§16§This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, held in Singapore during December 4-6, 2012.The 59 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions for the main conference and are accompanied by 23 presentations of 4 special sessions. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimedia content analysis, image and video processing, video coding and multimedia information processing, image/video processing and analysis, video coding and multimedia system, advanced image and video coding, cross media learning with structural priors, as well as efficient multimedia analysis and utilization. §04§Multimedia Content Analysis I Incremental Learning of Patch-Based Bag of Facial Words Representation for Online Face Recognition in Videos.- Evaluation of Audio Quality Requirements over Extended Periods of Time Using Long Duration Audiovisual Content.- Hashing with Cauchy Graph.-Multimedia Event Detection Using Segment- Based Approach for Motion Feature.- Robust Feature Bundling.- Image and Video Processing I.- Colorization for Gray Scale Facial Image by Locality-Constrained Linear Coding.- New Eye Contact Correction Using Radial Basis Function for Wide Baseline Videoconference System.- An Integrated Hole-Filling Algorithm for View Synthesis.- A Real-Time On-Chip Algorithm for IMU-Based Gait Measurement.- Reducing the Power Consumption of an IMU- Based Gait Measurement System.- Video Coding and Multimedia Information Processing ISSIM-Based End-to-End Distortion Modeling for H.264 Video Coding.- A Videoconferencing-Oriented Hybrid-Domain H.264/SVC to H.264/AVC Spatial Transcoder.- §04§ Robust Noise Estimation Based on Noise Injection.-Image Quality Assessment Based on Improved Structural SIMilarity.- Multi-hypothesis Temporal Prediction Using Template MatchingPrediction and Block Motion Compensation for High Efficiency Video Coding.-Multimedia Content Analysis II Leveraging Exemplar and Saliency Model for Image Search Reranking.- Real-Time Markerless Hand Gesture Recognition with Depth Camera.-Social Tag Enrichment via Automatic Abstract Tag Refinement.- "...It's Orange and Small, and White Stripes..." Augmented-Reality.- System for Fish Species Identification in Aquariums.- An Adaptive Non Reference Anchor Array Framework for Distant Speech Recognition.- Video Coding and Multimedia Information Processing II.- Real-Time Macroblock Level Bits Allocation for Depth Maps in 3-D Video Coding.- Least Square Based View Synthesis Prediction for Multi-view Video Coding.- Zoomable Video Playback on Mobile Devices by Selective Decoding.- SSIM-Based Error Resilient Video C §04§oding over Packet-Switched Networks.- De-blocking Filter Design for HEVC and H.264/AVC.- Image and Video Processing II A Local Texture-Constrained Super-Resolution Method.- Top-Down Saliency by Multi-scale Contextual Pooling.- A Robust Watermarking Scheme Based on Dual Quantization of Wavelet Significant Difference.-Robust Image Content Authentication Using Perceptual Hashing and Watermarking.- A Secure Semi-fragile Self-recoverable Watermarking Algorithm Using Group-Based Wavelet Quantization.- Image/Video Processing and Analysis Towards Independent Color Space Selection for Human Skin Detection.- A Novel Smart Multi-license Plate Recognition Method.-Persistent Object Tracking in Road Panoramic Videos.- Active Learning for Transferrable Object Classification in Cross- View Traffic Scene Surveillance.- Laplacian-Based Feature Preserving Mesh Simplification.- An Image Splicing Detection Based on Interpolation Analysis.- A Multimodal Approach for Online Estimation of Subtle Facial E §04§xpression.- Just Noticeable Difference for 3D Images with Depth Saliency.- Improving Image Distance Metric Learning by Embedding Semantic Relations.- Pose Estimation with Motionlet LLC Coding.- Transfer Discriminant-Analysis of Canonical Correlations for View-Transfer Action Recognition.- Personalized Celebrity Video Search Based on Cross-Space Mining.- Effective Comic-Like Representations with Embedded Regions of Interest.-Kinect-Based Easy 3D Object Reconstruction.- Video Coding and Multimedia System.- Adaptive Rate-Distortion Prediction for Multiple Reference Selection and Inter-mode Decision.- A New Rate-Quantization Model for H.264/AVC Low-Delay Rate Control.-Chaos-Based Selective Encryption for AVS Video Coding Standard.-Q-CSLBP: Compression of CSLBP Descriptor.- Efficient Partial Decoding Scheme for Intra Frame in H.264/AVC Stream.-Histopathology Image Streaming.- Visual Saliency and Distortion Weighting Based Video Quality Assessment.- A Resource Scheduling Approach for
