Session 1: IMAGE/VIDEO DATABASES

1.1
"MUVIS: A System for Content-Based Indexing and Retrieval in Large Image Databases"
Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, Bogdan Cramariuc, and Moncef Gabbouj
Tampere University of Technology, Finland

1.2
"Applying Semantic Association to Support Content-Based Video Retrieval"
Yueting Zhuang, Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang, and Sharad Mehrotra
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

1.3
"Clustering Images Using Relative Entropy for Efficient Retrieval"
Giridharan Iyengar and Andrew Lippman
MIT Media Laboratory, USA

1.4
"An Interactive Image Database System"
J. Vass, J. yao, and X. Zhuang
University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

1.5
"A Tool for Query and Analysis of MPEG Encoded Video"
Chris Kreucher and Sridhar Lakshmanan
University of Michigan- Dearborn, USA

1.6
"MPEG-7: Applications and Supporting Technologies"
Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Nevenka Dimitrova, Sylvie Jeannin, Kiran Challapali, and Marco Ceccarelli
Philips Research, USA, Laboratoires d'Electronique Philips S.A.S, France, and Nederlandse Philips Bedrijven B. V, The Netherlands

1.7
"Identification of Visual Correlations Between Non Consecutive Shots in Digital Image Sequences"
Caterina Saraceno and Riccardo Leonardi
University of Brescia, Italy

1.8
"An Adaptive Approach to Video Indexing and Retrieval using Fuzzy Classification"
Yannis S. Avrithis, Anastasios D. Doulamis, Nikolaos D. Doulamis, and Stefanos D. Kollias
National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Session 2: FACE PROCESSING

2.1
"Coding Human Lip Motions with a Learned 3D Model"
Sumit Basu, Nuria Oliver, and Alex Pentland
MIT Media Laboratory, USA

2.2
"Extraction of MPEG-4 FAP Parameters from 3D Face Data Sequences"
Kai Chen, Dimitry Goldgof and Chandra Kambhamettu
University of Delaware, USA

2.3
"3D Face Modeling and Encoding for Virtual Teleconferencing"
Stephane Valente and Jean-Luc Dugelay
Institut Eurecom, France

2.4
"A Reference Image Based Improving Technique for Compressed Images"
Supatana Auethavekiat and Kiyoharu Aizawa
The University of Tokyo, Japan

2.5
"A Global Eigen Approach for Face Recognition"
L. Lorente and L. Torres
Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

2.6
"Applied Processing of Referential Frames in Facial Image Sequence"
Min Chul Park¹, Takeshi Naemura¹, Masahide Kaneko², and Hiroshi Harashima^1
1The University of Tokyo, Japan, and ²The University of Electro-Communi., Japan

2.7
"Physics Model Based Very Low Bit Rate 3D Facial Image Coding"
Shigeo Morishima¹, Takahiro Ishikawa¹, and Demetri Terzopoulos^2
1Seikei University, Japan, and ²University of Toronto, Canada

2.8
"Estimation of Eye, Eyebrow and Nose Features in Videophone Sequences"
Markus Kampmann and Liang Zhang
Universitat Hannover, Germany

2.9
"Image-Based View Rendering for 3D Visual Communications"
Jong-Il Park and Seiki Inoue
ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Labs, Japan

2.10
"Image-Based 3D Modeling of Arbitrary Natural Objects"
Ebroul Izquierdo M.¹ and Xiaohua Feng^2
1University of Essex, UK, and ²Heinrich Hertz Institute for Communication Technology, Germany

Session 3: OBJECT EXTRACTION

3.1
"Extraction of Human Object Using Block Based Fuzzy Inference"
Makoto Fujimura and Hideo Kuroda
Nagasaki University, Japan

3.2
"Representation of Hierarchical VOPs in Video Sequences by Semi-Delaunay Adapted Meshes"
J. Benois-Pineau¹, H. Hornegger², and D. Barba^1
1IRESTE, France, and ²University of Erlangen/Nuremberg, Germany

3.3
"Video Object Plane Extraction for Content-Based Functionalities in MPEG-4"
Thomas Meier and King N. Ngan
The University of Western Australia, Australia

Session 4: SEGMENTATION

4.1
"Feature Extraction in Image Block for Object Segmentation"
Chee Sun Won
Dongguk University, Korea

