ACM Multimedia 2001 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Multimedia at the Dawn of the Millennium Ottawa, Ont. CANADA September 30-October 5, 2001 http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM2001 ----- DEADLINES ------- Workshops: January 31, 2001 Technical Papers, Panels, Tutorials: February 28, 2001 Short Papers/Posters, Technical Demos, Doctoral Symposium: May 20, 2001 Details for submissions will be available shortly ------------------------ MULTIMEDIA 2001 The Ninth ACM International Multimedia conference will be held in Ottawa, Canada's beautiful capital. Often called "Silicon Valley North", Ottowa has a high concentration of major telecommunications and software companies, such as NORTEL, ALCATEL/NEWBRIDGE, MITEL, COREL, COGNOS, JDS Uniphase, Entrust and many others. The conference complements this setting by presenting and exploring technological and artistic advancements in multimedia. Technical issues, theory and practice, artistic and consumer innovations will bring together researchers, artists, developers, educators, performers, and practitioners of multimedia. Present your work at Multimedia 2001 and define the future of multimedia in the next millennium. Multimedia 2001 cordially invites your participation in this premier annual multimedia event by submitting your work in all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, from theory to practice, and from servers to networks to end-user devices. ------------------------ TECHNICAL PROGRAM The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in three main tracks: - Multimedia processing and coding: including multimedia content analysis, content-based multimedia retrieval, multimedia security, audio/image/video processing and compression - Multimedia system support and networking: including network protocols, operating systems, middleware, servers, QoS, databases, sensors and actuators, and thin clients - Multimedia tools, end-systems and applications: including hypermedia systems, user interfaces, authoring, multi-modal interaction and integration, multimedia education, multimedia in telecommunications, and virtual environments Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. Paper Submissions are due by February 28, 2001 Questions? Contact Aidong Zhang - azhang@cse.buffalo.edu ------------------------ PANELS Panels will consist of discussions on timely and controversial topics. Panel submissions are due by February 28, 2001 Questions? Contact Tamer Ozsu - tozsu@db.uwaterloo.ca ------------------------ SHORT PAPERS/POSTERS Short papers will be presented in poster format and are an opportunity for researchers to present new work and ideas in an interactive setting. Short Paper/Poster Submissions are due by May 20, 2001 Questions? Contact Forouzan Golshani - golshani@asu.edu ------------------------ STATE-OF-THE-ART TUTORIALS Tutorials by leading experts will precede the technical program. The full- and half-day offerings will span a wide variety of topics and will range from introductory to advanced material. Tutorial submissions are due by February 28, 2001 Questions? Contact S.Panchanathan - panch@asu.edu ------------------------ TECHNICAL DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations will include leading edge work in every area of multimedia technology and its application. An award will be given to the best technical demo. Demo submissions are due by May 20, 2001 Questions? Contact Kien A. Hua - kienhua@cs.ucf.edu ------------------------ DAY-LONG WORKSHOPS Workshops on topics of great current interest to members of the multimedia research community will follow the technical program. Workshop submissions are due by January 31, 2001 Questions? Contact Brigitte Kerherv - Kerherve.Brigitte@uqam.ca ------------------------ DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM This symposium is a venue for doctoral students in computer science or related areas to present their research and receive feedback from members of the multimedia research field. Symposium submissions are due by May 20, 2001 Questions? Contact Ketan Mayer-Patel - kmp@cs.unc.edu ------------------------ In case of questions, please, feel free to contact the general chairs: Nicolas D. Georganas, Univ. of Ottawa, georgana@uottawa.ca Radu Popescu-Zeletin, GMD Fokus, Berlin, zeletin@fokus.gmd.de ------------------------ For further details please check the website at http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM2001.