CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ICME 2002

***** Early Registration: July 5, 2002 *****

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
August 26-29 2002

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GOALS OF THE CONFERENCE

The 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 of  multimedia. ICME serves as a forum for the
dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development,
and implementation of multimedia systems, technologies
and applications.

Co-sponsored by four IEEE societies (the Circuits and Systems
Society, the Communications Society, the Computer Society and
the Signal Processing Society) the third ICME will be held in
Lausanne, Switzerland, with the support of EPFL, IBM Research,
France Telecom R&D, NSF and IM2.

A best paper AWARD, supported by IM2, and
a best student paper AWARD, supported by IBM Research,
will be presented at ICME 2002.


PROGRAM

A total of about 750 papers were submitted to the conference.
About 50% of the submissions have been selected by the Committee
for inclusion in the conference program. The resulting program
consists of high-quality papers that covers all major facets of
multimedia. ICME 2002 features over 350 technical presentations,
including tutorials, special sessions on focus and emerging areas,
panel discussions of central open questions, invited talks, as well
as the regular lecture and poster sessions.


See the website for detailed preliminary program,
http://www.icme2002.org/program.html

TOPICS covered include,
but are not limited to the following:

* Audio, image and/or video processing
* Components and technologies for multimedia systems
* Human-machine interface and interaction
* Multimedia applications
* Multimedia hardware architectures
* Multimedia communication and networking
* Multimedia computing systems
* Multimedia content access and distribution
* Multimedia databases
* Signal processing for media integration
* Standards (e.g., MPEG) and related issues
* System integration, integration of art and technologies
* Virtual reality and computer graphics
* Watermarking and security

SPECIAL SESSIONS

* Encoding of 3D Models for Efficient Delivery
L. Balmelli and G. Taubin (IBM Watson Research)
* Media Apps on General-Purpose Processors:
Hardware and Software Issues
E. Debes (Intel Labs)
* Biometrics: New Challenges for User Authentication:
C. Vielhauer (Darmstadt University), J. Dittmann (IPSI)
and P. Wohlmacher (Reg TP)
* Benchmarking of data hiding technologies:
S. Voloshynovskiy and T. Pun (University of Geneva),
B. Macq (UCL, Belgium)
* Coding and Transmission Formats for 3D Audio
G. Zoia (EPFL, Lausanne)
* Vision-Based Human Machine Interface
Ming-Hsuan Yang (Honda Fundamental Research Labs)
* Rate-Distortion Optimized Delivery of Real-time
and Streaming Media: Ph. Chou (Microsoft),
Heather Yu (Panasonic) and Wenjun Zeng (PacketVideo).

PANELS

* Multimedia CDNs: What's the next step?
Chair/Moderator: Lisa Amini, IBM Research, USA.
* Defining the Next Generation Challenges in Media
Composition, Compression, and Communication R&D
Chair/Moderator: Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA.
* Multimedia Indexing: Promises and Problems.
Chair/Moderator: John Smith, IBM Research, USA.

TUTORIALS

* Spoken Audio Information Access
Steve Renals, University of Sheffield
* Design and Analysis of Real-Time and Multimedia Systems
Albert Cheng, University of Houston
* A (short) Introduction to Speech Processing
Thierry Dutoit, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons
* MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Standard
John Smith, IBM Research
* QoS in the Next Generation of Wireless Networks
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute-Alsace

KEYNOTES

* Challenging the Mobile Multimedia Frontier, Dr Minoru Etoh
Dr Minoru Etoh (Director of Signal Processing Lab, NTT Docomo)
* Relevance Feedback in Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval
Prof Thomas Huang (Beckman Institute for Advanced Science
and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


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Jean-Luc Dugelay, Eurecom, France
ICME Publicity co-Chairs