http://www.comsoc.org/~mmc/ 1/26 Vol.3, No.1, February 2012 MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY http://www.comsoc.org/~mmc R-LETTER Vol. 3, No. 1, February 2012 CONTENTS Message from R-Letter Director ..................................................................................... 2 Video Conferencing over Peer-to-Peer Networks .......................................................... 3 A short review for “Optimizing multi-rate peer-to-peer video conferencing applications” ................................................................................................................... 3 Perceived Video Quality Assessment based on Attended and Entire Visual Stimuli . 5 A short review for “Balancing attended and global stimuli in perceived video quality assessment” ..................................................................................................................... 5 Measuring Trade-off between Temporal Smoothness and Quality in Videos ............ 7 A short review for “Perceptual quality assessment of video considering both frame rate and quantization artifacts” .............................................................................................. 7 Reduced Reference Video Quality Assessment: Video Plus Depth .............................. 9 A short review for “Quality evaluation for real-time 3D video services" ...................... 9 A Decentralized Robust Transmission Solution for Multiple Cameras .................... 12 A short review for “Robust distributed multi-view video compression for wireless camera networks”.......................................................................................................... 12 An Automatic View Synthesis Algorithm for Multi-View-Plus-Depth Videos ......... 14 A short review for “Depth image-based rendering with advanced texture synthesis for 3-D video”..................................................................................................................... 14 Moving Region Segmentation from Compressed Video.............................................. 17 A short review for “Moving region segmentation from compressed video using global motion estimation and Markov random fields” ............................................................ 17 Delay Analysis for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks ....................................................... 19 A short review for “Delay analysis and optimality of scheduling policies for multi-hop wireless networks” ........................................................................................................ 19 Wireless Physical Layer Security: The Multicast Transmit Beamforming Case ..... 21 A short review for “Multicast secrecy rate maximization for MISO channels with multiple multi-antenna eavesdroppers” ........................................................................ 21 Achieving Secure MANET: Fundamental Limits and Practical Schemes ................ 23 A short review for “Secrecy throughput of MANETs under passive & active attacks”23 Paper Nomination Policy................................................................................................ 25 R-Letter Editorial Board................................................................................................ 26 MMTC Officers............................................................................................................... 26