SESSIONS & PAPERS

Session 1 Virtual Environment

Chair: Prof. Masayuki Nakajima

1-1. When 2D Meet with 3D: Mixing 3D Scenes with 2D Intelligent Agents

Wen-Hao Chuang (City Univ. of Hong Kong)

1-2. A Pre-fetch Based Streaming Algorithm for Remote Walkthrough

Shi-NineYang, Chen-Chin Feng, Wei-Ming Chen, Chia-Hsin Chen (National Tsing Hua Univ.)

1-3. Precious Collections Project between Taiwan and Japan with Rich Culture of National Palace Museum

Peisuei Lee, Takahiro Kobayashi, Akira Ishida (IAMAS), Makoto Sato, Hiroshi Nagahashi, Masayi.Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Tech.), ChiaFang Lee (National Taiwan Univ.), K.Y.Liaco (Chang Foundation), P.T.Lin (National Palace Museum)

Session 2 Poster I

2-1. MIRACLE：A study on Digital Mirror Images System and its Application of KIMONO Clothing

Akinori Taguchi, Terumasa Aoki, Hiroshi Yasuda (Univ. of Tokyo)

2-2. Stereo Matching Method using Optical Flow without Epi-polar Condition

Daisuke Nakashima, Xiaotong Hu, Makoto Fujimura, Hideo Kuroda (Nagasaki Univ.)

2-3. Design of GenLOT Filters by Nonlinear Optimization Algorithms: Performance Comparison in a Single Design Objective

Hisashi Shimodaira (Bunkyo Univ.)

2-4. Digital Watermarking Using Variable Embedding Intensity Based on Degrees of Complexity of Image Blocks

Jun Kameya, Xiaotong Hu, Makoto Fujimura, Koichi Nozaki, Hideo Kuroda (Nagasaki Univ.)

2-5. Fast Block Matching in One Dimensional Fractal Image Coding Using Center of Gravity of a Block

Makoto Segawa, Xiaotong Hu, Makoto Fujimura, Hideo Kuroda (Nagasaki Univ.)

2-6. Multimedia Search Based on Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

Seiji Hotta (Nagasaki Univ.), Kiichi Urahama (Kyushu Institute of Design)

2-7. Data Reduction by Sample Clustering for Fuzzy Segmentation of Multispectral Images

T. Hiraoka (Toakensetugijutu Corp.), K. Inoue, K. Urahama (Kyushu Institute of Design)

2-8. A Measurement Scheme for End-to-End Available Bandwidth on Video Delivery Systems

Takuji Nakahira (Kochi Univ. of Tech.), Kazunori Shimamura (Kochi Univ. of Tech./TAO)

2-9. An Application to Writer Recognition Using Letter-Shapes Information of Non-Linear Normalization

Yu Takigawa, Chiaki Nakamura, Kazuo Matsuda, Sueharu Miyahara (Nagasaki Univ.)

2-10. System Information Conversion System for Retransmitting Program Real-timely in Digital Broadcasting

Byungjun Bae, Joonyoung Choi, Jinhwan Lee, Youngkwon Hahm (ETRI)

2-11. Error Resilient Video Transcoding Based on the Optimal Multiple Description of DCT Coefficients

Il Koo Kim, Nam Ik Cho (Seoul National Univ.), Jeho Nam (ETRI)

2-12. MPEG-21 DIA Description for 3D Stereoscopic Video Conversion

Man Bae Kim, Jeho Nam, Woonhak Baek, Jungwha Son (Kangwon National Univ.), Jinwoo Hong (ETRI)

2-13. Development of a Virtual Imaging System, 'VIVA'

Ju-hyun Oh, Seung-jin Nam, Sung-choon Park (Korean Broadcasting System)

2-14. The Synthesis of Tree Styles in Chinese Landscape Painting

Zen-Chung Shih (National Chiao Tung Univ.), Der-Lor Way (National Chiao Tung Univ./Van Nung Institute of Tech.), Hsiu-Chen Yen (National Chiao Tung Univ.)

2-15. Error Resilient Mode Decision by the Adoption of Drift Noise Modeling

Chul-Woo Kim (McubeWorks Inc.), Dong-Wook Kang (Kookmin Univ.), Hoo-Jong Kim (SK Telecom)

2-16. Selective Fast Motion Estimation with Variable Motion Block Sizes

Woong Il Choi, Byeungwoo Jeon (Sung Kyun Kwan Univ.)

Session 3 CG & 3D Modeling

Chair: Prof. Zen-Chung Shih

3-1. The Synthesis of Rock Textures in Three-dimensional Chinese Landscape Painting

Der-Lor Way, Zen-Chung Shih (National Chiao Tung Univ.)

