MMM 2001 — Technical Program


Conference date: November 5-7, 2001
Monday 5 / Tuesday 6 / Wednesday 7

All presentations and tutorials will be at CWI, The Dutch National Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, in Z011,
except for the tutorial "Methodologies and Software Systems for Virtual University Operations", which will be in Z009.

For directions on how to reach CWI, please see the website http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/about/index.html.

Monday 5 November 2001

Tutorials

9:00 - 12:30

Methodologies and Software Systems for Virtual University Operations

 

SMIL 2.0: Interactive Multimedia on the Web

 

presented by Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
For more information see tutorial page.

 

presented by Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, Amsterdam
For more information see tutorial page.

In co-operation with:

W3C.NL logo

ISOC.nl logo

 

14:00 - 17:30

MPEG-4

 

presented by Frederic Bouilhaguet, France Telecom
For more information see tutorial page.

Tuesday 6 November 2001

8:30 - 9:00

Registration and Coffee

9:00 - 10:30

Opening and Keynote

 

Keynote speaker: Dick Rijken


10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Video and Animation

 


Cinematic-Based Model for Scene Boundary Detection
Jihua Wang, Tat-Seng Chua, Liping Chen (School of Computing, National University of Singapore)

 


Uncertainties and Event Conflict Resolution within Video Analysis Service
Mohamed Ahmed, Ahmed Karmouch (School of Information Technology & Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa)

 


Designing MPEG4 Facial Animation Tables for Web Applications
Stephane Garchery, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, University of Geneva)

 

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Spatio-temporal Structure

 


COALA: Content-Oriented Audiovisual Library Access
Nastaran Fatemi, Omar Abou Khaled (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

 


Hypermedia Spatio-Temporal Synchronization Relations also Deserve First Class Status
Débora Christina Muchaluat-Saade, Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares (TeleMídia Laboratory - Departamento de Informática- PUC-Rio)

 


Manipulating Audio into a DBMS
Rania Lufti, Jose Martinez, Marc Gelcon (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes (IRIN / CID / BaDRI)

15:30 - 16:00

Tea Break

16:00 - 17:30

Content Adaptation

 


GBN: An Efficient Progressive Image Transmission Method Based on Guessing by Neighbors
Chin-Chen Chang, Timothy K. Shih, Ioun-Chang Lin (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Chang University, Chaiyi, Taiwan)

 


Multimedia Content Adapation with XML
Myriam Amielh, Sylvain Devillers (Philips Research France (PRF))

 


Improving Media Fragment Integration in Emerging Web Formats
Lloyd Rutledge, Patrick Schmitz (INS2: Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction Theme: CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica)

19:00 - 22:00

Dinner

Wednesday 7 November 2001

9:00 - 10:30

Presentation Distribution

 


A Framework for Event-Driven Hypermedia Presentation System
Rogério Ferreira Rodrigues, Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares (Laboratória TeleMídia - Departamento de Informática- PUC-Rio)

 


The Negotiation of Multimedia Content Services in Heterogeneous Environments
Tayeb Lemlouma, Nabil Layaïda (OPERA Project, INRIA Rhône-Alpes)

 


Multimedia Multicast Protocols Based on Multimedia Models
Michel Diaz, David Garduno, Thierry Gayraud, Stephane Owezarski (LAAS-CNRS)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Presentation Creation

 


A Generic Architecture for Automated Construction of Multimedia Presentations
Frederic Bes, Muriel Jourdan, Farid Khantache (Unitié de Recherche INRIA Rhône-Alpes)

 


Application-Specific Constraints for Multimedia Presentation Generation
Joost Geurts, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) Amsterdam)

 


Supporting Multimedia Designers: Towards more Effective Design Tools
Brian P. Bailey, Joseph A. Konstan, John Carlis (University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science and Engineering)

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Keynote and Closing