Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2014 [electronic resource] : 15th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Kuching, Malaysia, December 1-4, 2014, Proceedings / edited by Wei Tsang Ooi, Cees G. M. Snoek, Hung Khoon Tan, Chin-Kuan Ho, Benoit Huet, Chong-Wah Ngo.

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-Like and HOG Fusion Based Object Tracking -- Noise Face Image Hallucination via Data-Driven Local Eigentransformation -- Lip Segmentation Based on Facial Complexion Template -- Saliency-Based Deformable Model for Pedestrian Detection -- Age Estimation Based on Convolutional Neural Network -- A Curvature Filter and Normal Clustering Based Approach to Detecting Cylinder on 3D Medical Model -- Image Compositing Based on Hierarchical Weighted Blending -- Multifold Concept Relationships Metrics -- A Comparison between Artificial Neural Network and Cascade-Correlation Neural Network in Concept Classification -- Location-Based Hierarchical Event Summary for Social Media Photos -- Towards Natural Gestures for Presentation Control Using Microsoft Kinect -- 3D-Spatial-Texture Bilateral Filter for Depth-Based 3D Video -- A System for Parking Lot Marking Detection -- Fast Search of Binary Codes with Distinctive Bits -- Data-Dependent Locality Sensitive Hashing -- Cosine Distance Metric Learning for Speaker Verification Using Large Margin Nearest Neighbor Method -- Anchor Shot Detection with Deep Neural Network -- Adaptation of ANN Based Video Stream QoE Prediction Model -- Leveraging Color Harmony and Spatial Context for Aesthetic Assessment of Photographs -- A Multi-exposure Fusion Method Based on Locality Properties -- Image Abstraction Using Anisotropic Diffusion Symmetric Nearest Neighbor Filter -- Reduction of Multichannel Sound System Based on Spherical Harmonics -- Automatic Multichannel Simplification with Low Impacts on Sound Pressure at Ears -- Acoustic Beamforming with Maximum SNR Criterion and Efficient Generalized Eigenvector Tracking.