MMM'93

MMM'93 provides a forum to discuss the efficient representation, processing, interaction, integration and retrieval of multimedia information. The theme of the conference is modeling. In particular, MMM'93 will concentrate on common modeling frameworks for integrating the diverse fields of visual information (graphics, image and video) and audio information (speech, music and sound effects). MMM'93 will be held on November 9-12, 1993. Future MMM conferences are planned for November 1995 and 1997.

International invited speakers and the selection from the responses to the Call for Papers will present key aspects at the leading edge of multimedia modeling. Four tutorials on important topics of interests are also planned. In addition, there will be an Exhibition comprising the latest developments in the market place.

Audience: The conference should be of interests to researchers, software and application developers, and information technologists.

ADMINISTRATION

Venue

Dept of Information Sys. & Comp. Sc. (DISCS),

National University of Singapore

Registration

To avoid disappointment, advance registrations are encouraged. On site registration will be available at the conference site (DISCS) from November 9-11, 1993 between 8 am - 12 pm.

Registration Fees and Payments

Please refer to registration form.

Cancellation

Before October 16, 1993 - Full Refund. There will be no refund after this date.

Hotel Accommodation

The Golden Landmark Hotel is the conference hotel. Room rate is S$125-00⁺⁺(Single/Twin). The rate includes daily breakfast.

Transportation

Free transfer between the Golden Landmark Hotel and the conference site (DISCS) will be provided for participants staying at the conference hotel. Kindly check the schedule at the hotel and conference venue lobbies. Transport from the airport to the hotel will be the responsibility of individual participants. Efficient taxi service is available from the airport to the hotel at an approximate fee of S$15-00.

Welcome Reception

Participants are invited to a welcome reception on Wednesday, November 10 1993, at 6:30 pm at the conference hotel.

Conference Dinner

The conference dinner will be held on Thursday, 11 November 1993 at 7:30 pm at the conference hotel. Guests of conference participants are invited to attend the dinner at the cost of S$50-00. Please indicate on the registration form the number of additional tickets required.

Tours

Tours to local places of interests can be booked through the conference hotel.

Currency

The basic currency is the Singapore Dollar (S$).

Secretariat

During the conference, telephone messages may be directed through the Secretariat at Tel: 773-1929, Fax: 779-4580.

The organizer reserves the right to alter the program as may be necessary.

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

	AM	PM	Evening
9 Nov (Tue)	Tutorial A	Tutorial B	-
10 Nov (Wed)	Tutorial C	Tutorial D	Welcome Reception
11 Nov (Thu)	Technical Sessions		Conference Dinner
12 Nov (Fri)	Technical Sessions		-

Note: an exhibition of latest multimedia product will be held during the conference.

PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS

9-10 November 1993

Venue: NUS S16 (DISCS Building), Level 3

All tutorials are half-a-day duration.

Tutorial A: Virtual Reality and Multimedia for Animation - 9 November (Tue): 0900-1230

Instructor: Prof Daniel Thalmann (Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, Switzerland)

In this tutorial, we review the impact of VR and multimedia devices and techniques on the animation process. We will explain the most important techniques of animation and how 3D interaction and multi-modal interfaces could improve the design of animation sequences. The impact on human animation will be emphasized.

Tutorial B: MPEG Standard - 9 November (Tue): 1400-1730

Instructor: Dr Guo-Jun Lu (National Uni. of Singapore, Singapore)

MPEG is a digital video standard for multimedia applications. This tutorial will discuss the principle and techniques used in MPEG for video compression. Topics to be covered include: MPEG overview; principle of video compression; compression techniques used in MPEG; applications and current products; and future development (MPEG II).

Tutorial C: Modeling for Virtual Reality - 10 November (Wed): 0900-1230

Instructor: Prof Tosiyasu L. Kunii (Tokyo Uni., Japan)

Creating virtual worlds inside the computers so that human beings can conceptually identify the virtual and real worlds is one of the ultimate goals of multimedia. It requires a powerful abstraction mechanism of virtual worlds, particularly of complex shapes. This tutorial focuses on how to establish powerful models to handle virtual visual reality. Examples include wide variety of virtual worlds such as sports expert systems, simulation of rain forest growth, and topographical guiding system.

Tutorial D: Spatial and Visual Databases - 10 November (Wed): 1400-1730

Instructor: Dr Beng-Chin Ooi (National Uni. of Singapore, Singapore)

In this tutorial, we examine the requirements for visual applications from the database backend. Conventional database systems were not designed to handle these new applications. Certain areas need to be re-addressed. We will cover topics such as query languages, indexing mechanisms, storage structures and query processing. More coverage will be given to spatial databases, which are collections of raster, vector, and alphanumeric data.

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME

11-12 November 1993

Venue: NUS S16 (DISCS Building), Level 3

INVITED PAPERS

Visualizing Highly Abstract Mathematical Concepts: A Case Study in Animation of Homology Groups - Prof T.L. Kunii (Tokyo Uni., Japan)

Experimenting with Multimedia Virtual Environment - Prof N. Magnenat-Thalmann (Geneva Uni., Switzerland)

Computers Compose Music, But Do We Listen? - Dr Stephen Smoliar (Inst. of Systems Science, Singapore)

ACCEPTED TECHNICAL PAPERS

Multimedia Data Model and Framework

A Data Model for Multimedia Information Retrieval - J. Gu and E.J. Neuhold (GMD-IPSI, Germany)

A Script-based Approach for Interactive Multimedia Applications - M. Vazirgiannis and M. Hatzopoulos (Uni. of Athens, Greece)

Multimedia Authoring

Authoring Tool for Multimedia Medical Record - H.G.S. Ip, S.L. Chan and K.C.K. Law (City Poly. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Structure Management in the Collaborative Multimedia Editing System IRIS -U.M. Borghoff and G. Teege (Tech. Uni. Munchen, Germany)

User Interface and Usability

A User Interface Generator for Visual Databases - B.C. Ooi, C. Zhao and H.J. Lu (National Uni. of Singapore, Singapore)

Information Landscapes, User Interface and Simulation: Improving Learning Outcomes, B.M. Harper - J.G. Hedberg and C. Brown (Uni. of Wollongong, Australia)

Networked Multimedia

A Review of Inter-Media Synchronization Schemes - V. Saparamadu, A. Seneviratne and M. Fry (Uni. of Tech. Sydney, Australia)

Service Primitives for Multimedia Transfer Protocol for Multimedia Applications - T.K. Park, S.C. Kim, Y.H. Joo, C.Y. Jeong, C.H. Kim and Y.J. Lee (Pohang Uni. of Sc. and Tech., Korea)

Geometry Modeling and Process Visualization

DEVI: A 3-D Constraint-based Geometric Editor that Infers Constraints - S. Thennarangam and G. Singh (Inst. of Systems Science, Singapore)

Event Modeling for Process Visualization - H. Baba, T. Noma, M.R. Jung and N. Okada (Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan)

Multimedia Synchronization

Time Stream Petri Nets: A Model for Multimedia Streams Synchronization - M. Diaz and P. Senac (LAAS, France)

The Synchronization Mechanism of Multimedia Information in Distributed Hypermedia System - K. Fujikawa, S. Shimojo, T. Matsuura, S. Nishio and H. Miyahara (Osaka Uni, Japan)

Video Encoding and Indexing

A Video Coding Scheme for Interactive Multimedia based on a Computer Graphics Model - R. Gonzalez and A. Ginige (Uni. of Tech. Sydney, Australia)

Towards Automating Content-based Video Indexing and Retrieval - H.J. Zhang, S.W. Smoliar and Y.H. Tan (Inst. of Systems Science, Singapore)

JPEG Compression and Distribution

Expanding Still Video as fast as AT Multimedia PC - L.V. Kasperovich (Space Research Inst., Russia)

Retrieving (JPEG) Pictures in Portable Hypermedia Documents - D.C.A. Bulterman (CWI, Netherlands)

Distributed Multimedia and Sound Classification

MultiGossip -a General Object Distribution Package in Smalltalk - B. Eiderback and P. Hagglund (IP Lab, Sweden)

Classifying Everyday Sounds in Video Annotation - W.S. Smoliar (Inst. of Systems Science, Singapore)

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCT EXHIBITION

9-12 November 1993

Venue: NUS S16 (DISCS Building), Level 3

An exhibition of the latest multimedia products will be held in conjunction with the conference. We have already received numerous requests for exhibition space. Potential exhibitors and corporate sponsors are invited to contact the MMM'93 Exhibition Chair, Dr Pung Hung-Keng (Tel: 772-2808, Fax: 779-4580), for further information.

