MMM97 FINAL PROGRAM


Tutorials Program

Mon, 17 Nov 1997

Thu, 20 Nov 1997

Morning (0900hr - 12.30hr) Break 10.30 hr - 10.45hr

Tutorial A: Modeling Support for Network-Based Multimedia Presntation
Instructor: Professor Dick Bulterman (CWI, The Netherlands)
Tutorial C: Interactive Television Systems and Information Superhighways
Instructor: Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

Lunch 1230hr - 1400 hr

Afternoon (1400hr - 1730hr)

Break 15.30-1545hr

Tutorial B: Visual Information Management Systems
Instructor: Professor Ramesh Jain (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Tutorial D: Virtual Reality in Surgery
Instructor: Dr Luis Serra (Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore)

Technical Sessions 18 -19 Nov 97

Tuesday, 18 November, 1997

Time

Morning

 

Afternoon

0830-0900 Registration 1315-1400 Invited paper: Content-based Retrieval in Multimedia Information Systems; Ramesh Jain (University of California at San Diego, USA)

Chair: Dr Pung Hung-Keng (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)

0900-0920

Opening

Welcome Address by Conference Chair

Address by Prof T.L Kunii: Founding President of Computer Graphcis Society

Message by Program Committee Chair

Session II: Indexing & Retrieval of MM Information

Session chair: Prof Hyoung-Joo Kim (Seoul National University, Korea)

0920- 1005 Invited paper: Models, Media and Motion: Using the Web to Support Multimedia Documents; Dick Bulterman (CWI, The Netherlands)

Chair: Prof Tat-Seng CHUA (National Univ. of SIngapore, Singapore)

1400-1430 INVARIANT TEXTURE MATCHING FOR CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL ; Seow Yong Lai & Wee Kheng Leow (Natl Univ. of Singapore)
1005-1035

Break

1430-1500 STARS: A SPATIAL ATTRIBUTES RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR IMAGE AND VIDEOS ; John Z. Li, M. Tamer Ozsu (Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada )

Session I : Information modeling, storage and integration

Session chair: Prof Patrick Senac (ENSICA, France)

1500-1530

Break

1035-1105 LIMEX: AN INTERGRATED MULTIMEDIA EXPERT SYSTEM; Mostafa Mahmoud , Mahmoud Rafea & Ahmed Rafea(Central lab. for Agricultural Expert Systems, Egypt)

Session III : Distributed multimedia, systems and applications

Session chair: Prof Dick Bulterman (CWI, Netherlands)

1105-1135 ALGEBRAIC FORMALIZATION OF TEMPORAL STRUCTURE FOR MULTIMEDIA DATA; Daichi Mizuguchi & Kazunori Yamaguchi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) 1530-1600 THE UTILITY MODEL FOR ADAPTIVE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS ; Shahadat Khan, Kin F Li & Eric G Manning (Univ. of Victoria, Canada)
1135-1205 A MOBILE AGENT PROTOTYPE FOR AUTONOMOUS MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION ACCESS, INTERACTION, AND RETRIEVAL ; Benjamin Falchuk, Ahmed Karmouch (Univ. of Ottawa, CANADA) 1600-1630 MATHEMATICAL BEANS: A SOFTWARE COMPONENT SET FOR WEB-BASED MATHEMATICAL VISUALIZATION ; Shuuichi Yukita, Akira Watanabe & Tosiyasu L Kunii (Univ. of Aizu, Japan)
1205-1315

Lunch

1630-1700 SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHMS FOR THE PLAYBACK OF MULTIPLE DISTRIBUTED STREAMS;Emilia Stoica, Hussein Abdel-Wahab & Kurt Maly (Old Dominion Univ., USA)
    1700-1730 AN EXTENDED OBJECT COMPOSITION MODEL FOR DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA SUPPORTS IN WORLD-WIDE WEB; Doo-Hyun Kim, Kyung-Hee Lee, Seung-Min Park, Sang-Hwan Kung and Chee-Hang Park (ETRI, Korea)
    1745 Depart for Dinner at Sentosa

 

Wednesday, 19 November, 1997

Time

Morning

 

Afternoon

0800-0830 Registration

Sesion VI : Topological & Geometric Modeling

Session chair: Hock-Soon Seah (Nanyang Technological Univ, Singapore)

Session IV :Model based graphics, video and vision and virtual reality

Session chair: Prof Shuji Hashimoto (Waseda Univ., Japan)

