Thirteenth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN'06)

January 18-19, 2006, San Jose, California (part of Electronic Imaging Symposium as EI120)
Sponsored by SPIE and IS&T
In cooperation with ACM Multimedia

The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners contributing to all facets of multimedia computing and networking. We especially encourage full and original papers on emerging technologies such as residential broadband networks and digital appliances, multimedia and QoS support for 3G and ad hoc networks, multimedia in P2P environments, sensor networks and grids, power-aware computing and communications, mobile and fixed wireless multimedia networks and content distribution networks. We will specially feature industrial design experiences and showcase tools for next-generation multimedia systems and applications. Presenters are encouraged to make multimedia presentations and demonstrate their solutions in person.

TOPICS

Papers are solicited in all areas of multimedia, including, but not limited to:

  • Multimedia Networking
    • home, mobile and broadband networks
    • QoS control and scheduling
    • push technologies, content distribution and other emerging access technologies
    • Internet data streaming, delivery and wide-area caching
    • sensor networks for multimedia
    • grid use for multimedia
  • Measurement and Modeling
    • performance measurement of multimedia systems
    • statistical modeling of server traffic and server software
    • multimedia system simulations and benchmark comparison
  • Multimedia Computing
    • multimedia OS services
    • power-aware systems
    • video-on-demand services
    • peer-to-peer media systems
    • developments tools
  • Case Studies and Applications
    • entertainment and networked games
    • distributed virtual reality
    • multimedia authoring

PROGRAM

Wednesday 18 January

SESSION 1: Application-dependent Transfer

Chair: Scott Brandt
Time: 9:30 - 12:30
Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00

The effects of frame rate and resolution on users playing first person shooter games,
M. Claypool, K. Claypool, F. Damaa

Real-time 3D video compression for tele-immersive environments,
Z. Yang, Y. Cui, Z. Anwar, R. Bocchino, N. Kiyanclar, K. Nahrstedt, R. H. Campbell, W. J. Yurcik

An integrated visual approach for music indexing and dynamic playlist composition,
M. Crampes, S. Ranwez, F. Velickovski, C. Mooney, N. Mille

Efficient rate-distortion optimized media streaming for tree-reducible packet dependencies,
M. Röder, J. Cardinal, R. Hamzaoui

Popular song and lyrics synchronization and its application to music information retrieval,
K. Chen, S. Gao, Y. Zhu, Q. Sun

SESSION 2: Streaming

Chair: Pascal Frossard
Time: 14:00 - 16:00

MMS: a multihome-aware media streaming system,
A. Habib, J. Chuang

Streamline: a scheduling heuristic for streaming applications on the grid,
B. Agarwalla, N. Ahmed, D. Hilley, U. Ramachandran

A novel unbalanced multiple description coder for robust video streaming over ad hoc wireless networks,
F. Huang, L. Sun, Y. Zhong

A transform for network calculus and its application to multimedia networking,
K. Pandit, J. Schmitt, C. Kirchner, R. Steinmetz

Panel Discussion: Multimedia Sensors: Technological and Societal Challenges

Chair: Roger Zimmermann
Time: 16:30 - 17:30
Panelists:

  • Wu-chi Feng, Portland State University (bio)
  • Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (bio)
  • Tom Malzbender, HP Labs (bio)
  • Hanning Zhou, FXPAL (bio)

Thursday 19 January

SESSION 3: Distribution

Chair: Andreas Mauthe
Time: 8:30 - 10:30

A method to deliver multi-object content in a ubiquitous environment,
T. Mori, M. Katsumoto

Correlation-aware multimedia content distribution in overlay networks,
Y. Zhu, B. Li

QBIX-G: a transcoding multimedia proxy,
P. Schojer, L. Boeszoermenyi, H. Hellwagner

Preventing DoS attacks in peer-to-peer media streaming systems,
W. G. Conner II, K. Nahrstedt, I. Gupta

SESSION 4: Keynote Presentation

Chair: Reze Rejaie
Time: 11:00 - 12:00

The Cell Processor
Keynote Speaker:

  • Klaus Hofrichter, Sony Computer Entertainment America (bio)

SESSION 5: Short Papers: Multimedia Systems

Chair: Nalini Venkatasubramanian
Time: 13:30 - 15:00

Investigating a stream synchronization middleware for the NEES MAST system,
J. C. Beyer, S. K. Chirravuri, D. H. Du

A performance model of effective memory management in HYDRA: a large scale data stream recording system,
K. Fu, R. Zimmermann

Sender-driven bandwidth differentiation for transmitting multimedia flows over TCP,
J. K. H. Lau, J. Y. B. Lee

FlexSplit: a workload-aware adaptive load balancing strategy for media cluster,
Q. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, E. Smirni

Cascades: scalable, flexible, and composable middleware for multimodal sensor networking applications,
J. Huang, W. Feng, N. Bulusu, W. Feng

Compression by indexing: an improvement over MPEG-4 body animation parameter compression,
S. Chattopadhyay, S. M. Bhandarkar, K. Li

SESSION 6: Peer-to-Peer

Chair: Krishna Pandit
Time: 15:30 - 17:30

DagStream: locality aware and failure resilient peer-to-peer streaming,
J. Liang, K. Nahrstedt

Characterizing files in the modern Gnutella network: a measurement study,
S. Zhao, D. Stutzbach, R. Rejaie

Sampling cluster endurance for peer-to-peer based content distribution networks,
V. Darlagiannis, A. U. Mauthe, R. Steinmetz

How efficient is BitTorrent?,
G. Wu, T. Chiueh

REGISTRATION

Registration is handled by SPIE. You can go to the registration and program page or follow this shortcut to the login page for online registration or for downloading a form to be sent by fax.

The regular registration includes printed proceedings for one conference. You have to choose a conference number in that step. MMCN 2005 has the number 6071.

One author will have to register for the conference for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Note that not only SPIE and IS&T members can claim discount rates. Since the event is held in cooperation with ACM Multimedia, ACM SIG MM members can claim them.

The registration system may not support reduced fees based on ACM membership smoothly. In case of questions, please refer to the following clause in the cooperation statement: "2) Registration and proceedings fees will be the same for ACM members as for other sponsoring organizations, and there will be no differentiation in fees between academic and corporate participant registration fees".

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Early registration deadline: 15 December 2005
  • Electronic Imaging Conference dates: 18-19, January 2006

ORGANIZATION

Program Co-Chairs:

Technical Program Committee:

Publicity Co-Chairs:

For more information, please contact the conference co-chairs:Surendar Chandra and Carsten Griwodz