MMM'97

The 4^th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Nov 17-20, 1997,

National University of Singapore.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

ORGANIZERS

Department of Information Systems & Computer Science,

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Computer Graphics Society (CGS), Geneva, Switzerland

MMM'97 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'97 will concentrate on common modeling frameworks for integrating the diverse fields of visual and audio information. MMM'97 will be held on November 17-20, 1997, at the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, NUS (Please note the slight changes in the date of the conference).

Distinguished invited speakers and other selected speakers will present key topics at the leading edge of multimedia modeling. Four tutorials will cover important subject of interests. 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.

• Program at a glance
• Conference tutorials
• Technical programs
• Administration and fees
• Conference registration
• Hotel reservation
• Intenational program committee
• Organizing committee
• Further information

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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'97 Exhibition Chair, Dr Pung Hung-Keng (Tel: 874-2808, Fax: 779-4580), for further information.

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Tutorial A: Monday November 17 (0900-1230)

Instructor: Dick Bulterman (CWI, The Netherlands)

Title: Modeling Support for Network-Based Multimedia Presentation

Tutorial B: Monday November 17 (1400-1730)

Instructor: Ramesh Jain (University of California at San Diego, USA)

Title: Visual Information Management Systems

Tutorial C: Thu November 20 (0900-1230)

Instructor: Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic University)

Title: Interactive Television Systems and Information Superhighways

Tutorial D: Thur November 20 (1400-1730)

Instructor: Luis Serra (Institute of Systems Science )

Title: Virtual Reality in Surgery

More Information on tutorials here

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INVITED SPEAKERS

• Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic University); Processor Architectures For Multimedia: A Survey.
• Ramesh Jain (University of California at San Diego, USA); Content-based Retrieval in Multimedia Information Systems.
• Dick Bulterman (CWI, The Netherlands); Models, Media and Motion: Using the Web to Support Multimedia Documents

ACCEPTED TECHNICAL PAPERS

Information modeling, storage and integration

• LIMEX: AN INTERGRATED MULTIMEDIA EXPERT SYSTEM; Mostafa Mahmoud , Mahmoud Rafea & Ahmed Rafea(Central lab. for Agricultural Expert Systems, Egypt)
• ALGEBRAIC FORMALIZATION OF TEMPORAL STRUCTURE FOR MULTIMEDIA DATA; Daichi Mizuguchi & Kazunori Yamaguchi(University of Tokyo, Japan)
• A MOBILE AGENT PROTOTYPE FOR AUTONOMOUS MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION ACCESS, INTERACTION, AND RETRIEVAL; Benjamin Falchuk (Univ of Ottawa, CANADA)

Indexing & retrieval of multimedia information

• INVARIANT TEXTURE MATCHING FOR CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL; Seow Yong Lai & Wee Kheng Leow (National University of Singapore, Singapore )
• STARS: A SPATIAL ATTRIBUTES RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR IMAGE AND VIDEOS; John Z. Li (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada )

Distributed multimedia, systems and applications

• THE UTILITY MODEL FOR ADAPTIVE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; Shahadat Khan, Kin F Li & Eric G Manning (University of Victoria, Canada)
• MATHEMATICAL BEANS: A SOFTWARE COMPONENT SET FOR WEB-BASED MATHEMATICAL VISUALIZATION; Shuuichi Yukita, Akira Watanabe & Tosiyasu L Kunii (University of Aizu, Japan)
• SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHMS FOR THE PLAYBACK OF MULTIPLE DISTRIBUTED STREAMS; Emilia Stoica, Hussein Abdel-Wahab & Kurt Maly (Old Dominion University, USA)
• AN EXTENDED OBJECT COMPOSITION MODEL AND DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA SUPPORTS FOR WORLD-WIDE WEB; Doo-Hyun Kim, Kyung-Hee Lee, Seung-Min Park & Sang-Hwan Kung (ETRI, Korea)

