Advance Program

 

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Splendor Room II
Fong Lo Room I
Fong Lo Room II
Fong Lo Room III


Monday
Dec. 10

7:30 ¡V 8:30
Registration
Room: Hallway in front of the Splendor Room II
8:30 ¡V 8:40
Welcome from Conference Chair
Room: Splendor Room II
8:40 ¡V 9:40
Keynote (1) ¡V Dr. Benjamin W. Wah
Room: Splendor Room II
9:40 ¡V 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 ¡V 12:00
Session 1
ISM (1)
W2ME (1)
MIPR (1)
SS (1)
12:00 ¡V 13:00
Lunch (Provided by Conference)
13:00 ¡V 14:00
Keynote (2) - Jay Kishigami
Room: Splendor Room II
14:10 ¡V 15:40
Session 2
ISM (2)
W2ME (2)
MIPR (2)
SS (2)
15:40 ¡V 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 ¡V 17:30
Session 3
ISM (3)
W2ME (3)
MIPR (3)
AIM (1)
18:30 ¡V 21:00
Banquet
Room: Splendor I
19:30 ¡V 20:30
Banquet Keynote (3) - Ming-Syan Chen


Tuesday
Dec. 11

7:30 ¡V 8:00
Registration
Room: Hallway in front of the Splendor Room II
8:00 ¡V 9:00
Keynote (4) - Klara Nahrstedt
Room: Splendor Room II
9:00 ¡V 9:20
Coffee Break
9:20 ¡V 11:20
Session 4
ISM (4)
IS
SVCT (1)
AIM (2)
11:20 ¡V 13:00
Lunch (Provided by Conference)
13:00 ¡V 14:00
Keynote (5) - Chin-Chen Chang
Room: Splendor Room II
14:10 ¡V 15:40
Session 5
ISM (5)
ISM (6)
SVCT (2)
AIM (3)
15:40 ¡V 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 ¡V 17:30
Session 6
Demonstrations
Room: Hallway in front of the Fong Lo Rooms
18:00 ¡V 19:30
Dinner (Provided by Conference)
Room: Splendor I
18:30 ¡V 19:30
Dinner Keynote (6) - Jhing-Fa Wang


Wednesday
Dec. 12

7:30 ¡V 8:00
Registration
Room: Hallway in front of the Splendor Room II
8:00 ¡V 9:00
Keynote (7) - Max Muhlhauser
Room: Splendor Room II
9:00 ¡V 9:20
Coffee Break
9:20 ¡V 11:40
Session 7
ISM (7)
MASP
MTEL (1)
CMMIDMH (1)
11:40 ¡V 13:00
Lunch (Provided by Conference)
13:00 ¡V 14:00
Keynote (8) - Boris Verkhovsky
Room: Splendor Room II
14:00 ¡V 14:20
Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award Ceremony
Room: Splendor Room II
14:20 ¡V 15:50
Session 8
ISM (8)
 
MTEL (2)
CMMIDMH (2)
15:50 ¡V 16:10
Coffee Break
16:10 ¡V 17:40
Session 9
ISM (9)
 
MTEL (3)
AIM (4)
17:40 ¡V 18:30
Wrap up session and ISM¡¦08 planning meeting
  • Conference will provide Notebook computer, projector, and Internet connection for the presenters in each conference room.
  • If the conference attendees stay in the hotel, the hotel will offer breakfasts for them in the restaurants of the hotel.
  • SS: Special Session
  • IS: Industrial Session
  • AIM: IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Multimedia
  • CMMIDMH: Workshop on New Techniques for Consuming, Managing, and Manipulating Interactive Digital Media at Home
  • MASP: Workshop on Multimedia Audio and Speech Processing: Advancing the State-of-the-art
  • MIPR: The Third IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval
  • MTEL: Second Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning
  • SVCT: IEEE Workshop on Scalable Video Coding & Transport
  • W2ME: The IEEE 2007 International Workshop on Web 2.0 and Multimedia-enabled Education

 

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  • Conference will provide Notebook computer, projector, and Internet connection for the presenters in each conference room.
Monday, December 10
7:30 ¡V 8:30

