-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MULTE 2006 Call For Submissions // ICDT 2006, Côte d'Azur, France, August 30 - September 2, 2006 Datum: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:02:16 +0200 Von: Markus Kampmann (AC/EDD) markus.kampmann@ericsson.com An: multicomm@comsoc.org

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SECOND Call for Submissions

*MULTE 2006: Multimedia Telecommunications* as a part of the *International Conference on Digital Telecommunications, ICDT 2006 * *Côte d'Azur, France, August 30 - September 2, 2006*

For submissions, go on the ICDT 2006 page at http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICDT.htm and click Submit a paper

Important deadlines: Full paper submission April 5, 2006 Authors Notification: April 25, 2006 Camera ready, full papers due: May 15, 2006

The ICDT conference has the following specialized events:

*MULTE 2006: Multimedia Telecommunications*

SIGNAL 2006: Signal processing in telecommunications

DATA 2006: Data processing

AUDIO 2006: Audio transmission and reception systems

VOICE 2006: Voice over packet networks

VIDEO 2006: Video, conferencing, telephony

IMAGE 2006: Image producing, sending, and mining

SPEECH 2006: Speech producing and processing

IPTV 2006: IP/Mobile TV

MULTI 2006: Multicast/Broadcast Triple-Quadruple-play

CONTENT 2006: Production, distribution

HXSIP 2006: H-series towards SIP

MEDMAN 2006: Control and management of multimedia telecommunications

The following track topics are expected to be covered

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*MULTE 2006: Multimedia telecommunications *

Frameworks, architectures, systems for delivering voices, audio, and data

Methodologies, technologies, procedures and mechanisms

IMT-2000 concepts

IMS concepts (IP Multimedia Systems)

Bluetooth and WLAN coexistence on handsets

Packet-based multimedia communication systems

Converging technology for voice and data networks http://www.symbol.com/products/whitepapers/whitepapers_converging_tech.html

Accessibility features for unpaired users

Confidentiality for audiovisual services

Multimedia transmission performance

Multiplexing and synchronization

Directory services for multimedia

Computation complexity and costs (multiple simultaneous decoders)

Coding efficiency (embedded, bit-plane, arithmetic)

Compatibility between Analog/DVD and networks

IP4/IP6 transition and NAT

QoS/SLA, perceptual QoS, and formal visual tests

Temporal and spatial scalability

Pre-processing and predictive coding

Coding with regions-of-interest

Secure transcoding

Computation power and resolution

Transform and quantization

Entropy coding

Lossless and lossy compression

Transmission in noisy environments

Voice/video/data in 4G

Specialized medical applications

Medical imaging and communications networks

MPEG for endoscopy, microscopy, radiology, surgery

Medical archiving systems

Digital devices for image capturing (microscope, stethoscope)

Digital equipments and digital cinema

Digital signature protection

MULTE 2006 TPC Co-Chairs:

Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, Germany, markus.kampmann@ericsson.com mailto:markus.kampmann@ericsson.com**

Ahmed Mehaoua, Universy of Versailles, France, ahmed.mehaoua@prism.uvsq.fr mailto:ahmed.mehaoua@prism.uvsq.fr

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