Internet Imaging (EI14) part of Electronic Imaging 2001, Science and Technology 21 to 26 January 2001 San Jose, California, USA Internet Imaging II (EI24) Conference Chairs: Giordano Beretta, Hewlett-Packard Co.; Raimondo Schettini, Istituto Tecnologie Informatiche Multimediali, CNR (Italy) Program Committee: Robert R. Buckley, Xerox Corp.; Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia Univ.; Lucy Cherkasova, Hewlett-Packard Labs.; Alberto Del Bimbo, Univ. degli Studi di Firenze (Italy); Ullas Gargi, Hewlett-Packard Labs.; Theo Gevers, Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands); Jennifer Gille, Raytheon ITSS; Neil J. Gunther, Performance Dynamics Consulting; Roger-David Hersch, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Yasuyo G. Ichihara, Hosen Gakuen Junior College (Japan); Corinne Jörgensen, SUNY/Buffalo; Lloyd McIntyre, Xerox Corp.; Marco Padula, Istituto Tecnologie Informatiche Multimediali, CNR (Italy); Simon Shim, San Jose State Univ.; Maureen Stone, StoneSoup Consulting; Sabine E. Süsstrunk, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Ingeborg Tastl, Sony Electronics Inc.; Alain Trémeau, Univ. Jean Monnet (France); Robert A. Ulichney, Compaq Computer Corp.; Yujin Zhang, Tsinghua Univ. (China) Images have been the main propellant for the Internet's popularization. Expectations for performance and quality of images are driving new technologies as the space of web-connected business and commercial imaging solutions grows and as the cost of Web access and high quality reproduction hardcopy devices drops. New applications are appearing to take advantage of these opportunities, and exposing new system requirements. Internet imaging is different from other imaging applications because an internet is a network of networks. This entails complications like unpredictable latency, caching, firewalls, security, platform heterogeneity, standardization, and others. Furthermore, images can be still images, animations, or video sequences. This conference is intended as a forum for discussing these technologies, applications, and challenges facing them. The participants will present the most recent developments in the appropriate representation, communication, and rendering of images using the Internet. Focus of the conference is on novel means of image capture, coding, computation and representation specific to the Internet, efficient transport of images over networks, display and rendering of image received over networks, and the requirements of applications which derive value from the use of these technologies. Unmet needs of desired applications are also relevant. Algorithms, protocols, software, hardware, communications systems, and applications are appropriate topics. Papers are solicited in the following areas, and special attention is given to new applications and requirements created by opportunities on the Internet: *) image processing for Internet, reuse of softcopy and hardcopy images: data compression and representation, coding for multiresolution or resolution-independent images *) imaging issues in content-based indexing, search and retrieval, indexing video *) virtual and augmented reality, telemedicine, data visualization, remote surveillance *) Internet video, multimedia presentation on the Internet: multimedia integration, presentation, management, authoring, animation, SMIL, SVG, VRML, Interactive TV, multimedia presentation formats, presentation agents, and e-commerce *) multimedia applications *) systems issues: color space architectures, distributed color management, computation for images on the *) Internet, automatic printing, displays for Internet appliances, e-commerce and e-services *) network image transport: protocols, XML applications, Web crawling, caching, and security *) network computing: distributed computing, performance analysis, fault tolerance & failure recovery, media synchronization, transaction managers, directory and agent services *) social and legal issues and technical solutions for the Internet including copyright, content rating, *) watermarking, authentication, non-repudiation, and notification *) interactive image creation for the Internet: artistic impression, Web design, special issues for video, *) semiotics, advanced man-machine interfacing, visual languages, ergonometry *) publishing on the Internet: graphic arts requirements, commerce systems, agents, image syndication, leasing, resolution and quality requirements, movie film digitatization and color restoration, palettization, file formats, capture systems *) classifying images: cataloging, categorization, thesauri, iconography, ontologies, metadata, XML solutions, indexing video *) cultural heritage applications: image permanence issues, scanning strategies, cataloging, presentation and publication strategies, DVD-ROM vs. Internet A fast Internet connection will be available in the conference room. Abstract Due Date: 12 June 2000 Final Summary Due Date: 20 November 2000 Manuscript Due Date: 30 October 2000 http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pw01/confs/EI24.html