Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2004

1. Front Matter

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2. Human-Scale Virtual Reality and Interaction

   1. WARAJI: Foot-Driven Navigation Interfaces for Virtual Reality Applications

      • Salvador Barrera, Piperakis Romanos, Suguru Saito, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Nakajima

      Pages 1-7

   2. Time Space Interface Using DV (Digital Video) and GPS (Global Positioning System) Technology – A Study with an Art Project “Field-Work@Alsace”

      • Masaki Fujihata

      Pages 8-14

   3. Action Generation from Natural Language

      • Satoshi Funatsu, Tomofumi Koyama, Suguru Saito, Takenobu Tokunaga, Masayuki Nakajima

      Pages 15-22

   4. Human-Scale Interaction with a Multi-projector Display and Multimodal Interfaces

      • Naoki Hashimoto, Jaeho Ryu, Seungzoo Jeong, Makoto Sato

      Pages 23-30

   5. Entertainment Applications of Human-Scale Virtual Reality Systems

      • Akihiko Shirai, Kiichi Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawakita, Shoichi Hasegawa, Masayuki Nakajima, Makoto Sato

      Pages 31-38

   6. Analysis and Synthesis of Latin Dance Using Motion Capture Data

      • Noriko Nagata, Kazutaka Okumoto, Daisuke Iwai, Felipe Toro, Seiji Inokuchi

      Pages 39-44

3. Surveillance and Tracking

   1. Web-Based Telepresence System Using Omni-directional Video Streams

      • Kazumasa Yamazawa, Tomoya Ishikawa, Tomokazu Sato, Sei Ikeda, Yutaka Nakamura, Kazutoshi Fujikawa et al.

      Pages 45-52

   2. Wide View Surveillance System with Multiple Smart Image Sensors and Mirrors

      • Ryusuke Kawahara, Satoshi Shimizu, Takayuki Hamamoto

      Pages 53-60

   3. Object Tracking and Identification in Video Streams with Snakes and Points

      • Bruno Lameyre, Valerie Gouet

      Pages 61-68

   4. Optical Flow-Based Tracking of Deformable Objects Using a Non-prior Training Active Feature Model

      • Sangjin Kim, Jinyoung Kang, Jeongho Shin, Seongwon Lee, Joonki Paik, Sangkyu Kang et al.

      Pages 69-78

   5. An Immunological Approach to Raising Alarms in Video Surveillance

      • Lukman Sasmita, Wanquan Liu, Svetha Venkatesh

      Pages 79-86

   6. Sat-Cam: Personal Satellite Virtual Camera

      • Hansung Kim, Itaru Kitahara, Kiyoshi Kogure, Norihiro Hagita, Kwanghoon Sohn

      Pages 87-94

4. Image Analysis (III)

   1. A Linear Approximation Based Method for Noise-Robust and Illumination-Invariant Image Change Detection

      • Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Qian-Sheng Cheng, Wei-Ying Ma

      Pages 95-102

   2. 3D Model Similarity Measurement with Geometric Feature Map Based on Phase-Encoded Range Image

      • Donghui Wang, Chenyang Cui

      Pages 103-110

   3. Automatic Peak Number Detection in Image Symmetry Analysis

      • Jingrui He, Mingjing Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Hanghang Tong, Changshui Zhang

      Pages 111-118

   4. Image Matching Based on Singular Value Decomposition

      • Feng Zhao

      Pages 119-126

   5. Image Matching Based on Scale Invariant Regions

      • Lei Qin, Wei Zeng, Weiqiang Wang

      Pages 127-134

5. Compression (II)

   1. A Method for Blocking Effect Reduction Based on Optimal Filtering

      • Daehee Kim, Yo-Sung Ho

      Pages 135-142

   2. Novel Video Error Concealment Using Shot Boundary Detection

      • You-Neng Xiao, Xiang-Yang Xue, Ruo-Nan Pu, Hong Lu, Congjie Mi

      Pages 143-150

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.

• H.264
• JPEG
• Motion Capture
• Multimedia
• Performance
• VRML
• Web-based multimedia services
• image analysis
• image processing
• multimedia documents
• multimedia networking
• multimedia retrieval
• multimedia systems
• video processing
• virtual reality

• Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  Kiyoharu Aizawa

• Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research, Kanagawa, Japan

  Yuichi Nakamura

• National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

  Shin’ichi Satoh

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