1. ESTImedia 2003: Newport Beach, California, USA

Gerhard Fohler, Radu Marculescu (Eds.): First Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia, ESTImedia 2003, October 3-4, 2003, Newport Beach, California, USA, co-located with CODES-ISSS 2003, Proceedings. 2003

Invited Talks

Howard Sachs: A New High Performance Embedded "Hard Core" Vector DSP Architecture for Multimedia Applications. 2-4
Akira Matsuzawa: Driving the SoC developments for digital consumer electronics. 5-7
Liesbeth Steffens: Trends in Operating Systems Resource Management for Future CE Systems. 8
Raj Rajkumar: Energy Management in Real-Time Multimedia Systems. 9

Energy issues in multimedia

Sudeep Pasricha, Shivajit Mohapatra, Manev Luthra, Nikil D. Dutt, Nalini Venkatasubramanian: Reducing Backlight Power Consumption for Streaming Video Applications on Mobile Handheld Devices. 11-17
Chaeseok Im, Soonhoi Ha: An Energy Optimization Technique for Latency and Quality Constrained Video Applications. 18-23
Shaoxiong Hua, Gang Qu: On-line Voltage Scheduling for Multimedia Applications. 24-31

Wireless multimedia

Brian Delaney, Nikil Jayant, Tajana Simunic: A WLAN Scheduling Algorithm to Reduce the Energy Consumption of a Distributed Speech Recognition Front-End. 33-39
Dong-Gi Lee, Sujit Dey: Addressing Server Latency and Capacity to Enable Fast and Affordable Wireless Image Data Services. 40-47
Ali Iranli, Kihwan Choi, Massoud Pedram: Energy-Aware Wireless Video Streaming. 48-55

Specification issues & design space exploration

Dohyung Kim, Minyoung Kim, Soonhoi Ha: A Case Study of System Level Specification and Software Synthesis of Multimode Multimedia Terminal. 57-64
Giuseppe Ascia, Vincenzo Catania, Maurizio Palesi, Davide Patti: EPIC-Explorer: A Parameterized VLIW-based Platform Framework for Design Space Exploration. 65-72
Giulio Iannello, Luca Vollero, Francesco Delfino: Performance characterization of a low-cost video codec on portable devices. 73-78
Alexander Paar, Haitao Du, Nader Bagherzadeh: A Component Oriented Simulator for HW/SW Co-Designs. 79-86

Media processing

Young-Ho Seo, Dong-Wook Kim: Real-Time Blind Watermarking Algorithm and its Hardware Implementation for Motion JPEG2000 Image Codec. 88-93
David R. Lutz, Chris N. Hinds: Performance of the Floating-Point AMR Encoder on a Commercial Single-Issue Vector Processor. 94-101
Christophe Cunat, Jean Gobert, Yves Mathieu: A coprocessor for real-time MPEG4 facial animation on mobiles. 102-108
Binu K. Mathew, Al Davis, Ali Ibrahim: Perception Coprocessors for Embedded Systems. 109-116

Hardware implementation & communication issues

Jie Ruan, Mark G. Arnold: Combined LNS Adder/Subtractors for DCT Hardware. 118-123
Wenjing Zhang, Jonathan Eskritt, Graham A. Jullien, Vassil S. Dimitrov: A 2-D LNS FIR Filter with a Programmable Second Base Using DRAMs. 124-127
Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Hiroaki Takada, Nikil D. Dutt: Data Organization Exploration for Low-Energy Address Buses. 128-133
Víctor Reyes, Tomás Bautista, Antonio Núñez: A Scalable Communication Platform for High Performance Multimedia Applications. 134-140

Reconfigurability issues

Davide Rizzo, Osvaldo Colavin, Shiva Navab: A Runtime Reconfigurable Clustered VLIW Architecture for Mediaprocessing. 142-148
Soheil Ghiasi, Hyun J. Moon, Majid Sarrafzadeh: Improving Performance and Quality thru Hardware Reconfiguration: Potentials and Adaptive Object Tracking Case Study. 149-155
Javier Resano, Diederik Verkest, Daniel Mozos, Serge Vernalde, Francky Catthoor: Run-Time Scheduling for Multimedia Applications on Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems. 156-162