INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION
ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZATION
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11
CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND AUDIO
ISO/IEC
JTC1/SC29/WG11 N4033
March
2001 – Singapore
Title:
Presentation Program for Second MPEG-7 Awareness Event
Singapore
Pan Pacific Hotel
7
Raffles Boulevard
Marina Square, Singapore
AE
Site Coordinator: Prof. Kai-Kuang Ma
9:00
- 17:15
Saturday,
March 10th, 2001
Presentations:
Ocean Rooms 1-3
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
ekkma@ntu.edu.sg
Digital Garage, Inc., Japan
Steering
Committee
Wo
Chang, NIST, USA
Nastaran
Fatemi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, Switzerland
Kate
Grant, Ninetiles, UK
Rob
Koenen, Intertrust, USA
Takayuki
Kunieda, Ricoh Co. Ltd., Japan
Jose
M. Martinez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Erik
Oltmans, Telematica, Holland
Eric
Rehm, Singingfish.com, USA
Witold
Reichhart, Starlab, Belgium
Philippe Salembier, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya,
Spain
Caterina
Saraceno, Starlab, Belgium
Logistics
Information
http://www.mpeg-7.com/ifg/AEsingapore/ifg_ae_sing_main.htm
09:00
Singapore Greetings & Opening
09:15
01M7KN001
Keynote speaker
(Leonardo Chiariglione, MPEG
Convener)
09:45
01M7D001
Description Definition Language (DDL)
(Claude Seyrat)
10:15
01M7M006
Multimedia Description Scheme (MDS) Tutorial
(Philippe Salembier)
10:45
Tea Break
11:15
01M7A004
Audio Tutorial
(Adam Lindsay)
11:45
01M7V012
Video Tutorial
(Sylvie Jeannin)
12:15
Overview of Demonstrations
12:45
Lunch
14:00
01M7S001
Systems Tutorial
(Michael Wollborn)
14:30
Application Demonstrations
16:15
Tea-Break
16:45
01M7IFG002
Panel Discussion (Panelists from international
delegates)
17:15
Close
Keynote
Speaker
Dr.
Leonardo Chiariglion (CSELT, Leonardo.Chiariglione@CSELT.IT)
Dr. Chiariglione originated and leads the activity in ISO known as MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group). Since its creation in 1988, this international standards group has developed the MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 standards, and is currently developing the MPEG-7 standard. Dr. Chiariglione is head of the Multimedia Services and Technologies Research Division at CSELT, the corporate research centre of the Telecom Italia group.
In 1988 Dr. Chiariglione originated the
ISO standardisation activity known as MPEG (Moving Picture Experts
Group). He leads this international standards group as Convenor. This
group with a membership of over 300 experts, representing 25 countries and all
the industries having a stake in digital audio and video, has produced the
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards that have triggered the digital audio-visual
revolution, DSM-CC the server to set-top protocol, the MPEG-2 Advanced Audio
Coding (AAC) standard and MPEG-4, a standard providing seamless integration of
natural and synthetic audio and video information on delivery systems with
different quality of service. MPEG-7 will provide standardised ways to access
audio-visual information. MPEG-7 is currently under development is
scheduled to be complete in September 2001.
In 1986, he founded the HDTV Workshop, an international event to promote
HDTV technologies beyond specific industry interests. He founded Image
Communications, a EURASIP Journal for the development of the theory and practice
of image communication in 1989. He founded the Digital Audio-Visual Council
(DAVIC) in 1994 to develop internationally agreed specifications
specification of open interfaces and protocols. In 1996 he founded the
Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) to develop internationally
agreed specifications of generic agent technologies that are usable across a
large number of applications. In 1998 he founded the Open Platform
Initiative for Multimedia Access (OPIMA) to develop internationally agreed
specifications that will make possible for a user to consume and pay for
services, without having prior knowledge of which services would be consumed.
In 1999 he was asked to be the Executive Director of the Secure Digital Music
Initiative, a group with the participation of more than 200 companies,
developing specifications for secure digital music delivery.
