Call for participation,
 
VLBV99 is held in Kyoto just after IEEE ICIP99 in Kobe.
Workshop Schedule is below. Detail is in 
http://www.hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vlbv99
 
(VLBV99: International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video)
 
 
Workshop Schedule:
 
 Friday, October 29, 1998
 9:00-9:10      Introduction and welcome
 
 9:15-10:15     Keynote Speech,  
                 Thomas Huang (Univ. of Illinois)
                 "From Video Indexing to Multimedia Understanding"
 
 10:15-10:40    coffee break
 
 10:40-12:30    Panel 1: Image Retrieval
                 Prof. A. Murat Tekalp (University of Rochester) (organizer)
                 Dr. Hong-Jiang Zhang (Microsoft)
                 Prof. Ed Delp (Purdue University)
                 Dr. Qian Huang (ATT Research)
                 Prof. Inald Lagendijk (University of Technolog
 12:30-2:00     lunch 
 
 2:00-3:00      Poster session 1
 
 3:00-3:30      coffee break
 
 3:30-5:20      Panel 2: MPEG7 need and boundaries
                 Prof. Phillipe Salembier (UCP) (organizer)
                 Dr. Masahiro Shibata (NHK)
                 Dr. Toby Walker (Sony)
                 Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb (Philips)
                 Prof. B. Manjunath (UC Santa Barbara)
 
 6:00-8:00      Banquet
 
 Saturday, October 30, 1998
 9:00-10:00      Keynote Speech, Fumiaki Tanaka
 
 10:00-11:50     Panel 3: Mobile and internet video
 
 11:50-1:30     lunch
                 Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang (Microsoft) (organizer)
                 Prof.Tsuhan Chen (CMU)
                 Prof. Antonio Ortego (USC)
                 Prof. Changwen Chen (Univ. of Missouri)
 
 1:30-2:30      Poster session 2
 
 2:30-3:00      coffee break
 
 3:00-5:10      Panel 4: Nonverbal information processing
                  Dr.Ryohei Nakatsu (ATR) (organizer)
                  Prof. Tsuhan Chen (CMU)
                  Prof. Jeffrey Cohn (University of Pittsburgh)
                  Prof. Sidney Fels (University of British Columbia)
                  Prof. Shigeo Morishima (Seikei University)
                  Dr. Jun Ohya (ATR)
                  Prof. Francis Quek (The University of Illinois)
                  Prof. Richard Reilly (University College Dublin)
                  Prof. Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal (University of Colorado)
 
 5:10-5:30      Closing remarks