Registration
Room: Hallway in front of the Splendor Room II

8:30 ¡V 8:40 Welcome from Conference Chair
Room: Splendor Room II
8:40 ¡V 9:40 Keynote (1)
Room: Splendor Room II

Chair: Dr. Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

  Quality Assessment of VoIP Systems over the Internet

Dr. Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

9:40 ¡V 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 ¡V 12:00 Session 1
Parallel Session 1 ISM (1): Image and Video Processing (1)
Room Splendor Room II
Session Chair Dr. Daniel C Doolan
  Complexity Reduction and Fast Algorithm for 2-D Integer Discrete Wavelet Transform Using Symmetric Mask-Based Scheme

Chih-Hsien Hsia, Jing-Ming Guo, and Jen-Shiun Chiang

  Local Binary Patterns for Human Detection on Hexagonal Structure

Xiangjian He, Jianmin Li, Yan Chen, Qiang Wu, and Wenjing Jia

  Adaptive Early Termination for Fast H.264 Video Coding

Chung-Yen Su and Shu-Li Chang

  Moving Region Detection by Transportation Problem Solving

Takanori Yokoyama, Sho Furukawa, and Toshinori Watanabe

  Spatial-Temporal Error Detection Scheme for Video Transmission over Noisy Channels

Guan-Lin Wu and Shao-Yi Chien

Parallel Session 1 W2ME (1): Web 2.0 in Education
Room Fong Lo Room I
Session Chair Dr. Masakatsu Matsuishi
  Requirements for a Web 2.0 Course Management System of Engineering Education

Daisuke Takago, Masakatsu Matsuishi, Hironobu Goto, and Masahiro Sakamoto

  Comparing the Social Interaction Pattern of Online One-on-one Peer and Small Group Collaboration Activities

Piyanan Nuankhieo, I-Chun Tsai, Sean Goggins, and James Laffey

  Social Tagging in a Mobile Learning Environment

D. Taibi, M. Gentile, M. Arrigo, L. Seta, O. Di Giuseppe, G. Novara, and G. Fulantelli

  A Web 2.0 Synchronous Learning Environment using AJAX

Yen-Ting Lin, Yi-Chiun Chi, Lien-Chien Chang, Shu-Chen Cheng, and Yueh-Min Huang

  Wiki Technology as a Scaffolding Tool in Education

Yu-Chien Chen

  Using Tags to Construct the Digital Resource Management System

Ruey-Ming Chao, Sheng-Wen Lo, and Jia-Nan Chang

Parallel Session 1 MIPR (1): Multimedia Data Indexing and Retrieval
Room Fong Lo Room II
Session Chair Dr. Chih-Yi Chiu
  Efficient Histogram-based Indexing for Video Copy Detection

Chih-Yi Chiu, Jenq-Haur Wang, and Hung-Chi Chang

  Application of Diffusion Kernel in Multimodal Image Retrieval

Rajeev Agrawal, Farshad Fotouhi, William Grosky, and
Changhua Wu

  Semantic Retrieval of Instructional Videos

Chekuri Choudary, Tiecheng Liu, and Chin-Tser Huang

  Content-Based Video Retrieval Using Video Ontology

Kazuyuki Otaka, Kimiaki Shirahama, and Kuniaki Uehara

Parallel Session 1 SS (1)
Room Fong Lo Room III
Session Chair Dr. Shian-Shyong Tseng
  The Simulation of Tsunami Wave Propagation

Yen-Ting Kuo and Zen-Chung Shih

  Upmixing and Downmixing Two-channel Stereo Audio for Consumer Electronics

Mingsian R. Bai, Geng-Yu Shih, and Jhih-Ren Hong

  Constructing a Role Playing Interactive Learning Content Model

Dung-Chiuan Wu, Huan-Yu Lin, Shian-Shyong Tseng, Jui-Feng Weng, and Jun-Ming Su

12:00 ¡V 13:00 Lunch (Provided by Conference)
13:00 ¡V 14:00

Keynote (2)
Room: Splendor Room II

Chair: Kinji Mori, Tokyto Institute of Technology, Japan

  The Role of QoE on IPTV Services

Dr. Jay Kishigami, NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan

14:10 ¡V 15:40 Session 2
Parallel Session 2 ISM (2): Multimedia Security
Room Splendor Room II
Session Chair Dr. Ashish Gehani
  Information Hiding in Real-time VoIP Streams

