no subject (file transmission)
Rajiv Mehrotra <rajiv@mayura.cs.umsl.edu> Wed, 06 September 1995 14:37 UTC
Received: from ietf.nri.reston.va.us by IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa10175; 6 Sep 95 10:37 EDT
Received: from CNRI.Reston.VA.US by IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa10166; 6 Sep 95 10:37 EDT
Received: from ietf.cnri.reston.va.us by CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa10562; 6 Sep 95 10:37 EDT
Received: from ietf.nri.reston.va.us by IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa10121; 6 Sep 95 10:37 EDT
Received: from CNRI.Reston.VA.US by IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa10117; 6 Sep 95 10:34 EDT
Received: from arch.cs.umsl.edu by CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa10481; 6 Sep 95 10:33 EDT
Received: from mayura by arch.umsl.edu (5.4R3.10/5.40/1.0) id AA04308; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 09:35:07 -0500
Received: by mayura.cs.umsl.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA21784; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 09:24:41 -0500
X-Orig-Sender: iplpdn-request@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US
Sender: ietf-archive-request@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US
From: Rajiv Mehrotra <rajiv@mayura.cs.umsl.edu>
Message-Id: <9509061424.AA21784@mayura.cs.umsl.edu>
Subject: no subject (file transmission)
To: iplpdn@CNRI.Reston.VA.US
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 09:24:40 -0045
Content-Type: text
Content-Length: 89229
*************************************************************************** ACM MULTIMEDIA'95 November 4-9, 1995 Hyatt Regency (Embarcadero) San Francisco, CA THE THIRD ACM INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION Sponsored by the ACM SIG Multimedia, SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, SIGMIS, SIGBIO, SIGCOMM, SIGIR and SIGOIS In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP, SIGCAPH, SIGMOD and SIGOPS ADVANCE PROGRAM *************************************************************************** CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: General Chair: Bob Allen, Bellcore Program Chair: Polle Zellweger, Xerox PARC Treasurer: Marc Brown, DEC Systems Research Center Exhibits: Brent Hailpern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Publicity: Rajiv Mehrotra, University of Missouri, St. Louis CDROM: Isabel Cruz, Tufts University Workshops: Ephraim Glinert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Electronic Information: Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University Tutorials: Sorel Reisman, California State University, Fullerton Demonstrations: Tom Little, Boston University Proceedings: Rachelle Heller, George Washington University Videos: Ralph Hill, Bellcore Gil Cruz, Andersen Consulting Networking: Gary Paxinos, Metrolink, Inc. Audio/Visual: Rodney Fuller, Claremont Graduate School Local Arrangements: Mark H. Butler, University of California, Berkeley Panels: Fillia Makedon, Dartmouth College John Buford, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Student Volunteers: Hans-Peter Dommel, University of California, Santa Cruz European Liaison: Costantino Thanos, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Asian/Pacific Liaison: T.L. Kunii, University of Aizu Industrial Liaison: Warren Jonen, University of Alabama, Birmingham =============== WELCOME TO ACM MULTIMEDIA'95 The Multimedia Revolution is well underway. Just how far we have come is clearly shown by the range and quality of the presentations in this ACM Multimedia'95 Conference. The current work, however, is just pointing the way to new horizons. Indeed, the technical advances reported in this conference are likely some of the best indications of where the field is going and where progress will be made. The heart of this conference is the technical papers. Multimedia is a multi-disciplinary field, and the technical presentations reflect this diversity, ranging from underlying technologies to applications and issues, and from theory to practice. We believe that development of the field of multimedia is greatly facilitated by rigorous standards of evaluation. For the 202 submitted papers approximately 800 reviews were obtained and the technical paper committee spent two days evaluating all these reviews. It is very satisfying to see that a foundation has been established for the highest standards of technical excellence. The technical papers have a broad broad international scope. Over one-third of the submissions were from outside the US. In addition, the submittals were split 75-25 between universities and corporate laboratories. We are enthusiastic about the conference Plenaries. In the Opening Plenary, Clifford Stoll will critique the state of multimedia in Silicon Snake Oil: What is multimedia offering? For the Closing Plenary, Carol Peters of daVinci Time & Space will describe the interaction between artists and multimedia developers in Follow the Artists. The conference also has an outstanding collection of other venues, including Panels, Tutorials, Workshops, Exhibits, Videos, and Demonstrations. The Demonstrations Program deserves special note. On Wednesday, one track of the conference will be devoted to formal presentations of specially selected Featured Demonstrations. Multimedia can substantially improve communication between information providers and consumers by making it more effective and more engaging. Thus, multimedia will have a profound the impact on many areas of human activity. We certainly hope that this technology will be used for the improvement of society. In many cases it will be. However, it is not certain that all of the the impact will be positive. For instance, some important educational institutions such as libraries and museums and even schools will have to adapt. We have structured the conference to encourage discussion of these issues. Conference participants will include researchers, implementors, practitioners, educators, artists, and more. We invite you to take this opportunity to join in active conversation within this multimedia matrix. See and hear advances and issues both inside and out of your particular subfield(s) as you renew old acquaintances and make new ones. Plan now to join us in San Francisco in November for this exciting multimedia event. Bob Allen, General Chair Polle Zellweger, Program Chair ================= STUDENT VOLUNTEER PROGRAM ACM Multimedia'95 will provide an international forum for many aspects of multimedia technology. The student volunteer program is an opportunity for students to associate with experts in these fields. In return for their services, student volunteers will receive the following: * A student volunteer must work 8 hours to be eligible to attend the conference at no charge. * A student volunteer must work 8 more hours to be eligible to attend a tutorial. (16 hours of work = conference + a tutorial) * Tutorials will be offered on first-come, first-served basis, provided space is available. * The student volunteers will receive course materials of the tutorials they attend. * They may participate in the activities of the tutorial to the extent that their work duties allow. * Requests will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis. * The conference cannot pay for student lodging and travel. Interested graduate and undergraduate students are requested to contact student volunteer co-ordinator for more details. Hans-Peter Dommel Baskin Center for Computer Sciences/Engineering Univ. of California, Santa Cruz Applied Sciences 350, CA 95064 Phone: +1-408+459-4458 Fax: +1-408-459-4829 ================ CONFERENCE-AT-A-GLANCE Sunday NOVEMBER 5 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Registration FULL-DAY COURSES 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM SA1 - Introduction to HyTime SA2 - Graphic Design for User Interfaces of Multimedia and Online Products or Services HALF-DAY MORNING COURSES 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM SA3 - Introduction to Multimedia Computing and Systems SA4 - Systematic Design of Multimedia Applications SA6 - An Introduction to Broadcasting for the Multimedia Professional 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break HALF-DAY AFTERNOON COURSES 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM SP1 - Understanding Distributed Multimedia Applications - The Architecture, Components, and End User Benefits SP2 - Structural Issues in Multimedia Design SP3 - How to Read and Evaluate a Multimedia Application SP4 - Multimedia Technology in the Broadcasting Industry SP5 - Cost Justification Issues in Multimedia Project Development Monday NOVEMBER 6 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Registration FULL-DAY COURSES 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM MA1 - Information Highway: A Construction Survey MA2 - Desktop Animation HALF-DAY MORNING COURSES 9:00 AM - 120:30 PM MA3 - Background for Digital Libraries: Information Retrieval and Hypertext MA4 - Packet Video: Video over IP and ATM Networks MA5 - Real-Time Scheduling Technology for Continuous Multimedia Applications MA6 - Designing University Courses in Interactive Multimedia 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break HALF-DAY AFTERNOON COURSES 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM MP1 - Writing Interactive Multimedia: Creative and Critical Strategies MP2 - Background for Digital Libraries: Information Retrieval and Hypertext MP3 - Image and Video Compression Standards: Algorithms and Architectures MP4 - Resource Management in Distributed Video Server Environments MP5 - MHEG: An ISO Standard for Multimedia and Hypermedia Information Delivery Tuesday November 7 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Registration 8:45 AM - 10:30 AM 1. Conference Opening and Plenary Plenary Title: Silicon Snake Oil: What Multimedia is Offering? Speaker: Clifford Stoll 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 2A. Papers: Video Indexing and Retrieval 2B. Papers: Supporting Collaboration Environments 2P. Panel: The Information Superhighway: Electronic Democracy or Electronic Tranquilizer? 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM 3A. Papers: Cyber Communities 3B. Papers: Multimedia Storage Servers 3P. Panel: Curriculum, Education and Training about Multimedia 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 4A. Papers: Authoring Flexible Documents 4B. Papers: Video Processing 4P. Panel: Multimedia on a Shoestring: Low Bandwidth Implementations 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Off-site conference reception, Yerba Buena Gardens Wednesday November 8 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Registration 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 5A. Papers: Speech and Audio Interfaces 5D. Demonstrations: Networked Video 5P. Panel: Personal Narrative Spaces 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 6A. Papers: Multimedia Network Tools 6B. Demonstrations: Video-Centric Information Systems 6P. Panel: Multimedia and the Web 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM 7A. Papers: Video and Image Collections 7B. Demonstrations: Enabling Hardware and Software 7P. Panel: Multimedia, Museums and Cultural Learning 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 8A. Papers: Multimedia Networking 8B. Demonstrations: Video Indexing 8P. Panel: Multimedia and Education: Magic, Myth or Miracle Cure? 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Interactive Demonstrations Thursday November 9 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Registration 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 9A. Papers: Video in Hypermedia 9B. Papers: Synchronization... it's about Time 9P. Panel: What's that Character Doing in your Interface? 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 10A. Papers: LEARNing with MultiMedia 10B. Papers: 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 and Closing Plenary Title: Follow the Artists Speaker: Carol Peters ================ OPENING PLENARY SPEAKER 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 highway. CLOSING PLENARY SPEAKER Carol Peters is the Chairman and CEO of daVinci Time & Space. daVinci Time & Space is the creator and enabler of a new form of interactive entertainment programming -- a Time & Space=81. This unique invention harnesses the power of networked multimedia PCs or TV settop boxes and sets the standard for next-generation entertainment programming. Backed by Oak Investment Partners, Greylock Limited Partnership, and Venrock Associates, daVinci Time & Space opened in 1993 and today has approximately 25 employees located at our office in San Mateo, California. daVinci Time & Space has produced an interactive television Pilot and has begun production on a networked PC/CD-ROM Time & Space. Prior to founding daVinci Time & Space, Carol spent four years at Silicon Graphics (SGI) where, as director of engineering, she led the project team that created the Iris Indigo workstation. Following the Indigo product ship, Carol became the director of marketing for SGI emerging markets. Before joining SGI, Carol capped a 16-year career with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) as the engineering manager of DEC's first RISC-based workstation, the DECStation 3100. Carol is a graduate of Harvard University with a BS in Architectural Science. =============== COURSES On behalf of this year's Course Selection Committee, I am pleased to be able to provide an outstanding selection of topical and informative courses for attendees of ACM Multimedi'95. The Committee sought to provide a slate of courses to appeal to every conference attendee. This year's schedule of courses represents a broad range of topics that constitute most of the "elements" of multimedia. In addition to the topics themselves, the courses in this year's schedule have been designed for a broad range of needs, - for those people interested in learning about new topics at an introductory level, to those needing advanced, state-of-the-art information within their own field of expertise. We have also tried to build the schedule to allow attendees to take an introductory course first, and a second or more advanced version afterwards. I urge everyone attending the conference to examine the course list carefully, and to get the most out of ACM Multimedia'95 by attending at least one course. Sorel Reisman Courses Chair ================== Sunday, November 5 Full-Day Courses Course Title: Introduction to HyTime Reference Number: SA1 Course Duration: Full Day Course Level: Basic Abstract Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime) is an ISO standard for hypermedia documentation. It is an extension of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) that encodes the hypermedia structure of a document. HyTime and SGML enable the use and development of hypermedia documents in an open and integrated environment. As such, authors are free to construct documents according to models that fit their particular needs. Although the resulting documents will follow many different models, they will use the same language for defining their underlying structure. Thus, each document will be readily integratable with documents of other models. Further, the structures shaping these documents can be defined in a manner that is independent of their eventual processing and presentation. This facilitates their application to many different, and possibly unanticipated, presentation situations. Organizer: Lloyd Rutledge received his B.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1987 and his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1993. He is currently at UMass Lowell researching his doctoral thesis on the processing of HyTime. He has also served on the HyTime development committee, published several articles on HyTime, and presented HyTime tutorials at several international conferences, including ACM Multimedia 94. ========= Course Title: Graphic Design for User Interfaces of Multimedia and Online Products or Services Reference Number: SA2 Course Duration: Full Day Course Level : Intermediate Abstract This tutorial 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 for 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. Issues will be discussed in terms of the following Case studies: American Airlines SABRE Online Travel Information Network, 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: 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., 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 tutorials around the world at major conferences and corporate sites since 1980. =========== Sunday, November 5 Morning Courses Course Title: Introduction to Multimedia Computing and Systems Reference Number: SA3 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Basic Abstract There have been many new technical results in the development of large scale multimedia computing and communications systems. This course provides an introductory survey of both practice and research of multimedia computing and systems, including media and synchronization fundamentals, system architecture, middleware, OS support, continuous media file systems, GUI support, and network architectures. This course is recommended as a prerequisite to more advanced tutorials and the conference program. This course is an updated version of similar courses presented at ACM Multimedia 94, IEEE Multimedia Computing 94, and to other audiences. Organizer: Dr. John Buford is Assoc. Prof. of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is co-founder and director of the Distributed Multimedia Systems Lab, which has been active since 1990. He is contributing editor of the book Multimedia Systems, chair of X3L3.3 