ESTIMEDIA 2004 - Final Program

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Monday September 6 (1:30PM - 6:00PM)
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SPECIAL SESSION A
 1:30 - 2:30PM   Opening & Invited talk: Paul Stravers (Philips Research, The Netherlands): "Homogeneous Multiprocessing for the Masses"

REGULAR SESSION 1:   Multimedia System Design Issues - Chair: Soonhoi Ha (Seoul National University, Korea)
 2:30 - 3:10PM (2 regular papers)

 Trace-based evaluation of clock synchronization algorithms for  wireless loudspeakers
 P. Blum, L. Thiele - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

 Power saving in hand-held multimedia systems using MPEG-21 digital item adaptation
 H. Shim, Y. Cho, N. Chang - Seoul National Univ., Korea

BREAK
 3:10 - 3:30PM

REGULAR SESSION 2:   Modeling and Analysis of Multimedia Platforms - Chair: Petru Eles (Linkoping University, Sweden)
 3:30 - 4:30PM (3 regular papers)

 A queuing-theoretic performance model for context-flow system-on-chip platforms
 R. Beidas, J. Zhu - Univ. of Toronto, Canada

 Fast design space exploration framework with an efficient performance estimation technique
 S. Kwon, C. Lee, S. Kim, Y. Yi, S. Ha - Seoul National Univ., Korea

 Application design trajectory towards reusable co-processors - MPEG case study
 M. Rutten, O.P. Ganwal, J. Van Eijndhoven - Philips Research Labs., The Netherlands
 E. Jaspers - LogicaCMG, The Netherlands
 E-J. Pol - Philips Semiconductors, The Netherlands

POSTER SESSION: Papers sessions 1 & 2
 4:30 - 6:00PM


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Tuesday September. 7 (8:30PM - 6:15PM)
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REGULAR SESSION 3: Design of Multimedia Processors - Chair: Joerg Henkel (Karlsruhe University, Germany)
   8:30 - 9:30AM (3 regular papers)

 Identifying "representative" workloads in designing MP-SoC platforms for media processing
 A. Maxiaguine - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
 Y. Liu, S. Chakraborty, W.T. Ooi - National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

 A scalable VLIW for Smart Imaging
 A. Lundgren - Lund Univ., Sweden
 W. Kruijtzer - Philips Research Labs., The Netherlands

 Fast Instruction Set Customization
 E. Borin, F. Klein, N. Moreano, R. Acevedo, G. Araujo - IC-UNICAMP, Brazil

BREAK
 9:30 - 10:00AM

REGULAR SESSION 4: Memory Optimization Issues - Chair: Catherine Gebotys (University of Waterloo, Canada)
 10:00 - 10:40AM (2 regular papers)

 Data assignment and access scheduling exploration for multi-layer memory architectures
 R. Szymanek, K. Kuchcinski - Lund Univ., Sweden
 F. Catthoor - IMEC, Belgium

 Algebraic techniques in the memory size computation of multimedia processing applications
 H. Zhu, K. Chandramouli, Y. Yue, F. Balasa - Univ. of Illinois, USA

POSTER SESSION: Papers sessions 3 & 4
 10:45 - 12:15PM

LUNCH
 12:15 - 1:30PM
 
REGULAR SESSION 5: Efficient Design of IP Multimedia Blocks - Chair: Naehyuck Chang (Seoul National University, Korea)
 1:30 - 2:30PM (3 regular papers)
 
 High performance visibility testing with screen segmentation
 P. Szanto, B. Feher - Budapest Univ. of Technology, Hungary

 Adaptive spectrum-based variable bit truncation of discrete cosine transform (DCT) for energy efficient wireless multimedia communication
 F. Liu, C.-Y. Tsui - Hong-Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong-Kong

 A hardware accelerator IP for EBCOT Tier-1 coding in JPEG2000 standard
 T-W. Hsieh, Y-L. Lin - National Tsin Hua Univ., Taiwan

BREAK
 2:30 - 2:50PM
 
SPECIAL SESSION B
 2:50 - 3:50PM   Invited talk: Francky Catthoor (IMEC, Belgium): "Low Energy Data and Concurrency Management of Highly Dynamic Real-Time Multimedia Systems"

REGULAR SESSION 6: Software Optimization Techniques - Chair: Florin Balasa (University of Illinois, USA)
 3:50 - 4:30PM (2 regular papers)

 Reducing memory accesses with a system-level design methodology in customized dynamic memory management
 D. Atienza, J. Mendias - Univ. Complutense of Madrid, Spain
 S. Mamagkakis, D. Soudris - Demokritus Univ. of Thrace, Greece
 F. Catthoor - IMEC, Belgium

 Tool-aided performance and optimization of multimedia applications
 H. Huebert, B. Stabernack - Fraunhofer Inst., Germany
 H. Richter - Univ. of Rostock, Germany

POSTER SESSION: Papers sessions 5 & 6
 4:30 - 6:00PM

CONCLUDING REMARKS
 6:00 - 6:15PM