ISIMP 2004

2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video

and Speech Processing

Advance Program

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong October 20-22, 2004

IEEE Hong KongChapter of

Signal Processing

Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing,

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

IEEE Hong Kong Joint Chapter of

CAS/COM

ISIMP 2004

2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video

and Speech Processing

Advance Program

October 20-22, 2004

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong

Cohosted by

IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing

IEEE Hong Kong Joint Chapter on CAS/COM

Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

For the latest information,

please visit the Symposium website at:

http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~cmsp/ISIMP2004.htm

Table of Contents

Page Invitation to ISIMP 2004 1 Conference Schedule at a Glance 2 Organizing Committee 3 Executive Committee of the IEEE Hong Kong 5 Chapter of Signal Processing Executive Committee of the IEEE Hong Kong 6 Joint Chapter on CAS/COM Membership and Management Structure: 7 Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing, PolyU Acknowledgement 8 Keynote Speech Sessions 9 Pre-Symposium Tutorials 14 Program Summary and Session Information 23 Technical Program

Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004, Morning Session 25 Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004, Afternoon Session 31 Friday, Oct. 22, 2004, Morning Session 43 Friday, October 22, 2004, Afternoon Session 50

Author Index 62 Registration Form 68 Conference Venue 70

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Invitation to ISIMP 2004

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is our great pleasure to invite you to attend the 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing to be held in Hong Kong, October 20-22, 2004, at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

This is the second time for the Symposium organized in Hong Kong. This Symposium is jointly organized by the IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing, IEEE Hong Kong Joint Chapter of CAS/COM and the Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. It strives to bring together people in multimedia signal processing, communications, and computing, and to provide an international forum for the reporting of current developments, new ideas and applications in these areas.

We received about 300 papers from more than 27 countries. Most of the submitted papers were of such good quality that the Technical Program Committee had to devote much time to select papers for the Symposium. About 200 fully reviewed papers will be distributed and presented at 26 regular sessions and 3 special sessions of the Symposium. Tutorials and keynote lectures will be organized and delivered by prominent researchers.

Your participation in the ISIMP 2004 and your visit to Hong Kong will be stimulating, exciting and enjoyable.

Daniel P.K. Lun Kenneth K.M. Lam General Chair Technical Chair

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Conference Schedule at a Glance

Wednesday October 20, 2004 8:30am - 6:00pm Registration:

R Core, Shirley Chan Building 9:00am - 12:20pm Tutorials 12:20pm - 2:00pm Lunch break 2:00pm - 5:20pm Tutorials Thursday October 21, 2004 8:30am - 5:00pm Registration:

R Core, Shirley Chan Building 8:45am - 10:30am Opening and Keynote Session 10:30am - 10:50am Coffee break 10:50am - 12:20pm Parallel Sessions 12:20pm - 1:45pm Lunch break 2:00pm - 3:30pm Parallel Sessions 3:30pm - 3:45pm Coffee break 3:45pm - 5:00pm Parallel Sessions 5:15pm - 6:30pm Forum 6:45pm – 9:00pm Banquet: New World Renaissance Hotel Friday October 22, 2004 8:30am - 5:00pm Registration:

R Core, Shirley Chan Building 9:00am - 10:30am Keynote Session 10:30am - 10:50am Coffee break 10:50am - 12:20pm Parallel Sessions 12:20pm - 2:00pm Lunch break 2:00pm - 3:30pm Parallel Sessions 3:30pm - 3:45pm Coffee break 3:45pm - 5:45pm Parallel Sessions

6:30pm - 8:30pm Advisory Committee Meeting of the “Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing”

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Organizing Committee Organizing Committee

Honorary General Chair Professor W.C. Siu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

General Chair Dr Daniel P.K. Lun, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

General Co-Chair Professor W.K. Cham, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Vice Co-Chairs Professor D. Feng, University of Syndey, Austraia/The Hong

Kong Polytechnic University Dr S.H. Leung, City University of Hong Kong

Technical Chair Dr Kenneth K.M. Lam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Technical Co-Chair Professor H. Yan, City University of Hong Kong

Finance Chair Dr Chris Y.H. Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Secretary Dr Frank H.F. Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Special Session Co-Chairs Dr Z.Chi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Dr T. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Registration Chair Dr Y.L. Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Dr M.W. Mak, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Dr Robert Luk, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Publication Co-Chairs Dr J. Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Dr L.M. Po, City University of Hong Kong

Tutorial Co-Chairs Dr B. Law, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Dr P. Kwok, Hong Kong Open University

Publicity Chair Dr K.T. Lo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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International Advisory Committee Prof. Y.T. Chan, Canada Prof. A.G. Constantinides, U.K. Prof. Tariq. S. Durrani, U.K. Prof. Zhen-Ya He, China Prof. Chao-huan Hou, China Prof. S.Y. Kung, USA Prof. C.H. Lee, USA Dr Y.C. Lim, Singapore Prof. Bede Liu, USA Prof. Ray Liu, USA Prof. Ah-Chung Tsoi, Australia Prof. Shiqiang Yang, China Dr H.J. Zhang, China Prof. RongChun Zhao, China

Technical Program Committee Dr David Bonyuet, USA Dr Stanley Chan, HK Dr Lap-Pui Chau, Singapore Dr Korris Chung, HK Prof. Jean-Luc Dugelay, France Dr Qiang Huo, HK Dr Jesse Jin, Australia Dr Irwin King, HK Prof. Hitoshi Kiya, Japan Dr Toshiaki Kondo, Thailand Dr C.K. Leung, HK Dr Howard Leung, HK Dr Alan Liew. HK Dr Bingo Ling, UK Dr K.C. Lo, HK Dr Robert Luk, HK Dr Brian Mak, HK Dr Helen Meng, HK Dr Tuan Pham, Australia Prof. Ioannis Pitas, Greece Dr Dan Popescu, Australia Prof. Guoping Qiu, UK Dr Stefan Rueger, UK Dr Mustafa Sakalli, Australia Dr P. N. Suganthan, Singapore Dr Eddie Tse, Australia Dr Claus Vielhauer, Germany Dr Yue Wang, Joseph, USA Dr Adrian Whichello, Australia Dr Raymon Wong Hau San, HK Dr S.C. Wong, HK Dr Min Wu, USA Dr Wei Yun Yau, Singapore Dr Pong Chi Yuen, HK Dr Xudong Zhang, China

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Executive Committee of the IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing CHAIRMAN Dr S.H. Leung, City University of Hong Kong

VICE CHAIRMAN Dr Tan Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

SECRETARY Dr Brian Mak, The Hong Kong University of Sci. & Tech.

TREASURER Dr Kenneth K.M. Lam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

COMMITTEE MEMBERS Dr Q. Huo, The University of Hong Kong Dr W.H. Lau, City University of Hong Kong Dr Frank Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Dr Bonnie Law, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Dr Ken K.C. Lo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Dr M.H. Siu, The Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology Prof. Helen M. Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Dr L.M. Po, City University of Hong Kong Dr H.C. So, City University of Hong Kong Dr Stanley Yip, The University of Hong Kong

EX-OFFICIO Dr C.F. Chan, City University of Hong Kong Dr S.C. Chan, The University of Hong Kong Dr Daniel P.K. Lun, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

HONORARY ADVISORS Prof. W.C. Siu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Prof. P.C. Ching, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Prof. H.T. Tsui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Dr C.K. Chan, TeleEye Holdings Limited

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Executive Committee of the IEEE Hong Kong Joint Chapter on CAS/COM Chairman Dr Y.H.Chan Secretary Dr C.F. Chan Vice Chairman Dr Peter Tam Treasurer Dr Lawrence Yeung Committee Members Dr W.S.W. Cheung Hong Kong University Dr Henry S.H. Chung City University of Hong Kong Mr Eric Fung Chung Hing Engineers Ltd. Dr W.H. Lau City University of Hong Kong Dr Howard Luong The Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech. Dr Oscar Au The Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech. Mr C.B. Leung Civil Aviation Department, Hong Kong Dr P. Li City University of Hong Kong Dr Paul Kwok Open University of Hong Kong Mr P.F. Tsui Vocational Training Council Dr Frank Leung Hong Kong Polytechnic University Mr Y.W. Liu Hong Kong Police

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Membership and Management Structure: Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing, PolyU, H.K. Management Committee Chairman: Prof. Alex Wai, Acting Dean, Faculty of Engg. Leader: Prof. Wan-Chi Siu, Chair Professor Deputy Leader: Prof. David D. Feng, Chair Professor Secretaries: Dr Kenneth K.M. Lam, Associate Professor Dr Daniel P.K. Lun, Associate Professor Membership of CMSP Leader: Prof. Wan-Chi Siu, Chair Professor Deputy Leader: Prof. David D. Feng, Chair Professor Secretaries: Dr Kenneth Lam, Associate Professor Dr Daniel P.K. Lun, Associate Professor Members: Dr Chris Y.H. Chan, Associate Professor

Dr Y.L. Chan, Associate Professor Dr Z. Chi, Associate Professor Dr Korris F.L. Chung, Associate Professor Dr Bonnie Law, Assistant Professor Dr Frank H.F. Leung, Associate Professor Dr K.T. Lo, Associate Professor Dr Robert Luk, Assistant Professor Dr M.W. Mak, Assistant Professor Prof. K.L. Teo, Chair Professor Dr S.C. Wong, Assistant Professor Prof. David Zhang, Professor

Advisory Committee

Prof. Ah-Chung Tsoi, Australian Research Council, Australia (Chairman)

Prof. Y.T. Chan, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada Prof. A.G. Constantinides, Imperial College, U.K. Prof. J. J. Distefano III, University of California, U.S.A. Prof. Tariq. S. Durrani, University of Strathclyde, U.K. Mr B.M. Hannelly, Brendan Hannelly & Associates, Australia Prof. Zhen-ya He, Southeast University, China Prof. Chao-huan Hou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Prof. Chin-hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Prof. Y.C. Lim, National University of Singapore, Singapore Prof. Bede Liu, Princeton University, U.S.A. Prof. K.J. Ray Liu, University of Maryland, U.S.A. Dr Sze-Fong Mark Yau, avsimport, Hong Kong

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Acknowledgement

The ISIMP 2004 Organizing Committee wishes to thank the following organizations for the contribution

and support to the Symposium:

IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing

IEEE Hong Kong Joint Chapter of CAS/COM

Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing of the Department of Electronic and Information

Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Engineering Faculty, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

K.C. Wong Education Foundation

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

City University of Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The University of Hong Kong

Open University of Hong Kong

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Keynote Speech Sessions

Thursday, 21 October 2004 Time: 9:00am – 10:30am Room: Chiang Chen Studio Theatre 9:00am Keynote Speech 1 Speaker: Prof. Shih-Fu Chang, PhD, FIEEE Digital Video and Multimedia Lab,

Columbia University, USA Topic: Video Pattern Mining 9:45am Keynote Speech 2 Speaker: Prof. Chin-Hui Lee, PhD, FIEEE School of Electrical and Computer

Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Topic: Discovering Knowledge in and Extracting Information from Multimedia Patterns

Thursday, 22 October 2004 Time: 9:00am – 10:30am Room: Chiang Chen Studio Theatre 9:00am Keynote Speech 3 Speaker: Prof. A.G. Constantinides, PhD, CEng,

FIEE, FIEEE Department of Electrical and Electronic

Engineering, Imperial College, U.K. Topic: Recent advances in Digital Filter Design:

A Design Framework from Complete and Partial Specifications Based on Root Moments

9:45am Keynote Speech 4 Speaker: Prof. W.C. Siu, PhD, DIC, CEng, FIEE,

FHKIE, SrMIEEE Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing,

Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, H.K.

Topic: Advances in Video Coding in the Information Era

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Keynote Speech 1 Topic: Video Pattern Mining Speaker: Prof. Shih-Fu Chang, PhD, FIEEE

Digital Video and Multimedia Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, USA

Abstract Detection and recognition of semantic concepts and events has been a major research challenge for multimedia indexing. Most efforts are based on a supervised paradigm in pursuit of the optimal features or classifiers for detecting pre-defined classes. Such approaches sometimes suffer major problems due to the need of extensive annotation and custom-defined target classes for each specific domain.

To address the problems, we have been advocating a new direction called unsupervised pattern discovery (mining). Patterns are recurrent, predictable occurrences of one or more entities that satisfy statistical, associative, or relational conditions. Patterns at the feature level may signify the occurrence of primitive concepts (e.g., recurrent passing of pedestrians). High-level patterns may correspond to perceptual temporal events (e.g., play-break alternations in sports) or stories from multiple news sources forming a distinct semantic topic.

Pattern mining from heterogeneous multimedia streams offers tremendous potential benefits while posing critical challenges. If successful, the discovered patters can be used to summarize large content sources, identify common threads and outliers, and reveal distinct features that are responsible for each pattern. However, starting with the huge space of audio-visual-textual features and diverse structures at different time scales, finding useful and meaningful patterns is indeed a very challenging task.

In this talk, I will present some recent results in mining patterns in structured video sequences (such as sports and multi-channel broadcast news videos). Specifically, we will discuss the potential of statistical models like Hierarchical HMM for temporal structure mining, probabilistic latent semantic analysis for discovering hidden concepts, and a layered dynamic mixture model for fusing multi-modal patterns.