Tutorials
DDL Speaker: Claude Seyrat
Expway c/o Acland
18 avenue Georges V, 75008 Paris
Email: cseyrat@acland.fr
Tel: 33 1 56 62 11 05
Fax: 33 1 56 62 11 11
MDS Speaker: Philippe Salembier
Philippe Salembier received a degree from the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, in 1983 and a degree from the Ecole Nationale Supieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France, in 1985. He received the Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 1991. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Robotics Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, in 1991. At the end of 1991, after a stay at the Harvard Robotics Lab., he joined the Polytechnic University of Catalonia , Barcelona, Spain, where he is currently associate professor. He is lecturing on the area of digital signal and image processing. In terms of standardization activities, he is involved in the definition of the MPEG-7 standard ("Multimedia Content Description Interface") as chair of the "Multimedia Description Scheme" group. He has also co-edited a special issue of Signal processing: Image Communication on MPEG-7 proposals (2000). Currently, he is deputy-editor of Signal Processing. Finally, he is member of the Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Department of Signal Theory and
Communications
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
UPC, Campus Nord, Modulo D5
Jordi Girona, 1-3
08034 Barcelona, Spain
Email: philippe@gps.tsc.upc.es
WWW: http://gps-tsc.upc.es/imatge
Tel: (34) 9 3401 7404 (or 6440)
Fax:
(34) 9 3401 6447
Sylvie Jeannin was born in Toulouse,
France. She graduated in 1992 from “Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications”
(ENST), in Paris, France, specializing in signal, image and video processing.
She has been working for Philips Research since 1993, five years in France and
currently in the USA (Briarcliff-Manor, New York). Her main research interests
are video coding, video analysis, and video indexing. She was active in MPEG-4 video related developments, and
participated to the implementation of the MoMuSys reference software. She
studied region-based motion analysis, segmentation-based coding, and alternative
techniques to the DCT for texture coding such as matching pursuit.
Since 1998, she has become deeply involved in the development of MPEG-7,
with particular focus on the Visual part of the standard. She chaired and
co-chaired numerous working groups, was editor of several standard documents,
and her technical contributions were mainly on motion related issues.
Audio Speaker: Adam Lindsay (Lancaster
University, atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk)
Adam
Lindsay is a member of the research staff in the Department of Computing at
Lancaster University (UK). This follows his position as the Principal
Investigator in multimedia representation in the Belgian research company,
Starlab. Adam went to Brussels in 1996 following a Master's degree from the MIT
Media Lab as one of the charter researchers in what was then Riverland Research.
Following his interests in the description of audio-visual material, he has
emerged to be one of the leaders in MPEG-7 standardisation, focusing on
applications, audio, systems, and philosophy.
Systems Speaker: Michael Wollborn
Bosch,
Email: Michael.Wollborn@de.bosch.com
Email: Nine_Tiles@psilink.co.uk
Eric Rehm is
cofounder and Chief Technical Officer of Singingfish.com, a Thomson Multimedia
company. Singingfish has developed
streaming media search services that are marketed and licensed and marketed to a
broad range of high-traffic web portals, search and directory sites, broadband
service providers, content aggregators, news organizations, entertainment
networks and others. Eric is
responsible for creating the company's technical vision and putting in place the
system architecture that enables Singingfish search technology to function
across PC, wireless, television and other computer and entertainment platforms.
Eric holds an MS in Computer, Information and Control Engineering from the
University of Michigan, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue
University. He's completed graduate
work in Computer Science at University of Washington.
Email: rehm@singingfish.com
Miroslav Bober
Mikio Sasaki is Project Leader in Research Laboratories of DENSO CORPORATION which is the largest automotive parts company in Japan. Mr. Sasaki is now in charge of R&D for related media processing technologies used in IT equipment such as car navigation, mobile phone, etc. He is especially engaged in the development of human-machine interfaces and media communication-based speech dialogue agents and their related data expressions such as MPEG-7. He is also very much interested in image understanding and has two US patents for 3D recognition for robotics and image coding.
He received a BS in Electronics from Kyoto University, an MS in Electronics from the University of Tokyo. Until October 1991, he had been working for YAMAHA, the well-known Japanese maker of musical instruments and was also engaged in R&D at EMI for related digital circuits and MPEG-1 related image technologies.
