IEEE - PCM 2000 Final Call for Papers

[ISMIP 2000]

---------                            FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS              The First IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia                   December 13-15, 2000, Sydney, Australia          IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society         University of Sydney Signal & Multimedia Processing Laboratory           In cooperation with IEEE New South Wales Section (pending)   IEEE-PCM Financial sponsors:   .Motorola Australia Research Centre (The Major Sponsor) .Southern Poro Communications .Microsoft Research China   The First IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (IEEE-PCM), the millenium multimedia meeting in the Pacific-Rim, will be held in the University of Sydney, Australia. Sydney is uniquely suited for this first time-event in view of its large concentration of high tech industries, first rate academic institutions and numerous multimedia companies. One important aspect of IEEE-PCM 2000 is to incorporate exhibitions into the framework of traditional IEEE sponsored conference by providing the industry an opportunity to showcase products. The technical program will feature opening keynote addresses, invited plenary talks, tutorials, special sessions, and technical presentations of refereed papers. Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following topics:   . Components and technologies for multimedia systems (audio/visual/text/others) . Mobile/wearable systems . Human-computer interface and interaction . Multimedia database and file systems . System integration . Applications (e-commerce/video-on-demand/telemedicine/distant education/others) . Standards and related issues   Prospective authors are invited to submit a four page manuscript in double column format. The top of the first page of the paper should include a title, authors' names, affiliations, address, telephone/fax numbers, and email address if applicable. The indicated corresponding author will receive an acknowledgement of his/her submission. Electronic submission in postscript format is strongly encouraged. Electronic submission procedure will be made available at the conference web site:   http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/ieee-pcm2000 or (http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~ismip2000).   Camera-ready full papers of accepted manuscripts will be published in the conference proceedings and distributed at the conference.   Proposals for special sessions and half-day tutorial courses, and exhibitions should be submitted to conference web site before the deadline.   Schedule   Submission of regular papers:                   April 30, 2000 Proposals for sp. sessions, tutorials, demos:   April 30, 2000 Notification of paper acceptance:               June 15, 2000 Notification of proposal acceptance:            June 30, 2000 Submission of camera-ready paper:               July 30, 2000 Advanced registration, before:                  September 15, 2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Best Papaer Awards   One best paper award and one best student paper award will be selected by 2000 IEEE-PCM Organizing Committee and presented to the winners at the conference.   ----------------------------------------------------------------- Advisory Committee Chair     Sun-Yuan Kung   Princeton  University    [EMAIL PROTECTED]   General Co-Chairs     Ling Guan                     The University of Sydney     [EMAIL PROTECTED]          Peter Beadle                          Ray K.J. Liu                Motorola Australia Research Centre    University of Maryland      [EMAIL PROTECTED]              [EMAIL PROTECTED]          Program Co-Chairs     Jianming Song   Motorola Australia Research Centre   [EMAIL PROTECTED]     Sadaoki Furui                  Ya-Qin Zhang             Tokyo Institute of Technology  Microsoft Research China           [EMAIL PROTECTED]          [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Finance Chair     Hau-San Wong   The University of Sydney    [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Tutorial/Special Session Chair     Shi-Peng Li                    Ian Oppermann   Microsoft Research China       Southern Poro Communications   [EMAIL PROTECTED]             [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Publicity Chair     Suresh Hungenahally   Brisbane Water   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Exhibition Chairs     Richard Green   Branch Systems Pty Ltd   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Local Arrangement     Songyang Yu   Macquarie  University    [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Advisory Committee        Yianni Attikiouzel        University of Western Australia      M. Reha Civanlar          AT&T Research Labs      Rama Chellappa            University of Maryland      Tsuhan Chen               Carnegie Mellon University      Tariq S. Durrani          University of Strathclyde      Chao-Huan Hou             Chinese Academy of Science      Yu Hen Hu                 University of Wisconsin-Madison      Hsin Chia Fu              National Chiao-Tung University      Yih-Fang Huang            University of Notra Dame      Thomas Huang              University of Illinoise Urbana-Champign      Jenq-Neng Hwang           University of Washington      Aggelos Katsaggelos       Northwestern University      Chin-Hui Lee              Bell Lab Lucent Technology      Mark Liao                 Academia Sinica Taiwan      Bede Liu                  Princeton University      Jose' M. F. Moura         Carnegie Mellon University      Soo-Chang Pei             National Taiwan University      John Aasted Sorensen      Technical University of Denmark      Huifang Sun               Mitsubishi America      W.C. Siu                  Hong Kong Polytechnic University      Ah Chung Tsoi             University of Woollongong      A.N. Venetsanopoulos      University of Toronto      Martin Vetterli           EPFL Switzerland      Rabab Ward                University of British Columbia      Wilson Wen                GoConnet Australia   Program Committee        Tulay Adali                  University of Maryland, BC      Kiyo Aizawa                  Tokyo University      Ali N. Akansu                New Jersy Institute of Technology      Shih-Fu Chang                Columbia University      Wen-Long Chang               National Tsing-Hua University      Zheru Chi                    Hong Kong Polytechnic University      Tat-Seng Chua                National Sigapore University      Chang Wen Chen               University of Missouri-Columbia      Gary Cobb                    Dell      Wen Gao                      Inst. of Computing, Chinese Academy of Science      Robert M. Gray               Stanford University      Kaoru Hirota                 Tokyo Institute of Technology      Shigeru Katagiri             ATR/NTT      C.-C. Jay Kuo                University of Southern California      Jan Larsen                   Technical University of Denmark      Chung-Sheng Li               IBM      Wanqing Li                   Motorola Australian Research Centre      Xinggang Lin                 Tsinghua University      Ming L. Liou                 Hongkong Univ. of Science and Technolog      Peiya Liu                    Siemens      Brian Lovell                 University of Queensland      Suhuai Luo                   CSIRO TCIP Division      Brenden McCane               University of Otago      Helen Meng                   Chinese University of Hong Kong      Alfred Mertins               University of Wollongong      Shigeo Morishima             Seikei Univ/ATR      King Ngan                    University of Western Australia      Philip Ogunbona              Motorola Australian Research Centre      Antonio Ortega               University of Southern California      Peter Pirsch                 University of Hannover      Konstantinos N. Plataniotis  University of Toronto      Joern Ostermann              AT&T Research Labs      Amy Reibman                  AT&T Research Labs      Yoshinori Sakai              Tokyo Institute of technology      Aruna Seneviratne            University Of New South Wales      Uma Srinivasan               CSIRO MIS Division      S Suthaharan                 Tennessee State University      Tomohiko Taniguchi           Fujitsu Laboratories of America      A. Murat Tekalp              University of Rochester      Jay Tian                     Chinese Academy of Sciences      Svetha Venkatesh             Curtin University      Jhing-fa Wang                National Cheng Kung University      Yao Wang                   Polytechnic University      Joseph Yue Wang              Catholic University of America      Yinbo Hua                    University of Melburne      Bing Zeng                    Hongkong Univ. of Science and Technolog      Hongjiang Zhang              Microsoft Research China