I will describe a recent major project, SEMANTRIX, aiming at reconstructing semantic threads in broadcast news videos from multiple sources. Related research issues such as news story segmentation and near duplicate detection will also be introduced. Evaluations using standard benchmarks (e.g., NIST TRECVID and TDT) will be presented.

Biography Prof. Shih-Fu Chang leads Columbia University’s Digital Video/Multimedia Lab (www.ee.columbia.edu/dvmm) and ADVENT industry-university consortium, conducting research in multimedia indexing, video analysis, pervasive media, and media authentication. Notable systems developed by his group include VisualSEEk, VideoQ, WebSEEk for image/video searching, WebClip for networked video editing, and Sari for online image authentication watermarking. He has applied research to various domains, such as a medical video library, currently funded by NSF’s DLI-2 initiative, a Digital News project, and a live sports video filtering application. His group has played an active, leading role in developing the multimedia description schemes in MPEG-7.

Prof. Chang is an IEEE Fellow. He served as a general co-chair of ACM 8th Multimedia Conference 2000, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2001-2002, and co-chair IEEE Multimedia Conference 2004. He has received a Navy ONR Young Investigator Award, IBM Faculty Development Award, NSF CAREER Award, three Best Paper Awards from the IEEE, ACM, and SPIE, and has supervised several students receiving best student paper awards, in the areas of multimedia indexing and manipulation. He has served on advisory or consultant positions for several major research institutes and media technology companies.

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Keynote Speech 2 Topic: Discovering Knowledge in and Extracting

Information from Multimedia Patterns Speaker: Prof. Chin-Hui Lee, PhD, FIEEE

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Abstract In recent years, a growing population of computer users and an exponentially increase of web pages have made the Internet the most extensive database ever established and the largest playground ever existed. These vast varieties of Internet documents are often multilingual in nature, and consist of heterogeneous contents, ranging from text to audio, speech, image, video, graphics, and their combinations. Pattern intelligence is becoming a critical research field for the representation, indexing, retrieval, rendering, access, and presentation of media documents, in which discovering knowledge and extracting information embedded in multimedia patterns play key roles. In this talk, fundamental building blocks that cut across many media dimensions are presented. Some challenges in each technology area are then addressed. Finally a few example applications are illustrated.

Biography Chin-Hui Lee is currently a professor at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr Lee received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, in 1973, the M.S. degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University, New Haven, in 1977, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Statistics from University of Washington, Seattle, in 1981.

After graduation, Dr Lee joined Verbex Corporation, Bedford, MA, and was involved in research on connected word recognition. In 1984, he became affiliated with Digital Sound Corporation, Santa Barbara, where he engaged in research and product development in speech coding, speech synthesis, speech recognition and signal processing for the development of the DSC-2000 Voice Server. Between 1986 and 2001, he was with Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and Director of the Dialogue Systems Research Department. His research interests include multimedia communication, multimedia signal and information processing, speech and speaker recognition, speech and language modeling, spoken dialogue processing, adaptive and discriminative learning, biometric authentication, information retrieval, and bioinformatics. His research scope is reflected in "Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition: Advanced Topics", published by the Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1996. From August 2001 to August 2002 he was a visiting professor at School of Computing, The National Univ. of Singapore. In Sept. 2002, he joined the Faculty of School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Prof. Lee has participated actively in professional societies. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Communication Society, and the European Speech Communication Association. He is also a lifetime member of the Computational Linguistics Society in Taiwan. In 1991-1995, he was an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. During the same period, he served as a member of the ARPA Spoken Language Coordination Committee. In 1995-1998 he was a member of the Speech Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), and later became the chairman of the Speech TC from 1997 to 1998. In 1996, he helped promote the SPS Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) Technical Committee in which he is a founding member.

Dr Lee is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has published more than 250 papers and 25 patents on the subject of automatic speech and speaker recognition. He received the SPS Senior Award in 1994 and the SPS Best Paper Award in 1997 and 1999, respectively. In 1997, he was also awarded the prestigious Bell Labs President's Gold Award for his contributions to the Lucent Speech Processing Solutions product. In 2000, he was named one of the six Distinguished Lecturers by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

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Keynote Speech 3 Topic: Recent advances in Digital Filter Design: A Design

Framework from Complete and Partial Specifications Based on Root Moments

Speaker: Prof. A.G. Constantinides, PhD, CEng, FIEE, FIEEE Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, U.K.

Abstract The talk is concerned with the following problem. Given a table of numbers that represent requirements either in amplitude A(θ), phase φ(θ) or group delay response τ(θ), and which do not necessarily cover the entire frequency range, but are limited over a set of frequencies {θ1, θ2}, to design a transfer function H(z) which satisfies one set of specifications. H(z) is further constrained to be either a finite impulse response (FIR) or autoregressive (AR) transfer function. The problem is further extended to cover the combined satisfaction of any pairing of A(θ) and either φ(θ) or τ(θ), in which any set of specifications may be partially specified. The presentation proposes a framework to deal with these problems and suggests indicative solutions. The solutions proposed are based on the use of root moments. The subordinate problem concerning the estimation of the order of the FIR or AR filter from partial specifications on A(θ) or φ(θ) or τ(θ) is also examined. An additional intention of the presentation is to stimulate further research into novel digital filter design methods. For this purpose there are interspersed suggestions for further examination and study.

Biography A. G. Constantinides is the Professor of Signal Processing and the Head of the Signal Processing and Digital Systems Section of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College, London, U.K. He has been actively involved with research in various aspects of digital filter design, digital signal processing, and communications for more than 30 years. Professor Constantinides’ research spans a wide range of Digital Signal Processing, from the theoretical, as well as the practical, points of view. His recent work has been directed toward the demanding signal processing problems arising from the various areas of telecommunication. This work is supported by research grants and contracts from various government and industrial organisations. He has published several books and papers in learned journals in the area of Digital Signal Processing and its applications. Professor Constantinides has served as the First President of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). He has been on, and is currently serving as, a member of many technical program committees of the IEEE, the IEE and other international conferences. He has organized the first international series of meetings on Digital Signal Processing, initially in London, in 1967, and in Florence since 1972. In 1985, he was awarded the Honour of Chevalier, Palmes Academiques, by the French government, and in 1996, the promotion to Officier, Palmes Academiques. He holds honorary doctorates from European and Far Eastern Universities, several Visiting Professorships, Distinguished Lectureships, Fellowships and other honors around the world. He served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a member of several Technical Committees of the IEEE and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), U.K., and is on the Editorial Boards of many professional journals. He is a Fellow of IEE and an honorary member of Eta Kappa Nu.

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Keynote Speech 4 Topic: Advances in Video Coding in the Information Era Speaker: Prof. W.C. Siu, PhD, DIC, CEng, FIEE, FHKIE, SrMIEEE

Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, H.K.

Abstract Video coding becomes an indispensable part of modern multimedia and information systems. The development of video codec started from simple hybrid video coding, and gradually diverges to the object-oriented video coding and then the optimized high quality and low bit rate video coding. The approaches become a trade-off between the quality and resources available. In this presentation, we begin to trace through the primary reasons for the advancement of video coding and give examples of the related technologies. Subsequently, some highlights of the recent research results on partial distortion search, video transcoding, wavelet videos, etc. and samples of our recent studies in the Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing will be presented. A number of illustrations and demonstrations will be given to show the basic principles and results of our realization. The presentation will end with some ideas on new trends and directions in the area.

Biography Wan-Chi Siu received the Associateship from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the MPhil degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the PhD degree from the Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, in 1975, 1977 and 1984, respectively. He joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a lecturer in 1980 and has been Chair Professor of the Department of Electronic & Information Engineering since 1992. He has published over 250 research papers, over 120 of which appeared in international journals, such as IEEE Transactions and Signal Processing. His research interests include digital signal processing, fast computational algorithms, transforms, wavelets, image and video coding, and computational aspects of pattern recognition and neural networks. Professor Siu was Guest Editor and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Pt.II between 1995-97. He is also an editor of the recent book, ‘Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management’, Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2003, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, Video Technology, the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and a few other journals. Prof. Siu received many awards, such as the Distinguished Presenter Award of the University Management Workshop of the PolyU (1997), IEEE Third Millennium Medal for Outstanding Achievements and Contributions (2000), IEEE USA, and recently the Best Teacher Award (2003), EIE, the Outstanding Award in Research & Scholarly Activities, Faculty of Engineering, PolyU (2003), Plaque for Exceptional Leadership and Significant Contributions, IEEE SP Society Conference Board (2003), IEEE USA, and Honorable Mention Winner of the 30th Annual Pattern Recognition Society Award (2004), USA. He has been a keynote speaker of many international conferences, including recently the 2002 Third IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM2002), Taiwan, and the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing, Nanjing. Professor Siu has held the position of general chair or technical program chair of many international events, including IEEE society sponsored flagship conferences, such as the Technical Program Chair of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’97) and the General Chair of 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2003). Between 1991 and 1995, Prof. Siu was a member of the Physical Sciences and Engineering Panel of the Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong Government, and in 1994 he chaired the first Engineering and Information Technology Panel to assess the research quality of 19 Cost Centers (departments) from all universities in Hong Kong.

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Pre-Symposium Tutorials

Four half-day short courses in the area of multimedia signal processing, applications and standards will be held on 20 Oct 2004 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Registered delegates will receive a complete set of course notes for all the tutorials.

Half-day Courses, Morning Session: A1 “Technologies and Systems for Digital Rights

Management (DRM)” Speaker: Prof. C.C. Jay Kuo, PhD, FIEEE

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California

Time: 9:00am - 12:20pm Room: R1107 Medium of instruction: English

A2 “H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 Video Coding for Next Generation Multimedia”

Speaker: Prof K.R. Rao, PhD, FIEEE Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

Time: 9:00am - 12:20pm Room: R1110 Medium of instruction: English

Half-day Courses, Afternoon Session: P1 “Multimedia XML for Web Content Representation:

Techniques and Applications” Speaker: Prof. C.C. Jay Kuo, PhD, FIEEE

Dept of Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California

Time: 2:00pm - 5:20pm Room: R1107 Medium of instruction: English

P2 “Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) of China” Speakers: Prof. L. Yu, PhD

Institute of Inf. and Comm. Engg., Zhejiang University, Co-chair of AVS-Video Group and Co-chair of AVS-Implementation Group Dr Pengfei Gao, PhD Co-chair of AVS-System

Dr Tiejun Huang, PhD Secretary of AVS

Time: 2:00pm - 5:20pm Room: R1110 Medium of instruction: Putonghua

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Half-day Courses, Morning Session A1 “Technologies and Systems for Digital Rights

Management (DRM)” Speaker: Prof. C.C. Jay Kuo, PhD, FIEEE

Dept of Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California

Time: 9:00am - 12:20pm, Room: R1107 Medium of instruction: English Synopsis: The availability of multimedia contents in digital forms, as well as the growth in popularity of communication channels, such as the worldwide web, broadband network and wireless systems, has brought a number of security issues to the forefront. In particular we have witnessed the emergence of the concept of Digital Right Management (DRM) as an encompassing term for copyright protection, ownership assertion, digital content authentication, access control and secure communications. In the past decade, DRM has gained great attention from both academia and industry. The importance of DRM ad a technology for protecting and managing digital rights has promoted research and innovative technologies in fields such as authentication, biometrics, secure collaboration and data sharing systems, cryptography, digital signatures, security protocols, time stamping, smart-card technology, data hiding, watermarking, steganography, forgery detection, and others.

The objective of this lecture is to review and survey on research and development in digital right management technologies, and bring the vast scope of applications closer to the IT community. The tutorial includes the following:

1. What is DRM? 2. Overview of DRM Systems 3. DRM Component Technologies 4. Practical DRM Systems: Application Examples and

Business Models 5. DRM in Consumer Electronics 6. Authentication Techniques 7. Security Attacks 8. New Joint Encryption/Compression Techniques for

Multimedia Data Biography: Dr C.-C. Jay Kuo received the B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, in 1980 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI) and the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California (USC) as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. His research interests are

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in the areas of digital media processing, multimedia compression, communication and networking technologies, and embedded multimedia system design. Dr Kuo is a Fellow of IEEE and SPIE. He received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (NYI) and Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) Award in 1992 and 1993, respectively.

Dr Kuo is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, and Editor for the Journal of Information Science and Engineering and the RURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing. He is also on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in 1995-98, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 1995-1997 and IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing in 2001-2003.

Dr Kuo has guided 55 students to their Ph.D. degrees and supervised 15 postdoctoral research fellows. Currently, his research group at USC consists around 30 Ph.D. students and 5 postdoctors (please visit website http://viola.usc.edu), which is one of the largest academic research groups in multimedia technologies. He is a co-author of more than 100 journal papers, 600 conference papers as well as the following seven books: Content-based Audio Classification and Retrieval for Audiovisual Data Parsing (with Tong Zhang, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), Semantic Video Object Segmentation for Content-based Multimedia Applications (with Ju Guo, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), Intelligent Systems for Video Analysis and Access over the Internet (with Wensheng Zhou, Prentice Hall, 2002), Video Content Analysis Using Multimodal Information (with Ying Li, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003) Quality of Service for Internet Multimedia (with Jitae Shin and Daniel Lee, Prentice Hall, 2003), Radio Resource management for Multimedia QoS support in Wireless Cellular Networks (with Huan Chen, Lei Huang and Sunil Kumar, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003) and High Fidelity Multichannel Audio Coding (with Dai Tracy Yang and Chris Kyriakakis, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2004).