Chungyi Wang and Quincy Wu

  VEIL: A System for Certifying Video Provenance

Ashish Gehani and Ulf Lindqvist

  Quality Compressed Steganography Using Hidden Referenced Halftoning

Jing-Ming Guo and Jen-Ho Chen

  Automatic Feature-based Face Scoring in Surveillance Systems

Tse-Wei Chen, Shou-Chieh Hsu, and Shao-Yi Chien

Parallel Session 2 W2ME (2): Multimedia in Education
Room Fong Lo Room I
Session Chair Dr. Gwo-Jen Hwang
  Filipiniana.NET: Supporting Community Research Activities within an Indexed Digital Library

Danny C. Cheng, Solomon See, and Lloyd Espiritu

  The Differential Effects of Computer Use on Academic Performance of Students from Immigrant and Gender Groups: Implications on Multimedia Enabled Education

Sunha Kim and Mido Chang

  Rapid ADDIE Curriculums Design Model Based on the Heterogeneous Multimedia Information Integration

Chang-Yen Lai and Wen-Ching Liou

  Mobilizing Blog for Co-independent Learning Interactions: From Field Research to Multimedia Fieldnotes

Ju-Ling Shih

  Improvement of Learning Styles Diagnosis based on Outliers Reduction of User Interface Behaviors

Tae Bok Yoon, Mi Ae Choi, Eric Wang, Jee Hyong Lee, and
Yong Se Kim

Parallel Session 2 MIPR (2): Multimedia Data Modeling and Data Mining
Room Fong Lo Room II
Session Chair Dr. Keiji Yanai
  Automatic Hierarchical Classification of Emotional Speech

Zhongzhe Xiao, Emmanuel Dellandrea, Weibei Dou, and
Liming Chen

  An Evaluation of Feature Extraction for Query-by-Content Audio Information Retrieval

Yi Yu, Stephen Downie, and Kazuki Joe

  Query by Example in Large Databases using Key-Sample Distance Transformation and Clustering

Marko Helen and Tommi Lahti

  Web Image Gathering with a Spatial Pyramid Kernel

Keiji Yanai

Parallel Session 2 SS (2)
Room Fong Lo Room III
Session Chair Dr. Shian-Shyong Tseng
  Using Content Analysis Technique to Enhance Content Adaptation System

Frank J.J. Wu and Stephen J.H. Yang

  Hybrid Teaching Assistant for Developing Students Interactivity and Comprehension

Yousef Awwad, Hsien Tang Lin, and Shyan Ming Yuan

  Research on Reasoning and Modeling of Solving Mathematics Situation Word Problems of Primary Schools

Yao-Ming Yeh, Wen-Tsung Pai, Wen-Jeng Tzeng,
Chih-Ching Yeh, Chi-Nung Chu, and Yun-Lung Lin

15:40 ¡V 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 ¡V 17:30 Session 3
Parallel Session 3 ISM (3): Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services (1)
Room Splendor Room II
Session Chair Dr. Eckehard Steinbach
  A Staggered FEC System for Seamless Handoffs in Wireless LANs: Implementation Experience and Experimental Study

Hang Liu, Mingquan Wu, Dekai Li, Saurabh Mathur,
Kumar Ramaswamy, Liqiao Han, and Dipankar Raychaudhuri

  Support Strong Consistency for Mobile Dynamic Contents Delivery Network

Zhou Su, Jiro Katto, and Yasuhiko Yasuda

  Performance Analysis of Distributed Speech Recognition Services over Noisy 802.11b Wireless Networks

Alessandro Rinotti, Piero Demichelis, and Juan Carlos De Martin

  An Open Source Architecture for Low-Latency Video Streaming on PDAs

Giovanni Gualdi, Andrea Prati, and Rita Cucchiara

Parallel Session 3 W2ME (3): Social Interaction and Group Learning
Room Fong Lo Room I
Session Chair Dr. Nian-Shing Chen
  A GroupNet System for Supporting Mobile Learning