Hypermedia/ Multimedia Information Coding, and US head of delegation to ISO MHEG. He has twenty five published papers, is on the editorial board for J. Multimedia Tools and Applications, and is a program committee member for various multimedia conferences. ============ Course Title: Systematic Design of Multimedia Applications Reference Number: SA4 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Intermediate Abstract The course is intended for designers of multimedia applications and for users who need to develop their own applications. Designing a multimedia application requires a description of the nature of the "atomic pieces" of information; how the pieces are organized into "consumable" objects how the objects are interrelated; and how they can be grouped and accessed, to describe the application's behavior when the user will interact with it. This course will provide, a design methodology, a design model and a development environment correlated to the design methodology to accomplish these goals The course will present and discuss the following topics: * overall organization of a multimedia application and what design is about * the structuring of multimedia applications: concepts and design primitives * the dynamics of multimedia applications: concepts and design primitives * modularization of multimedia applications * how to reuse "pieces" of multimedia applications * common errors in the design of multimedia applications * the development cycle * the development environment and tools Organizer: Paolo Paolini is Full Professor at University of Lecce (Italy) and Technical Director of the Hypermedia Laboratory at Politecnico di Milano. He has a Master and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He has been active in data base modeling and systems, programming languages, distributed data bases, data bases views, hypermedia modeling and authoring, multimedia application development tools. He has been technical responsible of various European research projects in the above fields, five of them within the program ESPRIT. He served as General Chair of the ACM international conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia in 1992 (ECHT'92). He has been member of the Program Committee of various editions of VLDB, ACM ECHT, and ACM HT conferences, and is currently Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). Lecturer: Franca Garzotto - Hypermedia Laboratory - Politecnico Di Milano ======= Course Title: Image and Video Databases Reference Number: SA5 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Intermediate Abstract While earlier information systems were based on alphanumeric information, there is now an increasing tendency to include image, video, and other forms of data . The virtue of a database system lies in its ability to efficiently retrieve the correct piece of information. Alphanumeric keys are used for organizing and retrieving appropriate piece of information in databases. What would happen if the basic data format is not alphanumeric but is an image, a video sequence, or some other signal? This tutorial will be organized in the three sections- i) basic Issues, ii) review, and iii) detailed examples to address the following related issues. Images and other non-alphanumeric objects can neither be decomposed into well-defined records, nor can they be manipulated based upon any universally invariant criterion. By what principles can the images be organized? How are image-based queries specified? How can the concept of index keys be extended to image-based (as opposed to text-based) entities? These issues will be addressed for data that is in the form of video, speech or other sounds, or any other signal. Organizer: Ramesh Jain is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering at University of California at San Diego. His research interests are in multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems. He is the founding chairman of Virage, a San Diego based 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. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia, and is on the editorial boards of several journals. =========== Course Title: An Introduction to Broadcasting for the Multimedia Professional Reference Number: SA6 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Basic Abstract One of the largest markets for multimedia technology is the broadcasting industry. Understanding the broadcasting process is essential to meeting the broadcaster's needs. This tutorial will introduce the radio and television broadcasting process with an eye towards problem areas and multimedia solutions. We will follow various audio programs, including news, commercials, and music, from creation through selection, in and out of the studio, and from transmitter to receiver. We will illustrate the integration of people, equipment, and technologies that brings the radio program to your receiver. Then, we'll follow the production of television programs, both live and recorded, as they make their way through the broadcast chain. Finally, we'll explore the economics of broadcasting to better understand costs, savings, and income. Organizer: Charles Owen, in over a decade of experience in the broadcasting industry, has held positions varying from Chief Engineer of a radio group to Vice President of Clark and Associates, Ltd., a broadcast equipment manufacturer. He served as project leader for many large development projects in digital audio, digital video, and large facility automation. He is currently Administrator of the Dartmouth Experimental Visualization Laboratory, a Dartmouth Presidential Fellow, and a Ph.D. candidate in computer science where he is researching information retrieval in multimedia. =============== Sunday, November 5 Afternoon Courses Course Title: Understanding Distributed Multimedia Applications - The Architecture, Components, and End User Benefits Reference Number: SP1 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Basic Abstract This course will address, explain, and analyze four major categories of multimedia applications: i) real-time multimedia ( including video conferencing , remote lectures , telemedicine ...), ii) on-line interactive multimedia (covering teleshopping, addressable advertisement, teletraining, movies-on-demand), iii) multimedia enabling of traditional IT systems ( TP , DB , Office Systems), and iv) stand alone multimedia ( PCs /Mac with CD-drives and various titles). In each category, discussion will focus on the features, the architectural components, trends and issues related to such matters as server design, network and bandwidth requirements, protocols and standards such as MPEG MHEG HTML SGML PREMO HyTime. Examples of systems running or pilots under implementation around the world will be given to illustrate the concepts. Finally, for each application, the course will address, from a user perspective, the expected benefits of multimedia and explore how multimedia can transform our day to lives. Organizer: N. Naffah has a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Paris and a telecom engineering degree from ENST . He has done research on computer networks and office automation at INRIA France . At Bull , he is Vice President for Multimedia business . N. Naffah is a member of the ACM , and IEEE . ========= Course Title: Structural Issues in Multimedia Design Reference Number: SP2 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Basic Abstract Designing end-user multimedia applications involves working with the structure of content: transforming content from linear to non-linear forms by creating interactive structures and designing representations of content. This course focuses on the structural issues involved in designing and developing a range of multimedia applications, from those with simple structures (branching, elaboration, and index) to those with complex structures (interactive narratives and essays), and on the kinds of content representations, or macrostructures, that work with different kinds of structures, content, and media. Organizer: Linn Marks is currently working on a digital library involving video-on-demand from a remote, large-scale server at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. She began her research in multimedia design at MIT's Project Athena in 1989. The focus of her work is the development of a framework for designing interactive discourse structures and new media interface elements, or multimedia macrostructures. She has presented tutorials on multimedia design at several conferences (see the World Wide Web Virtual SIGCHI Conference at http://drucker.cgs.edu/chivas/) and is co-editor of the ACM CHI'95 Electronic Proceedings. ========== Course Title: How to Read and Evaluate a Multimedia Application Reference Number: SP3 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Intermediate Abstract This course is intended for publishers, developers and "consumers" of multimedia applications, as well as for researchers interested in evaluation techniques of multimedia applications. The course will present and discuss the following topics: * general evaluation techniques, as they apply to multimedia applications * what design-oriented evaluation is about * concepts and terms for analyzing a multimedia application * design-oriented evaluation criteria * how to evaluate the main design features of an application: the procedural steps in evaluating a multimedia application The course will mainly proceed through examples, therefore more than 10 multimedia applications will be examined. Applications will be either commercial CD-ROM's, or research prototypes, or WWW applications. Some of the applications will probably be well known to some of the attendees; the promise is to discover, through design-oriented evaluation, some (hopefully) unexpected findings about them. Organizer: Franca Garzotto is Research Associate at the Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, where she presently serves as Managing Director of the Hypermedia Laboratory. She has a Degree in Mathematics from the University of Padova (Italy) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Politecnico di Milano. She has being active in data base systems, conceptual modeling of documents, hypermedia modeling and authoring, multimedia evaluation. She has been involved in various ESPRIT research projects in the above fields. She has been tutorial chair of ECHT'90 and ECHT'92, and member of the program committee of the conferences ACM HT'91, ACM HT'93, ACM ECHT'92, ACM ECHT'94, ACM Multimedia'95, ICHIM'95, and ACM HT'96. She has been Program Chair of the International Workshop on Hypermedia Design held in Montpellier - France in June 1995, and is co-chair of the Workshop on "Evaluation Methods and Quality Criteria for Multimedia Applications" to be held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia'95. Lecturer: Paolo Paolini, University Lecce And Hypermedia Laboratory - Politecnico di Milano. ======== Course Title: Multimedia Technology in the Broadcasting Industry Reference Number: SP4 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Intermediate Abstract The broadcasting industry invented the terms "media" and "multimedia" and is applying new multimedia technologies to air chains at a frantic pace. Advances such as program automation, non-linear editing, disk storage systems, and computer graphics have seen major commercial application in radio and television. This tutorial will detail the broadcasting process with emphasis on the technologies in use and proposed. We'll follow signals from production to reception, examining the elements of the chain, their use by operators and facility automation, and how they function as a system. The course will also examine new trends in broadcasting including cable television and radio, direct broadcast satellite, subcarrier data services, and bidirectional communications. Organizer: Charles Owen, in over a decade of experience in the broadcasting industry, has held positions varying from Chief Engineer of a radio group to Vice President of Clark and Associates, Ltd., a broadcast equipment manufacturer. He served as project leader for many large development projects in digital audio, digital video, and large facility automation. He is currently Administrator of the Dartmouth Experimental Visualization Laboratory, a Dartmouth Presidential Fellow, and a Ph.D. candidate in computer science where he is researching information retrieval in multimedia. ===================== Course Title: Cost Justification Issues in Multimedia Project Development Reference Number: SP5 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Intermediate Abstract Because of significant program development issues, multimedia development projects often require the same kind of cost justification that has historically been necessary for the efficient development of computer graphics-based applications. A manager of a multimedia development project must understand project related budget issues, including return-of-investment (ROI), in order to deliver truly successful systems. This tutorial will provide cost-justification models for such multimedia projects. A description of the history of computer graphics application development since the mid 1960s will be presented as a comparative base for multimedia application development. Typical costing models, including ROI analyses, for the development of CAD/CAM, slide-making, engineering, and science visualization systems will be presented. Multimedia today has many characteristics similar to computer graphics of 20 years ago, but because of its relative immaturity as an industry and because of its broad application range it is still difficult to develop costing models for multimedia. Tutorial attendees will acquire an understanding of key cost-justification issues necessary to develop innovative multimedia applications. Organizer Giorgio Valle is Professor of Computer Aided Design at Universita' di Milano, Italy. A computer graphics pioneer, he is currently working on Chiamabus Crema, an experimental, multimedia-based van-pooling system. Dr. Valle's interest is in the field of relational databases and his work on interactive cable television was instrumental in establishing the EUROGRAPHICS Association. For several terms he has served as Chairman of the ACM Italian Chapter. ======================= Monday, November 6 Full Day Courses Course Title: Information Highway: A Construction Survey Reference Number: MA1 Course Duration: Full Day Course Level : Intermediate Abstract This course is for anyone interested in understanding, using, or deploying exciting new broadband multimedia technology and services. Attendees will gain a thorough understanding of the end-to-end view and of the key elements of the "information highway" including: broadband services, interactive TV, and the Internet. The course covers system infrastructure, components, and tools. The emphasis is on system design issues and implications for clients, servers, and large-scale multimedia-enabled networks. Sample topics include: the WWW, interactive TV, video on demand, home banking, home automation, multimedia and compression, operating system support, application support, authoring tools, MM networks, training, education, information services, production of multimedia documents, multimedia tools, hypermedia systems, and regulation, copyrights, and security. Organizer: Milan Milenkovic is a system architect in IBM's Interactive Broadband Services group within the Network Application Systems Division. Prior to joining IBM, he was in academia where he performed research and taught courses on operating systems, computer architecture, and distributed computing. Dr. Milenkovic's publications include papers, monograph, a college text "Operating Systems: Concepts and Design" (McGraw-Hill, 1992) and a co-edited tutorial "A Guided Tour of Multimedia Systems and Applications" (IEEE, 1995.) ========== Course Title: Desktop Animation Reference Number: MA2 Course Duration: Full Day Course Level: Basic Abstract In this course attendees will learn the what, why and how of desktop animation. They will see what they can produce with the equipment they have. The tutorial will cover the full range of animation from the simple to the complex, but the emphasis will be on learning the basic skills and jargon necessary to get started in this exciting field. All concepts and terms are fully explained and in most cases, demonstrated by images and animations. The medium is part of the message. The course itself is a an effective demonstration of how to use animations in presentations. Over 40 animations and 5 video segments are embedded in this exciting and fast moving tutorial. Organizer: Darryl Freedman is president of VIVA Associates, a multimedia teaching and consulting firm. He has taught, consulted and lectured worldwide in telecommunications and multimedia for more than seven years. His seminars in the field of telecommunications and multimedia have been presented in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, the People's Republic of China and at major multimedia conferences. Darryl Freedman has a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York. He is currently a regular contributor to The Carolina Computer News, on the advisory board for The School of Communications Arts, an instructor for computer animation at the Institute of Academic Technology and a member of the IEEE. ======== Monday, November 6 Morning Courses Course Title: Background for Digital Libraries: Information Retrieval And Hypertext Reference Number: MA3 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Basic Abstract This course will provide an introduction to information retrieval (IR) and hypertext (HT), which will act as a background for the afternoon course Research Issues and Design Issues for Digital Libraries as well as work in: content-based retrieval, hypermedia, networked information, educational courseware, and related technologies. Topics that will be addressed include the problems, models, design issues, current systems and research interests in the fields of IR and HT. Course attendees will learn how to navigate and reuse the WWW-based courseware on IR and HT and Multimedia available from Virginia Tech as well as to appreciate the power of the KMS hypertext system. They will be able to ask and discuss questions with the current and past SIG chairs of SIGIR and SIGLINK, respectively, and to talk with them about techniques and implementation considerations regarding building IR and HT systems and information collections. They will learn where to find out more about concerns regarding human-computer interaction as well as algorithms. Organizer: Edward A. Fox is Professor of Computer Science and Associate Director for Research at the Computing Center, Virginia Tech. He has been PI on over 40 grants and now directs "Interactive Learning with a Digital Library in Computer Science." He has helped prepare one videotape documentary, three CD-ROMs, and over 100 book chapters or journal or conference papers. He is Chair of the ACM SIG on Information Retrieval and founder of the ACM Multimedia Conferences series. Lecturer: Robert Akscyn, President of Knowledge Systems. ========= Course Title: Packet Video: Video over IP and ATM Networks Reference Number: MA4 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Intermediate Abstract The purpose of this course is to explain the principles of real-time video coding and transfer across ATM and IP networks. We will follow the video signal from the camera across the network to the monitor and step through all the functions needed along the way. Coding, application layer framing, rate-control, and resource allocation will be explained, as well as handling of loss, errors, and delay variations on the receiver side. Course topics will include; the use of real-time video in multimedia , applications, variable-rate and constant-rate coding, modeling and characterization of variable bit-rate , video sources, resource allocation, handling of jitter and loss, perceptual quality of service, and related research issues. Organizer: Gunnar Karlsson holds a MS from Chalmers University of Technology and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. His thesis was on video coding for packet-switched networks. Dr. Karlsson is a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), and is on the faculty of the Royal Institute of Technology. Prior to joining SICS in 1992, he worked three years at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. He has been the first project leader of the Stockholm Gigabit Network. ============ Course Title: Real-Time Scheduling Technology for Continuous Multimedia Applications Reference Number: MA5 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Intermediate Abstract Real-time scheduling is critical for multimedia systems to meet the timing constraints of individual media streams, optimize system performance across concurrent streams as a whole, and support graceful performance degradation in case of resource contention. This course presents design principles and state-of-the-art techniques for scheduling system entities (thread, I/O processes, etc.) over system resources (CPU, disk I/O, etc.) for execution of continuous multimedia applications. The course is intended for researchers and practitioners who want to capture recent research results and new research challenges in this area, get insights into real-time scheduling fundamentals, and/or discuss system implementation techniques and existing obstacles in using off-the-shelf operating systems and hardware platforms. A multimedia data management system prototype will be used to demonstrate the effects of many of the real-time scheduling and real-time software methodologies presented in this course. Organizer: Dr. Jim Huang is a principal research scientist at Honeywell Technology Center and has recently been doing research and development on multimedia systems, real-time systems, real-time database systems, and multidatabase systems for industrial process control and military applications. He is an adjunct faculty of the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas. He co-chaired the IEEE Real-Time Applications Workshop'94 and served on several program committees of real-time and multimedia systems conferences. =========== Course Title: Designing University Courses in Interactive Multimedia Reference Number: MA6 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Intermediate Abstract This course is a must for anyone who is thinking of incorporating multimedia into their curriculum or their business. Although this course will be Mac based, the concepts can be applied to any platform. Sample software and examples of student portfolios will be presented on the Mac. Examples of assignments and class handouts will be included. Based on a successful model of courses in interactive multimedia, this course is designed to address the questions: 1. Is there a corpus of material that can be identified and presented to students in an academic setting? 2. What requirements should be in place for students taking a first multimedia course? 3. How can that corpus - if it exists - be ordered into a meaningful program? 4. What requirements should be in place for students pursuing such a program? 5. How does that material relate to, or augment, current undergraduate and graduate programs in computer science? 6. How can the team nature of "real world" interactive multimedia projects be accommodated in a computer science class to allow students of various backgrounds to participate? 7. What types of laboratory environments need to be created? Organizer: Dr. Kieffer is an assistant professor of computer science in the Computer Science Department, School of Mathematics, Science and Technology, at Eastern Washington University. Dr. Kieffer's research interests are in the area of computer literacy, educational uses of computers and interactive multimedia. She is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCEE), IEEE and ACM, and the SIGs on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) and Computer Uses in Education (SIGCUE). Lecturer: Rachelle Heller, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The George Washington University, Washington DC 20052. ========== Monday, November 6 Afternoon Courses Course Title: Writing Interactive Multimedia: Creative and Critical Strategies Reference Number: MP1 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Basic Abstract In this tutorial, participants will help formulate some basic principles for writing for the interactive, multimedia environment. This course will 1) attempt to describe interactive multimedia as a medium similar to and yet distinct from film, television, or print; 2) explain roles and challenges for the writer; and 3) introduce creative and critical ways to approach the medium through examples and group exercises. The course is geared to those with previous writing experience who are new to multimedia and those with multimedia experience who have little formal training in writing. Organizer: Martin Schecter taught composition, creative writing, and cultural studies as an assistant professor of English at Drake University from 1992 - 1994. Previously, he worked as a senior medical writer in Princeton, NJ. He has his M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Arizona and has published short fiction, essays, criticism and a novel. He currently manages an educational CD-ROM project and is at work on a textbook on fiction writing. ========== Course Title: Background for Digital Libraries: Information Retrieval and Hypertext Reference Number: MP2 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Intermediate Abstract This course will focus on the popular emerging field of Digital Libraries (DLs) and for people new to this field will be based upon issues presented in the preparatory morning course, "Background for Digital Libraries: Information Retrieval and Hypertext." Those who are at an intermediate level, should have some background in information retrieval, hypertext, hypermedia, or library or information science. Attendees at an advanced level will be interested in the perspective of the co-organizers, who led editing of the April 1995 CACM issue on DLs. Attendees will learn about a number of important DL projects, and be prepared to help design and implement future DLs. They should understand the main research issues regarding DLs, and know where to obtain guidance on the key technologies involved. They will learn about the results of May, October and November 1995 workshops about DLs, as well as others dating back to 1991. They will see demonstrations regarding ACM's digital library and learn about progress in scaling up the KMS system to support very large DLs. Organizer: Edward A. Fox is Professor of Computer Science and Associate Director for Research at the Computing Center, Virginia Tech. He has been PI on over 40 grants and now directs "Interactive Learning with a Digital Library in Computer Science." He has helped prepare one videotape documentary, three CD-ROMs, and over 100 book chapters or journal or conference papers. He is Chair of the ACM SIG on Information Retrieval and founder of the ACM Multimedia Conferences series. Lecturer: Robert Akscyn, President of Knowledge Systems. ============= Course Title: Image and Video Compression Standards: Algorithms and Architectures Reference Number: MP3 Course Duration: half day Course Level: Basic Abstract Compression is one of the core technologies in video teleconferencing, digital television, and a number of multimedia applications. This tutorial provides an introductory overview of the principles of image and video compression standards and their hardware implementation. The tutorial will be in two parts. The first part reviews the key principles in image compression and acquaints the audience with transform coding, motion estimation and compensation, and entropy coding. In this part, an overview of the JPEG, MPEG and H.261 image and video compression standards will be presented. A short overview of the MPEG audio and Dolby AC-3 algorithms will also be presented. The second part of the tutorial presents an overview of the latest hardware implementations in custom and programmable video processors. Organizer: Konstantinos Konstantinides received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1985. He is currently a member of the technical staff at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, in Palo Alto where he is involved in various research projects in digital signal and image processing and compression. He is a Senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on the design and implementation of digital signal processors. Lecturer: Vasudev Bhaskaran, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, MS 3U, PO Box 10490 Palo Alto, CA 94303. ============= Course Title: Resource Management in Distributed Video Server Environments Reference Number: MP4 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Intermediate Abstract This tutorial, which is for both practitioners and researchers, provides an overview of resource management in a distributed video server cluster consisting of many interconnected processing and storage nodes. The goal is to provide casual participants with an overview of video server design issues as well as to provide sophisticated designers with new and timely information about this rapidly evolving area. Practitioners will learn practical and new algorithms and design principles. Researchers will additionally benefit from a broad overview of this area. Case studies will be presented that will be of interest to both groups. An extensive bibliography of recent work will also be provided. Organizer: Dr. Asit Dan is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Watson Research Center working on the design and development of distributed video server architectures. He has authored several papers and holds many patents in this area. His earlier work on databases received an ACM Dissertation award and is published by the MIT Press. Lecturer: Dr. Dinkar Sitaram, IBM Research Division, H4-A04, PO Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 ============== Course Title: MHEG: An ISO Standard for Multimedia and Hypermedia Information Delivery Reference Number: MP5 Course Duration: Half Day Course Level: Advanced Abstract MHEG is ISO 13522, a specification for platform-independent delivery of interactive multimedia and hyper- media content in networked environments. MHEG is near standardization, and has close ties with the MPEG-2 Transport Stream and MPEG-2 DSM-CC which are expected to be widely used in set-top box and other consumer entertainment devices. MHEG also includes a platform-independent specification for scriptware application delivery. This tutorial provides an in-depth discussion of MHEG part 1 (object interchange) and part 3 (scriptware interchange). We also present details of implementation issues for MHEG engines, and recommendations for supporting MHEG in authoring environments. Organizer: Dr. John Buford is Assoc. Prof. of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is co-founder and director the Distributed Multimedia Systems Lab, which has been active since 1990. He is contributing editor of the book Multimedia Systems, chair of X3L3.3 Hypermedia/Multimedia Information Coding, and US head of delegation to ISO MHEG. He has 25 published papers, is on the editorial board for J. Multimedia Tools and Applications, and is a program committee member for various multimedia conferences. ================= WORKSHOPS ACM Multimedia'95 is proud to be hosting a number of full-day, in-depth workshops on topics of great current interest to the members of the multimedia research community. Although participation in a workshop is by invitation only, most still have slots available. So if you see one to which you think you could make a contribution, don't hesitate to contact the organizer for more information. Please note that all workshop attendees are expected to register for the conference, and must in addition pay a workshop fee of $50 which will be collected by the organizer. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to get the most out of ACM Multimedia'95! Ephraim P. Glinert Workshops Chair ==================== Saturday, November 4 W1 Full Day Effective Abstractions in Multimedia Layout, Presentation and Interaction Organizers: Isabel Cruz, Tufts University Joseph Marks, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Kent Wittenburg, Bell Communications Research This workshop is concerned with abstract representations and methods for structuring of multimedia/hypermedia documents and interactions. We will focus on concepts and techniques that are useful for organizing heterogeneous information from the perspective of both end-user delivery and authoring. Problems to be discussed include spatial layout for visual presentation; temporal layout for presentation using animation and audio; determination of page content, linking structure and index structure for hypermedia documents; filtering, generalization, and customization of information in multimedia/hypermedia applications; and synergistic combination of media. More information may be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~isabel/mmws.html. Contact Person: Dr. Kent Wittenburg Bellcore, Rm. MRE 2A-347 445 South Street Morristown, NJ 07962 E-mail: kentw@bellcore.com Phone: +1-201-829-4382 Fax: +1-201-829-5981 =========== Saturday, November 4 W2 Full Day Integrating Audio and Visual Media Organizer: Meera Blattner, University of California at Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Non-speech audio, speech, video, and graphics are the output media of multimedia interfaces. For historical reasons, audio and visual media have not been integrated well in the human-computer interface, although these modalities are integrated in our real world experience. Can we build a systematic foundation for understanding the interpretation of information in both the auditory and visual domains together? To what other disciplines can we turn to learn how to design good multimedia interfaces? What examples do we have now of good integration in the auditory and visual domains? Do we attempt to mimic the real world, or should we strive to use media in new ways (for example, to use sound to replace touch)? Contact Person: Professor Meera M. Blattner, L-540 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P. O. Box 808 Livermore, CA 94550 E-mail: blattner@llnl.gov Phone: +1-510-422-3503 Fax: +1-510-423-4139 =========== Saturday, November 4 W3 Full Day Evaluation Methods and Quality Criteria for Multimedia Applications Organizers: Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano Manfred Thuering, BIFOA / University of Cologne To support effective evaluation of multimedia applications and product development, it is necessary to first define what must be evaluated, what constitute reasonable quality criteria, which metrics are suitable for measuring them, which evaluation procedures should be applied, and which existing standards can be employed. These issues will be discussed during the workshop by people from diverse backgrounds (researchers, application developers, multimedia publishers, distributors, and product managers), so that all may come away with a better understanding of evaluation criteria, quality assessment, and methods for systematic testing. Contact Person: Dr. Franca Garzotto Hypermedia Laboratory Dept. of Electronics and Information Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 I-20133 Milano, Italy E-mail: garzotto@elet.polimi.it Phone: +39-2-23993520 Fax: +39-2-23993411 =========== Saturday, November 4 W4 Full Day NSF Research on Digital Libraries Organizer: Edward Fox, Virginia Tech The goal of this workshop is to produce a set of recommendations to the R&D community regarding high impact topics crucial for digital libraries. We will focus on three issues: the desirability of holding a ``competition'' similar to the TREC (Text REtrieval Conference) or MUC (Message Understanding) events; identification of research crucial to the success of digital libraries and which is not now supported; and possible mechanisms for sharing - perhaps through some type of clearing house - tools, collections and other results, so that small research teams can more easily build upon the findings of others and so contribute. The workshop will lead to a report that will be disseminated widely on paper as well as electronically. Community response to recommendations in the report should lead to participation of more research teams that will as a result make additional contributions to this important NII area. Contact Person: Professor Edward A. Fox Dept. of Computer Science 562 McBryde Hall Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 E-mail: fox@vt.edu Phone: +1-703-231-5113 Fax: +1-703-231-6075 ======================= Friday, November 10 W5 Full Day Adaptive Multimedia Technologies for People with Disabilities Organizers: Shi-Kuo Chang, University of Pittsburgh Ephraim Glinert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute As multimedia interfaces become ubiquitous, there is a danger that the requirement of using all the senses may deny additional communities access to information. In this workshop we will explore and define the future technologies needed to support multiple media choices that are selectable on several levels, so that the most appropriate media can be provided to each user. Topics discussed will include: use of multimedia in teaching and researching sign languages; virtual reality environments for people with disabilities; adapting GUIs for blind users; nonvisual representations for information; storage standards for sophisticated closed captioning and descriptive accompanying audio. The workshop is scheduled to immediately follow the conference, so that late-breaking developments can be addressed in the discussions. Attendees will be selected to include a mixture of experts on multimedia, experts in helping people with disabilities, and scientists with disabilities. Contact Person: Professor Shi-Kuo Chang Dept. of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 E-mail: chang@cs.pitt.edu Phone: +1-708-679-3135 thru August 31, then +1-412-624-8423 Fax: +1-708-679-3166 thru August 31, then +1-412-624-8465 =========== Friday, November 10 W6 Full Day Intellectual Property Rights Management in the Electronic Information Society: A European Initiative in the ESPRIT Programme Organizer: Costantino Thanos, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa The objective of this workshop is to present the most promising results of a number of related research projects conducted by the European ESPRIT program during the past 5 years, and which together defined a generic model for the management in an electronic society of intellectual property rights and copyright issues. Four discussion areas, each to be introduced by an expert in the field, are planned: information technology industries; publishing; museums; and libraries. Topics to be covered will include: overview of the various projects; the CITED model; technologies and implementations; the publisher- university relationship; numeric TV broadcasting; CD-ROM publishing; critical issues for educational and library systems; fee collecting and licensing agencies; multimedia authoring; requirements for standardization and infrastructure. We will conclude with an open discussion on the impact of this work on the business community. Contact Person: Dr. Costantino Thanos Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via S. Maria 46 I-56126 Pisa, Italy E-mail: thanos@iei.pi.cnr.it Phone: +39-50-593492 Fax: +39-50-554342 ============= Friday, November 10 W7 Full Day Multimedia Database Management Systems Organizers: Bruce Berra, Syracuse University Kingsley Nwosu, AT&T Bhavani Thuraisingham, MITRE Corporation This workshop will investigate issues in designing and developing M-DBMSs. A M-DBMS which supports distributed applications should integrate the two technologies of distributed/heterogeneous databases and multimedia data management. This integration is one of the greatest challenges faced by information systems researchers and developers, and will be the main focus of this workshop. Topics to be discussed include the following: data models; storage structures; system, schema and functional architectures; retrieval and update algorithms; metadata management for multimedia databases. Attendees will be chosen to include a mixture of people from the database and multimedia information systems communities. Contact Person: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham The MITRE Corporation, K329 Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 E-mail: thura@mitre.org Phone: +1-617-271-8873 Fax: +1-617-271-2352 ================= TECHNICAL PROGRAM Tuesday, November 7 8:45 AM - 10:30 AM 1. Opening and Plenary Opening Plenary: Silicon Snake Oil: What Multimedia is Offering Speaker: Clifford Stoll 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 2A. Papers: 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. Papers: 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. Papers: 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. Papers: 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 T.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. Papers: 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. Papers: 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 An architecture for 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, Yerba Buena Gardens Wednesday, November 8 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 5A. Papers: 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. Panel: 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. Papers: 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. Panel: Multimedia and the Web Chair: Allan Kuchinsky, Hewlett Packard While the perceived benefits networked multimedia are significant, there are also considerable challenges to bringing this vision to fruition in the mass market. At this point, it seems plausible that the web will evolve as a primary delivery vehicle for multimedia. However, there are a number of obstacles to this evolution for the Web. One formidable problem is that we are trying to blend a number of different authoring paradigms, communities, and traditions, many of which are conflicting. There are many fundamental inconsistencies, for example, between the document-centric paradigm of HTML and the presentation-centric paradigm of multimedia authoring tools such as Director. This panel explores differing perspectives on the merging of multimedia and the Web. The goal is to determine the most plausible approaches for blending the interactivity of the CD-ROM environment with the networked, interlinked nature of the Web. 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM 7A. Papers: 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. Panel: 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. Papers: 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 8A. 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 Thursday, November 9 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 9A. Papers: 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. Papers: 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. Panel: 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-end representation? * 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. Papers: 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: Knowledge-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. Papers: 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 10P. Panel: 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 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM 12. Plenary and Closing Closing Plenary: 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. Thus will technologists discover how to specify and make accessible the new design language. Thus will the artists speak and invent. Technologists in service to artists will allow the new art forms to speak through the technology. ============================== DEMONSTRATIONS PROGRAM: The demonstration program will feature novel research prototypes that demonstrate the latest advancements in multimedia computing and communications technologies. Demonstrations will be presented in two different formats. Featured Demonstrations will be shown during conference sessions on Wednesday. The Featured Demonstrations and other Interactive Demonstrations will be available during the Wednesday evening Demonstration Session. The demonstrations will be exhibited at regular intervals by their creators. Time will also be provided for personal interaction with the systems. -------------------------------------------------------- Interactive Demonstrations: 7:00 pm -- 10:00 pm 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 a nd high-level controls G. Pacifici, M.C. Chan, and Rolf Stadler, Columbia University =================== VIDEO PROGRAM AND CONFERENCE VIDEOTAPE A collection of videotapes demonstrating multimedia systems and ideas has been selected based on technical content and relevance to the conference themes. These videotapes have been assembled into the conference videotape, which will be presented during the conference in the demonstrations area and over the television system in the conference hotel. In addition, the videotape will be available for purchase at the conference. The conference videotape is an important component of the conference because it allows you to see a range multimedia systems in action. =================== EXHIBITS PROGRAM ACM Multimedia'95 is vital for the entire spectrum of progressive executives, managers, investors, researchers, designers/developers, technical staff, software engineers, educators, and artists working in any and all aspects of state-of-the-art multimedia research, development, and production -- the individuals who choose the products and technologies to be used in every major university and industrial research setting. More than one-half of Multimedia attendees recommend, specify, or approve purchases of the products and services represented. Businesses have a unique opportunity to reach these individuals through the Multimedia '95 exhibits program. Cost of space for Exhibitors in Exhibit Hall is $15.00 per square foot. Minimum space requirement is 80 square feet (8' x 10'). Exhibitors receive one complimentary full registration per company. Cost of space for Publishers in Publishers' Row is $12.00 per square foot. Sales of all types re restricted to Publishers' Row. Sponsorships and advertising are available to Exhibitors only. Exhibit Days are November 7 and 8, Tuesday and Wednesday. For further details contact: Don Collier DC Expositions, Inc. 555 Republic Drive, Suite 316, Plano, TX 75074 Phone: +1-214-423-4286 Fax: +1-214-423-4323 E-mail: dcexpo@aol.com ================== CONFERENCE RECEPTION The ACM Multimedia'95 Committee cordially invites you to a welcome reception on Tuesday, November 7th at the Center for the Arts Forum located at the Yerba Buena Gardens, 401 Mission Street, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM. Come meet and greet your colleagues and catch up on the latest technology or just enjoy the beautiful Gardens that Yerba Buena is noted for. Refer to http://www.hia.com/hia/yerbabuena/ca-home.html for more information on Yerba Buena Gardens. We look forward to seeing you there. ================== CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Early registration date and cancellation date: October 8, 1995 Conference registration: EARLY LATE ----- ---- ACM members: $385 $455 non-members: 485 555 students: 125 195 Single Tutorial: EARLY LATE ----- ---- ACM members: $240 $265 non-members: 285 310 Multiple Tutorial: EARLY LATE ----- ---- ACM members: $185 $205 non-members: 220 240 For registration information, contact ACM Multimedia'95 Danieli & O'Keefe Associates, Inc 490 Boston Post Road Sudbury, MA 01776 Tel: +1-508-443-3330 x1230 or +1-800-524-1851 x1230 Fax: +1-508-443-4715 Completed registration forms must be mailed or faxed with payment in US dollars to: ACM Multimedia'95 Danieli & O'Keefe Associates, Inc 490 Boston Post Road Sudbury, MA 01776 Fax: +1-508-443-4715 Payment may be made by check or the following credit cards: AMEX, MC, Visa ================== GENERAL INFORMATION For an up-to-date information about the ACM Multimedia'95, refer to the World Wide Web page: http://acm.org/MM95/ or contact Judy Osteller ACM 1515 Broadway New York, NY 10036 Phone: +1-212-626-0605 Fax: +1-212-302-5826 E-mail: osteller@acm.org =================== HOTEL RESERVATIONS The host hotel for ACM Multimedia'95 is: The Hyatt Regency San Francisco 5 Embarcadero Center San Francisco, CA 94111 +1-415-788-1234 +1-800-233-1234 Room Rates: Single: $145.00 Double: $167.00 Business Plan Single: $162.00 Business Plan Double: $182.00 Triple Rooms: $187.00 Quad Rooms: $207.00 You must mention Multimedia'95 to receive the special conference rate. It is recommended that you make your reservations before October 8, 1995. Guests of the Hyatt Regency San Francisco have use of the in-hotel fitness center with aerobic equipment, as well as a waterfront path for walking and jogging. =========== AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION The Hyatt Regency is about 20 minutes from the airport. Taxi service costs approximately $30.00. SFO Airporter shuttles leave the airport every 10-20 minutes with service to the Hyatt at a cost of $8.00 one way; $14.00 round trip. For further information on the SFO Airporter, call +1-415-495-8404. ================== AIR TRANSPORTATION United Airlines serves San Francisco with both national and international flights. Special rates are available to conference participants flying between November 2 and November 12, 1995. These rates include a 5% discount on any United, United Express or United Shuttle published fare in the US and Canada or a l0% discount on business class or like fares. All tickets must be purchased a minimum of 7 days in advance. Reservations and schedule information may be obtained by calling the United Meetings Desk at +1-800-521-4041. Please refer to special meeting ID Code: 589KA. The meeting desk hours are Monday through Sunday, 7:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. Eastern Time. =================== CAR RENTAL DISCOUNTS United is also offering car rental discounts of 10% through AVIS and ALAMO. You may make reservations by using the United Meeting Desk number at +1-800-521-4041 and referring to Meeting ID Code: 589KA. AVIS has a rental office located at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, headquarters for ACM Multimedia'95. ================ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Chair Polle T. Zellweger, Xerox PARC Associate Chairs David P. Anderson, Sonic Solutions, USA Florian Brody, Institute of Advanced Communications, Austria Art Center College of Design, USA Dick C.A. Bulterman, CWI, Netherlands Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University, USA Ralf Guido Herrtwich, IBM Eurocoordination Multimedia, France Hiroshi Ishii, NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Japan Thomas D.C. Little, Boston University, USA Wendy Mackay, Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge, UK Vicki de Mey, Apple Computer, USA A. Desai Narasimhalu, National University of Singapore Jonathan Rosenberg, c|net, USA Eve M. Schooler, California Institute of Technology, USA Brian Smith, Cornell University, USA William Tetzlaff, IBM Yorktown, USA Harrick Vin, University of Texas at Austin, USA Abel Weinrib, Intel, USA Nicole Yankelovich, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA Members David Boyer, Bellcore, USA M. Cecelia Buchanan, Washington State University, USA John Buford, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA Tom Calvert, Simon Fraser University, Canada Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, USA Gino Cheng, USC, USA Tzi-cker Chiueh, SUNY Stony Brook, USA Jon Crowcroft, UCL, UK Asit Dan, IBM Yorktown, USA Roger Dannenberg, CMU, USA Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Lab, USA Jim Foley, Georgia Tech, USA Mark E. Frisse, Washington University, USA J.J. Garcia-Luna, UC Santa Cruz, USA Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Arif Ghafoor, Purdue, USA Arding Hsu, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Ramesh Jain, UC San Diego, USA Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina, USA Randy Kaplan, Educational Testing Service, USA Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University, USA Bryan Lyles, Xerox PARC, USA Mark Manasse, DEC SRC, USA Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Derek McAuley, Cambridge University, UK Bernard Merialdo, Institut EURECOM, France Beth Mynatt, Georgia Tech, USA Roy Rada, University of Liverpool, UK P. Venkat Rangan, UC San Diego, USA David Redell, DEC SRC, USA Norbert Streitz, GMD-IPSI, Germany Dan Swinehart, Xerox PARC, USA David Tennenhouse, MIT, USA Laura Teodosio, BAM! Software, Inc., USA Michael Zyda, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
- no subject (file transmission) Rajiv Mehrotra