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Half-day Courses, Morning Session: A2 “H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 Video Coding for Next

Generation Multimedia” Speaker: Prof K.R. Rao, PhD, FIEEE

Dept of Electrical Engg., Univ. of Texas at Arlington Time: 9:00am - 12:20pm, Room: R1110 Medium of instruction: English Synopsis: The video coding standards developed to date by ISO/IEC and ITU-T have not been able to address all the needs required by varying bit rates of different applications and at the same time meeting the quality requirements. An emerging video coding standard named H.264/MPEG-4 part 10 (International standard by end of 2003) aims at coding video sequences at approximately half the bit rate compared to MPEG-2 at the same quality. It also aims at having significant improvements in coding efficiency, error robustness and network friendliness. It makes use of better prediction methods for Intra (I), Predictive (P) and Bi-predictive (B) frames. Arbitrary Block-size Transform (ABT) is used which is a simplified transform that avoids the mismatch error (DCT/IDCT) observed in the motion compensation hybrid coding adopted in MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. All these features along with others such as CABAC (Context Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding) have resulted in having a 2:1 coding gain over MPEG-2 at the cost of increased complexity. This emerging standard addresses various services/applications, transmission networks, enhanced efficiency, and diverse range of bit rates and spatial/temporal resolutions through profiles and layers. Parameter set concept, arbitrary slice ordering, flexible macroblock structure, redundant pictures, switched predictive and switched intra pictures have contributed to error resilience/robustness of this standard. Adaptive (directional) intra prediction, multiple reference pictures/frames for motion estimation and weighted motion compensated (MC), variable block-size MC, deblocking filter, hierarchical block transform etc., have contributed to the high coding efficiency of this standard developed jointly by the ITU-T Video coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the IS0/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). This combined group is called Joint Video Team (JVT). Other parts of this standard such as file format, verification testing, reference software, conformance bit streams, standardizing example encoding description and potential extensions are being finalized soon. The seminar highlights the various functionalities of the encoder, points out the differences between this new standard and the existing standards and describes the state-of-the-art development by the industry. ftp and web sites related to standard documents, software, databases, conformance bit streams, meeting schedules, vendors, file formats, research groups, faq etc are provided. This standard opens up several research areas based on software/hardware implementations, improvements etc.

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The new standard addresses various applications such as video streaming over the internet, conversational services such as videophone/video conferencing over wired and wireless (mobile) networks, video-on-demand, near video-on-demand, multimedia messaging, pay-per-view, digital TV, HDTV, super HDTV, digital cinema, high quality video transmission over cable, cable modem, DSL, satellite and terrestrial channels, high density optical storage media such as DVD, digital cameras, camcorders and related consumer electronic products. This emerging standard enables multimedia services/systems viable, feasible, practical, affordable and user friendly. Through various network layers/protocols, profiles and levels this standard is designed to meet the ever increasing needs of current and emerging multimedia applications. The innovative and ingenious approach adopted in this multidimensional signal processing has led to 2:1 bit rate reduction while maintaining the same high visual quality as MPEG-2. Several start-ups as well as established/reputed multinational companies, research institutes etc have embarked on ambitious projects for developing/marketing consumer oriented products based on this standard. It is projected that this will be a multibillion dollar market within the next few years. Biography: K. R. Rao received the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from The Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 1966. Since 1966, he has been with the Univ. of Texas at Arlington where he is currently a professor of electrical engg. He, along with two other researchers, introduced the Discrete Cosine Transform in 1975 which has since become very popular in digital signal processing. He is the co-author of the books “Orthogonal Transforms for Digital Signal Processing” (Springer-Verlag, 1975), Also recorded for the blind, by the Royal Institute for the blind. “Fast Transforms: Analyses and Applications” (Academic Press, 1982), “Discrete Cosine Transform-Algorithms, Advantages, Applications” (Academic Press, 1990). He has edited a benchmark volume, “Discrete Transforms and Their Applications” (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985). He has coedited a benchmark volume, “Teleconferencing” (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985). He is co-author of the books, “Techniques and standards for Image/Video/Audio Coding” (Prentice Hall) 1996 “Packet video communications over ATM networks”(Prentice Hall) 2000 and “Multimedia communication systems” (Prentice Hall) 2002. He has coedited a handbook “The transform and data compression handbook,” (CRC Press, 2001). Some of his books have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Russian. He has been an external examiner for graduate students from Universities in Australia, Canada, HK, India, Singapore and Taiwan. He has conducted workshops/tutorials on video/audio coding/standards worldwide. He has supervised several students at the Masters and Doctoral levels. He has published extensively in refereed journals and has been a consultant to industry, research institutes and academia. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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Half-day Courses, Afternoon Session: P1 “Multimedia XML for Web Content Representation: Techniques and Applications” Speaker: Prof. C.C. Jay Kuo, PhD, FIEEE

Dept of Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California

Time: 2:00pm - 5:20pm, Room: R1107 Medium of instruction: English Synopsis: The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has been extensively used in web multimedia applications and databases because of its flexibility and interoperability. This tutorial will give an overview of the XML development in recent years. Then, we will focus on two specific subjects: XML harmonization and XML for MPEG video.

a) XML Harmonization. Since building XML structures is easy, the number of XML applications often grows rapidly, which leads to many redundant specifications. While some XML applications have common functionalities, others may have different ones. For instance, both the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) and the eXtensible 3D (X3D) have sub-schemas to describe the meta-information, yet they also have their individual functionalities to represent multimedia files and create X3D objects. The problem of creating powerful XML applications by reutilizing and integrating functionalities from existing XML applications, called XML harmonization, is the focus of this talk. An object-oriented (OO) data model will be proposed, followed by a presentation of the corresponding harmonization methodology for XML applications. That is, we develop the Harmonized eXtensible Markup Language (HXML) according to the proposed OO data model. HXML provides a uniform interface for users to access functionalities and objects of various XML applications being harmonized. An example that harmonizes two multimedia XML applications, SMIL and X3D, using the OO technique has been implemented and will be demonstrated.

b) XML for MPEG Video. Furthermore, we consider the MPEG video markup language (MPML) to describe MPEG-4 video contents. As an XML designed specifically for MPEG-4 bit streams, MPML provides a friendly support for random access, portability, interoperability, flexibility and extensibility. We propose an efficient compression algorithm to reduce the amount of storage space for MPML documents. Then, as two applications, we show how to use MPML for error-resilient video transmission over wireless channels and video multicast over Internet. It is demonstrated that the MPML-based decoding algorithm can protect image quality effectively against transmission errors over noisy channels by using the random access support of MPML.

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Biography: Dr C.-C. Jay Kuo received the B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, in 1980 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI) and the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California (USC) as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. His research interests are in the areas of digital media processing, multimedia compression, communication and networking technologies, and embedded multimedia system design. Dr Kuo is a Fellow of IEEE and SPIE. He received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (NYI) and Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) Award in 1992 and 1993, respectively.

Dr Kuo is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, and Editor for the Journal of Information Science and Engineering and the RURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing. He is also on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in 1995-98, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 1995-1997 and IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing in 2001-2003.

Dr Kuo has guided 55 students to their Ph.D. degrees and supervised 15 postdoctoral research fellows. Currently, his research group at USC consists around 30 Ph.D. students and 5 postdoctors (please visit website http://viola.usc.edu), which is one of the largest academic research groups in multimedia technologies. He is a co-author of more than 100 journal papers, 600 conference papers as well as the following seven books: Content-based Audio Classification and Retrieval for Audiovisual Data Parsing (with Tong Zhang, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), Semantic Video Object Segmentation for Content-based Multimedia Applications (with Ju Guo, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), Intelligent Systems for Video Analysis and Access over the Internet (with Wensheng Zhou, Prentice Hall, 2002), Video Content Analysis Using Multimodal Information (with Ying Li, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003) Quality of Service for Internet Multimedia (with Jitae Shin and Daniel Lee, Prentice Hall, 2003), Radio Resource management for Multimedia QoS support in Wireless Cellular Networks (with Huan Chen, Lei Huang and Sunil Kumar, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003) and High Fidelity Multichannel Audio Coding (with Dai Tracy Yang and Chris Kyriakakis, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2004).

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P2 “Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) of China” Speakers: Prof. L. Yu, PhD

Institute of Information and Communication Engineering, Zhejiang University, Co-chair of AVS-Video Group and Co-chair of AVS-Implementation Group Dr Pengfei Gao, PhD Chief Engineer & Vice President of Beijing Communicate Technology Inc. Co-chair of the AVS-System

Dr Tiejun Huang, PhD Director of Research Center for Digital Media, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy Sciences

Time: 2:00pm - 5:20pm, Room: R1110 Medium of instruction: Putonghua Synopsis: 1. Dr Tiejun Huang, Audio Video coding Standard (AVS) of

China: State of Art and Future • The importance of souce coding for AV industry • International standards and their IPR policy • State of art of AVS standards • AVS IPR policy • Opportunity for industry

2. Dr Peng-fei Gao, AVS-System • Architecture of AVS System • Compatibility of AVS-system with MPEG-2 system • AVS-system Complying with AVS Video • AVS-system Complying with AVS Audio

3. Prof. Lu Yu, AVS-Video • Components of AVS-video • AVS 1.0 framework and technical details • AVS 1.0 performance • AVS-M Working plan and Framework

Biographies: Prof. Lu Yu, Zhejiang University, China, received her B.S. and Ph.D on Communication and Electronic Systems from Zhejiang Unviersity, in 1991 and 1996 respectively. She is co-chair of both the video subgroup and implementation subgroup of Audio Video coding Standard (AVS) of China. Her research interests are video coding, multimedia communication and ASIC design. She is the inventor or co-inventor of 15 pending patents.

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Dr Peng-fai Gao, received his Ph.D of Aeronautics and Astronautics Manufacture from Beijing University of Aeronautic and Astronautic. Now he is the Chief Engineer & Vice President of Beijing Compunicate Technology Inc. Dr Huang Tiejun, Ph.D. is the director of the Research Center for Digital Media of the Graduate School and a researcher of the Digital Technology lab of the Institute for Computing Technology in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the secretary-general of the Audio and Video Coding Standard working group of China (short for AVS). He received PhD degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1998 and master’s and bachelor’s degree from Wuhan University of Technology in 1995 and 1995, all in computer science. Dr Huang’s interesting research includes digital media processing and understanding, digital library, video compression and HCI. He is the principal investigator of five research projects sponsored by the national Sci&Tech organizations such as the China National Hi-Tech Research and Development Project.

Program Summary and Session Information (Day 1)

Thursday, 21 October 2004 8:45 – 10:30 Opening and Keynote Session (Chiang Chen Studio Theatre)

Lecture Sessions (Rm R1109) Lecture Sessions (Rm R1107) Lecture Sessions (Rm R1110) Poster Sessions (Rm R1201) 10:50 – 12:20 1AM1L : Speech Processing 1AM2L: Biometric Signal

Processing and Authentication 1AM3L: Video Processing

and Coding (I) 1AM1P: Multimedia

Communications and Systems 1AM2P: Facial Image

Analysis & Applications

14:00 – 15:30 1PM1L (SS) Part 1:

Computational Methods for Biometrics, Bioinformatics,

and Computer Modeling

1PM2L: Multimedia Retrieval & Management (I)

1PM3L: Image Analysis and Classification

1PM1P: Speech and Audio Processing

1PM2P: Facial Image Animation

1PM3P: Video Segmentation & Summarization

15:45 – 17:00

1PM1L (SS) Part 2: Computational Methods for Biometrics, Bioinformatics,

and Computer Modeling 1PM4L: Multimedia Digital

Rights Management

1PM5L (SS): China Audio-Visual Coding Standard

(AVS)

1PM6L: Speech Processing and Recognition

1PM4P: Image Analysis & Processing

17:15 – 18:30 Forum: Our Research Directions: Current & Future (Room TU101)

Program Summary and Session Information (Day 2)

Friday, 22 October 2004 8:45 – 10:30 Keynote Session (Chiang Chen Studio Theatre)

Lecture Sessions (Rm R1109) Lecture Sessions (Rm R1107) Lecture Sessions (Rm R1110) Poster Session (Rm R1201)

10:50 – 12:20 2AM1L: Image Processing

and Coding 2AM2L: Video Processing

and Coding (II) 2AM3L: Multimedia

Systems and Architectures 2AM1P: Multimedia

Retrieval 2AM2P: Signal Analysis and

Processing

14:00 – 15:30 2PM1L (SS) Part 1:

Perceptual Image/Video Processing Techniques

2PM2L: Video Analysis and Tracking

2PM3L: Image and Video Enhancement

2PM1P: Image and Video Coding

2PM2P: Watermarking

15:45 – 17:45 2PM1L (SS) Part 2:

Perceptual Image/Video Processing Techniques

2PM4L: Multimedia Retrieval & Management (II)

