CALL FOR PAPERS
                                        
IEEE WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIMEDIA COMPRESSION
            Santa Barbara, CA - June 22, 1998
Sponsored by the PAMI Technical Committee of the IEEE Computer Society
 
The diffusion of multimedia has radically changed the
traditional notion of "video". Interactivity, panoramic
rendering, hybrid 2D-3D, characterize the presentation of
visual contents on the WWW and multimedia; videoconferencing
is already the preferred medium for distant communication;
and large image and video databases are becoming accessible
and searchable.
 
The massive diffusion of interactive multimedia on the
internet and on CD-ROM calls for new, powerful compression
architectures, that go well beyond traditional waveform and
block-based motion coding. Modern compression standards such
as MPEG-4 already support content-based compression, making
use of image understanding techniques, traditionally
developed in other contexts. Future techniques in multimedia
coding will consider issues such as the 3-D dynamic
modelling of objects, the semantic representation of the
scene, the interpolation of views for panoramic
representations and mosaicing. It is apparent that
multimedia compression is becoming a challenging application
for computer vision.
 
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for
discussion of new results on computer vision techniques for
advanced scene analysis and compression, as well as to
encourage interaction with the image compression community.
The workshop will be held in conjunction with CVPR'98.
Workshop Proceedings will be available on site.
Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following
areas:
 
- Layered representation of images
- Clustering of video shots
- Texture representation and segmentation for image coding
- 3-D segmentation and representation 
- Compact combined description of shape and motion
- Registration of panoramic imagery
- Automatic facial conformation for model-based videophone
- Stereo and multiview image coding
- Parametric surface and volume description
- Speech-lip synchronization
- Contour-based coding
- Content-based scalability
 
        PAPER SUBMISSION
Four copies of complete manuscript should be
received by Jan. 30, 1998 at the following address:
 
        Dr. Carlo Tomasi - CVTMC'98
        Department of Computer Science
        Stanford University
        Gates Building 1A, Room 156
        Stanford, CA 94305
 
Papers  should  include:
(a) A title page containing the names and addresses of the
authors (including e-mail), an abstract of up to 200 words,
and one or more categories as listed above or other
keywords,
(b) A second title page - title and abstract only (to allow
for double blind reviewing),
(c) Paper - limited to 30 double-space pages (12 points, 
1 inch margins), including figures, references, etc.
 
For more information, please check 
http://www.vision.caltech.edu/manduchi/Workshop.html