-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers (MSGID:20030719074036) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 07:42:25 +0800 From: CFP SYSTEM cfp@cs.tku.edu.tw To: Lars.Wolf@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de

********* IEEE ICME 2004 ***********

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004)

June 27 - June 30, 2004

The Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan

http://www.icme2004.org

Call for papers and proposals -----------------------------

The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) is an annual joint activity of the Circuits and Systems Society, the Communications Society, the Computer Society, and the Signal Processing Society of IEEE. This annual event brings together more than 500 researchers, engineers, and students to discuss the state-of-the-art research, technology and applications in multimedia. In addition to paper presentations, the ICME 2004 features distinguished keynote speeches, tutorials, and poster presentations. Continuing the spirit of the conference series, the ICME 2004 will also host industrial exhibitions and academia research demonstrations.

We invite contributions describing research, development and applications in the following, and related, areas. Papers submitted should adhere to a double-column, single-space, 4-page format. Electronic submissions are encouraged. Topics include but not limited to:

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Audio, speech, image, graphic, and video processing Content-based information retrieval and pattern discovery Embedded Video Hardware and software for multimedia systems Integration of media, art, and multimedia technology Intelligent multimedia signal processing Location aware multimedia systems Multimedia communications and networking Multimedia computing systems and appliances Multimedia database and digital libraries Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction Multimedia security and content protection Multimedia standards and related issues Signal processing for media integration Virtual reality and 3-D imaging Wireless multimedia

Special Session Proposals: ICME 2004 will include a number of special sessions on cutting-edge topics related to emerging multimedia research and especially in fast developing areas that are in an embryonic phase. Proposals for special sessions must include a title, contact information for the session chair(s), a paragraph on the overall theme of the session, and a list of authors who have agreed to present papers in the session. Proposals for special sessions should be submitted to Dr. Qi Tian (tian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg) and to Dr. Nevenka Dimitrova (nevenka.dimitrova@philips.com).

Tutorial Proposals: Tutorials will be held on June 27th, 2004. Tutorial proposals should include a description and outline, materials to be distributed, and short vitae of the speaker(s). Tutorial proposals should be submitted to Dr. Ton Kalker (ton.kalker@ieee.org) and to Dr. Yun Q. Shi (shi@njit.edu).

Exhibition and Demonstration Proposals: Exhibition participants should be industrial or research organizations. Each exhibitor will receive an acknowledgement in the conference program. Demonstrations should be research projects from universities or research organizations. A two-page paper for the demonstration will be included in the CDROM proceedings. Proposals of Exhibitions and Demonstrations should be submitted to Dr. Ja-Ling Wu (wjl@csie.ntu.edu.tw) and to Dr. Jen-Shiun Chiang (chiang@ee.tku.edu.tw).

Social Events: The participants will be pleased with the Chinese palace style architecture at the Grand Hotel with convenient transportation. In addition to sightseeing, the conference will arrange tours to the National Palace Museum, containing many fabulous Chinese art treasures, as well as hiking in the famous Yangmingshan National Park.

Important Dates ---------------

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Special Session Proposal: 15 October 2003 Paper Submission: 1 December 2003 Proposals for Tutorial: 1 December 2003 Proposals for Exhibition and Demo: 1 December 2003 Notification of Acceptance: 1 March 2004 Camera-Ready Paper: 31 March 2004

Organization Committee and Advisory Board ----------------------------------------- General Chair D. T. Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Conference Co-Chairs Xinhua Zhuang, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, USA Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Technical Program Co-Chairs William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Technical Program Vice-Chairs Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, Germany Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA Jun Ohya, Waseda University, Japan C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California, USA

Special Session Co-Chairs Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research, USA Qi Tian, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Tutorial Co-Chairs Ton Kalker, Philips Research, Netherlands Yun Q. Shi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Demo/Exhibit Co-Chairs Ja-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Jen-Shiun Chiang, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Registration Chair Jen-Shiun Chiang, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Local Arrangement Chair Ying-Hong Wang, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Finance Chair Ying-Hong Wang, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Publicity Co-Chairs Ching-Yung Lin, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Yo-Sung Ho, Kwangju Inst. of Sci. and Tech., Korea Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Wee Kheng Leow, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Europe Liaison Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Jean-Luc Dugelay, Institut Eurecom, France

North America Liaison Joern Ostermann, AT&T Labs Research, USA Chung-Sheng Li, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

ICME 2004 International Advisory Board Jacob Baal-Schem, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tat-Seng Chua, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton University, USA Ming L. Liou, Hong Kong U. of Sci. and Tech., HK (Chair) K. J. Ray Liu, University of Maryland, USA Peter Pirsch, University of Hannover, Germany Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Hong-Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China

ICME Steering Committee Sankar Basu (Chair) Computer Society representative William Grosky, Jeff Tsai, Philip Sheu Signal Processing Society representative Jean-Luc Dugelay, John Aasted Sorensen, Yu-Hen Hu Circuit and System Society representative Ming-Ting Sun, Oscar Au, Liang-Gee Chen Communication Society representative Heather Yu, Jacob Baal-Shem. Stan Moyer

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