IEEE ISCE 2010 Conference Program

June 7, 2010

13:00    Conference opening

14:00    Keynote Prof. Dr. Juergen Leohold (Executive Director Group Research 

            Volkswagen AG): "In-Vehicle-Electronics - Looking Beyond the Power Train"

15:00    Coffee break

15:30    Session 7A: Automotive Entertainment and Information (Chair: Dr. Martin Weiser)

• A Post-filter for Wideband Speech Beamforming in Automotive Applications (Huajun Yu, Tim Fingscheidt)
• On Improving Speech Intelligibility in Automotive Hands-Free Systems (Patrick Bauer, Marc-André Jung, Junge Qi, Tim Fingscheidt)
• Feature-based Video Stabilization for Vehicular Applications (Keng-Yen Huang, Yi-Min Tsai, Chih-Chung Tsai, Liang-Gee Chen)
• A distributed in-vehicle service architecture using dynamically created Web Services (Jan Sonnenberg)
• A Model Driven Approach to Build High Effective and Ergonomic Mobile Business Applications (Jens Kinzel)
• Location-aware and Load-balanced Data Delivery at Road-side Units in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (Pham Tien)

15:30    Session 7B: User Interface and Human/Computer Interaction (Chair:Prof. Tomohiro Hase)

• New Type of Menu Interaction in Mobile Computing (Yaohua Yu, Zhengjie Liu)
• Synchronizing Multimodal User Input Information in a Modular Mobile Software Platform (Marius Spika)
• Human Body Communication System with FSBT (Hyung-il Park, In-Gi Lim, Sung Weon Kang, Whan Woo Kim)
• Automatic calibration and adaptation of HCI system (Jaromir Przybylo)
• Realistic Wearable Smart Insoles and Applications for Analysis of Calorie Consumption and Body Balance (Ho-Youl Jung)
• Infinity Point: Multi-device pointing systems evolution and review, and a framework to orchestrate human interaction device federation (Rod Walsh, Adrian J Hornsby, Ozgur Dedehayir)

17:30    End of Day 1

19:00    IEEE GOLD Social Event

June 8, 2010

09:00    Keynote Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg (Director Fraunhofer-Institute for Digital 

            Media Technology - IDMT): "New Frontiers in Audio Technology"

10:00    Coffee break

10:15    Session 8A: Video Quality Assessment 1 (Chair: Prof. Ulrich Reimers)

• A ghosting artifact detector for interpolated image quality assessment (Kai Berger, Christian Lipski, Christian Linz, Anita Sellent, Marcus Magnor)
• Impact of Adaptation Dimensions on Video Quality (Jens Brandt, Lars C Wolf )
• An Audiovisual Quality Model of Compressed Television Materials for Portable and Mobile Multimedia Applications (Alexander Peregudov, Eugenie Grinenko)

10:15    Session 8B: Mobile Communication (Chair: Prof. Thomas Kürner)

• An Implemented Parallel Rate Matching Algorithm for 3G LTE System (Dae-Soon Cho)
• Performance of LTE Linear MIMO Detectors: Achievable Data Rates and Complexity (Dragan Samardzija, Miloš Pilipović, Dusica Marijan, Jaroslav Farkas, Miodrag Temerinac)
• Multiple-Rate Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes for 4G Communication Systems (Tae Chol Shin, Moon Ho Lee)

11:15    Coffee break

11:30    Session 8C: Audio/Video Quality Assessment 2 (Chair: Prof. Christian Hentschel)

• EvalSVC - An evaluation platform for Scalable Video Coding transmission (Tien Anh Le)
• Estimating Perceived Audiovisual and Multimedia Quality - a Survey (Ulrich Reiter, Junyong You)
• Objective Video Quality Assessment of mobile Television Receivers (Stefan Gauss, Thomas Müller, Thorsten Roll, Jürgen Wünschmann, Albrecht Rothermel)

11:30    Session 8D: Security (Chair: Philipp Steckel)

• On Security Resilience in Consumer Electronic Environment (Wael Adi, Khaled Benkrid)
• AV Control with Personal Authentication (Yuta Uesugi, Takako Nonaka, Tomohiro Hase)
• Enhancement of the Complement of an Embedded Surveillance System with PIR Sensors and Ultrasonic Sensors (Y. W. Bai, Zong-Han Li, Zi-Li Xie)

12:30    Lunch break

13:30    Session 8E: Video Coding 1 (Chair: Prof. Mladen Berekovic)

• Frame-level Adaptive Variable Length Coding for MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (Sinwook Lee, Sunyoung Lee, Euee S. Jang)
• Multi-video Coding with Dense Correspondence Fields (Benjamin Meyer, Christian Lipski, Björn Scholz, Marcus Magnor)
• Optimized Temporal Scalability for H.264 based Codecs and its Applications to Video Conferencing (Hans L. Cycon, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch, Martin Winken, Detlev Marpe, Gabriel Hege, Mark Palkow)

13:30    Session 8F: RF and Wireless 1 (Chair: Dr. Dirk Jaeger)

• Wireless Feedback Cancellation for Leader-Based MAC Layer Multicast Protocols (Jochen Miroll, Zhao Li, Thorsten Herfet)
• Design of a Low Power Viterbi Decoder for Wireless Communication Applications (Chu YU)
• Detecting QoS Degradation in Wireless Networks to Assist Reliable Media Streaming (Timo Dammes, Christian Schilling, Ruediger Kays)

14:30    Coffee break

14:45    Session 8G: Video Coding 2 (Chair: Prof. Ulrich Reimers)

• A fast PDE algorithm using LOG based comparison threshold and dithering scan for real-time MPEG video coding (JongNam Kim)
• A Joint Multi Rate Optimization Framework for Video Adaptation in H.264/AVC (Mehdi Semsarzadeh, Mahmoud Reza Hashemi)
• Further Directional Search on Integer-pixel Variable Block Size Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC (Wan-Chi Siu, Pei-Kang Song)

14:45    Session 8H: RF and Wireless 2 (Chair: Prof. Lars Wolf)

• Wireless Networking in TV White Space Leveraging Wi-Fi (Lochan Verma, Daeyong Sim, Scott Seongwook Lee)
• Efficiency of Frame Aggregation in Wireless Multimedia Networks based on IEEE 802.11n (Oliver Hoffmann, Ruediger Kays)
• A Dynamic 60 GHz Radio Channel Model for System Level Simulations with MAC Protocols for IEEE 802.11ad (Martin Jacob, Christian Mbianke, Thomas Kürner)

15:45    Coffee break

16:15    Session 8I: Enabling Technologies 1 (Chair: Dr. Thomas Coughlin)

• An 80 mW Dual Video-Codec SoC for Seamless Playback of Digital Terrestrial Television and Mobile Broadcasting Services (Kenichi Iwata)
• SVG Engine Design and Optimization (Chia-Wei Chris Liao)
• A Novel Hybrid Pipeline Design Methodology on a Multi-Cores Streaming System for Multimedia Applications (Yu-Chi Su)
• Automated Development Tools for Linux USB Drivers (Kuan Jen Lin)

16:15    Session 8J: Object Detection and Content Understanding (Chair: Prof. Tim Fingscheidt)

• Generation of Electronic Program Guide for RF fed TV Channels by Recognizing the Channel Logo using Fuzzy Multifactor Analysis (Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Chandra Sekhar Agnuru)
• An Edge-Texture based Moving Object Detection for Video Content Based Application (Taskeed Jabid, Oksam Chae)
• Semantic MobileTiles: A Tool for Movie Content Understanding on Mobile Phones (Konstantin Glasman, Ben Falchuk)
• Automatic GUI Generation on AV Remote Control using Genetic Algorithm (Takanori Mori, Takako Nonaka, Tomohiro Hase )

17:35    End of Day 2

19:00    Evening Reception and Dinner

June 9, 2010

09:00    Keynote Prof. Dr. Thomas Wiegand (Department Head at Fraunhofer Institute 

            for Telecommunications - HHI): "High Efficiency Video Coding"

10:00    Coffee break

10:15    Session 9A: Video Coding 3 (Chair: Prof. Hans Cycon)

• Motion Vector Concealment in Temporal Scalability for Scalable Video Coding (Kuei-Ting Kuo; Pei-Jun Lee; Guo-Long Huang; Wen-June Wang)
• Scalable High Quality Nonlinear Up-Scaler With Guaranteed Real Time Performance (Stefan Schiemenz, Christian Hentschel)
• Enhancements in the Dual Tree Discrete Wavelet Transform Algorithm for Video Processing (Aldo Morales, Audie Spina)

10:15    Session 9B: Terrestrial Television (Chair: Jörg Robert)

• A Miniature Tunable Antenna for Digital TV Reception (Alexander Roy)
• MIMO Channel Analysis using DVB-T Signals (Joerg Robert, Holger Meuel)
• Design and Implementation of a Multichannel UHF-TV Digital IF Transceiver (Javier Del Ser)

11:15    Coffee break

11:30    Session 9C: Imaging and Display Technologies (Chair: Stefan Mozar)

• A High Resolution SerDes and Timing Controller for Mobile Image Sensor Module (Eung-Ju Kim)
• Extending Depth-of-Field of a Digital Camera using Particle Swarm Optimization based Image Fusion (Veysel Aslantas, Rifat Kurban)
• Photometric Calibration for Image Enhancement of Electrophoretic Displays (Wen-Chung Kao)

11:30    Session 9D: Home Receivers Software Environments (Chair: Prof. Albrecht Rothermel)

• Scheduling TV Recordings for a Recommender-Based DVR (Jan Korst, Verus Pronk, Mauro Barbieri, Wim Verhaegh)
• Google's Android as an application environment for DTV decoder system (Nikola Kuzmanovic, Tomislav Maruna, Goran Miljkovic, Milan Savic, Djordje Isailovic)
• DTV Linux Device Abstraction for Embedded Systems (Goran Miljkovic, Velibor Mihic, Miroslav Ristic, Vladimir Kovacevic)

12:30    Lunch break

13:30    Session 9E: Audio and Video Technologies 1 (Chair: Dr. Scott Linfoot)

• A Novel Adaptive Stereo Sound System with Self-Generating Sound-based Listener Tracking (Seungsoo Yoo, Sun Yong Kim, Euihyoung Lee, Kyoungro Yoon , Ki-Seung Lee, Seok-pil Lee)
• Super-Resolution Algorithm Using Noise Level Adaptive Dictionary (Byung Cheol Song, Shincheol Jeong)
• Analysis of Object Based and Pixel Based Video Representation (Jürgen Wünschmann, Philipp Schleicher, Albrecht Rothermel)

13:30    Session 9F: Data Storage (Chair: Prof. Robin Bradbeer)

• Virtualization of Consumer Storage (Thomas Coughlin)
• Stable Disk Performance With Non-Sequential Data Block Placement (Damien Le Moal, Donald Molaro, Zvonimir Bandic)
• A Middleware Design for Multiple Embedded Database Systems (Chin-Hsien Wu, Jhe-Hao Hu)

14:30    Coffee break

14:45    Session 9G: Enabling Technologies 2 (Chair: Will Lumpkins )

• Single-Channel Speech Separation Using Zero-Phase Models (Lee Yun-Kyung, Kwon Oh-Wook)
• Intersecting Cortical Model based Switching Mean Filter for Impulse Noise Removal (Xuming Zhang)
• Test Management and Test Execution System for Automated Verification of Digital Television Systems (Vukota Pekovic, Nikola Teslic, Ivan Resetar, Tarkan Tekcan)
• FlashFind: Responsive Search in Large Datasets  on Mobile Devices (Thilo Ernst, Andreas Schramm)

14:45    Session 9H: Network Technologies (Chair: Teodor Buburuzan)

• From Instant Messaging to Cloud Computing, an XMPP review (Adrian J Hornsby, Rod Walsh)
• Integration of an "Environments for Ageing"-Platform in SOHO-Routers (Felix Büsching, Michael Doering, Lars C Wolf)
• The cooperative internet of things enabled smartgrid (Stamatis Karnouskos)
• Adaptive fair spectrum usage with overloading cancellation for OFDM multihop cellular networks (Tsan-Ming Wu, Szu-Liang Wang)

16:05    Coffee break

17:00    City Tour

June 10, 2010

09:00    Keynote Prof. Dr. Ulrich Reimers (Chairman of the DVB Technical Module): 

            "The Future of Digital Broadcasting"

10:00    Coffee break

10:15    Session 10A: HDTV Video Transport (Chair: Prof. Ulrich Reimers)

• A Simple and Robust Carrier Frequency Recovery Scheme for DVB-S2 Systems (Jong Gyu Oh, Joon Tae Kim)
• DVB-C2 - A Standard for Improved Robustness in Cable Networks (Philipp Hasse, Dirk Jaeger, Joerg Robert)
• An Analysis of QoS Provisioning for High Definition Video Distribution in Heterogeneous Network (Robert R. Chodorek, Agnieszka Chodorek)

10:15    Session 10B: Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) (Chair: Prof. Joachim Speidel)

• A DSP based SVC IP STB using Open SVC Decoder (Fernando Pescador del Oso, David Samper, Matias J Garrido Gonzalez, Eduardo Juarez Martinez, Médéric Blestel)
• Enhanced IPTV Services through Time Synchronisation (Lourdes Beloqui Yuste, Hugh Melvin)
• Implementation of an Embedded H.264 Live Video Streaming System (Nicholas C H Vun)

11:15    Coffee break

11:30    Session 10C: Home Networking (Chair: Prof. Rudiger Kays)

• Set-top box-based home controller (Milan Bjelica, Istvan Papp, Nikola Teslic, Jean-Marc Coulon)
• An MHP Based Management Box for Home Automation and Assisted Living Applications (Ennio Gambi, Giorgio Rascioni, Susanna Spinsante)
• The intermediate service platform architecture for home networking services (Hirohito Inagaki, Takefumi Yamazaki, Koyo Nitta, Masayuki Ito)
• Home Automation Supports Environmentally Friendly Living (Stefan Mozar)

11:30    Session 10D: Content Description and Recommendation (Chair: Prof. Malden Berekovic)

• Inserting Advertisements in User Created Content (Srinivas Rao Kudavelly, Mauro Barbieri)
• Formal Description of Services for Advertisement on Wireless Billboard Channels (Zhanlin Ji, Ivan Ganchev, Paul Flynn, Mairtin O'Droma)
• IPTV Video Content Recommendation System Using Widget Application (Hiromasa Hirata)
• Personalized Recommendation System for the intelligent Social Network Services (HoonKi Lee)

13:00   Conference Wrap-up and farewell

tubs.CITY Symposium 2010 on "Visual Computing and Spoken Language Processing"

June 10, 2010

12:30    Registration

14:00    Workshop Opening

14:15    Keynote: Multimodal Computing and Interaction - Robust, Efficient and Intelligent                     Procession of Text, Speech, Visual Data, and High Dimensional Representation (H.-P.                 Seidel, MPI Informatik)

15:15    Coffee break

15:45    Session 1.1: Visual Computing 1

• The GPU in Visual Computing (T. Stich, NVIDIA GmbH)
• Part-Based People and Object Detection (B. Schiele, MPI Informatik)
• Applications of Free-Viewpoint Video in Broadcast (O. Grau, BBC R&D)
• The World in the Browser: 3D-Internet using XML3D (P. Slusallek, Intel Visual Computing Institute and DFKI Saarbrücken)

15:45    Session 2.1: Spoken Language Processing 1

• Biosignals and Interfaces (T. Schultz, KIT and Carnegie Mellon University)
• Assistive and Adaptive Spoken Language Dialog Systems (W. Minkler, Universität Ulm)
• Feature Enhancement for Reverberant Speech Recognition (R. Haeb-Umbach, Universität Paderborn)
• Distributed Microphone Array Signal Processing for Hearing Aids (S. Doclo, Universität Oldenburg)

17:50    End of Day 1

19:30    Social Event

June 11, 2010

09:00    Keynote: Talking to Machines - A Usable Way to Communicate? (R. Bruder, Institute of             Ergonomics, TU Darmstadt)

10:00    Coffee break

10:25    Session 1.2: Visual Computing 2

• 3D Video Processing (P. Eisert, FhG-HHI and HU Berlin)
• Visual Computing for Multimodal Sensor Data (A. Kolb, Universität Siegen)
• 3D Video and Free Viewpoint Processing and Coding (A. Smolic, Disney Research Zürich)
• Visual Computing in Diagnostic Medical Imaging (H. Schirmacher, Visage Imaging GmbH)

10:25    Session 2.2: Spoken Language Processing 2

• Using Acoustic Features for Automatic Recognition of Driver States (Prof. Dr. Jarek Krajewski, Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
• Speech Interfaces in Cars (OEM)
• Naturalistic Speech Dialogues (Prof. Dr. Josef Krems, TU Chemnitz)
• Design Recommendations for a speech-based in-car infotainment system based on a coqnitive model of attention allocation (Julia Niemann, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories Berlin).

12:30    Closing