INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON IMMERSIVE TELEPRESENCE (ITP 2002)
  (To be held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2002)
  December 6, 2002, Juan Les Pins, France

  http://www.research.ibm.com/ITP2002

  Chairs: Gopal Pingali, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
          Ramesh Jain, Georgia Institute of Technology

  Contact: gpingali@us.ibm.com

  CALL FOR PAPERS:

  With increased availability of bandwidth and continuing
  convergence of the computer, television, and telephone,
  there is great interest in the next generation of technologies
  that enable individuals and groups to effectively participate
  in, and experience, remote events. This workshop will
  focus on multimedia technologies for immersive telepresence.
  The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers
  from various fields such as computer graphics, computer
  vision, human computer interaction, acoustics, networking,
  and databases, who are working on different aspects of
  telepresence. We invite papers from both academia and
  industry on all aspects of immersive telepresence.

  Areas of interest for this workshop include (but are
  not limited to) the following topics:

  * Design of telepresence systems
  * Architecture of physical spaces to support telepresence
  * Multimodal sensing (including cameras/computer vision,
    microphone arrays/acoustics, haptic sensors, active badges etc.)
  * Multimodal presentation and display (including projection
    systems, flat panels, 3D graphics, 3D audio)
  * Virtual and augmented reality
  * Network infrastructure
  * Spatio-temporal databases for telepresence
  * Design of the telepresence experience
  * User studies on effective telepresence
  * Example systems for videoconferencing, virtual meetings,
    remote surveillance etc.

  WORKSHOP FORMAT

  This one-day workshop aims to create an atmosphere for stimulating
  interaction and discussion among researchers interested in
  Immersive Telepresence. The workshop will include oral presentations
  by authors of accepted papers and a panel on "The Next Five Years
  in Telepresence" in which the panelists are several prominent
  leaders in the telepresence area. Workshop proceedings will be
  published by the ACM and made available to workshop participants.
  The proceedings will include accepted papers and position statements
  of the panelists.


  PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

  We seek submissions describing original and unpublished work. The
  page limit for submissions is four pages in double-column format.
  Authors should use the ACM template for their submissions (available at
  http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) and submit
 electronically in pdf format via the workshop web page. All accepted
 papers will be published in proceedings printed by the ACM. Authors
 of accepted papers will be required to sign the ACM Transfer of
  Copyright Agreement form.

  More information can be found at the ITP2002 web site
  http://www.research.ibm.com/ITP2002

  IMPORTANT DATES:

  Submissions due                September 13, 2002

  Acceptance notification        October 7, 2002

  Camera-ready paper due         October 21, 2002

  Workshop date                  December 6, 2002


  PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  Ingrid Carlbom        Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
  Myron Flickner        IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
  Henry Fuchs           University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
  Austin Henderson      Rivendel Consulting, USA
  Fred Juang            Avaya Labs, USA
  Takeo Kanade          Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Tom Moran             IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
  P. J. Narayanan       IIIT, Hyderabad, India
  Jun Ohya              Waseda University, Japan
  Martin Reiser         Institute for Media Communication, Germany
  Masao Sakauchi        University of Tokyo, Japan
  Cyrus Shahabi         University of Southern California, USA
 Nicolas Tsingos       INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
  Greg Welch            University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA