Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2004: 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Tokyo, Japan, November 30 - December 3, 2004, Proceedings, ... Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Welcome to the proceedings of the 5th Paci?c Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2004) held in Tokyo Waterfront City, Japan, November 30–December 3, 2004. Following the success of the preceding conferences, PCM 2000 in Sydney, PCM 2001 in Beijing, PCM 2002 in Hsinchu, and PCM 2003 in Singapore, the ?fth PCM brought together the researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators in the ?eld of multimedia. Theoretical breakthroughs and practical systems were presented at this conference, thanks to the support of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Region 10 and IEEE Japan Council, ACM SIGMM, IEICE and ITE. PCM2004featuredacomprehensiveprogramincludingkeynotetalks,regular paperpresentations,posters,demos,andspecialsessions.Wereceived385papers andthenumberofsubmissionswasthelargestamongrecentPCMs.Amongsuch a large number of submissions, we accepted only 94 oral presentations and 176 poster presentations. Seven special sessions were also organized by world-leading researchers. We kindly acknowledge the great support provided in the reviewing of submissions by the program committee members, as well as the additional reviewers who generously gave their time. The many useful comments provided by the reviewing process must have been very valuable for the authors’ work. Thisconferencewouldneverhavehappenedwithoutthehelpofmanypeople. We greatly appreciate the support of our strong organizing committee chairs and advisory chairs. Among the chairs, special thanks go to Dr. Ichiro Ide and Dr. Takeshi Naemura who smoothly handled publication of the proceedings with Springer. Dr. Kazuya Kodama did a fabulous job as our Web master. Front Matter....Pages - WARAJI: Foot-Driven Navigation Interfaces for Virtual Reality Applications....Pages 1-7 Time Space Interface Using DV (Digital Video) and GPS (Global Positioning System) Technology – A Study with an Art Project “Field-Work@Alsace”....Pages 8-14 Action Generation from Natural Language....Pages 15-22 Human-Scale Interaction with a Multi-projector Display and Multimodal Interfaces....Pages 23-30 Entertainment Applications of Human-Scale Virtual Reality Systems....Pages 31-38 Analysis and Synthesis of Latin Dance Using Motion Capture Data....Pages 39-44 Web-Based Telepresence System Using Omni-directional Video Streams....Pages 45-52 Wide View Surveillance System with Multiple Smart Image Sensors and Mirrors....Pages 53-60 Object Tracking and Identification in Video Streams with Snakes and Points....Pages 61-68 Optical Flow-Based Tracking of Deformable Objects Using a Non-prior Training Active Feature Model....Pages 69-78 An Immunological Approach to Raising Alarms in Video Surveillance....Pages 79-86 Sat-Cam: Personal Satellite Virtual Camera....Pages 87-94 A Linear Approximation Based Method for Noise-Robust and Illumination-Invariant Image Change Detection....Pages 95-102 3D Model Similarity Measurement with Geometric Feature Map Based on Phase-Encoded Range Image....Pages 103-110 Automatic Peak Number Detection in Image Symmetry Analysis....Pages 111-118 Image Matching Based on Singular Value Decomposition....Pages 119-126 Image Matching Based on Scale Invariant Regions....Pages 127-134 A Method for Blocking Effect Reduction Based on Optimal Filtering....Pages 135-142 Novel Video Error Concealment Using Shot Boundary Detection....Pages 143-150 Using Only Long Windows in MPEG-2/4 AAC Encoding....Pages 151-158 Frequency Weighting and Selective Enhancement for MPEG-4 Scalable Video Coding....Pages 159-166 Efficient Multiview Video Coding Based on MPEG-4....Pages 167-174 Block Matching Using Integral Frame Attributes....Pages 175-183 Impact of Similarity Threshold on Arbitrary Shaped Pattern Selection Very Low Bit-Rate Video