MMM'99 Technical Program

MULTIMEDIA MODELING '99
7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA MODELING
     October 4-6, 1999
National Research Council
Sussex Drive Campus
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Technical Program

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Monday October 4, 1999
8:00 Registration
8:45 Opening Remarks
        Ahmed Karmouch, Conference Chair, Co-organizer, University of Ottawa, Canada
        Roger Impey, Conference Co-organizer, National Research Council of Canada
        Bill Collins, President, OCRI, Canada
9:00 Keynote:
      Chairperson: Roger Impey, National Research Council of Canada
        Speaker: John Taylor National Research Council of Canada
               CMC’s 3D Virtual Reality Theatre
              VR Tours of two Tombs during the mysteries of Egypt Exhibition
9:30 Session 1: Authoring and Presentation of Multimedia Information
      Chairperson: Eric Horlait, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
     The use of SMIL: Multimedia research currently applied on a global scale (Invited)
        Lloyd Rutledge, Lynda Hardman and Jacco van Ossenbruggen,
        CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica), The Netherlands
     Improving SMIL documents with NCM facilities
        Leandro Marques Rodrigues, Rogerio Ferreira Rodrigues, Debora Muchaluat-Saade,
        Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, PUC-Rio, Brazil
     Multidimensional Shape Modeling in Multimedia Applications
        Valery Adzhiev, Alexander Pasko, University of Aizu, Japan
        Anatoly Ossipov, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Russia
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Session 2: Interactive Multimedia
      Chairperson: Rachida Dssouli, University of Montreal, Canada
     Formal Design of Interactive Multimedia Documents and Automatic Generation
    of Java Applications
        R. Willrich, INE/CTC/UFSC, Brazil
        P. de Saqui-Sannes, P. Senac, M. Diaz, ENSICA, LAAS-CNRS, France
     MetaData Management for Multimedia Interactive TeleLearning System
        Lei Yuan, Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
     SQL Extension for Supporting Multimedia Data
        Junghwa Lee, Yoohyun Park, Kyongsok Kim, Pusan National University, Korea
12:10 Session 3: Real-time Multimedia and Quality of Service Modeling
      Chairperson: Jean-Pierre Courtiat, LAAS-CNRS, France
     Immediate and Advance Resource Reservations Architecture
    with Quality of Service Routing Agents
        Farag Sallabi, Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
     Distributed Video Production: Tasks, Architecture and QoS provisioning
        Ned Ning Ren, Raouf Boutaba, Yasser Rasheed and Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto, Canada
12:50 Lunch
14:15 Session 4: Model based Graphics, Video, Vision and Virtual reality
      Chairperson: CHUA, Tat-Seng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
     Stratification Approach To Modeling Video
        Tat-Seng Chua, Liping Chen, Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
     Event-Driven Video and Visualization
        Jeho Nam, Ahmed H. Tewfik, University of Minnesota, USA
     Multimodal Animation System Based on the MPEG-4 Standard
        Sumedha Kshirsagar, Marc Escher, Gael Sannier, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,
        University of Geneva, Switzerland
     Modeling Methods for Reusable and Interoperable Virtual Entities in Virtual Worlds
        Michel Soto, Sebastien Allongue, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
15:35 Coffee Break
16:10 Session 5: Information Modeling, Storage and Integration
      Chairperson: Tet Yeap, University of Ottawa, Canada
     Modeling Object Clustering Performance for a spatial Database
        Fangju Wang, University of Guelph, Canada
     Multi-Pool Caching in Continuous Media Server
        Chutimet Srinilta, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology, Thailand
        Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University, USA
16:50 Adjourn

Tuesday October 5, 1999
8:00 Registration
8:45 Keynote:
      Chairperson: Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
        Speaker: Jaime Delgado, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
             Electronic Commerce of Multimedia Services
9:40 Session 6: Hypermedia
      Chairperson: Patrick Sénac, ENSICA, France
     Editing and Processing of MultiView Documents in Cross-Media Publishing
        Thomas Corte, Jens Deponte, Heinrich Muller, University of Dortmund, Germany
     Towards A Categorization of Hypermedia Data Models
        Carlos Miguel Tobar, Ivan Marques Ricarte, University of Campinas, Brazil
10:20 Coffee Break
10:50 Session 7: Topological and Geometric Modeling I
      Chairperson; Daniel Thalmann EPFL, Switzerland
     Motion Editing Using Multi-resolution Filtering
        Zhiyong Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
        Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann, EPFL-DI-LIG, Switzerland
     Simulation Of Postoperative 3D Facial Morphology Using Physics-Based Head Model
        Yoshimitsu Aoki, Shuji Hashimoto, Waseda University, Japan
        Masahiko Terashima, Akihiko Nakashima, Kyusyu University, Japan
     Modeling Facial Expressions by Interactive Evolution
        Hans-Felix Heimbrecht, Georg Trogemann, Academy of Media Arts, Germany
11:55 Session 8: Topological and Geometric Modeling II
      Chairperson; Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann University of Geneva, Switzerland
     3-D Human Face Reconstruction and Animation for Chinese Speech Training in Oral
      Deaf Education
       Jiang Xiaodong, Qiang Qinghua, Jiayue Zhu, Nanjing University, USA
     A Minimalist Approach to Facial Reconstruction
        Meherzad Gotla, Zhiyong Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
     Customisable Image Categorisation and Retrieval with Interactive User Interface
        Dezhong Hong, Sumeet Sohan Singh, Yong-Wei Zhu, Jian-Kang Wu, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
12:55 Lunch
14:30 Session 9: Indexing & Retrieval of Multimedia Information
      Chairperson: Shuji HASHIMOTO, Waseda University, Japan
     Video Segmentation using an Opportunistic Approach
        Mohamed Ahmed, Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
     Motion Insensitive Detection of Cuts and Gradual Transitions in Digital Video
        Scott Lawrence, Djemel Ziou, Shengrui Wang, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
     Image Classification Techniques for Image Retrieval on the World Wide Web
        N. Abbadeni, D. Ziou, S. Wang, N. Moursli, J-C. Batista University of Sherbrooke, Canada
        N. Jemmali, Corel Corp., Canada
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Session 10: Distributed Multimedia, Systems and Applications
      Chairperson: Jaime Delgado, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
     An Application Framework for Distributed Multimedia Development
        Ying-Hong Wang, Chi-Ming Chung, Hong-Zu Lin, Shih-Wel Lin, TamKang University,Taiwan
     Multimedia Technologies in Educational Processes: Some Examples
        Nicoletta Sala, University of Italian, Switzerland
17:00 MMM’2000 announcement
17:10 Closing Remarks

Wednesday October 6, 1999
TUTORIALS

8:00 Registration
8:30 - 12:30 Tutorial A
Virtual Humans in Multimedia Systems (half day)
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann (University of Geneva), Daniel Thalmann (EPFL), Switzerland
8:30 - 12:30 Tutorial B-1
Introduction to Extensible Markup Language XML (half-day)
Lloyd Rutledge and Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI, Netherlands
13:30 – 17:30 Tutorial B-2
SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
Lloyd Rutledge and Lynda Hardman, CWI, Netherlands