CALL  FOR PAPERS 

Internet Imaging IV (EI20) 
http://electronicimaging.org/call/03/conferences/index.cfm?fuseaction=EI20

Conference Chairs: Simone Santini, Univ. of California/San Diego; Raimondo
Schettini, TIM, IFC-CNR (Italy) 
Program Committee: Alberto Del Bimbo, Univ. degli Studi di Firenze (Italy);
Jeffrey Boyd, Univ. of Calgary (Canada); Theo Gevers, Univ. of Amsterdam
(Netherlands); Jennifer Gille, Raytheon ITSS; Neil J. Gunther, Performance
Dynamics Consulting; Amarnath Gupta, Univ. of California/San Diego; Roger-David
Hersch, Ecole Polytechnique F�éd�érale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Yasuyo G.
Ichihara, Hosen-Gakuen College (Japan); Corinne J�örgensen, Univ. at Buffalo;
Clement H. Leung, Victoria Univ. of Technology (Australia); Lloyd McIntyre,
Xerox Corp.; St�éphane Marchand-Maillet, Univ. de Gen�ève (Switzerland); Simon
Shim, San Jose State Univ.; Sabine E. S�üsstrunk, Ecole Polytechnique F�éd�érale
de Lausanne (Switzerland); Alain Tr�émeau, Univ. Jean Monnet (France); YuJin
Zhang, Tsinghua Univ. (China) 

Images have been an important propellant for the popularization of the
Internet. Expectations for performance and quality of images are driving new
technologies as the space of web-connected business and commercial imaging
solutions grows, and as the cost of Web access and high-quality reproduction
devices drops. New applications are appearing to take advantage of these
opportunities, generating new system requirements. 
Imaging work on the Internet is a distinctive activity because of the
peculiarity of the medium on which it is built: a network of networks. This
entails complications like unpredictable latency, caching, firewalls, security,
platform heterogeneity, standardization, and others. The pervasive nature of
the medium represents a cultural change from a culture of processing relatively
few, high-quality images, to one in which many images of unpredictable quality
are available. The cultural and technical revolution represented by Internet
images and video has only partially happened. In particular, video is today
occupying a niche on the Internet, and many problems of integration with the
other content and interactivity are still open. 
This conference is intended as a forum for discussing technologies,
applications, and challenges of placing images on the Internet. The
participants will present the most recent developments in the appropriate
representation, communication, and rendering of images using the Internet.
Focus of the conference is on novel means of image capture, coding, computation
and representation specific to the Internet, efficient transport of images over
networks, display and rendering of image received over networks, and the
requirements of applications which derive value from the use of these
technologies. Special attention will be given to papers describing new
applications or presenting well argumented vision statements on potentially
revolutionary applications for images and video on the Internet, and on how
these applications will take advantage of the opportunities and deal with the
challenges of the medium. Papers are solicited in the following areas: 
�·       image processing for Internet, reuse of electronic and hardcopy images:
data compression and representation, coding for multiresolution or
resolution-independent images. 
�·       content-based image and video retrieval on the network, including
semiotic, cultural, and technical issues (e.g. performance analysis -- see
below). 
�·       Internet Imaging Standards: SVG, VRML, SMIL, etc... 
�·       virtual and mediated reality, telemedicine, remote surveillance. 
�·       multimedia presentation on the Internet: media integration,
presentation, management, authoring. 
�·       web cameras: their impact on video analysis technology, applications. 
�·       systems issues: color space architectures, distributed color
management, computation for images on the Internet, automatic printing,
displays for Internet appliances, e-commerce and e-services. 
�·       network image transport: protocols, XML applications, Web crawling,
caching, and security. 
�·       social and legal issues for images on the Internet, including
intellectual property, content rating, watermarking, authentication,
non-repudiation, internalization, and varying cultural perception of content. 
�·       interactive image creation for the Internet: artistic expression. 
�·       publishing on the Internet: graphic arts require- ments, commerce
systems, agents, image syndication, leasing, resolution and quality re-
quirements. 
�·       classifying images: cataloging, categorization, thesauri, iconography,
ontologies, metadata. 
�·       cultural heritage applications: image perma- nence issues, scanning
strategies, cataloging, presentation and publication strategies 
�·       DVD-ROM vs. Internet. 
Internet Imaging is the host for the Benchathlon event (www.benchathlon.net),
an open collaboration for research on the performance analysis of content based
image retrieval systems (CBIRS). Topics of interest include but are not limited
to annotation and ground truthing, communication protocols, user models,
performance metrics, and benchmark protocols. A fast Internet connection will
be available in the conference room. 

Abstract (500 words): 10 June 2002. 
Manuscript: 28 October 2002. 

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