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