Email: miroslaw.bober@vil.ite.mee.com
John Smith
John R. Smith is currently Manager of the Pervasive Media Management Group at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. His research interests include multimedia and multi-dimensional data management, compression, access and retrieval and content-based query systems. Dr. Smith is an active participant in the MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes Group and is chairing the development of the MPEG-7 Conceptual Model. He received his M. Phil and PhD. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1994 and 1997, respectively. At Columbia, he developed several image and video search and retrieval systems, including the WebSEEk image and video search engine, the VisualSEEk content-based image retrieval system. At IBM, he has developed a progressive video retrieval system called VideoZoom, and a new framework for adaptive compression, access and retrieval of large images, high-resolutions documents and maps. Dr. Smith received the Eliahu I. Jury award from Columbia University for outstanding achievement as a graduate student in the areas of systems communication or signal processing. Dr. Smith is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and a member of IEEE.
Email: jsmith@us.ibm.com
Schuyler Quackenbush
received his B.S. degree from Princeton University in 1975 and his Ph.D.
from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1985, both in electrical engineering. He
joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1986 as Member of Technical Staff, where he
was in the Digital Signal Processing Research department. In 1996 he joined
AT&T Laboratories as Principal Technical Staff Member, where he was in the
Speech and Audio Research Department. Dr.
Quackenbush is active in the area audio research. He is chair of the ISO/IEC
MPEG Audio subgroup and was one of the authors of the ISO/IEC MPEG Advanced
Audio Coding standard. He is the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Audio
and Electroacoustics and was the General Chair of the 1995 IEEE Workshop on
Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.
Email:
srq@research.att.com
Fernando
Pereira graduated in Electrical and Computers
Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon- Portugal, in
1985. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computers
Engineering from IST, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He is currently Professor
at the Electrical and Computers Engineering Department of IST. He is a member of
the Editorial Board of the Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal and an
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of several international
conferences. He is the author of more than one hundred papers. He has
participated in the work of ISO/MPEG for many years, acting as the head of the
Portuguese delegation, and chairing many Ad Hoc Groups related to the MPEG-4 and
MPEG-7 standards.
Email:
fp@lx.it.pt
Koiti Hasida,
director of Information Scinence Division, Electrotechnical Laboratory. He
received a doctoral degree of science from the University of Tokyo in 1986.
He has been affiliated with ETL since 1986, and also with the Instutue of New
Generation Computer Technology (ICOT) for 4 years from 1988. His research
encompasses linguistics, cognitive science, natural language processing, and
intelligent content.
Email: hasida@etl.go.jp
Email:
olivier.avaro@francetelecom.fr
Demonstration
Titles
01M7V013
Real-time Video Identification System (M7 Visual)
01M7M007 SASKEN Multimedia Search Engine (M7 Audio/Visual)
01M7M008
Video-over-IP (M7 MDS)
01M7M009
Aerobatic Video Clip Retrieval System using MPEG-7 (M7 MDS)
01M7M010
MovieTool, a MPEG-7 Description Tool for Video (M7 MDS)
01M7M011
Wireless Images Retrieval using Speech Dialogue Agent, MDS (M7 Systems)
01M7M012
Article-based News
Browser (M7 MDS)
01M7V008
Web-based Image Indexing
and Retrieval System (M7 Visual)
01M7V009
Image Retrieval using
the Edge Histogram Descriptor of MPEG-7 (M7 Visual)
01M7V010
Visual Access Technologies with MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 (M7 Visual)
01M7M013
TV News Indexing and Retrieval: Towards MPEG-7 (M7 MDS)
01M7V011
Real-time 3D object recognition using MPEG-7 (M7 Visual)
01M7M013
Key Applications in the MPEG-7 Reference Software (M7 ISG/Video/MDS)
01M7M014 Customized Content Delivery for Mobile Users (M7 MDS/Systems)
Demonstration Abstracts
01M7M001:
Real-time Video Identification System (M7 Visual)
NEC has
developed a real-time video identification system based on MPEG-7 descriptions.
