ACM MULTIMEDIA 96
The Fourth ACM International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition
This year's program emphasizes this trend: off-the-shelf building blocks are now available to construct useful and appealing applications which are highlighted in the Demonstration and Art venues. In addition to the full complement of panels, courses, and workshops, the conference program features a distinguished set of technical papers. Keynotes will be provided by Glenn Hall, the Technical Director of Aardman Animations whose work includes Wallace and Gromit; and Professor Bill Buxton of the University of Toronto and Alias | Wavefront Inc.
We invite you to join many of multimedia's top researchers, educators, system implementors, content creators, artists, and others as they together explore where the technology and the content are headed.
Your trip to Boston can be even more worthwhile if you take part in other events scheduled the same week. ACM Multimedia '96 immediately follows the ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work conference (for information, http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw96/), and is co-located with SPIE's International Symposium on Voice, Video, and Data Communications (http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe96_call.html); we have arranged registration discounts for MM '96 registrants who wish to attend these conferences as well.
Aardman Animations has a long history of adopting multimedia techniques. All the twenty six 35mm Mitchell cameras in the Bristol, England, studios are equipped with digital video and disc based replay. The studio, under the technical leadership of Glenn Hall, has become a world leader in model animation, gaining three Academy Awards (Oscars) for Creature Comforts and for two Wallace and Gromit films. Multimedia is used in the development and transmission of studio work and also for actual multimedia products on CD ROM. Known in the USA for its coast to coast campaign, Chevron with Tekron, for the Chevron oil company, the company is currently developing its first feature film. Glenn Hall has been with Aardman Animations over 10 years, after an early career in film and TV lighting. He leads the technical team responsible for the technology the studio uses, develops, and supplies to other studios.
He is currently on a part time secondment to the University of the West of England, Bristol, where as Director of the MediaLab, he is developing UWE's interests in digital media research. He has built his career in being where art and technology meet, a rare combination of technical knowhow with artistic interest. He is active in community led economic regeneration projects, and is a case study in the UK governments' Information Society Initiative.
Thursday, November 21
12:30-2pm
SIG Multimedia Membership Meeting
The annual SIGMultimedia business meeting is open to all conference participants. We will discuss ongoing and future SIG activities, including conferences, workshops, arts and education events, and electronic publications. Please attend.
Thursday, November 21
6:00pm
Reception
The ACM MultiMedia '96 Committee cordially invites you to a reception on Thursday, November 11, 1996, 7:00 P.M. - 11:00 P.M. at Top of the Hub Restaurant and Skywalk in the Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston Street, Boston, MA. Enjoy a breathtaking view of the entire city 50 floors above Boston. The Skywalk gives you a 360 degree view from the Back Bay to Fenway Park, The Charles river and Cambridge, all the way to South Boston and beyond! Come meet and greet your colleagues and catch up on the latest news from industry enthusiasts. We look forward to seeing you there!
Friday, November 22
11:00am-12:30pm
Closing Session
With keynote speaker Bill Buxton from University of Toronto and
Alias/Wavefront.
Bill Buxton is head of User Interface Research at Alias/Wavefront, Inc., of Toronto, a leading company specializing in computer graphics tools for the creation of digital content in the design and entertainment industries. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he is Scientific Director of the Telepresence Project and of the Input Research Group.
Buxton is active in studying new methods of input and interaction, applications of new media, and the social, technological and business aspects of the so-called "information super highway". He is a scientist who, in addition to the University of Toronto, has had a long relationship with Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC). He is a designer, teacher and critic who has written and spoken extensively on how human-centred design can be applied to best capture the full potential and avoid the pitfalls of emerging technologies.
In 1995, Buxton became the third recipient of the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society Award for contributions to research in computer graphics and human-computer interaction.
This session will draw together the concerns raised during the panels and in the "showroom" in terms of the relationship between practical and critical approaches to narrative. It will also attempt to elicit a dialogue with the audience and panellists.
Timothy Druckrey is an independent curator, critic and writer concerned with issues of photographic history, representation, and technology. He lectures internationally about the social impact of digital media and the transformation of representation and communication in interactive and networked environments. He co-organized the international symposium Ideologies of Technology at the Dia Center of the Arts (an co edited the book available from Bay Press: Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology) and co-curated the exhibition Iterations: The New Image at the International Center of Photography and edited the book published by MIT Press. As a theorist of contemporary media, he has curated exhibitions and has contributed extensively to numerous publications, including San Francisco Camerawork, Afterimage and Views. He is American Editor of Ten.8 and Perspektief, a founding member of MergedMedia (a collective for new media), and a correspondend for several on-line journals concerned with the politics and history of media technology. He is currently writing a study of the relationships between technology and photography called Photography, Technology and Representation (forthcoming from Manchester University Press), editing Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation (due in Oct. 1996) collecting essays on the social impact of digital technology.
