The following program is subject to last-minute change.
| Wednesday, January 9 | Thursday, January 10 | Friday, January 11 | ||||
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| 09:00- Registration @ Foyer | ||||||
| 09:45 | 10:15 |
Opening | 09:15 | 10:15 |
Keynote Speech 2 Prof. Shigeo Morishima |
09:15 | 10:15 |
Keynote Speech 3 Prof. Tat-Seng Chua |
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| 10:15 | 11:15 |
Keynote Speech 1 Prof. Tsuhan Chen |
Coffee Break @ Demo/Poster Space |
Coffee Break @ Demo/Poster Space |
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| Coffee Break @ Demo/Poster Space |
10:30 | 12:30 |
2Oa: Oral Session 3 Visual Content Representation |
10:30 | 12:30 |
3Oa: Oral Session 5 Media Retrieval |
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| 11:30 | 13:00 |
1Oa: Oral Session 1 Media Understanding |
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| Lunch @ Demo/Poster Space | ||||||
| 14:00 | 16:00 |
1P: Poster Session 1 D: Demonstrations |
13:30 | 15:30 |
2P: Poster Session 2 D: Demonstrations |
Co-located Symposium 6th Symposium of ACCMS, Kyoto Univ. |
14:00 | 16:00 |
3Op: Oral Session 6 Audio and Music |
| 15:30 | 16:00 |
Coffee Break @ Demo/Poster Space |
15:00 | 15:30 |
Coffee Break @ Demo/Poster Space |
16:00 | 16:30 |
Closing | |
| 16:00 | 18:00 |
1Op: Oral Session 2 Creative Media |
15:30 | 17:30 |
2Op: Oral Session 4 Video Codec |
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| 17:45 | Bus for Banquet Leaves @ Main Entrance |
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| 18:15 | 20:15 |
Banquet @ The Garden Oriental Kyoto |
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Wednesday, January 9, 9:45-10:15 [Main Room]
| Welcome to MMM2008 | |
| Noboru Babaguchi (Osaka University, Japan) |
Wednesday, January 9, 10:15-11:15 [Main Room]
Chair: Minoru Etoh (NTT DoCoMo Research Labs, Japan)
| Unsupervised Discovery of Objects and Object Hierarchy in Video: Content Extraction Made Easy | |
| Prof. Tsuhan Chen (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA) |
Wednesday, January 9, 11:30-13:00 [Main Room]
Chair: Nobuyuki Yagi (NHK Science & Technical Research Labs, Japan)
| 1Oa-1: | A Novel Approach for Filtering Junk Images from Google Search Results |
| Yuli Gao, Jianping Fan, Hangzai Luo (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) | |
| 1Oa-2: | Object-Based Image Retrieval beyond Visual Appearances |
| Yan-Tao Zheng, Shi-Yong Neo, Tat-Seng Chua (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore), Qi Tian (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) | |
| 1Oa-3: | MILC2: A Multi-Layer Multi-Instance Learning Approach to Video Concept Detection |
| Zhiwei Gu (Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China), Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Jinhui Tang, Xiuqing Wu (Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China), Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China) |
Wednesday, January 9, 14:00-16:00 [Poster/Demo Space]
| 1P-1: | An Implicit Active Contour Model for Feature Regions and Lines |
| Ho-Ryong Jung, Moon-Ryul Jung (Sogang Univ., Korea) | |
| 1P-2: | New Approach for Hierarchical Classifier Training an Multi-Level Image Annotation |
| Jianping Fan, Yuli Gao, Hangzai Luo (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) | |
| 1P-3: | Extracting Text Information for Content-Based Video Retrieval |
| Lei Xu, Kongqiao Wang (Nokia Research Center, China) | |
| 1P-4: | Real-Time Video Surveillance Based on Combining Foreground Extraction and Human Detection |
| Hui-Chi Zeng, Szu-Hao Huang, Shang-Hong Lai (National TsingHua Univ., Taiwan) | |
| 1P-5: | Detecting and Clustering Multiple Takes of One Scene |
| Werner Bailer, Felix Lee, Georg Thallinger (JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria) | |
| 1P-6: | An Images Based 3D Model Retrieval Approach |
| Yuehong Wang, Rujie Liu (Fujitsu Research and Development Center Ltd., China), Takayuki Baba, Yusuke Uehara, Daiki Masumoto, Shigemi Nagata (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan) | |
| 1P-7: | Oh Web Image, Where art Thou? |
| Dirk Ahlers (OFFIS Institute for Information Technology Oldenburg, Germany), Susanne Boll (Univ. of Oldenburg, Germany) | |
| 1P-8: | Complementary Variance Energy for Fingerprint Segmentation |