3-2. A Novel Approach for Crack Pattern Synthesis and Animation

Hsien-Hsi Hsieh, Wen-Kai Tai, Hsueh-Wu Wang (National Dong Hwa Univ.)

3-3. Frequency Analysis for Unorganized Point Clouds

Shinji Okane (Nara Institute of Science and Tech.), Ichiro Kanaya (Osaka Univ.), Yoshihiro Yasumuro, Masataka Imura, Yoshitsugu Manabe, Kunihiro Chihara (Nara Institute of Science and Tech.)

3-4. Three-dimensional Mesh Simplification Using Normal Variation Error Metric and Subdivided Edge Classification

Eun-Young Chang, Chung-Hyun Ahn, Chieteuk Ahn (ETRI), Jeong-Hwan Ahn, Yo-Sung Ho (KJIST)

3-5. Mesh Simplification Based on Vertex Normal

Zhang Hui, Shu Huazhong, Luo Limin, Bao Xudong (Southeast Univ.)

3-6. A Radial Basis Function Based Approach for 3D Object Modeling and Reconstruction

Hamid Laga, Romanos Piperakis, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Tech.)

Session 4 Poster II

4-1. Adaptative Embedding Method of Digital Watermarking for Still Images Using Wavelet Transform

Atsushi Yamada, Naohiro Ozaki, Makoto Fujimura, Hideo Kuroda (Nagasaki Univ.)

4-2. Error Resilience by Using Extended Range Blocks in Fractal Image Coding

Daisuke Semiya, Toshiaki Fujii, Masayuki Tanimoto (Nagoya Univ.)

4-3. A Content-based Image Retrieval Method Based on Fractal Image Coding

Isao Kondo, Miki Haseyama, Hideo Kitajima (Hokkaido Univ.)

4-4. Evaluation Method of Various Modulated Images Using The Fixed Equivalent Approximation Method

Junji Kawasaki (Kanazawa technical college), Naoto Kitamura, Hironori Kawamura, Kyoko Kato, Akira Hayashi (Kanazawa Institute of Technology), Taizo Iijima (Soken Institute Inc.)

4-5. Development of Content Retrieval Application Using MPEG-7 for Archive Video Materials

Manabu Ito, Takuyo Kogure, Haruo Hiki, Youichi Ishibashi (TAO Yamagata Video Archive Research Center), Fumio Hasegawa (Tohoku Univ.)

4-6. Low Bit-rate Video Coding Based on Iteration of Overlapped Block Motion Compensation and Matching Pursuit

Shingo Suzuki, Ichiro Matsuda, Susumu Itoh (Tokyo Univ.)

4-7. Relationship between Impressions and Physical Quantities for Textures in Paintings

Takahiro Nakai, Makoto Tadenuma (ATR)

4-8. Real-Time System to Obtain Ray Space data

Teruyuki Kutsuna, Toshiaki Fujii, Masayuki Tanimoto (Nagoya Univ.)

4-9. Restoration Processing of Character Patterns Which Affects Recognition Accuracy of Printed Kanji Characters

Yan Hu, Seiji Hotta, Kazuo Matsuda, Sueharu Miyahara (Nagasaki Univ.)

4-10. Material analysis for texture images based on frequency analysis

Yuichi Kobayashi (ATR/Waseda Univ.), Jun Ohya (Waseda Univ.), Makoto Tadenuma (ATR)

4-11. Usage Environment Description Scheme for Audio Resource Adaptation

Hae-Kwang Kim (Sejong Univ.), Rin-Chul Kim (Univ. of Seoul), Hyong-Joong Kim (Kangwon National Univ.), Jeho Nam, Jin-Woo Hong (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Inst.)

4-12. MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation for Color Vision Deficiency

Seungji Yang, Jaeil Song, Cheonseog Kim, Yong Man Ro (Information and Communications Univ.), Jeho Nam, Jinwoo Hong (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Inst.)

4-13. A Stochastic Approach to Occlusion and Disparity Estimation

Sang Hwa Lee (Seoul National Univ.), Yasuaki Kanatsugu (NHK-ES), Jong-il Park (Hanyang Univ.)