Nian-Shing Chen, Kinshuk, Chun-Wang Wei, and Wei-Sheng Chen

  E-Learning 2.0: Social Software for Educational Use

Bram De Wever, Peter Mechant, Pieter Veevaete, and
Laurence Hauttekeete

  Hunting Suicide Notes in Web 2.0 ¡V Preliminary Findings

Yen-Pei Huang, Tiong Goh, and Chern Li Liew

  The Application of Digital Teaching Portfolios and Blog Portfolios on Teacher Evaluation

Yao-Ting Sung, Kuo-Nan Mao, Kuo-En Chang, Jun-Ting Liu, and Han-Je Su

  Managing Learning Resources in University Undergraduate Project Study

Lam-For Kwok and Ching-Hang Cheung

Parallel Session 3 MIPR (3): Multimedia Applications
Room Fong Lo Room II
Session Chair Dr. Wolfgang Muller
  Hunt the Cluster: A Scalable, Interactive Time Bayesian Image Browser for P2P Networks

Wolfgang Muller, Soufyane El Allali, Daniel Blank,
Andreas Henrich, and Thomas Lauterbach
Beta Random Projection

Yu-En Lu, Pietro Lio, and Steven Hand

  Fast and Efficient Face Image Browsing System on Consumer Electronics Devices

Duck Hoon Kim, YongSung Kim, and HeeSeon Park

  Animating Tree Branch Breaking and Flying Effects for a 3D Interactive Visualization System for Hurricanes and Storm Surge Flooding

Khalid Saleem, Shu-Ching Chen, and Keqi Zhang

Parallel Session 3 AIM (1): Audio, Image, and Video Processing (1)
Room Fong Lo Room III
Session Chair Dr. Wasfi Al-Khatib
  A Leading Sign Grouping with Direct Table Lookup Approach for AAC Huffman Decoding

Chun-Nan Liu, Tsung-Han Tsai, and Shau-Yin Tseng

  Joint Adaptive GOP and SCD Coding for Improving H.264 Scalable Video Coding

Jun-Ren Ding and Jar-Ferr Yang

  Eooro-Diffusion Fitting of Direct-Binary-Search Halftones

Ken-Chung Ho and Jing-Cheng Liao

18:30 ¡V 21:00 Banquet
Room: Splendor I
19:30 ¡V 20:30 Banquet Keynote (3)

Chair: Dr. Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

  An Overview of III

Dr. Ming-Syan Chen, Institute of Information Industry, Taiwan

Tuesday, December 11
7:30 ¡V 8:00

Registration
Room: Hallway in front of the Splendor Room II

8:00 ¡V 9:00 Keynote (4)
Room: Splendor Room II

Chair: Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  Internet and Multimedia System Challenges in Next Generation Tele-immersive Environments

Dr. Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

9:00 ¡V 9:20 Coffee Break
9:20 ¡V 11:20 Session 4
Parallel Session 4 ISM (4): Image and Video Processing (2)
Room Splendor Room II
Session Chair Dr. Jonathan Liu
  Summarization of Wearable Videos based on User Activity Analysis

Ravi Katpelly, Tiecheng Liu, and Chin-Tser Huang

  Feature-Based Full-Frame Image Stabilization

Chih-Yuan Chung and Homer H. Chen

  Event-Based Segmentation of Sports Video Using Motion Entropy

Chen-Yu Chen, Jia-Ching Wang, Jhing-Fa Wang, and Yu-Hen Hu

  RISA: A Real-time Interactive Shadow Avatar

Yangmi Lim, Jinsu Kim, and Jinseok Chae

Parallel Session 4 IS: Industrial Session
Room Fong Lo Room I
Session Chairs Drs. Jen-Yao Chung and Shian-Shyong Tseng
  Comfort Taxi: Managing Service Supply Chain in Transpiration Industry

Sheng-Tsung Hou

  Makes Inroads into Telematics/Infotainment Market? - A Challenge to Taiwan Information and Communication Technology Industry

