MMM2000 Technical Program

Conference date: November 13-15, 2000
Monday 13 / Tuesday 14 / Wednesday 15



Nagano Convention Bureau

Equipments Information
For your presentation, Video Projector, VHS video (NTSC format), OHP are available. You can ask us about other possible materials.




Monday 13 November 2000

Tutorials and Special Session

9:45 - 11:15

Tutorial 1
 

Title: " The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)"

 

Presenter: Lloyd Rutledge ( CWI - Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica )
   

13:00 - 14:30

Tutorial 2
 

Title : " Introduction to 3D User Interfaces"
 

Presenter : Ivan Poupyrev ( ATR MI&C )

   

14:30 - 14:55

Cofee Break

 

14:55

MMM 2000 Opening Remarks
 

Prof.Shuji Hashimoto, MMM2000 General Chair, Waseda University
   

IMS/HUTOP Special Session : Media in Production System

15:00

The Effects of Audio-Visual Synchronization on the Attention to the Audio-Visual Materials
 

Y.Sugano, S.Iwamiya (Kyushu Institute of Design, Japan)

 

15:25

A Method for 3D Shape Design Utilizing KANSEI Input
 

Ryo Yamada, Kenta Nagai, Hiroyuki Onishi, Katsumi Kishimoto (Dainippon Screen MFG. Co, Japan)

   

15:50

Re-generation of Facial Image Eye-Contacting with Partner on the TV Conference Environment
 

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Masafumi Tominaga, Hiroyasu Koshimizu (Chukyo University, Japan)

 

Kazuhito Murakami (Aichi Pref. University, Japan)

 

16:15

Hand Shape Interface for Intuitive Human-Robot Communication Through Haptic Media
 

Riku Hikiji, Shuji Hashimoto (Waseda University, Japan)

 

Tuesday 14 November 2000



Morning Presentation


Session 1: Authoring and Presentation of Multimedia Information, Hypermedia

9:00

A Multi-Channel Infrastructure for Presenting Nonlinear Hypermedia

 

Tina Schneider ( South Beach Software, USA )

Stephen William Smoliar ( Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc, USA )

 

9:25

Improving the Expressiveness of XML-based Hypermedia Authoring Languages
 

Meire Juliana Antonacci, Rogerio Ferreira Rodrigues, Dbora C. Muchaluat-Saade

Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares ( PUC-Rio, Brazil )
 

 

9:50

Inter-dimensional Hypermedia Communicative Devices for Rhetorical Struct

 

Lloyd Rutledge, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman ( CWI, Netherlands )

Jim Davis ( CourceNet Systems, USA )
 

 

10:15

Constructivist Approach in the Learning using Hypermedia Solution
 

Nicoletta Sala ( University of Italian Switzerland, Switzerland )
 

 

10:40 - 11:00 Cofee Break

Session 2: Networked Multimedia & Security

11:00

Security and Copyright Protection for Broadcast Video
 

Sabu Emmanuel, Mohan S Kankanhalli ( National University of Singapore, Singapore )

 

11:25

Time in Multimedia Transport Protocol
 

Patric Senac, Laurent Dairaine, Ernesto Exposito, Michel Diaz ( ENSICA, France )
 

 

11:50

Invisible Watermarking of Volume Data using Wavelet Transform
 

Xin Guan, Yinghui Wu, Mohan S Kankanhalli, Zhiyong Huang

( National University of Singapore, Singapore )



Afternoon Presentation


Invited Talk (13:30 - 15:00)

Presenter : Dr. Ryohei Nakatsu ( President and Director of ATR MI&C )
Title : "Creation of New Communications Based on Multimedia Technologies"

 

15:10 - 15:30 Cofee Break

 

Session 3: Segmentation & Retrieval of Multimedia Information

15:30

Perceptual Texture Space for Content-based Image Retrieval
 

Hui Zhong Long, Wee Kheng Leow, Fook Kee Chua ( National University of Singapore, Singapore )

 

15:55

Image Segmentation Using Graph-Theoretic Clustering
 

Steve T.Lam ( Washington University, USA )
 

Anthony G.Nguyen, Tina N.Nguyen ( Boeing Commercial Airplanes, USA )

 

16:20

Global Sound Database on Internet

Hai Qi, Shuji Hashimoto ( Waseda University, Japan )

 

16:45

A Spatial Representation Model and Similarity Retrieval of Icon Image
 

Ying-Hong Wang, Tai-Lung Chien ( TamKang University, Taiwan )

Session 4: Interactive Multimedia, Language

17:10

Modeling Complex Systems for Interactive Art on the Internet
 

C.Sommerer, L.Mignonneau ( MIC, ATR, Japan )

 

17:35

Transmitting Visual Information : Icons become words.

