Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications ~IMSA 2008~
The 12th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications ~IMSA 2008~
Kailua-Kona, USA August 18 – 20, 2008
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM
LOCATION Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa 78-128 Ehukai Street, Kailua-Kona, 96740, USA
0 Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications ~IMSA 2008~
SPONSORS The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Technical Committee on the Web, the Internet, and Multimedia
CONFERENCE CHAIR Prof. Mrinal Mandal – University of Alberta, Canada
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan – Arizona State University, USA
TUTORIAL SESSION Dr. Sri Krishnan – Ryerson University, Canada
PLEASE NOTE Paper presentations are 15 minutes in length with an additional 5 minutes for questions. Report to your Session Chair 15 minutes before the session is scheduled to begin. Presentations should be loaded onto the presentation laptop in the appropriate room prior to your session. End times of sessions vary depending on the number of papers scheduled.
1 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
H. Agius – Brunel University, UK A. Georgakis – Umeå University, Z. Al Aghbari – University of Sharjah, Sweden UAE D. Gillet – Swiss Federal Institute of K.M. Anderson – University of Technology, Switzerland Colorado, USA Z. Gong – University of Macau, PR M.C. Angelides – Brunel University, China UK W. Grosky – University of Michigan, E.M. Bakker – Leiden University, The Dearborn, USA Netherlands S. Guan – Brunel University, UK E. Cerqueira – University of Coimbra, A. Hac – University of Hawaii, Portugal Manoa, USA I.-R. Chen – Virginia Polytechnic W.A. Halang – Correspondence Institute and State University, USA University in Hagen, Germany Y. Chen – University of Winnipeg, I.T. Hawryszkiewycz – University of Canada Technology, Sydney, Y.-K. Chen – Intel Corporation, USA Y. He – Shanghai Institute of Y.-P.P. Chen – Deakin University, Technology, PR China Australia R. Heller – George Washington K.-H. Choi – Mokpo National University, USA University, South Korea D. Hicks – Aalborg University C.E. Chow – University of Colorado Esbjerg, Denmark at Colorado Springs, USA C. Ho – National Kaohsiung S.M. Chung – Wright State University of Applied Sciences, University, USA Taiwan T.-Y. Chung – Yuan Ze University, H.-F. Hsiao – National Chiao-Tung Taiwan University, Taiwan C. Claramunt – Naval Academy W.S. Hsieh – Shu-Te University, Research Institute, France Taiwan Y. Dai – Iwate Prefecture University, T. Hui – Beijing University of Posts Japan and Telecommunications, PR China A. Dattolo – University of Udine, H. Jung – KISTI, Korea Italy M. Kampmann – Ericsson Research, A. Eliens – Vrije University, The Germany Netherlands E.-Y. Kang – California State V. Eramo – University of Rome "La University, Los Angeles, USA Sapienza," Italy H. Kang – Chung-Ang University, L. Esmahi – Athabasca University, Korea Canada M.S. Kankanhalli – National S. Ferretti – University of Bologna, University of Singapore, Singapore Italy T. Kato – University of Electro- B. Furht – Florida Atlantic University, Communications, Japan USA C. Kim – Information and M. Furini – University of Piemonte Communications University, Korea Orientale, Italy
2 H. Kim – Jackson State University, S. Panchanathan – Arizona State USA University, USA M.S. Kim – Washington State J.-H. Park – Electronics & University, USA Telecommunication Research S.H. Kim – University of Denver, Institute, South Korea USA J. Pereira – University of A Coruna, R. Klamma – RWTH Aachen Spain University, Germany D.P. Pezaros – Lancaster University, J. Kong – North Dakota State UK University, USA B. Prabhakaran – University of Texas H. Kosch – University of Passau, at Dallas, USA Germany A. Prodan – Iuliu Hatieganu J. Kozlak – AGH University of University, Romania Science and Technology, Poland M.V. Radenkovic – University of C.-C.J. Kuo – University of Southern Nottingham, UK California, USA V. Rangan – Amrita University, India R. Lai – La Trobe University, L. Ricci – University of Pisa, Italy Australia M. Roccetti – University of Bologna, C.-N. Lee – National Sun Yat-Sen Italy University, Taiwan Y. Ryu – Myongji University, Korea C. Leung – Victoria University, M.L. Sapino – University of Torino, Australia Italy C.-T. Li – University of Warwick, UK N.J. Sarhan – Wayne State University, X. Lin – Tsinghua University, PR USA China M. Sasajima – Osaka University, C.