Advances in Multimedia Information Processing ― PCM 2002: Third IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 16–18, 2002 ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2532) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540002626 ISBN 13: 9783540002628

Publisher: Springer, 2002

Synopsis

The2002IEEEPaci?cRimConferenceonMultimedia(PCM2002)isthethird annualconferenceoncutting-edgemultimediatechnologiesandwasheldatTsing HuaUniversity,Hsinchu,Taiwan,December16-18,2002.HsinchuCity,located about70kmtothesouthofTaipei,isknownasTaiwan'sSiliconValley,where hundredsofsuccessfulhi-techcompanies,twomajornationaluniversities,several research centers, and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) are clusteredtoformandreinforcethe"Science-BasedIndustrialPark."Thecon- rencecomplementedthiswonderfulsettingbyprovidingaforumforpresenting andexploringtechnologicalandartisticadvancementsinmultimedia.Technical issues, theory and practice, and artistic and consumer innovations brought - getherresearchers,artists,developers,educators,performers,andpractitioners ofmultimediafromthePaci?cRimandaroundtheworld. Thetechnicalprogramfeaturedacomprehensiveprogramincludingkeynote speeches, tutorials, special sessions, regular paper presentations, and technical demonstrations. We received 224 papers and accepted 154 of them. We ack- wledge the great contribution from all of our committee members and paper reviewerswhodevotedtheirtimetoreviewingsubmittedpapersandproviding valuablecommentsfortheauthors. PCM 2002 could never have been successful without the support and - sistance of several institutions and many people. We sincerely appreciate the supportoftheNationalScienceCouncilandtheMinistryofEducationofT- wans, ROC. The ?nancial sponsorships from the Institute of Applied Science &EngineeringResearchofAcademiaSinica,SunplusTechnologyCo.,Ltd.,the Institute for Information Industry, Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories, AIPTEK International, Inc., the MOE Program for Promoting Academic Excellence of Universities,andOpto-Electronics&SystemsLab/ITRIarealsogratefullya- nowledged. Our sincere gratitude goes to our advisory committee chairs: Prof. Sun-Yuan Kung of Princeton University, Dr. Bor-Shenn Jeng of CHT Labs of Taiwan,andProf.H.Y.MarkLiaoofAcademiaSinicaofTaiwan.Deepthanks gototheIEEESignalProcessingSocietyandtheCircuitsandSystemsSociety fortechnicalco-sponsorship.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2002, held in Hsinchu, Taiwan in December 2002. The 154 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mobile multimedia, digital watermarking and data hiding, motion analysis, multimedia retrieval techniques, image processing, multimedia security, image coding, multimedia learning, audio signal processing, wireless multimedia streaming, multimedia systems in the Internet, distance education and multimedia, Internet security, computer graphics and virtual reality, object tracking, face analysis, and MPEG-4.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540002626
• ISBN 13: 9783540002628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1300
• Editor: Chen Yung-Chang, Chang Long-Wen, Hsu Chiou-Ting