*************************************************************************** ACM MULTIMEDIA'95 November 5-9, 1995 Hyatt Regency (Embarcadero) San Francisco, CA THE THIRD ACM INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION Sponsored by the ACM SIGMM, SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, SIGBIT, SIGBIO, SIGCOMM, SIGIR, and SIGOIS In cooperation with SIGAPP, SIGCAPH, SIGMOD, and SIGOPS ADVANCE PROGRAM *************************************************************************** Technical Program At a Glance Tuesday November 7 7:00 am - 4:00 pm Registration 8:45 am - 10:30 am 1. Conference Opening & Plenary 11:00 am - 12:30 pm 2A. Video Indexing and Retrieval 2B. Supporting Collaboration Environments 2P. The Information Superhighway: Electronic Democracy or Electronic Tranquilizer? 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm 3A. Cyber Communities 3B. Multimedia Storage Servers 3P. Curriculum, Education and Training about Multimedia 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm 4A. Authoring Flexible Documents 4B. Video Processing 4P. Multimedia on a Shoestring: Low Bandwidth Implementations 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Off-site conference reception, Yerba Buena Art Center Wednesday November 8 7:00 am - 4:00 pm Registration 9:00 am - 10:30 am 5A. Speech and Audio Interfaces 5D. Demonstrations: Networked Video 5P. Personal Narrative Spaces 11:00 am - 12:30 pm 6A. Multimedia Network Tools 6D. Demonstrations: Video-Centric Information Systems 6P. User Interface Challenges of Multimedia Design 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm 7A. Video and Image Collections 7D. Demonstrations:Enabling Hardware and Software 7P. Multimedia Museums and Cultural Learning 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm 8A. Multimedia Networking 8D. Demonstrations: Video Indexing 8P. Multimedia and Education: Magic, Myth or Miracle Cure? 7:00pm - 10:00 pm Interactive Demonstrations Thursday November 9 7:00 am - 4:00 pm Registration 9:00 am - 10:30 am 9A. Video in Hypermedia 9B. Synchronization... it's about Time 9P. What's that Character Doing in Your Interface? 11:00 am - 12:30 pm 10A. Learning with MultiMedia 10B. Media Encoding 10P. Panel: Broadband Data Services to the Home 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 11. Award Papers 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm 12. Plenary & Closing TECHNICAL PROGRAM Tuesday, November 7 8:45 am - 10:30 am 1. Opening Plenary Silicon Snake Oil: What Multimedia is Offering Speaker: Clifford Stoll Clifford Stoll is the bestselling author of "The Cuckoo's Egg", the story of how he tracked and eventually caught a German spy ring operating over the Internet. Involved with computer networks since their inception, Cliff is widely known both online and off -- as astronomer, computer security expert, and network maven. Despite this, Cliff admits to being "deeply ambivalent" about the information hihgway. 11:00 am - 12:30 pm 2A. Video Indexing and Retrieval Video parsing, retrieval and browsing: An integrated and content-based solution H.J. Zhang, C.Y. Low, S.W. Smoliar and D. Zhong, National University of Singapore An intuitive and efficient access interface to real-time incoming video based on automatic indexing Yukinobu Taniguchi, Akihito Akutsu, Yoshinobu Tonomura and Hiroshi Hamada, NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Japan Automatic content-based retrieval of broadcast news M. G. Brown, J. T. Foote, G. J. F. Jones, K. Sparck Jones and S. J. Young, Olivetti Research Limited and Cambridge University, UK 2B. Supporting Collaboration Environments Dealing with timing variability in the playback of interactive session recordings Nelson R. Manohar and Atul Prakash, University of Michigan Multimedia application sharing in a heterogeneous environment Klaus H. Wolf, Konrad Froitzheim and Peter Schulthess, University of Ulm, Germany Automating envisionment of virtual meeting room histories Allen Ginsberg and Sid Ahuja, AT&T Bell Laboratories 2P. Panel: The Information Superhighway: Electronic Democracy or Electronic Tranquilizer? Chair: Barbara Simons, IBM Almaden Events are moving so rapidly with respect to the Information Superhighway or National Information Infrastructure (NII) that it's almost impossible to write an abstract dealing with policy issues several months in advance of an event. Laws are being proposed (as of this writing, the Exon Amendment has been incorporated into the Telecommunications Bill, but the final vote has not yet been taken), books are being written by authors with very diverse views such as Clifford Stoll and Nicholas Negroponte, large sums of money are being invested, and major pronouncements are being made. Yet the terms of the discussions tend to be vague. How does the Internet relate to this yet-to-be-defined NII? Who will have access and to what? How will it be used? What are the potential abuses and how will we be protected from them? This panel will discuss current policy issues and concerns. We hope to have considerable input from the audience. 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm 3A. Cyber Communities The Jupiter audio/video architecture: secure multimedia in network places Pavel Curtis, Michael Dixon, Ron Frederick and David A. Nichols, Xerox PARC Low disturbance audio for awareness and privacy in media space applications Ian Smith and Scott E. Hudson, Georgia Institute of Technology Visual Who: Animating the affinities and activities of an electronic community Judith S. Donath, MIT Media Lab 3B. Multimedia Storage Servers Disk farms vs. storage hierarchies for video service Ann L. Chervenak, David A. Patterson and Randy H. Katz, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley Using rotational mirrored declustering for replica placement in a disk-array-based video server Ming-Syan Chen, Hui-I Hsiao, Chung-Sheng Li and Philip S. Yu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Efficient support for scan operations in video servers Prashant J. Shenoy and Harrick M. Vin, University of Texas at Austin 3P. Panel: Curriculum, Education and Training about Multimedia Chair: Ed Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University There is a growing demand for people with knowledge and skills in the areas of multimedia information, systems, and technology. Universities are just beginning to help in this regard, and a curriculum effort by SIGMM may be in order to provide guidance and support. This panel will lead a discussion with the audience regarding when and how to develop such a curriculum, dealing with issues such as: At what level should courses be offered (senior, graduate, ...); Should such courses be taught by CS, Arts, Communications, or other disciplines --- or by interdisciplinary teams; What are the needs of industry --- research, development --- that should be concentrated upon; What courseware, toolkits, demonstrations, online resources, textbooks, projects, etc. can assist with education. 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm 4A. Authoring Flexible Documents Multimedia documents with elastic time Michelle Y. Kim and Junehwa Song, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Commands as media: design and implementation of a command stream Jonathan L. Herlocker and Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota Control layer primitives for the layered multimedia data model Michael J. Wynblatt and Gary Schloss, SUNY at Stony Brook 4B. Video Processing A resolution independent video language Jonathan Swartz and Brian C. Smith, Cornell University A robust method for detecting cuts and dissolves in video sequences Kevin Mai, Justin Miller and Ramin Zabih, Cornell University Multiple perspective interactive video Patrick H. Kelly, Arun Katkere, Don Y. Kuramura, Saied Moezzi, Shankar Chatterjee and Ramesh Jain, University of California, San Diego 4P. Panel: Multimedia on a Shoestring: Low Bandwidth Implementations Chair: John Danskin, Dartmouth College If Multimedia is to accessible to the masses, it will have to work across slow networks like the standard telephone system. We are also seeing a tremendous increase in wireless (cellular modem) applications, especially for personal digital assistants. These machines present a tremendous new market for the multimedia community, but the network bandwidth problems associated with these machines are severe. We will discuss problems, solutions and approaches associated with implementing multimedia applications over low bandwidth network connections such as cellular modems and phone lines. 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Off-site conference reception Wednesday, November 8 9:00 am - 10:30 am 5A. Speech and Audio Interfaces Surfing the Web by voice Charles T. Hemphill and Philip R. Thrift, Texas Instruments Hearing Aid: Adding verbal hints to a learning interface Elizabeth Stoehr and Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab Query by humming: Musical information retrieval in an audio database Asif Ghias, Jonathan Logan, David Chamberlin and Brian C. Smith, Cornell University 5D. Demonstrations: Networked Video MBONE VCR - A video conference recorder for the MBONE Wieland Holfelder, ICSI A distributed real-time MPEG audio video player Shanwei Cen and Jonathan Walpole, Oregon Graduate Institute 5P. Personal Narrative Spaces Chair: Sha Xin Wei, Stanford University Emerging multimedia technologies have blurred the lines between classically distinct categories of theater and narrative: stage-spaces in which humans and artifacts interact, and spaces of symbols like a page of text or a digital video to be interpreted by an observer. This panel brings together practitioners to take stock of the state of the art and point out some exciting lines of work in the field of interactive media. What will we face do when we freely inter-mix computational artifacts with human agents in our living, writing or performance spaces? How will we make sense of such hybrid spaces and how will we share these interpretations? These questions are intimately tied with techno-scientific issues as well as literary and social issues. How should media models evolve to meet the needs of these personal narrative spaces? What are some design limitations of our tools or frameworks? What are some potential functions that inhabitants, browsers, composers, and architects can tap in emerging frameworks? What are some worthy challenges for researchers and developers interested in interactive multimedia? 11:00 am - 12:30 pm 6A. Multimedia Network Tools Managing real-time services in multimedia networks using dynamic visualization and high-level controls Mun Choon Chan, Giovanni Pacifici and Rolf Stadler, Columbia University An application level video gateway Elan Amir, Steven McCanne and Hui Zhang, University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University Multimedia traffic analysis using CHITRA95 Marc Abrams, Stephen Williams, Ghaleb Abdulla, Shashin Patel, Randy Ribler and Edward A. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 6D. Demonstrations: Video-centric Information Systems GUARDIAN: A knowledge-based home health-care system for children with leukemia Michelle Y. Kim, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center CITYQUILT: A navigable movie Tirtza Even 6P. User Interface Challenges of Multimedia Design Chair: Penny Bauersfeld Multimedia product and applications pose particularly difficult challenges for user interface (UI) designers. Not only must designers address the typical interface challenges of software or hardware products, they face a multitude of other issues introduced by each media type. Some typical UI considerations, such as functionality, structure navigation, and visual design may be increasingly complicated by powerful media content or control. In addition, media projects may be intended for audiences very different than standard personal computer users with varying expectations about interaction or functionality. Usability and design concerns are not easily addressed. Interface designers new to multimedia applications often do not have the knowledge necessary to focus on media design. Similarly, multimedia developers who have little experience in designing user interface are challenged to make their products accessible and interactive. Multimedia UI design is, in fact, becoming its own discipline, where experts must know both the media world and user interface design. 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm 7A. Video and Image Collections Integrated video archive tools Rune Hjelsvold, Stein Langorgen, Roger Midtstraum and Olav Sandsta, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norway Automatic recognition of film genres Stephan Fischer, Rainer Lienhart and Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany An integrated color-spatial approach to content-based image retrieval Wynne Hsu, T.S. Chua and H.K. Pung, National University of Singapore 7D. Demonstrations: Enabling Hardware and Software Montage multipoint audio and video S.R. Ahuja and R.D. Gaglianello, AT&T Bell Laboratories The programmers' playground demo T. Paul McCartney, Kenneth J. Goldman and Bala Swaminathan, Washington University 7P. Museums, Multimedia, and Cultural Learning Co-Chairs: Ranjit Makkuni (Xerox PARC) and Mike Sipusik (UC Berkeley) Museums provide people with a rich setting for cultural learning. Museums are the repositories of artifacts from diverse cultures. However, we should not forget that these artifacts are located in-situ a cultural practice, and need to be seen in their original cultural context where interrelations between form, process, myth, symbol, philosophy, ritual and celebration get articulated. Modern multimedia systems in museums have begun to address the issues of "re-contextualising" the cultural artifact in its original context. Members of the panel will show examples of cultural learning systems, and the design challenges of re-contextualisation. Panelists consist of designers of learning systems, education researchers, museum administrators. 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm 8A. Multimedia Networking Fast lossy Internet image transmission Geoffrey M. Davis and John M. Danskin, Dartmouth College A reliable dissemination protocol for interactive collaborative applications Rajendra Yavatkar, James Griffioen and Madhu Sudan, University of Kentucky A generalized admissions control strategy for heterogeneous, distributed multimedia systems Saurav Chatterjee and Jay Strosnider, Carnegie Mellon University 8D. Demonstrations: Video Indexing Automating the creation of a digital video library Michael A. Smith and Michael Christel, Carnegie Mellon University A video parsing, indexing, and retrieval system H.J. Zhang, J.H. Wu, and C.Y. Low, National University of Singapore 8P. Panel: Multimedia and Education: Magic, Myth or Miracle Cure? Chair: Rachelle Heller, George Washington University The media has latched onto the use of multimedia in education. This panel will attempt to question the issues beyond the hype - is it an appropriate atmosphere in which to offer educational experiences or does it reinforce the 30 second sound byte mentality, what is it about multimedia that makes it a tool for all learners or is it a superficial educational environment? Is it just for kids or will all learners benefit from using multimedia? These and other questions will be addressed by this lively panel of theorists and practitioners. 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Interactive Demonstrations The multimedia forum kiosk and Narli Christopher M. Hoadley, Sherry Hsi, and Benjamin Berman, University of California at Berkeley Collaborative multimedia in SHASTRA Chandrajit Bajaj and S. Cutchin, Purdue University Automatic recognition of film genres Wolfgang Effelsberg, Stephan Fischer, and Rainer Lienhart, University of Mannheim HEIDI-II: A testbed for interactive multimedia delivery and communication Max Ott, G. Michelitsch, and J. Hearn, C&C Research Labs, NEC USA An object-oriented model for the semantic interpretation of multimedia data Rob Adams, James Griffioen, and Raj Yavatkar, University of Kentucky Managing real-time services in multimedia networks using dynamic visualization and high-level controls G. Pacifici, M.C. Chan, and Rolf Stadler, Columbia University Thursday, November 9 9:00 am - 10:30 am 9A. Video in Hypermedia ConText: Towards the evolving documentary Glorianna Davenport and Michael Murtaugh, MIT Media Lab Surfing the movie space: advanced navigation in movie-only hypermedia Joerg Geissler, GMD-IPSI, Germany Automated authoring of hypermedia documents of video programs Behzad Shahraray and David C. Gibbon, AT&T Bell Laboratories 9B. Synchronization (it's about time....) Scheduling MPEG-compressed video streams with firm deadline constraints Ching-Chih Han and Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan Low-level multimedia synchronization algorithms on broadband networks Miguel Correia and Paulo Pinto, INESC and IST, Portugal Coordinating heterogeneous time-based media between independent applications Scott Flinn and Kellogg S. Booth, University of British Columbia, Canada 9P. What's that Character doing in your Interface? Chair: Abbe Don, Abbe Don Interactive Inc. Until recently, the discussion of the use of characters in the interface centered on the old question to anthropomorphize or not to anthropomorphize the interface. With the appearance of Microsoft's "social interface" in the form of Bob and his pals, with Fujitsu's use of avatars in their online service "Habitat," and with millions of people representing themselves daily in various contexts on the Internet, the old discussion centering on the wonders or pitfalls of anthropomorphism seems moot. Instead, many multimedia designers, producers, and software engineers find themselves accepting the use of characters in the interface and are now grappling with a more difficult set of issues regarding implementation. These questions include: What is the most appropriate representation for a particular application or audience? Why are some characters accepted while others are dismissed as "too cute?" How do you match back-end functionality with the promises of the front-endrepresentation? What tools are needed to enable users to create their own characters or agents? If a character acts autonomously, how do you explain the action to the user? Can characters be truly adaptive to users' needs? Can characters be truly adaptive within a story or entertainment context? Can characters and 'bots be used effectively on the World Wide Web? 11:00 am - 12:30 pm 10A. Learning with MultiMedia The PsyCLE Project: educational multimedia for conceptual understanding Nick Hammond, Jean McKendree, Will Reader, Annie Trapp and Peter Scott, University of York and University of Sheffield, UK pianoFORTE: A system for piano education beyond notation literacy Stephen W. Smoliar, John A. Waterworth and Peter R. Kellock, National University of Singapore and Umea University, Sweden eMMaC: Knowlege-based color critiquing support for novice multimedia authors Kumiyo Nakakoji, Brent N. Reeves, Atsushi Aoki, Hironobu Suzuki and Kazunori Mizushima, MITI, Japan; Software Research Associates, Inc. and University of Colorado 10B. Media Encoding Model-based motion estimation for synthetic animations Maneesh Agrawala, Andrew C. Beers and Navin Chaddha, Stanford University Inner-block operations on compressed images Bo Shen and Ishwar K. Sethi, Wayne State University Direct manipulation of MPEG compressed digital audio M. Alexander Broadhead and Charles B. Owen, Dartmouth College 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 10P. Broadband Data Services to the Home Chair: Gita Gopal, HP Laboratories The ubiquitous deployment of broadband access architectures to the home, coupled with an access-bandwidth technology discontinuity in the form of high-speed cable modems, will cause an explosion in broadband interactive data services to the home. The panel speakers will discuss services enabled by cable modems, the service software that is needed to provide these services, and the differences between this environment and other candidates for the NII including Video-On-Demand, and the Internet. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 11. Award Papers Best Student Paper: vic: A flexible framework for packet video Steven McCanne and Van Jacobson, University of California, Berkeley Best Paper: A confederation of tools for capturing and accessing collaborative activity Scott Minneman, Steve Harrison, Bill Janssen, Gordon Kurtenbach, Thomas Moran, Ian Smith and Bill van Melle, Xerox PARC, Alias and Georgia Institute of Technology 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm 12. Follow the Artists Speaker: Carol Peters, daVinci Time & Space High speed computing, multimedia capabilities, high speed networks, and authoring tools are the technical enablers of a new design language that will express new forms of entertainment, education, and information. This design language will allow visual, sound, and literary artists to speak through the new technology. To learn how to speak the language, the artists must start their lessons now. As partners to the artists, the technologists must learn how to listen to, follow, and create mechanisms for the artists. 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