-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: ACM Multimedia 2004, 1st Deadline Jan 31! Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:37:39 -0500 From: Vernick, Michael David (Michael) vernick@AVAYA.COM Reply-To: Vernick, Michael David (Michael) vernick@AVAYA.COM To: SIGMM-MEMBERS@ACM.ORG

Greetings from the ACM Multimedia committee. We wish to thank everyone who contributed and attended to last years conference in Berkeley. With a paper acceptance rate of less than 20%, the conference's technical program was extremely strong.

It's now time to prepare for Multimedia 2004 to be held in New York City next October; the enclosed CFP outlines the details. There will be several new exciting additions to the conference. The Brave New Topics session will extend the boundaries of multimedia research, and an Art Exhibit will showcase the boundaries between Art and Technology.

!! The submission deadlines for panels, workshops, and brave new topics, are January 31st!!

Please pass the CFP on to any interested colleagues.

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CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Multimedia 2004 October 10-15, New York, NY USA http://www.mm2004.org/ ** NEW **

Present at Multimedia 2004 and help define the future of multimedia!

ACM Multimedia 2004 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. We especially encourage introduction of novel media such as haptic, smell, sensors, animation, etc.

Technical Program

The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in:

* Multimedia analysis, processing, and retrieval, including multimedia semantics, aesthetics, modeling, fusion, audio/video/multi-modal processing, multimedia content description and indexing, multimedia digital rights management (protection and attribution), content-based retrieval with emphasis on multiple and novel media.

* Multimedia networking and system support, including context-aware multimedia communications, Internet telephony, peer-to-peer streaming, audio/video streaming, multimedia content distribution, wireless multimedia, adaptive support for scalable media, Internet protocols, multimedia servers, operating systems, middleware and QoS.

* Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications, including new UI metaphors, usable distributed collaboration, authoring, multi-modal interaction and integration, multimedia in e-learning, entertainment, personal media, assisted living, and virtual environments.

We particularly encourage submissions in new and emerging areas. Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. In order to encourage sharing of implementations, this year will also initiate awards for best demo, best art exhibit and the best contributed open-source software.

Panels will consist of discussions on timely and controversial topics.

Short papers will be presented in poster format and are an opportunity for researchers to present new work and ideas in an interactive setting.

State-of-the-Art Tutorials by leading experts will precede the technical program. The full- and half-day offerings will span a wide variety of topics.

Brave New Topics is a special sessions track containing papers, which extend the boundaries of multimedia research.

Technical Demonstrations will include leading edge work in every area of multimedia technology and its application. An award will be given to the best technical demo.

An Art Exhibit will include creative interactive multimedia demonstrations and applications.

Video Demonstrations allow researchers and artists to demonstrate their tool, system or application without having to bring the equipment for a "live" demo.

Day-long Workshops on topics of great current interest to members of the multimedia research community will precede the technical program.

The Doctoral Symposium is a venue for doctoral students to present their research and receive feedback from members of the multimedia research field.

Important Dates

January 31, 2004 Panels, workshops, brave new topics, submission deadline April 5, 2004 Full papers submission deadline June 1, 2004 Tutorials submission deadline June 1, 2004 Demos, posters, software, art exhibition, video program, doctoral symposium submission deadline July 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance for full papers July 20, 2004 Camera-ready papers due

General Co-Chairs

Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research

Questions? Send e-mail to: mm04-chairs@cs.columbia.edu

Conference web site: http://www.mm2004.org/