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                 3rd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON

        VIDEO PROCESSING AND MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS

                        VIPromCom-2001

                       13-15 June 2001

             Borik Hotel Complex, Zadar, Croatia


                       CALL FOR PAPERS


The 3rd International Symposium on Video Processing and Multimedia
Communications (VIPromCom-2001), will be held in Borik Hotel Complex,
in the beautiful old town of Zadar on the Croatian Adriatic coast.
VIPromCom-2001 is sponsored / co-sponsored by * IEEE Region 8,
IEEE Croatia Section, EURASIP and University of Zagreb. The aim
of the VIPromCom-2001 is to cover selected aspects of video and
image processing theory and its applications, as well as advances
in multimedia communications, and to be an international forum
for presentation and discussion of advances in the field and new
perspective research areas. The scientific program of VIPromCom-2001
will consist of invited lectures and oral presentations on new research
results. Papers describing original work would be welcome in the areas
listed below. All papers will be peer reviewed and acceptance will be
based on quality, relevance and originality. Accepted papers will be
published in the VIPromCom-2001 Proceedings that will be distributed
to the participants at the symposium.

TOPICS

- Image and Video Processing
- Image and Video Coding
- Image Scanning, Display and Printing
- Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Watermarking and Encryption
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Standards and Related Issues
- Multimedia Signal Processing
- Multimedia Databases
- Multimedia and DTV Technologies
- Multimedia Applications
- Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
- Video Streaming and Videoconferencing
- Broadband Mobile Technology
- Transport Protocols

SUBMISSION

To submit proposal prepare a full paper (four pages).
Paper submission (tree-copies) must be sent by regular
post to the VIPromCom-2001 program co-chair:

Mr. Mislav Grgic
VIPromCom-2001
FER, Unska 3 / XII
HR-10000 Zagreb
CROATIA

SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper (four pages) submission to be received by: February 02, 2001
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: March 25, 2001
Camera-ready paper to be received by: April 13, 2001
Preliminary program sent to authors by: April 29, 2001
Registration deadline: May 18, 2001

SPONSORED / TECHNICALLY CO-SPONSORED BY *

IEEE Region 8
IEEE Croatia Section
EURASIP
University of Zagreb

* approval pending

GENERAL CHAIR

Branka Zovko-Cihlar
University of Zagreb, Croatia

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Sonja Grgic
University of Zagreb, Croatia

Mislav Grgic
University of Zagreb, Croatia
mgrgic@ieee.org

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Paul Cristea, Romania
Zarko Cucej, Slovenia
Anthony Davies, UK
Marek Domanski, Poland
Marko Jagodic, Slovenia
Kalman Fazekas, Hungary
Janus Filipiak, Poland
Borko Furht, USA
Mohammed Ghanbari, UK
Sonja Grgic, Croatia
Andy Kucar, Canada
Panos Liatsis, UK
Basil G. Mertzios, Greece
Pavol Podhradsky, Slovakia
Karolj Skala, Croatia
Franc Solina, Slovenia
Jan Turan, Slovak Republic
Krzysztof Wajda, Poland
Branka Zovko-Cihlar, Croatia

CONTACT INFORMATION

Mr. Mislav Grgic
VIPromCom-2001
FER, Unska 3 / XII
HR-10000 Zagreb
CROATIA

Telephone: + 385 1 6129 851
Facsimile: + 385 1 6129 717
E-mail: mgrgic@ieee.org

PLEASE VISIT VIPromCom WEB-SITE:

http://www.vcl.fer.hr/vip/