Advances in multimedia information processing - PCM 2013 : 14th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Nanjing, China, December 13-16, 2013 : proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2013, held in Nanjing, China, in December 2013. The 30 revised full papers and 27 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 153 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of multimedia content analysis, multimedia signal processing and communications, and multimedia applications and services. Front Matter....Pages - A Cloud-Based Multi-functional e-Meeting System by Flash-Based Multimedia Technology for Higher Education on the WebELS System....Pages 1-12 Disparity-Constrained Resolution Adaptation for Stereoscopic Images....Pages 13-24 Facial Point Detection with Occlusion Insensitive Visibility-Aware Part Model....Pages 25-34 3-D Geometry Enhanced Superpixels for RGB-D Data....Pages 35-46 Graph-Based Label Propagation with Dissimilarity Regularization....Pages 47-58 Localize and Segment Scene Text....Pages 59-68 Multi-class Cosegmentation with Pairwise Active Learning....Pages 69-78 Cross-View Gait-Based Gender Classification by Transfer Learning....Pages 79-87 Hierarchical Block Size Decision for H.264/AVC Intra Prediction....Pages 88-97 Scale Selection in SIFT Flow for Robust Dense Image Matching....Pages 98-109 Adaptive Weighted Prediction for Scalable Video Coding Based on HEVC....Pages 110-121 Saliency Detection Using DCT Coefficients and Superpixel-Based Segmentation....Pages 122-133 High Quality Image Deblurring Scheme Using the Pyramid Hyper-Laplacian L2 Norm Priors Algorithm....Pages 134-145 Improved Rotating Kernel Transformation Based Contourlet Domain Image Denoising Framework....Pages 146-157 Hand Dorsal Vein Recognition Based on Shape Representation of the Venous Network....Pages 158-169 A Novel Parallel Video Coding Framework for AVS+ Real Time Encoder....Pages 170-179 Video Saliency Detection Algorithm Based on Phase and Amplitude Joint Spectrum Difference....Pages 180-189 Edge-Respecting Image Smoothing via Extrema Interpolation....Pages 190-199 Image Retargeting by Combining Region Warping and Occlusion....Pages 200-210 Automatic 3D Prostate MR Image Segmentation Using Graph Cuts and Level Sets with Shape Prior....Pages 211-220 Improving PMVS Algorithm for 3D Scene Reconstruction from Sparse Stereo Pairs....Pages 221-232 Fast HEVC Encoding with GPU Assisted Reference Picture Selection....Pages 233-244 A Real-Time Mesh Animation Framework Using Kinect....Pages 245-256 Geo-referenced Tourist Attraction Photo Tagging by Mining Community Photo Collections....Pages 257-268 Improving Histogram-Based Image Registration in Video Sequences through Warping....Pages 269-280 Robust Tracking via Hough Forests Based on Weak Classifier Response....Pages 281-288 Saliency-Based Auditory Detection Method Using Energy Linear Superposition....Pages 289-298 Perceptual Based Content Adaptive L 0 Smoothing....Pages 299-307 Fusing Multiple Visual Features for Image Complexity Evaluation....Pages 308-317 An Invisible Gorilla: Is It a Matter of Focus of Attention?....Pages 318-326 Fine-Grained Image Classification Using Color Exemplar Classifiers....Pages 327-336 Smart Thumbnail: Automatic Image Cropping by Mining Canonical Query Objects....Pages 337-349 An Efficient Zigzag Scanning and Entropy Coding Architecture Design....Pages 350-358 COGE: A Novel Binary Feature Descriptor Exploring Anisotropy and Non-uniformity....Pages 359-371 A Complementary Aggregation Approach for Local Stereo Matching Using Color and Correlation Cues....Pages 372-383 GhostMesh: Cloud-Based Interactive Mesh Editing....Pages 384-395 Efficient Sketch-Based 3D Shape Retrieval via View Selection....Pages 396-407 Guided Depth Enhancement via Anisotropic Diffusion....Pages 408-417 Stereo GrabCut: Interactive and Consistent Object Extraction for Stereo Images....Pages 418-429 A Novel Hardware-Based UHD Video Up-Scaler Based on Local Structure Estimation....Pages 430-441 Binary Adaptive Luminance Mapping for Motion Estimation....Pages 442-452 Adaptive Video Super-Resolution Based on Superpixel-Guided Auto-Regressive Model....Pages 453-464 Motion Estimation for Video Coding Based on Subspace Pursuit....Pages 465-474 Graph-Guided Fusion Penalty Based Sparse Coding for Image Classification....Pages 475-484 Image Classification by Iterative Semi-Supervised Sparse Coding....Pages 485-496 Cross-Codebook Image Classification....Pages 497-504 Spatio-temporal SURF for Human Action Recognition....Pages 505-516 Human Action Recognition by Mining Discriminative Segment with Novel Skeleton Joint Feature....Pages 517-527 Multi-cue Based Multi-target Tracking with Boosted MHT....Pages 528-537 Haar-Like Feature Based On-Line Boosting Tracking Algorithm with Directional Texture Entropy....Pages 538-549 Robust Object Tracking Using Motion Context in Crowded Scenes....Pages 550-560 Person Re-identification by Smooth Metric Learning....Pages 561-573 Venue Semantics: Multimedia Topic Modeling of Social Media Contents....Pages 574-585 Conditional Random Fields for Image Region Labeling with Global Observation....Pages 586-597 Multi-feature Subspace Learning via Sparse Correlation Fusion and Embedding....Pages 598-607 Auditory Context Recognition Combining Discriminative and Generative Models....Pages 608-619 An Integrated Model for Bayesian Learning of Sparse Representation and Classifier Training....Pages 620-628 Generalized N-Dimensional PCA for Compact Representation of Medical Volumes and Effective Mode Selection by Adaboost....Pages 629-636 Constructing Hierarchical Visual Tree for Discriminative Image Representation and Classification....Pages 637-648 Group Sparse Ensemble Learning for Visual Concept Detection....Pages 649-657 High-Level Video Semantic Concept Detection Based on Multi-level Feature Representations....Pages 658-668 The Impact of Global and Local Features on Multiple Sequence Alignment Clustering-Based Near-Duplicate Video Retrieval....Pages 669-677 Saliency Detection-Based Mixture of Reality and Non-Photorealistic Rendering Effects for Artistic Visualization....Pages 678-689 Hand Tracking with Mid-Level Visual Cues and Ensemble Learning....Pages 690-697 Real-Time Head Pose Estimation by RGB-D Camera....Pages 698-707 Real-Time Multi-pedestrian Tracking Based on Vision and Depth Information Fusion....Pages 708-719 Traffic Sign Detection Based on Camera Imaging Apriority....Pages 720-729 Recommend Social Network Users Favorite Brands....Pages 730-739 Event Representation and Visualization from Social Media....Pages 740-749 Online Web-Video Topic Detection and Tracking with Semi-supervised Learning....Pages 750-759 Temporal Context Analysis for Action Recognition in Multi-agent Scenarios....Pages 760-768 Target Detection Based on Kernel Density Estimation Combined with Correlation Coefficient....Pages 769-778 A Belief Based Correlated Topic Model for Semantic Region Analysis in Far-Field Video Surveillance Systems....Pages 779-790 Weakly Supervised Compressive Tracking with Effective Prediction Model....Pages 791-802 Multiple Hypotheses Based Spatial-Temporal Association for Stable Pedestrian Counting....Pages 803-810 Block-Based Face Recognition Using WLD....Pages 811-822 A Wavelet Model of Ganglion Cells Array and Its Application in Image Representation....Pages 823-834 Thorough Evaluation of the Discriminabilities of Four Voting Schemes in the Generation of Histogram of Orientation....Pages 835-845 Texture Classification via Local Feature Representation of Multi-order Gradients....Pages 846-855 Compact and Robust Image Fingerprints Based on CCA of Local Features....Pages 856-865 A Large Scale Audio Fingerprinting System....Pages 866-875 Back Matter....Pages -