3rd SINO FRANCO WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA
AND WEB TECHNOLOGIES
March 26-28 2002
INRIA Sophia Antipolis
 
 
 

Programme
Participants
Tuesday 
March 26th
10.30 - 12.30 Welcome and presentation of INRIA : Mr Michel Cosnard 
Presentation of Sophia Antipolis : Mr Christian Cabrol. 
Signature of a M.O.U : INRIA and NSC Representatives
12.45 - 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 - 3.30 pm Session I : Image and Video 1
Content Relevant Subspace Watermarking Methods. 
Wen-Liang Hwang, Associate Research Fellow 
Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica
Presentation
Joint source-channel turbo decoding and soft synchronization of VLC-coded sources for robust video transmission. 
Guillemot Christine Projet Temics IRISA Rennes
Abstract
Skeleton Extraction of 3D Objects by Radial Basis Functions.
Ming Ouhyoung, Professor and Chairman 
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering  National Taiwan University
Presentation 
part 1
Presentation 
Part 2
3.30 - 4.00 pm Break
4.00 - 5.30 pm Session II : Image and Video 2
Human action recognition using Hidden Markov Model. 
Pau-Choo Chung, Professor 
Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng-Kung University
Abstract
Video understanding for human behaviour interpretation and visualization.
François Bremond,  Monique Thonnat and Thinh Vu Van 
Projet Orion INRIA Sophia Antipolis 
Presentation
On Integrating Omni-Directional Cameras and Pan-Tilt-Zoom Cameras for Visual Surveillance and Monitoring 
Yi-Ping Hung, Research Fellow 
Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica
Presentation
6.00 pm Departure transfer to Hotel Mediatel
7.30 pm Departure transfer from Hotel Mediatel to restaurant in Antibes
Wenesday March 27th
9.30 - 10.30 am  Session III : Image and Video 3
Interactive search by visual content. 
François Fleuret Projet Imedia INRIA Rocquencourt 
Abstract
Using a background neural model in a digital library 
for assistance to user navigation and for enhancing the library evolutivity
Jean-Charles Lamirel Projet Cortex INRIA Lorraine
Presentation
10.30 - 11.00 am Break
11.00 - 12.30 am Session IV : Web technologies 1
Update on W3C technologies 
Daniel Dardailler, Deputy Director W3C Europe
Presentation
System Support for Scalable, Reliable and Highly Manageable Internet Services 
Chu-Sing Yang, Professor 
Department of Computer and Engineering National Sun Yat-Sen University
Presentation
1.00 - 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 - 30.. pm  Session V : Web technologie 2
Corporate Semantic Web 
Olivier Corby Projet Acacia INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Presentation
Opportunity and Challenge of Distance Education 
Timothy K. Shih, Professor and Chairman 
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering Tamkang University
Presentation
3.00 - 3.30 pm Session VI : Sound and speech 1
Hypercube codebooks for articulatory to acoustic inversion
Yves Laprie Projet Parole INRIA Lorraine 
Presentation
3.30 -  4.00 pm Break
4.00 - 5.00 pm  Session VI : Sound and speech 2
Speech Recognition and Spoken Document Retrieval for Mandarin Chinese 
Hsin-Min Wang , Associate Research Fellow 
Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica
Presentation
Interactive acoustic modeling of virtual environments.
Nicolas Tsingos Equipe Reves INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Presentation
5.00 - 6.00 pm Session VII : XML 1
XML-based Content Management Framework for Digital Museum 
Samuel Cruz-Lara  Projet Langue Dialogue INRIA Lorraine
Presentation
Design Issues of an Integrated Interoperable Digital Museum. 
Exhibition Management System.
Jen-Shin Hong, Associate Professor 
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering  National Chi-Nan University
Presentation
6.00 pm Departure transfer to hotel Mediatel
Thursday March 28th
9.30 - 10.30 am Session VIII : XML 2
Automatic Conversion Between Dynamic C-data Structures and XML Files 
Augustin Lux Equipe Prima Gravir Grenoble
Abstract
On Modular Transformation of Structural Content (XML) 
Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Associate Research Fellow 
Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica
Presentation
10.30 - 11.00 am Break
11.00 - 12.00 am SessionIX : XML 3
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 
Nabil Layaida Projet Opera INRIA Rhones-Alpes
Presentation
Acquisition and Monitoring of XML data on the web 
Gregory Cobena Projet Verso INRIA Rocquencourt 
Presentation
12.00 - 1.00 pm  Round Table discussion
1.00 - 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 - 5.00 pm Visit of research teams and meeting rooms for cooperations