Advanced Program

Technical Group of Communication Systems

Chair     : Iwao SASASE  (Keio University)
Vice chair: Yoichi MAEDA (NTT Labs.)
Secretary : Ryutaro KAWAMURA (NTT Labs.)
Secretary : Hiroshi TOMONAGA (Fujitsu Labs.)

Date      : Dec. 16 - 17, 2002.
Topics    : Image coding, streaming technologies for real-time communications, etc.
Location  : Room 7-713, Faculty of Engineering,
            Higashi-yama Campus, Nagoya University
Address   : Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya City, Japan.
Map       : http://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/sogo/yellopage.html
Contact person: Dr. Toshiaki Fujii, phone: +81-52-789-3628

Note:
  This meeting will be held in a satellite television conference format.
  The main conference room is located at Nagoya University.

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DATE: Monday, Dec. 16, 2002 (9:30-11:50)

Digital image exchange system between CATV stations with IPv6
Hiroshi Suga (*1), Masahiro Harada (*2), Naota Sawabe (*3)
(*1)Chita Medias Network, INC.
(*2)Tokyo Electron LTD.
(*3)Mitsubishi Research Institute, INC.

Distributed QoS control for streaming media
Kentaro Ogawa, Aki Kobayashi, Katsunori Yamaoka, Yoshinori Sakai
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Relaycast - A cyclic distribution of video content over CDN
Takuji Nakahira (*1), Tetsuya Yamaoka (*1), Kazunori Shimamura (*2)
(*1)Kochi University of Technology
(*2)Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan

A QoS-optimal design of a high quality MPEG2 video delivery system
over IP network
Kazuo Kitamura (*1), Yuji Morinishi (*1), Takayuki Onishi (*2), 
Kenta Ogoh (*2)
(*1)NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories
(*2)NTT Cyber Space Laboratories

Redundant packet insertion algorithm for real time communications over
the Internet
Manodha Gamage, Tetsuya Miki, Shinji Sugawara
The University of Electro-Communications

Multi-stream video transmission system using subsampling for error
resilience
Hiroki Muramatsu, Toshiaki Fujii, Masayuki Tanimoto
Nagoya University

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DATE: Monday, Dec. 16, 2002 (13:00-17:00)

Study on the networking of transmitters for DTTB
Masayuki Ishida, Hidekazu Tanaka
Nippon Television Network Corporation

A study of objective measurement method of intermediate audio quality
with low bit-rate audio coding
Kaoru Watanabe (*1), Hiromi Kubota (*2), Yukio Matsushima (*3),
Ken-ichi Shikamata (*4), Yasumitsu Hamada (*5)
(*1)NHK Science and Technical Research Labs.
(*2)Genista Corp.
(*3)Kenwood Corp.
(*4)Fuji Television Company
(*5)Tokyo Electric Industry Corp.

Development of a software MPEG-4 ASP video codec
Hirofumi Aoki, Takashi Miyazaki
NEC

A study of MPEG-2 system clock recovery method in IP networks
Masayuki Baba
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

A study of the recognition of cloth features for "MIRACLE" system
Akinori Taguchi, Terumasa Aoki, Hiroshi Yasuda
The University of Tokyo

Fast feature extraction for the same video retrieval
Yutaka Arakawa, Terumasa Aoki, Hiroshi Yasuda
The University of Tokyo

A note on an extract method for apoptotic cell from videomicroscopy
images
Yukari Sasamura, Miki Haseyama, Hideo Kitajima
Hokkaido University

A study on method to analyze camerawork information for video
authoring system
Shin'ichi Takagi, Daisuke Ikegami, Takayuki Hama,
Takaaki Ishikawa, Yuya Ishikawa, Masae Kondo, Shogo Matsuoka, Akihisa
Kodate, Hideyoshi Tominaga
Waseda University

The fast conversion algorithm from DV to MPEG-2 using DV coded data
Haruhisa Kato (*1), Takshi Sano (*2), Yasuyuki Nakajima (*1)
(*1)KDDI R&D Laboratories
(*2)Tokyo University of Science

A note on a solving method for nurse scheduling problem using GA and
game theory
Shin Ooya, Miki Haseyama, Hideo Kitajima
Hokkaido University

