Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2004 - 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Tokyo, Japan, November 30 - December 3, 2004, Pro

Following the success of the preceding conferences, PCM 2000 in Sydney, PCM 2001 in Beijing, PCM 2002 in Hsinchu, and PCM 2003 in Singapore, the ?fth PCM brought together the researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators in the ?eld of multimedia.