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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/
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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 Original and unpublished material of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/