Monika Fleischmann is not only a research artist, but since 1992 she is also Head of Computer Art activities at GMD's Institute for Media Communication. She is responsible for the 'Cyberstar' competition on interactive concepts for TV which she initiated together with WDR (German TV) and German TELEKOM. She works on (networked) communication concepts, real and virtual environments and interactive installations and performance. She had teaching positions at the HdK, Berlin and the Kunsthochschule fuer Medien in Cologne. In 1988 she was co-founder, artistic director and chair of the board of Art+Com in Berlin, a research institute which is well known today for its innovative work in art, technology and science. Fleischmanns work has been exhibited widely throughout the world in festivals and exhibitions of new media art like for example the Venice Bienale, the Centre Pompidou in Paris or the Museum fuer Gestaltung in Zuerich. She was awarded in 1992 at Ars Electronica in Linz with the Golden Nica, nominated for the Unesco Award 1993, exhibited and specially honored at Siggraph's Machine Culture 1993 and at the Interactive Media Festival in Los Angeles '94.
| 9:00-5:30 | 9:00-5:30 | 9:00-12:30 | 9:00-12:30 | 2:00-5:30 | 2:00-5:30 |
| Course MAP1 | Course MAP2 | Course MA1 | Course MA2 | Course MP1 | Course MP2 |
| Multimedia and Enabling Technologies and Applications | Systematic Design of Hypermedia Applications | Design Principles for Multimedia File Systems | Building and Applying Digital Libraries I: Introduction | The DAVIC Model for Interactive Television Systems | Building and Applying Digital Libraries II: Research |
| 9:00-5:30 | 9:00-5:30 | 9:00-12:30 | 9:00-12:30 | 9:00-5:30 | 9:00-5:30 |
| Course TAP1 | Course TAP2 | Course TA1 | Course TP1 | Workshop | Workshop |
| Graphic Design for Multimedia | Multimedia Networking | Image and Video Databases | Large Scale Hypermedia Information Management | Courseware, Training and Curriculum in Multimedia | Multimedia Processors & Embedded Systems |
| 9:00-10:30 | Opening session with keynote speaker Glen Hall from Aardman Animations | |
| 10-30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11-12:30 | 11-12:30 | 11-12:30 |
| Papers 1A: MM Analysis | Papers 1B: Authoring I | Panel 1: Selling Multimedia Goods and Services Over Broadband Networks |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch break | |
| 2-3:30 | 2-3:30 | 2-3:30 |
| Papers 2A: Image Parsing | Papers 2B: Systems Building | Panel 2: Principled Design of Multimedia in Education and Training |
| 3:30-4:00 | Coffee break | |
| 4-5:00 | 4-5:00 | 4-5:30 |
| Papers 3A(short): QoS/Synch | Papers 3B(short): Applications | Panel 3: Getting Control of Media: Multimedia Scripting Languages |
| 5:00-6:30 | Demonstrations | |
| 6:30-8:00 | Joint panel with SPIE | |
| 9:00-10:30 | 9:00-10:30 | 9:00-10:30 | 9:00-4:00 |
| Papers 4A: Groupware | Papers 4B: Coding | Panel P4: Storytelling after Cinema I | Workshop 3: Interactive Narrative |
| 10-30-11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | 11:00-12:30 | ||
| Demonstrations | Panel 5: New art venues | ||
| 12:30-2:00 | 12:30-2:00 | ||
| Lunch break | SIG Multimedia Membership Meeting | ||
| 2:00-3:30 | 2:00-3:30 | 2:00-3:30 | |
| Papers 5A: UI | Papers 5B: Servers | Panel 6: Virtual Environment Research and Appl. | |
| 3:30-4:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 4:00-5:00 | Award papers | ||
| 6:00 on | Reception | ||
| 9:00-10:30 | 9:00-10:30 | 9:00-10:30 | 9:00-10:30 | 9:00-5:30 | 9:00-5:30 |
| Papers 6A: Authoring | Paper 6B: Networks | Panel 7: Storytelling After Cinema II | Panel 8: Architecture Time and Fragmented Space | Workshop: Digital Video Libraries and Interoperab'y | Workshop: Using Multimedia Assessment Tools |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00-12:30 | Closing session with keynote speaker Bill Buxton from University of Toronto and Alias/Wavefront | ||||
| 1:30-3:30 | Closing art and MM session with Timothy Druckrey and Monika Fleischmann | ||||
We will be offering demonstrations representative of new technologies, unique applications, and interesting media content in the areas outlined below:
The complexities of organizing a forum/workshop (not an exhibition) on the issues of story-telling and interactive narratives obviously implicates projects from all areas of electronic media. Though we are certainly aware of a number of important installation, performance, and immersive works, we are restricted by the requirements of space and time, a support structure (particularly equipment and staff), and the kind of budget necessary to bring large scale works to the forum for such a short period and a limited audience.
For these reasons, we have chosen to limit the works selected to CD-ROM and WWW sites. This does not preclude the inclusion of larger scale works in the discussions utilizing documentary materials (slides, tapes, or sound).
"Click-Art" and "WebArt - ArtWeb" will present works of artists like William Forsythe, Jim Gasparini & Tennessee Dixon, Ken Feingold, Lewis Baltz, Tony Oursler & Constance DeJong, George Legrady, David Blair, Brad Miller, KP Ludwig John & Die Veteranen, Eric Lanz, Jean-Louis Boissier, Luc Courchesne, George Legrady, Bill Seaman, Miroslav Rogala, Tamas Waliczky, Perry Hoberman, Jeffrey Shaw, and others.
Wednesday and Thursday, November 20 and 21
9:00am-5:30pm
Friday, November 22
9:00am-4:30pm.
Closing art session with Timothy Druckrey & Monika Fleischmann
Friday, November 22
1:30-3:30pm
(Please refer to Special Events listing for details.)
Contact:
Monika Fleischmann, fleischmann@gmd.de
Timothy Druckrey, druckrey@interport.net
Gerhard Eckel, eckel@gmd.de
The course schedule is designed to allow attendees to learn various aspects of of a topic at introductory, as well as advanced level. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to get the most out of ACM Multimedia'96 by attending at least one course.
