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 Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Yasuyo G. Ichihara, Hosen-Gakuen College (Japan); Corinne Jörgensen, Univ. at Buffalo; Clement H. Leung, Victoria Univ. of Technology (Australia); Lloyd McIntyre, Xerox Corp.; Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, Univ. de Genève (Switzerland); Simon Shim, San Jose State Univ.; Sabine E. Süsstrunk, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Alain Trémeau, 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. Submit an abstract to this conference http://butler2.spie.org/abstracts/absin.lasso?-token=EI20&symp=ei