CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM Multimedia 2003 The 11th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia

November 2-8, 2003 Berkeley, CA, USA http://www.acm.org/sigmm/mm2003/

Multimedia 2003 cordially invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia event by submitting your work in all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, from theory to practice, and from servers to networks to end-user devices.

Multimedia 2003 will be held November 2-8, 2003, at the Berkeley Marina Radisson in Berkeley, California, USA

Present your work at Multimedia 2003 and define the future of multimedia!

TECHNICAL PROGRAM The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in three main tracks:

- Multimedia analysis, processing, and retrieval: including multimedia content description and indexing, multimedia semantics modeling, audio/video/multi-modal processing, multimedia digital rights management, content-based retrieval, MPEG-7/-21 standards.

- Multimedia networking and system support: including peer-to-peer streaming, audio/video streaming, multimedia content distribution, wireless multimedia, energy-aware streaming, Internet protocols, multimedia servers, operating systems, middleware and QoS.

- Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications: including hypermedia systems, user interfaces, authoring, multi-modal interaction and integration, multimedia in education, entertainment, and virtual environments.

We specifically solicit submissions in new and emerging areas in the field.

AWARDS will be given to the best paper and the best student paper.

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 and will range from introductory to advanced material.

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.

DAY-LONG WORKSHOPS on topics of great current interest to members of the multimedia research community will follow the technical program.

THE DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM is a venue for doctoral students to present their research and receive feedback from members of the multimedia field.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Detailed submission instructions will be available on the web site.

All technical paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) or PostScript (version 2 or later) of their paper. The paper submission deadline for all papers is April 7, 2003.

Please direct questions about paper submission to the Program Co-Chairs at mm2003@cs.umass.edu

Poster papers and proposals for panels, tutorials, technical demos, workshops, and doctoral symposium are solicited. Please contact the appropriate conference organizer (listed below) for more specific information on these types of submissions.

IMPORTANT DATES April 7, 2003 Panel, paper, tutorial, and workshop submissions due June 23, 2003 Demo, poster, doctoral symposium submissions due July 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance for full papers August 4, 2003 Camera-ready papers due

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS General Co-Chairs Lawrence Rowe, Univ of California, Berkeley rowe@bmrc.berkeley.edu Harrick Vin, Univ of Texas, Austin vin@cs.utexas.edu

Program Co-Chairs Technical Papers mailbox: mm2003@cs.umass.edu Content/Analysis John R. Smith, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center jrsmith@watson.ibm.com Systems Prashant Shenoy, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst shenoy@cs.umass.edu Applications Thomas Plagemann, Univ of Oslo, Norway plageman@ifi.uio.no

Tutorials Co-Chairs Ketan Mayer-Patel, Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill kmp@cs.unc.edu Savitha Srinivasan, IBM Almaden Research Center savitha@almaden.ibm.com

Video Program Chair Lynn Wilcox, FX Palo Alto Lab wilcox@pal.xerox.com

Workshop Chair Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University golshani@asu.edu

Technical Demos Yong Rui, Microsoft yongrui@microsoft.com

Doctoral Symposium Brian Bailey, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign bpbailey@cs.uiuc.edu

Panels Chair Phillip Conrad, Temple University conrad@joda.cis.temple.edu

Poster Chair Gopal Pingali, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center gpingali@us.ibm.com

Publicity Chair Michael Vernick, Lucent Bell Labs vernick@bell-labs.com

Proceedings Chair Susanne Boll, Univ of Oldenburg, Germany susanne.boll@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de

Web Site Sara Strandtman, Univ of Texas, Austin sds@cs.utexas.edu Pal Halvorsen, Univ of Olso, Norway paalh@ifi.uio.no

Asia Liason HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft China hjzhang@microsoft.com

Europe Liason Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt Univ, Germany Ralf.Steinmetz@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de

ACM Multimedia 2003 is sponsored by SIGMM <www.acm.org/sigmm/>, SIGGRAPH, and SIGCOMM.