IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA AND EXPO JULY 30 -- AUGUST 2, 2000, NEW YORK CITY http://://www.ieee-multimedia.poly.edu International Conference on Multimedia & Expo 2000 is the first IEEE multimedia conference that will take place in joint collaboration with four IEEE societies. The same four IEEE societies that have recently launched the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, namely the Circuits and Systems Society, the Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society and the Communications Society have again come together in making this one-of-a-kind conference a reality. The goal is to unify all IEEE as well as non-IEEE multimedia related activities under the common umbrella of ICME 2000 -- the millennium multimedia meeting. It is expected that this will become a yearly event as the flagship Multimedia conference of the IEEE. New York City (the Big Apple) is uniquely suited for this first-time event in view of its large concentration of high tech Industries, first-rate academic institutions and numerous small multimedia companies. The intent is to blend the traditional IEEE conference framework into an Expo by providing the industry an opportunity to showcase products. Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column format including authors' names, affiliations and a short abstract. Only electronic submission (in postscript format) will be accepted. Electronic submission procedure will be made available at the conference web site: http://www.ieee-multimedia.poly.edu Topics covered include but are not limited to the following: * Signal processing for media integration * Components and technologies for multimedia systems * Human-machine interface and interaction * Multimedia databases and file systems * Multimedia communication and networking * System integration * Applications * STDS standards and related issues Once accepted, the authors will be asked to prepare a four-page camera ready paper to appear in the conference proceedings and CD-ROM proceedings. Proposals for special sessions and half-day or full-day tutorial courses may be submitted to the respective chairs before the respective deadlines. Visit the conference web site for further information. DEADLINES December 1, 1999 Submission of regular papers February 1, 2000 Proposals for special sessions, panels, tutorials, demos March 1, 2000 Notification of acceptance for papers March 15, 2000 Notification of acceptance for proposals April 1, 2000 Paper camera-ready copy due CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chair: Sankar Basu, IBM sankar@watson.ibm.com Finance Chair: Peter Westerink, IBM Technical Program Co-Chairs: Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon Jeff H. Derby, IBM Peiya Liu, Siemens Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Special Sessions: Raj Acharya, SUNY, Buffalo Chalapathy Neti, IBM Tutorials: Rama Chellappa, U. Maryland Alexandros Eleftheriadis, Columbia Plenaries: S. Y. Kung, Princeton U. Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia U. Demos/Exhibits: Yao Wang, NY Polytechnic U. Publicity: Jelena Kovacevic, Bell Labs Ed Wong, NY Polytechnic Publications: Y. Q. Shi, NJIT Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM Registration: Junehwa Song, IBM Local Arrangements: Goran Djuknic, Lucent Tech. Ravi Rao, IBM Atul Puri, AT&T European Liaison: Alberto Del Bimbo, U. Florence Martin Vetterli, EPFL Far East Liaison: Masahito Hirakawa, Hiroshima U. Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Inst. Tech. Steering Committee: Tadao Ichikawa, Hiroshima U. Rama Chellappa, U. Maryland Gary W. Cobb, Dell Alberto Del Bimbo, U. Florence Jeff H. Derby, IBM Alexander D. Gelman, Panasonic Yih-Fang Huang, U. Notre Dame Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Peiya Liu, Siemens Antonio Ortega, USC Dipankar Raychaudhuri, NEC Bing Sheu, Avanti Corporation John A. Sorensen, TU Denmark Advisory Committee: Richard Cox, AT&T Ed Deprettere, Delft U. Tech. Cesar Gonzales, IBM Scott Kirkpatrick, IBM Michael Picheny, IBM