Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2004

Welcome to the proceedings of the 5th Paci?c Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2004) held in Tokyo Waterfront City, Japan, November 30–December 3, 2004. Following the success of the preceding conferences, PCM 2000 in Sydney, PCM 2001 in Beijing, PCM 2002 in Hsinchu, and PCM 2003 in Singapore, the ?fth PCM brought together the researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators in the ?eld of multimedia. Theoretical breakthroughs and practical systems were presented at this conference, thanks to the support of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Region 10 and IEEE Japan Council, ACM SIGMM, IEICE and ITE. PCM2004featuredacomprehensiveprogramincludingkeynotetalks,regular paperpresentations,posters,demos,andspecialsessions.Wereceived385papers andthenumberofsubmissionswasthelargestamongrecentPCMs.Amongsuch a large number of submissions, we accepted only 94 oral presentations and 176 poster presentations. Seven special sessions were also organized by world-leading researchers. We kindly acknowledge the great support provided in the reviewing of submissions by the program committee members, as well as the additional reviewers who generously gave their time. The many useful comments provided by the reviewing process must have been very valuable for the authors’ work. Thisconferencewouldneverhavehappenedwithoutthehelpofmanypeople. We greatly appreciate the support of our strong organizing committee chairs and advisory chairs. Among the chairs, special thanks go to Dr. Ichiro Ide and Dr. Takeshi Naemura who smoothly handled publication of the proceedings with Springer. Dr. Kazuya Kodama did a fabulous job as our Web master.

Art.- Categorizing Traditional Chinese Painting Images.- A Knowledge-Driven Approach for Korean Traditional Costume (Hanbok) Modeling.- Retrieval of Chinese Calligraphic Character Image.- Network (I).- Random Channel Allocation Scheme in HIPERLAN/2.- A Two-Stage Queuing Approach to Support Real-Time QoS Guarantee for Multimedia Services in TDMA Wireless Networks.- Performance Evaluation of Adaptive Rate Control (ARC) for Multimedia Traffic.- Sports (I).- A Tennis Video Indexing Approach Through Pattern Discovery in Interactive Process.- Online Play Segmentation for Broadcasted American Football TV Programs.- Semantic Analysis of Basketball Video Using Motion Information.- Immersive Conferencing: Novel Interfaces and Paradigms for Remote Collaboration.- Reach-Through-the-Screen: A New Metaphor for Remote Collaboration.- Working Documents.- Immersive Meeting Point.- EnhancedTable: Supporting a Small Meeting in Ubiquitous and Augmented Environment.- Remote Collaboration on Physical Whiteboards.- Network (II).- Aggressive Traffic Smoothing for Delivery of Online Multimedia.- Distributed Video Streaming Using Multicast (DVSM).- Centralized Peer-to-Peer Streaming with PFGS Video Codec.- Buffer Level Estimation for Seamless Media Streaming in Mobile IPv6 Networks.- Dynamic Walks for Searching Streaming Media in Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Image Retrieval.- An Image Retrieval Scheme Using Multi-instance and Pseudo Image Concepts.- Representation of Clipart Image Using Shape and Color with Spatial Relationship.- Automatic Categorization for WWW Images with Applications for Retrieval Navigation.- Region-Based Image Retrieval with Scale and Orientation Invariant Features.- SOM-Based Sample Learning Algorithm for Relevance Feedback in CBIR.- Classification of Digital Photos Taken by Photographers or Home Users.- Image Analysis (I).- Background Modeling Using Phase Space for Day and Night Video Surveillance Systems.- Sequential Robust Direct Motion Estimation with Equal Projective Basis.- Generation of 3D Urban Model Using Cooperative Hybrid Stereo Matching.- Segmentation of Interest Objects Using the Hierarchical Mesh Structure.- A Rapid Scheme for Slow-Motion Replay Segment Detection.- Recognition of Very Low-Resolution Characters from Motion Images Captured by a Portable Digital Camera.- An Effective Anchorperson Shot Extraction Method Robust to False Alarms.- A Region Based Image Matching Method with Regularized SAR Model.- Shot Classification and Scene Segmentation Based on MPEG Compressed Movie Analysis.- Moving Object Segmentation: A Block-Based Moving Region Detection Approach.- A Multi-view Camera Tracking for Modeling of Indoor Environment.- Image Registration Using Triangular Mesh.- Online Learning Objectionable Image Filter Based on SVM.- Motion Objects Segmentation Using a New Level Set Based Method.- 3-D Shape Analysis of Anatomical Structures Based on an Interactive Multiresolution Approach.- Integrating Color, Texture, and Spatial Features for Image Interpretation.- Automatic Video Genre Detection for Content-Based Authoring.- Face, Gesture, and Behavior (I).- Face Appeal Model Based on Statistics.- A Novel Gabor-LDA Based Face Recognition Method.- Gesture-Based User Interfaces for Handheld Devices Using Accelerometer.- Face and Gesture Recognition Using Subspace Method for Human-Robot Interaction.- Spatial Histogram Features for Face Detection in Color Images.- Correlation Filters for Facial Recognition Login Access Control.- Easy and Convincing Ear Modeling for Virtual Human.- Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics.- A Polyhedral Object Recognition Algorithm for Augmented Reality.- Spectral Coding of Three-Dimensional Mesh Geometry Information Using Dual Graph.- Real-Time Free-Viewpoint Video Generation Using Multiple Cameras and a PC-Cluster.- Framework for Smooth Optical Interaction Using Adaptive Subdivision in Virtual Production.- Projection-Based Registration Using Color and Texture Information for Virtual Environment Generation.- Enhanced Synergistic Image Creator: An NPR Method with Natural Curly Brushstrokes.- Content Production (I).- An XMT Authoring System Supporting Various Presentation Environments.- An Adaptive Scene Compositor Model in MPEG-4 Player for Mobile Device.- JPEG2000 Image Adaptation for MPEG-21 Digital Items.- An Annotation Method and Application for Video Contents Based on a Semantic Graph.- An Annotated-Objects Assist Method for Extraction of Ordinary-Objects in a Video Content Generation Support System.- Intelligent Media Integration for Social Information Infrastructure.- Free-Viewpoint TV (FTV) System.- In-Car Speech Recognition Using Distributed Multiple Microphones.- Development of Advanced Image Processing Technology and Its Application to Computer Assisted Diagnosis and Surgery.- Discussion Mining: Annotation-Based Knowledge Discovery from Real World Activities.- Determining Correspondences Between Sensory and Motor Signals.- Approaches or Methods of Security Engineering.- Architecture of Authentication Mechanism for Emerging T-commerce Environments.- Threat Description for Developing Security Countermeasure.- RPS: An Extension of Reference Monitor to Prevent Race-Attacks.- SITIS: Scalable Intrusion Tolerance Middleware for Internet Service Survivability.- On Minimizing Distortion in Secure Data-Hiding for Binary Images.- Software Design Method Enhanced by Appended Security Requirements.- Multimedia Servers.- On the Disk Layout for Periodical Video Broadcast Services.- Paged Segment Striping Scheme for the Dynamic Scheduling of Continuous Media Servers.- A Heuristic Packet Scheduling Algorithm for Media Streaming with Server Diversity.- Proxy Caching Scheme Based on the Characteristics of Streaming Media Contents on the Internet.- A Distributed VOD Server Based on VIA and Interval Cache.- Video Retrieval.- Clustering of Video Packets Using Interactive Refinement by Relevance Feedback.- Semantic Video Indexing and Summarization Using Subtitles.- Audio Visual Cues for Video Indexing and Retrieval.- Key Image Extraction from a News Video Archive for Visualizing Its Semantic Structure.