Yung-Hsin Chen and Chi-Chang Liu

  Improved P2P Streaming in Wireless Networks Utilizing Access Point P2P Agents

Chung-Yi Lai, Chiun-Sheng Hsu, and Tzyh-Jong Shang

  A Semiconductor Photolithography Overlay Analysis System Using Image Processing Approach

Yao Tsung Lin, Chiang Chou Hsu, and Shian-Shyong Tseng

Parallel Session 4 SVCT (1): H.264/AVC & SVC Coding
Room Fong Lo Room II
Session Chair Dr. Wen-Hsiao Peng
  A Parallelism Encoding Framework for the Temporal Scalability of H.264/AVC Scalable Extension

Shu-Sian Yang, Sung-Wen Wang, Hong-Ming Chen, and
Ja-Ling Wu

  Bandwidth-Efficient Encoder Framework for H.264/AVC Scalable Extension

Yi-Hau Chen, Tzu-Der Chuang, Yu-Jen Chen, and Liang-Gee Chen

  Scalable Lossless Video Coding based on Adaptive Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering

Yin-Tsung Hwang, Cheng-Chen Lin, Kuan-Hsun Tseng, and
Yi-Chen Chang

  Computation-Aware Intra-Mode Decision for H.264 Coding and Transcoding

Jhih-Shen Shen, Chih-Hung Chen, Chia-Ming Tsai, and
Chia-Wen Lin

Parallel Session 4 AIM (2): Multimedia Modeling and Retrieval
Room Fong Lo Room III
Session Chair Dr. Hang Liu
  A Prefetching Server for Reducing Startup Time of Embedded Multimedia

Mojgan Soraya, Adam Serbinski, and Abdolreza Abhari

  Media Sink Elements for Modeling Data-driven Multimedia Presentations

Feng-Cheng Lin, Pai-Hsun Chen, and Jen-Shin Hong

  Scrap: Data Reorganization and Placement of Two Dimensional Scalable Video in a Disk Array-based Video Server

Seung-Ho Lim, Mak-Keun Seo, and Kyu Ho Park

  Semantic Clustering for Region-based Image Retrieval

Ying Liu, Xin Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Alan Sprague

  Perceived Similarity and Visual Descriptions in Content-Based Image Retrieval

Yuan Zhong, Lei Ye, Wanqing Li, and Philip Ogunbona

11:20 ¡V 13:00 Lunch (Provided by Conference)
13:00 ¡V 14:00 Keynote (5)
Room: Splendor Room II

Chair: Dr. Laurence T. Yang, St. Frances Xavier University, Canada

  A New Image Compression Scheme Based on Locally Adaptive Coding

Dr. Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

14:10 ¡V 15:40 Session 5
Parallel Session 5 ISM (5): Mobile Multimedia Systems and Visualization
Room Splendor Room II
Session Chair Dr. Daniel C Doolan
  Supporting Video Data in Wireless Sensor Networks

Ju Wang, Mbonisi Masilela, and Jonathan C. L. Liu

  Accelerating Embedded Multimedia Applications with Versatile and Reconfigurable Instruction Fusion

Allen C. Cheng

  Layered Clustering for Solar Powered Wireless Visual Sensor Networks

Xiaoming Fan, William Shaw, and Ivan Lee

  Realistic Character Motion Response in Computer Fighting Game

Huai-Che Lee, Chia-Ming Chang, Jui-Shiang Chao, and
Wei-Te Lin

Parallel Session 5 ISM (6): Audio Processing and Multimedia Networking
Room Fong Lo Room I
Session Chair Dr. Amar Ramdane-Cherif
  Detection of Questions in Arabic Audio Monologues Using Prosodic Features

Omair Khan, Wasfi Al-Khatib, and Cheded Lahouari

  Multi-Stream Asynchrony Modeling for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

Guoyun Lv, Dongmei Jiang, Rongchun Zhao, and Yunshu Hou
  Improving Throughput and Node Proximity of P2P Live Video Streaming through Overlay Adaptation

Bartosz Biskupski, Raymond Cunningham, and Rene Meier

  MuMiVA: a Multimedia Delivery Platform Using
Format-Agnostic, XML-Driven Content Adaptation