Coding Algorithm....Pages 184-191 A Study on the Quantization Scheme in H.264/AVC and Its Application to Rate Control....Pages 192-199 An Efficient VLSI Implementation for MC Interpolation of AVS Standard....Pages 200-206 Fast Fractal Image Encoder Using Non-overlapped Block Classification and Simplified Isometry Testing Scheme....Pages 207-214 A Fast Downsizing Video Transcoder Based on H.264/AVC Standard....Pages 215-223 Temporal Error Concealment with Block Boundary Smoothing....Pages 224-231 Spatio-temporally Adaptive Regularization for Enhancement of Motion Compensated Wavelet Coded Video....Pages 232-240 ROI and FOI Algorithms for Wavelet-Based Video Compression....Pages 241-248 Adaptive Distributed Source Coding for Multi-view Images....Pages 249-256 Hybrid Multiple Description Video Coding Using SD/MD Switching....Pages 257-264 Clusters-Based Distributed Streaming Services with Fault-Tolerant Schemes....Pages 265-272 Towards SMIL Document Analysis Using an Algebraic Time Net....Pages 273-281 MULTFRC-LERD: An Improved Rate Control Scheme for Video Streaming over Wireless....Pages 282-289 Multi-source Media Streaming for the Contents Distribution in a P2P Network....Pages 290-297 A New Feature for TV Programs: Viewer Participation Through Videoconferencing....Pages 298-305 Application Layer Multicast with Proactive Route Maintenance over Redundant Overlay Trees....Pages 306-313 Real-Time Rate Control Via Variable Frame Rate and Quantization Parameters....Pages 314-322 The Structure of Logically Hierarchical Cluster for the Distributed Multimedia on Demand....Pages 323-330 Image Forensics Technology for Digital Camera....Pages 331-339 Lossless Data Hiding Based on Histogram Modification of Difference Images....Pages 340-347 A Robust Image Watermarking Scheme to Geometrical Attacks for Embedment of Multibit Information....Pages 348-355 Combined Encryption and Watermarking Approaches for Scalable Multimedia Coding....Pages 356-363 Digital Image Watermarking Using Independent Component Analysis....Pages 364-371 Clustering-Based Image Retrieval Using Fast Exhaustive Multi-resolution Search Algorithm....Pages 372-377 Robust Watermarking for Copyright Protection of 3D Polygonal Model....Pages 378-385 Digital Video Scrambling Method Using Intra Prediction Mode....Pages 386-393 Watermark Re-synchronization Using Sinusoidal Signals in DT-CWT Domain....Pages 394-401 The Undeniable Multi-signature Scheme Suitable for Joint Copyright Protection on Digital Contents....Pages 402-409 A Digital Watermarking Scheme for Personal Image Authentication Using Eigenface....Pages 410-417 Cryptanalysis of a Chaotic Neural Network Based Multimedia Encryption Scheme....Pages 418-425 A Secure Steganographic Method on Wavelet Domain of Palette-Based Images....Pages 426-432 Mapping Energy Video Watermarking Algorithm Based on Compressed Domain....Pages 433-440 A Fragile Image Watermarking Based on Mass and Centroid....Pages 441-448 MPEG-21 DIA Testbed for Stereoscopic Adaptation of Digital Items....Pages 449-456 An MPEG-4 Authoring System with Temporal Constraints for Interactive Scene....Pages 457-465 A Method of Digital Camera Work Focused on Players and a Ball....Pages 466-473 Real-Time Rendering of Watercolor Effects for Virtual Environments....Pages 474-481 Haptic Interaction in Realistic Multimedia Broadcasting....Pages 482-490 Object-Based Stereoscopic Conversion of MPEG-4 Encoded Data....Pages 491-498 Shared Annotation Database for Networked Wearable Augmented Reality System....Pages 499-507 A Study on Image Electronic Money Based on Watermarking Technique....Pages 508-514 A Fully Automated Web-Based TV-News System....Pages 515-522 An Evolutionary Computing Approach for Mining of Bio-medical Images....Pages 523-532 Movie-Based Multimedia Environment for Programming and Algorithms Design....Pages 533-541 An Improvement Algorithm for Accessing Patterns Through Clustering in Interactive VRML Environments....Pages 542-549 MPEG-4 Video Retrieval