VCIP 2005 REPORT 

Conference Site

 

Visual Communications and Image Processing 2005 claimed great success at Beijing Friendship Hotel on July 12-15, 2005

 

VCIP 2005 (Visual Communications & Image Processing 2005) International Symposium was held with great success in Beijing Friendship Hotel from the 12th to the 15th of July, 2005.  More than 260 researchers, professors and students from 26 countries and regions in Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe, have attended the conference. Scholars and researchers spent three full days to freely share their innovative ideas on research, discuss on the latest developments in this field and debate what could be the next big things. The conference site was especially characterized by elegance, simplicity and grandeur. First class hotel service and professional meeting organization have paved the way for the smooth operation and effectiveness of the conference.

Key Data Highlights:

  • 540 paper submissions – the largest in VCIP history;
  • 241 accepted papers – the most in VCIP history;
  • 42% accept ratio – the lowest in VCIP history;
  • 50 technical sessions – the most in VCIP history;
  • Three keynote speeches featuring industrial and academic leaders;
  • One tutorial on state of the art of distributed video coding;
  • Two panel discussions debating controversial yet provoking new technologies and applications in scalable video coding and multi-view imaging;
  • Four special sessions covering the current hot topics of video coding standards, media protection and DRM, digital entertainment, and scalable video coding;
  • Two demo sessions showcasing state of the art research results from academy and industry;
  • Twenty high quality lecture sessions and eighteen in-depth poster sessions, most with six parallel sessions running concurrently;
  • Two best student paper awards and one young investigator award have been selected; and
  • An exciting bouquet evening with a best paper awards ceremony.

 

THE TUTORIAL & RECEPTION

 

Tutorial- Prof. Zixiang Xiong gave a comprehensive coverage on the theory and algorithmic design of distributed video coding.

Bio of Zixiang Xiong:

Dr. Xiong received an NSF Career Award in 1999, an ARO Young Investigator Award in 2000 and an ONR Young Investigator Award in 2001. He also received faculty fellow awards in 2001, 2002 and 2003 from Texas A&M University. He is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, and the IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. He is the presenter of tutorial on “Distributed Source Coding: Theory, Algorithms and Applications” at ICASSP'05.

Reception

Careful preparation and thoughtful arrangements made the conference check-in highly efficient and effective.  The reception held at Beijing Sigma Center rendered all the guests a big and warm welcome from one of the major conference host -- MSRA (Microsoft Research Asia). During the reception, Dr. Heung-Yeung Shum, managing director of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and Dr. Shipeng LI, research manager of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) gave a welcome speech and introduction to Microsoft Research Asia featuring some very cool research demos.

 

THE MAIN CONFERENCE AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

During the three-day main conference, over 260 representatives actively took part in over 50 technical sessions and key note speeches given by the experts in their fields. High quality dining and adequately prepared food & beverage kept everyone in high spirits for the duration of the conference.

Keynote 1 – Prof. Wen Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China):  Video Coding Tools – Performance and Cost Efficiency

Keynote 2 -  Prof. Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington (USA), Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft Corporation (USA):  Mobile Computing

Keynote 3 -  Dr. Gary J. Sullivan, Microsoft Corporation (USA):  The H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) Standard and its Enhancement Projects

 

THE POSTER AND DEMO SESSION

 

During VCIP2005, more than 130 posters and demos had been shown. It gives the participants adequate time to fully exchange their ideas.

 

THE BREAK OUT SESSION

 

The 3 parallel break out lecture sessions were always packed with audience in meeting rooms during 13th  to 15th of July

 

GRANT BANQUET

 

The status report of VCIP 2005 was presented by VCIP 2005 program chair Dr. Shipeng Li from MSRA. Three paper awards were conferred to the recipients.

The grand award banquet featured a traditional Chinese feast and specially arranged performances such as Peking Opera, which served as samples of traditional Chinese culture.  It deeply attracted foreign guests and made them appreciate the exclusive charm of Chinese culture. 
Free services such as broad-band Internet access, tourism consultation, etc., were available throughout the conference, which provided a lot convenience for the participants.

 

 

 

BEST PAPER AWARD

 

  • Best Student Paper Award: Ruiqin Xiong, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
    • Optimal Subband Rate Allocation for Highly Scalable Motion Aligned 3D Wavelet Video Coding, co-authored with Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, Microsoft Research Asia (China); Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft Corporation (USA)
  • Best Student Paper Award: Yunqiang Liu, Shanghai Jiaotong University (China)  
    • A Workload Adaptive Scheme for Zero-Delay Video-on-Demand Service, co-authored with Songyu Yu, Xiangwen Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University (China)
  • Young Investigator Award : Yu-Hsuan Ho, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan)  
    • Fast Coarse-to-fine Video Retrieval via Shot-level Statistics, co-authored with Chia-Wen Lin, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan); Jing-Fung Chen, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)

Those awards had been given at the grand VCIP 2005 Bouquet at Beijing Friendship Hotel on July 14 (Thursday), 2005