Rajiv Mehrotra
Kodak Imaging Research & Advanced Development
Courses Chair
The objective of the course is to improve the ability of expressing the requirements and designing Hypermedia applications, disregarding the delivery medium (CD-ROM or WWW), the development environment and the development tools. Intended audience of this course are publishers, users, multimedia designers and developers, project managers and researchers. The participants will learn a set of conceptual primitives that can be used to describe and to design hypermedia applications in a precise and systematic way, covering structural, dynamic and presentation aspects. In addition the course will address some crucial issues concerning multimedia application development: the need of modularization, the relevance of the notion of reuse ( i.e., of using multimedia contents, objects and operations in different contexts and for different purposes), the appropriate way of using development tools and environments. A final subject will be how the evaluate the quality and usability of hypermedia applications.
More specifically, the course covers the following topics: conceptual primitives for hypermedia design, modularization, reuse of hypermedia objects, specific problems for WWW applications, design phases, life-cycle of hypermedia development, evaluation and usability test of hypermedia applications.
Limited exposure of the participants to modern hypermedia applications (CD-ROM's or WWW) is useful, but not required. A larger number of demonstrations (around 10) will be used in order to exemplify the conceptual aspects of the presentation.
Organizers and Lecturers:
Franca Garzotto is Research Associate at the Department of
Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano. She has
aDegree in Mathematics from the University of Padova (Italy) and
a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Politecnico di Milano. She has
been active in the following research fields: data base systems,
conceptual modelling of documents, hypertext and hypermedia
modelling, hypermedia authoring systems, multimedia development
tools, multimedia evaluation. She served as Program Chair of the
International Workshop on "Hypermedia Design", held in
Montpellier - France in June 1995). She served as Co-Chair
of the International Workshop on "Evaluation and Quality
Criteria for Multimedia Applications", held at MM'95. She has
published several papers on the subject of hypermedia design and
has cooperated in the development of advanced models (HDM) for
the design and implementation of Hypermedia applications.
Paolo Paolini has received a degree in Physics from the University of Milan, master and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. He has been active researcher in the areas of Data Base (design and modelling), Office Automation, Hypermedia Design and Modelling, Hypermedia tools and implementation. He has conducted several research projects in the area of hypermedia, and also coordinated the implementation of several hypermedia applications, in the area of corporate training, education, cultural information points, tourism. He has cooperated in the development of advanced models (HDM) for the design and implementation of Hypermedia applications, and published a large number of papers on Hypermedia design. He has been general chairman of the ACM hypertext conference held in Milan (ECHT'92) and he is currently Associate Editor of the ACM journal Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).
Since images, audio, and video differ significantly from textual and numeric data (with respect to their real-time characteristics, data rate, etc), conventional file systems are proving to be inadequate for supporting multimedia applications. On the other hand, video-on-demand servers, which are optimized for storing audio and video data, do not support textual and numeric data, and hence, cannot be used in general purpose computing environments. These shortcomings have spurred research efforts in designing and implementing integrated multimedia file systems that provide storage, retrieval, and editing facilities for various data types.
This course will provide a comprehensive overview of various issues involved in the design of such multimedia file systems. Specifically, we will examine placement and retrieval techniques for multimedia data over disk-arrays, buffer management policies, and design techniques for fault-tolerant and scalable multimedia file servers. We will discuss the insights gained from our implementation of a prototype multimedia file system. Since we will present both fundamental design principles as well as a detailed case study, the course will be of interest to casual participants as well as experienced practitioners. A copy of the slides, a collection of papers in the area as well as an extensive bibliography on these topics will be distributed to each participant.
Organizer:
Harrick M. Vin is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer
Sciences, and the Director of the Distributed Multimedia
Computing Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. His
research interests are in the areas of multimedia systems,
high-speed networking, mobile computing, and large-scale
distributed systems. Over the past 5 years, he has co-authored
more than 55 papers in leading journals and conferences in the
area of multimedia systems.
Lecturers:
Pawan Goyal and Prashant J. Shenoy
Department of Computer Sciences
Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
This is part of a full-day course on digital libraries, at the end of which attendees should become able to participate in design, development, evaluation, and standardization efforts related to the global movement toward digital libraries. This session, Part I, will focus on concepts and technology from the multimedia, information retrieval, hypertext, and electronic publishing fields that relate to digital libraries (DLs) - using real case studies and examples to provide a suitable context. Projects included relate to CS (ACM literature, technical reports, courseware), material science (TULIP), and graduate education (electronic theses and dissertations), as well as the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative.
Our "perspective" approach will deal with DLs regarding: user and social needs; interfaces and user interaction; architectures, components, protocols; content, publishing, and capture; and systems, engines, and operations. Issues of scalability and sustainability will be explored.
This course also can serve as a stand alone course on the underlying technology for digital libraries, especially information retrieval, hypertext and electronic publishing.
Organizer:
Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from
Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been
at Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), where he serves as Associate Director
for Research at the Computing Center, and Professor of Computer
Science. Current research projects include "Interactive Learning
with a Digital Library in Computer Science" as well as several
building a digital library of theses and dissertations. Formerly
editor-in-chief of ACM Press Database Products, chair of ACM
SIGIR, and Program Chair for ACM Digital Libraries'96, he edited
the "Sourcebook on Digital Libraries" in 1993, three special
issues of CACM, and has written widely in the information
retrieval, electronic publishing, multimedia, and digital library
fields. He has given 27 courses or short courses since 1988.
Lecturer:
Robert M. Akscyn
President Knowledge Systems
Export, PA
DAVIC (Digital Audio Visual Council) is an international consortium formed by more than 200 companies for the purpose of developing interoperability specifications for digital audio-visual services such as interactive television. This course reviews the end-to-end DAVIC architecture, and provides a discussion of MHEG-5 and MPEG DSM-CC which are being adopted as part of the DAVIC 1.0 specification.