Using Video-Objects and Edge Potential Functions....Pages 550-557 A Unified Framework Using Spatial Color Descriptor and Motion-Based Post Refinement for Shot Boundary Detection....Pages 558-565 HMM-Based Audio Keyword Generation....Pages 566-574 Video Scene Segmentation Using Sequential Change Detection....Pages 575-582 Feature Extraction and Evaluation Using Edge Histogram Descriptor in MPEG-7....Pages 583-590 Automatic Synthesis of Background Music Track Data by Analysis of Video Contents....Pages 591-598 Picture Quality Improvement in Low Bit Rate Video Coding Using Block Boundary Classification and Simple Adaptive Filter....Pages 599-606 Bit Position Quantization in Scalable Video Coding for Representing Detail of Image....Pages 607-614 A Fast Full Search Algorithm for Multiple Reference Images....Pages 615-621 Preprocessing of Depth and Color Information for Layered Depth Image Coding....Pages 622-629 Selective Motion Estimation for Fast Video Encoding....Pages 630-638 An Efficient VLSI Architecture of the Sample Interpolation for MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile....Pages 639-646 Performance Improvement of Vector Quantization by Using Threshold....Pages 647-654 An Efficient Object Based Personal Video Coding System....Pages 655-664 Multiview Video Coding Based on Global Motion Model....Pages 665-672 A Novel Rate-Distortion Model for Leaky Prediction Based FGS Video Coding....Pages 673-680 JPEG Quantization Table Design for Photos with Face in Wireless Handset....Pages 681-688 Effective Drift Reduction Technique for Reduced Bit-Rate Video Adaptation....Pages 689-696 On Implementation of a Scalable Wallet-Size Cluster Computing System for Multimedia Applications....Pages 697-704 An Adaptive LS-Based Motion Prediction Algorithm for Video Coding....Pages 705-712 Embedded Packetization Framework for Layered Multiple Description Coding....Pages 713-720 Semi-fragile Watermarking Based on Dither Modulation....Pages 721-730 An Adaptive Steganography for Index-Based Images Using Codeword Grouping....Pages 731-738 DH-LZW: Lossless Data Hiding Method in LZW Compression....Pages 739-746 Blind Image Data Hiding in the Wavelet Domain....Pages 747-754 Image Watermarking Capacity Analysis Using Hopfield Neural Network....Pages 755-762 Efficient Algorithms in Determining JPEG-Effective Watermark Coefficients....Pages 763-770 A Fragile Watermarking Based on Knapsack Problem....Pages 771-776 Back Matter....Pages -

The three-volume set LNCS 3331, LNCS 3332, and LNCS 3333 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2004, held in Tokyo, Japan, in November/December 2004.

The 303 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on art, networking, sports, immersive conferencing, image retrieval, image analysis, face, gesture and behavior, virtual reality and graphics, content production, intelligent media integration, security engineering, multimedia servers, video retrieval, video browsing, watermarking, user interfaces, content-based image retrieval, streaming, visual content mining, compression, applications, audio analysis, concept-based image retrieval, H.264, human-scale VR and interaction, surveillance and tracking, and multimedia analysis.

Annotation The three-volume set LNCS 3331, LNCS 3332, and LNCS 3333 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2004, held in Tokyo, Japan, in November/December 2004. The 303 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on art, networking, sports, immersive conferencing, image retrieval, image analysis, face, gesture and behavior, virtual reality and graphics, content production, intelligent media integration, security engineering, multimedia servers, video retrieval, video browsing, watermarking, user interfaces, content-based image retrieval, streaming, visual content mining, compression, applications, audio analysis, concept-based image retrieval, H.264, human-scale VR and interaction, surveillance and tracking, and multimedia analysis