 

PANEL SESSION

 

Scalable Video Coding: Techniques and Applications

MODERATORS

    Inald Lagendijk, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)

PANELISTS

    Ralf Schäfer, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (Germany)

    Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico - Instituto de Telecomunicações (Portugal)

    Gary J. Sullivan, Microsoft Research (USA)

    Chang Wen Chen, Florida Institute of Technology (USA)

 

Multi-view Imaging: Sampling and Compression

MODERATORS

    Cha Zhang, Microsoft Research (USA)

    Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

PANELISTS

    Marcus Magnor, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik (Germany)

    Tien-Tsin Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)

    Takashi Matsuyama, Kyoto University (Japan)

    Wen Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

    Jiang Li, Microsoft Research Asia (China)

 

PUBLIC RELATIONSHIPS

 

HOSTED BY

Microsoft Research Asia

Department of Information Sciences
National Natural Science Foundation of China

Tsinghua University

Institute of Computing Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

　

TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORSHIPS BY

SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineerin

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

　

SPONSORED BY

Microsoft Research Asia

Department of Information Sciences
National Natural Science Foundation of China

NTT DoCoMo USA Labs

Ricoh Co., Ltd.

 

 

SPECIAL THANKS

 

The motto of “Considerate” mind and “Accommodating” is a key element that made VCIP 2005 conference a big hit.  We would like to extend out special thanks to all who have devoted themselves in making VCIP 2005 a great success. We thank you and commend you for the great work.

Organizing Committee

 

General Co-Chairs:
    Heung-Yeung Shum, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
     Andrew G. Tescher, AGT Associates (USA)
Program Co-Chairs:
    Shipeng Li, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
     Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Tecnico (Portugal)
Vice Program Chair:
     Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
Local Arrangement Chair:
    Yun He, Tsinghua Univ. (China)
     Feng Wu, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
Tutorial Co-Chairs:
     Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
     Kiyoharu Aizawa, Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
Demo Co-Chairs:
    Jiang Li, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
     Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
Publicity and International Liaison Chair
    Gary J. Sullivan, Microsoft Corp. (USA)
Liaison Chair for Europe
     Touradj Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
Special Session Co-Chairs
     John Apostolopoulos, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (USA)
     Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (USA)
Award Chair
     Majid Rabbani, Eastman Kodak Research Lab. (USA)
Facility Chair
     Ling Huang, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
Conference Secretary
     Weiwei Sun, Beijing Normal University (China)
Advisors
     Hong-Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
     Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft Corporation (USA)
     Zhiyong Liu, National Natural Science Foundation of China (China)
     Wen Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

 

 

 

Technical Program Committee


 

Kiyoharu Aizawa, Univ. of Tokyo
Rashid Ansari, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago
John Apostolopoulos, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Alan C. Bovik, Univ. of Texas/Austin
Chang Wen Chen, Florida Institute of Technology
Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan Univ.
Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Tihao Chiang, National Chiao Tung Univ.
Edward J. Delp, Purdue Univ.
Touradj Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Thomas R. Fischer, Washington State Univ.
Wen Gao, Institute of Computing Technology
Hsueh-Ming Hang, National Chiao Tung Univ.
Yun He, Tsinghua Univ.
Chiou-Ting Hsu, National Tsing Hua Univ.
Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia
Lance M. Kaplan, U.S. Army Research Laboratory 
Alex Kot, Nanyang Technological Univ.
C.C. Jay Kuo, Univ. of Southern California
Reginald L. Lagendijk, Delft Univ. of Tech.
Kenneth K. Lam, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.
Bo Li, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci.and Tech.
Jiang Li, Microsoft Research Asia
Shipeng Li, Microsoft Research Asia
Mark Liao, Institute of Applied Science and Engineering Research
Ching-Yung Lin, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Xinggang Lin, Tsinghua Univ.
Guan Ling, Ryerson Polytechnic Univ.
Kai-Kuang Ma, Nanyang Technological Univ.
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia
Jens-Rainer Ohm, Aachen Univ. of Technology
Naohisa Ohta, Sony Corp.
Antonio Ortega, Univ. of Southern California
Joern Ostermann, Univ. of Hannover
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State Univ.
William A. Pearlman, Rensselaer Polytech. Institute
Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Tecnico
Sarah A. Rajala, North Carolina State Univ.
Majid Rabbani, Eastman Kodak Research Lab.
Mihaela van der Schaar, Univ. of California/Davis
Thomas Sikora, Technical Univ. Berlin
Hwangjun Song, Hong-Ik Univ.
Gary J. Sullivan, Microsoft Corp.
Huifang Sun, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab.
Ming-Ting Sun, Univ. of Washington
A. Murat Tekalp, Univ. of Rochester
Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab.
John W. Woods, Rensselaer Polytech. Institute
Feng Wu, Microsoft Research Asia
Zixiang Xiong, Texas A&M Univ.
Bing Zeng,  Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech.
Qian Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia