Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2008

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2008, held in Tainan, Taiwan, in December 2008.

Session 1: Next Generation Video Coding Techniques.- Session 2: Audio Processing and Classification.- Session 3: Interactive Multimedia Systems.- Session 4: Advances in H.264/AVC.- Session 5: Multimedia Networking Techniques.- Session 6: Advanced Image Processing Techniques.- Session 7: Video Analysis and Its Applications.- Session 8: Image Detection and Classification.- Session 9: Visual and Spatial Analyses.- Session 10: Multimedia Human Computer Interfaces.- Session 11: Multimedia Security and DRM.- Session 12: Advanced Image and Video Processing.- Session 13: Multimedia Database and Retrieval.- Special Session 1: Multimedia Management and Authoring.- Special Session 2: Multimedia Personalization.- Special Session 3: Multimedia for E-Learning.- Poster Session 1: Multimedia Networking Techniques.- Poster Session 2: Multimedia Systems and Applications.- Poster Session 3: Advanced Multimedia Techniques.- Poster Session 4: Multimedia Processing and Analyses.