The DAVIC 1.0 specification consists of twelve parts, including an end-to-end reference model, service provider reference model, and delivery system reference model. Important components of the DAVIC architecture are MHEG-5 content model and MPEG-2 DSM-CC client-server protocol for session management and service access. The course will provide an overview of DAVIC, and will highlight MHEG-5 and DSM-CC. It will also compare these technologies with Internet and Web activities.
Organizer and Lecturer:
Dr. John F. Buford is Associate Professor of Computer Science and
Director of the Distributed Multimedia Systems Lab at the
University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has more than thirty-five
publications including the book Multimedia Systems (ACM Press &
Addison-Wesley, 1994). Dr. Buford has been active in
international standards committees since 1991. He has presented
courses on multimedia computing and systems to audiences in the
US, Europe, Japan, and Australia.
This is part of a full-day course on digital libraries, at the end of which attendees should become able to participate in design, development, evaluation, and standardization efforts related to the global movement toward digital libraries. This session, Part II, will focus on research and development, including principles and guidelines for design of scalable, sustainable DLs.
Our "source" approach will review collections of information about DLs (e.g., publications, workshops, D-Lib Magazine, other WWW sites), and survey important DL projects, worldwide, so attendees become able to gauge such efforts in terms of capabilities for: publishing, capturing, naming, describing metadata, indexing, cataloging, archiving, authenticating, managing intellectual property rights, searching, browsing, retrieving, converting, (re-)using, linking, and organizing.
The final hour will engage attendees in group efforts (with instructor supervision) for specifying requirements and developing alternative designs for: a networked digital library of theses and dissertations (that will include text, multimedia and hypertext structures) or other student-chosen applications. Extensive online WWW pages will provide reference material during and after the courses.
Organizer:
Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from
Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been
at Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), where he serves as Associate Director
for Research at the Computing Center, and Professor of Computer
Science. Current research projects include "Interactive Learning
with a Digital Library in Computer Science" as well as several
building a digital library of theses and dissertations. Formerly
editor-in-chief of ACM Press Database Products, chair of ACM
SIGIR, and Program Chair for ACM Digital Libraries'96, he edited
the "Sourcebook on Digital Libraries" in 1993, three special
issues of CACM, and has written widely in the information
retrieval, electronic publishing, multimedia, and digital library
fields. He has given 27 courses or short courses since 1988.
Lecturer:
Robert M. Akscyn
President Knowledge Systems
Export, PA
This course will provide proven concepts and techniques for effective, information-oriented design of user interfaces. Many visual examples, including detailed case studies, will provide concrete examples and practical guidelines of use of color, symbolism, layout, organization of content, metaphorical references, navigational strategies, and information visualization. The following items will be addressed: What is a user interface? Metaphors, Mental model, Navigation, Appearance, Interaction, Data visualization. Designing for multiple cultures, ages, genders, nationalities, User interface design process. Issue will be discussed in terms of the following case studies: American Airlines SABRE Online Travel Information Network, American Airlines Wayfinder Training Game, Oracle Online Mentor: Designing Effective GUI Applications CBT, DTIC: Golden Gate Online Tutorial for Database Searching, Oracle Online Mentor: CBT GUI Design Standards, Prodigy Corporate GUI Design Standards, and Random House New Media CD-ROM Titles.
Organizer and Lecturer:
Aaron Marcus is a leading designer of user interfaces,
multimedia, and online services. His career in computer graphics
and graphic design spans 25 years, and his firm Aaron Marcus and
Associates, Inc. (AM+A) in Emeryville, California, has helped
design award-winning products for 13 years. Mr. Marcus has
written or co-written four books, including Graphic Design for
Electronic Documents and User Interfaces, and the Cross-GUI
Handbook. He has presented courses around the world at major
conferences and corporate sites since 1990.
In this short course we will study the current trends in high-speed multimedia networking technologies. First, we will examine how multimedia traffic can be supported over a local area network with a simple ring or bus topology. Then, we will examine the design challenges for supporting real-time traffic and bursty data traffic over global networks, such as, ATM and the Internet, with arbitrary topology. We will study various possible routing and traffic management techniques for integrating both types of traffic sources on such networks. In addition we will discuss higher layer protocols for real-time traffic in ATM and the Internet, such as, SRTS, NTP, RTP, RTCP and RSVP.
In particular, we will study traffic management methods for:
From 1979 to 1982 he was affiliated with RAFAEL, as a research engineer. During 1983-1984 he was at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, and from 1984 to 1986 he was with Gould Electronics, Urbana, Illinois. Since 1987 he has been a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. His main research interests are routing and multicast, flow-control and fairness in local and wide area networks, optical networks, distributed algorithms and self-stabilization, parallel computer architectures and fault tolerance, real-time and clock synchronization.
Dr. Ofek was the program co-chairperson of the 6th and chair of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks. In IBM Dr. Ofek has initiated and led the research activities on ring LANs with spatial bandwidth reuse, switch-based LANs, and the use of synchronization for ensuring quality of service (QoS) in global networks like ATM and the Internet.
The power of multimedia systems originates in the fact that disparate information can be represented as a bit stream. This is a big advantage because every form of representation, from video to text, can be stored, processed, and communicated using the same device: a computer. Better tools to produce and manage data, combined with the natural human desire for information, has resulted in a tremendous data explosion. In most cases, including web-surfing, this has resulted in tremendous data overload. Keyword-based systems are very limited, particularly for images and videos. Keywords provide more information about the person who enters the keywords than about the image itself. Content-based access to data is becoming essential in many applications.
