Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining, 2007 International Workshop, MCAM 2007, Weihai, China, June 30-July 1, 2007, Proceedings Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI Series

Invited Contributions.- Multimedia Analysis by Learning.- Learning Concepts by Modeling Relationships.- Emerging Issues for Multimedia Analysis and Applications.- The Real Problem of Bridging the “Semantic Gap”.- Multimedia Ontology Based Computational Framework for Video Annotation and Retrieval.- Scalable Indexing for Perceptual Data.- Searching One Billion Web Images by Content: Challenges and Opportunities.- Challenges on Peer-to-Peer Live Media Streaming.- Video Streaming to Mobile Handheld Devices: Challenges in Decoding, Adaptation, and Browsing.- Fixed-Mobile Convergence, Streaming Multimedia Services, and Peer-to-Peer Communication.- Blind Passive Media Forensics: Motivation and Opportunity.- Security Models of Digital Watermarking.- Evolvement of DRM Schema: From Encryption to Interoperability and Monitoring.- Regular Contributions.- Shape Retrieval Based on the Relativity of Chain Codes.- 3D Motion Segmentation from Straight-Line Optical Flow.- A Fast Adaptive ME Algorithm Based on H.264.- Shared Latent Dynamical Model for Human Tracking from Videos.- Panoramic Video Coding Using Affine Motion Compensated Prediction.- Robust Bootstrapping of Speaker Models for Unsupervised Speaker Indexing.- Reversible Data Embedding Technique for Palette Images Using De-clustering.- The PT-2 Caching Algorithm in the Transcoding Proxy Cluster to Facilitate Adaptive Content Delivery.- Constructing and Application of Multimedia TV News Archives.- A Three-Level Scheme for Real-Time Ball Tracking.- Video Object Mining with Local Region Tracking.- Automatic Extraction of Semantic Relationships from Images Using Ontologies and SVM Classifiers.- A Robust Caption Detecting Algorithm on MPEG Compressed Video.- A Hybrid Approach for Authenticating MPEG-2 Streaming Data.- HOS-Based Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction.- Story Unit Segmentation with Friendly Acoustic Perception.- Decomposition in Hidden Markov Models for Activity Recognition.- Image Inpainting with Improved Exemplar-Based Approach.- Fingerprinting Codes for Live Pay-Television Broadcast Via Internet.- A New Type of Proxy Ring Signature Scheme with Revocable Anonymity and No Info Leaked.- The Research of an Embedded Processor Element for Multimedia Domain.- Speeding Up Scalar Multiplication Using a New Signed Binary Representation for Integers.- Color-Texture Image Segmentation by Combining Region and Photometric Invariant Edge Information.- Multimedia Authoring Tool for Real-Time Facial Animation.- Object Re-detection Using SIFT and MPEG-7 Color Descriptors.- Interactive Boosting for Image Classification.- FBSA: A Self-adjustable Multi-source Data Scheduling Algorithm for P2P Media Streaming.- An Optimized Topology Maintenance Framework for P2P Media Streaming.- Building Large Scale 3D Face Database for Face Analysis.- Senary Huffman Compression – A Reversible Data Hiding Scheme for Binary Images.- Managing and Searching Distributed Multidimensional Annotations with Large Scale Image Data.- A Closed-Form Solution of Reconstruction from Nonparallel Stereo Geometry Used in Image Guided System for Surgery.- SIEVE—Search Images Effectively Through Visual Elimination.- Virtual Community Based Secure Service Discovery and Access for 3D Video Steaming Applications.- QoS Adaptive Data Organizing and Delivery Framework for P2P Media Streaming.- Adaptive Interpolation for Error Concealment in H.264 Using Directional Histograms.- Players and Ball Detection in Soccer Videos Based on Color Segmentation and Shape Analysis.- Efficient Image Retrieval Using Conceptualization of Annotated Images.- 3-D Camera Modeling and Its Applications in Sports Broadcast Video Analysis.- Face Recognition by Matching 2D and 3D Geodesic Distances.- A Blind Watermarking Scheme Based on Visual Model for Copyright Security.- Fast Mode Decision by Exploiting Spatio-temporal Correlation in H.264.- SVM-Based Audio Classification for Content- Based Multimedia Retrieval.- Moving Object Tracking in H.264/AVC Bitstream.- A Prediction Error Compression Method with Tensor-PCA in Video Coding.- On the Robustness of Parametric Watermarking of Speech.