2PM5L: Multimedia Communications & Streaming

2PM6L: Speech Synthesis and Recognition

2PM3P: Signal Analysis and Classification

2PM4P: Image Segmentation

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TECHNICAL PROGRAM

THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2004, A.M. Opening and Keynote Speech Session Time: 8:45am – 10:30am Room: Chiang Chen Studio Theatre 8:45am Opening Speech 9:00am Keynote Speech 1 Speaker: Prof. Shih-Fu Chang, PhD, FIEEE Digital Video and Multimedia Lab, Columbia

University, USA Topic: Video Pattern Mining 9:45am Keynote Speech 2 Speaker: Prof. Chin-Hui Lee, PhD, FIEEE School of Electrical and Computer

Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Topic: Discovering Knowledge in and Extracting Information from Multimedia Patterns

Oral Session: Speech Processing ( 1AM1L ) Time: 10:50am – 12:20pm Room: R1109 Chairs: Prof. Sven E. Nordholm, The University of

Western Australia, Crawley Dr Robert Luk, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 Narrowband Noise Estimation in the Subspace

Domain Vinesh Bhunjun and Mike Brookes, Imperial College

London, London 2 Voice Conversion Algorithm Using Phoneme

Gaussian Mixture Model Sheng Lv and Junxun Yin, South China University of

Technology, Guangzhou Jiancheng Huang, Motorola China Research Center,

Shanghai

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3 Speech Enhancement for Adaptive Microphone

Arrays via a Blocking Matrix Using Leaky Adaptive Filters

B. A. Goh and D. McLernon, University of Leeds, Leeds

4 Speech Enhancement by Non-Stationary Tonal

Disturbance Cancellation Using Subband Zero Crossing Measures

Nils Westerlund, Mattias Dahl and Ingvar Claesson, Blekinge Institute Technology, Ronneby

5 Speech Enhancement Using the Microphone Array

and Short-term Spectral Amplitude Estimator Hai Dam, Sven E. Nordholm, Hai H. Dam and Siow

Yong Low, The University of Western Australia, Crawley

6 Multimodal Speech Enhancement in Noisy

Environment R. Xu, Z. Ren, W. Dai, D. Lao and C. Kwan, Intelligent

Automation, Inc., Rockville Oral Session: Biometric Signal Processing and

Authentication ( 1AM2L ) Time: 10:50am – 12:20pm Room: R1107 Chairs: Prof. Lijun Jiang, Institute for Infocomm Research

(I2R), Singapore Dr Man Wai Mak, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 Intramodal and Intermodal Fusion for Audio-Visual

Biometric Authentication Ming Cheung Cheung and Man Wai Mak, The Hong

Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Sun Yuan Kung, Princeton University, Princeton 2 Gait Recognition Based on Fourier Descriptors Guang Jian Tian, Fu Yuan Hu and Rong Chun Zhao,

Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an

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3 Fingerprint Recognition with Improved Wavelet

Domain Features Yik Hing Fung and Yuk Hee Chan, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 4 A Method for Singular Value Feature Extraction of

Face Image Guohui He and Junying Gan, Wuyi University,

Jiangmen City 5 Frontal Infrared Human Face Detection by Distance

from Centroid Method Lijun Jiang, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R),

Singapore Allen Yeo, Nanyang technological University,

Singapore Shiqian Wu, Xudong Jiang and Zhonglang Lu, Institute

for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore Oral Session: Video Processing and Coding (I)

( 1AM3L ) Time: 10:50am – 12:20pm Room: R1110 Chair: Prof. King Ngi Ngan, The Chinese University of

Hong Kong, H.K. 1 Multi-Hypothesis Motion Compensated Prediction

(MHMCP) for Error-Resilient Visual Communication

Wei Ying Kung, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Chang Su Kim, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

C.C. Kuo, University of Southern California Los Angeles

2 Wavelet-Domain Shift Invariant Motion Estimation

and Compensation Weiting Cai and Malek Adjouadi, Florida International

University, Miami

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3 Low-complexity Intra/Inter Mode-decision for

H.264/AVC Video Coder Yi J. Liang and Khaled EL-Maleh, Qualcomm CDMA

Technologies, San Diego 4 Perceptual Cryptography on Wavelet-transform

Encoded Videos Shiguo Lian, Nanjing University of Science &

Technology, Nanjing Xiaofan Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong Univeristy,

Shanghai Jinsheng Sun and Zhiquan Wang, Nanjing University of

Science & Technology, Nanjing 5 MPEG-4 Based Stereoscopic and Multiview Video

Coding Wenxian Yang, Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore King Ngi Ngan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,

Hong Kong Jianfei Cai, Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore Poster Session: Multimedia Communications and

Systems ( 1AM1P ) Time: 10:50am – 12:20pm Room: R1201 Chairs: Prof. Zhenya He, Southeast University, Nanjing Dr Kenneth K.M. Lam, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, H.K. 1 Chaotic Signal Driven Parametric Modulation H. K. Kwan and W. P. Tang, University of Windsor,

Windsor 2 Iterative Detection for High Rate Single-carrier

Space-time Block Coded Transmissions over Frequency-selective Fading Channels

Yiqun Qian, Luxi Yang and Zhenya He, Southeast University, Nanjing

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3 A Novel Iterative Detection Method for Time-

varying MIMO System Qianlei Liu, Luxi Yang and Zhenya He, Southeast

University, Nanjing 4 Irregular Low Density Parity Check Codes for

Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Applications Jiaqing Wang, Xiaoyan Yu and Lenan Wu, Southeast

University, Nanjing 5 Embedded Multipoint Video Mixer for PC Based

Video Conferencing System Hong Li and Benshun Yi, Wuhan University, Wuhan 6 Variable Step-size Adaptive Channel Estimation for

WCDMA Receiver Xi Bin Han and Wei Ping Zhu, Concordia University,

Montreal 7 Transaction Tracking for Multimedia Content from

a Mutual Distrust Perspective Angela Wong, Matthew Sorell and Robert Clarke,

University of Adelaide, Adelaide 8 Time-varying Channel Estimation for MIMO

OFDM Systems Die Hu, Luxi Yang and Zhenya He, Southeast

University, Nanjing 9 Blind Channel Estimation for Long Code MIMO

CDMA Using First-order Statistics Yuanjie Li, Luxi Yang and Zhenya He, Southeast

University, Nanjing 10 Logical Hierarchical Cluster for Blocks in the

Distributed Multimedia on Demand Xuhui Xiong, Shengsheng Yu and Jingli Zhou,

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan

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Poster Session: Facial Image Analysis & Applications

(1AM2P) Time: 10:50am – 12:20pm Room: R1201 Chairs: Prof. Junying Gan, Wuyi University, Jiangmen

City Dr Kenneth K.M. Lam, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, H.K. 1 Face Recognition Based on Illumination Restoration Danghui Liu, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing

/ The Academy of Equipment, Command and Technology, Beijing

Lansun Shen, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing Kin-Man Lam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong Xiao Kong, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 2 An Active Shape Model Using Genetic Algorithm

for Facial Feature Extraction Kwok Wai Wan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, Hong Kong / Titanium Technology Research Centre, Hong Kong

Kin Man Lam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Kit Chong Ng, Titanium Technology Research Centre, Hong Kong

3 Applications of Symmetry Average Method of Local

Singular Value Features in Face Recognition Junying Gan, Yu Liang and Youwei Zhang, Wuyi

University, Jiangmen City 4 Head Location Based on Fuzzy Weighted Projection

Histogram in Infrared Thermal Sequences Xuan Yang and Jihong Pei, Shenzhen University,

Shenzhen 5 Facial Feature Detection with Structure Constraints K.Y. Sin and W. K. Cham, The Chinese University of

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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6 Segmentation of Skin Color Regions Based on Fuzzy

Cluster Xiao Kong, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing Danghui Liu, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing

/ The Academy of Equipment, Command and Technology, Beijing

Lansun Shen, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing

THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2004, P.M. Special Session: Computational Methods for

Biometrics, Bioinformatics, and Computer Modeling ( 1PM1L)

Time: 2:00pm – 4:15pm Room:1109 Chairs: Dr Tuan D. Pham, Griffith University, Brisbane Dr Denis I. Crane, Griffith University, Brisbane 1 Automatic E-Movie Creation of 3D Animation and

Video Retrieval Jinhong Shen, University of Tokyo, Tokyo Seiya Miyazaki, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.

Ltd., Tokyo Terumasa Aoki and Hiroshi Yasuda, University of

Tokyo, Tokyo 2 A New Approach to Separating Touching Spots in

Particle Images Xiangbin Liu and Beiji Zou, Hunan University, Hunan Jiaguang Sun, Tsinghua University, Beijing 3 Temporal Hidden Markov Models Dat Tran, University of Canberra, Canberra 4 Estimation of Prior Probabilities in Speaker

Recognition Dat Tran, University of Canberra, Canberra 5 Vulnerability of Speaker Verification to Voice

Mimicking Yee Wah Lau, Michael Wagner and Dat Tran,

University of Canberra, Canberra

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6 Gene Expression Data Classification using SVM-

KNN Classifier Xiao-Qiao Shen and Ya-Ping Lin, Hunan University,

Hunan 7 Constrained Codon Optimization by Dynamic

Programming Tuan D. Pham, James O'Connell and Denis I. Crane,

Griffith University, Brisbane 8 Kullback-Leibler Dissimilarity of Markov Models

for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction Tuan D. Pham, Denis I. Crane, David Tannock and

Dominik Beck, Griffith University, Brisbane Oral Session: Multimedia Retrieval and Management

(I) ( 1PM2L ) Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Room: R1107 Chairs: Prof. Shamik Sural, Indian Institute of

Technology, Kharagpur Dr Zheru Chi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 Color-Texture Feature Extraction Using Soft

Decision for the HSV Color Space A. Vadivel, Shamik Sural and A. K. Majumdar, Indian

Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 2 A Hypersphere Method For Plant Leaves

Classification Guo Jun Zhang, Xiao Feng Wang and De Shuang

Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Zheru Chi, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong

Kong Ji Xiang Du and Yuan Yuan Wan, Chinese Academy of

Sciences, Beijing 3 A Search-Aware JPEG-LS Variation for

Compressed Image Retrieval Tao Tao, Amar Mukherjee and Ravi Vijaya Satya,

University of Central Florida, Orlando

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4 An Optimized Learning Strategy for Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback

Jing Xin, The University of New South Wales, Sydney Jesse S. Jin, The University of New South Wales,

Sydney/The University of Sydney, Sydney 5 Merged Palette Histogram Relevance Feedback for

MPEG-7 Dominant Color Descriptor Ka-Man Wong, Lai-Man Po and Kin-Yeung Chan, City

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 6 Content-based Image Indexing and Retrieval with

XML Representations A. Azzam, A. G. Charlapally, C.H.C. Leung and J.F.

Horwood, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne

Oral Session: Image Analysis and Classification

( 1PM3L ) Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Room: R1110 Chairs: Dr Toshiaki Kondo, Thammasat University,

Pathum Thani Dr Y.H. Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 An Automated Technique for high Speed

Segmentation of Endoscopic Images C.S. Lim, H. Tian and T. Srikanthan, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore 2 Projective Demosaicing Using Multiple Overlapping

Images James Fung and Steve Mann, University of Toronto,

Toronto 3 Gradient Orientation Based Feature Detection: An

Application for Extracting Retinal Blood Vessels Toshiaki Kondo, Thammasat University, Pathum Thani 4 An Approach to Intelligent Information Filtering in

Chinese Document Images Based on Garbage Model Jiewei Chen, Weiran Xu and Jun Guo, Beijing

University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing

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5 Restoring Halftoned Color-quantized Image with

Genetic Algorithm Ka Chun Lui, Yik Hing Fung and Yuk Hee Chan, Hong

Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 6 Districted Matching Approach for 1 D Object

Classification Liang Chen and Sharmin Nilufar, University of

Northern British Columbia, Prince George H. K. Kwan, University of Windsor, Windsor

Poster Session: Speech and Audio Processing ( 1PM1P ) Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Room: R1201 Chairs: Prof. Asrar Sheikh, King Fahd University of

Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran Dr Kenneth K.M. Lam, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, H.K. 1 The Impact of Speech Recognition Errors on the

Effectiveness of Spoken Cantonese Query Retrieval T.K. Choi, X.M. Zhu, R.W.P Luk, F.L. Chung, M.W.

Mak, K.M. Lam and W.C. Siu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

2 RC-MES: A Novel Speaker Modeling Technique

Based on Regression Class for Speaker Identification

Zhong-hua Fu, Lei Xie and Rong-chun Zhao, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

3 Selection of the Best Wavelet Base for Speech Signal Long Yan, Gang Liu and Jun Guo, Beijing University

of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 4 A New Algorithm for Voice Activity Detection

Based on Wavelet Transform Shaojun Jiang, Haitao Guo and Fuliang Yin, Dalian

University of Technology, Dalian

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5 A Real Time Speaker Verification Demonstration on

the Smart Flow System R. Xu, G. Mei, Z. Ren and C. Kwan, Intelligent

Automation, Inc., Rockville V. Stanford, J. Aube and C. Rochet, NIST,

Gaithersburg 6 ARMA Lattice Model for Phoneme Feature

Extraction Qing Xie and H. K. Kwan, University of Windsor,

Windsor 7 Smooth Ergodic Hidden Markov Model and Its

Applications in Text to Speech Systems Armin Ghayoori and Faramarz Hendessi, Isfahan

University of Technology, Isfahan Asrar Sheikh, King Fahd University of Petroleum and

Minerals, Dhahran 8 Wavelet Based Speech Enhancement Using a New

Thresholding Algorithm Saeed Ayat, Roohollah Dianat and Mohammad T.

