Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2013 [electronic resource] : 14th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Nanjing, China, December 13-16, 2013. Proceedings / edited by Benoit Huet, Chong-Wah Ngo, Jinhui Tang, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Shuicheng Yan.

A Cloud-Based Multi-functional e-Meeting System by Flash-Based Multimedia Technology for Higher Education on the WebELS System -- Disparity-Constrained Resolution Adaptation for Stereoscopic Images -- Facial Point Detection with Occlusion Insensitive Visibility-Aware Part Model -- 3-D Geometry Enhanced Superpixels for RGB-D Data -- Graph-Based Label Propagation with Dissimilarity Regularization -- Localize and Segment Scene Text -- Multi-class Cosegmentation with Pairwise Active Learning -- Cross-View Gait-Based Gender Classification by Transfer Learning -- Hierarchical Block Size Decision for H.264/AVC Intra Prediction -- Scale Selection in SIFT Flow for Robust Dense Image Matching -- Adaptive Weighted Prediction for Scalable Video Coding Based on HEVC -- Saliency Detection Using DCT Coefficients and Superpixel-Based Segmentation -- High Quality Image Deblurring Scheme Using the Pyramid -- Hyper-Laplacian L2 Norm Priors Algorithm -- Improved Rotating Kernel Transformation Based Contourlet Domain Image Denoising Framework -- Hand Dorsal Vein Recognition Based on Shape Representation of the Venous Network -- Edge-Respecting Image Smoothing via Extrema Interpolation -- Image Retargeting by Combining Region Warping and Occlusion -- Automatic 3D Prostate MR Image Segmentation Using Graph Cuts and Level Sets with Shape Prior -- Improving PMVS Algorithm for 3D Scene Reconstruction from Sparse Stereo Pairs -- Fast HEVC Encoding with GPU Assisted Reference Picture Selection -- A Real-Time Mesh Animation Framework Using Kinect -- Geo-referenced Tourist Attraction Photo Tagging by Mining Community Photo Collections -- Improving Histogram-Based Image Registration in Video Sequences through Warping -- Fusing Multiple Visual Features for Image Complexity Evaluation -- An Invisible Gorilla: Is It a Matter of Focus of Attention? -- Fine-Grained Image Classification Using Color Exemplar Classifiers -- Smart Thumbnail: Automatic Image Cropping by Mining Canonical Query Objects -- An Efficient Zigzag Scanning and Entropy Coding Architecture Design -- Guided Depth Enhancement via Anisotropic Diffusion -- A Novel Hardware-Based UHD Video Up-Scaler Based on Local Structure Estimation -- Binary Adaptive Luminance Mapping for Motion Estimation -- Adaptive Video Super-Resolution Based on Superpixel-Guided Auto-Regressive Model -- Motion Estimation for Video Coding Based on Subspace Pursuit -- Image Classification by Iterative Semi-Supervised Sparse Coding -- Cross-Codebook Image Classification -- Spatio-temporal SURF for Human Action Recognition -- Human Action Recognition by Mining Discriminative Segment with Novel Skeleton Joint Feature -- Multi-cue Based Multi-target Tracking with Boosted -- Person Re-identification by Smooth Metric Learning -- Venue Semantics: Multimedia Topic Modeling of Social Media Contents -- Conditional Random Fields for Image Region Labeling with Global Observation -- Auditory Context Recognition Combining Discriminative and Generative Models -- An Integrated Model for Bayesian Learning of Sparse Representation and Classifier Training -- Generalized N-Dimensional PCA for Compact Representation of Medical Volumes and Effective Mode Selection by Adaboost -- Constructing Hierarchical Visual Tree for Discriminative Image Representation and Classification -- Group Sparse Ensemble Learning for Visual Concept Detection -- High-Level Video Semantic Concept Detection Based on Multi-level Feature -- The Impact of Global and Local Features on Multiple Sequence Alignment Clustering-Based Near-Duplicate Video Retrieval -- Saliency Detection-Based Mixture of Reality and Non-Photorealistic Rendering Effects for Artistic Visualization -- Real-Time Multi-pedestrian Tracking Based on Vision and Depth Information Fusion -- Traffic Sign Detection Based on Camera Imaging -- Recommend Social Network Users Favorite Brands -- Event Representation and Visualization from Social Media -- Online Web-Video Topic Detection and Tracking with Semi-supervised Learning -- Temporal Context Analysis for Action Recognition in Multi-agent -- Target Detection Based on Kernel Density Estimation Combined with Correlation Coefficient -- A Belief Based Correlated Topic Model for Semantic Region Analysis in Far-Field Video Surveillance Systems -- Weakly Supervised Compressive Tracking with Effective Prediction Model -- A Wavelet Model of Ganglion Cells Array and Its Application in Image Representation -- Thorough Evaluation of the Discriminabilities of Four Voting Schemes in the Generation of Histogram of Orientation -- Texture Classification via Local Feature Representation of Multi-order Gradients -- Compact and Robust Image Fingerprints Based on CCA of Local Features -- A Large Scale Audio Fingerprinting System.