This volume is the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Multimedia Content Processing (AMCP ’98). With the remarkable advances made in computer and communication hardware/software system technologies, we can now easily obtain large volumes of multimedia data through advanced computer networks and store and handle them in our own personal hardware. Sophisticated and integrated multimedia content processing technologies, which are essential to building a highly advanced information based society, are attracting ever increasing attention in various service areas, including broadcasting, publishing, medical treatment, entertainment, and communications. The prime concerns of these technologies are how to acquire multimedia content data from the real world, how to automatically organize and store these obtained data in databases for sharing and reuse, and how to generate and create new, attractive multimedia content using the stored data. This conference brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, in dustry, and public agencies to present and discuss recent advances in the acquisition, management, retrieval, creation, and utilization of large amounts of multimedia con tent. Artistic and innovative applications through the active use of multimedia con tent are also subjects of interest. The conference aims at covering the following par ticular areas: (1) Dynamic multimedia data modeling and intelligent structuring of content based on active, bottom up, and self organized strategies. (2) Access archi tecture, querying facilities, and distribution mechanisms for multimedia content.
Author(s): Rafael Paulin Carlos, Kuniaki Uehara (auth.), Shojiro Nishio, Fumio Kishino (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1554
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 462
Tags: Multimedia Information Systems; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Document Preparation and Text Processing; Information Storage and Retrieval
Video Summarization Based on Semantic Representation....Pages 1-16
Valbum: Album-Oriented Video Storyboard for Editing and Viewing Video....Pages 17-29
Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Toward More Effective Display, Interaction, and Telecollaboration in the Office of the Future via a Multitude of Sensors and Displays....Pages 30-43
A Method for Estimating Illumination Distribution of a Real Scene Based on Soft Shadows....Pages 44-58
Integrating Real Space and Virtual Space in the ‘Invisible Person’ Communication Support System....Pages 59-74
News Dictation and Article Classification Using Automatically Extracted Announcer Utterance....Pages 75-86
Automatic Video Indexing Based on Shot Classification....Pages 87-102
Mutual Spotting Retrieval between Speech and Video Image Using Self-Organized Network Databases....Pages 103-118
Content-Based Retrieval in Multimedia Databases Based on Feature Models....Pages 119-130
An Efficient Index Structure for High Dimensional Image Data....Pages 131-144
Color-Based Pseudo Object Model for Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback....Pages 145-160
InvenTcl: A Fast Prototyping Environment for 3D Graphics and Multimedia Applications....Pages 161-176
The NAVL Distributed Virtual Reality System....Pages 177-193
Research in Data Broadcast and Dissemination....Pages 194-207
Multimedia Database System for TV Newscasts and Newspapers....Pages 208-220
A TV News Recommendation System with Automatic Recomposition....Pages 221-235
Extended Digital Video Broadcasting with Time-Lined Hypermedia....Pages 236-251
Active Image Capturing and Dynamic Scene Visualization by Cooperative Distributed Vision....Pages 252-288
Videoplex: A New System Framework for Constructing Video-Based Three-Dimensional Space....Pages 289-300
Construction of Virtual Environment from Video Data with Forward Motion....Pages 301-312
Spatial Browsing for Video Databases....Pages 313-327
AI-STRATA: A User-Centered Model for Content-Based Description and Retrieval of Audiovisual Sequences....Pages 328-343
Use of Action History Views for Indexing Continuous Media Objects....Pages 344-355
Semantic Structures for Video Data Indexing....Pages 356-369
A Study of Emergent Computation of Life-like Behavior by Indefinite Observation....Pages 370-385
An Interactive Digital Fishtank Based on Live Video Images....Pages 386-396
Contents Creation for Interactive Media....Pages 397-405
Visual Modeling for Multimedia Content....Pages 406-421
Automatic Generation of Moving Crowds in the Virtual Environment....Pages 422-432
Extracting Facial Motion Parameters by Tracking Feature Points....Pages 433-444
Immersion Reconsidered....Pages 445-450
Synthetic Characters: Behaving in Character....Pages 451-451