 

Bernard Champoux ( MIC, ATR, Japan)
 

Kazuko Fujisawa ( Communication Disorders Special Education Teacher, Japan )

Tomoyoshi Inoue ( Doshisha University, Japan )

 

18:20

Reception at HANABANA
( Japanese Restaurant at Wakasato Hall 1F )

 

Wednesday 15 November 2000



Morning Presentation


Session 5: Video (1)

9:30

Multi-browsing Video Display Method for the Visual Data Retrieval
 

Fumio Maehara, Satomi Sekiya, Yoshikazu Tanno, Manabu Ito ( Yamagata Video Archive Research Center, Telecommunication Advancement Organization, Japan ), Fumio Hasegawa ( Tohoku University of Art and Design, Japan )

 

9:55

Model-based Video Summarization for Mobile Users
 

Mohamed Ahmed, Ahmed Karmouch ( University of Ottawa, Canada )
 

 

10:20

A Proposal for a Video Modeling for Composing Multimedia Document
 

Cecile Roisin, Tien Tran_Thuong, Lionel Villard ( INRIA, France )

 

 

10:45 - 11:00 Cofee Break

Session 6: Video (2)

11:00

An Automated Compressed-domain Face Detection Method for Video Stratification
 

Tat-Seng Chua, Yunlong Zhao, Mohan S Kankanhalli ( National University of Singapor, Singapore )

 

11:25

Performance Analysis of a Buffer Management Technique for Interactive Video-On-Demand
 

Sun-Euy Kim, Chita R. Das, Anand Sivasubramaniam ( The Pennsylvania State University, USA )
 

 

11:50

Network-based Editing Systems for Large Scale Video Archive
 

Haruo hiki, Fumio Maehara, Yoshikazu Tanno, Manabu Ito

( Yamagata Video Archive Research Center Telecommunication Advancement Organization, Japan )
 

Fumio Hasegawa ( Tohoku University of Art and Design, Japan)



Afternoon Presentation


Session 7: Model based Graphics, Visualization, Vision and Virtual Reality

13:30

Interactive Environment for Intuitive Understanding of 4D Data

 

Makoto Murata, Shuji Hashimoto (Waseda University, Japan)

 

13:55

HyperMask: Talking Head Projected onto Real Object
 

Shigeo Morishima, Tatsuo Yotsukura (Seikei University, Japan)
 

Kim Binsted, Frank Nielsen (Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Japan)

Claudio Pinhanez (IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA)
 

 

14:20

Automated Generation of Animated Weather Reports with a Virtual Weatherman

T.Noma, Y.Shiratori (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

H.Baba (Kinki University, Japan)
 

 

14:45

NETWORKED THEATER - Movie Production System in Virtual Environment -

 

Kazuhiko Takahashi, Jun Kurumizawa, Tatsuo Yotsukura (ATR, MIC, Japan)

 

 

15:10 - 15:30 Cofee Break

Session 8: Topological and Geometric Modeling

15:30

Acquiring 3D Models from Images for Multimedia Systems
 

Wee Kheng Leow, Zhiyong Huang, Luping Zhou, Indriyati Atmosukarto, Yong Zhang

( National University of Singapore, Singapore )

 

15:55

Articulated Reeb Graphs for Interactive Skeleton Animation
 

Pizzanu Kanongchaiyos, Yoshihisa Shinagawa ( Tokyo University , Japan )

 

16:20

Visualization and Study of Dynamic 2D Shapes via Curvature

Shin Yoshizawa, Alexander Belyaev ( The University of Aizu, Japan )

 

MMM 2000 Closing Remarks

Prof.Shuji Hashimoto, MMM2000 General Chair, Waseda University



 

Last Updated on 8/19, 2000, mmm2000@shalab.phys.waseda.ac.jp