Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2001

1700-2100 Registration Thursday, Feb. 8, 2001

NIST ATP Presentations and "Bidder's Conference" Program

0730-0900	Registration
0730-0900	Continental Breakfast
0900-0915	Welcome and Session Overview David Hermreck, ATP Program Manager
0915	Current Project Reviews
0915-0945	Geometrix, Inc., Gerard Medioni
0945-1015	Physical Optics Corporation, Andrew Kostrzewski and Tomasz Jannson
1015-1045	MediaSite, Matthew A. Siegler
1045-1115	Sarnoff Corp., John Pearson
1115-1145	BCL Computers, Inc., Hassan Alam
1145-1200	ATP and the Digital Video Program
1145-1200	Review of ATP Project Selection Criteria David Hermreck, ATP Program Manager
1200-1300	Lunch
1230-1300	Survey of New Technical Opportunities
1230-1300	Immersive and Simulation Technology, Dr. Gerard Medioni, USC
1300-1330	Digital Cinema, Dr. Charles Fenimore, NIST
1330:1400	Digital TV - Advanced Applications, Dr. John Pearson, Sarnoff Corp.
1400-1430	Selected Microelectronics Challenges for Digital Video, Dr. Herbert Bennett, NIST Fellow
1430-1445	Open Session - Industry Recommendations to ATP
1445-1500	Break
1500-1700	ATP Bidders Conference (Registration Not Required -Open to the Public)
1700-1730	ATP Bidder's Conference Question and Answer Session
1630-1730	(Coffee and cookies in the Annex)
1730	Estimated End of NIST Program
1700-2100	Registration
1900-2100	Joint NIST and DCV Workshop Dinner (including AdCom Dinner)