Davy Van Deursen, Sarah De Bruyne, Wim Van Lancker,
Wesley De Neve, Davy De Schrijver, Hermann Hellwagner, and
Rik Van de Walle

  Joint Network and Rate Allocation for Video Streaming over Multiple Wireless Networks

Dan Jurca, Wolfgang Kellerer, Eckehard Steinbach, Shoaib Kahn, Srisakul Thakolsri, and Pascal Frossard

Parallel Session 5 SVCT (2): H.264/AVC & SVC Transport
Room Fong Lo Room II
Session Chair Dr. Chia-Wen Lin / Dr. John K. Zao
  Rate-Distortion Optimized SVC Bitsteam Extraction for Heterogeneous Devices: A preliminary Investigation

Wen-Hsiao Peng, Lin-Shung Huang, John K. Zao, Jiun-Shien Lu, Tse-Wei Wang, Hsueh-Ting Huang, and Lun-Chia Kuo

  Error Resilient Motion Estimation and Mode Decision for Robust H.264/AVC Video Transmission

Wen-Nung Lie and Zhi-Wei Gao

  Layered Congestion Control for Scalable Video Coding Based on the Efficient Bandwidth Inference

S. S. Wang, Hsu-Feng Hsiao, and Suh-Yin Lee

Parallel Session 6 AIM (3): Audio, Image, and Video Processing (2)
Room Fong Lo Room III
Session Chair Dr. Chin-Tser Huang
  A Video Watermarking Scheme Based on 3D-DWT and Neural Network

Xuefang Li and Rangding Wang

  Dynamic Search Range Control For H.264

Tien-Ying Kuo, Jun-Jie Shu, and Hsin-Ju Lu

  Development of a Multimedia-Based Vehicle Lane Departure Warning, Forward Collision Warning and Event Video Recorder Systems

Che-Chung Lin, His-Wen Hsieh, Dau-Chen Huang, Chi-Wei Lin, Yung-Sheng Liao, and Yung-Hsin Chen

15:40 ¡V 16:00 Coffee Break
   
16:00 ¡V 17:30 Session 6: Demonstrations
Room Hallway in front of the Fong Lo Rooms
Session Chair Dr. Chengcui Zhang
  VisualFlamenco: Faceted Browsing for Visual Features

Wolfgang Muller, Markus Zech, and Andreas Henrich

  HTC, a fast P2P image Browser based on JXTA

Wolfgang Muller, Soufyane El Allali, Daniel Blank,
Andreas Henrich, and Thomas Lauterbach

  MiruSinger: A Singing Skill Visualization Interface Using
Real-Time Feedback and Music CD Recordings as Referential Data

Tomoyasu Nakano, Masataka Goto, and Yuzuru Hiraga

  Decomposition of Educational Presentation Systems

Georg Turban and Max Muhlhauser

  A Multi-camera Approach to Vehicle Tracking based on Features

Lin Yang, John Johnstone, and Chengcui Zhang

  Multi-Party HD Conferencing System for Wired and Wireless Networks

Beomjoo Seo and Roger Zimmermann

  An Online Multiple Instance Learning System for Semantic Image Retrieval

Chengcui Zhang, Xin Chen, and Wei-Bang Chen

  MIA: A UIMA-Based Microarray Image Analysis System

Wei-Bang Chen, Chengcui Zhang, Wen-Lin Liu, and Richa Tiwari

  Children¡¦s Art E-Museum¡XMultimedia Web-Based Learning Study

Pei-Chi Ho, Kuo-Kuang Fan, and Szu-Ming Chung

18:00 ¡V 19:30 Dinner (Provided by Conference)
Room: Splendor I
18:30 ¡V 19:30 Keynote (6)

Chair: Dr. Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

  Intelligent Multimedia Processing for Human-Centric Digital Life

Dr. Jhing-Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Wednesday, December 12
7:30 ¡V 8:00 Registration
Room: Hallway in front of the Splendor Room II
8:00 ¡V 9:00 Keynote (7)
Room: Splendor Room II

Chair: Dr. Dick Bulterman, CWI, The Netherlands

  Making Sense of Ubiquitous Media

Dr. Max Muhlhauser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

9:00 ¡V 9:20 Coffee Break
9:20 ¡V 11:40 Session 7
Parallel Session 7 ISM (7)
Room Splendor Room II
Session Chair Dr. Max Muhlhauser
  An Adaptive Audio Quantizer for Voip Systems

Ricardo Bertagna, Rodrigo Mello, and Laurence T. Yang

  Realistic Character Motion Response in Computer Fighting Game

Huai-Che Lee, Chia-Ming Chang, Jui-Shiang Chao, Wei-Te Lin

  Analysis of a New Ubiquitous Multimodal Multimedia Computing System

Amar Ramdane-Cherif, Manolo Dulva Hina, Chakib Tadj, and Nicole Levy

  Implementation and Evaluation of Late Data Choice for TCP in Linux

Erlend Birkedal, Carsten Griwodz, and Pal Halvorsen

  Multiuser Mobile Multimedia

Daniel C. Doolan, Laurence T. Yang, and Sabin Tabirca

Parallel Session 7 MASP: Multimedia Audio and Speech Processing:
Advancing the State-of-the-art
Room Fong Lo Room I
Session Chair Dr. Shi-Huang Chen
  Evaluation of Speech Enhancement Techniques for Speaker Identification in Noisy Environments

A. El-Solh, A. Cuhadar, and R.A. Goubran

  Single Stream DBN Model Based Triphone for Continuous Speech Recognition

Guoyun Lv, Dongmei Jiang, and Rongchun Zhao

  Usefulness of Residual-based Features in Speaker Verification and Their Combination Way With Linear Prediction Coefficients

Wei-Chih Hsu, Wen-Hsing Lai, and Wei-Ping Hong

  Voice Activity Detection in Car Environment Using Support Vector Machine and Wavelet Transform

Shi-Huang Chen, Rodrigo Capobianco Guido, and Shih-Hao Chen

  Improved Dynamic Time Warping based on The Discrete Wavelet Transform

Sylvio Barbon Junior, Rodrigo Capobianco Guido,
Shi-Huang Chen, Lucimar Sasso Vieira, and
Fabricio Lopes Sanchez

Parallel Session 7 MTEL (1): Systems & Architectures
Room Fong Lo Room II
Session Chairs Drs. Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, and Nadine Ludwig
  Introductory Remarks
  Learning Activity-based E-Learning Material Recommendation System

Feng-Jung Liu and Bai-Jiun Shih

  A Service-Oriented Architecture for Constructing Ontology-Based Learning Objects Repository

Chang-Yen Lai and Wen-Ching Liou

Parallel Session 7 CMMIDMH (1): Systems
Room Fong Lo Room III
Session Chair Dr. Pablo Cesar
  Keynote Talk: Mark Randolph, Motorola, Singapore
  Enabling Pro-Active User-Centered Recommender Systems: An Initial Evaluation

Dick C.A. Bulterman, Pablo Cesar, Jack Jansen, Hendrik Knoche, and William Seager

  Interacting with Digital Media at Home via a Second Screen

Emmanuel Tsekleves, Leon Cruickshank, Annette Hill,
Koko Kondo, and Roger Whitham

  Enhancing Multimodal Annotations with Pen-Based Information

Maria G. Pimentel, Rudinei Goularte, Renan G. Cattelan,
Felipe S. Santos, and Cesar Teixeira

11:40 ¡V 13:00 Lunch (Provided by Conference)
13:00 ¡V 14:00 Keynote (8)
Room: Splendor Room II

Chair: Dr. Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

  Optimal Control of Integrated Multimedia Networks with Shared Facilities

Dr. Boris Verkhovsky, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

14:00 ¡V 14:20 Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award Ceremony
Room: Splendor Room II
14:20 ¡V 15:50 Session 8
Parallel Session 8 ISM (8): Multimedia Database and Information Retrieval
Room Splendor Room II
Session Chair Dr. Xiangjian He
  A Temporal UID Matrix Strategy for Indexing Video Databases

Ye-In Chang, Wei-Horng Yeh, Jiun-Rung Chen, and
You-Cheng Chen

  An Unified Framework Based on p-Norm for Feature Aggregation in Content-Based Image Retrieval

Jun Zhang and Lei Ye

  Efficient and Effective Video Copy Detection Based on
Spatiotemporal Analysis

Chih-Yi Chiu, Cheng-Chih Yang, and Chu-Song Chen

  Motion Retrieval Based on Energy Morphing

Gary K. L. Tam, Qingzheng Zheng, Mark Corbyn, and
Rynson W. H. Lau

Parallel Session 8 MTEL (2): User Interfaces
Room Fong Lo Room II
Session Chairs Drs. Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, and Nadine Ludwig
  Common Paper as Interface in the Digital TV

Fabio de Jesus Lima Gomes, Jose Valdini Lima,
Rosane Aragon de Nevado, and Jose Palazzo M. de Oliveira

  Experiences from Developing of Educational Presentation System

Georg Turban and Max Muhlhauser

  Visualizing Large-Screen Electronic Chalkboard Content on Handheld Devices

Alexander Luning, Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, and
Raul Rojas

Parallel Session 8 CMMIDMH (2): Languages and Metadata
Room Fong Lo Room III
Session Chair Dr. Dick Bulterman
  Keynote Talk: Ian Kegel, BT, UK
  A Resource Identification Mechanism for Interactive DTV Systems

Marcio Ferreira Moreno, Rogerio Ferreira Rodrigues, and
Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares

  Managqyement of QoS Metadata for Consuming Interactive Digital Media at Home

Artur Lugmayr

  Interactivity and Narrativity in Screen-Media

Marian F. Ursu, Maureen Thomas, Mika L. Tuomola, Terry Wright,
Doug Williams, and Vilmos Zsombori

15:50 ¡V 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 ¡V 17:40 Session 9
Parallel Session 9 ISM (9): Multimedia Applications
Room Splendor Room II
Session Chair Dr. Allen Cheng
  A General Scheme for Extracting QR Code from Non-Uniform Background in Camera Phones and Applications

Yu-Hsuan Chang, Chung-Hua Chu, and Ming-Syan Chen

  Scratch Line Removal on Aged Films

Yang-Ta Kao, Timothy K. Shih, Hsing-Ying Zhong, and
Liang-Kuang Dai

  Optimizing Cache Performance of the Discrete Wavelet Transform Using a Visualization Tool

Jie Tao, Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben Juurlink, Rainer Buchty, Wolfgang Karl, and Stamatis Vassiliadis

  Magic Mirror

Jun-Ren Ding, Chien-Lin Huang, Jin-Kun Lin, Jar-Ferr Yang, and Chung-Hsien Wu

Parallel Session 9 MTEL (3): Authoring & Content
Room Fong Lo Room II
Session Chairs Drs. Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, and Nadine Ludwig
  Searching for Classes of Visual Content in Electronic Lectures

Peter Ziewer, Martin Ebner, Christian Safran, and Wolfgang Slany

  Authoring Multimedia Learning Material Using Open Standards and Free Software

Alberto Gonzalez Tellez

  Vector Graphics for Web Lectures: Comparing Adobe Flash 9 and SVG

Markus Ketterl, Robert Mertens, and Oliver Vornberger

  Closing Discussion
Parallel Session 9 AIM (4): Multimedia Networking and Applications
Room Fong Lo Room III
Session Chair Dr. Ivan Lee
  Media presentation Synchronization in Non-monolithic Rendering Architectures

Ishan Vaishnavi, Dick Bulterman, Pablo Cesar, and Bo Gao

  MINI - Making MIDI fit for Real-time Musical Interaction over the Internet

Michael Welzl, Max Muhlhauser, and Jan Borchers

  Social Sharing of Television Content: An Architecture

Pablo Cesar, Dick C.A. Bulterman, and A.J. Jansen

  Foreground Object Detection based on Multi-model Background Maintenance

Tsung-Han Tsai, Wen-Tsai Sheu, and Chung-Yuan Lin

17:40 ¡V 18:30 Wrap up session and ISM¡¦08 planning meeting
Room Splendor Room II
Session Chair Chair: Dr. Phillip C.Y. Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA