Session MM1

Audio and Systems

9:00am – 10:30am

Chair:
Joern Ostermann

Fast Encoding Algorithms for MPEG-4 TwinVQ Audio Tool

Naoki Iwakami, Takehiro Moriya, Akio Jin, Takeshi Mori, and Kazuaki Chikira

Compiling MPEG-4 Structured Audio into C

John Lazzaro and John Wawrzynek

Converting Flash Shockwave to MPEG-4 BIFS

Aaron Lee, Mikael Bourges-Sevenier, and Ganesh Rajan

Session MM2

Authoring

11:00am – 12:30pm

Chair:
Jean-Claude Dufourd

Adding Delivery Support to MPEG-PRO, an Authoring System for MPEG-4

Frederic Bouilhaguet, Cyril Concolato, Souhila Boughoufalah, Jean-Claude Dufourd

Development of an Interactive Contents Authoring System for MPEG-4

Won-Sik Cheong, Hyun-cheol Kim, Kwang Yong Kim, Myoung Ho Lee, and Jinwoong Kim

The Design and Implementation of a Visual MPEG-4 Scene-Authoring Tool

Meng-Jyi Shieh, Kuo-Luen Perng, and Wen-Chin Chen

Implementing Virtual Studios in MPEG-4

Peter Woodward, Yakup Paker, and Alan Permain

Session MA1

Complexity and Architecture

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Chair:
Fernando Pereira

Evaluating MPEG-4 Video Decoding Complexity

João Valentim, Paulo Nunes, and Fernando Pereira

The MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile – a Complexity Study

H. -J. Stolberg, M. Berekovic, P. Pirsch, and H. Runge

Architecture Design, System Implementation, and Applications of MPEG-4 Systems

Yi-Shin Tung and Ja-Ling Wu

MPEG-4 Encoder Architecture for a Shape Segmentation CNN Chip

Lauri Koskinen, Ari Paasio, Asko Kananen, and Kari Halonen

Session MA2

Object Coding

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Chair:
Ming-Ting Sun

An MPEG-4 Virtual Video Conferencing System with Robust Video Object Segmentation

Jinhui Pan, Chuang Gu, and Ming-Ting Sun

Parameter Analysis and Synthesis for MPEG4 Facial Animation

Lu Yu, Jingyu Zhang, and Wanwei Gong

Object-Based Encoding: Next-Generation Video Compression

Thomas M. Strat

Object base compression (MPEG-4) with very low bandwidth

Hagai Folkman

Reception

6:00pm – 8:30pm

Session TM

Tutorials on MPEG-4 Systems

9:00am – 12:30pm

Olivier Avaro, Carsten Herpel, Jean-Claude Dufourd, Guido Franceschini

Session TA1

Tutorials on MPEG-4 Visual

2:00pm – 5:30pm

Thomas Sikora and Touradj Ebrahimi

Session TA2

Tutorials on MPEG-4 Audio

2:00pm – 5:30pm

Karlheinz Brandenburg, Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre, Riita Väänänen

Banquet

7:00pm – 11:00pm

Session WM1

Encoding Optimization

9:00am – 10:30am

Chair:
Liang-Gee Chen

Model Based Multi-Pass Macroblock-Level Rate Control for Visually Improved Video Coding

Sriram Sethuraman and Ravi Krishnamurthy

Object-Level Bit Allocation and Scalable Rate Control for MPEG-4 Video Coding

Zhihai He, Yong Kwan Kim, and Sanjit K. Mitra

An Efficient Motion Estimation Algorithm for Real-Time MPEG-4 Video Encoding on Multimedia Processor

Shyh-Yih Ma, Chun-Fu Shen, and Liang-Gee Chen

Real-Time Software Based MPEG-4 Video Encoding

Weiguo Zheng, Ishfaq Ahmad, and Ming L. Liou

Session WM2

Scalable Coding and Transcoding

11:00am – 12:30pm

Chair:
 Shipeng Li

Overview of Streaming Video Profile Amendment in MPEG-4 Video Standard

Weiping Li

Comparisons between the One-Loop and Two-Loop Solutions for Improving the Coding Efficiency of FGS

Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, Xiaoyan Sun, Rong Yan, and Ya-Qin Zhang

MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 Transcoding

Wang Xing Guo, W. G. Zheng, and Ishfaq Ahmad

Motion Vector Re-Estimation for Fast Video Transcoding from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4

Junichi Nakajima, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Yoshiyuki Yashima, and Naoki Kobayashi

Session WA1

Video

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Chair:
Anthony Vetro

Robust Decoding for Reduced Error Propagation of DC/AC Prediction Errors

Ximin Zhang, Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun, and Yun-Qing Shi

MPEG-4 Video CODEC on an ARM Core and AMBA

J. H. Park, I.K.Kim, S.M.Kim, S.M.Park, B.T.Koo, K.S.Shin, K.B.Seo and J.J.Cha

Frame-Rate Adaptation and Bi-Directional Coding for Video Sequences

Buisson Alexandre and Nathalie Laurent

Performance of MPEG-4 Profiles Used for Streaming Video

Ajay Luthra, Rajeev Gandhi, Krit Panusopone, Kevin Mckoen, David Baylon, Limin Wang

Session WA2

Panel Session
MPEG-4: Reality or Fiction?

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Chair
Rob Koenen

The panel will investigate which parts of the MPEG-4 toolbox are real, and which are (still?) fiction.  Specific questions are:
·    Which parts will be used in actual systems,
·    Which types of services will use MPEG-4 technology in upcoming products?
·    What do the next generation products look like?
·    How does industry see MPEG-4 services evolve?
·    What is needed to speed up fast adoption of MPEG-4?

Karlheinz Brandenburg (Fraunhofer)
Toshio Miki (DoCoMo)
Robert Bleidt (Philips Consumer Electronics)
Julien Signès (Envivio)