Manzuri, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 9 Bandwidth Extension of Narrowband Speech using

Cepstral Analysis I. Y. Soon and C. K. Yeo, Nanyang Technological

University, Singapore Poster Session: Facial Image Animation ( 1PM2P ) Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Room: R1201 Chair: Dr Kenneth K.M. Lam, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, H.K. 1 Double Spline Muscle Models for Human Face

Animation based on Video Analysis Sy-sen Tang and Alan Wee-Chung Liew, City

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong /

University of Sydney, Sydney

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2 Mesh Resampling Alignment for 3D Face

Morphable Model Yongli Hu, Baocai Yin and Yanfeng Sun, Beijing

University of Technology, Beijing 3 Feature Points Adjusting Based Realistic 3D Face

Synthesizing Xiangyang Zhao and Limin Du, Chinese Academy of

Sciences, Beijing 4 Human Face Modeling for Facial Image Synthesis

Using Optimization-based Adaptation Yu Zhang, Terence Sim and Chew Lim Tan, National

University of Singapore, Singapore Poster Session: Video Segmentation and

Summarization ( 1PM3P ) Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Room: R1201 Chairs: Prof. Zheng Tan, Xi'an Jiaotong University,

Xi'an Dr Kenneth K.M. Lam, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, H.K. 1 Semantic Event Detection in Soccer Video by

Integrating Multi-features Using Bayesian Network Jianyun Chen, Yunhao Li, Lingda Wu and Songyang

Lao, National University of Defense and Technology, Changsha

2 An Efficient Algorithm for Video Shot Boundary

Detection Jie Zheng, Fengmei Zou and Mandel Shi, Xiamen

University, Xiamen 3 An Optimal Key Frame Representation for Video

Shot Retrieval Kin Wai Sze and Kin Man Lam, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Guoping Qiu, The University of Nottingham,

Nottingham

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4 Video Object Segmentation Based on HOS and

Multi-resolution Watershed Xingrong Zhong, Xianwu Huang and Jiajun Wang,

Soochow University, Suzhou Zhenya He, Southeast University, Nanjing Oral Session: Multimedia Digital Rights Management

( 1PM4L ) Time: 4:15pm – 5:00pm Room: R1109 Chair: Dr Kenneth K.M. Lam, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, H.K. 1 A Secure Image Transmission Scheme Based on

Digital Watermark and Cryptography Jin Wu, Huazhong University of Science and

Technology, Wuhan / Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan

Beibei Xia, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan

Jian Liu and Jinwen Tian, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan

2 Audio Watermarking for Copyright Protection

Based on Psychoacoustic Model and Adaptive Wavelet Packet Decomposition

Xiaomei Quan and Hongbin Zhang, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing

3 An ICA and Temporal Segmentation Composite

Video Watermarking Scheme Jiande Sun, Ju Liu, Huibo Hu and Tao Luo, Shandong

University, Jinan

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Special Session: China Audio-Visual Coding Standard

(AVS) ( 1PM5L ) Time: 3:45pm – 5:00pm Room: R1107 Chairs: Prof. Lu Yu, Zhejiang University, Hang Zhou Prof. W. K. Cham, The Chinese University of

Hong Kong, H.K. 1 Audio Coding Technology of ExAC A. Ehret, Coding Technologies GmbH, Nuremberg X.D.Pan, Beijing Media Works Co., Ltd, Beijing M. Schug and H. Hoerich, Coding Technologies

GmbH, Nuremberg W.M. Ren and X.M. Zhu, Beijing Eworld Tech. Co.,

Ltd, Beijing F. Henn, Coding Technologies AB, Stockholm 2 ICT Fixed Point Error Performance Analysis W. K. Cham and C. K. Fong, The Chinese University of

Hong Kong, Hong Kong 3 Enhanced Intra-Prediction Algorithm in AVS-M S.K. Dai, Yu Li, G.X. Zhu and W.Y. Liu, Huazhong

Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Wuhan 4 An AVS-to-MPEG2 Transcoding System Jing Wang, Lei Shi, Li-Wei Guo, Hui Xu, Fu-Rong

Zhang, Jian Lou and Lu Yu, Zhejiang University, Hang Zhou

5 Architecture of AVS Hardware Decoding System Cong Peng, Chao Huang, Jintao Li and Ronggang

Wang, Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

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Oral Session: Speech Processing and Recognition

( 1PM6L ) Time: 3:45pm – 5:00pm Room: R1110 Chairs: Prof. H. K. Kwan, University of Windsor,

Windsor Dr Cheung Fat Chan, City University of Hong

Kong, H.K. 1 Harmonic + Noise Coding Based on the

Characteristics of Human Phase Perception Eric W. M. Yu and Cheung Fat Chan, City University

of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2 Spectral Modification for Context-free Voice

Conversion Using MELP Speech Coding Framework

Ozgul Salor and Mubeccel Demirekler, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

3 A Fast Learning Algorithm of Neural Network for

the Training and Recognition of the Phonemes Minghu Jiang, Hongmei Pang and Beixing Deng,

Tsinghua University, Beijing Chengqing Zong, Institue of Automation, CAS, Beijing 4 A Noise Robust Speech Activity Detection

Algorithm B Harsha, Kyocera WIreless Corp., India 5 Multichannel Lattice Structure for Adaptive Noise

Cancellation Qing Xie and H. K. Kwan, University of Windsor,

Windsor

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Poster Session: Image Analysis and Processing

( 1PM4P ) Time: 3:45pm – 5:00pm Room: R1201 Chairs: Dr Damian Tan, Monash University, Victoria Dr K.T. Lo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 Text Extractions Using Edge Detection and

Morphological Dilation Shutao Li, Hunan University, Changsha James T. Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and

Technology, Hong Kong 2 Solving Self-shadow Problem of Shape from

Shading in Light Source Projected System Ming Xu and Rongchun Zhao, Northwestern

Polytechnical University, Xi'an Maria Petrou, University of Surrey, Guildford 3 Robocup Field Distortion Calibration with

Variational Image Registration Li Guan, Chengguo Guo and Rong Xiong, Zhejiang

University, Hangzhou 4 New Reconstruction Algorithm by Interpolating

Images’ Dyadic Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima

Junyong You and Guizhong Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an

5 Combined Linear / Directional Interpolation for

Spatial Error Concealment Y. Lin and C. H. Chi, National Central University,

Chung Li T.Y. Lin, Chung-Shan Institute of Science and

Technology, Lung-Tan

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6 An Automated Elastic Image Registraion Method

for CT and MR Brain Images Wai Law, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong Dagan David Feng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, Hong Kong / The University of Sydney, Sydney

Koon Pong Wong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Xiuying Wang, The University of Sydney, Sydney 7 Extracting Occlusion from Images Based on

Texture-Synthesis Methods Ting Zhao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong / Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an David Dagan Feng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, Hong Kong / The University of Sydney, Sydney

Zheng Tan, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 8 A Steganographic Method for Hiding Data in VQ

Encoded Images Yuan-Hui Yu, Chin-Chen Chang, National Chung

Cheng University, Chiayi Yu-Chen Hu, Providence University, Taichung 9 Determination of Pivot Point of a Human Head

from the Front Ben Yip and Jesse S. Jin, The University of Sydney,

Sydney 10 Performance Evaluation of a Perceptually Lossless

Medical Image Coder David Wu, Damian M. Tan, Chris White, Monash

University, Victoria John DeCampo, Southern Health Diagnostic Imaging,

Victoria Marilyn Baird, Hong Ren Wu, Monash University,

Victoria

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11 Lip Shape Extraction for Word Recognition by

Using Hardware Active Contour Model Yuusuke Sasaki, Takao Kawanura and Kazunori

Sugahara, Tottori University, Tottori

Forum: Our Research Directions: Current & Future

Time: 5:15pm – 6:30pm Room: TU101 Chair: Prof. W.C. Siu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, Hong Kong Panel Members: Dr C.K. Chan, TeleEye Co. Ltd.; Prof. Y.T. Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Prof. A.G. Constantinides, Imperial College; Prof. David Feng, University of Sydney/Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Prof. Zhenya He, Southeast University; Prof. Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Prof. H. K. Kwan, University of Windsor; Prof. King Ngan, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Prof. K.R. Rao, The University of Texas at Arlington; Prof. Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong.

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FRIDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2004, A.M.

Keynote Speech Session Time: 9:00am – 10:30am Room: Chiang Chen Studio Theatre 9:00am Keynote Speech 3 Speaker: Prof. A.G. Constantinides, PhD, CEng, FIEE,

FIEEE Imperial College, U.K. Topic: Recent advances in Digital Filter Design: A

Design Framework from Complete and Partial Specifications Based on Root Moments

9:45am Keynote Speech 4 Speaker: Prof. W.C. Siu, PhD, DIC, CEng, FIEE, FHKIE,

SrMIEEE The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, H.K. Topic: Advances in Video Coding in the

Information Era Oral Session: Image Processing and Coding ( 2AM1L ) Time: 10:50am – 12:20pm Room: R1109 Chair: Dr N.F. Law, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 An SGH-Tree Based Memory Efficient and

Constant Decoding Algorithm for Huffman Codes Yuh Jue Chuang and Ja Ling Wu, National Taiwan

University, Taipei 2 Spatial-Spectral Feature Analysis in JPEG and

JPEG-2000 K.M. Au, N.F. Law and W.C. Siu, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 3 Memory Efficient Set Partitioning in Hierarchical

Tree for Color Image Coding Farid Ghani, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal Ekram Khan and Harish Arora, Aligarh Muslim

University, Aligarh

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4 A Cycle-Efficient Sample-Parallel EBCOT

Architecture for JPEG2000 Encoder Xing Zhao, Ye Yang, Xing Qin, Tao Wu and Hai-bin

Shen, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 5 New Approach to Multiple Regions of Interest

Image Coding Using IWT and Bitplane-Classification Shift

Li-Bao Zhang and Ke Wang, Jilin University, Jilin 6 SPIHT Image Compression with Transmission of

Auxiliary Information and Selective Modification of High Frequency Coefficients

Li Minn Ang, University of Nottingham, Kuala Lumpur Hon Nin Cheung, University of Western Sydney,

Sydney Oral Session: Video Processing and Coding (II)

( 2AM2L ) Time: 10:50am – 12:20pm Room: R1107 Chairs: Prof. Homer Chen, National Taiwan University,

Taipei Dr Lai-Man Po, City University of Hong Kong,

H.K 1 Fast Motion Estimation for Wavelet-Based Video

Coding Kai-Yin Wong, Wan-Chi Siu and Ko-Cheung Hui, The

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 2 The Effect of Digital Image Stabilization on Coding

Performance Chia Kai Liang, Yu Chun Peng, Hung An Chang, Che

Chun Su and Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei

3 Performance Comparsion of MCTF Type Codecs

and Hybrid DCT Based Codecs PhaniKumar Bhamidipati and K.R. Rao, The University

of Texas at Arlington, Arlington

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4 Region-based Fractal Coding of Stereo Video

Sequences with Quadtree-Based Disparity Compensation

Shiping Zhu and Kamel Belloulata, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke

5 A Novel Early-accepted Partial Distortion

Algorithm for Fast Block Motion Estimation Chi-Wang Ting, Chi-Wai Lam and Lai-Man Po, City

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Oral Session: Multimedia Systems and Architectures

( 2AM3L ) Time: 10:50am – 12:20pm Room: R1110 Chairs: Prof. Abbas Bigdeli, The University of Auckland,

Auckland Dr Y.L. Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 Determining Camera Response Functions from

Comparagrams of Images with Their Raw Datafile Counterparts

Corey Manders and Steve Mann, University of Toronto, Toronto

2 A Key Transport Scheme for Pay-TV System Based

on Polynomial Reconstruction Di Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing Xiaochun Chen, Research Institute of Tsinghua

University of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Zucheng Zhou, Tsinghua University, Beijing 3 Multimedia Extensions for a Reconfigurable

Processor Abbas Bigdeli, Morteza Biglari-Abhari, Simon H.S.