A novel expansion technique for one-dimensional discrete signals using
fractal interpolation functions
Satoshi Uemura, Miki Haseyama, Hideo Kitajima
Hokkaido University

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DATE: Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002 (9:00-12:00)

Realtime system of free viewpoint television (FTV)
Purim Na.Bangchang, Toshiaki Fujii, Masayuki Tanimoto
Nagoya University

Decentralized multi view image processing in camera sensor network
Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani, Toshiaki Fujii, Masayuki Tanimoto
Nagoya University

An implementation of metadata exchange services for audio-visual
contents using Web services
Waseda University

The framework of an automatic digital movie producer
Shen Jinhong, Seiya Miyazaki, Terumasa Aoki, Hiroshi Yasuda
The University of Tokyo

Fractal image coding with error resilience by using extended range
blocks
Daisuke Semiya, Toshiaki Fujii, Masayuki Tanimoto
Nagoya University

A noise reduction of CATV network uplink for data communication
Masayuki Nakamura (*1), Yuying Yang (*1), Hideki Yamazaki (*2),
Tomihiko Uchikawa (*3), Katsumi Wasaki (*4), Yasunari Shidama (*4)
(*1)Information Technology Research Institute of Nagano Prefecture
(*2)Inett, Inc.
(*3)Circuit Design, Inc.
(*4)Shinshu University

Implementation and evaluation of the packet assembly by the data
driven processor
Hiroyuki Kobayashi (*1), Kisyo Takamatsu (*1), Kazunori Shimamura (*2)
(*1)Kochi University of Technology
(*2)Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan

Performance evaluation of the atmospheric optical subcarrier
multiplexing systems
Fumitaka Saito (*1), Hiroyuki Yashima (*1), Takuya Nakamura (*2),
Kazuhiko Wakamori (*2), Yoshimi Fujita (*3), Stoshi Kurokawa (*3)
(*1)Saitama University
(*2)Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
(*3)Sumitomo Densetsu CO., LTD.

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DATE: Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002 (13:00-16:20)

A restoration and evaluation of various modulation images by two
dimensional visual model (XVI)
Soshi Miyashita, Junji Kawasaki, Hirokazu Okamoto, Taizo Iijima
Kanazawa Technical College

HMM-based synthesis of hand-gesture animation
Tetsuo Haoka, Takashi Masuko, Takao Kobayashi
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Consideration for image restoration by self-organizing maps
Michiharu Maeda
Kurume National College of Technology

Vector quantizer design for uniform distribution on unit hypersphere
by use of reflection group
Shuichi Maki, Nobumoto Yamane, Yoshitaka Morikawa
Okayama University

Detection of knitting ball-shaped defects in textile based on
Gaussian mixture model
Junji Tamura, Nobumoto Yamane, Yoshitaka Morikawa, Takuichiro Watanabe
Okayama University

A study of video quality improvement by using region of interest
tracking
Kenta Matsumura, Masakazu Morimoto, Kensaku Fujii
Himeji Inst. of Tech., Dept of Comp. Eng.

Face recognition by wavelet transform in JPEG2000 process
Kazuya Nakamura, Yukiko Kenmochi, Kazunori Kotani
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Image restoration utilizing knowledge on objects in natural world
Atsuyuki Kurata, Tomoharu Ishikawa, Makoto Miyahara
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology


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Announcement of the Next Conference Meeting:

  DATE        : March 17 - 18, 2003
  LOCATION    : Nihon University (Fukushima Prefecture)
  JOINT GROUP : CAS, DSP
  TOPICS      : Network Processors, Signal Processing for Communications, etc.
  DEADLINE    : Jan. 15, 2003

  To make a presentation in our domestic conference,
  you have to contact one of the secretaries via e-mail at first.
  Please access the following homepage for more detailed information.
  Home Page: http://www.ieice.org/cs/cs/

Secretaries:

  Ryutaro Kawamura (NTT Network Innovation Labs.)
  Phone: +81-468-59-5005
  E-mail: ryutaro@exa.onlab.ntt.co.jp

  Hiroshi Tomonaga (Fujitsu Labs.)
  Phone: +81-44-754-2622
  E-mail: h_tomonaga@jp.fujitsu.com