Friday, Feb. 9, 2001

0730-0830	Registration
0730-0830	Continental Breakfast
	International Workshop Program
0830-0930	Session 1: Plenary Session Welcoming Remarks: Vijay Jain, Murat Kunt, General Chairs Opening Remarks: David Stamps, Provost, University of South Florida Keynote Speech: " Digital Video - On the Threshold of an Exciting and Broad Reaching Future " James Carnes, President/CEO Sarnoff Corp.
0930-1050	Session 2: DTV and HDTV Technology Chairs: M. Kunt, and W. H. Robinson 2.1 Dynamically parameterized Architectures for Power-Aware Video Coding: Motion Estimation and DCT Wayne Burleson, Prashant Jain, and Subramanian Venkatraman, University of Massachusetts (U.S.A) 2.2 High Definition Television Broadcast Technology - A NIST/ATP Project Frank Marlowe, Sarnoff Corporation (U.S.A) 2.3 A New Methodology for Implementing Interactive Operations of MPEG-2 Compression Video Kostas Psannis, and Marios Hadjninicolaou, Brunel University (U.K) 2.4 Cost Modeling for Early Image Processing Applications William. H. Robinson, and D. Scott. Wills, Georgia Institute of Technology (U.S.A)
1050-1110	Break
1110-1210	Session 3: Advances in Digital Video Chairs: F. Marlowe, and P. De Smet 3.1 Broadband Data Network over Television J. Delay, Harris Corporation (U.S.A) 3.2 Adding Precision to Airborne Video with Model Based Registration John. A. Van Workum, and Steven. G. Blask, Harris Corporation (U.S.A) 3.3 Switched Digital Entertainment over Broadband Networks J. Delay, Harris Corporation (U.S.A)
1220-1400	Lunch Keynote Speech: Victor McCrary, Chief Convergent Information Systems Division, NIST "Digital Convergence: Who Moved My TV"
1400-1500	Session 4: Video and Image Segmentation Chair: M. Sonka 4.1 Region Extraction with Multiple Active Contour Models Toru Abe, Japan Advanced Inst. Of Science and Tech. (Japan), and Yuki Matsuzawa, (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) 4.2 Medical Image Segmentation: Active Appearance Motion Models Milan Sonka, Steven Mitchell, University of Iowa (U.S.A), Rob J. van der Geest, Johan H.C. Reiber, Boudewijn P.F. Leliveldt, and Johan G. Bosch, Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands) 4.3 On New Motion Estimation and Segmentation Framework for Digital VideoProcessing Patrick De Smet, and Ignace Bruyland, Ghent University (Belgium)
1500-1515	Coffee
1515-1640	Session 5: Video Applications Chair: J. Delay, Harris Corp. 5.1 Object Motion Detection Based on Perceptual Edge Tacking Gao Q, Parslow A, and Tan M, Dalhousie University (Canada) 5.2 Mosaic Construction from Image Stream With Parallax M.T. Cheung, and R.Chung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) 5.3 Estimating Body Animation Parameters from Depth Images using Analysis by Synthesis Nikos Grammalidis, George Goussis, George Troufakos, and Michael G. Strintzis, University of Thessaloniki (Greece) 5.4 A Model Based Real Time Human Body Motion Analysis System Chung-Lin Huang, and Chung-Chin Lin, National Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan)
1640-1700	Break
1700-1830	Poster Session 6A: Digital and Computational Video-I Chair: M. McWaters 6A.1 A Compound Baye's Test for Detection of Occlusion and Visible Background and Foreground Areas in Stereos G.A. Triantafyllidis, D. Tsovaras, and M.G. Strintzis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) 6A.2 Authoring Tool for Composition of 3-D Audiovisual Scenes using the MPEG-4 Standard Petros Daras, Informatics and Telematics Institute (Greece), Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Theodoros Raptis, and Michael Strintzis, Information Processing Laboratory (Greece) 6A.3 Hierarchical On-demand Multicast Routing Scheme for Networked Video Applications ) ------ WITHDRAWN Te-Chou Su, Chen-Long Chan, and Jia-Shung Wang, National Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan 6A.4 Efficient 3-D Wavelet Transform Decomposition for Video Compression E. Mayano, F.J. Quiles, and A. Garrido Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (Spain) 6A.5 Closed Caption Transmission and Display in Digital Television Gregory Forbes, PBS Alexandria (USA) 6A.6 Facial Expression Recognition Approach for Animation R. Chung, and H.C. Lo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) 6A.7 Digital Watermarking of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Multiplexed Streams for Copyright Protection D. Simitopoulos, S.A. Tsaftaris, N.V. Boulgouris, and M.G. Strintzis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) 6A.8 3-D Reconstruction From a Stereo Pair Without the Knowledge of Intrinsic Or Extrinsic Parameters T.J. Mckinley, M.M. McWaters, and V.K. Jain, University of South Florida (USA) 6A.9 Internet2 at USF: High Speed Networking, Supporting Research and Education W. D. Kearns, University of South Florida (USA)
1700-1830	Poster Session 6B: Digital and Computational Video-II Chair: J. Heck 6B.1 Feedback from Video for Virtual Reality Navigation Leonid V. Tsap, University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S.A) 6B.2 An Efficient Low Bit Rate Adaptive Mesh Based Motion Compensation Technique Hanan A. Mahmoud, and Magdi A.Bayoumi, University of Louisiana (USA) 6B.3 A Novel cellular Search Algorithm for Block-Matching Motion Estimation Jeanson Hung, Wen-Sheng Su, and Jung-Hua Wang, National Taiwan University (Taiwan) 6B.4 Remnant Error Concealment Technique for MPEG-2 Hung Shung Wong, Wen Shung Su, and Jung Hua Wang, National Taiwan University (Taiwan) 6B.5 A Hybrid Wavelet Compression Scheme for Material Textures D. Ramasubramanian, and Laveen N.Kanal, LNK Corporation, Riverdale (U.S.A) Russ Moulton, and William Journigan, JRM Technologies (U.S.A) 6B.6 Hybrid Mesh-Based/Block-Based Motion Compensation Architecture Ahmed M.Shams, Mohamed A. Elgamel, and Magdy Bayoumi, University of Louisiana (U.S.A) 6B.7 Hierarchical Video Motion Estimation Using a Neural Network S.S. Skrypkowiak, and V.K. Jain, University of South Florida (U.S.A) 6B.8 Internet Privacy and Implications for the Future K. Killebrew, University of South Florida (USA) 6B.9 VHS Versus TiVo: What is the Future Holding
1830-1930	Dinner - On your own
	The News Center Tour Chair: C. Robinson
1930	Depart for an exciting tour of The News Center in Tampa, the new $34 million home where the Tampa Tribune, WFLA-TV and TBO.com are creating one of the most advanced models of real-world journalism convergence.
2130	Return to Embassy Suites, USF