General
Chairman Greeting
It is a pleasure to welcome you to the 12th Packet Video Workshop, held in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, April 24-26, 2002. The Packet Video workshops are
devoted to presenting technological advancements and innovations in video
transmission over packet networks, in particular the Internet. Packet Video
workshops have been unique in providing a common ground for people from the
video coding and networking fields, chartered with the mission to promote
research and development in emerging video streaming and multimedia networking.
The multi-disciplinary character of Packet Video offers a forum for interaction
between application research and network research.
This year we encouraged paper submissions of business and consumer
applications, in addition to presentations on theory, practice and standards
activities. Many researchers answered the challenge by contributing extremely
high quality papers, as evidenced by the feedback provided by our reviewers from
academia and industry. The workshop featured presentations, both oral and
posters, and plenary addresses. It is our pleasure to present all papers in this
collection. We present the proceedings in the form of a CD-ROM for your easy
handling and searching.
Our deep appreciation is extended to all the authors for their timely
contributions. Our sincere thanks go to members to the Technical Program
Committee, for the very high-quality reviewing. We acknowledge gratefully all
the members of the Organizing Committee: Prof. Rohit Negi for finance, Cha Zhang
for publicity, Dr. Chang Wen Chen for exhibits, and many student volunteers. We
also thank Ms. Barbara Grandillo for making the CD-ROM conference. Last but not
the least, our very special gratitude goes to Ms. Marlene Layton whose
organization expertise has been truly invaluable to the success of the Workshop.
We hope you enjoy the workshop!
Michael
Hemy, General Chair
Tsuhan
Chen, Technical Program Co-Chair
Peter
Steenkiste, Technical Program Co-Chair
