Is a defendant required to attend a restitution hearing?

As discussed above, a restitution hearing is part of the sentencing proceedings. (Dehle, supra, 166 Cal.App.4th at p. 1386; cf. People v. Cain (2000) 82 Cal.App.4th 81, 87 ["a hearing on an amount of restitution to be made to the victim pursuant to section 273.5 is part and parcel of the sentencing process"].) Thus, under the terms of section 977, a defendant is required to be present at a restitution hearing (as it is part of sentencing), and the statute provides no procedure by which the defendant's presence at the proceeding may be waived.