Model based graphics, video and vision and virtual reality

• GENERATON OF 3D HAIR MODEL FROM MULTIPLE PICTURES; Waiming Kong, Hiroki Takahashi & Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• RESOLVING OCCLUSION IN IMAGE SEQUENCE: AN AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATION; Kiem Ching Ong, Hung Chuan The and Tiow Seng Tan (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
• DATABASE GUIDED ANIMATION OF GRASP MOVEMENT FOR VIRTUAL ACTORS; Yahya Aydin, Hiroki Takahashi & Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Authoring and presentation

• AUTHORING ENVIRONMENT FOR INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTS; Cecile Roisin, Muriel Jourdan, Nabil Layaida and Loay Sabry-Ismail (INRIA, France)
• FORMAL MODEL OF PARTICIPATOR DEPENDENT MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS; Timothy K.Shih, Steven K C Lo & Ding Rong Jiang (Tamkang Univ., Taiwan)
• GRAPHICAL STRUCTURED-EDITING OF MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTS WITH TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CONSTRAINT; Debora Christina Muchaluat Saade, Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Fabio Rodrigues Costa & Guido Lemos de Souza Filho (Laboratorio TeleMidia, Brasil)

Topological & geometric modeling

• VIRTUAL HAND INTERACTION WITH 3D WORLD; Laurent Moccozet*, Zhiyong Huang, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann & Daniel Thalmann (*University of Geneva, Switzerland)
• MODEL BASED FACE RECONSTRUCTION FOR ANIMATION; Lee Won-Sook (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Prem Kalra & Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
• PHYSICAL MODELING OF FACE USING SPRING FRAME BASED ON ANATOMICAL DATA; Yoshimitsu AOKI & Shuji Hashimoto (Waseda University, Tokyo)

Hypermedia

• MODEL-BASED SUPPORT FOR INFORMATON CONTEXTUALISATION IN HYPERMEDIA; David Lowe & Andrew Bucknell (University of Technology, Australia)
• HYPERMEDIA SYNCHRONIZATION OVER ASYNCHRONOUS NETWORKS; E. Chaput, P Senac, L Rojas Cardenas, M Diaz and L Dairaine (LAAS-CNRS, France)
• A LINK BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL MODEL IN WWW; Young-Mi Jun, Hyun Gyoo Yook & Myong Soon Park (Korea Univ., Korea )
• CONCEPTUAL MODELING FOR EDUCATIONAL HYPERBOOKS; Peter Frohlich, Nicola Henze & Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover, Germany)

POSTER SESSIONS

• MEDIA OBJECT SEMANTICS FOR TEMPORAL LINEAR LOGIC; Makoto Tanabe (Advanced Software Technology & Mechatronics Research Institute of Kyoto, Japan)
• ANIMATION OF HUMAN WALKING ON UP-SLOPES; Xiaoyan Liu & Ling Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• DESIGNING AND PROTOTYPING CONTINUOUS MEDIA FILE SYSTEM ON CLUSTERED WORKSTATIONS; Se-Jin Hwang & Myong-Soon Park (Korea University., Korea )
• STRUCTURAL AND HIERACHICAL COMPOSITION OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA SCENARIOS; Doohun Eum & T. Minoura (Duksung Women's Univ., Korea)
• A NEW SCENARIO LANGUAGE FOR ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF THE TV NEWS PROGRAM; Junzou Kamahara (Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, Japan)
• MIST: THE MATILDA INFORMATION STRUCTURING TOOLSET; D. B. Lowe & P. Martyn (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
• THE DISPER PROCESS MODEL FOR LARGE HYPERMEDIA APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT Athula Ginige & Rohan Vithanage (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
• TECHNIQUES OF REDUCING AUDIO DELAY FOR COMPUTER-BASED AUDIO-VIDEO TELECONFERENCING SYSTEMS Kyung H. Lee, Doohyun Kim, Min-Gyu Kang & Sang H. Kung (Distributed Multimedia Section, ETRI, Korea)

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VENUE

TR5, Level 3, Block S16, Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (DISCS), National University of Singapore, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119260.

Registration

To avoid disappointment, advance registrations are encouraged. On site registration will be available at the conference venue from November 17-20, 1997 between 8 am - 12 noon.

Conference Fees

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

+ Student registrations do not include conference dinner. Students who are conference speakers have to register under member or non-member category.

Note: 1US$ @ S$1.5. Conference registration fee includes daily lunches, teas, and conference proceedings. GST will be absorbed by the conference.

Cancellation policy

Full Refund before October 16, 1997; no refund thereafter.

Hotel Accommodation

The Grand Plaza Hotel has been appointed as the official hotel for our MMM97 delegates at a special concession rate. The hotel is newly established right at the heart of the civic and art district. For more information on the hotel please check it out at http://www.uob.com.sg/lifestyl/Grandplz.htm. To reserve your room at Grand Plaza and enjoy the discount rate, please complete the reservation form below and return it together with your conference registration form to the conference Secretariat.

Transportation

There will be twice daily free coach transfers between the hotel and the conference site at the National University of Singapore. The journey is about 20 minutes. Kindly check the schedule at the hotel and conference venue lobbies. Transport from the airport to the hotel is the responsibility of individual participants. Efficient taxi service is available from the airport to the hotel.

Conference Dinner

The conference dinner will be held on Tuesday, 18 November, at 7:00 pm at Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa Resort Hotel at Sentosa Island, Singapore. Transportation from the conference site to Sentosa will be provided. The programme includes a buffet dinner and a free and easy night at the resort island. Guests of conference delegates are also invited to attend the dinner at the cost of S$60-00 per person. 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.

On Site Secretariat Services

Internet access will be provided throughout the conference. Telephone and Fax messages may be directed through the Secretariat at Tel: +(65)-773-1929, Fax: +(65)-779-4580.

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

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Registration Form (HTML, Postscript)

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Room Reservation

= The above rates are subject to a 10% service charge, 1% government tax and 3% goods and service tax. They do not include breakfast and are applicable for single and double use. ( 1 US$=S$1.50)

Hotel Reservation Form (HTML, Postscript)

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Chair

Pung, Hung-Keng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Members

Bulterman, Dick (CWI, Netherlands)

Coulson, Geoff (University of Lancaster, UK)

Courtiat, Jean-Pierre (LAAS, France)

Diaz, Michel (LAAS, France)

Dssouli, Rachida (University of Monstreal, Canada)

Gibbs, Simon (GMD, Germany)

Glinert, Ephraim P (Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute)

Gu, Junzgong (East China Normal University, PRC)

Hashimoto, Shuji (Weseda University, Japan)

Karmouch, Ahmed (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Kunii, Tosiyasu (University of Aizu, Japan)

Lee, Myeong Won (University of Suwon, Korea)

Li, Victor (University of Southern California, USA)

Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Sénac, Patrick (ENSICA, France)

Shimojo, Shinji (Osaka University, Japan)

Shinagawa, Yoshihisa (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Tanimoto, Steven L (University of Washington, USA)

Thalmann, Danial (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)

Whang, Kyu-Young (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)

Wu, Jian-Kang (Institute of Systems Science, Singapore)

Zhang, Hong-Jiang (HP Research Lab., USA)

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Conference Chair

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

Technical Program Chair

Pung, Hung-Keng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Tutorial and Audio Visual Chair

McCallum, John C. (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Finance Chair

Ms Toh, Sew-Kiok (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Local Arrangements Chair

Sung, Kah-Kay (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Leow Wee-Kheng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Publicity Chair

Goh, Wooi-Boon (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Terence Sim (National University of Singapore)

Exhibition Chair

Pung, Hung-Keng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Demonstrations

Li, Hong-Yi (Institute of Systems Science)

Conference Secretary

Ms Ho, Veronica (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

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Ms Veronica Ho, MMM'97 Secretariat

Department of Information Systems and Computer Science,

National University of Singapore,

Kent Ridge, Singapore 119660.

Tel: +(65)-874-2730, Fax: +(65)-779-4580, Email: mmm@iscs.nus.edu.sg

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