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Although this symposium was put together in a very short time, the quality of the papers presented here is very high. They cover all aspects of consumer electronics and show the wide range of subjects and interests that electronics engineers have to have in order to contribute to the modern world.

We have also organised two workshops given by renowned experts in their field. One looks at the development of MP3 and the future directions that it may go in. The other considers the impact of the Internet on consumer electronics and develops the concept of IP Everywhere and the Internet-able appliance. We are also preseting a short tutorial session on human-interface design as applied to consumer electronics.

Finally, one of our sponsors has arranged a tour of their facilities the morning after the symposium finishes. We hope you will take up this opportunity to see what Hong Kong has to offer on a broader technical level. We thank our sponsors - Philips Electronics Hong Kong Ltd and Hong Kong Productivity Council - for their help in making the symposium possible.

Hong Kong is a place well known for its hospitality. The food is amazing and varied; the hotels top class; and the region itself has some of the most fascinating attractions anywhere in the world. While you are here we hope that you will take some time to explore and see why Hong Kong has the reputation that it does.

Robin Bradbeer

Chair, Organising Committee, ISCE2000

Robin S Bradbeer Chair and Publications

City University of Hong Kong

Timothy Y M Siu Local Arrangements

City University of Hong Kong

Edward Cheung Finance

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Lawrence Cheung Industrial liaison

Hong Kong Productivity Council

City University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

IEEE Hong Kong Section 

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society

Hong Kong Productivity Council

MP3: how it developed and its future

Karlheinz Brandenburg; Germany

Workshop II: Thursday 7th December

IP Everywhere

Bob Frankston; USA

Tutorial: Tuesday 5th December

Human interface engineering in consumer electronics:

Stefan Mozar; Australia

Technical session I: Tuesday 5th December

Innovative circuit techniques

Voice-activated robot control using the 32-bit Tricore embedded controller:

Amit Bhatia, Yu Fubing; Singapore

Partitioned log-based flash memory management and adaptive cleaning:

Mei-Ling Chiang, Ruei-Chuan Chang; Taiwan

Design of standalone security access unit:

Nicholas Vun, Wai Mun Koo, Alex Kot; Singapore

Integrated ultra low power consumer application:

Hans W Hauer, Michael Reinhold; Germany

A component based operating system for resource limited embedded devices:

Zan-yu Chen, Mei-ling Chiang, Ruei-chuan Chang; Taiwan

Technical session II: Tuesday 5th December

Mobile/wireless communications

Performance analysis of BPSK and DPSK systems in the presence of Nakagami-m fading and noisy phase reference:

C M Lo, W H Lam; Hong Kong

Capacity analysis for mobile cellular systems with distributed dynamic channel assignment:

Zhi Hua Zheng, W H Lam; Hong Kong

Cellular short message service using data compaction with bounded character synchronisation:

A C M Fong, B Fong; Singapore

Impact of the line transmission rate on the upstream capacity of the S-CDMA system with integrated traffic:

Chen Hua-Fang; China

A practical MAI cancellation scheme for HFC network upstream S-CDMA receiver:

Cui Yan Yan, Zhang Zhao-yang, Guan Yun-feng; China

Site based dispatching (SBD) technique for proxy load reduction:

K Y Wong, K H Yeung; Hong Kong

Impact of the line transmission rate on the upstream capacity of the S-CDMA-HFC system with integrated traffic:

Huifang Chen, Lei Xie and Peiliang Qiu; China

Technical session III: Wednesday 6th December

Video/audio processing applications

Motions of multiple objects detection based on video frames:

Kit Ming Chan, Chi Kwong Li; Hong Kong

Extraction of mood of an image:

Tae-sun Choi, Aamir Saaed Malik, Humaira Nisar; Korea

Computational reduction of motion estimation using quadrant search for software video coding:

Jong-Nam Kim, Byung-Ha Ahn; Korea

A simple and efficient deblocking algorithm for low bit-rate video coding:

K Ramkishor, Pravin Karandikar; India

New block motion estimation algorithm for video compression:

C-K Ning, K-T Lo, H-T Tang; Hong Kong

Error resilient transmission with multiple description coding for image and video compression:

Hsiang-cheh Huang, Hsueh-ming Hang; Taiwan

Technical session IV: Wednesday 6th December

Internet and home applications

Micro-flow control framework for home gateway:

Tan Pek-Yew, Cheng Hong; Singapore

Development of PCI voice processing card for internet phone gateway implementation:

K M Lo, C K Ning, K T Lo; Hong Kong

Development of H.323 terminal for desktop video conferencing:

C K Ning, K M Ho, K T Lo; Hong Kong

Design of power line based home network system and its application:

D S Kim, K J Myung, W H Kwon, H J Shin; Korea

Design of an EEG biofeedback system:

Ma Zhong-ming; Singapore

An integration of user authentication and dynamic access control:

Chin-chen Chang, Der-chyuan Lou; Taiwan

A secure globally accessed control system using Smart Card

C K CHan and L M Cheng, Hong Kong

Multicast traffic coordinator framework for real-time multimedia over residential networks

China Hooi Tang, Tat Chee Wan, Malaysia

Technical session V: Thursday 7th December

Multimedia

A multimedia-evaluation of the Infineon Tricore:

Ari Wahyudi, Amos Omondi, Thambilipai Srikantham; Singapore

The research of high virtuality on remotely education:

Nishihara Isao, Nakano Shizuo, Torityama Tomoji, Shinamura Kazunori, Hibino Yasusha, Kuroda Takashi, Yamanishi Zyun'ichi; Japan

Remote-controlled scent system for virtual reality applications:

E C Tan, C H Vun, A Wahab; Singapore

QoS agent applied to QBE of multimedia framework:

Hee-Choon Kwon, Dae-Joon Hwang; Korea

Database security applied distributed system with public key:

Kyung-kug Kim, Yang-kyu Lim, Dong-ho Won; Korea

Technical session VI: Thursday 7th December

Digital television and CATV

RAMPEG gives new performance boost to DTV applications:

Albert Dorner; Germany

Unified level planning in CATV networks for analogue and digital signals using Crest factor:

H Weissleder, E Edelmann, H Danz, M Richter, V Jaecht; Germany

DVB and its future:

Forest Tan, N Sriskanthan; Singapore

Sound in vision:

Stefan Mozar; Australia

Hardware implentation of an all digital burst mode asynchronous DS-CDMA transceiver for data access over HFC/CATV network:

Zhang Zhao-yang, Cui Yan-yan, Guan Yun-feng; China