Time/Date

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

Thursday, October 5, 2006

Friday, October 6, 2006

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM

Breakfast

Breakfast

Breakfast

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM

Opening

Who: Li Deng; Where: Crystal Ballroom

8:15 AM – 9:15 AM

 

 

 

 

Keynote

The role of signal proc. in the multimedia com-munication revolution

Who: L. Rabiner

Where: Crystal Ballroom

 

 

 

 

Keynote

Getting Internet video ready for prime time

Who:  B. Girod

Where: Crystal Ballroom

 

 

 

 

 

Keynote

Advances in mobile computing

Who: Y-Q. Zhang

Where: Crystal Ballroom

 

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM

 

 

 

Overview

Managing spoken documents

Who: M. Ostendorf

Where: Crystal Ballroom

Poster session (1)

* Speech & audio

* Smart cameras, vision & graphics

* Feature extraction, fusion & classif

* Person & activity rec.

Where: Palm Court

Overview

Advances in scalable video compression

Who: J-R. Ohm

Where: Crystal Ballroom

Poster session (2)

* Robust video coding, security & visual qual.

* Image enh.,  segm., interpolation

* Software & hardware implementations

Where: Palm Court

Overview

Network coding for the Internet and wireless networks

Who: P. Chou

Where: Crystal Ballroom

Poster session (3)

* Video coding & streaming

* Image analysis & applications

* Multimedia apps.

Where: Palm Court

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

10:30 AM – 11:50 AM

 

Oral session (1)

Robust sensing and video coding

Where: Crystal Ballroom

 

Poster session (1)

 

Oral session (4)

Scalable & interactive coding & transmission of animation/graphics

Where: Crystal Ballroom

Poster session (2)

 

Oral session (6)

Topics in multimedia signal processing

Where: Crystal Ballroom

Poster session (3)

 

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch break

Lunch break

Lunch break

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

Overview

Facial image synthesis, analysis and recognition

Who: D. Terzopoulos

Where: Crystal Ballroom

Poster session (1)

 

 

Overview

Smart surveillance

Who: A. Senior

Where: Crystal Ballroom

Poster session (2)

 

 

Overview

Capturing & rendering 3D auditory and visual scenes

Who: R. Duraiswami

Where: Crystal Ballroom

Poster session (3)

 

2:15 PM – 3:35 PM

 

Oral session (2)

Face, person and action recognition

Where: Crystal Ballroom

 

Oral session (5)

Quantization & learning

Where: Crystal Ballroom

Panel 2: Similarities and diffs - audio/speech and image/video processing

Moderator: T. Pappas

Where: Crystal Ballroom

3:35 PM – 4:00 PM

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Oral (special) session (3):

Multimodal sensing and data fusion for interactive media

Where:  Crystal Ballroom

Poster session (1)

 

 

Panel 1: Audio-visual bimodal fusion

Moderators: H. Meng, G.  Potamianos

Where: Crystal Ballroom

Poster session (2)

Wrap-up session

Who: Technical Chairs

Where: Crystal Ballroom

Poster session (3)

 

 

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM

 

 

 

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

 

MMSP-TC meeting

Where: Crystal Ballroom

 

7 PM - midnight

Other meetings

Banquet

Keynote A Personal History of Perceptual Coding

Who: JJ. Johnston

Where: Crystal Ballroom