| Zujun Hou, Wei-Yun Yau (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Nam-Leong Than, Wei Tang (Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore) | |
| 1P-9: | Similarity Search in Multimedia Time Series Data Using Amplitude-Level Features |
| Johannes Aßfalg, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröger, Peter Kunath, Alexey Pryakhin, Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Munich, Germany) | |
| 1P-10: | Sound Source Localization with Non-Calibrated Microphones |
| Tomoyuki Kobayashi, Yoshinari Kameda, Yuichi Ohta (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) | |
| 1P-11: | PriSurv: Privacy Protected Video Surveillance System Using Adaptive Visual Abstraction |
| Kenta Chinomi, Naoko Nitta, Yoshimichi Ito, Noboru Babaguchi (Osaka Univ., Japan) | |
| 1P-12: | Distribution-Based Similarity for Multi-Represented Multimedia Objects |
| Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Alexey Pryakhin, Matthias Schubert (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., Munich, Germany) |
Wednesday, January 9, 16:00-18:00 [Main Room]
Chair: Frank Nack (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
| 1Op-1: | A Multimodal Input Device for Music Authoring for Children |
| Yasushi Akiyama (Dalhousie Univ., Canada), Sageev Oore (Saint Mary's Univ., Canada) | |
| 1Op-2: | Free-Shaped Video Collage |
| Bo Yang (TsingHua Univ., China), Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Li-Feng Sun, Shi-Qiang Yang (TsingHua Univ., China), Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China) | |
| 1Op-3: | Aesthetics-Based Automatic Home Video Skimming System |
| Wei-Ting Peng, Yueh-Hsuan Chiang, Wei-Ta Chu, Wei-Jia Huang, Wei-Lun Chang, Po-Chung Huang, Yi-Ping Hung (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan) | |
| 1Op-4: | Using Fuzzy Lists for Playlist Management |
| François Deliège, Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg Univ., Denmark) |
Thursday, January 10, 9:15-10:15 [Main Room]
Chair: Kiyoharu Aizawa (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
| Instant Casting Movie System for Entertainment Revolution | |
| Prof. Shigeo Morishima (Waseda Univ., Japan) |
Thursday, January 10, 10:30-12:30 [Main Room]
Chair: Frank Nack (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
| 2Oa-1: | Tagging Video Contents with Positive/Negative Interest Based on User's Facial Expression |
| Masanori Miyahara, Masaki Aoki, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki (Kobe Univ., Japan) | |
| 2Oa-2: | Snap2Play: A Mixed-Reality Game Based on Scene Identification |
| Tat-Jun Chin, Yilun You (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Celine Coutrix (Univ. Joseph-Fourier, Grenoble, France), Joo-Hwee Lim, Jean-Pierre Chevallet (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Laurence Nigay (Univ. Joseph-Fourier, Grenoble, France) | |
| 2Oa-3: | Real-Time Multi-View Object Tracking in Mediated Environments |
| Huan Jin, Gang Qian, David Birchfield (Arizona State Univ., USA) | |
| 2Oa-4: | Reconstruct 3D Human Motion from Monocular Video Using Motion Library |
| Wenzhong Wang, Xianjie Qiu, Zhaoqi Wang, Rongrong Wang, Jintao Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) |
Thursday, January 10, 13:30-15:30 [Poster/Demo Space]
| 2P-1: | Appropriate Segment Extraction from Shots Based on Temporal Patterns of Example Videos |
| Yousuke Kurihara, Naoko Nitta, Noboru Babaguchi (Osaka Univ., Japan) | |
| 2P-2: | Fast Segmentation of H.264/AVC Bitstreams for On-Demand Video Summarization |
| Klaus Schöffmann, Laszlo Böszörmenyi (Univ. of Klagenfurt, Austria) | |
| 2P-3: | Blurred Image Detection and Classification |
| Ping Hsu , Bing-Yu Chen (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan) | |
| 2P-4: | Cross-Lingual Retrieval of Identical News Events by Near-Duplicate Video Segment Detection |
| Akira Ogawa, Tomokazu Takahashi, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase (Nagoya Univ., Japan) | |
| 2P-5: | Web Image Gathering with a Part-Based Object Recognition Method |
| Keiji Yanai (The Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan) | |
| 2P-6: | A Query Language Combining Object Features and Semantic Events for Surveillance Video Retrieval |
| Thi-Lan Le, Monique Thonnat (INRIA, France), Alain Boucher (Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique, Vietnam), François Brémond (INRIA, France) | |
| 2P-7: | Semantic Quantization of 3D Human Motion Capture Data Through Spatial-Temporal Feature Extraction |
| Yohan Jin, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA) | |
| 2P-8: | Fast Intermode Decision via Statistical Learning for H.264 Video Coding |
| Wei-Hau Pan, Chen-Kuo Chiang, Shang-Hong Lai (National TsingHua Univ., Taiwan) | |
| 2P-9: | A Novel Motion Estimation Method Based on Normalized Cross Correlation for Video Compression |
| Shou-Der Wei, Wei-Hau Pan, Shang-Hong Lai (National TsingHua Univ., Taiwan) | |
| 2P-10: | Curved Ray-Casting for Displacement Mapping in the GPU |
| Kyung-Gun Na, Moon-Ryul Jung (Sogang Univ., Korea) | |
| 2P-11: | Emotion-Based Music Visualization Using Photos |
| Chin-Han Chen, Ming-Fang Weng, Shyh-Kang Jeng, Yung-Yu Chuang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan) | |
| 2P-12: | LightCollabo: Distant Collaboration Support System for Manufacturers |
| Tetsuo Iyoda, Tsutomu Abe, Kiwame Tokai, Shoji Sakamoto, Jun Shingu, Hiroko Onuki, Meng Shi, Shingo Uchihashi (Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Japan) |
Thursday, January 10, 15:30-17:30 [Main Room]
Chair: Shigeyuki Sakazawa (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan)
| 2Op-1: | Accurate Identifying Method of JPEG2000 Images for Digital Cinema |
| Takahiro Fukuhara, Kazuhisa Hosaka (Sony Corp., Japan), Hitoshi Kiya (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan) | |
| 2Op-2: | Optimization of Spatial Error Concealment for H.264 Featuring Low Complexity |
| Shih-Chia Huang, Sy-Yen Kuo (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan) | |
| 2Op-3: | Temporal Error Concealment for H.264 Using Optimum Regression Plane |
| Shih-Chia Huang, Sy-Yen Kuo (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan) | |
| 2Op-4: | Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Codec Based on Turbo Trellis Codes Modulation |
| Jose Luis Martínez (Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), W. A. Rajitha J. Weerakkody (Univ. of Surrey, UK), Pedro Cuenca, Francisco Quiles (Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), W. Anil C Fernando (Univ. of Surrey, UK) |
Thursday, January 10, 18:15-20:15 [The Garden Oriental Kyoto]
Bus for the Banquet leaves from the front entrance at 17:45.
Friday, January 11, 9:15-10:15 [Main Room]
Chair: Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
| A Unified MMM Model for Media Content Analysis and Retrieval | |
| Prof. Tat-Seng Chua (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) |
Friday, January 11, 10:30-12:30 [Main Room]
Chair: Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
| 3Oa-1: | Selective Sampling Based on Dynamic Certainty Propagation for Image Retrieval |
| Xiaoyu Zhang, Jian Cheng, Hanqing Lu, Songde Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) | |
| 3Oa-2: | Local Radon Transform and Earth Mover's Distances for Content-Based Image Retrieval |
| Wei Xiong (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Sim Heng Ong, Weiping Lee, Kelvin Foong (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) | |
| 3Oa-3: | Content Based Querying and Searching for 3D Human Motions |
| Manoj M. Pawar, Gaurav N. Pradhan, Kang Zhang, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA) | |
| 3Oa-4: | Bi-Modal Conceptual Indexing for Medical Image Retrieval |
| Joo-Hwee Lim, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Diem Thi Hoang Le, Hanlin Goh (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) |
Friday, January 11, 14:00-16:00 [Main Room]
Chair: Benoit Huet (Institut EURECOM, France)
| 3Op-1: | Audio Analysis for Multimedia Retrieval from a Ubiquitous Home |
| Gamhewage C. de Silva, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Kiyoharu Aizawa (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 3Op-2: | Effectiveness of Signal Segmentation for Music Content Representation |
| Namunu C. Maddage, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) | |
| 3Op-3: | Probabilistic Estimation of a Novel Music Emotion Model |
| Tien-Lin Wu, Shyh-Kang Jeng (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan) | |
| 3Op-4: | Acoustic OFDM: Embedding High Bit-Rate Data in Audio |
| Hosei Matsuoka, Yusuke Nakashima, Takeshi Yoshimura, Toshiro Kawahara (NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan) |
Friday, January 11, 16:00-16:30 [Main Room]
Wednesday, January 9, 14:00-16:00 / Thursday, January 10, 13:30-15:30, [Demo/Poster Space]
| 1P-5D: | Detecting and Clustering Multiple Takes of One Scene |
| Werner Bailer, Felix Lee, Georg Thallinger (JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria) | |
| 1P-7D: | Oh Web Image, Where art Thou? |
| Dirk Ahlers (OFFIS Institute for Information Technology Oldenburg, Germany), Susanne Boll (Univ. of Oldenburg, Germany) | |
| 1P-11D: | PriSurv: Privacy Protected Video Surveillance System Using Adaptive Visual Abstraction |
| Kenta Chinomi, Naoko Nitta, Yoshimichi Ito, Noboru Babaguchi (Osaka Univ., Japan) | |
| 2P-1D: | Appropriate Segment Extraction from Shots Based on Temporal Patterns of Example Videos |
| Yousuke Kurihara, Naoko Nitta, Noboru Babaguchi (Osaka Univ., Japan) | |
| 2P-2D: | Fast Segmentation of H.264/AVC Bitstreams for On-Demand Video Summarization |
| Klaus Schöffmann, Laszlo Böszörmenyi (Univ. of Klagenfurt, Austria) | |
| 2P-4D: | Cross-Lingual Retrieval of Identical News Events by Near-Duplicate Video Segment Detection |
| Akira Ogawa, Tomokazu Takahashi, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase (Nagoya Univ., Japan) | |
| 2P-11D: | Emotion-Based Music Visualization Using Photos |
| Chin-Han Chen, Ming-Fang Weng, Shyh-Kang JengYung-Yu Chuang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan) | |
| 2P-12D: | LightCollabo: Distant Collaboration Support System for Manufacturers |
| Tetsuo Iyoda, Tsutomu Abe, Kiwame Tokai, Shoji Sakamoto, Jun Shingu, Hiroko Onuki, Meng Shi, Shingo Uchihashi (Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Japan) | |
| 3Op-4D: | Acoustic OFDM: Embedding High Bit-Rate Data in Audio |
| Hosei Matsuoka, Yusuke Nakashima, Takeshi Yoshimura (NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan) | |
Demonstrations from MEXT Leading Project "Development of Fundamental Software Technologies for Digital Archives" | |
| CC-1D: | Development of High Fidelity Digitization Software for Large-Scale and Intangible Cultural Assets |
| Development of High Fidelity Digitization Software for Large-Scale and Intangible Cultural Assets (Led by Takashi Matsuyama, Kyoto Univ., Japan) | |
| CC-2D: | Archiving Performances of Japanese Traditional Dramatic Arts with a Dynamic 3D Model |
| 3D Video Archiving of Traditional Performing Arts (Led by Kiyoharu Aizawa, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) | |
| CC-3D: | Producing and Streaming Video Materials for E-Learning |
| Course Management System for Higher Educational Institution under Ubiquitous Computing Environment (Led by Kenji Mase, Nagoya Univ., Japan) | |
| CC-4D: | Cross-Media Search Environments for Education |
| Software Technologies for Search and Integration across Heterogeneous Media Archives (Led by Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto Univ., Japan) | |
| CC-5D: | Associative Information Access Technologies Inspiring Autonomous Learning |
| Associative Information Access Technologies Inspiring Autonomous Learning (Led by Akihiko Takano, National Institute of Informatics, Japan) | |
Thursday, January 10, 13:30-13:45 [Symposium Space]
Thursday, January 10, 13:45-15:00 [Symposium Space]
| 1-1: | 3D Shape Reconstruction with Random Pattern Backgrounds |
| Masahiro Toyoura (Kyoto Univ., Japan) | |
| 1-2: | Detection of Human Interactions in Meetings |
| Zhiwen Yu, Motoyuki Ozeki, Hideki Aoyama, Yuichi Nakamura (Kyoto Univ., Japan) | |
| 1-3: | Development of a Multimedia English CALL Material with High Learning Effect |
| Georgios Georgiou, Mariko Takayasu, Sayaka Kamio, Yo Tsushimoto, Naoshi Hiraoka, Yasushi Tsubota, Masatake Dantsuji (Kyoto Univ., Japan) |
Thursday, January 10, 15:00-15:30 [Symposium Space]
Thursday, January 10, 15:30-17:10 [Symposium Space]
| 2-1: | T2K Open Supercomputer: Concept and Architecture of the New Machine for University's Supercomputing Centers |
| Hiroshi Nakashima (Kyoto Univ., Japan) | |
| 2-2: | Voice Activity Detection in Human Conversation |
| David Cournapeau (Kyoto Univ., Japan) | |
| 2-3: | An Internet Video-Broadcasting System Discouraging Unauthorized Redistribution by Digital Fingerprints |
| Tetsutaro Uehara (Kyoto Univ., Japan) | |
| 2-4: | Cultural Computing: Hitch Haiku |
| Naoko Tosa (Kyoto Univ., Japan) |