*************************************************************************** F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S *************************************************************************** International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing 2000 (VCIP 2000) 20-23 June 2000 Parmelia Hilton Hotel, Perth, AUSTRALIA http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~vcip2000/ *************************************************************************** Sponsored by: IE Australia, SPIE, IS&T, and Univ. of Western Australia In cooperation with: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Western Australian Section VCIP 2000 Conference Chairs: King N. Ngan, Univ. of Western Australia (Australia) king@ee.uwa.edu.au Thomas Sikora, Heinrich Hertz Institute (Germany) sikora@hhi.de Ming-Ting Sun, Univ. of Washington (USA) sun@maxwell.ee.washington.edu VCIP 2000 SCHEDULE: Abstract (1000 words) due: 9 November 1999 Notification of Acceptance: 29 February 2000 Camera-Ready papers due: 28 March 2000 Early notification of acceptance will be placed on the SPIE web site the week of 15 February 2000 at: http://www.spie.org/info/vc00_participants.html Visual communication has become an important engineering area that attracts interdisciplinary research interest and has lead to significant developments in technology and science. This conference is designed as a forum for presenting important research results. Original and unpublished material of novel techniques and new developments are solicited on the following and related topics: 1. Image & video coding 2. Object-based coding, model-based coding 3. Content-based coding 4. Image/video coding standards 5. Very low bit rate coding 6. DTV & electronic cinema 7. Wireless video 8. Internet video 9. Stereo/multiview image processing/analysis 10. Synthetic image/video 11. Motion estimation 12. Image sequence analysis 13. Multiresolution, subbands, wavelets 14. Object segmentation & tracking, feature extraction 15. Filtering, interpolation 16. Restoration 17. New image coding techniques 18. VLSI implementation and system architecture 19. Application systems 20. Special topics 21. Others SUBMISSION PROCEDURES: Your abstracts must include all of the following: 1. SUBMIT TO: VC2000 (NGAN, SIKORA, SUN) 2. SYMPOSIUM Visual Communications and Image Processing 2000 3. ABSTRACT TITLE 4. AUTHOR LISTING (principal author first) First(given)name Last(family)name, Affiliation Mailing address, telephone, fax, and email address. 5. PRESENTATION Indicate your preference for "Oral Presentation" or "Poster Presentation." Placement is subject to chairs' discretion. 6. ABSTRACT TEXT Approximately 1000 words - be sure to indicate the applicable topic number (e.g. 16. Restoration). 7. KEYWORDS List a maximum of five keywords. 8. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (of principal author) Approximately 50 words. All authors are strongly encouraged to submit their abstracts by the due date using the Web form located at URL: www.spie.org/forms/vc00_submission_form.html If World-Wide Web access is not available, please choose only one of the following options and send by the due date: 1) E-MAIL each abstract separately to: abstracts@spie.org in ASCII text (not encoded) format. IMPORTANT: to ensure receipt and proper processing of your abstract, the Subject line must include only the following: SUBJECT: VC2000, NGAN, SIKORA, SUN 2) or MAIL three copies of your abstract to: VCIP 2000 SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA Shipping Address: 1000 20th St., Bellingham, WA 98225 USA Telephone 360/676-3290 3) or FAX one copy to SPIE at 360/647-1445 (send each abstract separately). Accepted authors will receive instructions for Oral and Poster presentations in their author kit. All Oral and Poster presentations are included in the Proceedings of SPIE and require a manuscript. TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS Proposals for Tutorials and Special Sessions should be submitted to the Tutorial Chair at this email address douglas@ee.uwa.edu.au by 1 September 1999. Additional information can be obtained from the attached document (PDF format) or from the VCIP 2000 web site at: http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~vcip2000/