INVITED and TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

Tosiyasu L. Kunii is currently a Professor of Information and Computer Science, the University of Tokyo. He authored and edited more than 32 computer science books, and published more than 120 refereed academic/technical papers in computer science and applications areas. Dr Kunii is the Founder of the Computer Graphics Society, Editor-in-Chief of The Visual Computer: An International Journal of Computer Graphics (Springer-Verlag), Associate Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation (John Wiley & Sons), and on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, VLDB Journal, and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. He is on the IFIP Modeling and Simulation Working Group, the IFIP Data Base Working Group and the IFIP Computer Graphics Working Group. He is on the board of directors of Japan Society of Sports Industry and also of Japan Society of Simulation and Gaming. Dr Kunii received the BSc, MSc, and DSc degrees in chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1962, 1964, and 1967 respectively. He is a fellow of IEEE and member of ACM, BCS, IPSJ and IEICE.

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann is currently the full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Adjunct Professor at HEC Montreal, Canada. She has served on a variety of government advisory boards and program committees in Canada. She has received several awards, including the 1985 Communications Award from the Government of Quebec. In May 1987, she was nominated woman of the year in sciences by the Montreal community. Dr Magnenat Thalmann received her BS in psychology, MS in biochemistry, and PhD in quantum chemistry and computer graphics from the University of Geneva. She has written and edited several books and research papers in image synthesis and computer animation and was co-director of the computer-generated films Dream Flight, Eglantine, Rendez-vous a Montreal, Galaxy Sweetheart, IAD, Flashback and Still Walking. She served as chairperson of Graphics Interface' 85, CGI' 88, 93, and Computer Animation' 89, 90, 91 and 92.

Daniel Thalmann is currently full Professor, Director of the Computer Graphics Laboratory and Head of the Computer Science Department at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is also adjunct Professor at the University of Montreal, Canada. He received his diploma in nuclear physics and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Geneva. He is coeditor-in-chief of the Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, member of the editorial board of the Visual Computer and the CADDM Journal and cochairs the EuroGraphics Working Group on Computer Simulation and Animation. Dr Thalmann's research interests include 3D computer animation, image synthesis, virtual reality and scientific visualization. He has published more than 100 papers in these areas and is coauthor of several books including: Computer Animation: Theory and Practice and Image Synthesis: Theory and Practice. He is also codirector of several computer-generated films.

Stephen William Smoliar obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics and his BSc in Mathematics from MIT. He has taught Computer Science at both the Technion, in Israel, and the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked on problems involving specification of distributed systems at General Research Corporation and has investigated expert systems development at both Schlumberger and the Information Sciences Institute (University of Southern California). Dr Smoliar also has extensive background in music and is the member of the Society of Music Theory. His main areas of research are in knowledge representation, perceptual categorization and cognitive models. He is currently interested in applying artificial intelligence to advanced media technologies. Stephen joined the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore in May 1991 and is presently leading a project on video classification. He is also exploring the possibility of using information technology as a teaching medium in music school.

Beng-Chin Ooi received BSc (Hon) and PhD in computer science from Monash University, Australia, in 1985 and 1989 respectively. He joined the National University of Singapore in 1989. His research interests include database performance, database UI, multi-media databases and GIS. He is the author of a monograph entitled "Efficient Query Processing in Geographic Information Systems" (Springer-Verlag), and co-editor of two books, "Advances in Spatial Databases" (Springer-Verlag) and "GIS: Technology and Applications" (World-Scientific). He was a program co-chair for SSD'93, and workshop co-chair for FEGIS'93. He is a PC member of ACM SIGMOD'94 and ADC'94, and Track Advisor of ACM SAC'94.

Guo-Jun Lu received his BEng from Nanjing Institute of Technology, China, in 1984 and his PhD from Loughborough University of Technology(LUT), UK, in 1990. After that, he was with LUT for about two years working on a European RACE project: MultiMed. He is currently with the National University of Singapore and is actively involved in a project to develop distributed hypermedia system. His research interests include image/video compression, and multimedia communication.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Organizing Committee

General Chair: Yuen, Chung-Kwong (NUS, Singapore)

Tutorial and Audio Visual Chair: McCallum, John C. (NUS, Singapore)

Finance Chair: Tai, Chiew-Lan (NUS, Singapore)

Local Arrangements Chair: Chionh, Eng-Wee (NUS, Singapore)

Publicity Chair: Teh, Hung-Chuan (NUS, Singapore)

Video & Demonstration Chair: Seah, Hock-Soon (NTU, Singapore)

Exhibition Chair: Pung, Hung-Keng (NUS, Singapore)

Conference Secretary: Ho, Veronica (NUS, Singapore)

Program Committee

Co-Chairs:

Chua, Tat-Seng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Kunii, Tosiyasu L. (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Members:

E.W. Chionh (Singapore), S. Christodoulakis (Greece), G. Coulson (UK), M. Fry (Australia), K. Fujimura (USA), S. Gerhard (USA), S. Gibbs (Switzerland), S. Hashimoto (Japan), B. Jansen (Australia), T. Kaeppner (Germany), A.E. Kaufman (USA), S.L. Lee (Singapore), C. Leung (UK), T. Noma (Japan), J. O'Callaghan (Australia), B.C. Ooi (Singapore), M. Prateek (USA), T. Oren (USA), P. Roosen-Runge (Canada), R. Sacks-Davis (Australia), H.S. Seah (Singapore), S. Shimojo (Japan), S.Y. Shin (Korea), Y. Shinagawa (Japan), S. Smoliar (Singapore), Y. Suenaga (Japan), S.L. Tanimoto (USA), H.C. Teh (Singapore), D. Thalmann (Switzerland), B. Wyvill (Canada)

International Advisory Committee

R.A. Earnshaw (UK), K. Fujimura (USA), A.E. Kaufman (USA), T.L. Kunii (Japan), J. O'Callaghan (Australia), P. Roosen-Runge (Canada), H. Samet (USA), D. Thalmann (Switzerland)

FURTHER INFORMATION

Ms Veronica Ho, MMM'93 Secretariat

Department of Information Systems and Computer Science

National University of Singapore

Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511

Tel: +(65)-772-2730, Fax: +(65)-779-4580, Email: hosf@iscs.nus.sg

Organized and Sponsored By:

Department of Information Systems and Computer Science,

National University of Singapore, Singapore

IEEE Singapore Section, Computer Chapter

Computer Graphics Society (CGS), Geneva, Switzerland

In Cooperation With:

Association for Computing Machinery

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics

Information Processing Society of Japan

Institute of Electronics, Information & Communication Engineers of Japan

Corporate Sponsors:

Chartered Electronics Industries (S) Pte Ltd

IBM (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Official Publication: IT Asia

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION for MMM'93

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Conference Fees Advance Registration Late/On-Site Registration

(receive on or before 15 Oct 1993) (receive after 15 Oct 1993)

Member* Non-Member Student⁺ Member* Non-Member Student⁺

Conference S$350 S$450 S$150 S$450 S$550 S$200

Tutorial (per half-day session) 100 120 50 120 140 70

Conference cum Tutorial 600 750 250 750 900 300

* Members of CGS, ACM, IEEE, staff of NUS and NTU, and members of DISCS Alumni.

+ Student registrations do not receive conference proceedings.

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ACCOMMODATION REGISTRATION for MMM'93

Golden Landmark Hotel, 390, Victoria St, Singapore 0105. Tel: 297-2828, Fax: 298-2038

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