This course will address issues in image and video databases. We will discuss basic issues in designing multimedia information systems. Data models for representing multimedia information at several abstraction levels will be introduced. Nature of queries and interfaces will be explored and suitable architecture to acquire and process multimedia information will be discussed. We will discuss desirable features in multimedia information systems by considering concrete examples. We will briefly review the state of the art in this emerging field. We will present examples of a working system from Virage on a computer in the course. Using Virage's system different aspects of image and video databases will be explained in hands-on practical manner.
Organizer and Lecturer:
Ramesh Jain is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering at University
of California at San Diego. Before joining UCSD, he was a
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the
founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. His current
research interests are in multimedia information systems, image
databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems. He was the
founder and the Chairman of Imageware Inc., an Ann Arbor based
company dedicated to revolutionize software interfaces for
emerging sensor technologies. He is the founding chairman of
Virage, a company developing systems for visual information
retrieval.
Ramesh is a Fellow of IEEE, AAAI, and Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, and member of ACM, Pattern Recognition Society, Cognitive Science Society, Optical Society of America, and Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He has been involved in organization of several professional conferences and workshops, and served on editorial boards of many journals. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia, andis on the editorial boards of Machine Vision and Applications, Pattern Recognition, and Image and Vision Computing. He received his Ph.D. from IIT, Kharagpur in 1975 and his B.E. from Nagpur University in 1969.
The aim of this course is to examine the problems associated with large scale multimedia information delivery and management using hypermedia systems.
Hypermedia technology has reached the stage of providing excellent access to distributed multimedia, in particular through the World Wide Web. However, application developers are still faced with many problems when dealing with large-scale systems, such as the authoring effort required to create all the appropriate links, the maintenance of link integrity during the re-organization of large structures and hypermedia linking to and from third party data.
Link management is crucial to maintaining control of large scale hypermedia projects. The course will consider various methods, including use of structured documents and separate databases of links.
The course will consider the meaning of the term "open" as applied to hypermedia systems, and will examine currently available systems including The World Wide Web and Hyper-G as well as the Microcosm system which was developed by the Multimedia Group at the University of Southampton specifically for managing large scale hypermedia resources.
Case studies in historical archives, delivering educational material, engineering documentation and electronic publishing, will be used throughout to illustrate the principles covered by the course.
Organizer:
Hugh Davis BSc MSc PhD MBCS is a Lecturer in Computer Science at
the University of Southampton and was a founder member of the
Microcosm project. He has been project manager for the past four
years and in this capacity has worked closely with a number of
projects that are using Microcosm as a basis for multimedia
information system development. His research interests include
the design and application of open hypermedia systems.
Lecturer:
Wendy Hall, Department of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, UK
Wendy Hall is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. She is Director of the Multimedia Research Group in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton and also co-directs the University's Teaching and Learning Technology Project and the recently established Digital Libraries Research Centre. Her research interests include the development of multimedia information systems and their applications in education, industry and commerce, multimedia publishing and multimedia information retrieval. Her group developed the open hypermedia system, Microcosm, which is now being commercially exploited through Multicosm Ltd.
Although workshop participation is by invitation, most still have slots available. So if you see a workshop in which you would like to participate, please contact the workshop organizers directly for details. Please note that all workshop attendees are expected to register for the conference and must in addition pay a workshop fee of $50 on the day of the workshop. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to get the most out of ACM MultiMedia '96!
Wayne Wolf
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Workshops Chair
This workshop---for educators, trainers, and employers of those who wish to work in the multimedia field---will begin the process of developing curricula, courses, training materials, courseware, etc., suitable for worldwide use. It will target undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. levels and span the range from focused training needs to introductory courses to concentrations or full programs. The workshop will include both small group discussions of particular issues as well as full-group discussions of multimedia curricula. Demonstrations will be included. We urge attendance of all interested teachers, researchers, artists, and those hiring in multimedia industries.
Contact:
Prof. Edward Fox
Dept. of Computer Science
600 McBryde Hall
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg VA 24061-0106
Phone: +1-540-231-5113
Fax: +1-540-231-6075
fox@vt.edu
Multimedia applications include the emerging set of Internet-based applications, as well as the more traditional applications such as videoconferencing, video on demand, interactive games, education, set-top boxes, digital libraries, databases and many others. Applications can be characterized along many axes: performance requirements (both absolute compute horsepower and real time constraints); memory bandwidth; interfacing requirements; standards; preferred/available software development paradigms; and hardware and operating system support. This workshop is intended to focus on the interactions between: computational/interface requirements of existing and emerging multimedia applications; operating system kernel support for multimedia software development; hardware support for such applications and software; and system-level design tools. The workshop will consist of a set of talks, interspersed with discussion and panel sessions.
Contact:
Dr. P.A. Subrahmanyam
Room 4E-530
Bell Laboratories
101 Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733
Phone: +1-908-949-5812
Fax: +1-908-949-9118
subra@research.bell-labs.com
An interactive narrative uses many techniques and possibilities to allow each user of the multimedia program to discover or co-author a story in a unique way. The extension of narrative through interactivity is less a disruption of tradition and more an incitement to reflect on the conditions of contemporary experience.
The panelists and participants will examine interactive narrative from a variety of different perspectives including: techniques of successful designers of interactive narratives; a toolbox of historical and psychoanalytical theories of narrative; comparisons with classical cinema; design issues in non-linear narratives; explorations of 3-D organizations of narratives. The workshop will include presentations, demonstrations, and discussions.