-L. Liu – University of Florida , Japan USA R. Schettini – University of Milan, S.P. Maity – Bengal Engineering and Bicocca, Italy Science University, India E. Schikuta – University of Vienna, M. Mathur – STMicroelectronics, Austria India N. Sharda – Victoria University, M. Matskin – Royal Institute of Australia Technology, Sweden H.T. Shen – University of N.N. Mirenkov – University of Aizu, Queensland, Australia Japan T.K. Shih – Tamkang University, L. Mocean – University of Cluj- Taiwan Napoca, Romania J. Sil – Bengal Engineering and E.N. Montoya – EAFIT University, Science University, Shibpur, India Colombia W.-T. Sung – National Chin-Yi K. Ng – University of Leeds, UK University of Technology, Taiwan D. O'Shaughnessy – National C. Tadj – University of Québec, Institute of Scientific Research, Canada Canada G.Y. Tian – University of Newcastle, N. Osawa – National Institute of UK Multimedia Education, Japan A.J.M. Traina – University of São C.E. Palau Salvador – Polytechnic Paulo, Brazil University of Valencia, Spain 3 C.-J. Tseng – Northern Taiwan S. Xi – Nanjing University of Posts Institute of Science and Technology, and Communications, PR China Taiwan L. Yang – Loughborough University, J. Tsiligaridis – Heritage University, UK USA S.-H. Yang – Loughborough A. Uhl – Salzburg University, Austria University, UK G. Vouros – University of the Aegean, S. Yoon – Soong Eui Women's Greece College, Korea Y. Won – Hanyang University, Korea S. Zeadally – University of the M.-Y. Wu – Shanghai Jiao Tong District of Columbia, USA University, PR China
4 PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Monday, August 18, 2008 16:30 Session 3 – Web and Internet Systems and Tools 07:00 – Registration (Keauhou IV Room) 08:00 (Lobby Rotunda) 19:00 Dinner Banquet 08:00 – Welcome Address (Crystal Blue Point Room) 08:30 (Keauhou III Room)
10:30 Keynote Speaker - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 “Human Centered Multimedia Computing” 08:00 Session 4 – Applications (Keauhou III Room) (Keauhou III Room))
13:00 Tutorial Presentation – 10:00 – Coffee Break “Multimedia Fingerprinting and 10:30 (Convention Center Foyer) Watermarking” (Keauhou III Room)
15:00 – Coffee Break 15:30 (Convention Center Foyer)
15:30 - Tutorial Presentation Continued (Keauhou III Room)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
08:30 Session 1 – Multimedia Information Systems (Keauhou III Room)
10:00 – Coffee Break 10:30 (Convention Center Foyer)
10:30 Session 1 Continued (Keauhou III Room)
13:00 Session 2 – Data Management (Keauhou III Room)
15:00 – Coffee Break 15:30 (Convention Center Foyer)
15:30 Session 2 Continued (Keauhou III Room)
5 MONDAY, AUGUST 18, assistive technologies will not 2008 only require the engagement of computer scientists, information technologists and engineers but 07:00 – 08:00 REGISTRATION more importantly, disability IASTED Staff: (Canada) specialists, cognitive scientists and Location: Lobby Rotunda industrial designers.
This talk will provide the 08:00 – 08:30 WELCOME rationale for human centered ADDRESS multimedia computing and Presenter:TBA present examples of a design Location: Keauhou III Room philosophy inspired by transdisciplinary research collaborations. At the Center for 10:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing “HUMAN CENTERED (CUbiC), we are engaged in MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING” research into designing and Presenter: Dr. Sethuraman developing multimedia solutions Panchanathan for assistance, learning and Location: Keauhou III Room rehabilitation. This research involves neurologists, The rapid emergence of psychologists, biomedical multimedia technologies and engineers, disability specialists, standards is causing an explosion human computer interaction and of media-rich applications. computer graphics researchers, However, state-of the art multimedia experts and industrial multimedia solutions are still designers. Our design philosophy taking a technology-centric view involves exploring fundamental rather than a problem-centric research issues at the convergence view. The future of innovative of neuro-cogno-info domains and multimedia solutions lies in incorporating this knowledge in understanding the needs of the the design of multimedia systems. customer with the ultimate goal of Three specific projects will be achieving symbiosis between the discussed: (a) design and human and the computer, development of assistive devices resulting in a human centered for individuals who are blind and multimedia computing paradigm. visually impaired to enable This requires a multi-disciplinary activities in daily living; (b) approach to understanding, developing virtual reality surgical designing and solving problems. simulation environments For example, the design of incorporating haptic (touch- 6 based) feedback and cognitive up company MotionEase Inc., training; and (c) rehabilitation which is focused on developing devices for individuals with video based motion capture movement disorders. solutions for rehabilitative applications. Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan received his B.Sc. degree in He leads a team of researchers Physics from the University of and graduate students working in Madras, India in 1981; B.E. degree various areas, including: in Electronics and Ubiquitous Multimedia Communication Engineering from Computing; Visual Computing the Indian Institute of Science, and Communications; Media Bangalore, India in 1984; M. Tech Processor Designs; Multimedia degree in Electrical Engineering Communication; Face/Gait from the Indian Institute of Analysis and Recognition; Technology, Madras, India in Genomic Signal Processing; and 1986; and his Ph.D. degree in Ubiquitous Computing Electrical and Computer Environments for Blind Persons. Engineering from the University of Ottawa in 1989. Dr. Dr. Panchanathan has published Panchanathan is currently a over 300 papers in refereed Professor and Director of the journals and conferences. He is School of Computing and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Informatics, Chair of the Multimedia Magazine and an Computer Science and associate editor of seven other Engineering Department, Director journals and transactions. Dr. of the Institute for Computing & Panchanathan is a Fellow of the Information Sciences & IEEE and SPIE. He is a member of Engineering, and Director of the the European Association for Research Center on Ubiquitous Signal Processing (EURASIP), Computing (CUbiC) at Arizona Association of Computing State University, Tempe, Arizona. Machinery (ACM) and ASEE. He is also the Interim Director of the new Biomedical Informatics department and an Affiliate faculty in the University of
Arizona College of Medicine,
Phoenix program. He is an
Affiliate Professor in the
Department of Electrical
Engineering at ASU, and co- founder and President of a start- 7 13:00 TUTORIAL masking properties. All of the PRESENTATION– proposed methods embed the “MULTIMEDIA watermark in only one domain. In FINGERPRINTING AND the proposed technique the WATERMARKING” watermark key is a Presenter: Dr. Sri Krishnan pseudorandom sequence, which Location: Keauhou III Room will carry the signature of the author. This will be adaptively In recent years, multimedia added in the form of a linear chirp content has been reproduced and signal to the host signal. A chirp distributed in digital form. detection technique based on Todays technology allows people analysis of the 2D TF images has to copy multimedia content and been shown to be optimal in redistribute it over the Internet at successfully detecting the a very low cost. Therefore, a need watermark even under adverse for copyright protection has arisen conditions. for maintaining the rights of the multimedia content (audio, image A Multimedia fingerprint is a and video). Watermarking is the compact representation of the process of embedding special data perceptually relevant parts of into the host signal for copyright audio or video content. A well- ownership. A watermark added designed fingerprint can be used to the host signal should satisfy to identify a multimedia object, the following conditions. 1) It even if it is severely distorted by should be imperceptible to the compression or other signal user. 2) It should be robust to any processing techniques. Some of kind of manipulations on the host the applications for fingerprinting data such as filtering, include integrity verification, compression, noise, resampling, content-based identification, etc. 3) It should be successfully broadcast monitoring, and digital extracted to prove ownership. In rights management. A this project, a new watermarking Fingerprinting system consists of algorithm that uses the joint TF two major blocks: fingerprint information of the audio signals extraction and matching. In has been investigated. Most of the Fingerprint extraction, using existing algorithms embed the perceptually relevant features of watermark information in the the signal, a compact frequency domain of the signal representation of the signal is using the simultaneous masking developed. In the later part, fast properties. There are also some and efficient search and matching watermarking techniques criteria are developed to match proposed that use the temporal the fingerprint with the 8 fingerprint database. In this work, Chapter Chair Award (Toronto we model the fingerprints using a Section); and 2005 Research Gaussian mixture model (GMM) Excellence Award from the by extracting different spectral Faculty of Engineering, Ryerson and cepstral features. By University. modeling using GMM, we can reduce the fingerprint size and capture the variation in the 15:00 – 15:30 COFFEE BREAK statistical properties of Location: Convention Center Foyer multimedia signals over time. We also show that the modeling 15:30 TUTORIAL provides robustness to the PRESENTATION CONTINUED fingerprints over a wide range of distortions.
Sridhar (Sri) Krishnan received the B.E. degree in Electronics and TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, Communication Engineering from 2008 Anna University, Madras, India, in 1993, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and 08:30 – SESSION 1 – Computer Engineering from the MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION University of Calgary, Calgary, SYSTEMS Alberta, Canada, in 1996 and 1999 Chairs: TBA respectively. He joined Ryerson Location: Keauhou III Room University, Toronto, Canada in 624-033 1999 and since October 2007 he A Choquet Integral-based Meta- has been appointed as a Canada Classifier and its Applications on Research Chair in Biomedical Multi-Class Image Classification Signal Analysis a prestigious C. Campos and M. Mandal (Canada) appointment that recognizes the quality of the research and the 624-022 researcher. Sri Krishnan is a Design and Implementation of recipient of many national and Performance Test Toolkit for provincial awards including the Multimedia Stream System 2007 Young Engineer Y.-J. Lee, H.-Y. Kim, and C.-H. Lee Achievement Award from (Korea) Engineers Canada; 2006 South Asian Community Achiever Award; 2006 New Pioneers Award in Science and Technology; 2006 Best IEEE 9 624-027 624-039 Fully Service-Integrated Mobile Performance Analysis of Myopic Application for Photo-Sharing Policy for Opportunistic Channel E. Vartiainen, T. Strandell, and Access J. Kaasalainen (Finland) Y. Lee (Korea)
624-028 Comparing Static and Self- 10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK Organizing Behaviours for VoD Location: Convention Center Foyer Servers P. Kárpáti (Norway), T. Szkaliczki (Hungary), and L. Böszörményi 10:30 SESSION 1 CONTINUED (Austria)
624-065 13:00 – SESSION 2 – DATA A Continuous Media Rendering MANAGEMENT System with Sub-Media for Chairs: TBA Representing the Story Line of Location: Keauhou III Room Main-Media 624-032 F. Yara, A.I. Uraki, and Y. Kiyoki Quantization based Data Hiding (Japan) Scheme for Quality Access 624-063 Control of Images A Media Synchronization Method A. Phadikar, S.P. Maity (India), and M.K. Mandal (Canada) for Real-Time Communication in a Fixed Mobile Convergence 624-057 (FMC) Environment Improving Content-based K. Tasaka, N. Imai, M. Isomura, and Retrieval on Electronic Apparel A. Idoue (Japan) Catalog Retrieval System X.-P. Zhang, F. Wang, and D. Li 624-069 (Canada) A Timing Control Framework in Delayed Network for Distributed 624-802 Multimedia System Evaluation of Interfaces for H. Hayakawa, K. Yamamoto, Describing 3D Faces S. Tagashira, T. Kitasuka, M. Phielipp and J.A. Black, Jr. (USA) T. Nakanishi, and A. Fukuda (Japan) 624-803
Web Data Extraction using Clustering H. Xu and J. Park (Canada)
10 624-801 624-056 Tower of Babel: Facilitating Multi- Light-Weight Decentralized Cultural Educational Activities Autonomic Web Service and Group Work with 3D Discovery for Systems with Collaborative Virtual Heterogeneous Environments Communication Capabilities E. Prasolova-Førland (Norway) and A. Haseeb (Sweden), M. Matskin T.-W. Chang (Taiwan) (Sweden, Norway), and P. Küngas (Sweden) 624-038 624-001 National Educational Strategy Case Study of the Presentation of Enhancement through a Proposed Faculty Credentials on a Data Warehousing System University Web Site A.A. Mirza (Saudi Arabia) V.F. McGowan (USA) 624-025 624-058 An ICO Consistency Algorithm in 3D Mesh Models Signature Large-Scale Distributed Virtual J. Zou, H. Deng, and J. Xiong (PRC) Environments H. Zhou, W. Zhang, Y. Peng, 624-064 S.K. Li, F. Zeng, and F. Liu (PRC) A Neuro-Surgery Ward Bed-
Allocation Modeling System using
Software Agents 15:00 – 15:30 COFFEE BREAK R. Paranjape, M. Ogrady, and S.G. Location: Convention Center Foyer Nejad (Canada)
15:30 SESSION 2 CONTINUED 19:00 – 22:00 DINNER
BANQUET
Location: Crystal Blue Point Room 16:30 – SESSION 3 – WEB AND INTERNET SYSTEMS AND TOOLS Chairs: TBA Location: Keauhou IV Room 624-051 Error Analytic Model for Web Application Reliability Improvement N. Alaeddine and J. Tian (USA)
11 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 624-043 20, 2008 An Assemblage of Impressive Shots - A Video Digesting Method based on Viewer's Heart Activity 08:30 – SESSION 4 – S. Toyosawa and T. Kawai (Japan) APPLICATIONS Chairs: TBA Location: Keauhou III Room 10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK Location: Convention Center Foyer 624-066 An Intuitional 3D Virtual Navigation System Supporting Motion and Voice Commands C.-S. Wang and S.-S. Kao (Taiwan) ******************************* IASTED would like to thank you 624-005 for attending IMSA 2008. Your Associating Icons with Musical participation helped make this Genres international event a success, and J. Holm and H. Holm (Finland) we look forward to seeing you at upcoming IASTED events. 624-050 *************************************** Anonymous Electronic Auction System with ID-based Group Signature Scheme H. Park, E. Choi, Y. Kang, H. Kim, S. Ahn, K. Chun, and Y. Won (Korea)
624-800 Intelligent Resource-Search in Web-based Teaching System W. Li and Z. Fang (PRC)
624-060 Algorithms on Graphs - Automatic Course Verification in eLearning S. Jeschke, T. Richter, T. Isele, and O. Pfeiffer (Germany)
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