Call for Papers
[CFP] IEEE Multimedia Systems '96, Hiroshima
The 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
June 17-21, 1996
International Conference Center, Hiroshima, Japan
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society (approval pending)
In cooperation with the IEICE of Japan and IPS of Japan
The Third IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and
Systems (ICMCS) is devoted to presenting and exploring technological
advancements and innovations in the field of Digital Multimedia
Computing related to technical issues, theory, practice, and business
and consumer market applications. It will bring together researchers,
developers, educators, performers, and practitioners of Digital
Multimedia. The goal is to foster increased synergy in the
exploitation of the advances in one area by other areas, and to
support communication among developers and deliverers of digital
multimedia applications and programming.
The conference will address but is not limited to practical,
technical, strategic, and standardization issues in the following
fields:
Systems and Tools:
Architecture, networks, distributed systems, operating systems,
storage systems, communication protocols, multimedia database and
information systems, multimedia production and authoring tools,
multimedia intelligent systems.
Techniques:
Video/audio/image compression, human-computer interaction, real-time
scheduling, content-based retrieval, image processing, animation.
Applications:
Digital libraries, consumer video on demand, interactive TV, arts,
medicine, publishing, meeting room support and training, education,
entertainment.
Submission of Papers:
The working language of the conference is English. Each submitted
paper must include an abstract and must conform to the following
format.
First page:
title, authors, mailing address, phone, fax number, electronic mail
address of each author indicating one or two authors to contact.
Second and subsequent pages: title, authors' affiliations, 100 words
abstract with full paper manuscript, limited to 25 double-spaced pages
including figures and references. Submit six hard copies of each in
English to the following address no later than Nov. 24, 1995:
Prof. Masao Sakauchi
ICMCS '96 Program Co-Chair
Institute of Industrial Science, Univ. of Tokyo
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku
Tokyo 106 JAPAN
Phone: +81-3-3402-6231 (ex.2644)
Fax: +81-3-3479-0449
E-mail: ICMCS96@sak.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Special Sessions:
The conference will feature special sessions on topics of special
interest. To propose a special session, contact one of the Program
Co-Chairs by providing the session name and a list of 6-10 potential
papers and authors. All potential Session papers will be reviewed.
Tutorials:
To propose a tutorial, contact the Tutorial Co-Chair,
Dr. N. Terashima
ATR Comm. Systems Lab.
Phone: +81-774-95-1211
E-mail: terasima@atr-sw.atr.co.jp
Call for Videos:
At ICMCS '96, a video exhibition will be organized for demonstrating
research results including industrial case studies. Submissions
should consist of a maximum 5 minute video segment (VHS) and an
information sheet including the title of the presentation,
affiliations, name of authors (please identity the corresponding
author), and a 200 words abstract. They should be submitted no later
thanNov. 24, 1995, to M. Sakauchi, Program Co-Chair.
Paper Acceptance:
Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference
and the manuscript must be accompanied by a paid registration.
Important Dates
Paper, video, tutorial, special session due: Nov. 24, 1995
Notification of acceptance: Feb. 15, 1996
Deadline or submission of final manuscripts: April 1, 1996
Committee members:
IMS96, Committee members
Steering Committee:
Chair: T. Ichikawa (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
L. A. Belady (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs., USA)
S. M. Stevens (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA)
Conference Chair:
S. M. Stevens (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA)
Program Co-Chairs:
M. Sakauchi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
W. Klas (GMD, Germany)
Program Committee:
M. M. Blattner (Univ. of California Davis, USA)
G. Bucci (Univ. of Florence, Italy)
J. Buford ( Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, USA)
W. Effelsberg (Germany)
J. Foley (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
B. Furht (Florida Atlantic Univ., USA)
N. D. Georganas (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada)
A. Ghafoor ( Purdue University, USA)
S. Gibbs (GMD, Germany)
B. Grosky (Wayne State Univ., USA)
W. Hall (Univ. of Southampton, UK)
Y. Hatori (KDD, Japan)
R. G. Herrtwich (IBM Eurocoordination Multimedia, France)
R. Jain (Univ. of California, USA)
T. Kanade (CMU, USA)
T. D. C. Little (Univ. of Boston, USA)
P. Liu (Siemens, USA)
K. Matsuda (Fujitsu Ltd., Japan)
D. McAuley (University of Cambridge, UK)
M. Minoh (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Y. Muraoka (Waseda Univ., Japan)
S. Ozawa (Keio Univ., Japan)
T. Ozsu (University of Alberta, Canada)
A. A. Rodriguez (Scientific Atlanta, Inc., USA)
K. Rothermel (Uni. of Stuttgart, Germany)
Y. Sakai (Tokyo Institute of Tech., Japan)
P. Schaeuble (ETH, Switzerland)
S. Smoliar (NUS, Singapore)
A. Sood (George Mason University, USA)
G. Suzuki ((NTT Hi lab., Japan)
Y. Takashima (NEC Corp., Japan)
A. N. Tantawi (IBM T.Watson Research Center, USA)
G. Ventre (Uni. Naples, Italy)
F. Wakamori (Hitachi Corp., Japan)
J. W. Yang (Korea)
R. P. Zeletin (Techn Uni. Berlin, Germany)
Tutorial Co-Chairs:
N. Terashima ( Japan)
R. Steinmetz (Germany)
Exhibits Chair:
H. Yasuda (Japan)
Advisory Committee:
Chair: T. Ichikawa (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
K. Abe (NTT Data Communications Systems, Japan)
S. Goto (NEC, Japan)
M. Kidode (Toshiba, Japan)
N. Motoki (NHK, Japan)
K. Sugimoto (IBM Japan, Japan)
M. Soga (Mitsubishi Electric, Japan)
T. Suzuki (Chugoku Electric Power, Japan)
J. Tanahashi (Fujitsu, Japan)
Y. Urano (KDD, Japan)
S. Yamashita (Matsushita Electric Industrial, Japan)
M. Yoneyama (Toyo Univ., Japan)
F. Wakamori (Hitachi, Japan)
Y. Muraoka (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Finance Chair:
M. Hirakawa (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
Publication Chair:
M. Christel (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA)
Publicity Chair:
H. Masaki (NTT Data Communications Systems, Japan)
Local Arrang. Chair:
A. Yoshitaka (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)