Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2014: 15th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Kuching, Malaysia, December 1-4, 2014, Proceeding [Paperback]

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2014, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in December 2014. The 35 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of multimedia content analysis, multimedia signal processing and communications, and multimedia applications and services. They have been organized into topical sections on video coding, annotation, image and photo, applications, people, image analysis and processing under extra help, nearest neighbor, neural networks, and audio. Also included are sections with best papers and posters and demonstrations.Region-Based Interactive Ranking Optimization for Person Re-identification.- Adaptive Tag Selection for Image Annotation.- Twitter Food Photo Mining and Analysis for One Hundred Kinds of Foods.- Improving Color Constancy with Internet Photo Collections.- A Background Modeling Scheme Based on High Efficiency Motion Classification for Surveillance Video Coding.- An Adaptive Perceptual Quantization Algorithm Based on Block-Level JND for Video Coding.- Improved Prediction Estimation Based H.264 to HEVC Intra Transcoding.- Unified VLSI Architecture of Motion Vector and Boundary Strength Parameter Decoder for 8K UHDTV HEVC Decoder.- Using Label Propagation to Get Confidence Map for Segmentation.- Image Region Labeling by Exploring Contextual Information of Visual Spatial and Semantic Concepts.- Manifold Regularized Multi-view Feature Selection for Web Image Annotation.- Semantic Concept Annotation of Consumer Videos at Frame-Level Using Audio.- Text Detection in Natural Scene Images with Stroke Width Clustering and Superpixel.- Sketch-Based Retrieval Using Content-Aware Hashing.- Pixel Granularity Template Matching Method for Screen Content Lossless Intra Picture.- Music Interaction on Mobile Phones.- Semantically Enhancing Multimedia Lifelog Events.- Haar-Likel6