17. ACM Multimedia 2009: Beijing, China

Keynote addresses

• HongJiang Zhang:
  Multimedia content analysis and search: new perspectives and approaches. 1-2
  
• Touradj Ebrahimi:
  Quality of multimedia experience: past, present and future. 3-4
  

Best Paper Session

• Wei Jiang, Courtenay V. Cotton, Shih-Fu Chang, Dan Ellis, Alexander C. Loui:
  Short-term audio-visual atoms for generic video concept classification. 5-14
  
• Zheng-Jun Zha, Linjun Yang, Tao Mei, Meng Wang, Zengfu Wang:
  Visual query suggestion. 15-24
  
• Hao Yin, Xuening Liu, Tongyu Zhan, Vyas Sekar, Feng Qiu, Chuang Lin, Hui Zhang, Bo Li:
  Design and deployment of a hybrid CDN-P2P system for live video streaming: experiences with LiveSky. 25-34
  
• Mauro Cherubini, Rodrigo de Oliveira, Nuria Oliver:
  Understanding near-duplicate videos: a user-centric approach. 35-44
  

Content track C1: image retrieval

• Lijun Zhang, Chun Chen, Wei Chen, Jiajun Bu, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He:
  Convex experimental design using manifold structure for image retrieval. 45-54
  
• Yiming Liu, Dong Xu, Ivor W. Tsang, Jiebo Luo:
  Using large-scale web data to facilitate textual query based retrieval of consumer photos. 55-64
  
• Yin-Hsi Kuo, Kuan-Ting Chen, Chien-Hsing Chiang, Winston H. Hsu:
  Query expansion for hash-based image object retrieval. 65-74
  
• Shiliang Zhang, Qi Tian, Gang Hua, Qingming Huang, Shipeng Li:
  Descriptive visual words and visual phrases for image applications. 75-84
  

Content track C2: content analysis applications

• Bingbing Ni, Zheng Song, Shuicheng Yan:
  Web image mining towards universal age estimator. 85-94
  
• Qingzhong Liu, Andrew H. Sung, Mengyu Qiao:
  Novel stream mining for audio steganalysis. 95-104
  
• Rongrong Ji, Xing Xie, Hongxun Yao, Wei-Ying Ma:
  Mining city landmarks from blogs by graph modeling. 105-114
  

Content track C3: image annotation and tagging

• Xiaobai Liu, Bin Cheng, Shuicheng Yan, Jinhui Tang, Tat-Seng Chua, Hai Jin:
  Label to region by bi-layer sparsity priors. 115-124
  
• Liangliang Cao, Jie Yu, Jiebo Luo, Thomas S. Huang:
  Enhancing semantic and geographic annotation of web images via logistic canonical correlation regression. 125-134
  
• Lei Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Nenghai Yu:
  Distance metric learning from uncertain side information with application to automated photo tagging. 135-144
  

Content track C4: video analysis

• Hung-Khoon Tan, Chong-Wah Ngo, Richang Hong, Tat-Seng Chua:
  Scalable detection of partial near-duplicate videos by visual-temporal consistency. 145-154
  
• Yu-Gang Jiang, Chong-Wah Ngo, Shih-Fu Chang:
  Semantic context transfer across heterogeneous sources for domain adaptive video search. 155-164
  
• Guangyu Zhu, Ming Yang, Kai Yu, Wei Xu, Yihong Gong:
  Detecting video events based on action recognition in complex scenes using spatio-temporal descriptor. 165-174
  
• Yi Yang, Dong Xu, Feiping Nie, Jiebo Luo, Yueting Zhuang:
  Ranking with local regression and global alignment for cross media retrieval. 175-184
  

Content track C5: audio and music

• Thilo Stadelmann, Bernd Freisleben:
  Unfolding speaker clustering potential: a biomimetic approach. 185-194
  
• Gerald Friedland, Chuohao Yeo, Hayley Hung:
  Visual speaker localization aided by acoustic models. 195-202
  
• Naoki Yasuraoka, Takehiro Abe, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Toru Takahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Changing timbre and phrase in existing musical performances as you like: manipulations of single part using harmonic and inharmonic models. 203-212
  
• Bingjun Zhang, Qiaoliang Xiang, Huanhuan Lu, Jialie Shen, Ye Wang:
  Comprehensive query-dependent fusion using regression-on-folksonomies: a case study of multimodal music search. 213-222
  

Content track C6: learning and concept detection

• Jinhui Tang, Shuicheng Yan, Richang Hong, Guo-Jun Qi, Tat-Seng Chua:
  Inferring semantic concepts from community-contributed images and noisy tags. 223-232
  
• Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra:
  Concept detectors: how good is good enough? 233-242
  
• Guo-Jun Qi, Xian-Sheng Hua, Hong-Jiang Zhang:
  Learning semantic distance from community-tagged media collection. 243-252
  

Application track A1: interactive applications

• Jin-Yao Lin, Yen-Yu Chen, Ju-Chun Ko, HuiShan Kao, Wei-Han Chen, Tsun-Hung Tsai, Su-Chu Hsu, Yi-Ping Hung:
  i-m-Tube: an interactive multi-resolution tubular display. 253-260
  
• Wei-Hao Lin, Alexander G. Hauptmann:
  Identifying news videos' ideological perspectives using emphatic patterns of visual concepts. 261-270
  
• Micah T. Taylor, Anish Chandak, Lakulish Antani, Dinesh Manocha:
  RESound: interactive sound rendering for dynamic virtual environments. 271-280
  
• Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Romualdo M. R. Costa, Márcio Ferreira Moreno, Marcelo Ferreira Moreno:
  Multiple exhibition devices in DTV systems. 281-290
  

Application track A2: context awareness

• Meng Wang, Bo Liu, Xian-Sheng Hua:
  Accessible image search. 291-300
  
• Liang Shi, Jinqiao Wang, Lingyu Duan, Hanqing Lu:
  Consumer video retargeting: context assisted spatial-temporal grid optimization. 301-310
  
• Yi Yang, Yueting Zhuang, Dong Xu, Yunhe Pan, Dacheng Tao, Stephen J. Maybank:
  Retrieval based interactive cartoon synthesis via unsupervised bi-distance metric learning. 311-320
  
• Stephan Kopf, Johannes Kiess, Hendrik Lemelson, Wolfgang Effelsberg:
  FSCAV: fast seam carving for size adaptation of videos. 321-330
  

Applications track A3: information summarization

• William Thies, Steven Hall, Saman P. Amarasinghe:
  Manipulating lossless video in the compressed domain. 331-340
  
• Yi Yu, Michel Crucianu, Vincent Oria, Lei Chen:
  Local summarization and multi-level LSH for retrieving multi-variant audio tracks. 341-350
  
• Lin-Xie Tang, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua:
  Near-lossless video summarization. 351-360
  

System track S1: mobile devices and hardware/sensor support

• Yen-Lin Huang, Yun-Chung Shen, Ja-Ling Wu:
  Scalable computation for spatially scalable video coding using NVIDIA CUDA and multi-core CPU. 361-370
  
• Nan Wu, Mei Wen, Wei Wu, Ju Ren, Huayou Su, Changqing Xun, Chunyuan Zhang:
  Streaming HD H.264 encoder on programmable processors. 371-380
  
• XiaoMing Chen, Zhendong Zhao, Ahmad Rahmati, Ye Wang, Lin Zhong:
  SaVE: sensor-assisted motion estimation for efficient h.264/AVC video encoding. 381-390
  
• Shu Shi, Won J. Jeon, Klara Nahrstedt, Roy H. Campbell:
  Real-time remote rendering of 3D video for mobile devices. 391-400
  

System track S2: media streaming and media content distribution

• Zhi Li, Xiaoqing Zhu, Ali C. Begen, Bernd Girod:
  Peer-assisted packet loss repair for IPTV video multicast. 401-410
  
• Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Mohamed Hefeeda:
  On statistical multiplexing of variable-bit-rate video streams in mobile systems. 411-420
  
• Vaneet Aggarwal, A. Robert Calderbank, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Rittwik Jana, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Fang Yu:
  The effectiveness of intelligent scheduling for multicast video-on-demand. 421-430
  

System track S3: 3D mesh streaming + HCM track H2

• Ying He, Boon-Seng Chew, Dayong Wang, Chu-Hong Hoi, Lap-Pui Chau:
  Streaming 3D meshes using spectral geometry images. 431-440
  
• Wei Cheng, Dan Liu, Wei Tsang Ooi:
  Peer-assisted view-dependent progressive mesh streaming. 441-450
  
• Bo Xiao, Xiaokang Yang, Yi Xu, Hongyuan Zha:
  Learning distance metric for regression by semidefinite programming with application to human age estimation. 451-460
  

HCM track H1: human-centered multimedia

• Ioannis Arapakis, Ioannis Konstas, Joemon M. Jose:
  Using facial expressions and peripheral physiological signals as implicit indicators of topical relevance. 461-470
  
• Frank R. Bentley, Michael Groble:
  TuVista: meeting the multimedia needs of mobile sports fans. 471-480
  
• Wanmin Wu, Md. Ahsan Arefin, Raoul Rivas, Klara Nahrstedt, Renata M. Sheppard, Zhenyu Yang:
  Quality of experience in distributed interactive multimedia environments: toward a theoretical framework. 481-490
  
• Kuan-Ta Chen, Chen-Chi Wu, Yu-Chun Chang, Chin-Laung Lei:
  A crowdsourceable QoE evaluation framework for multimedia content. 491-500
  

Short papers session 1: content analysis

• Bo Han, Yan Yan, Zhenghua Chen, Chang Liu, Weiguo Wu:
  A general framework for automatic on-line replay detection in sports video. 501-504
  
• Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhang:
  Localizing volumetric motion for action recognition in realistic videos. 505-508
  
• Wei-Ta Chu, Chia-Hung Lin, Jen-Yu Yu:
  Feature classification for representative photo selection. 509-512
  
• Yuyu Liu, Yoichi Sato:
  Visual localization of non-stationary sound sources. 513-516
  
• Zhong Li, Hangzai Luo, Jianping Fan:
  Incorporating camera metadata for attended region detection and consumer photo classification. 517-520
  
• Yuanlong Shao, Yuan Zhou, Xiaofei He, Deng Cai, Hujun Bao:
  Semi-supervised topic modeling for image annotation. 521-524
  
• Boqing Gong, Chunjing Xu, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang:
  Boosting 3D object retrieval by object flexibility. 525-528
  
• Zhuoyuan Chen, Lifeng Sun, Shiqiang Yang:
  Auto-cut for web images. 529-532
  
• Xi Liu, Zhiping Shi, Zhixin Li, Zhongzhi Shi:
  Coboost learning of visual categories with 1st and 2nd order features from Google images. 533-536
  
• Ming Liu, Shifeng Chen, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang:
  Video completion via motion guided spatial-temporal global optimization. 537-540
  
• Xiaoshuai Sun, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Shaohui Liu:
  Photo assessment based on computational visual attention model. 541-544
  
• Saloua Litayem, Alexis Joly, Nozha Boujemaa:
  Interactive objects retrieval with efficient boosting. 545-548
  
• Zhipeng Wu, Shuqiang Jiang, Qingming Huang:
  Near-duplicate video matching with transformation recognition. 549-552
  
• Yezhou Yang, Mingli Song, Na Li, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen:
  Visual attention analysis by pseudo gravitational field. 553-556
  
• Lei Bao, Juan Cao, Tian Xia, Yong-Dong Zhang, Jintao Li:
  Locally non-negative linear structure learning for interactive image retrieval. 557-560
  
• Junyong You, Andrew Perkis, Miska M. Hannuksela, Moncef Gabbouj:
  Perceptual quality assessment based on visual attention analysis. 561-564
  
• Go Irie, Kota Hidaka, Takashi Satou, Akira Kojima, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Kiyoharu Aizawa:
  Latent topic driving model for movie affective scene classification. 565-568
  
• Boqing Gong, Yueming Wang, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang:
  Automatic facial expression recognition on a single 3D face by exploring shape deformation. 569-572
  
• Hao Xu, Jingdong Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li:
  Tag refinement by regularized LDA. 573-576
  
• Yang Liu, Yan Liu:
  Tensor distance based multilinear multidimensional scaling for image and video analysis. 577-580
  
• Alexis Joly, Olivier Buisson:
  Logo retrieval with a contrario visual query expansion. 581-584
  
• Sarah Favre, Alfred Dielmann, Alessandro Vinciarelli:
  Automatic role recognition in multiparty recordings using social networks and probabilistic sequential models. 585-588
  
• Yingyu Liang, Jianmin Li, Bo Zhang:
  Vocabulary-based hashing for image search. 589-592
  
• Tong Zhang, Chee Keat Fong, Linxing Xiao, Jie Zhou:
  Automatic and instant ring tone generation based on music structure analysis. 593-596
  
• Tong Zhang, Jun Xiao, Di Wen, Xiaoqing Ding:
  Face based image navigation and search. 597-600
  
• Christian Jansohn, Adrian Ulges, Thomas M. Breuel:
  Detecting pornographic video content by combining image features with motion information. 601-604
  
• Asaad Hakeem, Mun Wai Lee, Omar Javed, Niels Haering:
  Semantic video search using natural language queries. 605-608
  
• George Toderici, Jay Yagnik:
  Automatic, efficient, temporally-coherent video enhancement for large scale applications. 609-612
  
• Xianming Liu, Hongxun Yao, Rongrong Ji, Pengfei Xu, Xiaoshuai Sun:
  What is a complete set of keywords for image description & annotation on the web. 613-616
  
• Xinyi Cui, Qingshan Liu, Dimitris N. Metaxas:
  Temporal spectral residual: fast motion saliency detection. 617-620
  
• Naveed Imran, Jingen Liu, Jiebo Luo, Mubarak Shah:
  Event recognition from photo collections via PageRank. 621-624
  
• Wei-Ta Chu, Ya-Lin Lee, Jen-Yu Yu:
  Visual language model for face clustering in consumer photos. 625-628
  
• Xin Geng, Kate Smith-Miles, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Liang Wang:
  Face image modeling by multilinear subspace analysis with missing values. 629-632
  

Short papers session 2: content analysis and HCM

• Mei-Chen Yeh, Kwang-Ting Cheng:
  A compact, effective descriptor for video copy detection. 633-636
  
• Chao-Yung Hsu, Chun-Shien Lu, Soo-Chang Pei:
  Secure and robust SIFT. 637-640
  
• Minh-Son Dao, Sharma Ishan Nath, Noboru Babaguchi:
  Preserving topological information in sub-trajectories-based representation for spatio-temporal trajectories indexing and retrieval. 641-644
  
• Juan Cao, HongFang Jing, Chong-Wah Ngo, Yongdong Zhang:
  Distribution-based concept selection for concept-based video retrieval. 645-648
  
• Fariza Fauzi, Jer-Lang Hong, Mohammed Belkhatir:
  Webpage segmentation for extracting images and their surrounding contextual information. 649-652
  
• Lingfang Li, Ning Zhang, Ling-Yu Duan, Qingming Huang, Jun Du, Ling Guan:
  Automatic sports genre categorization and view-type classification over large-scale dataset. 653-656
  
• Adrian Popescu, Pierre-Alain Moëllic, Ioannis Kanellos, Rémi Landais:
  Lightweight web image reranking. 657-660
  
• Xirong Li, Cees G. M. Snoek:
  Visual categorization with negative examples for free. 661-664
  
• Panagiotis Sidiropoulos, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso:
  Multi-modal scene segmentation using scene transition graphs. 665-668
  
• Masashi Nishiyama, Takahiro Okabe, Yoichi Sato, Imari Sato:
  Sensation-based photo cropping. 669-672
  
• Bart Thomee, Mark J. Huiskes, Erwin M. Bakker, Michael S. Lew:
  Deep exploration for experiential image retrieval. 673-676
  
• Hrishikesh Aradhye, George Toderici, Jay Yagnik:
  Adaptive, selective, automatic tonal enhancement of faces. 677-680
  
• Giulia Garau, Sileye O. Ba, Hervé Bourlard, Jean-Marc Odobez:
  Investigating the use of visual focus of attention for audio-visual speaker diarisation. 681-684
  
• Saman Cooray, Hervé Bredin, Li-Qun Xu, Noel E. O'Connor:
  An interactive and multi-level framework for summarising user generated videos. 685-688
  
• Yanhua Chen, Ming Dong, Wanggen Wan:
  Image co-clustering with multi-modality features and user feedbacks. 689-692
  
• Danzhou Liu, Kien A. Hua:
  Transfer non-metric measures into metric for similarity search. 693-696
  
• Christian Beecks, Merih Seran Uysal, Thomas Seidl:
  Signature quadratic form distances for content-based similarity. 697-700
  
• Feng Tang, Yuli Gao:
  Fast near duplicate detection for personal image collections. 701-704
  
• Steven R. Ness, Anthony Theocharis, George Tzanetakis, Luis Gustavo Martins:
  Improving automatic music tag annotation using stacked generalization of probabilistic SVM outputs. 705-708
  
• Peng Wu, Daniel Tretter:
  Close & closer: social cluster and closeness from photo collections. 709-712
  
• Seungmin Rho, Byeong-jun Han, Eenjun Hwang:
  SVR-based music mood classification and context-based music recommendation. 713-716
  
• Yingzhen Yang, Yin Zhu, Qunsheng Peng:
  Image completion using structural priority belief propagation. 717-720
  
• Chandrasekar Ramachandran, Rahul Malik, Xin Jin, Jing Gao, Klara Nahrstedt, Jiawei Han:
  VideoMule: a consensus learning approach to multi-label classification from noisy user-generated videos. 721-724
  
• Li Wang, Linjun Yang, Xinmei Tian:
  Query aware visual similarity propagation for image search reranking. 725-728
  
• Subramanian Ramanathan, Harish Katti, Raymond Huang, Tat-Seng Chua, Mohan S. Kankanhalli:
  Automated localization of affective objects and actions in images via caption text-cum-eye gaze analysis. 729-732
  
• Bruno Lepri, Nadia Mana, Alessandro Cappelletti, Fabio Pianesi:
  Automatic prediction of individual performance from "thin slices" of social behavior. 733-736
  
• Driss Choujaa, Naranker Dulay:
  Routine classification through sequence alignment. 737-740
  
• Werner Bailer, Herwig Rehatschek:
  Comparing fact finding tasks and user survey for evaluating a video browsing tool. 741-744
  
• Jinjing Xie, Yiqiang Chen, Junfa Liu, Chunyan Miao, Xingyu Gao:
  Interactive 3D caricature generation based on double sampling. 745-748
  
• Xiaojuan Ma, Sonya S. Nikolova, Perry R. Cook:
  W2ANE: when words are not enough: online multimedia language assistant for people with aphasia. 749-752
  
• Luming Zhang, Mingli Song, Na Li, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen:
  Feature selection for fast speech emotion recognition. 753-756
  
• Kan Ren, Janko Calic:
  FreeEye: interactive intuitive interface for large-scale image browsing. 757-760
  
• A. S. M. Mahfujur Rahman, M. Anwar Hossain, Jorge Parra, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik:
  Motion-path based gesture interaction with smart home services. 761-764
  
• Liyue Zhao, Gita Sukthankar:
  An active learning approach for segmenting human activity datasets. 765-768
  

Short papers session 3: applications and systems

• Andrew T. Sabin, Bryan Pardo:
  A method for rapid personalization of audio equalization parameters. 769-772
  
• Guangda Li, Zhaoyan Ming, Haojie Li, Tat-Seng Chua:
  Video reference: question answering on YouTube. 773-776
  
• Hui Tian, Ke Zhou, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng:
  Digital logic based encoding strategies for steganography on voice-over-IP. 777-780
  
• Richard J. Anderson, Devy Pranowo, Craig Prince, Fred Videon:
  Integrating corrections into digital ink playback. 781-784
  
• Gamhewage C. de Silva, Kiyoharu Aizawa:
  Retrieving multimedia travel stories using location data and spatial queries. 785-788
  
• Wei-Chao Chen, Agathe Battestini, Natasha Gelfand, Vidya Setlur:
  Visual summaries of popular landmarks from community photo collections. 789-792
  
• Dechao Liu, Matthew R. Scott, Rongrong Ji, Wei Jiang, Hongxun Yao, Xing Xie:
  Location sensitive indexing for image-based advertising. 793-796
  
• Sharmeen Shahabuddin, Razib Iqbal, Ali Nazari, Shervin Shirmohammadi:
  Compressed domain spatial adaptation for H.264 video. 797-800
  
• Qiang Hao, Rui Cai, Xin-Jing Wang, Jiang-Ming Yang, Yanwei Pang, Lei Zhang:
  Generating location overviews with images and tags by mining user-generated travelogues. 801-804
  
• Dijun Luo, Heng Huang:
  Link prediction of multimedia social network via unsupervised face recognition. 805-808
  
• Dong Liu, Meng Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Hong-Jiang Zhang:
  Smart batch tagging of photo albums. 809-812
  
• Radu Andrei Negoescu, Brett Adams, Dinh Q. Phung, Svetha Venkatesh, Daniel Gatica-Perez:
  Flickr hypergroups. 813-816
  
• Chih-Yu Yan, Ming-Chun Tien, Ja-Ling Wu:
  Interactive background blurring. 817-820
  
• Ming-Hsiu Chang, Ming-Chun Tien, Ja-Ling Wu:
  WOW: wild-open warning for broadcast basketball video based on player trajectory. 821-824
  
• Nguyen Thi Nhat Anh, Wenxian Yang, Jianfei Cai:
  Seam carving extension: a compression perspective. 825-828
  
• Peter Bajcsy, Kenton McHenry, Hye-Jung Na, Rahul Malik, Andrew Spencer, Suk-Kyu Lee, Rob Kooper, Mike Frogley:
  Immersive environments for rehabilitation activities. 829-832
  
• Joan-Isaac Biel, Daniel Gatica-Perez:
  Wearing a YouTube hat: directors, comedians, gurus, and user aggregated behavior. 833-836
  
• Graham Healy, Alan F. Smeaton:
  An outdoor spatially-aware audio playback platform exemplified by a virtual zoo. 837-840
  
• Yuxin Peng, Zhiwu Lu, Jianguo Xiao:
  Semantic concept annotation based on audio PLSA model. 841-844
  
• Anan Liu, Yongdong Zhang, Jintao Li:
  Personalized movie recommendation. 845-848
  
• Benoit Baccot, Omar Choudary, Romulus Grigoras, Vincent Charvillat:
  On the impact of sequence and time in rich media advertising. 849-852
  
• Tongwei Ren, Yan Liu,