1345-1415 VIRTUAL HAND INTERACTION WITH 3D WORLD; Laurent Moccozet*, Zhiyong Huang, Magnenat Nadia Thalmann & Daniel Thalmann (*Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)
0830-0900 GENERATON OF 3D HAIR MODEL FROM MULTIPLE PICTURES; W. M. Kong, Hiroki Takahashi & Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) 1415-1445 MODEL BASED FACE RECONSTRUCTION FOR ANIMATION; Won-Sook Lee, Prem Kalra & Magnenat Nadia Thalmann (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)
0900-0930 RESOLVING OCCLUSION IN IMAGE SEQUENCE: AN AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATION; Kiem Ching Ong, Hung Chuan Teh and Tiow Seng Tan (Natl Univ. of Singapore) 1445-1515 PHYSICAL MODELING OF FACE USING SPRING FRAME BASED ON ANATOMICAL DATA; Yoshimitsu AOKI & Shuji Hashimoto (Waseda Univ., Tokyo)
0930-1000 DATABASE GUIDED ANIMATION OF GRASP MOVEMENT FOR VIRTUAL ACTORS ; Yahya Aydin, Hiroki Takahashi & Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) 1515-1530

Break

1000-1030

Break

Session VII Hypermedia

Session chair: Prof Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic Univ, USA)

1030-1115 Invited Paper: Processor architecture for multimedia:A survey; Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic University)

Session chair: Dr Wee-Kheng Leow (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

1530-1600 MODEL-BASED SUPPORT FOR INFORMATON CONTEXTUALISATION IN HYPERMEDIA; D.B. Lowe & A.J. Bucknell (Univ. of Technology, Australia)
Session V: Authoring and presentation of multimedia information

Session chair: Prof Ahmed Karmouch (Univ of Ottawa, Canada)

1600-1630 HYPERMEDIA SYNCHRONIZATION OVER ASYNCHRONOUS NETWORKS ; E. Chaput, P Senac, M Diaz, L Rojas Cardenas and L Dairaine (LAAS-CNRS, France)
1115-1145 AN INTEGRATED AUTHORING AND PRESENTATION ENVIRONMENT FOR INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTS ; Muriel Jourdan, Nabil Layaida, Cecile Roisin and Loay Sabry-Ismail (INRIA, France) 1630-1700 A LINK BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL MODEL IN WWW; Young-Mi Jun, Hyun Gyoo Yook & Myong Soon Park (Korea Univ., Korea )
1145-1215 FORMAL MODEL OF PARTICIPATOR DEPENDENT MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS; Timothy K.Shih, Steven K C Lo & Ding Rong Jiang (Tamkang Univ., Taiwan) 1700-1730 CONCEPTUAL MODELING FOR EDUCATIONAL HYPERBOOKS ; Peter Frohlich, Nicola Henze & Wolfgang Nejdl (Univ. of Hannover, Germany)
1215-1245 GRAPHICAL STRUCTURED-EDITING OF MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTS WITH TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS; Debora Christina Muchaluat Saade, Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Fabio Rodrigues Costa & Guido Lemos de Souza Filho (Laboratorio TeleMidia, Brasil) 1730-1745 Closing remark and announcement of MMM'98
1245-1345

Lunch

   

 

Poster Sessions

Tue 18 Nov: 1215-1545

Wed 19 Nov 97: 1245 - 1530pm.

TECHNIQUES OF REDUCING AUDIO DELAY FOR COMPUTER-BASED AUDIO-VIDEO TELECONFERENCING SYSTEMS; Kyung Hee Lee (Distributed Multimedia Section, ETRI, Korea)
MIST: THE MATILDA INFORMATION STRUCTURING TOOLSET; David Lowe (Univ of Technology, Australia)
MEDIA OBJECT SEMANTICS FOR TEMPORAL LINEAR LOGIC; Makoto Tanabe (Research Institute of Kyoto, Japan)
A NEW SCENARIO LANGUAGE FOR ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF THE TV NEWS PROGRAM; Junzou Kamahara (Kobe Univ of Mercantile Marine, Japan)
STRUCTURED AND HIERARCHICAL COMPOSITION OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA SCENARIOS; Doohun Eum (Duksung Women's Univ., Korea )
Designing and Prototyping Continue Media File System on Clustered Workstations; Se-Jin Hwang, Myong-Soo Park (Korea Univ, South Korea)
THE DISPER PROCESS MODEL FOR LARGE HYPERMEDIA APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; Rohan Vithanage (University of Technology, Australia)