paper may be accpeted as a short paper, in which case the authorwill be asked to reduce the camera-ready submission to the short paper length.


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The Interactive Art Program exhibition track submission information will be postedhere in due course.

The ACM MM 2005 Interactive Art Program consists of two tracks. The followinginformation refers only to submission of artworks for the Multimedia Art Exhibition.

Please read the Interactive Art Program FAQ before you submit

Click here for On-Line Submission

Please read these instructions carefully. Incomplete submissions will be rejected withoutreview. All of the following MUST be submitted on-line (see note on supportingmaterials).

a. All of the following MUST be submitted ONLY on-line (please see note onsupporting materials).

b. Submissions submitted via e-mail will not be accepted or reviewed. Eachsubmission to the art exhibition should include the following three components:

1. Complete project information sheet. Please download: html, MS word, orPDF and link the corresponding "html, MS word, or PDF" links to thecorresponding file (enclosed).

2. Complete project statements. This one to two page paper will be publishedin the proceedings of the conference for selected work. The statementshould have an abstract, discuss related work, artistic motivation, andtechnical details.

The statement must adhere to the ACM MM template and be submitted inMicrosoft Word format, Portable Document Format (PDF), or PostScript(version 2 or later) format, formatted in two-column conference style.Papers that do not adhere to the 2 page limit and do not use the templatewill be rejected without review.

Please see the ACM proceedings template available at:http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/pubform.doc

You can also download a sample paper here (MS Word format) to writeyour paper. Since the file has the proper 2-column formatting you can writeyour paper by simply replacing the text with your own text.


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3. Prepare your supporting materials.

We strongly encourage on-line submission of all supporting materials.Please include supporting materials relevant to the project (images,sounds, videos, links to websites, etc.). All supporting materials should becompressed in a zip file and uploaded as a single file. There is a 8 MBlimit on the size of the file containing supporting materials. Please note thatuploading large files might take several minutes.

In cases where on-line submission of supplemental materials is not possible, they maybe sent by mail.

a. Supporting materials submitted via post must be postmarked by June 20, 2005.b. Supporting materials may include CDs, DVDs, or Video Tapes (VHS).c. The project information sheet and project statement MUST be submitted on-line

by June 20, 2005, even if the supporting materials are sent by regular mail.d. DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL MATERIALS.e. Materials submitted via post will not be returned without the inclusion of a self-

addressed stamped envelope.f. To send supporting materials via regular mail please send a TEXT ONLY e-mail

to ajaimes [AT] ee.columbia.edu with "ACM MM 2005 submission" explaining whyyou are not able to submit your work on-line. The response will include themailing address where you can send the supporting materials.


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ACM Multimedia 2005 Interactive Art Program ExhibitionPROJECT INFORMATION SHEET

This form must be submitted online. Please check the website (http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/artprogram.htm)Please complete ALL FIELDS. Incomplete submissions will be rejected without review.This form MUST be submitted in a single file with the one to two page project statement. The projectstatement must follow the ACM MM format; but there are no format restrictions on this form (the projectinformation sheet will not be part of the publication if the work is selected). __________________________________________________________________________________

CONTACT INFORMATION

Last Name: First Name: Mailing address: City: Country: Zip Code: E-mail Address: Telephone: Website: __________________________________________________________________________________

PROJECT INFORMATION

1. Project Title: 2. Brief Description of the Project (300 words max.) 3. Is the work completed? (Yes/No) 4. If no, when do you expect to complete the work?


5. What are the technical requirements for the exhibition of the work (be specific: computer equipment,etc.)? 6. What are the installation requirements for the exhibition of the work (space and otherconsiderations)? 7. Can the work be presented on video if the installation requirements cannot be met? 8. What is the time requirement for assembling and dismantling the work?


9. Please list all supplemental materials included with this submission. List the materials by name, fileformat (s) and whether the materials are submitted online or via post. 10. Is a publishable video submission included? If so, indicate location, file name, and length (time);indicate if it is submitted on-line or via post. 11. Has the work been published in ACM SIGGRAPH or a related conference? 11. Please select a category (optional, for survey purposes only): artist, researcher, or both

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