PAPER CONTENTS Vol.63, No.11


Special Section　：　Image Processing/Coding and Applications

Papers

Digital Video Scrambling for Gradual Degradation of Image Quality Based on Region of Interest
Yosuke Toyota, Koichi Takagi, Masaru Sugano, Satoshi Miyaji and Akio Yoneyama ．．． （65）1555

Improving Embedded Information Quantity of Watermarked Images by Using Multiple-Valued Area of Signals
Masahiro Wada, Takahiko Horiuchi, Ryoichi Saito and Shoji Tominaga ．．． （76）1566

Precise Extraction of Moving Objects in Video Stream
Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani, Akio Ishikawa, Sei Naito, Shigeyuki Sakazawa and Atsushi Koike ．．． （84）1574

A Unified Video Processing Technique for Stabilization and Super-Resolution Zooming
Satoshi Kondo and Tadamasa Toma ．．． （95）1585

Improvement of Video Coding Performance Using Adaptive Interpolation Filter Without Filter Selection Information
Satoshi Kondo, Takaya Matsuno and Miki Haseyama ．．． （102）1595

Lossless Digital Watermarking by Using a Number Theoretic Transform
Hideaki Tamori and Tsuyoshi Yamamoto ．．． （108）1598

Motion-Compensated Spatio-temporal Nonseparable Filtering for Scalable Video Coding
Minoru Hiki, Shogo Muramatsu and Hisakazu Kikuchi ．．． （114）1604

Managing Time and Attendance Using Identification Technique with Film Images
Yoshito Nishita, Shigenori Tanaka, Hitoshi Furuta, Naoto Umaishi, Youhei Kitagawa and Kenichi Uchio ．．． （121）1611

Short Papers

Entropy Enhancement for Effective Width Reduction in Panoramic Images
Kohei Inoue, Kenji Hara and Kiichi Urahama ．．． （132）1622

Merging of Moving Regions Based on Robust Estimation for Affine Motion Parameters
Kousuke Imamura and Hideo Hashimoto ．．． （135）1625

Thinning/Thickening and Difference Sub-template Matching -For Robust Recognition of Strongly Deteriorated Signboard Images-
Thi Thi Zin, Pyke Tin and Hiromitsu Hama ．．． （140）1630

Regular Section

Papers

How Brightness and Contrast of Facial Photographs Affect the Impression Formation
Shigeru Sato, Hiroshi Komori, Naokazu Aoki and Hiroyuki Kobayashi ．．． （147）1637

Detecting Partially Duplicated Image Regions in a Digital Image
Keiji Noda, Khayrul Bashar, Yoshinori Takeuchi and Noboru Ohnishi ．．． （155）1645

Adaptive Quantization Ordering in Feedback Quantization for Interpolative Prediction Coding
Takahiro Fujita, Akira Kubota and Yoshinori Hatori ．．． （162）1652

Wide-Band Electromagnetic Wave Absorber Panel for Multipath Interference Reduction in Urban Areas
 Toshihiro Yamane, Koji Nagata, Atsuhiro Nishikata and Tetsuya Mizumoto ．．． （169）1659


Short Paper

Process Compensation Techniques for Low-Voltage CMOS Digital Circuits
Yusuke Tsugita, Tetsuya Hirose, Ken Ueno, Tetsuya Asai and Yoshihito Amemiya ．．． （177）1667

QoE-Based Arrangement of WFQ Schedulers for Audio-Video Streaming IP Transmissison
Jun Takeo and Shuji Tasaka ．．． （181）1671

Automatic Endocardium Contour Tracing Method Using Active Contour Models
-Accuracy Improvement of Contour Detection with Mitral Valve Processing-
Masahiro Horie, Masayuki Kashima, Kiminori Sato and Mutsumi Watanabe ．．． （185）1675