4. ACM Multimedia 1996: Boston, MA

Multimedia Analysis

• Hisashi Aoki, Shigeyoshi Shimotsuji, Osamu Hori: A Shot Classification Method to Select Effective Key-Frames for Video Browsing. 1-10
• Rainer Lienhart: Automatic Text Recognition for Video Indexing. 11-20
• Silvia Pfeiffer, Stephan Fischer, Wolfgang Effelsberg: Automatic Audio Content Analysis. 21-30

Authoring I

• Ronald Baecker, Alan J. Rosenthal, Naomi Friedlander, Eric Smith, Andrew Cohen: A Multimedia System for Authoring Motion Pictures. 31-42
• Jianhao Meng, Shih-Fu Chang: CVEPS - A Compressed Video Editing and Parsing System. 43-53
• Mukesh Dalal, Steven Feiner, Kathleen McKeown, Shimei Pan, Michelle X. Zhou, Tobias Höllerer, James Shaw, Yong Feng, Jeanne Fromer: Negotiation for Automated Generation of Temporal Multimedia Presentations. 55-64

Image Parsing

• Greg Pass, Ramin Zabih, Justin Miller: Comparing Images Using Color Coherence Vectors. 65-73
• Stacie Hibino, Elke A. Rundensteiner: MMVIS: Design and Implementation of a Multimedia Visual Information Seeking Environment. 75-86
• John R. Smith, Shih-Fu Chang: VisualSEEk: A Fully Automated Content-Based Image Query System. 87-98

System Building

• Haakon Bryhni, Hilde Lovett, Erling Maartmann-Moe, Dag Solvoll, Tryggve Sørensen: On-Demand Regional Television over the Internet. 99-107
• Albert L. Papp III, Meera Blattner: Dynamic Presentation of Asynchronous Auditory Output. 109-116
• Andrew T. Campbell, Geoff Coulson: A QoS Adaptive Transport System: Design, Implementation and Experience. 117-127

Scheduling and Synchronization

• David K. Y. Yau, Simon S. Lam: Adaptive Rate-Controlled Scheduling for Multimedia Applications. 129-140
• Jean-Pierre Courtiat, Roberto C. de Oliveira: Proving Temporal Consistency in a New Multimedia Synchronization Model. 141-152

Applications

• Masaki Hayashi, Kazuo Fukui, Yasumasa Itoh: Image Compositing System Capable of Long-Range Camera Movement. 153-161
• Steve Mann: "Smart clothing": Wearable Multimedia Computing and "Personal Imaging" to Restore the Technological Balance Between People and Their Environments. 163-174

Groupware

• Yuzuru Tanaka: Meme Media and a World-Wide Meme Pool. 175-186
• Gregory D. Abowd, Christopher G. Atkeson, Ami Feinstein, Cindy E. Hmelo, Rob Kooper, Sue Long, Nitin "Nick" Sawhney, Mikiya Tani: Teaching and Learning as Multimedia Authoring: The Classroom 2000 Project. 187-198
• Jefferson Han, Brian C. Smith: CU-SeeMe VR Immersive Desktop Teleconferencing. 199-207

Coding

• Jiying Zhao, Yoshihisa Shimazu, Koji Ohta, Rina Hayasaka, Yutaka Matsushita: A JPEG Codec Adaptive to Region Importance. 209-218
• Lei Tang: Methods for Encrypting and Decrypting MPEG Video Data Efficiently. 219-229
• T. H. Reeves, John A. Robinson: Adaptive Foveation of MPEG Video. 231-241

User Interfaces

• Li-Te Cheng, Rick Kazman, John A. Robinson: Vibrotactile Feedback in Delicate Virtual Reality Operations. 243-251
• Mark Claypool, John Riedl: A Quality Planning Model for Distributed Multimedia in the Virtual Cockpit. 253-264
• Peter Faraday, Alistair G. Sutcliffe: An Empirical Study of Attending and Comprehending Multimedia Presentations. 265-275

Servers

• Ariel Cohen, Walter A. Burkhard: Segmented Information Dispersal (SID) for Efficient Reconstruction in Fault-Tolerant Video Servers. 277-286
• Michael Vernick, Chitra Venkatramani, Tzi-cker Chiueh: Adventures in Building the Stony Brook Video Server. 287-295
• Tat-Seng Chua, Jiandong Li, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan: Disk Striping Strategies for Large Video-on-Demand Servers. 297-306

Award Papers

• M. G. Brown, J. T. Foote, Gareth J. F. Jones, Karen Sparck Jones, S. J. Young: Open-Vocabulary Speech Indexing for Voice and Video Mail Retrieval. 307-316

• Kevin M. Brooks: Do Story Agents Use Rocking Chairs? The Theory and Implementation of One Model for Computational Narrative. 317-328

Authoring II

• K. Selçuk Candan, B. Prabhakaran, V. S. Subrahmanian: CHIMP: A Framework for Supporting Distributed Multimedia Document Authoring and Presentation. 329-340
• Komei Harada, Eiichiro Tanaka, Ryuichi Ogawa, Yoshinori Hara: Anecdote: A Multimedia Storyboarding System with Seamless Authoring Support. 341-351
• Sylvain Fraïssé, Jocelyne Nanard, Marc Nanard: Generating Hypermedia from Specifications by Sketching Multimedia Templates. 353-364

Networks

• Brian Neil Levine, David B. Lavo, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves: The Case for Reliable Concurrent Multicasting Using Shared Ack Trees. 365-376
• Ferdinando Samaria, Harold Syfrig, Alan Jones, Andy Hopper: Enhancing Network Services through Multimedia Data Analysers. 377-383
• Wenjun Zeng, Bede Liu: Rate Shaping by Block Dropping for Transmission of MPEG-Precoded Video over Channels of Dynamic Bandwidth. 385-393

Demonstrations