2. MobiMedia 2006: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy

Regular papers

• Wafa Berrayana, Ryad Ben-El-Kezadri, Farouk Kamoun, Guy Pujolle:
  DelayEDD-HCCA and RT-HCCA: two new IEEE 802.11 e schemes based HCCA supporting real-time applications. 10
  
• Lihong Ma, Guifeng Cheng, Zhijian Wu, Xiaoxi Luo, Hanqing Lu:
  Phase-only transform based shaping for error concealment coding. 11
  
• Naeem Ramzan, Ebroul Izquierdo:
  Joint source-channel coding for scalable video atomic bitstream by adaptive turbo code. 12
  
• Xunqi Yu, James W. Modestino, Dian Fan:
  Evaluation of the residual packet-loss rate using packet-level FEC for delay-constrained media network transport. 2
  
• Simone Zezza, Marco Grangetto, Maurizio Martina, Fabrizio Vacca, Guido Masera:
  Error correcting arithmetic coding for JPEG 2000: memory and performance analysis. 3
  
• Riccardo Bernardini, Roberto Rinaldo:
  A simple distributed coding algorithm for sensor networks. 4
  
• Maurizio Murroni:
  Broadcasting of digital cimema streams over wireless channels: a power-based unequal error protection approach. 5
  
• Pietro Camarda, Giovanni Tommaso Carone, Domenico Striccoli:
  A smoothing algorithm for time slicing DVB-H video transmission with bandwidth constraints. 6
  
• Ilias Politis, Michail Tsagkaropoulos, Tasos Dagiuklas, Stavros Kotsopoulos:
  Study of the QoS of video traffic over integrated 3G-WLAN systems. 7
  
• Nikola Sprljan, Marta Mrak, Ebroul Izquierdo:
  Motion driven adaptive transform based on wavelet transform for enhanced video coding. 8
  
• Arulsaravana Jeyaraj, Syed Ali Jafar, Magda El Zarki:
  A Slepian-Wolf based cross layer scheme suitable to sensor networks. 9
  

Video coding for wireless communication channels

• Shuai Wan, Marta Mrak, Ebroul Izquierdo:
  Perceptually adaptive joint deringing - deblocking filtering for scalable video coding. 13
  
• Thomas Stockhammer, Tiago Gasiba, Wissam Abdel Samad, Wen Xu, Hrvoje Jenkac, Thomas Schierl:
  A weighted layered broadcasting scheme for scalable video transmission with multiple site reception. 14
  
• Nicola Conci, Francesco G. B. De Natale:
  Multiple description video coding by coefficients ordering and interpolation. 15
  
• Toni Zgaljic, Nikola Sprljan, Ebroul Izquierdo:
  Bit-stream allocation methods for wavelet based scalable video coding. 16
  
• Thomas Schierl, Karsten Gänger, Cornelius Hellge, Karsten Grüneberg, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Stockhammer, Thomas Wiegand:
  Video streaming in mobile ad hoc networks. 17
  

Multimedia communication over mobile wireless networks

• Maria Teresa Carta, Tatiana Onali, Nicola Aste, Luigi Atzori:
  Video transmission over wireless networks: rate control for bursty throughput channels. 18
  
• Annalisa Durantini, Romeo Giuliano, Franco Mazzenga:
  Rake performance for DS and TH based UWB system in a multipath channel. 19
  
• Gabriella Convertino, Silvio Lucio Oliva:
  Adaptive FEC for 802.11 burst losses reduction. 20
  
• Cristiano Monti, Romeo Giuliano, Franco Mazzenga, Pierpaolo Loreti:
  Interference evaluation for a cellular system based on OFDMA. 21
  

Automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content

• Vesna Zeljkovic, Robert B. Vincelette, Marko Savic:
  Efficient shape recognition method using novel metric for complex polygonal shapes. 23
  
• Pavel Praks, Jindrich Cernohorský, Vojtech Svátek:
  Human expert modelling using semantics-oriented video retrieval for surveillance in hard industry. 24
  
• Divna Djordjevic, Ebroul Izquierdo:
  Relevance feedback for image retrieval in structured multi-feature spaces. 25
  
• Maheshkumar H. Kolekar, Somnath Sengupta:
  Semantic concept extraction from sports video for highlight generation. 26
  
• Nicola Adami, Sergio Benini, Riccardo Leonardi:
  An overview of video shot clustering and summarization techniques for mobile applications. 27
  
• Tomas Piatrik, Krishna Chandramouli, Ebroul Izquierdo:
  Image classification using biologically inspired systems. 28
  
• Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, P. Panagi, Stamatia Dasiopoulou:
  A learning approach to semantic image analysis. 29
  
• Janko Calic, Neill W. Campbell:
  Optimising video summaries for mobile devices using visual attention modelling. 30
  
• Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Konstantinos Rapantzikos, Yannis S. Avrithis:
  Priority coding for video-telephony applications based on visual attention. 31
  
• Reede Ren, Joemon M. Jose:
  Attention guided football video content recommendation on mobile devices. 32
  

Image and video processing for mobile multimedia

• Heechan Park, Abhir Bhalerao, Graham R. Martin, Andy C. Yu:
  An affine symmetric approach to natural image compression. 33
  
• Susanna Spinsante, Ennio Gambi, Damiano Falcone, S. Morichetti:
  Low complexity concealment of H.264/AVC encoded video for DVB-H devices. 34
  
• V. Baroncini, D. Ciavatta, G. Gaudino, Renzo Felice, Giovanni Iacovoni, Fabio Ubaldi:
  Variable frame rate video for mobile devices. 35
  
• Ivan Damnjanovic, Ebroul Izquierdo:
  Perceptual watermarking using just noticeable difference model based on block classification. 36
  

Work in progress papers

• Cunxun Zang, Qingshan Liu, Xiaofeng Tong, Hanqing Lu:
  A framework for providing adaptive sports video to mobile devices. 37
  
• Tea Anselmo, Daniele Alfonso:
  Fast rate-distortion optimization in the H.264/AVC standard. 38
  
• Annalisa Durantini, Romeo Giuliano, Franco Mazzenga, Jorge Hernandez:
  UWB interference mitigation technique on UMTS terminal in non-cooperative scenario. 39
  
• Mohamed Ben Ammar, Mahmoud Neji:
  A multi-agent based system for affective peer-e-learning. 40
  
• Daniele D. Giusto, Maurizio Murroni, Giulio Soro:
  Fractal coding of color images using earth mover's distance. 41
  
• Pål Backe, Anita Andersen, Thomas Plagemann, Anders Spilling:
  Mobile services for horse-race betting: a QoS study of streaming horse-race videos to 3G phones. 42
  
• Giaime Ginesu, Tatiana Onali, Daniele D. Giusto:
  Efficient scrambling of wavelet-based compressed images: a comparison between simple techniques for mobile applications. 43
  
• Gabriele Cecchetti, Anna Lina Ruscelli:
  A framework for enhanced QoS support in IEEE802.11e networks. 44
  
• Francesco Bertagnolli, Matteo Lanati, Lorenzo Favalli, Francesco Gruppi:
  Open loop transcoding using perceptually adaptive requantization of DCT coefficients. 45
  
• A. D. Marousis, Philip Constantinou:
  Performance evaluation of a channel estimator applied in SFBC MIMO systems for W-MANs. 46
  
• Jobst Löffler, Jochen Schon, Joachim Köhler:
  SHARE: supporting large-scale rescue operations with communication and information services over mobile networks. 47
  

Forthcoming standards and mobile multimedia services

• Xavier Jaspar, Luc Vandendorpe:
  Turbo techniques for joint source-channel decoding of multimedia content. 48
  
• Viraj S. Ambetkar, Paul Bender, Jianing Ma, Yong Pei, James W. Modestino:
  Distributed flow admission control for real-time multimedia services over wireless ad hoc networks. 49
  
• Gianluca Guidoni, Romeo Giuliano, Franco Mazzenga:
  On the interference of ultra wideband devices on fixed wireless systems in a distributed scenario. 50
  
• Ernestina Cianca, Antonella Molinaro, Mauro De Sanctis, Antonio Iera, Giuseppe Araniti, Marina Ruggieri:
  Location/situation-aware architecture for mobility management over heterogeneous networks. 51
  
• Mohamed Marey, Heidi Steendam:
  The effect of narrowband interference on ML fractional frequency offset estimator for OFDM. 52
  
• Leandro D'Orazio, Claudio Sacchi, Fabrizio Granelli, Francesco G. B. De Natale:
  Situation-aware radio resource management for multi-rate MC-CDMA wireless networks targeted at multimedia data exchanges in local areas. 53