ICME2001, August 22-25, 2001,
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan


http://www.giti.waseda.ac.jp/ICME2001/


International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) is a major annual
international conference organized with the objective of bringing together
researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry
working in all areas in multimedia. ICME serves as a forum for the
dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and
implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applications.  For
the first time, ICME2000 in New York City took place in joint
collaboration with four IEEE societies: the Circuits and Systems Society,
the Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society, and the
Communications Society, so as to unify all IEEE as well as non-IEEE
multimedia related activities under the common umbrella of ICME. ICME2001
in Tokyo is the first ICME in the 21st century and the 2nd ICME
co-organized by the four IEEE societies.  Co-sponsored by the Computer
Society, the Circuits and Systems Society, the Signal Processing Society,
and the Communications Society of IEEE


Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column format
including authors' names, affiliations and a short abstract. Only
electronic submission (in pdf or postscript format) will be accepted.
Electronic submission procedure can be found in the ICME2001's webpage
indicated below.


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
Audio and/or video processing
Virtual reality and computer graphics
Integration of art and technologies
Applications
Standards (e.g., MPEG) 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- or full-day tutorial courses
may be submitted to the respective chairs before the respective deadlines.


Submission of Regular Papers: January 15, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: On or about April 20, 2001
Camera Ready Copy: May 31, 2001
Proposals for Special Sessions and Tutorials: March 1, 2001
Notification of Acceptance (for Proposals): April 15, 2001
Applications for Exposition: Please contact ICME2001's office at the
address indicated below.
icme2001@giti.waseda.ac.jp

General Chair:
Nobuyoshi Terashima
Waseda University, Global Information and Tele-communication
Institut, Japan
terasima@giti.waseda.ac.jp


Technical Program Chair:
Jun Ohya (Waseda U./ Japan)


Technical Program Vice co-chairs
* Circuits and Systems Society
Koki Sato (Shonan Institute of Technology / Japan)
Ming-Ting Sun (U. of Washington / USA)
* Communication Society
Bokuji Komiyama (ATR / Japan)
Charlie Judice (KODAK / USA)
* Computer Society
Jun Ohya (Waseda U. / Japan)
Alberto del Bimbo (U. of Florence / Italy)
* Signal Processing Society
Shigeo Morishima (Seikei U. / Japan)
Rama Chellappa (U. of Maryland / USA)


Finace
Fumio Hattori (NTT Software/ Japan)
Special Sessions chair
Wataru Kameyama (Waseda U. / Japan)
Tutorial Chair
Masahito Hirakawa (Hiroshima U. / Japan)
Exhibition:
Ryuichi Yasuhara (NTT / Japan)
Publicity Chair
Shigeo Morishima (Seikei U. / Japan)
Publication Chair:
Bokuji Komiyama (ATR / Japan)
Registration Chair:
Tsutomu Horikoshi (NTT Data / Japan)
Local arrangements:
Wataru Kameyama (Waseda U. / Japan)
Tsutomu Horikoshi (NTT Data / Japan)


ICME Steering Committee
Ming-Ting Sun (U. of Washington / USA)
Yih-Fang Huang (U. of Nortee Dame / USA)
Liang-Gee Chen (National Taiwan U. / Taiwan, ROC)
John Aasted Sorensen (IT University of Copenhagen /Denmark)
Antonio Ortega (U. of Southern California / USA)
Rama Chellappa (U. of Maryland / USA)
Gary W.Cobb (Dell Computer Corporation / USA)
Peiya Liu (Siemens Corporate Research / USA)
Albelto Del Bimbo (U. of Florence / Italy)
Jeff Derby (IBM Corporation / USA)
Alexander Gelman (Research Panasonic / USA)
Chung-Sheng Li (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center /USA ) (Chair)
Tadao Ichikawa (Hijiyama U. / Japan) (past Chair)
Sankar Basu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center /USA) (ICME 2000 Chair)