-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACM Multimedia 2003: Call for Tutorial Proposals Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:20:58 +0100 From: Carsten Griwodz griff@IFI.UIO.NO Reply-To: Carsten Griwodz griff@IFI.UIO.NO To: SIGMM-MEMBERS@ACM.ORG

Call for Tutorial Proposals 11th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM2003)

The 11th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM2003) will be held in Berkeley,CA, November 2-8, 2003. We are currenty seeking out individuals to present tutorials on topics of interest to this community.

ACM Multimedia is the premier technical multimedia conference attended by an international community of researchers from both academia and industry. The conference program features tutorials, an exceptionally strong technical program (acceptance rate for papers is around 15%), topic-focussed workshops, and a doctoral symposium. Please see the conference website at http://www.acm.org/sigmm/mm2003 for more information.

Tutorial presenters are given a honarium of $1000 for 1/2 day tutorials and $2000 for full day tutorials. If tutorial enrollment exceeds 10 people, the honorarium is increased by $50 for each additional participant.

Included below is a list of possible tutorial topics which may be of interest. This list is representative and proposals for topics not specifically on this list are more than welcome. Proposals should be no more than four (4) pages and include the following: * Abstract describing the tutorial (including whether the tutorial will be 1/2 day or a full day). * A description of the target audience including prerequisite knowledge and experience. * A high-level table of contents and/or syllabus. * Speaker bio. * A/V equipment requirements.

Please send proposals via email directly to the tutorial co-chairs: Ketan Mayer-Patel (kmp@cs.unc.edu) or Savitha Srinivasan (savitha@almaden.ibm.com).

Important dates: * May 23: Deadline for tutorial proposals * July 1: Notification of acceptance

Suggested topics of interest:

Wireless Multimedia Systems and Standards XML and Multimedia (SMIL, etc.) Compression standards (H.264, MPEG-4, etc.) Compressed streaming geometry Content based retrieval Speech interface design Media semantics Access Grid Direct Show programming Photoshop Flash Desktop video editing Multimedia on the Web Digital Rights Management Digital Asset Management Media-rich Homes / Digital Entertainment Digital Watermarking Practical Digital Libraries Multimedia User Interface Design (Work, Home, and Mobile Products) Multimedia in Collaboration Scalable Multimedia Servers IP Telephony Speech indexing Video indexing TREC Video Retrieval P2P Networking Research Survey/Overview Networking testbeds (Emulab, PlanetLab, ModelNet, NS) Managing H.323/SIP Video Conferencing Services Machine Learning for Multimedia Applications Multimedia Information Retrieval Applications of Genomic IR to Multimedia Datamining multimedia Multi-party interactive Games