4.2
"Unsupervised Video Segmentation and Object Tracking Using a Modified Watershed Algorithm"
Demin Wang
Communications Research Centre, Canada

4.3
"Non-parametric Clustering for Segmentation and Grouping"
E. J. Pauwels and G. Frederix
K. U. Leuven, Belgium

4.4
"Optimal Performance of the Watershed Segmentation of an Image Enhanced by Teager Energy Driven Diffusion"
Danny De Vleeschauwer¹, Patrick de Smet¹, Faouzi Alaya Cheikh², Ridha Hamila², and Moncef Gabbouj^2
1University of Ghent, Belgium, and ²Tampere University of Technology, Finland

4.5
"Spatio-Temporal Video Segmentation Using History Information"
Daehee Kim, Minho Kim, and Yo-Sung Ho
Kwangju Institute of science and Technology, Korea

4.6
"Segmentation for Object-Based Video Coding Using Dense Motion Fields"
Peter Csillag¹ and Lilla Boroczky^2
1Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, and ²IBM Corporation, USA

4.7
"Homogeneous Region Merging Approach for Image Segmentation Preserving Semantic Object Contours"
Hyun Sang Park and Jong Beom Ra
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

4.8
"FLIR Image Compression: The Accuracy of Analysis/Synthesis Approach"
Y. Dieulangard¹, R. Thomas², and G. Stamon^3
1Universite Rene Descartes, France, ²Aerospatiale, France, and ³Thomson Missile Electronics, France

Session 5: MOTION ESTIMATION

5.1
"A Novel Motion Estimation Algorithm for Very Low Bit Rate"
Sumana Gupta, Amit Prakash, and Anshul Sharma
IIT Kanpur, India

5.2
"Low Bit-Rate Video Coding Using Dense Motion Field Estimation"
K. P. Lim, M. N. Chong, and A. Das
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

5.3
"A New Motion Compensation Method based on Irregular Mesh Representation and Image Warping"
Byeungwoo Jeon¹ and Kang Wook Chun^2
1Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea, and ²Samsung Electronics Co., Korea

5.4
"Object-Based Global Motion Estimation Using a Combined Feature Matching and Optical Flow Approach"
A. Smolic, J.-R. Ohm, and T. Sikora
Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany

5.5
"Overlapped Spatial Transformations Motion Estimation for Very Low Bitrate"
Fernando J. P. Lopes and Mohammed Ghanbari
University of Essex, UK

5.6
"A New Star Search Algorithm for Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation"
Shan Zhu¹ and Kai-Kuang Ma^2
1Xerox Singapore Software Center, Singapore, and ²Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

5.7
"Advanced Motion Estimation Using Eigenvalue Algorithm with Optimized Block Size"
Y. Kaneko, Y. Shishikui, Y. Nojiri, and Y. Tanaka
NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories, Japan

5.8
"Region-Based Motion Compensated Prediction for Video Coding"
Demin Wang and Andre Vincent
Communications Research Centre, Canada

5.9
"Very Low Bit-rate Video Coding Using Object-Based Motion Estimation and
Hierarchical Shape Estimation"
Hanjong Kim and King N. Ngan
The University of Western Australia, Australia

Session 6: IMAGE/VIDEO CODING

6.1
"Foveated Image/Video Quality Assessment in Curvilinear Coordinates"
Sanghoon Lee, Marios S. Pattichis, and Alan C. Bovik
University of Texas at Austin, USA

6.2
"Multiscale Matching Pursuits for Very Low Bit-Rate Video Coding"
Hui Li and Ingo Wolff
University of Duisburg, Germany

6.3
"A Simple Deblocking Algorithm for Block Based Compression Schemes"
A. Izmirliev and R. J. Fryer
University of Strathclyde, UK

6.4
"Texture Image Compression Using Wavelet Domain Enhancement of Synthetic Error Estimate"
Kelly R. Debure¹ and Michael L. Hilton^2
1Eckerd College, USA, and ²Proctor and Gamble, USA

6.5
"Error Concealment in Embedded Zerotree Wavelet Codecs"
Paul Salama, Ness Shroff, and Edward J. Delp
Purdue University, USA

6.6
"Error-Resilient Wavelet Video over ATM"
Michael H. Lee, Ka-Kit Lau, and King N. Nang
The University of Western Australia, Australia