EXTENDED DEADLINE TO SEPTEMBER 30th 1999. MULTIMEDIA TRADESHOW'99 ACM Multimedia International Workshop on Multimedia Virtual Exhibition: Models, Technologies and Applications in conjonction with ACM Multimedia Conference 1999 http://www.kom.e-technik.tu-darmstadt.de/acmmm99/ MULTIMEDIA TRADESHOW'99 will explore how multimedia technology could re-engineer the way visitors and exhibitors presently operate their visiting a trade-show or exhibiting at the same by subscribing and managing a booth. The workshop will cover technologies for exhibition's virtual construction, processing of products' queries and virtual exhibition's visits prior to official opening, including interpersonal e-messaging among visitors and exhibitors' personel during and after the trade-show. Key of the virtual exhibit concept is allowing post-exhibit virtual continous e-business for information, dealer contract closing, and products delivery. Special focus will be placed on issues related to full digital operations over internet, voice messaging included. Needed technologies relate to proposed standards for the integration of TV and the Web for dynamic scenes visualisation, as well as image and sound content analysis and processing, or paradigms and metaphors for multimedia authoring and display. The economic impact of virtual trade operations is also relevant to this workshop, both from visitors and exhibitors standpoint. Authors are invited to submit technical papers in following or related areas: Audio/Image/Video Processing over the net Content Analysis Multimedia Product Databases and Search Engines Content Based Retrieval Multimedia Information Retrieval on the Web Media Web Servers and Services Distributed Virtual Interaction Architectures Virtual and 3D Large scenes reconstruction and visit over Web Economic impact of virtual exhibit e-visits Integration with personal productivity tools Virtual Browsing Paradigms Important Dates 1999, September 30th Submission deadline 1999, October 15th Notification of acceptance 1999, October 26th Deadline for camera ready copies 1999, November 5 Workshop Submission Procedure (all submissions are electronic) Authors are requested to submit papers, no longer than 10 pages. Papers should be submitted by e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . We will accept papers in PostScript or PDF formats. Selection will be based upon technical and scientific content and relevance to the workshop. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
