Smart Multimedia 2024, Program
Day 1 - Wednesday, March 27, 2024
8:30 – 8:45 Opening Ceremony (Hossein Azari, Carlos Rossa, Troy McDaniel)
8:45 – 9:45 S1: Machine Learning for Multimedia – Chair: Chengcai Leng
8:45 – 9:05 Pattern Recognition in Apple Orchards During Dormancy and Bud Development
Bhavya Sehgal, Ritik Gandhi, Irene Cheng
9:05 – 9:25 Medical Image Denoising via Explainable AI Feature Preserving Loss
Dong Guanfang, Anup Basu
9:25 – 9:45 Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy Sensorised Needle for Prostate Cancer
Localisation During MRI-Ultrasound-Fused Targeted Biopsy
Conor McDermott, Nicola Schieda, Carlos Rossa
9:45 – 10:45 S2: Multimedia – Chair: Troy McDaniel
9:45 – 10:05 Semantic Browsing & Advertising in YouTube
Husam Alustwani, Nassiriah Shaari
10:05 – 10:25 Creating and Analyzing a Multimedia Dataset for Building Energy Efficiency
Estimation
Gong Qi Chen, Ninad Kashyap, Zihao Zhang, Yana Kucheva, Michael Bobker,
Zhigang Zhu
10:25 – 10:45 Affine-Transformation-Invariant Image Classification by Differentiable Arithmetic
Distribution Module
Zijie Tan, Dong Guanfang, Chenqiu Zhao, Anup Basu
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:35 S3: Special Session on – Chair: Pedro Ponce
11:15 – 11:35 Performance of Machine Learning Models for OSA Detection Based on ECG Signal
Miguel A. Espinosa, Pedro Ponce, Mario Rojas, Vicente Borja, Martha G. Torres,
Omar Mata, Arturo Molina
11:35 – 11:55 The Role of Personality Traits for Tailoring Immersive Experiences in Virtual Reality
Environments
Juana Isabel Méndez, Pedro Ponce, Javier Maldonado, Mario Rojas, Joan Guerrero,
Brian MacCleery, Arturo Molina
11:55 – 12:15 A Novel Framework for Assessing Products Case Study: Electric Drives for
Terrestrial Vehicles
Pedro Ponce, Arturo Molina Gutierrez, Citlaly Pérez Briceño, Omar Mata
12:15 – 12:35 Innovating Medication Adherence for Smart Cities: Leveraging PERACTIV and
Automated Annotation Pipeline for Innovative Solutions
Vishnu Kakaraparthi, Yatiraj Shetty, Morris Goldberg, Troy McDaniel
19:00 – 21:00 Banquet
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Day 2 - Thursday, March 28, 2024
8:30 – 9:30 S4: Multimedia processing – Chair: Irene Cheng
8:30 – 8:50 How to Design Intuitive Flight Controls for Novice Onboard Operators?
Yale Lee, Thomas Rakotomamonjy
8:50 – 9:10 Sliding Adaptive Dynamic Time Warping for Segment Matching in Surgical
Simulation Data
Alec Cotton, Ben Sainsbury, Carlos Rossa
9:10 – 9:30 Concept Factorization with Manifold and Orthogonal Constraint for Data
Representation (short and Industry paper)
Hui Zhang, Haonan Wu, Chengcai Leng, Ning Li, Irene Cheng
9:30 – 10:30 S5: Short and Industrial paper – Chair: Hossein Azari
9:30 – 9:50 Image Based Cattle Monitoring System
Bhagyashree Zala, Ritik Gandhi, Fan Yang, Tiago Valente, Irene Cheng
9:50 – 10:10 Comparative Assessment of Recent Pedestrian Detectors and Trackers
Oussama TAKI AMRANI, Haytam Qadadri, Mounir Bendali-Braham, Georges Roussel
10:10 – 10:30 AF Mask R-CNN: Attention Fused Mask R-CNN Mechanism for Instance
Segmentation
Zhichao Su, Chengcai Leng, Irene Cheng
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:20 S6: Industrial Trend – Chair: Guan-Ming Su
11:00 – 11:20 Automatic Data Labeling Using Large Language Models
Hossein Azari
11:20 – 11:40 Overview of future video compression technology beyond VVC in
standard
Tong Shao, Fangjun Pu, Peng Yin, Sean McCarthy, Guan-Ming Su
11:40 – 12:00 Neural Fields for Multimedia Applications (Part-1): Trends in Audio,
Images and Videos
Ujjal Kr Dutta, Anustup Choudhury, Lakshmi Priya Muraleedharan, Jian Liu,
Guan-Ming Su
12:00 – 12:20 Neural Fields for Multimedia Applications (Part-2): Trends in
Volumetric Videos and 3D Objects
Lakshmi Priya Muraleedharan, Jian Liu, Ujjal Kr Dutta, Anustup Choudhury,
Guan-Ming Su
16:00 – 18:00 Reception
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Day 3 - Friday, March 29, 2024
8:30 – 9:30 S7: Late breaking papers – Chair: Carlos Rossa
8:30 – 8:50 Characterizing Multimedia Information Environment through Multi-Modal
Clustering of YouTube Videos
Niloofar Yousefi, Mainuddin Shaik, Nitin Agarwal
8:50 – 9:10 Surveying Sidewalk Materials for and by Individuals Who Are Blind or Have Low
Vision: Audio Data Collection and Classification
Jiawei Liu, Wayne Lam, Zhigang Zhu, Hao Tang
9:10 – 9:30 Two-stage Synthetic Supervising and Multi-view Consistency Self-supervising
based Animal 3D Reconstruction by Single Image
Zijian Kuang, Lihang Ying, Shi Jin, Li Cheng
9:30 – 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 – 11:20 S8: Special session: Haptic and human machine interaction – Chair: Ying Lihang
10:00 – 10:20 Local Force Isotropy: A New Metric for Measuring Performance of Kinaesthetic
Haptic Devices
Maciej Lacki, Carlos Rossa, Colin Gallacher
10:20 – 10:40 Haptic Training Simulators Design Approach
Florence Zara, Benjamin Delbos, Remi Chalard, Richard Moreau, Jaillet Fabrice,
Arnaud Lelevé
10:40 – 11:00 Human Behavior and Personality Reduced Survey to Promote Machines and
Human Interactions Case Study: Mexico
Pedro Ponce, Juana Isabel Méndez, Brian MacCleery, Edgar Omar Lopez, Arturo
Molina
11:00 – 11:20 Multiplayer System for a Collaborative Experience Using Digital Technologies in a
Physical Space
Mario Rojas, Javier Maldonado, Juana Isabel Méndez, Pedro Ponce, Arturo Molina