This system monitors broadcast TV programs and identifies its contents through
more than 50,000 different video segments in real-time. The system requires only
one PC and software. This system is especially useful for survey applications of
video clips like TV commercial programs, music video clips, etc. Furthermore, it
enables home video server applications to access to a desired program and
information.
Contact: Eiji KASUTANI
01M7M007: SASKEN Multimedia Search
Engine (M7 Audio/Visual)
The
Multimedia Search engine developed by SASKEN provides content-based search tools
for audio, image and video. It uses the MPEG-7 descriptors to represent and
search multimedia based on content. An audio database can be queried by choosing
an instrument type to retrieve audio samples with similar sounding instruments.
Melody notes can be specified to retrieve music files with the same melody.
Spoken documents can be retrieved by specifying a text string.
An image database can be queried by specifying the global dominant color
of the image or by specifying local colors in a grid layout of the image.
Similar images can be searched based on color, texture or dominant edges. A
video database can be queried for video-segments by specifying the global or
local motion activity or by the global or local color. Similar video segments
can be searched based on color/motion activity.
Contact:
Gomathi Sankar
Email:
gomathi@sasken.com
Signal
Processing R&D group
Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd,
3008,
12th B main, 8th Cross, HAL 2nd Stage,
Bangalore,
560008, India.
01M7M008:
Video-over-IP (M7 MDS)
The Video-over-IP (VIP) project is a co-operation between IBM, NOB, Telematica Instituut, TNO and Surfnet, subsidized by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Its goal is to develop a generic framework and an infrastructure for high quality Video-over-IP services for next generation Internet. The VIP project aims to develop an integrated chain solution for video-over-IP services, making it possible to provide full-screen, high-quality video (MPEG-2) that is fully scaleable over the Internet.
Contact:
Erik Oltmans
Email:
oltmans@telin.nl
Telematica
Instituut, the Netherlands
01M7M009: Aerobatic Video Clip
Retrieval System using MPEG-7 (M7 MDS)
We developed a video database system using MPEG-7 for
the content description. The
content of the video is taken from the International Aerobatics Grand Prix. We
employ Web browser for user interface. Users can search clips with keywords like
name of pilots, figures and camera angles via their familiar Web browsers. Also
user can watch the video clip on demand by just clicking the link on the Web
browser. For the content description for the video contents, we use our
MovieTool.
Contact:
Kiyoshi SUZUKI
Email:
kiyoshi@src.ricoh.co.jp
Software
Research Center
RICOH
Company, Ltd.
01M7M010: MovieTool, a MPEG-7
Description Tool for Video (M7 MDS)
MovieTool is a MPEG-7 description tool
for video content. Users can load a video, and construct a logical structure on
the content. Some automatic segmentation methods by content-based analysis are
provided. Users can easily generate and view this structure. MovieTool
dynamically maps this structure to MPEG-7 description and provides an MPEG-7
editor window to describe the contents. Users can select D or DS from candidates
of MPEG-7 tools, and input information. It is not easy to find where the D or DS
you need is, because many tools are provided in MPEG-7. To solve this problem,
MovieTool provides a hierarchical view of MPEG-7 tools.
Contact:
Yuki WAKITA
Email:
yuki@src.ricoh.co.jp
Software
Research Center
RICOH
Company, Ltd.
01M7M011: Wireless Images Retrieval
using Speech Dialogue Agent, MDS (M7 Systems)
The agent in the client terminal
recognizes user's utterance in English/Japanese with rather dedicated sentences
and send a query profile to the server using wireless transceiver channel
(32kbps). The server PC will retrieve the demanded images and deliver the
compressed video bitstream (H.263) to the client PC. Then the client agent will
reply with synthesized voice and display the images.This time we use MPEG-7 CD
based format of metadata. Moreover,we will show that the retrieval speed gets
several times higher than conventional method by newly incorporating dependency
information.
Contact: Mikio
Sasaki
Email:
msasaki@rlab.denso.co.jp
DENSO
CORPORATION
01M7M012: Article-based News Browser (M7 MDS)
Article-base News Browser enables user to allow article unit access. In this
browser, by scrolling up and down, user can find for the articles what they want
to see. An article in the browser UI consists of a set of 4 keyframes which are
an anchorperson frame, a news icon frame, a sythesized video text frame and a
representative keyframe of the corresponding episode shot. These keyframes and
nessary article and episode shots are extracted automatically and described
using MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Scheme(MDS).
Contact:
Jungmin Song
Email:
jmsong73@LG-Elite.com
LG
Electronics
01M7V008: Web-based Image Indexing and Retrieval System
(M7 Visual)
We proposed a content-based image retrieval system using MPEG-7 texture
and/or color descriptor(s), which retrieves well images similar to the query
image. The proposed system can deal with vast amount of multimedia DB, on the
Web, with fast and efficient method using MPEG-7 descriptors. MPEG-7 meta search
engine is designed using existing search engines on the Web to populate the
multimedia DB. Therefore, a system manager on the server can easily upgrade the
contents of the database, using meta search engines on the Web, so entirely new
images and URL information can be preserved. And also, common user can easily
access to the system by the user interface implemented on the Web.
Contact: Kyeongok Kang
Email: kokang@etri.re.kr
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
01M7V009: Image Retrieval using the Edge Histogram
Descriptor of MPEG-7 (M7 Visual)
In MPEG-7, there is a descriptor to
represent the edge information of the image. This demo is regarding the
application of the Edge Histogram Descriptor (EHD) of MPEG-7. We will show how the EHD can be applied for
the retrieval of natural and clip art images. To increase the retrieval
performance we also try to combine the EHD with the Region Shape Descriptor for
image matching.
Contact: Soo-Jun Park
Email:
psj@etri.re.kr
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
01M7V010: Visual Access Technologies
with MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 (M7 Visual)
We are going to show our demonstrator of "contents
search and retrieval" employing MPEG-4 (for contents compression) and
MPEG-7 (for contents access).
Contact:
Kohtaro Asai
asai@isl.melco.co.jp
Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation
01M7M013: TV News Indexing and Retrieval: Towards MPEG-7
(M7 MDS)
In this work we present a system, which
allows indexing, querying and browsing of TV news documents. Also we propose a
TV news document class based on MPEG-7 standard. The proposed audio-visual
digital archive application can be used by professional TV broadcasters
(archivists, journalists, etc.) and other non-professional users. The most
important feature of this system is the integration of querying and browsing in
a unified process. Moreover, the efficiency of retrieval is enforced by a richly
described news video model proposed for this purpose. This model represents
several video descriptions e.g. temporal segmentation (shots, scenes, etc.),
semantic description (persons, events, etc.), etc.
We have currently studies the adaptability of mpeg-7 to represent our
model. Based on this, we proposed some modifications to MPEG-7, which were
accepted, and we will present these results in our poster presentation.
Contact:
Nastaran Fatemi
Email:
nastaran.fatemi@epfl.ch
EPFL
and University of Applied Science of Fribourg
01M7V011: Real-time 3D object
recognition using MPEG-7 (M7 Visual)
We are going to demonstrate real-time object recognition
using MPEG-7 visual descriptors.
Contact:
Miroslaw Bober
Email:
miroslaw.bober@vil.ite.mee.com
Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation
01M7M013: A Graphical User Interface
for the MPEG-7 Reference Software (M7 ISG/Video/MDS)
This
demo shows the application of some MPEG-7 Descriptors (Ds)/ Descriptions Schemes
(DSs) using a graphical user interface, which runs on to of the MPEG-7 reference
software (XM software). The graphical user interface can be used which still
images and video sequences. Furthermore, the GUI can be configured at run-time
to create specific input fields for specific Ds / DSs.
