The course schedule is designed to allow attendees to learn various aspects of of a topic at introductory, as well as advanced level. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to get the most out of ACM Multimedia'96 by attending at least one course.
Rajiv Mehrotra
Kodak Imaging Research & Advanced Development
Courses Chair
The objective of the course is to improve the ability of expressing the requirements and designing Hypermedia applications, disregarding the delivery medium (CD-ROM or WWW), the development environment and the development tools. Intended audience of this course are publishers, users, multimedia designers and developers, project managers and researchers. The participants will learn a set of conceptual primitives that can be used to describe and to design hypermedia applications in a precise and systematic way, covering structural, dynamic and presentation aspects. In addition the course will address some crucial issues concerning multimedia application development: the need of modularization, the relevance of the notion of reuse ( i.e., of using multimedia contents, objects and operations in different contexts and for different purposes), the appropriate way of using development tools and environments. A final subject will be how the evaluate the quality and usability of hypermedia applications.
More specifically, the course covers the following topics: conceptual primitives for hypermedia design, modularization, reuse of hypermedia objects, specific problems for WWW applications, design phases, life-cycle of hypermedia development, evaluation and usability test of hypermedia applications.
Limited exposure of the participants to modern hypermedia applications (CD-ROM's or WWW) is useful, but not required. A larger number of demonstrations (around 10) will be used in order to exemplify the conceptual aspects of the presentation.
Organizers and Lecturers:
Franca Garzotto is Research Associate at the Department of
Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano. She has
aDegree in Mathematics from the University of Padova (Italy) and
a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Politecnico di Milano. She has
been active in the following research fields: data base systems,
conceptual modelling of documents, hypertext and hypermedia
modelling, hypermedia authoring systems, multimedia development
tools, multimedia evaluation. She served as Program Chair of the
International Workshop on "Hypermedia Design", held in
Montpellier - France in June 1995). She served as Co-Chair
of the International Workshop on "Evaluation and Quality
Criteria for Multimedia Applications", held at MM'95. She has
published several papers on the subject of hypermedia design and
has cooperated in the development of advanced models (HDM) for
the design and implementation of Hypermedia applications.
Paolo Paolini has received a degree in Physics from the University of Milan, master and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. He has been active researcher in the areas of Data Base (design and modelling), Office Automation, Hypermedia Design and Modelling, Hypermedia tools and implementation. He has conducted several research projects in the area of hypermedia, and also coordinated the implementation of several hypermedia applications, in the area of corporate training, education, cultural information points, tourism. He has cooperated in the development of advanced models (HDM) for the design and implementation of Hypermedia applications, and published a large number of papers on Hypermedia design. He has been general chairman of the ACM hypertext conference held in Milan (ECHT'92) and he is currently Associate Editor of the ACM journal Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS).
Since images, audio, and video differ significantly from textual and numeric data (with respect to their real-time characteristics, data rate, etc), conventional file systems are proving to be inadequate for supporting multimedia applications. On the other hand, video-on-demand servers, which are optimized for storing audio and video data, do not support textual and numeric data, and hence, cannot be used in general purpose computing environments. These shortcomings have spurred research efforts in designing and implementing integrated multimedia file systems that provide storage, retrieval, and editing facilities for various data types.
This course will provide a comprehensive overview of various issues involved in the design of such multimedia file systems. Specifically, we will examine placement and retrieval techniques for multimedia data over disk-arrays, buffer management policies, and design techniques for fault-tolerant and scalable multimedia file servers. We will discuss the insights gained from our implementation of a prototype multimedia file system. Since we will present both fundamental design principles as well as a detailed case study, the course will be of interest to casual participants as well as experienced practitioners. A copy of the slides, a collection of papers in the area as well as an extensive bibliography on these topics will be distributed to each participant.
Organizer:
Harrick M. Vin is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer
Sciences, and the Director of the Distributed Multimedia
Computing Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. His
research interests are in the areas of multimedia systems,
high-speed networking, mobile computing, and large-scale
distributed systems. Over the past 5 years, he has co-authored
more than 55 papers in leading journals and conferences in the
area of multimedia systems.
Lecturers:
Pawan Goyal and Prashant J. Shenoy
Department of Computer Sciences
Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
This is part of a full-day course on digital libraries, at the end of which attendees should become able to participate in design, development, evaluation, and standardization efforts related to the global movement toward digital libraries. This session, Part I, will focus on concepts and technology from the multimedia, information retrieval, hypertext, and electronic publishing fields that relate to digital libraries (DLs) - using real case studies and examples to provide a suitable context. Projects included relate to CS (ACM literature, technical reports, courseware), material science (TULIP), and graduate education (electronic theses and dissertations), as well as the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative.
Our "perspective" approach will deal with DLs regarding: user and social needs; interfaces and user interaction; architectures, components, protocols; content, publishing, and capture; and systems, engines, and operations. Issues of scalability and sustainability will be explored.
This course also can serve as a stand alone course on the underlying technology for digital libraries, especially information retrieval, hypertext and electronic publishing.
Organizer:
Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from
Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been
at Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), where he serves as Associate Director
for Research at the Computing Center, and Professor of Computer
Science. Current research projects include "Interactive Learning
with a Digital Library in Computer Science" as well as several
building a digital library of theses and dissertations. Formerly
editor-in-chief of ACM Press Database Products, chair of ACM
SIGIR, and Program Chair for ACM Digital Libraries'96, he edited
the "Sourcebook on Digital Libraries" in 1993, three special
issues of CACM, and has written widely in the information
retrieval, electronic publishing, multimedia, and digital library
fields. He has given 27 courses or short courses since 1988.
Lecturer:
Robert M. Akscyn
President Knowledge Systems
Export, PA
DAVIC (Digital Audio Visual Council) is an international consortium formed by more than 200 companies for the purpose of developing interoperability specifications for digital audio-visual services such as interactive television. This course reviews the end-to-end DAVIC architecture, and provides a discussion of MHEG-5 and MPEG DSM-CC which are being adopted as part of the DAVIC 1.0 specification.
The DAVIC 1.0 specification consists of twelve parts, including an end-to-end reference model, service provider reference model, and delivery system reference model. Important components of the DAVIC architecture are MHEG-5 content model and MPEG-2 DSM-CC client-server protocol for session management and service access. The course will provide an overview of DAVIC, and will highlight MHEG-5 and DSM-CC. It will also compare these technologies with Internet and Web activities.
Organizer and Lecturer:
Dr. John F. Buford is Associate Professor of Computer Science and
Director of the Distributed Multimedia Systems Lab at the
University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has more than thirty-five
publications including the book Multimedia Systems (ACM Press &
Addison-Wesley, 1994). Dr. Buford has been active in
international standards committees since 1991. He has presented
courses on multimedia computing and systems to audiences in the
US, Europe, Japan, and Australia.
This is part of a full-day course on digital libraries, at the end of which attendees should become able to participate in design, development, evaluation, and standardization efforts related to the global movement toward digital libraries. This session, Part II, will focus on research and development, including principles and guidelines for design of scalable, sustainable DLs.
Our "source" approach will review collections of information about DLs (e.g., publications, workshops, D-Lib Magazine, other WWW sites), and survey important DL projects, worldwide, so attendees become able to gauge such efforts in terms of capabilities for: publishing, capturing, naming, describing metadata, indexing, cataloging, archiving, authenticating, managing intellectual property rights, searching, browsing, retrieving, converting, (re-)using, linking, and organizing.
The final hour will engage attendees in group efforts (with instructor supervision) for specifying requirements and developing alternative designs for: a networked digital library of theses and dissertations (that will include text, multimedia and hypertext structures) or other student-chosen applications. Extensive online WWW pages will provide reference material during and after the courses.
Organizer:
Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from
Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been
at Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), where he serves as Associate Director
for Research at the Computing Center, and Professor of Computer
Science. Current research projects include "Interactive Learning
with a Digital Library in Computer Science" as well as several
building a digital library of theses and dissertations. Formerly
editor-in-chief of ACM Press Database Products, chair of ACM
SIGIR, and Program Chair for ACM Digital Libraries'96, he edited
the "Sourcebook on Digital Libraries" in 1993, three special
issues of CACM, and has written widely in the information
retrieval, electronic publishing, multimedia, and digital library
fields. He has given 27 courses or short courses since 1988.
Lecturer:
Robert M. Akscyn
President Knowledge Systems
Export, PA
This course will provide proven concepts and techniques for effective, information-oriented design of user interfaces. Many visual examples, including detailed case studies, will provide concrete examples and practical guidelines of use of color, symbolism, layout, organization of content, metaphorical references, navigational strategies, and information visualization. The following items will be addressed: What is a user interface? Metaphors, Mental model, Navigation, Appearance, Interaction, Data visualization. Designing for multiple cultures, ages, genders, nationalities, User interface design process. Issue will be discussed in terms of the following case studies: American Airlines SABRE Online Travel Information Network, American Airlines Wayfinder Training Game, Oracle Online Mentor: Designing Effective GUI Applications CBT, DTIC: Golden Gate Online Tutorial for Database Searching, Oracle Online Mentor: CBT GUI Design Standards, Prodigy Corporate GUI Design Standards, and Random House New Media CD-ROM Titles.
Organizer and Lecturer:
Aaron Marcus is a leading designer of user interfaces,
multimedia, and online services. His career in computer graphics
and graphic design spans 25 years, and his firm Aaron Marcus and
Associates, Inc. (AM+A) in Emeryville, California, has helped
design award-winning products for 13 years. Mr. Marcus has
written or co-written four books, including Graphic Design for
Electronic Documents and User Interfaces, and the Cross-GUI
Handbook. He has presented courses around the world at major
conferences and corporate sites since 1990.
In this short course we will study the current trends in high-speed multimedia networking technologies. First, we will examine how multimedia traffic can be supported over a local area network with a simple ring or bus topology. Then, we will examine the design challenges for supporting real-time traffic and bursty data traffic over global networks, such as, ATM and the Internet, with arbitrary topology. We will study various possible routing and traffic management techniques for integrating both types of traffic sources on such networks. In addition we will discuss higher layer protocols for real-time traffic in ATM and the Internet, such as, SRTS, NTP, RTP, RTCP and RSVP.
In particular, we will study traffic management methods for:
From 1979 to 1982 he was affiliated with RAFAEL, as a research engineer. During 1983-1984 he was at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, and from 1984 to 1986 he was with Gould Electronics, Urbana, Illinois. Since 1987 he has been a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. His main research interests are routing and multicast, flow-control and fairness in local and wide area networks, optical networks, distributed algorithms and self-stabilization, parallel computer architectures and fault tolerance, real-time and clock synchronization.
Dr. Ofek was the program co-chairperson of the 6th and chair of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks. In IBM Dr. Ofek has initiated and led the research activities on ring LANs with spatial bandwidth reuse, switch-based LANs, and the use of synchronization for ensuring quality of service (QoS) in global networks like ATM and the Internet.
The power of multimedia systems originates in the fact that disparate information can be represented as a bit stream. This is a big advantage because every form of representation, from video to text, can be stored, processed, and communicated using the same device: a computer. Better tools to produce and manage data, combined with the natural human desire for information, has resulted in a tremendous data explosion. In most cases, including web-surfing, this has resulted in tremendous data overload. Keyword-based systems are very limited, particularly for images and videos. Keywords provide more information about the person who enters the keywords than about the image itself. Content-based access to data is becoming essential in many applications.
This course will address issues in image and video databases. We will discuss basic issues in designing multimedia information systems. Data models for representing multimedia information at several abstraction levels will be introduced. Nature of queries and interfaces will be explored and suitable architecture to acquire and process multimedia information will be discussed. We will discuss desirable features in multimedia information systems by considering concrete examples. We will briefly review the state of the art in this emerging field. We will present examples of a working system from Virage on a computer in the course. Using Virage's system different aspects of image and video databases will be explained in hands-on practical manner.
Organizer and Lecturer:
Ramesh Jain is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering at University
of California at San Diego. Before joining UCSD, he was a
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the
founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. His current
research interests are in multimedia information systems, image
databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems. He was the
founder and the Chairman of Imageware Inc., an Ann Arbor based
company dedicated to revolutionize software interfaces for
emerging sensor technologies. He is the founding chairman of
Virage, a company developing systems for visual information
retrieval.
Ramesh is a Fellow of IEEE, AAAI, and Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, and member of ACM, Pattern Recognition Society, Cognitive Science Society, Optical Society of America, and Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He has been involved in organization of several professional conferences and workshops, and served on editorial boards of many journals. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia, andis on the editorial boards of Machine Vision and Applications, Pattern Recognition, and Image and Vision Computing. He received his Ph.D. from IIT, Kharagpur in 1975 and his B.E. from Nagpur University in 1969.
The aim of this course is to examine the problems associated with large scale multimedia information delivery and management using hypermedia systems.
Hypermedia technology has reached the stage of providing excellent access to distributed multimedia, in particular through the World Wide Web. However, application developers are still faced with many problems when dealing with large-scale systems, such as the authoring effort required to create all the appropriate links, the maintenance of link integrity during the re-organization of large structures and hypermedia linking to and from third party data.
Link management is crucial to maintaining control of large scale hypermedia projects. The course will consider various methods, including use of structured documents and separate databases of links.
The course will consider the meaning of the term "open" as applied to hypermedia systems, and will examine currently available systems including The World Wide Web and Hyper-G as well as the Microcosm system which was developed by the Multimedia Group at the University of Southampton specifically for managing large scale hypermedia resources.
Case studies in historical archives, delivering educational material, engineering documentation and electronic publishing, will be used throughout to illustrate the principles covered by the course.
Organizer:
Hugh Davis BSc MSc PhD MBCS is a Lecturer in Computer Science at
the University of Southampton and was a founder member of the
Microcosm project. He has been project manager for the past four
years and in this capacity has worked closely with a number of
projects that are using Microcosm as a basis for multimedia
information system development. His research interests include
the design and application of open hypermedia systems.
Lecturer:
Wendy Hall, Department of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, UK
Wendy Hall is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. She is Director of the Multimedia Research Group in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton and also co-directs the University's Teaching and Learning Technology Project and the recently established Digital Libraries Research Centre. Her research interests include the development of multimedia information systems and their applications in education, industry and commerce, multimedia publishing and multimedia information retrieval. Her group developed the open hypermedia system, Microcosm, which is now being commercially exploited through Multicosm Ltd.
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