Visual content processing and representation : 8th International Workshop, VLBV 2003, Madrid, Spain, September 18-19, 2003 : proceedings

PANEL I: Image and Video Analysis: Ready to Allow Full Exploitation of MPEG Services?.- What Can Video Analysis Do for MPEG Standards?.- PANEL II: Content Adaptation.- Content Adaptation: The Panacea for Usage Diversity?.- Towards Semantic Universal Multimedia Access.- Transcoding, Scalable Coding, and Standardized Metadata.- PANEL III: Video Coding: Present and Future.- Panel Position Notes - Video Coding: Present and Future.- SESSION A.- Template-Based Eye and Mouth Detection for 3D Video Conferencing.- Face Recognition for Video Indexing: Randomization of Face Templates Improves Robustness to Facial Expression.- Simple 1D Discrete Hidden Markov Models for Face Recognition.- Tracking a Planar Patch by Additive Image Registration.- Diatom Screening and Classification by Shape Analysis.- Combining MPEG-7 Based Visual Experts for Reaching Semantics.- Depth-Based Indexing and Retrieval of Photographic Images.- Stochastic Models of Video Structure for Program Genre Detection.- 1-D Mosaics as a Tool for Structuring and Navigation in Digital Video Content.- Summarizing Video: Content, Features, and HMM Topologies.- Automatic Generation of Personalized Video Summary Based on Context Flow and Distinctive Events.- Multi-criteria Optimization for Scalable Bitstreams.- Real-Time Audiovisual Feature Extraction for Online Service Provision over DVB Streams.- MPEG-4-Based Automatic Fine Granularity Personalization of Broadcast Multimedia Content.- A Way of Multiplexing TV-Anytime Metadata and AV Contents to Provide Personalized Services in Digital Broadcasting.- Automatic Videoconference Objects Watermarking Using Object Adapted Qualified Significant Wavelet Trees.- A New Self-Recovery Technique for Image Authentication.- Video Denoising Using Multiple Class Averaging with Multiresolution.- Multi-resolution Mosaic Construction Using Resolution Maps.- A Method for Simultaneous Outlier Rejection in Image Super-Resolution.- SESSION B.- Lossless Coding Using Predictors and Arithmetic Code Optimized for Each Image.- On Optimality of Context Modeling for Bit-Plane Entropy Coding in the JPEG2000 Standard.- Tile-Based Transport of JPEG 2000 Images.- Efficient Method for Half-Pixel Block Motion Estimation Using Block Differentials.- Motion Vector Estimation and Encoding for Motion Compensated DWT.- Video Coding with Lifted Wavelet Transforms and Frame-Adaptive Motion Compensation.- Design Options on the Development of a New Tree-Based Wavelet Image Coder.- On Content-Based Very Low Bitrate Video Coding.- A Real-Time N-Descriptions Video Coding Architecture.- A New Approach for Error Resilience in Video Transmission Using ECC.- Improved Error Concealment Using Scene Information.- Error Resilient Video Coding Using Unequally Protected Key Pictures.- Online Gaming and Emotion Representation.- Reconstructing 3D City Models by Merging Ground-Based and Airborne Views.- Extraction of 3D Structure from Video Sequences.- A Scalable and Modular Solution for Virtual View Creation in Image-Based Rendering Systems.- Directly Invertible Nonlinear Divisive Normalization Pyramid for Image Representation.- Image Cube Trajectory Analysis for Concentric Mosaics.