Contact:
Stephan Herrmann
Email:
S_Herrmann@lis.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
Munich
University of Technology
01M7M014: Customized Content Delivery for Mobile Users (M7 MDS/Systems)
In the next-generation wireless communication services, multimedia content delivery should be one of the most attractive applications for both mobile users and the content providers. Due to the limited time to play the content at mobile client and huge amount of multimedia content data, it is essential to support the functionality of flexible content summarization depending on the user’s situation. In this application scenario, push technology is used for sending summary content to the mobile users to provide pull access trigger for rich content. Summary content contains an instance of MPEG-7(content structure or pre-defined summaries) and media data(e.g. key frames, annotation) which enables mobile user to look at the overview of the whole content quickly. The information for pull access can be generated or selected using delivered MPEG-7 instance and user preferences input to the client.
Contact:
Shun-ichi Sekiguchi
Email:
shunmml.yrp.nttdocomo.co.jp
NTT DoCoMo
Inc.
Eiji
Kasutani received the
M.E. degree in electronics and communication from Waseda University, Japan, in
1998. He joined NEC Corp. in 1998. His research interests include image/video
indexing and retrieval.
Email: eiji@ccm.cl.nec.co.jp
Akio Yamada received the PhD degree in information electronics science
from Nagoya University, Japan, in 1993. He joined NEC Corp. in 1993 and is
currently an assistant manager of Computer & Communication Media Research.
He received ITE Takayanagi Best Paper Award in 1994 and IEICE Yong Engineer
Award in 1996, respectively. His research interests are mainly in video coding,
indexing and recognition.
Sasken
Multimedia Search Engine
R
Navaneethakrishnan
received his masters degree Telecommunication from Indian Institute of Science,
India in 1998. Since 1998 he is working at Sasken communication technologies
ltd., India. His current research interests are associated with compression and
content based retrieval of audio signals.
Dheeraj Sreedhar received his Masters degree in systems science and
automation from the Indian Institute of Science, India in 1999. Since February
1999 he is with the Signal Processing R&D Group at Sasken Communication
Technologies Ltd. His research interest are in source coding and content based
retrieval.
Video-over-IP
Erik
Oltmans has a background
in natural-language processing, in which he received a PhD in 1999 from the
University of Twente, The Netherlands. He now is a member of scientific staff at
the Dutch Telematica Instituut. As
a researcher and project manager he is actively involved in several content
engineering projects, including the Video-over-IP project. He also chairs the
MPEG-7 AHG on Metadata Integration; his research interests include content-based
retrieval, metadata modeling, and interoperability.
Email: oltmans@telin.nl
Aerobatic Video Clip Retrieval System
using MPEG-7
Kiyoshi
Suzuki received the M.S.
degree in physics from Tokyo University, Japan in 1994, where he studied high
energy X/gamma-ray experimental astrophysics. He joined the RICOH Co. Research
and Development Center in 1994, where he researched color image processing. He
also researched document retrieval system with RICOH California Research Center
from 1996 to 1997. He is currently an R&D Engineer at RICOH Software
Research Center. He is investigating multimedia data management, indexing and
retrieval.
MovieTool, a MPEG-7 Description Tool
for Video
Takayuki Kunieda
received the M.A. degree in geography from Meiji University, Tokyo, in 1986,
where he analyzed the movement of pyroclastic flow topography using
paleo-magnetism. He joined the RICOH Co. Software Research Center, Tokyo, in
1990, where he is currently an R&D Engineer. He developed image processing
tools, optical character readers and machine drawings recognition systems.
Currently he is investigating multimedia data management, indexing and
retrieval. He is a member of the MPEG-7 Committee in Japan and a member of IEEE.
Email: kunieda@src.ricoh.co.jp
Yuki Wakita received the B.S. degree from Gakushuin University, Tokyo,
Japan in mathematics in 1989. In 1991, she joined the Software Research Center
of Ricoh Co. Ltd., where she has researched image operation, image compression,
and multimedia retrieval. She is a member of the Information Processing Society
of Japan. Her current interests are multimedia retrieval frameworks, and image
and video compression.
Wireless Images Retrieval using Speech Dialogue Agent
Mikio Sasaki is
Project Leader in Research Laboratories of DENSO CORPORATION which is the
largest automotive parts company in Japan. He is engaged in the development of
human-machine interfaces and media processing. He is also very much interested
in image understanding and has two US patents for 3D recognition for robotics
and image coding. He received a BS in Electronics from Kyoto University, an MS
in Electronics from the University of Tokyo. Until October 1991, he had been
working for YAMAHA, and was also engaged in R&D of digital circuits and
MPEG-1 related image technologies.
Email: msasaki@rlab.denso.co.jp
Article-based News Browser
Jungmin
Song received the M.S.
degree in electronic engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, in
1997. He was awarded a scholarship for graduate and undergraduate studies by LG
Electronics. He is a Member of Technical Staff in LG Electronics Institute of
Technology in Seoul, Korea, since 1997. He is working on Content-based
Multimedia Information Processing project and current research interest is
audio-based multimedia indexing. He is also participating in MPEG-7
standardization.
Email: jmsong73@LG-Elite.com
Web-based Image Indexing and Retrieval System
Kyeongok Kang, Email: kokang@etri.re.kr
Hyun
Sung Chang
received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering
from
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1997 and 1999, respectively.
Since
March 1999, he has been with the Radio & Broadcasting Technology Laboratory,
Electronics
and Telecommunications Research Institute, Taejon, Korea.
His
current research interests include content-based video analysis and
representation, and
metadata
based broadcasting systems.
Affiliation:
ETRI (1994 ~ present)
Position: Senior Member of Engineering Staff
Education:
M.S. degree in Computer Science at Lehigh University, U.S.A.
B.S. degree in Biochemistry at the University of Iowa, U.S.A.
Interested areas:
MPEG-7, Content-based Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Bio-Informatics.
Chee Sun Won, Email: cswon@dgu.ac.kr
Visual Access Technologies with MPEG-4
and MPEG-7
Kohtaro Asai is a
team leader at information technology R&D Center of Mitsubishi Electric
Corporation, Japan. Since he has joined Mitsubishi in 1981, he has been engaged
in research and development on video coding, transmission and standardization of
MPEG and ITU-T. His recent interest is in application systems of video coding.
Email: asai@isl.melco.co.jp
TV News Indexing and Retrieval: Towards
MPEG-7
Nastaran Fatemi
is a research assistant and PhD student at MEDIA group of Swiss Federal
Institute of technology of Lausanne (EPFL) since 1999. She obtained her masters
degree on “Multimedia Information Retrieval” at the Joseph Fourier
University of Grenoble in France. She is currently involved in Audio-Visual
Digital Archive project funded by Swiss National Funds. Her main research
interests are multimedia databases and structured video document indexing and
retrieval. She is involved in several teaching activities, such as “multimedia
documents” given at computer science department of EPFL. She is an active
member of MPEG-7 community.
Email: nastaran.fatemi@epfl.ch
Real-time 3D object recognition using
MPEG-7
Dr.
Miroslaw Bober
is R&D projects manager with the Visual Information Laboratory of Mitsubishi
Electric (Guildford,UK). He has
been deeply involved in MPEG-7 development from the beginning, chairing the
MPEG-7 visual work and various AHG's. He also contributed technology adopted for
2D and 2D/3D visual shape descriptors. His research interests include
video and image compression and analysis, in particular robust motion analysis,
shape analysis and recognition and statistical signal/video processing.
Email: miroslaw.bober@vil.ite.mee.com
Stephan
Herrmann received the
diploma degree for electrical engineering in 1995 from the TU-Berlin. During and
after studies he participated at several chip designs at TU-Berlin, SICAN
(Hannover, Germany) and HHI (Berlin, Germany). In 1996 he joined the Munich
University of Technology, Institute for Integrated Circuits. His major interests
are video object segmentation, and its software and hardware implementation.
1999 he became chairman of the MPEG-7 ad hoc group on XM Development.
Email: stephanh@lis.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
Customized Content Delivery for Mobile
Users
Shun-ichi
Sekiguchi received his
B.S. and M.S. degree in electric communication engineering from Waseda
University, in 1990 and 1992 respectively.
In April 1992, he joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and has been
working in the field of R&D on audio-visual communication, especially on
video compression technology. Since December 1999, he has been a member of
Multimedia Laboratories in NTT DoCoMo.
Email: shun@mml.yrp.nttdocomo.co.jp