Call for Participation Multi-media Data Compression One Day BMVA Technical Meeting at British Institute of Radiology, London, UK on 2nd Dec 1998 The rapid growth in volume, quality and diversity of images, text and speech collected by a variety of acquisition systems and devices has outpaced existing data transmission, storage and retrieval systems. These data types require large storage capacity and/or bandwidth, which can be very expensive. This is particularly true of a variety of sensor-based images (e.g. satellite and astronomical, textual data and speech recording) where characteristics differ immensely. This workshop aims to cover some of the current state-of-the-art technologies in multi-media compression that are used or under-development. Please send your abstracts to: Dr. Margaret Varga, Defence Evaluation & Research Agency, Room E305, St Andrews Road, Malvern. WR14 3PS. UK email: varga@signal.dera.gov.uk