Invited Contributions -- Multimedia Analysis by Learning -- Learning Concepts by Modeling Relationships -- Emerging Issues for Multimedia Analysis and Applications -- The Real Problem of Bridging the “Semantic Gap” -- Multimedia Ontology Based Computational Framework for Video Annotation and Retrieval -- Scalable Indexing for Perceptual Data -- Searching One Billion Web Images by Content: Challenges and Opportunities -- Challenges on Peer-to-Peer Live Media Streaming -- Video Streaming to Mobile Handheld Devices: Challenges in Decoding, Adaptation, and Browsing -- Fixed-Mobile Convergence, Streaming Multimedia Services, and Peer-to-Peer Communication -- Blind Passive Media Forensics: Motivation and Opportunity -- Security Models of Digital Watermarking -- Evolvement of DRM Schema: From Encryption to Interoperability and Monitoring -- Regular Contributions -- Shape Retrieval Based on the Relativity of Chain Codes -- 3D Motion Segmentation from Straight-Line Optical Flow -- A Fast Adaptive ME Algorithm Based on H.264 -- Shared Latent Dynamical Model for Human Tracking from Videos -- Panoramic Video Coding Using Affine Motion Compensated Prediction -- Robust Bootstrapping of Speaker Models for Unsupervised Speaker Indexing -- Reversible Data Embedding Technique for Palette Images Using De-clustering -- The PT-2 Caching Algorithm in the Transcoding Proxy Cluster to Facilitate Adaptive Content Delivery -- Constructing and Application of Multimedia TV News Archives -- A Three-Level Scheme for Real-Time Ball Tracking -- Video Object Mining with Local Region Tracking -- Automatic Extraction of Semantic Relationships from Images Using Ontologies and SVM Classifiers -- A Robust Caption Detecting Algorithm on MPEG Compressed Video -- A Hybrid Approach for Authenticating MPEG-2 Streaming Data -- HOS-Based Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction -- Story Unit Segmentation with Friendly Acoustic Perception -- Decomposition in Hidden Markov Models for Activity Recognition -- Image Inpainting with Improved Exemplar-Based Approach -- Fingerprinting Codes for Live Pay-Television Broadcast Via Internet -- A New Type of Proxy Ring Signature Scheme with Revocable Anonymity and No Info Leaked -- The Research of an Embedded Processor Element for Multimedia Domain -- Speeding Up Scalar Multiplication Using a New Signed Binary Representation for Integers -- Color-Texture Image Segmentation by Combining Region and Photometric Invariant Edge Information -- Multimedia Authoring Tool for Real-Time Facial Animation -- Object Re-detection Using SIFT and MPEG-7 Color Descriptors -- Interactive Boosting for Image Classification -- FBSA: A Self-adjustable Multi-source Data Scheduling Algorithm for P2P Media Streaming -- An Optimized Topology Maintenance Framework for P2P Media Streaming -- Building Large Scale 3D Face Database for Face Analysis -- Senary Huffman Compression – A Reversible Data Hiding Scheme for Binary Images -- Managing and Searching Distributed Multidimensional Annotations with Large Scale Image Data -- A Closed-Form Solution of Reconstruction from Nonparallel Stereo Geometry Used in Image Guided System for Surgery -- SIEVE—Search Images Effectively Through Visual Elimination -- Virtual Community Based Secure Service Discovery and Access for 3D Video Steaming Applications -- QoS Adaptive Data Organizing and Delivery Framework for P2P Media Streaming -- Adaptive Interpolation for Error Concealment in H.264 Using Directional Histograms -- Players and Ball Detection in Soccer Videos Based on Color Segmentation and Shape Analysis -- Efficient Image Retrieval Using Conceptualization of Annotated Images -- 3-D Camera Modeling and Its Applications in Sports Broadcast Video Analysis -- Face Recognition by Matching 2D and 3D Geodesic Distances -- A Blind Watermarking Scheme Based on Visual Model for Copyright Security -- Fast Mode Decision by Exploiting Spatio-temporal Correlation in H.264 -- SVM-Based Audio Classification for Content- Based Multimedia Retrieval -- Moving Object Tracking in H.264/AVC Bitstream -- A Prediction Error Compression Method with Tensor-PCA in Video Coding -- On the Robustness of Parametric Watermarking of Speech.