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Internet Multimedia Management Systems
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SPIE Photonics East International Symposium on
Voice, Video, and Data Communications
5 - 8 November, 2000
Boston, Massachusetts USA
Abstracts (250 words) due by 10 April 2000
http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe00/confs/VV10.html



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Advances in multimedia technologies and the Internet have stimulated a
tremendous growth in systems for searching, filtering, and indexing
multimedia data. These systems are finding diverse applications in areas
such as education, entertainment, medicine, remote sensing and on-line
information services. The tremendous growth of E-commerce on the Internet
is driving many additional requirements for multimedia systems. The
recently initiated ISO MPEG-7 standard promises to enable interoperability
for audio-visual content. However, there is an urgent need for building
new hardware and software systems for multimedia management and developing
efficient methods for searching, browsing, retrieving, indexing, and
storing multimedia data for a diversity of applications on the Internet.


TOPICS:
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Papers are solicited in all areas of Internet Multimedia Management
Systems including, but not limited to:
- Image, video and audio databases
- Hardware design and implementation multimedia information systems
- Graphics and video database processors
- Multimedia for E-commerce applications
- Query processing and content-based searching
- Video and audio parsing, segmentation and analysis
- Multi-modal analysis (text, audio, image and video)
- Data modeling and representation
- Multimedia content description standards, i.e., MPEG-7, DICOM
- Indexing and archiving techniques storage design and compression
for archiving
- Lossless and near-lossless compression
- 3D representation and display techniques on the Web
- Image/video transmission and distribution over Internet and intranets
- Media adaptation and presentation
- User interfaces
- Performance evaluation measures
- Long-term preservation methodology and quality assurance management
- Video on demand (VoD) and media servers
- Fault tolerance, clustering and security and integrity of media
databases
- Experimental prototypes embodying the state-of-the-art in multimedia
information systems
- Applications: entertainment, education, financial services, health
care, retailing, telemedicine, remote sensing, GIS, Interactive TV,
CAD, digital libraries, and so forth


PAPER SUBMISSIONS:
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Abtracts of 250 words should be submitted electronically via the Internet
Multimedia Management Systems conference Web site at
http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe00/confs/VV10.html
If unable to submit electronically, hardcopies of abstracts may be sent to
John R. Smith
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
30 Saw Mill River Road
Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA
Tel: (914) 784-7320
Email: jrsmith@watson.ibm.com
Each submission should include your name and e-mail address, paper title,
principal author information - name, affiliation, email address, postal
address, phone and fax; secondary author information - names and
correspondence information, requested presentation type (oral or poster),
brief biography of the principal author (50 to 100 words) and abstract
(250 words)


NEW DEADLINES AND REVIEW SCHEDULE:
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Initial abstract due: April 10, 2000 (new date)
Final manuscript due: August 10, 2000


CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
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John R. Smith, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.
Chinh Le, RealChip Inc.
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State Univ.
C.-C. Jay Kuo, Univ. of Southern California
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia Univ
Yuan-Chi Chang, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.
Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research
Oscar Feinstein, Stanford Univ.
Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State Univ.
Giridharan Iyengar, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.
Jesse S. Jin, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia)
Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.
Clement H. Leung, Victoria Univ. of Technology (Australia)
Andrew S. Lou, Univ. of California/San Francisco
Wei-Ying Ma, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Mrinal K. Mandal, Univ. of Alberta (Canada)
B. S. Manjunath, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara
Wido Menhardt, Sedara Software (Canada)
Jose Rodriguez, RealChip Inc.
Yong Rui, Microsoft Corp.
Cyrus Shahabi, Univ. of Southern California
A. Murat Tekalp, Univ. of Rochester
George R. Thoma, National Library of Medicine
Asha Vellaikal, Hughes Research Labs and USC
Wayne H. Wolf, Princeton Univ.
Stephen T. C. Wong, Philips Medical Systems
HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft Research China