Program Co-Chairs

T.D.C. Little
Dept. of Elec. and Computer Engr.
Boston University

Program Committee:

Extended Program Committee:

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 Presentations
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

Thursday, November 21
4:00-5:00pm
Award Papers

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