Recent Trends In Multimedia Information Processing - Proceedings Of The 9th International Workshop On Systems, Signals And Image Processing (Iwssip'02)

Panos Liatsis

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN: 9789812382436
• eBook ISBN: 9789812776266
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Digital Media
• Index: Computer Science

This book reports on the state of the art in multimedia information processing. The emphasis is on the convergence of information processing algorithms and associated technologies. The areas of interest include video/image coding, color vision, 3D reconstruction, field programmable devices, and many others.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Selected Topics in Medical Image Processing
• Machine Learning: Techniques and Trends
• Phase Recovery of a Stochastic Point Process System
• Image Retrieval Using Spatial Context
• An Experience in the Image Database Retrieval
• A Multimedia Tele-Teaching Application
• Analysis of TCP/IP Protocol Behaviour in a Congested Multimedia Computer Network
• A Restoration Method for Delay Proportional Differentiated Services
• Massive Marching: A Parallel Computation of Distance Function
• A Flexible Runtime System for Image Processing in a Distributed Computational Environment for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
• Automatic Cameraman with Trajectory Extraction
• A New Algorithm for Fast Full Search Block Motion Estimation based on Number Theoretic Transforms
• Color-Based Moving Object Extraction of Traffic Scenes
• Automatic Distribution Analysis of Ammunitions
• Similarity Hypergraph Representation for Edge Detection Algorithm on Noisy Images
• CV-SDF- A Synchronous Data Flow Model for Real-Time Computer Vision Applications
• Adaptive Parameters in the Regularized Image Restoration
• Groupwise Interference Cancellation for Multicode Multirate DS-CDMA System with Biorthogonal Modulation on High-Rate Users
• Per-Survivor Processing Phase Synchronisation Acquisition Techniques for 8PSK DVB-S TCM
• Code Selection Scheme for Multi-Carrier CDMA in Correlated Fading Channel
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)- Technical Basis and Application
• A Novel Intrusive Voice Transmission Quality Test System for Mobile Networks
• Characterization of Scattering Function of HF Channels by Complex Multifractal Approach: New Algorithm
• Reconfigurable Computing using FPGAs: Is JBits the Answer?
• Multifunction Generator using Horner Scheme and Small Tables
• FPAD versus FPGA for Future Mobile Communications
• Recent Trends in FPAA Devices
• Design of FPGA-based Kalman Filter with Cordic Algorithm
• Efficient Implementation of MPEG-4 Video Decoder on ADI Blackfin DSP
• Deployment of Constrained Delaunay Mesh in VOP Shape Coding
• High-Capacity Data Hiding in MPEG-2 Compressed Video
• Camera Motion Estimation for Object-Based Video Coding
• Nonuniform Sampling of Chrominance and Its Application to Intra-Frame Coding
• Object-Based Intra-Frame Video Coding using the Lifting Transform
• Application of Variable Length List Viterbi Algorithm to the ITU-T ADPCM Coders
• Wavelet based Stereo Image Pair Coding with Pioneering Block Search
• Wavelet Transform and Variable Block Truncation Coding for Image Compression
• Lossless Compression for Small Satellite On-Board Imaging
• The Use of Fuzzy Image Quality Measure for Embedded Wavelet Coders
• Choice of Wavelet Filters for Medical Image Compression and Approximation
• Microarchitectural Characterisation of JPEG-2000 Software
• Analytical Design of 2-D FIR Filters for Image Compression
• Threshold Selection by Maximising the Between Class Variance of a Fuzzy 2-Partition
• Recursive Signal-Dependent L-Filter for Non-Gaussian Noise Removal from Video Sequence
• Invarient Object Recognition based on Hybrid Hough-Rapid Transform
• Visual Inspection of Semiconductor Crystals using a Hybrid Detection Method and a Binary Tree Classifier
• Modelling of Histogram Equalisation with Logarithmic Affine Transforms
• Exact Reconstruction of Gray-Scale Images from Projections
• HMM-based Dance Gesture Recognition
• A Progressive Wavelet Oriented Watershed Technique for Image Segmentation
• Automatic Face Segmentation in Video Sequences
• Active Contours Using Watershed Segmentation
• Segmentation Algorithm for Extended Target in Complex Environment
• A Hybrid Neural Network for Blind Identification of Speech Transmission Channels
• Boosting of Hidden Markov Models and the Application to Visual Speech Analysis
• Spiking Neuron Auditory Model for Speech Processing Systems
• Speaker's Styles Determination by Using Prosody Characteristics
• Consistency of Projective Reconstructions Obtained from the Same Image Pair
• A Constraint based Algorithm for Dense Disparity Estimation in Stereo Vision
• Extracting Objects in Complex Scenes through 3D Distributed Exploration
• Focal Region-Based Volume Rendering
• On the Choice of Transform for Low Frequency Image Watermarking
• A New Approach to Robust Watermarking for Copyright Protection in Digital Imaging
• Automatic Face Region Watermarking using Qualified Significant Wavelet Trees
• An Undeniable Digital Watermark Protocol
• Sensor Data Fusion using a Committee of Local Expert RBF Networks
• Accurate Classification of Pain EEG Signals using Learning Vector Quantisation Clustering of Multiband Coherence Strength
• Online Classification of EEG Signals using Artificial Neural Networks for Biofeedback Training of Patients with Epilepsy
• A Support Vector Machine Function Approximation Approach for Solving the Inverse Modeling Problem in Intelligent Robotics Applications
• The Optimal Learning Set for the Binary Discrete Perception
• A Cooperative Learning Algorithm for Multi-Layered Neural Networks using a PC Cluster
• Data Mining and Telecommunication Fraud Detection using Artificial Neural Networks
• Compensating the Non-Linear Distributions of an OFDM Signal with Neural Networks
• Neural Networks based On-Board Lossless Image Compression
• Fast Signature Verification without a Special Tablet
• Large Scale Features in Prokaryote and Eukaryote Genomics Signals
• Automatic Identification of Bees' Species from Images of Their Wings
• Microarray Image Analysis
• Equivalent Circuit of Retinal Light Adaptation
• A Basis of Invariant Moments for Color Images
• Fast Segmentation of Color Images using the Fuzzy K-means Algorithm and Different Sampling Approaches
• Colour Appearance Models
• New Algorithm for Noise Attenuation in Color Images based on the Central Weighted Vector Median Filter
• A Color Visual Model for Perceptual Redundancy Estimating
• Visible and Near IR Image Fusion to Create Colour Night Vision
• Color Sigma Filter
• A New Edge Tracking Mechanism for Quantitative Coronary Analysis