Contacts:
Prof. Timothy Garrand
New England College
49 Perkins Road
Londonderry NH 03053-2432
Phone: +1-603-425-2804
tpg@interwrit.mv.com
Monika Fleischmann
Institute for Media Communication (IMK)
GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology
Schloss Birlinghoven
D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany
Phone: +49-2241-14-2809
Fax: +49-2241-14-2040
fleischmann@gmd.de
This workshop will act as a working group meeting for video/multimedia library research---both established groups and those with a newfound interest in video libraries. The morning will be devoted to presentations by various research groups about their current systems and future plans. Presentations could include information relevant to the model or structure of the library exported to client applications as well as descriptions of the client interactions with the library. The afternoon will be devoted to a group discussion of interoperability issues. Interoperability is a key usability issue in video libraries. The discussion should help illuminate many important issues in video library architecture and possibly spark several joint interoperability experiments between existing libraries/clients.
Contact:
Craig Marcus
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
Phone: +1-412-268-8970
neek+interop@cs.cmu.edu
We have only just begun to understand and appreciate the multiple ways in which a multimedia educational system influences or enhances student learning. A major challenge in assessing the impact of learning technologies relates to the difficulty of gathering, organizing, and presenting useful data in collaborative multimedia environments. Technologically-rich environments demand equally rich data collection and analysis tools---ones capable of examining human-computer interactions as well uses of multiple representations of information. These technologies not only allow evaluators and researchers to gather data from the systems being used, they allow integration of other data as well---observations, interviews, video and audio records, documents produced, and more. The technologies also support researchers as they analyze the data and develop their interpretations of the use of the systems. The goal of this workshop is to examine the uses of multimedia assessment tools in order to understand how well multimedia technologies influence learning. The workshop will include demonstrations of systems ranging from simulations to digital libraries and museums will be demonstrated. A series of multimedia assessment tools and analysis techniques will be discussed during the workshop by people from diverse backgrounds (researchers, developers, multimedia publishers, librarians, foundation officers).
Contact:
Prof. Geri Gay
Interactive Multimedia Group
321 Kennedy Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: +1-607-255-5530
Fax: +1-607-255-4346
gkg1@cornell.edu
T.D.C. Little
Dept. of Elec. and Computer Engr.
Boston University
A Shot Classification Method to Select Effective Key-Frames for
Video Browsing
Hisashi Aoki, Shigeyoshi Shimotsuji and Osamu Hori
Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation
Indexing and Retrieval of Digital Video Sequences Based on
Automatic Text Recognition
Rainer Lienhart
University of Mannheim
Automatic Audio Content Analysis
Silvia Pfeiffer, Stephan Fischer and Wolfgang Effelsberg
University of Mannheim
A Multimedia System for Authoring Motion Pictures
Ronald Baecker, Alan J. Rosenthal, Naomi Friedlander, Eric Smith
and Andrew Cohen
University of Toronto
CVEPS-A Compressed Video Editing and Parsing System
Jianhao Meng and Shih-Fu Chang
Columbia University
Negotiation for Automated Generation of Temporal Multimedia
Presentations
Dalal,M. and Feiner, S. and McKeown, K. and Pan,
S. and Zhou, M. and Hollerer, T. and Shaw, J. and
Feng, Y. and Fromer, J.
Columbia University
Comparing Images Using Color Coherence Vectors
Greg Pass, Ramin Zabih and Justin Miller
Cornell University
MMVIS: Design and Implementation of a Multimedia Visual
Information Seeking Environment
Stacie Hibino and Elke A. Rundensteiner
University of Michigan
VisualSEEk: A Fully Automated Content-Based Image Query System
John R Smith and Shih-Fu Chang
Columbia University
On-Demand Regional Television over the Internet
Haakon Bryhni, Hilde Lovett, Erling Maartmann-Moe, Dag Solvoll
and Tryggve Sorenson
Norwegian Computing Centre
A Centralized Audio Presentation System
Albert L. Papp III and Meera M. Blattner
University of California, Davis, and Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
Transport QoS Programmability
Andrew Campbell and Geoff Coulson
Columbia University and Lancaster University
Adaptive Rate-Controlled Scheduling for Multimedia Applications
David K.Y. Yau and Simon S. Lam
University of Texas at Austin
Proving Temporal Consistency in a New Multimedia Synchronization
Model
J.P. Courtiat and R.C. De Oliveira
LAAS/CNRS
Image Compositing System Capable of Long-Range Camera Movement
Masaki Hayashi, Kazuo Fukui and Yasumasa Ito
NHK Science and Technical Research Labs
'Smart Clothing': Turning the Tables (Privacy and Personal
Empowerment through wearable Multimedia and Wireless
Communications)
Steve Mann
MIT Media Lab
Meme Media and a World-Wide Meme Pool
Yuzuru Tanaka
Hokkaido University
Teaching and Learning as Multimedia Authoring
Gregory D. Abowd, Chris Atkenson, Amy Feinstein, Rob Kooper, Sue
Long, Scott Register, Nitin "Nick" Sawhney and Mikiya Tani
Georgia Institute of Technology
CU-SeeMe VR Immersive Desktop Teleconferencing
Jefferson Han and Brian Smith
Cornell University
A JPEG Codec Adaptive to Region Importance
Jiying Zhao, Yoshihisa Shimazu, Koji Ohta, Rina Hayasaka and
Yutaka Matsushita
Keio University
Methods for Encrypting and Decrypting MPEG Video Data Efficiently
Lei Tang
GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University/ Oracle Co
Adaptive Foveation of MPEG Video
T.H. Reeves and J.A. Robinson
University of Waterloo and University of Newfoundland
Vibrotactile Feedback in Delicate Virtual Reality Operations
Li-Te Cheng, Rick Kazman and John Robinson
University of Waterloo and University of Newfoundland
A Quality Planning Model for Distributed Multimedia in the
Virtual Cockpit
Mark Claypool and John Riedl
University of Minnesota
An Empirical Study of Attending and Comprehending Multimedia
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Peter Faraday and Alistair Sutcliffe
City University, London
Segmented Information Dispersal (SID) for Efficient
Reconstruction in Fault-Tolerant Video Servers
Ariel Cohen and Walter Burkhard
University of California
Adventures in Building the Stony Brook Video Server
Michael Vernick, Chitra Venkatramini and Tzi-cker Chiueh
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Disk Striping Strategies for Large Video-on-Demand Servers
Tat-Seng Chua, Jiandong Li, Beng-Chin Ooi, Kain-Lee Tan
National University of Singapore
Best Paper
Open-Vocabulary Speech Indexing for Voice and Video Mail
Retrieval
M.G.Brown, J.T.Foote, GJF Jones, K.Sparck Jones and S.J.Young
Olivetti Research Ltd and Cambridge University
Best Student Paper
Do Story Agents Use Rocking Chairs? The Theory and Implementation
of One
Model for Computational Narrative
Kevin Brooks
MIT Media Lab
A Framework for Supporting Multimedia Document Authoring and
Presentation
K. Selcuk Candan, B. Prabhakran and V.S. Subrahmanian
University of Maryland
Anecdote: A Multimedia Storyboarding System with Seamless
Authoring Support
Komei Harada, Eiichiro Tanaka, Ryuichi Ogawa and Yoshinori Hara
NEC Corporation
Sketching Multimedia Templates for Generating Hypermedia from
Specifications
S. Fraisse, J. Nanard and M. Nanard
LIRMM, Montpellier France
The Case for Concurrent Reliable Multicasting Using Shared Ack
Trees
Brian Neil Levine, David B. Lavo and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
University of California, Santa Cruz
Enhancing Network Services through Multimedia Data Analysers
Ferdinando Samaria, Harold Syfrig, Alan Jones and Andy Hopper
Olivetti Research Ltd
Rate Shaping by Block Dropping for Transmission of MPEG-Precoded
Video over Channels of Dynamic Bandwidth
Wenjin Zeng and Bede Liu
Princeton University
Panelists:
One area of strong interest has been the use of broadband networks for selling goods and services in ways that are potentially more effective than that provided via more traditional media, e.g. printed direct-mail catalogs. There are three reasons why broadband networks may provide a more powerful medium:
Goods that can be represented digitally, for example music, photographic images, and videos, are particularly well-suited for sale and delivery over broadband networks. Technologies like the World Wide Web and writeable optical storage are acting as disruptive forces within these and other industries. Cost models are being redefined and global competition is driving a phenomenon of "dis-intermediation", where the distribution channel between producer and consumer is increasingly direct and intermediaries in the distribution process are eliminated. For example, music publishers can sell directly to consumers, eliminating the record store as a distribution point. Expanding upon this, there is also the potential for recording artists to sell directly to their fans, eliminating the music publisher as a distribution point.
While there is great opportunity for new revenues, there are also a number of impediments that need to be overcome if these new models of networked retailing are to take root. Technical issues that need to be addressed include:
Additionally there are a number of difficult issues related to the business models and to the legal and regulatory framework within which these services will be deployed. These issues include:
There is a strong interplay between the technical and business issues and considerable controversy about how best to resolve them. This panel will explore these controversies and address the opportunities and issues from a diverse set of perspectives:
Tom Wilkins (Hewlett Packard Laboratories) will discuss the technology platforms and infrastructure that enable broadband delivery of multimedia goods and services. Technology trends for the home PC platform, various networking alternatives, and emerging user interface modalities, will be addressed. End-to-end system issues of performance, bandwidth management, and multimedia asset management will be identified.
Andrew Lippman (MIT Media Lab) will discuss applications areas of particular promise for the future of consumer entertainment systems including the internet, television, movies, and computing in the house and on your person. He will address the ways in which computing will diffuse throughout diverse members of society and cultures throughout the world, to the very young, the very old, the infirmed, the rich and the poor. Sound and picture representations are a basis for this, as are innovations in interfaces and communications systems.
Suzanne Donino (Turner Entertainment Networks) will discuss the opportunities provided by alternative delivery channels for their extensive libraries of multimedia materials, as well as the issues they need to address in order to be able to achieve this. Issues include management of large, heterogeneous databases, protection of intellectual property, and administration of multimedia content.
John Leitner (BYRNES) will elaborate on the legal and regulatory issues relating to networked delivery of multimedia content and the impact of electronic commerce upon the global workforce. Is there any regulation, is it adequate, can it be regulated, can the legal owner of intellectual property transmitted by electronic means be protected and by whom. The application of these concerns as they apply to various sectors, ranging from multimedia to banking, from private enterprise to U.S. Customs and the World Customs Organization will be addressed.
FORMAT: The panel will emphasize the contrasts among the diverse viewpoints, as well as attempt to identify unanticipated synergies. A high degree of interaction is expected among the panelists and with the audience. The moderator envisions a brief presentation by each panelist (maximum 10 minutes), each followed by a brief period (maximum 5 minutes) for other panelists to pose questions and challenge assumptions. This will be followed by an opportunity for the audience to pose questions and challenge assumptions (maximum 30 minutes).
BIOGRAPHIES:
Suzanne Donino
Senior Vice President Phone: (404) 885-4574
Turner Entertainment Networks (T.E.N.) email: suzanne.donino@turner.com
Network Operations Fax: (404) 885-4933
1050 Techwood Drive
Atlanta, GA 30318
Suzanne Donino, Senior Vice President of Network Operations for Turner Entertainment Networks is responsible for Turner Entertainment Networks' Broadcast Operations, Library Services, Log Management, Billboard Production, Program Edit, Satellite Operations, Advanced Network Operations, Promotional Planning, Closed Captioning and Project Scarlett (a cross-divisional computer software development). Turner Entertainment Networks consists of TBS (local and Superstation feeds), TNT, Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies, TNT Latin America and Cartoon Network Latin America. Suzanne was involved with the launches of and provides ancillary support to the off site operations of TNT/Cartoon Network Europe and TNT/Cartoon Network Asia. Prior to becoming Senior V.P. of Network Operations, Suzanne was Vice President of T.E.N. Network Operations. Early in her career with Turner, she assumed responsibility for many operational duties while handling the daily Traffic duties of commercial order clearance for Turner Broadcasting System. She has been working for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. for twelve years.
Prior working for Turner Broadcasting System, Suzanne's work experience included Traffic Manager for Lifetime (formerly the Cable Health Network), Account Supervisor for B-W Advertising in Phoenix, Arizona and Traffic Manager for KTVK-TV in Phoenix, Arizona.
Tom Wilkins
Hewlett Packard Laboratories Phone: (415) 857-8566
1501 Page Mill Road email: wilkins@hpl.hp.com
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1181 FAX: (415) 857-8526
Tom Wilkins is a Project Manager for Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, Ca. Tom has been involved in the development of interactive environments for the last 8 years as R&D manager for HP's worldwide interactive communications and education network. He has served on the United States Distance Learning Association's board of directors for the last 3 years and has participated in technical designs for communications systems for university and industrial environments Tom was recently inducted into the Distance Learning Hall of Fame for influencing the development of the distance learning industry. The HP network he created received an award for corporate training environments in telecom XII. Tom has been a speaker at numerous industry events and has been featured in industry and national magazines, most recently by Forbes on just-in -time information. Tom has been with HP for over 16 years and holds a BBA in Operations Research, an MBA and technical certificate in Broadcast Engineering.
Andrew Lippman
Associate Director,
MIT Media Laboratory Phone: (617) 253-0338
20 Ames Street email: lip@mit.edu
Cambridge, MA 02139
Andy Lippman has spent the past 27 years at MIT in capacities ranging from undergraduate to associate professor. He is currently Associate Director of the Media Laboratory and is directly responsible for research programs in the lab addressing the future of television, movies, consumer entertainment systems, and multimedia workstations. In recent years, his work has concentrated on digital representations of moving image sequences for compression, interaction and analysis as well as the systemic considerations of image communication systems ranging from HDTV to desktop movies. He has participated in congressional and international meetings on communications, American competitiveness and the future of television.
In the past, he directed the Architecture Machine Group and gained some notoriety for the development of an early interactive videodisc system, the Movie-Map, which enabled viewers to literally pre-experience a trip to Aspen, Colorado via a video personal computer. Later work included the "Movie-Manual" an electronic book written individually for each reader as it was being read, and research programs in teleconferencing, news information, and personalized publishing. He has been published widely and made over one hundred presentations, for technical and lay audiences, on interactivity, high definition television, personal communications and entertainment in the next century.
John A. Leitner
President & CEO Phone: (415) 692-1142
BYRNES email: john.leitner@byrnesnet.com
100 Rollins Road Fax: (415) 692-8498
Millbrae, CA 94030-3115
John Leitner is a spokesman, lecturer and educator on international trade issues in the United States and overseas. He is author of training videos, textbooks, and editorials, and is a recognized leader in the international trade community. He Chairs the Transport Documents Committee which works with the United States Council on International Banking (USCIB) in developing the internationally accepted rules for documentary credits. He also Chairs the Facilitation Committee, a council to coordinate and reconcile issues among the various local, state, federal agencies, ports and private sector firms involved with international commerce. He is a Director & VP of the California Council for International Trade (CCIT). Mr. Leitner is licensed by the U.S.Department of the Treasury, Customs Service. In 1978 he was appointed by the Secretary of Commerce to the Export Council, a position he still holds while being CEO of byrnes, a collection of professional services for global redistribution since 1907.
Allan Kuchinsky (moderator)
Hewlett Packard Laboratories Phone: (415) 857-7423
1501 Page Mill Road email: kuchinsk@hpl.hp.com
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1181 FAX: (415) 857-8526
Allan Kuchinsky is a Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. His current work focuses upon software application architectures for broadband residential information systems. Previous work includes management of research into collaborative multimedia systems, active electronic mail systems, and applied artificial intelligence tools. Prior to his work HP Labs, Allan worked on VLSI CAD tools for the HP internal design community. This included a procedural layout system (ICPL) for VLSI module generation and an experimental knowledge-based circuit area estimation tool. Allan holds a BA degree in Psychology from Brooklyn College and an MS degree in Computer Science from University of Arizona.
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This panel will discuss alternative concepts to the traditional museums. Is the "Museum of the Future" a telephone based installation? Is it in the net or is it just an 'intelligent' building to the traditional museum? The Ars Electronica Center in Linz or The Media Museum of The Center for Art and Technology in Karlsruhe will be discussed alongside network symposiums not simply to try out novel formats for an event, but to erect a permanent platform from which the debate/exhibition will constantly reach out to engage specific segments of the techno-cultural revolution. Does a cultural world-wide organization such as the Goethe Institute give a global platform for new networks?
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ACM
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Fax: +1-212-302-5826
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