Call for Papers and Announcement (Preliminary)
PICTURE CODING SYMPOSIUM 2001

18-20 April 2001, Seoul, Korea
Sponsored and organized by: KICS (Korea Institute of Communication
Sciences)
In cooperation with (technical co-sponsor): EURASIP, IEEE CAS, IEEE SP
(pending)

PCS is the premier international forum devoted specifically to picture
coding. For more than three decades the International Picture Coding
Symposium has provided the meeting place for the picture coding community:
industry, research, academia and users. In 2001, PCS will be held in
Seoul, Korea from 18 April to 20 April, 2001 in the week prior to the
International Packet Video Workshop in Kyongju, Korea. Further information
regarding registration, hotel reservation, and venue will be announced on
the web site.

Prospective authors are asked to submit for review either an electronic
version (MS-Word 7.0 or Postscript) by e-mail or 3 copies of a 1000 word
abstract of their paper. The authors of accepted papers are requested to
submit the final 4-to-6 page camera-ready manuscript that will appear in
the proceedings of the symposium. Two types of presentation will be used,
oral and poster at the symposium. About 20 minutes will be allotted to
each oral presentation, including discussion. Overhead projector, 35 mm
slide projector, and most common videotape formats such as VHS and D1 can
be accommodated. Authors are encouraged to use these facilities to
demonstrate their results.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Human observer/psychophysics
* Feature extraction and picture processing
* Motion estimation and object segmentation
* Coding for still and moving pictures
* Coding of stereo and multiview images/sequences 
* Content-based or object-oriented coding
* Modeling and synthetic coding
* Hybrid natural synthetic coding
* Very high resolution imaging and processing
* Joint video-audio processing, coding and representation
* Coding for mobile and IP communications
* Coding and indexing for database applications
* Error protection and resilience
* Joint source and channel coding
* Virtual reality and telepresence
* Media transform (image animation by voice and text)
* Implementation architectures and VLSI

International Steering Committee:
Chair: Jae-kyoon Kim,   KAIST, Korea
King N. Ngan            U. of Western Australia, Australia
John Arnold             Australian Defense Force Academy
Joern Ostermann         AT&T, USA
Leonardo Chiariglione   CSELT, Italy    
Fernando Pereira        IST/UTL, Portugal
Mohammed Ghanbari       U. of Essex, UK
Ralf Schaefer           Heinrich-Hertz Institut, Germany
Hamid Gharavi           NIST, USA
Ali Tabatabai           Sony, USA
Bernd Girod             Stanford U., USA
Masayuki Tanimoto       Nagoya U., Japan
Thomas Huang            U. of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Murat Telkap            Univ. of Rochester, USA
Murat Kunt              EPFL, Switzerland
John Woods              Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA
Claude Labit            IRISA, France
Hiroshi Yasuda          Tokyo U., Japan
Sang Uk Lee             Seoul National U., Korea
Yasuhiko Yasuda         Waseda University, Japan
Ming L. Liou            Hong Kong U. of Sci. & Technology
Avideh Zakhor           U. of California, Berkeley, USA
Hans G. Musmann         U. of Hanover, Germany
Ya-Qin Zhang            Microsoft Research Center, China
Geoff Morrison          British Telecom, UK     

Technical program chair:
Sang Uk Lee, SNU, Korea

Organizing committee chair:
Jong Beom Ra, KAIST, Korea
        
Submit papers to: PCS 2001
Dept. of EECS, KAIST
Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701
Republic of Korea

Deadlines:
October 15, 2000        Submit abstracts
January 15, 2001        Notice of acceptance
March   15, 2001        Submit manuscripts

Or anonymous ftp to: ftp://pcs.kaist.ac.kr

For any additional information or for receiving regular updates on PCS
2001, please visit the web page at: 
http://pcs.kaist.ac.kr.  Send any comments or suggestions to:
pcs@pcs.kaist.ac.kr.