3rd International Conference COMMUNICATING BY IMAGE AND MULTIMEDIA BORDEAUX - FRANCE Palais des Congres d'Arcachon 20-22 Mai/May 1996 Programme Avec le parrainage de/Supported by : UER : Union Europeenne de Radio-Television EBU : European Broadcasting Union Organisee par/Organised by : SEE : Societe des Electriciens et des Electroniciens IREST : Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales sur les Telecommunications ADERA : Association pour le Developpement de l'Enseignement et des Recherches aupres des Universites, des Centres de Recherche et des Entreprises d'Aquitaine With the backing of France Telecom >Monday May 20 >9:30 a.m. SESSION INAUGURALE/OPENING SESSION >10:00 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESSES BY : S. matsumoto - NTT - Japan T. SWANENBURG - PHILIPS - The Netherlands J.F. LATOUR - FRANCE TELECOM - France 12:00 p.m. Dejeuner/Lunch >1:30 p.m. SESSION 1 : Knowledge Extraction and Recognition Looking at People in Action : Y. YACOOB - USA Real-time 3-D Tracking of the Human Body : A. AZARBAYEJANI - USA 3D Object Recognition from Geometric Queries : F. FLEURET - France Fast and Robust Signal Recognition for Smart Retina : B. COLLIN - France >3:30 p.m. SESSION 2 : Image Analysis and Retrieval Generalized Matching for Recognition and Retrieval in an Image Database : C. NASTAR - France Image Retrieval Using Local Characterization : C. SCHMID - France Construction of 3D Models from a Mobile Camera : P. ROBERT - France Complex Data Structures : Analysis and Interaction : A. BIANCARDI - Italy >5:30 p.m. SESSION POSTER/POSTER SESSION La liste sera publiee dans le programme complet /The list of papers will appear in the full programme 7:00 p.m. Reception a l'Hotel de Ville/Reception at the Town Hall 8:30 p.m. Soiree Image de Synthese en collaboration avec l'INA/Computer Images Show organised in collaboration with INA >Tuesday May 21 >8:30 a.m. KEYNOTE BY : I. CHILDS - BBC - UK >9:15 a.m. SESSION 3 : Advanced Audiovisual Coding MPEG-4-SDL : Status of a New Approach for Audio-visual Representation and Standardisation : G. EUDE - France MPEG-4 Coding and its Prospects for Audio-Visual Communication : P. KAUFF - Germany MPEG-4 : Video Coding, an Object-based Representation allowing more Interactivity : I. CORSET - France Still and Moving Pictures Compression by Means of Fractal Adaptive Transformations : A. MECOCCI - Italy >11:30 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY : J. TIERNAN - Consultant - USA 12:15 p.m. Dejeuner/Lunch >2:00 p.m. SESSION 4A : Motion Processing Implementation of an Efficient Motion Estimator for MPEG2 Applications :A. LE TOQUIN - France Adaptive Motion Compensation Using Hierarchical Segmentation for Region-Based Coding : N. KIM - South Korea Motion Estimation and Compensation for Very Low Bit-rate Video Coding through Model-Based Parametric Systems : L. SALGADO - Spain Self-Adaptive Evolution to Identify Structure from Motion : J. LOUCHET - France Detecting Rotating Regions in Image Sequences : J. LOUCHET - France >2:00 p.m. SESSION 4B : Network Architecture and Multiplexing Compliance-A New Requirement in MPEG Marketplace : M. KAR - USA Enhanced Services for World-wide Web in Mobile WAN Environment : K. RAATIKAINEN - Finland Hybrid ARQ/FEC Approach for Video Signal Transmission over ATM : M. EYVAZKHANI - France Wireless Multimedia : A. AHIJADO - Spain Translation Gateway for Videoconferencing Systems : B. COUSIN - France >4:00 p.m. SESSION 5A : Production Nice and Live Pictures on Large Screens, or an Example of HD System for the Coverage of a Big Sport Event : J. MARCO - France Vision-Steered Audio for Interactive Environments : S. BASU - USA Synchronization of Virtual Camera with TV Studio Camera in Real Time : Y. LUO - Spain Travelling 3-D Models : A. ROSSET - France Experiments on Objective Measurement of Television Picture Quality : J. MARKER - Germany >4:00 p.m. SESSION 5B : Servers and Storage A framework for CSCW Using CORBA : D. SONG - South Korea Multiversion Representation of Virtual Reality in Databases : K.WALCZAK - USA Prefiguration of Near Video on Demand Server : C. GERARD - France Restoration of Old Movie Film by Digital Image Processing : L.ROSENTHALER - Switzerland Soiree de Gala dans un chateau du vignoble bordelais offert par FRANCE TELECOM/Gala Evening in a chateau in the Bordeaux vineyard courtesy of FRANCE TELECOM. Wednesday May 22 >8:30 a.m. SESSION 6 : Services What Future for Multimedia Services : Users Will Decide... and Service Operators Should be Ready : J. HANNEBELLE - France Activities of Deutsche Telekom on Interactive Video Service with Focus on Multimedia Server Design : W. RUPPEL - Germany Mediation for Personalized Interactive Video On Demand Applications in Multimedia Home Services : Y. ABIZA - France MEDIABASE : A Distributed Broadband Multimedia Information System : A. KARMOUCH - France >10:30 a.m. SESSION 7A : Image Analysis for Coding and Machine Vision Boundary Detection in Textured Images Using Markov Random Fields Modelling : P. NUNES - Portugal Shape Recognition by Means of Boundary Modal Matching : P. GAMBA - Italy Image Sequence Segmentation Techniques Using Depth, Motion and Edge Information : S. MALASSIOTIS - Greece A Useful Tool for Mobil Robotic Vision : a Multi-object Tracker : S. NAUDET - France Enhancement of Image Quality for Low Bit Rate Video Coding : C. DERVIAUX - France >10:30 a.m. SESSION 7B : Medical Applications Segmentation of Cells with Neurites in Cytological Images : F. CLOPPET-OLIVA - France Completely Automatic Digital Overlay of Retinal Fluorescein Angiograms : P. BUNEL - France Two and Three-Dimensional Processing of Medical Images on a Personal Computer : N. LASUDRY - Belgium Automatic Recognition and Extraction Techniques applied to X-Ray Mammography Screening : S. MAKRAM-EBEID - France 12:30 p.m. Dejeuner/Lunch >2:00 p.m. INVITED SPEAKER : Ph. SOEIRO - INA - France >2:45 p.m. SESSION 8A : 3-D Image Acquisition and Processing Method for Getting Range Information from Fluctuating Focus Images : T. MIYATA - Japan Image Matching Using Dynamic Programming : Application to Sterovision and Image Interpolation : G. QUENOT - France Explicit and Incremental Self-calibration of an Animate Binocular Sensor : V. CHARVILLAT - France Image Reconstruction and Interpolation in Trinocular Vision : J.L. DUGELAY - France >2:45 p.m. SESSION 8B : Applications and User Interface An Authoring Tool for Semi-structured Hypermedia Medical Cases on the World Wide Web : V.DELLA MEA - Italy Communicating by PWP : Pixels, Words and Phonemes : V. CANTONI - Italy Integration of Speech and Facial Animation in Human Computer Interfaces : H. KABRE - France Modeling and Management of Manufacturing Distributed Multimedia Applications : T. DIVOUX - France Recherche et Developpement d'Algorithmes de Rendu Realiste dans le Cadre d'une Cooperation Analyse/Synthese : S. BOIVIN - France 5:00 p.m. Fin de la conference/End of the Conference Conference outline The last few years have seen some technological and normative breakthroughs in the field of image computing and graphics as well as multimedia networking. New perception and recognition techniques close to robotics together with convergence of image creation, analysis and representation techniques are leading to new developments in multimedia production and services. The access to digitised image, sound and data from the workplace and from the home relies on increasingly smarter bearer services. As added value is transferred towards production and services, strategic alliances are being built to take advantage of the multiplication of the distribution channels and media. User access is being made easier, more intuitive, by means of smarter, knowledge-based approaches. Fast retrieval of essential information and browsing ever increasing amounts of information require smart intelligent guides, software and agents, as well as multimodal interfaces. Correspondingly, adequate development of network infrastructure, architecture and protocols is essential. This third issue of the IMAGE'COM provides a forum to monitor and anticipate the developments that make multimedia applications possible, to exchange information and results on recent work, and to help cross-fertilisation of image and communication research activities. The topics addressed range from production to services and user interface. Particular emphasis is put on picture aspects, for advanced coding as well as knowledge extraction purposes. Some applications are presented. Comite international International Steering Committee President/Chairman : T. SWANENBURG PHILIPS INTERNATIONAL B.V. - Pays-Bas/The Netherlands Vice-President/Vice Chairman : D. WOOD UNION EUROPEENNE DE RADIODIFFUSION - Geneve/Geneva Secretaire/Secretary : C. PENN ALCATEL/CIT - CEE - France/France Membres/Members : M. BELLANGER CNAM - France/France I. CHILDS BBC - Royaume Uni/UK K. FAZEKAS UNIVERSITY OF BUDAPEST - Hongrie/Hungary P. KAHL DEUTSCHE TELEKOM - Allemagne/Germany J. SABATIER THOMSON - France/France Mme C. SCHMUCK BULL - France/France Mme C. SCHWARTZ FRANCE TELECOM - France/France J.L. TEJERINA RETEVISION - Espagne/Spain J. TIERNAN CONSULTANT - Etats-Unis/USA Programme Committee President/Chairman : M. DUPIRE FRANCE TELECOM - France/France Vice-Presidents/Vice Chairmen : A. GAGALOWICZ INRIA - France/France N. GARCIA UNIV. POLITECNICA de MADRID - Espagne/Spain Secretaire/Secretary : D. NASSE FRANCE TELECOM - France/France Membres/Members : V. CANTONI PAVIA UNIV. - Italie/Italy Mme F. COLAITIS FRANCE TELECOM - France/France G. EUDE FRANCE TELECOM - France/France H. HAMMAINEN NOKIA - Finlande/Finland C. JUDICE BELL ATLANTIC - Etats-Unis/USA D. LECOMTE ALCATEL BS - France/France Y.M. LE PANNERER TBS - France/France H. MAITRE ENST - France/France B. MERIALDO EUROCOM INSTITUTE - France/France N. NAFFAH BULL - France/France S. OKUBO GRAPHIC COMUNICATION LAB. - Japon/Japan A. PENTLAND MIT MEDIA LAB - Etats-Unis/USA F. PEREIRA INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO - Portugal/Portugal P. QUEAU INA - France/France A. RENAULT SEMA GROUP TELECOM - France/France J. ROSSIGNAC IBM T.J. WATSON Research Center - Etats-Unis/USA J.L. SANCEY SAT - France/France R. SCHAFER HEINRICH-HERTZ-INSTITUT - Allemagne/Germany L. STENGER DEUTSCHE TELEKOM - Allemagne/Germany M. STRINTZIS UNIV. THESSALONIKI - Grece/Greece P. STUCKI ETH - Suisse/Switzerland S. TANIMOTO UNIV. of WASHINGTON - Etats-Unis/USA P.J.W. TEN HAGEN CWI - Pays-Bas/The Netherlands L. TORRES UNIV. POLITECNICA de CATALUNYA - Espagne/Spain C. VEYRES FRANCE TELECOM - France/France B. ZAVIDOVIQUE UNIV. D'ORSAY - France/France Organising Committee Membres d'honneurs/Honour Members : P. CONRUYT FRANCE TELECOM - France/France J. GENINET PHILIPS EGP - France/France M. TREHEUX FRANCE TELECOM - France/France President/Chairman : J. POUFET FRANCE TELECOM - France/France Secretaire/Secretary J. RIVENC ADERA - France/France Membres/Members : L. HUMBERT UNIVERSITE BORDEAUX III - France/France H. LAVOLE SEE/Gr. AQUITAINE - France/France R. POUGHEON BULL - France/France Mme F. SCARABIN FRANCE TELECOM - France/France J.P. SIMON FRANCE TELECOM - France/France R. VEILEX FRANCE TELECOM - France/France K. WOLFGARTEN IREST - France/France Conferences precedentes / Previous conference venues Les dernieres conferences Image'Com, en 1990 et 1993, ont eu lieu a Bordeaux (France). En 1993, Image'Com etait placee sous le haut patronage de l'Union Europeenne de Radio-Television (UER). L'IEEE ainsi que douze societes internationales ont, en outre, offert leur parrainage. The 1990 and 1993 venues of the IMAGE'COM conference were held in BORDEAUX (France). In 1993, IMAGE'COM was supported by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The IEEE, as well as twelve international scientific societies, have also offered their sponsorship. Exposition / Exhibition - Demonstration and exhibition equipment are welcome. - Proposals should be addressed to the conference secretariat. - A room will be made available for the exhibits. Parrainages sollicites /In cooperation with EUREL - Federation des Societes Nationales des Ingenieurs Electriciens de l'Europe - Convention of National Societies of Electrical Engineers of Europe. IEEE Communications Society - Etats-Unis/USA. Associazione Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica Italiana - Italie/Italy. Association Suisse des Electriciens - SEV - Suisse/Switzerland. IEE - The Institution of Electrical Engineers - Royaume Uni/UK. Observatoire Mondial des Systemes de Communication - OMSYC - France/France. Osterreichischer Verband fur Elektrotechnik - Autriche/Austria. Scientific Society for Telecommunication - Hongrie/Hungary. Union Radio Scientifique Internationale - URSI - Belgique/Belgium. Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker - VDE - Allemagne/Germany. A confirmer/To be confirmed : Nederlands Elektronica-en Radio Genootshap - NERG-Pays-Bas/The Netherlands. Stowarzyszenie Elektrykow Polskich - Pologne/Poland.