Leung and Kevin I-Kai Wang, The University of Auckland, Auckland

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4 High Speed View Interpolation for Tele-teaching

and Tele-conferencing Indra Geys, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven Luc Van Gool, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,

Zurich 5 An On-line Content Based Image Monitoring

System Liya Chen, Shenghong Li and Jianhua Li, Shanghai

Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Poster Session: Multimedia Retrieval ( 2AM1P ) Time: 10:50am – 12:20pm Room: R1201 Chairs: Prof. Shigeo Wada, Tokyo Denki University,

Tokyo Dr Zheru Chi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 Texture Segmentation Using Local Morphological

Multifractal Exponents Yong Xia, Northwestern Polytechnical University,

Xi'an David Feng, The University of Sydney, Sydney / The

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Rongchun Zhao, Northwestern Polytechnical

University, Xi'an 2 Combining Wavelet and Ridgelet Transforms for

Texture Classifications Using Support Vector Machines

Shutao Li, Hunan University, Changsha Yi Li, Central South University, Changsha Yaonan Wang, Hunan University, Changsha 3 A Novel Shape Descriptor Based on Empty

Morphological Skeleton Subsets Eman Namati and J.S. Jimmy Li, Flinders University,

Adelaide

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4 Bark Classification by Combining Grayscale and

Binary Texture Features Jiatao Song, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong / Zhejiang University, Hangzhou / Ningbo University of Technolgy, Ninbo

Zheru Chi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Jilin Liu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Hong Fu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong 5 Video Retrieval Using Video Object-Trajectory and

Edge Potential Function Minh Son Dao, Francesco G.B. DeNatale and Andrea

Massa, University of Trento, Trento 6 Color Texture Retrieval Based on Fuzzy

Discriminate Analysis Zhuo Liu and Shigeo Wada, Tokyo Denki University,

Tokyo 7 B-Spline Over-complete Wavelet Based Fractal

Signature Analysis Qing Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University,

Xi’an / The University of Sydney, Sydney David D. Feng, The University of Sydney, Sydney / The

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Zheru Chi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong

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Poster Session: Signal Analysis and Processing

( 2AM2P ) Time: 10:50am – 12:20pm Room: R1201 Chairs: Dr Yuan-Jian Zhou, Sun Yat-Sen University,

Guangzhou / Gongdong Police Officers College, Guangzhou

Dr Daniel P.K. Lun, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, H.K.

1 A Knowledge-based Mediator for Dynamic

Integration of Heterogeneous Multimedia Information Sources

Yu S. Lim and Peng Gong, The University of Sydney, Sydney

David Feng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong / The University of Sydney, Sydney

2 De-cumulant Based Approaches for Convolutive

Blind Source Separation Tiemin Mei, The University of Wollongong,

Wollongong / Dalian University of Technology, Dailian Jiangtao Xi and Joe Chicharo, The University of

Wollongong, Wollongong Fuliang Yin, Dalian University of Technology, Dailian 3 Decorrelation: Sufficnet for Convolutive Blind

Source Separation? Jiangtao Xi, The University of Wollongong,

Wollongong Tiemin Mei, Dalian Institute of Technology, Dailian Joe Chicharo, The University of Wollongong,

Wollongong Fuliang Yin, Dalian Institute of Technology, Dailian 4 Simplified Affine Projection Algorithm and its

Application to Stereo Acoustic Echo Cancellation Yuan-Jian Zhou, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou /

Gongdong Police Officers College, Guangzhou Dao-Qing Dai, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou

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5 Bark Texture Feature Extraction Based on

Statistical Texture Analysis Yuan-Yuan Wan, Ji-Xiang Du, De-Shuang Huang,

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Zheru Chi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong Yin-Ming Cheung, The Hong Kong Baptist University,

Hong Kong Xiao-Feng Wang, Guo-Jun Zhang, Chinese Academy of

Sciences, Beijing 6 A New Formulation and Design Method for

Efficient Low Group Delay Cosine Modulated Filter Banks

B. A. Goh and D. C. McLernon, The University of Leeds, Leeds

7 Asymptotic Aliasing Index of Interpolation Filters Daniel Seidner, College of Management, Rishon- lezion 8 Symmetric Prefilters for Multiwavelets Tai Chiu Hsung, Daniel Pak-Kong Lun and Wan Chi

Siu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

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FRIDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2004, P.M.

Special Session: Perceptual Image/Video Processing

Techniques ( 2PM1L ) Time: 2:00pm – 4:45pm Room: R1109 Chairs: Dr Zhongkang Lu, Institute for Infocomm

Research, Singapore Dr Zheru Chi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 A Perceptual Based Dead-Zone Adjustment

Algorithm for H.264 Wei Jiang, Jun Sun, Songyu Yu and Jia Wang,

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 2 Motion Based Adaptive Media Playout for Real

Time Video Over Relative Differentiated Quality Of Service

Z. G. Li and X. Lin, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

3 Image Analysis Using Anisotropic Local Contrast Azeddine Beghdadi, Gabriel Dauphin and Abdesselam

Bouzerdoum, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 4 Perceptual Prefiltering For Video Coding Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University of London,

London Olivier Steiger and Touradj Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology, Lausanne 5 Perceptual-Based Fusion of IR and Visual Images

for Human Detection Lijun Jiang, Institute for Infocomm Research,

Singapore Feng Tian and Lim Ee Shen, Nanyang Technological

University, Singapore Shiqian Wu, Susu Yao and Zhongkang Lu, Institute for

Infocomm Research, Singapore Lijun Xu, Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore

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6 Blocking Artifacts Reduction for DCT-based Image Compression Using Neurofuzzy Driven Anisotropic Diffusion

Susu Yao, Zhongkang Lu, Weisi Lin, EePing Ong and Xiaokang Yang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

7 Modelling Visual Attention and Motion Effect for

Visual Quality Evaluation Zhongkang Lu, W. S. Lin, X. K. Yang, E. P. Ong and

Susu Yao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore 8 Perceptually Optimized Color Image Watermarking

Scheme Based on CIEDE2000 Color Difference Equation

Chun-Hsien Chou and Kuo-Cheng Liu, Tatung University, Taipei

9 A Visual Model for Estimating the Perceptual

Redundancy Inherent in Color Images Chun-Hsien Chou and Kuo-Cheng Liu, Tatung

University, Taipei 10 Split Decision Function Using Fuzzy Integral Junli Li, Ningbo University, Ningbo Zheru Chi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong Gang Chen, Ningbo University, Ningbo Oral Session: Video Analysis and Tracking ( 2PM2L ) Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Room: R1107 Chairs: Dr S. Purusothaman, Rajarajeswari Engineering

College, Chennai Dr Y.H. Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 Tracking Athletes in Diving Videos Based on Pose

Learning Yuan Xiong, Yi Zhang and Kan Jiang, Tsinghua

University, Beijing

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2 Robust Mean-shift Tracking with Extended Fast

Colour Thresholding Richard Y.D. Xu and John G. Allen, University of

Sydney, Sydney Jesse S. Jin, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle 3 Facial Tracking Using Artificial Neural Networks K. Sujatha, Dr M.G.R. Engineering College, Chennai P. Rajeswari, Alagappa University, Karaikudi S. Purusothaman, Rajarajeswari Engineering College,

Chennai 4 A Framework for Visualization of Soccer Video

Using Motion Trajectories: Presenting Insights into Tactics and Performance

Qing Tang and Jesse S. Jin, The University of Sydney, Sydney

Haiping Sun, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

5 An Efficient Scene Break Detection Based on Linear

Prediction Cheng Cai, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an / The Hong

Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Kin Man Lam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong Zheng Tan, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an Oral Session: Image and Video Enhancement ( 2PM3L ) Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Room: R1110 Chairs: Dr Prashan Premaratne, The University of

Wollongong, Wollongong Prof. Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong,

H.K. 1 Blur Retrieval via Separation of Zeros Sheets from

Noisy Blurred Images Prashan Premaratne and Ian Burnett, The University of

Wollongong, Wollongong C. D. Liyanage, Massey University, Palmerston North

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2 POCS-based Blocking Artifacts Suppression with

Region Smoothness Constraints for Graphic Images Alan Wee Chung Liew, City University of Hong Kong,

Hong Kong Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong /

University of Sydney, Sydney 3 Wavelet Domain Image Restoration Using

Adaptively Regularized Constrained Total Least Squares

Xiaojun Zhang and Wei Ping Zhu, Concordia University, Montreal

4 An Efficient Fractal-based Algorithm for Image

Magnification Cheung-Ming Lai, Kin-Man Lam, Yuk-Hee Chan and

Wan-Chi Siu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

5 Super Resolution Reconstruction of Video Sequence

Based on Total Variation Yu Bing Han and Le Nan Wu, Southeast University,

Nanjing 6 A Modified Curvelet-like Transform with

Application to Image Denoising Lihong Ma, Yu Zhang and Yinglin Yu, South China

University of Technology, Guangzhou Poster Session: Image and Video Coding ( 2PM1P ) Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Room: R1201 Chair: Dr Alan Wee Chung Liew, The Chinese

University of Hong Kong, H.K. 1 A DSP Architecture for Motion Estimation

Accelerating Chun Zhang, Kun Yang, Songping Mai and Zhihua

Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing

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2 A Novel Algorithm for Sub-pixel Block Motion

Estimation Xinchen Zhang, Haojun Ai, Ruimin Hu and Deren Li,

Wuhan University, Wuhan 3 Global Motion Estimation Using Modified Least

Median of Square Error C.M. Mak and W.K. Cham, The Chinese University of

Hong Kong, Hong Kong 4 A Novel Research of Bit-plane Coding Scheme of

FGS Feng Wang, Guangxi Zhu, Yejun He and Zhenming

Zhang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan

5 Embedded Multiple Subbands Scaling Image

Coding Using Reversible Integer Wavelet Transforms

Li-Bao Zhang and Ke Wang, Jilin University, Jilin 6 Embedded Human Face Image Coding with Set

Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees Li Zhuo, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing /

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Kin-Man Lam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong Lansun Shen, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 7 Pattern-based Content Lossless Compression of

Chinese Document Images Maggie M. K. Tsui and Alan Wee Chung Liew, City

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

/University of Sydney, Sydney 8 Tiling Artifact Reduction based on Max-Lift

Wavelet Filter for Motion JPEG2000 at Low Bit-Rate

Qin Xing, Zhao Xing and Yan Xiao Lang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou

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9 Wavelet Based Progressive Mesh Compression with Random Accessibility

Bo Liu and Hong-Bin Zhang, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing

10 A New Error Concealment Algorithm for H.264

Video Transmission Pei-Jun Lee, St. John’s & St. Mary’s Institute of

Technology, Taipei Homer H. Chen and Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan

University, Taipei

Poster Session: Watermarking ( 2PM2P ) Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Room: R1201 Chairs: Dr Hua Cao, Huazhong University of Science &

Technology, Wuhan Dr Alan Wee Chung Liew, The Chinese

University of Hong Kong, H.K. 1 Digital Watermarking with 3-band Wavelet

Decomposition and Comparisons with 2-band Approaches

Anurag John, V.M. Gadre and Gupta Chirag S., IIT-Bombay, Bombay

2 A New Still Image Watermark Embedding

Algorithm Based on Fractal Transformation Hua Cao, Jingli Zhou and Shengsheng Yu, Huazhong

University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 3 Multiple Block Based Authentication Watermarking

For Distribution of Medical Images Yu S. Lim, The University of Sydney, Sydney David Dagan Feng, The University of Sydney, Sydney /

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 4 A Digital Watermarking Scheme Based on DWT

and Vector Transform Xianghong Tang, Lu Li, Lianjie Yang and Yamei Niu,

Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou

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Oral Session: Multimedia Retrieval and Management

(II) ( 2PM4L ) Time: 4:45pm – 5:45pm Room: R1109 Chairs: Prof. Jhing Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung

University, Taiwan Prof. David Feng, Univ. of Sydney, Sydney /

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, H.K. 1 Volume of Interest (VOI) Feature Representation

and Retrieval of Multi-Dimensional Dynamic Positron Emission Tomography Images

Hao Wu, The University of Sydney, Sydney Jinman Kim, The University of Sydney, Sydney / Hong

Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Weidong Cai, The University of Sydney, Sydney David Feng, The University of Sydney, Sydney / Hong

Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 2 Partial Speech Sentence Matching for Personal

Calendar Information Retrieval Jhing Fa Wang, Po Chuan Lin and Li Chang Wen,

National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 3 Feature Filtering in Relevance Feedback of Image

Retrieval Based on a Statistical Approach Hong Fu and Zheru Chi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, Hong Kong Dagan Feng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Hong Kong / The University of Sydney, Sydney 4 MPEG-7 Dominant Color Descriptor Using Merged

Palette Histogram Similarity Measure Lai-Man Po and Ka-Man Wong, City University of

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Oral Session: Multimedia Communications &

Streaming ( 2PM5L ) Time: 3:45pm – 5:15pm Room: R1109 Chairs: Prof. Ah-Chung Tsoi, Australian Research

Council, Australia Dr Yui-Lam Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 An Overlay Open Architecture with QoS Support

for Multimedia Streaming Huu Thanh Nguyen and Michael Kleis, Fraunhofer

FOKUS, Berlin Thomas Schierl, Fraunhofer Henrich-Hertz-Institute

(HHI), Berlin Thomas Hirsch and Dirk Haage, Fraunhofer FOKUS,

Berlin 2 Efficient Algorithm for Reverse Playback in MPEG

Video Streaming Chang-Hong Fu, Yui-Lam Chan, Tak-Piu Ip and Wan-

Chi Siu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

3 Grand Scale Scheduling for Admission Control Wai Kong Cheuk and Daniel Pak-Kong Lun, The Hong

Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 4 Distortion-Optimized Transmission of Multiple

Description Coded Images over Noisy Channels with Feedback

Jen Chang Liu, National Chi Nan University, Nantou Wen Liang Hwang, Academia Sinica, Taipei 5 Low Computation Complexity and Error-Resilient

Video Transmission for Remote Monitoring System (RMMS)

Shengwei Pei, Minghui Du, Jiazhong He and Quan Wan, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou

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Oral Session: Speech Synthesis and Recognition

