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ACM Multimedia'97 is proud to offer a wide array of multimedia courses taught by international experts. Researchers and practitioners can gain an understanding of the current state of the art, latest developments, and future trends in a variety of multimedia-related topics by attending one or more of these courses. For those new to the multimedia field, taking advantage of this excellent opportunity by attending at least one course can help you get the most out of ACM Multimedia'97. For those already involved in some aspect of multimedia, these courses provide you with opportunities to gain greater breadth or depth of understanding in some of the subareas of this diverse field.
Margaret Burnett
Department of Computer Science, Oregon State University
ACM Multimedia'97 Courses Chair
| Title | Teacher |
| Video and Image Databases | Wayne Wolf and Shih-Fu Chang |
| Visualizing Interfaces for Multimedia and the Web | John G. Hedberg and Susan E. Metros |
| Satisfying Quality of Service Requirements in Global Multimedia Networks | Yoram Ofek |
| Interactive Television and the Internet: Comparison and Convergence | John F. Buford |
| Graphic Design for Usable GUIs | Aaron Marcus |
| Introduction to Multimedia Communications: Enabling Technologies and Applications | Nicolas D. Georganas |
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9
ID: SAP1
Level: Intermediate
Sunday, November 9
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Video and Image Databases
Wayne Wolf and Shih-Fu Chang
This course is aimed at multimedia professional developers and managers who develop and use video/image databases, and academics who want a detailed introduction to video/image databases. It is intended to provide the audience with a comprehensive introduction to video and image database technology.
Video and image databases are swiftly moving from research to real-world use in applications ranging from video news systems to Internet image searches. Video and image database technology have important common technological underpinnings, particularly in the areas of analysis and search, and the course emphasizes the relationships between the two. Advanced functions of networked video/image databases including video editing, image authentication, and copyright protection will be covered as well. Attendees will come away with a solid introduction to the full range of technical topics that influence the design of video and image databases, ranging from media servers through Internet delivery to video and image search algorithms. The course will provide novices with sufficient introductory material to gain a good overview of video and image databases, as well as provide more advanced attendees with a survey of relevant research work.
Wayne Wolf is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. He studied electrical engineering at Stanford University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1984. He was with AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1984 to 1989, and joined Princeton in 1989, where he has studied computer-aided design, video signal processor architectures, and video libraries. His work in video libraries includes image database search, video segmentation algorithms, and efficient Internet distribution of multimedia. Prof. Wolf was Workshops Chair of ACM Multimedia'96 and General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design'96. He is guest editor of a special issue of the journal Multimedia Systems. He is a member of ACM and SPIE and a senior member of IEEE.
Shih-Fu Chang is an associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University. His current research interests include visual information systems, content-based visual query, and digital video processing and communications. His group has developed several on-line prototypes of visual information systems, and he is co-leading the development of a Video-on-Demand/Multimedia Testbed at Columbia. He holds two US patents (with four pending), and serves on the editorial boards, the program committees, and in chair positions of several international journals and conferences. Prof. Chang has received two best paper awards, as well as an NSF CAREER award 1995-1998 and an IBM Faculty Development Award 1995-1998.
ID: SAP2
In this tutorial, a graphic designer and cognitive psychologist team
up to show how to promote exciting and dynamic, interactive
multimedia-based environments. Working in small groups, tutorial
participants will learn how to build concept maps, create storyboards
and prototype screens. They will be encouraged to try out fresh ideas
using newly acquired interface design skills. In addition, the group
will have an opportunity to review both good and bad examples of how
information has been translated into visual interfaces.
This tutorial will challenge participants to go beyond the rule-based,
resource manuals for interface standards that dictate the look and
behavior of a project and, instead, embrace concept-based design and
decision-making within a cognitive context. Participants will learn
how to identify the cognitive demands of an application and to
envision an appropriate interface. The central goal is to recognize
the elements of successful design and to ultimately create interfaces
that are functional, usable, comprehensible, interactive, visually
stimulating and information rich. This will be accomplished by:
Susan E. Metros is Professor of Art and Acting Director of Innovative
Technologies at the University of Tennessee/Knoxville. Her research is
focused on developing innovative ways to use the computer for
embodying artistic expression and enhancing the creative problem
solving process. This includes exploring ways to redefine the
graphical interface for interactive multimedia applications and web
spaces. Professor Metros serves as a consultant to education,
industry, business and government concerning issues related to graphic
design, creative problem solving and interactive multimedia. She has
been a visiting scholar and invited lecturer across the United States,
Europe and Australia. Professor Metros has also won awards for her art
and graphic design work and her research has been published in
national and international journals and conference proceedings. Her
interactive multimedia artwork "good daughter, bad mother, good
mother, bad daughter: catharsis + continuum," was a winning entry in
Step-by-Step Graphics Magazine Design Process'95 Annual and How
Magazine's 1996 International Design Annual. It was awarded a 1995
NewMedia Magazine Bronze Invision Award and was in media shows across
United States, Australia and Europe. She has served as principal
graphic designer on several other interactive multimedia projects
including the award winning "Investigating Lake Iluka."
ID: SAP3
In this course, we will study some of the current trends in network
protocols. The course emphasizes networking issues that are related
to quality of service, and in particular, how the network can satisfy
the requirements of multimedia applications. Therefore, we focus on
flow control and traffic management inside the network, and how they
affect the end-to-end application performance. The course brings out
issues related to the scalability of various network protocols, and
whether or not they can support interactive applications around the
globe.
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. 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, H.323,
NTP, RTP, RTCP, and RSVP.
In particular, we will study and discuss the global scalability of traffic
management methods for:
- Real-time sources:
The goal of this tutorial is to review the key features of the DAVIC model
and compare this approach with related developments for the Internet and
WWWW. DAVIC (Digital Audio Visual Council) is an international consortium
formed by more than 200 companies for the purpose of developing global
interoperability specifications for digital audio-visual services such as
interactive television. This course reviews the end-to-end DAVIC 1.2
architecture, including the DSM-CC client-server protocol and the MHEG-5
content model. We also review the Internet protocols to support similar
services, and discuss the convergence of these models. Students will come
away with the kind of state-of-the art information typically available only
to members of the standards committees about interactive TV technologies
for client-server communication and content delivery.
The following topics will be covered:
ID: MA2
Skillful graphic design for graphical user interfaces (GUIs) of all kinds --
WIMP-, pen-, virtual-reality based -- is crucial to the success of
innovative computer-based products, especially as these products become
increasingly used by more diverse, international user communities.
Presented by a pioneer of graphic design for computer graphics, this
tutorial will give developers, graphic designers, and researchers valuable
insight into key graphic design issues and show how to achieve successful
visual communication and improve usability. The tutorial will introduce
terminology, principles, and guidelines for using information-oriented,
systematic graphic design in user interfaces, especially for the design of
metaphors, mental models, navigation schema, icons, and dialogue boxes. By
observing and analyzing techniques for making products and displays more
intelligible, functional, aesthetic, and marketable, participants will
become familiar with a number of existing techniques, discover potential
new research topics, and learn practical principles that are immediately
useful.
Aaron Marcus is an internationally recognized authority on graphic design.
He has presented versions of this intense, highly effective tutorial at
SIGGRAPH in the last three years to more than 800 participants. Mr. Marcus
and his staff have designed and evaluated user interfaces, knowledge
visualization, and electronic publishing/presentations for American
Airlines/SABRE, Apple, AT&T, DEC, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, IBM,
Reuters, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the National Endowment for the Arts,
the US Department of Labor, and many others. He is also the author and
co-author of numerous articles and books, including Human Factors and
Typography for More Readable Programs (1990), Graphic Design for Electronic
Documents and User Interfaces (1992), and The Cross-GUI Handbook for
Multiplatorm User Interface Design (1995), all published by Addison-Wesley.
In 1992, Mr. Marcus received the National Computer Graphics Association
Industry Achievement Award for his contributions to the field.
Level: Introductory to intermediate
Sunday, November 9
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Visualizing Interfaces for Multimedia and the Web
John G. Hedberg and Susan E. Metros
John G. Hedberg is Associate Professor, Information Technology in
Education, University of Wollongong. His current research is in
effective performance indicators of information systems for management
decision making in education, basic information skills required of
instructors, and navigation, cognition and design in interactive
multimedia. Dr. Hedberg has written and edited numerous books and
articles in the area of instructional design and educational
technology, including a recently published guide to using information
technology in teaching called The Desktop Teacher. Dr. Hedberg has
been Pacific Rim Coordinator of the National Society for Performance
and Instruction, and Editor of the Australian Journal of Educational
Technology. He has been the Director of Continuing Education for the
University of New South Wales which developed video, television, radio
and audio programs for professional education, and has recently
developed an on-line education postgraduate program to teach
instruction using information technology. He is currently undertaking
several projects designed around aspects of interactive multimedia
presentation, including the award winning "Investigating Lake Iluka".
Level: Intermediate
Sunday, November 9
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Satisfying Quality of Service Requirements in Global Multimedia Networks
Yoram Ofek
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Yoram Ofek received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from
the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1979, and his M.Sc. and
Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of
Illinois-Urbana in 1985 and 1987. Since 1987, he has been a research
staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown
Heights, New York. Dr. Ofek served as Program Co-chair of the 6th and
Chair of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area
Networks, and has also served on various program committees and
guest-edited several journals. Dr. Ofek has led research into optical
hypergraph networks for combining multiple passive optical starts with
flow control and global synchronization; ring networks with spatial
bandwidth reuse and fairness; embedding of virtual rings in arbitrary
topology networks; and global networks for real-time traffic with
GPS-based synchronization for providing deterministic quality of
service guarantees.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 10
ID: MA1
Level: Intermediate
Monday, November 10
8:30 am - 12:00 noon
Interactive Television and the Internet: Comparison and Convergence
John F. Buford
Dr. John F. Buford is an experienced researcher, author, and instructor in
the area of distributed multimedia systems. He is an Associate Professor
of Computer Science and the 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
and Addison-Wesley, 1994). Dr. Buford has presented seminars on multimedia
systems to audiences in the US, Europe, Japan, and Australia.
Level: Introductory
Monday, November 10
8:30 am - 12:00 noon
Graphic Design for Usable GUIs
Aaron Marcus
Stephan Fischer