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