( 2PM6L ) Time: 3:45pm – 5:00pm Room: R1110 Chairs: Prof. Tomaz Sef, Jozef Stefan Institute,

Ljubljana Dr Man Wai Mak, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 Optimization of Filter-bank to Improve the

Extraction of MFCC Features in Speech Recognition

Jeih Weih Hung, National Chi Nan University, Nantou 2 Blind Stochastic Feature Transformation for

Speaker Verification over Cellular Networks Kwok Kwong Yiu, Man Wai Mak and Ming Cheung

Cheung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Sun Yuan Kung, Princeton University, Princeton 3 Lexical Stress Assignment Model for the Slovenian

Text-to-Speech Synthesis System Tomaz Sef, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana 4 Dynamic Visual Features Based on Discriminative

Speech Class Projection for Visual Speech Recognition

Lei Xie, Xiu-li Cai, Zhong-hua Fu and Rong-Chun Zhao, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

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Poster Session: Signal Analysis and Classification

( 2PM3P ) Time: 3:45pm – 5:15pm Room: R1201 Chairs: Prof. Clinton Fookes, Queensland University of

Technology, Brisbane Dr N.F. Law, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 Robust Clustering Algorithm for Suppression of

Outliers Benson S. Y. Lam, City University of Hong Kong,

Hong Kong Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong /

University of Sydney, Sydney 2 A Chaotic Neural Network for the Attributed

Relational Graph Matching Problem in Pattern Recognition

Shenshen Gu and Songnian Yu, Shanghai University, Shanghai

3 Oblique Support Vector Machines Chih-Chia Yao and Pao-Ta Yu, National Chung Cheng

University, Chiayi 4 ORAN: A Basis for an Arabic OCR System Abdelmalek Zidouri, King Fahd University of

Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 5 Structured and Random Texture Patterns

Characterization Using Multiscale Directional Filter Bank

K. O. Cheng, N.F. Law and W.C. Siu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

6 Thin Lines Filtering A. Atta, Ministry of Communications and Information

Technology, Giza A. Darwish and M. Metwally, Cairo University, Cairo

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7 Retrieval of Free Form Hand-written Draft Image

Using Geometric Hashing Bin Wei and Qi Chen, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 8 Extraction of Character Patterns in Different Styles

and Orientations from Natural Scene Images Osamu Shiku, Sasebo National College of Technology,

Sasebo Yi Xiao and Hong Yan, University of Sydney, Sydney 9 A Computerized Plant Species Recognition System Yanhua Ye, Chun Chen, Chun-Tak Li, Hong Fu and

Zheru Chi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

10 Gaze Based User Authentication for Personal

Computer Applications Anthony Maeder, Clinton Fookes and Sridha Sridharan,

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Poster Session: Image Segmentation (2PM4P ) Time: 3:45pm – 5:15pm Room: R1201 Chairs: Prof. Jiajun Wang, Soochow University, Suzhou Dr N.F. Law, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, H.K. 1 Hierarchical Elastic Registration of Human Brain

Images Based on Wavelet Decomposition Xiuying Wang, The University of Sydney, Sydney /

Heilongjiang University, Harbin David Dagan Feng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, Hong Kong / The University of Sydney, Sydney

2 Page Segmentation and Classification Based on

Pattern-list Analysis Jiajun Wang, Yanling Li and Xianwu Huang, Soochow

University, Suzhou Zhenya He, Southeast University, Nanjing

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3 A New Automatic Segmentation for Synthetic

Aperture Radar Images Qinfeng Shi, Ying Li and Yanning Zhang,

Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 4 Automated Image Segmentation Using Improved

PCNN Model Based on Cross-entropy. Yi-de Ma, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Qing Liu, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou / Tianshui

Normal University, Tianshui Gansu Shi-bai Qian, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 5 Combining Hough Transform and Contour

Algorithm for Detecting Vehicles' License-plates Tran Duc Duan, Duong Anh Duc and Tran Le Hong

Du, University of Natural Sciences, Hochiminh City

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Author Index A Adjouadi, Malek 1AM3L.2 Ai, Haojun 2PM1P.2 Allen, John G. 2PM2L.2 Ang, Li Minn 2AM1L.6 Aoki, Terumasa 1PM1L.1 Arora, Harish 2AM1L.3 Atta, A. 2PM3P.6 Au, K.M. 2AM1L.2 Aube, J. 1PM1P.5 Ayat, Saeed 1PM1P.8 Azzam, A. 1PM2L.6 B Baird, Marilyn 1PM4P.10 Beck, Dominik 1PM1L.8 Beghdadi, Azeddine 2PM1L.3 Belloulata, Kamel 2AM2L.4 Bhamidipati, PhaniKumar 2AM2L.3 Bhunjun, Vinesh 1AM1L.1 Bigdeli, Abbas 2AM3L.3 Biglari-Abhari, Morteza 2AM3L.3 Bouzerdoum, Abdesselam 2PM1L.3 Brookes, Mike 1AM1L.1 Burnett, Ian 2PM3L.1 C Cai, Cheng 2PM2L.5 Cai, Jianfei 1AM3L.5 Cai, Weidong 2PM4L.1 Cai, Weiting 1AM3L.2 Cai, Xiuli 2PM6L.4 Cao, Hua 2PM2P.2 Cavallaro, Andrea 2PM1L.4 Cham, W.K. 1AM2P.5, 1PM5L.2, 2PM1P.3 Chan, Cheung Fat 1PM6L.1 Chan, Kin Yeung 1PM2L.5 Chan, Yui-Lam 2PM5L.2 Chan, Yuk Hee 1AM2L.3, 1PM3L.5, 2PM3L.4 Chang, Chin Chen 1PM4P.8 Chang, Hung An 2AM2L.2 Charlapally, A.G. 1PM2L.6 Chen, Chun 2PM3P.9 Chen, Gang 2PM1L.10 Chen, Homer 2AM2L.2 Chen, Homer H 2PM1P.10

Chen, Jianyun 1PM3P.1 Chen, Jiewei 1PM3L.4 Chen, Liang 1PM3L.6 Chen, Liang Gee 2PM1P.10 Chen, Liya 2AM3L.5 Chen, Qi 2PM3P.7 Chen, Xiaochun 2AM3L.2 Cheng, K.O. 2PM3P.5 Cheuk, Wai Kong 2PM5L.3 Cheung, Hon Nin 2AM1L.6 Cheung, Ming Cheung 1AM2L.1, 2PM6L.2 Cheung, Yin-Ming 2AM2P.5 Chi, C.H. 1PM4P.5 Chi, Zheru 1PM2L.2, 2AM1P.4, 2AM1P.7, 2AM2P.5, 2PM1L.10, 2PM3P.9, 2PM4L.3 Chicharo, Joe 2AM2P.2 Chicharo, Joe 2AM2P.3 Chirag S., Gupta 2PM2P.1 Choi, T.K. 1PM1P.1 Chou, Chun-Hsien 2PM1L.8 Chou, Chun-Hsien 2PM1L.9 Chuang, Yuh Jue 2AM1L.1 Chung, F.L. 1PM1P.1 Claesson, Ingvar 1AM1L.4 Clarke, Robert 1AM1P.7 Crane, Denis I. 1PM1L.7, 1PM1L.8 D Dahl, Mattias 1AM1L.4 Dai, Daoqing 2AM2P.4 Dai, S.K. 1PM5L.3 Dai, W. 1AM1L.6 Dam, Hai H. 1AM1L.5 Dam, Hai Q. 1AM1L.5 Dao, Minh Son 2AM1P.5 Darwish, A. 2PM3P.6 Dauphin, Gabriel 2PM1L.3 DeCampo, John 1PM4P.10 Demirekler, Mubeccel 1PM6L.2 DeNatale, Francesco G.B. 2AM1P.5 Deng, Beixing 1PM6L.3 Dianat, Rouhollah 1PM1P.8 Du, Ji Xiang 1PM2L.2, 2AM2P.5 Du, Limin 1PM2P.3 Du, Minghui 2PM5L.5

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Duoug, Anh Duc 2PM4P.5 E Ebrahimi, Touradj 2PM1L.4 Ehret, A 1PM5L.1 El-Maleh, Khaled 1AM3L.3 F Feng, Dagan 2PM4L.3 Feng, David 2AM1P.1, 2AM2P.1, 2PM4L.1 Feng, David D. 2AM1P.7 Feng, David Degan 1PM4P.7 2PM2P.3, 2PM4P.1 Feng, Degan David 1PM4P.6 Fong, C.K. 1PM5L.2 Fookes, Clinton 2PM3P.10 Fu, Chang-Hong 2PM5L.2 Fu, Hong 2PM3P.9, 2PM4L.3 2AM1P.4 Fu, Zhonghua 1PM1P.2, 2PM6L.4 Fung, James 1PM3L.2 Fung, Yik Hing 1AM2L.3, 1PM3L.5 G Gadre, V.M. 2PM2P.1 Gan, Junying 1AM2P.3, 1AM2L.4 Geys, Indra 2AM3L.4 Ghani, Farid 2AM1L.3 Ghayoori, Armin 1PM1P.7 Goh, B.A. 1AM1L.3, 2AM2P.6 Gong, Peng 2AM2P.1 Gu, Shenshen 2PM3P.2 Guan, Li 1PM4P.3 Guo, Chengguo 1PM4P.3 Guo, Haitao 1PM1P.4 Guo, Jun 1PM1P.3, 1PM3L.4 Guo, Li-Wei 1PM5L.4 H Haage, Dirk 2PM5L.1 Han, Xi Bin 1AM1P.6 Han, Yu Bing 2PM3L.5 Harsha, B 1PM6L.4 He, Guohui 1AM2L.4 He, Jiazhong 2PM5L.5 He, Yejun 2PM1P.4 He, Zhenya 1AM1P.2, 1AM1P.3, 1AM1P.8, 1AM1P.9, 1PM3P.4, 2PM4P.2 Hendessi, Faramarz 1PM1P.7

Henn, F 1PM5L.1 Hirsch, Thomas 2PM5L.1 Hoerich, H 1PM5L.1 Horwood, J.F. 1PM2L.6 Hsung, Tai Chiu 2AM2P.8 Hu, Die 1AM1P.8 Hu, Fu Yuan 1AM2L.2 Hu, Huibo 1PM4L.3 Hu, Ruimin 2PM1P.2 Hu, Yongli 1PM2P.2 Hu, Yu Chen 1PM4P.8 Huang, Chao 1PM5L.5 Huang, De Shuang 1PM2L.2, 2AM2P.5 Huang, Jiancheng 1AM1L.2 Huang, Xianwu 1PM3P.4, 2PM4P.2 Hui Ko-Cheung 2AM2L.1 Hung, Jeih Weih 2PM6L.1 Hwang, Wen Liang 2PM5L.4 I Ip, Tak-Piu 2PM5L.2 J Jiang, Kan 2PM2L.1 Jiang, Lijun 2PM1L.5, 1AM2L.5 Jiang, Minghu 1PM6L.3 Jiang, Shaojun 1PM1P.4 Jiang, Wei 2PM1L.1 Jiang, Xudong 1AM2L.5 Jin, Jesse 2PM2L.2 Jin, Jesse S. 1PM2L.4, 1PM4P.9, 2PM2L.4 John, Anurag 2PM2P.1 K Kawanura, Takao 1PM4P.11 Khan, Ekram 2AM1L.3 Kim, Chang Su 1AM3L.1 Kim, Jinman 2PM4L.1 Kleis, Michael 2PM5L.1 Kondo, Toshiaki 1PM3L.3 Kong, Xiao 1AM2P.1, 1AM2P.6 Kung, Sun Yuan 1AM2L.1, 2PM6L.2 Kung, Wei Ying 1AM3L.1 Kuo, C.C. 1AM3L.1 Kwan, C. 1AM1L.6, 1PM1P.5 Kwan, H.K. 1AM1P.1, 1PM1P.6, 1PM3L.6, 1PM6L.5

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Kwok, James T. 1PM4P.1 L Lai, Cheung Ming 2PM3L.4 Lam, Benson S.Y. 2PM3P.1 Lam, Chi Wai 2AM2L.5 Lam, K.M. 1PM1P.1 Lam, Kin Man 1AM2P.1, 1AM2P.2, 1PM3P.3, 2PM1P.6, 2PM3L.4, 2PM2L.5 Lang, Yan Xiao 2PM1P.8 Lao, D. 1AM1L.6 Lao, Songyang 1PM3P.1 Lau, Yee Wah 1PM1L.5 Law, N.F. 2AM1L.2, 2PM3P.5 Law, Wai 1PM4P.6 Lee, Pei-Jun 2PM1P.10 Leung, C.H.C. 1PM2L.6 Leung, Simon H.S. 2AM3L.3 Li, Chun-Tak 2PM3P.9 Li, Deren 2PM1P.2 Li, Hong 1AM1P.5 Li, J.S. Jimmy 2AM1P.3 Li, Jianhua 2AM3L.5 Li, Jintao 1PM5L.5 Li, Junli 2PM1L.10 Li, Lu 2PM2P.4 Li, Shenhong 2AM3L.5 Li, Shutao 1PM4P.1, 2AM1P.2 Li, Yanling 2PM4P.2 Li, Yi 2AM1P.2 Li, Ying 2PM4P.3 Li, Yu 1PM5L.3 Li, Yuanjie 1AM1P.9 Li, Yunhao 1PM3P.1 Li, Z.G 2PM1L.2 Lian, Shiguo 1AM3L.4 Liang, Chia Kai 2AM2L.2 Liang, Yi J. 1AM3L.3 Liang, Yu 1AM2P.3 Liew, Alan Wee Chung 1PM2P.1, 2PM1P.7, 2PM3L.2 Lim, C.S. 1PM3L.1 Lim, Yu S 2PM2P.3, 2AM2P.1 Lin, Po Chuan 2PM4L.2 Lin, T.Y. 1PM4P.5 Lin, W.S. 2PM1L.7 Lin, Weisi 2PM1L.6 Lin, X 2PM1L.2 Lin, Y. 1PM4P.5 Lin, Ya-Ping 1PM1L.6 Liu, Bo 2PM1P.9 Liu, Dang Hui 1AM2P.1 Liu, Danghui 1AM2P.6

Liu, Gang 1PM1P.3 Liu, Guizhong 1PM4P.4 Liu, Jen Chang 2PM5L.4 Liu, Jian 1PM4L.1 Liu, Jilin 2AM1P.4 Liu, Ju 1PM4L.3 Liu, Kuo-Cheng 2PM1L.8, 2PM1L.9 Liu, Qianlei 1AM1P.3 Liu, Qing 2PM4P.4 Liu, W.Y. 1PM5L.3 Liu, Xiangbin 1PM1L.2 Liu, Zhuo 2AM1P.6 Liyanage, C.D. 2PM3L.1 Lou, Jian 1PM5L.4 Low, Siow Yong 1AM1L.5 Lu, Zhongkang 2PM1L.5, 2PM1L.6, 2PM1L.7, 1AM2L.5 Lui, Ka Chun 1PM3L.5 Luk, R.W.P 1PM1P.1 Lun, Daniel Pak Kong 2AM2P.8, 2PM5L.3 Luo, Tao 1PM4L.3 Lv, Sheng 1AM1L.2 M Ma, Lihong 2PM3L.6 Ma, Yi de 2PM4P.4 Maeder, Anthony 2PM3P.10 Mai, Songping 2PM1P.1 Majumdar, A.K. 1PM2L.1 Mak, C.M. 2PM1P.3 Mak, M.W. 1PM1P.1 Mak, Man Wai 1AM2L.1, 2PM6L.2 Manders, Corey 2AM3L.1 Mann, Steve 1PM3L.2, 2AM3L.1 Manzuri, Mohamad T. 1PM1P.8 Massa, Andrea 2AM1P.5 McLernon, D.C. 1AM1L.3, 2AM2P.6 Mei, G. 1PM1P.5 Mei, Tiemin 2AM2P.2, 2AM2P.3 Metwally, M. 2PM3P.6 Miyazaki, Seiya 1PM1L.1 Mukherjee, Amar 1PM2L.3 N Namati, Eman 2AM1P.3 Ng, Kit Chong 1AM2P.2 Ngan, King Ngi 1AM3L.5

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Nguyen, Huu Thanh 2PM5L.1 Nilufar, Sharmin 1PM3L.6 Niu, Yamei 2PM2P.4 Nordholm, Sven E. 1AM1L.5 O O'Connell, James 1PM1L.7 Ong, E. P 2PM1L.7 Ong, EePing 2PM1L.6 P Pan, X.D 1PM5L.1 Pang, Hongmei 1PM6L.3 Pei, Jihong 1AM2P.4 Pei, Shengwei 2PM5L.5 Peng, Cong 1PM5L.5 Peng, Yu Chun 2AM2L.2 Petrou, Maria 1PM4P.2 Pham, Tuan D. 1PM1L.7, 1PM1L.8, Po, Lai Man 1PM2L.5,

2AM2L.5, 2PM4L.4 Premaratne, Prashan 2PM3L.1 Purusothaman, S. 2PM2L.3 Q Qian, Shi Bai 2PM4P.4 Qian, Yiqun 1AM1P.2 Qin, Xing 2AM1L.4 Qiu, Guoping 1PM3P.3 Quan, Xiaomei 1PM4L.2 R Rajeswari, P. 2PM2L.3 Rao, K.R. 2AM2L.3 Ren, W.M. 1PM5L.1 Ren, Z. 1AM1L.6, 1PM1P.5 Rochet, C. 1PM1P.5 S Salor, Ozgul 1PM6L.2 Sasaki, Yuusuke 1PM4P.11 Satya, Ravi 1PM2L.3 Schierl, Thomas 2PM5L.1 Schug, M 1PM5L.1 Sef, Tomaz 2PM6L.3 Seidner, Daniel 2AM2P.7 Sheikh, Asrar 1PM1P.7 Shen, Hai-bin 2AM1L.4 Shen, Jinhong 1PM1L.1 Shen, Lan Sun 1AM2P.1 Shen, Lansun 1AM2P.6, 2PM1P.6 Shen, Lim Ee 2PM1L.5

Shen, Xiao-Qiao 1PM1L.6 Shi, Lei 1PM5L.4 Shi, Mandel 1PM3P.2 Shi, Qinfeng 2PM4P.3 Shiku, Osamu 2PM3P.8 Sim, Terence 1PM2P.4 Sin, K.Y. 1AM2P.5 Siu, W.C. 1PM1P.1, 2AM1L.2, 2PM3P.5 Siu, Wan Chi 2AM2L.1, 2AM2P.8, 2PM3L.4, 2PM5L.2 Song, Jiatao 2AM1P.4 Soon, I.Y. 1PM1P.9 Sorell, Matthew 1AM1P.7 Sridharan, Sridha 2PM3P.10 Srikanthan, T. 1PM3L.1 Stanford, V. 1PM1P.5 Steiger, Olivier 2PM1L.4 Su, Che Chun 2AM2L.2 Sugahara, Kazunori 1PM4P.11 Sujatha, K. 2PM2L.3 Sun, Haiping 2PM2L.4 Sun, Jiaguang 1PM1L.2 Sun, Jiande 1PM4L.3 Sun, Jinsheng 1AM3L.4 Sun, Jun 2PM1L.1 Sun, Yanfeng 1PM2P.2 Sural, Shamik 1PM2L.1 Sze, Kin Wai 1PM3P.3 T Tan, Chew Lim 1PM2P.4 Tan, Damian M. 1PM4P.10 Tan, Zheng 2PM2L.5 1PM4P.7 Tang, Qing 2PM2L.4 Tang, Sy Sen 1PM2P.1 Tang, W.P. 1AM1P.1 Tang, Xianghong 2PM2P.4 Tannock, David 1PM1L.8 Tao, Tao 1PM2L.3 Tian, Feng 2PM1L.5 Tian, Guang Jian 1AM2L.2 Tian, H. 1PM3L.1 Tian, Jinwen 1PM4L.1 Ting, Chi Wang 2AM2L.5 Tran, Dat 1PM1L.3, 1PM1L.4, 1PM1L.5 Tran, Duc Duan 2PM4P.5 Tran, Le Hong Du 2PM4P.5 Tsui, Maggie M.K. 2PM1P.7 V

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Vadivel, A. 1PM2L.1 Van Gool, Luc 2AM3L.4 W Wada, Shigeo 2AM1P.6 Wagner, Michael 1PM1L.5 Wan, Kwok Wai 1AM2P.2 Wan, Quan 2PM5L.5 Wan, Yuan Yuan 1PM2L.2, 2AM2P.5 Wang, Di 2AM3L.2 Wang, Feng 2PM1P.4 Wang, Jhing Fa 2PM4L.2 Wang, Jia 2PM1L.1 Wang, Jiajun 1PM3P.4, 2PM4P.2 Wang, Jiaqing 1AM1P.4 Wang, Jing 1PM5L.4 Wang, Ke 2AM1L.5, 2PM1P.5 Wang, Kevin I-Kai 2AM3L.3 Wang, Qing 2AM1P.7 Wang, Ronggang 1PM5L.5 Wang, Xiaofan 1AM3L.4 Wang, Xiao Feng 1PM2L.2, 2AM2P.5 Wang, Xiuying 1PM4P.6, 2PM4P.1 Wang, Yaonan 2AM1P.2 Wang, Zhihua 2PM1P.1 Wang, Zhiquan 1AM3L.4 Wei, Bin 2PM3P.7 Wen, Li Chang 2PM4L.2 Westerlund, Nils 1AM1L.4 White, Chris 1PM4P.10 Wong, Angela 1AM1P.7 Wong, Ka Man 1PM2L.5,

2PM4L.4 Wong, Kai-Yin 2AM2L.1 Wong, Koon Pong 1PM4P.6 Wu, David 1PM4P.10 Wu, Hao 2PM4L.1 Wu, Hong Ren 1PM4P.10 Wu, Ja Ling 2AM1L.1 Wu, Jin 1PM4L.1 Wu, Le Nan 2PM3L.5 Wu, Lenan 1AM1P.4 Wu, Lingda 1PM3P.1 Wu, Shiqian 2PM1L.5 1AM2L.5 Wu, Tao 2AM1L.4 X

Xi, Jiangtao 2AM2P.2, 2AM2P.3 Xia, Beibei 1PM4L.1 Xia, Yong 2AM1P.1 Xiao, Yi 2PM3P.8 Xie, Lei 1PM1P.2, 2PM6L.4 Xie, Qing 1PM1P.6, 1PM6L.5 Xin, Jing 1PM2L.4 Xing, Qin 2PM1P.8 Xing, Zhao 2PM1P.8 Xiong, Rong 1PM4P.3 Xiong, Xuhui 1AM1P.10 Xiong, Yuan 2PM2L.1 Xu, Hui 1PM5L.4 Xu, Lijun 2PM1L.5 Xu, Ming 1PM4P.2 Xu, R. 1AM1L.6, 1PM1P.5 Xu, Richard Y.D. 2PM2L.2 Xu, Weiran 1PM3L.4 Y Yao, Susu 2PM1L.7 Yan, Hong 1PM2P.1, 2PM3P.1, 2PM3P.8, 2PM3L.2, 2PM1P.7 Yan, Long 1PM1P.3 Yang, Kun 2PM1P.1 Yang, Lianjie 2PM2P.4 Yang, Luxi 1AM1P.2,

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Yang, Wenxian 1AM3L.5 Yang, X.K 2PM1L.7 Yang, Xiaokang 2PM1L.6 Yang, Xuan 1AM2P.4 Yang, Ye 2AM1L.4 Yao, Chih Chia 2PM3P.3 Yao, Susu 2PM1L.5, 2PM1L.6 2PM1L.7 Yasuda, Hiroshi 1PM1L.1 Ye, Yanhua 2PM3P.9 Yeo, Allen 1AM2L.5 Yeo, C.K. 1PM1P.9 Yi, Benshun 1AM1P.5 Yin, Baocai 1PM2P.2 Yin, Fuliang 1PM1P.4, 2AM2P.2, 2AM2P.3 Yin, Junxun 1AM1L.2 Yip, Ben 1PM4P.9 Yiu, Kwok Kwong 2PM6L.2 You, Junyong 1PM4P.4 Yu, Eric W.M. 1PM6L.1 Yu, Lu 1PM5L.4 Yu, Pao Ta 2PM3P.3

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Yu, Shengsheng 1AM1P.10 2PM2P.2 Yu, Songnian 2PM3P.2 Yu, Songyu 2PM1L.1 Yu, Xiaoyan 1AM1P.4 Yu, Yinglin 2PM3L.6 Yu, Yuan Hui 1PM4P.8 Z Zhang, Chun 2PM1P.1 Zhang, Fu-Rong 1PM5L.4 Zhang, Guo Jun 1PM2L.2, 2AM2P.5 Zhang, Hong Bin 2PM1P.9 Zhang, Hongbin 1PM4L.2 Zhang, Li Bao 2AM1L.5, 2PM1P.5 Zhang, Xiaojun 2PM3L.3 Zhang, Xinchen 2PM1P.2 Zhang, Yanning 2PM4P.3 Zhang, Yi 2PM2L.1 Zhang, Youwei 1AM2P.3 Zhang, Yu 1PM2P.4, 2PM3L.6 Zhang, Zhenming 2PM1P.4

Zhao, Rong Chun 1AM2L.2, 1PM1P.2 Zhao, Rongchun 1PM4P.2, 2AM1P.1, 2PM6L.4 Zhao, Ting 1PM4P.7 Zhao, Xiangyang 1PM2P.3 Zhao, Xing 2AM1L.4 Zheng, Jie 1PM3P.2 Zhong, Xingrong 1PM3P.4 Zhou, Jingli 1AM1P.10, 2PM2P.2 Zhou, Yuanjian 2AM2P.4 Zhou, Zucheng 2AM3L.2 Zhu, Guangxi 2PM1P.4 Zhu, G.X. 1PM5L.3 Zhu, Shiping 2AM2L.4 Zhu, Wei Ping 1AM1P.6, 2PM3L.3 Zhu, X.M 1PM5L.1, 1PM1P.1 Zhou, Li 2PM1P.6 Zidouri, Abdelmalek 2PM3P.4 Zong, Chengqing 1PM6L.3 Zou, Beiji 1PM1L.2 Zou, Fengmei 1PM3P.2

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