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ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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PASS: Peer-Aware Silence Suppression for Internet Voice Conferences
A novel tandem-free solution for multiparty VoIP conferences called PASS (Peer-Aware Silence Suppression) is presented. Similar to traditional tandem-free solutions, PASS introduc...
Xun Xu, Li-wei He, Dinei A. F. Florêncio, Yo...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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A Comparison of Three 3-D Facial Reconstruction Approaches
We compare three Computer Vision approaches to 3-D reconstruction, namely passive Binocular Stereo and active Structured Lighting and Photometric Stereo, in application to human f...
Alexander Woodward, Da An, Georgy L. Gimel'farb, P...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Face Segmentation under Unconstrained Scenes
In this paper, an efficient approach by combining the novel wavelet-based feature template, the support vector machine (SVM) classifier, and the wavelet entropy filtering is prese...
Jing-Wein Wang
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Streaming of Scalable Video from Multiple Servers using Rateless Codes
This paper presents a framework for efficiently streaming scalable video from multiple servers over heterogeneous network paths. We propose to use rateless codes, or Fountain cod...
Jean-Paul Wagner, Jacob Chakareski, Pascal Frossar...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Adaptive Video News Story Tracking based on Earth Mover'S Distance
This paper proposes an adaptive system for video news story tracking based on the Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD). When an interesting story appears in the news, it is flagged man...
Mats Uddenfeldt, Keiichiro Hoashi, Kazunori Matsum...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Low Power Entropy Coding Hardware Design for H.264/AVC Baseline Profile Encoder
Low power hardware design for entropy coding of H.264/AVC baseline profile encoder is urgent for the increasing mobile applications. However, previous works are poor in the power...
Chuan-Yung Tsai, Tung-Chien Chen, Liang-Gee Chen
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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A Novel Distributed and Practical Incentive Mechanism for Peer to Peer Live Video Streaming
The successful deployment of peer-to-peer (P2P) live video streaming systems has practically demonstrated that it can scale to reliably support a large population of peers. Howeve...
Yun Tang, Lifeng Sun, Meng Zhang, Shiqiang Yang, Y...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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An Effective Mode Decision Scheme in Macroblock-Based PFGS
The Progressive Fine Granularity Scalable (PFGS) coding is a promising technique for streaming video applications. The macroblock-based PFGS coding proposes several INTER modes fo...
Tiantian Sun, Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu, Wen Gao
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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A Novel Model-based Segmentation Approach to Extract Caption Contents on Sports Videos
The study proposes a novel scheme to extract and recognize the caption contents of various sports captions. A caption extraction process based on an iteratively temporal averaging...
Yih-Ming Su, Chaur-Heh Hsieh
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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3D Video and Free Viewpoint Video - Technologies, Applications and MPEG Standards
An overview of 3D and free viewpoint video is given in this paper with special focus on related standardization activities in MPEG. Free viewpoint video allows the user to freely ...
Aljoscha Smolic, Karsten Müller, Philipp Merk...