4-14. Development of 3D Virtual Heritage Browsing System

Yong-Moo Kwon, Heedong Ko (Korea Inst. of Science & Tech.), In-Soo Woo (RTV)

4-15. Composition of High-Resolution Stereo Images from Hybrid Stereo System

Sang Yoon Park, Jung Sun Kim, Sang Hwa Lee, Nam Ik Cho (Seoul National Univ.), Gwang-Soon Lee, Chung-Hyun Ahn (ETRI)

Session 5 Object Recognition

Chair: Prof. Mohan S Kankanhalli

5-1. A Sensor Fusion Based Object Tracker for Compressed Video

Radhakrishna Achanta, Jun Wang, Mohan S. Kankanhalli (National Univ. of Singapore)

5-2. System that Adjusts Sight Line for Remote Communication

Tomoaki Nakamura, Isao Nishihara, Shizuo Nakano (Toyama Prefectural Univ.)

5-3. A Practical Method for Real-Time Hand Posture and Gesture Recognition

Der-Yun Yang, Hsueh-Wu Wang, Chen-Duo Liu (Institute for Information Industry), Wen-Kai Tai (National Dong-Hwa Univ.)

5-4. Appearance-Based Detection of Human Behavior using Texture　Model Adaptation

Hirotake Yamazoe (Osaka Univ./ATR), Akira Utsumi, Nobuji Tetsutani (ATR), Masahiko Yachida (Osaka Univ.)

Session 6 Poster III

6-1. An Image Retrieval Method for Video Databases

Ayane Mochizuki, Isao Nishihara, Shizuo Nakano (Toyama Prefectural Univ.)

6-2. Inverse Photon Tracing for Interactive Global Illumination

Genki Takiuchi, Naoki Hashimoto, Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Tech.)

6-3. Creating Digest Videos from a Video Database to Ease Understanding

Isao Nishihara, Shizuo Nakano (Toyama Prefectural Univ.), Tomoji Toriyama (NTT)

6-4. An Accurate Noise Detector for the Removal of Impulsive Noise

Keiko Kondo, Miki Haseyama, Hideo Kitajima (Hokkaido Univ.)

6-5. A GA and SA-based Fast Search Algorithm for IFS Parameters in Fractal Image Coding

Megumi Takezawa, Miki Haseyama, Hideo Kitajima（Hokkaido Univ.)

6-6. Adaptive Bi-predictive Video Coding Using Temporal Extrapolation

Shin-ichiro Koto, Takeshi Chujoh, Yoshihiro Kikuchi (Toshiba corp.)

6-7. Detection of Weak Perspective Invariant 2D Shapes without Tangent Information

Takayuki Nakata (Kanazawa Univ.), Yue Bao, Hidehiko Akasaka (Yokohama National Univ.)

6-8. Depth Control Methodology for a Real-time 2D-to-3D Image Conversion

Toshiya Iinuma (Sanyo Electric Co./Nara Institute of Science and Tech.), Haruhiko Murata, Shugo Yamashita (Sanyo Electric Co.), Kunihiro Chihara (Nara Institute of Science and Tech.)

6-9. Surface Extraction from Multiple Views with Different Zoom Ratio

Yoshinari Nakanishi, Xiaohua Zhang, Kiichi Kobayashi (NHK-ES), Hideki Mitsumine (NHK), Suguru Saito (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)

6-10. Optimal Matching between Objective Frame Quality and Subjective SSCQE Video Quality

Yuukou Horita, Takamichi Miyata (Toyama Univ.), Irwan Prasetya Gunawan (Univ. of Essex), Tadakuni Murai (Toyama Univ.), Mohammed Ghanbari (Univ. of Essex)

6-11. Personal Channel Application at Advanced Set-top Box Simulator Based on TV-Anytime Metadata

Han-kyu Lee, Heekyung Lee, Kyeongok Kang, Jinwoong Kim (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)

6-12. Predictive Coding of Color and Normal Vector Information for Three-dimensional Mesh Representation

Jeong-Hwan Ahn (Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology), Chang-Su Kim (Seoul National Univ.), Yo-Sung Ho (Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology)

6-13. Agent-based Multimedia Personalcasting

Seongjoon Pak, Jeewoong Ryu, Munchurl Kim (Information and Communications Univ., Korea)

6-14. Image Filtering Based on Fuzzy Logic

H. S. Kam, M. Hanmandlu (Multimedia Univ., Malaysia)

6-15. 3D Mesh Compression Using Layer and Connectivity Code

Min-Jeong Lee (Korea Institute of Science & Technology, Korea Univ.), Yong-Moo Kwon (Korea Institute of Science & Technology), Chang-Hun Kim (Korea Univ.)

Session 7 Poster IV

7-1. Lossless Video Coding Using Interleaved Multiple Frames

Ayuko Takagi, Hitoshi Kiya (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)

7-2. Text Image Enhancement in Scenery Images for Degraded Character Recognition

Hiroki Takahashi, Kousuke Ogata, Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

7-3. A High Resolution 3D Shape Measuring Method Utilizing a Self-Calibration System

JiaTing Dong, Ikuo Ishii, Hiroshi Ueno (Niigata Univ.), Akira Takahashi (Nagaoka National College of Technology), Hiroei Imai (Niigata Univ.)

7-4. Image Matching Method for Printed Circuit Board Using Edge Direction Histogram Based on Edge Strength

Kunihiro Goto, Fumihiko Saitoh (Gifu Univ.)

7-5. The Development of Advanced High-Resolution Surveillance Camera with 520 TV Lines

Ryuichiro Tominaga, Seiji Okada, Yukio Mori, Haruhiko Murata (SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.), Toshiya Iinuma (SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Eiichiro Azuma (Video Imaging System Division)

7-6. A Shape-Constraint-Based Splitting Active Contour Model and its Applications

Shogo Yoneyama, Miki Haseyama, Hideo Kitajima (Hokkaido Univ.)

7-7. Detection of Free-Form Object with Three Dimensional Voting

Takayuki Nakata (Kanazawa Univ.), Yue Bao (Yokohama National Univ.), Naofumi Fujiwara (Kanazawa Univ.)

7-8. Least Distortion Texture Map Construction from Multiple Views

Xiaohua Zhang, Yoshinari Nakanishi, Kiichi Kobayashi (NHK-ES), Hideki Mitsumine (NHK), Suguru Saito (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

7-9. Verification Tests Approach Based on "MPEG-7 over Content ID" for the Large Scale Digital Archive

Yoichi Ishibashi, Takuyo Kogure, Yoshikazu Tanno, Manabu Ito, Fumio Hasegawa (TAO Yamagata Video Archive Research Center)

7-10. Full Color Electro-holographic Display Employed LED and Virtual Image Reconstructing Technique

Kunihiko Takano (Tokyo Metropolitan College of Aeronautical Engineering), Kazuki Obana, Takeshi Tanaka, Kazuyo Wada, Koki Sato (Shonan Institute of Technology)

7-11. Copy Control Mechanism Based on MPEG-21 Framework

Hyoung Joong Kim, Kiseob Kim (Kangwon National Univ.), Jeho Nam, Jin Woo Hong, Jin Woong Kim (ETRI)

7-12. A Progressive Image Coding by Activity Region

Kugjin Yun, Sukhee Cho, Youngkwon Hahm, Chieteuk Ahn (ETRI)

7-13. Stereoscopic Video Coding Using MAC in MPEG-4

Sukhee Cho, Kugjin Yun, Yungjeong Choi, Youngkwon Hahm (ETRI), Yongtae Kim, Kawnghoon Sohn (Yonsei Univ.)

7-14. The Image Synthesis for Virtual Bamboo Sculpting

Chun-Chieh Hsiao (National Chiao-Tung Univ., Lung-Hwa Univ. of Science and Technology), Zen-Chung Shih (National Chiao-Tung Univ.)

7-15. MAC-based Disparity Estimation for Stereoscopic Video Coder

Yongtae Kim, Seungchul Choi (Yonsei Univ.), Sukhee Cho, Youngkwon Hahm (ETRI), Kwanghoon Sohn (Yonsei Univ.)

7-16. Extracting Story Units in News Video

Lekha Chaisorn, Tat-Seng Chua, Chin-Hui Lee (National Univ. of Singapore)

Session 8 Advanced Image Coding

Chair: Prof. Yo-Sung Ho

8-1. A Seamless Integration of JPEG2000 Lossy Compression Scheme and BPCS Steganography

Hideki Noda, Jeremiah Spaulding (Kyushu Institute of Tech.), Mahdad N. Shirazi (Communications Research Laboratory), Michiharu Niimi, Eiji Kawaguchi (Kyushu Institute of Tech.)

8-2. Extending Low Complexity and Low Memory Entropy Coder to Motion Compensated Frames

Kenneth K. C. Lee (City Univ. of Hong Kong), Debin Zhao (Harbin Institute of Tech.), Y. K. Chan (City Univ. of Hong Kong)

8-3. A Hierarchical Motion Estimation Algorithm for Variable Block Size

Yung-Lyul Lee, Yung-Ki Lee, Hyun Cho (Sejong Univ.)

8-4. Context-based Adaptive Variable Length Coding of Transform Coefficients

Kiyofumi Abe, Satoshi Kondo, Shinya Kadono (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.)

8-5. Designing for Threshold Values of Flat/Non-flat Image Blocks for Fractal Image Coding

Xiaotong HU, Makoto Fujimura, Hideo Kuroda (Nagasaki Univ.)