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RICHMEDIA2003
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS
http://www.richmedia2003.org/
Sponsored by
IST Worlds Studio Project
Troisicme Cycle Romand
First International Workshop on Interactive Rich Media Content Production:
Architectures, Technologies, Applications, Tools
October 9-10, 2003
Lausanne, Switzerland
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CONFERENCE FOCUS
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Following the IST conference in Milan 2003, the first International Workshop
on Interactive Rich Media Content Production addresses the issues of
productivity and interactivity in digital content. The workshop is organized
by the Worlds Studio IST project, and is sponsored by the 3eme cycle romand,
IEEE-(MDSP-TC). and EURASIP. It is the premier forum for the presentation of
technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical,
experimental, and applied rich media processing.
The RICHMEDIA2003 workshop will bring together leading engineers and
scientists in rich media content production from around the world.
TOPICS OF INTERESTS
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1: Production management
· Enterprise Architectures
· Enterprise-wide Information Management
· Systems Interfacing and Integration
· Information Databases
· Data Storage Platforms
· New Architectures for Multimedia Processing
· Hybrid Source/Channel Coding
· Collaborative features
· Catalogue
2: Interactive rich media applications
· Medical 3D simulation
· Virtual Cultural Heritage
· Virtual Collaborative Environments
· Virtual reality
· Augmented Reality
· Facial Animation
· Large terrain visualization
· Simulation
· Training
· Safety
· Games
3: Computer Animation and Virtual Humans
· Motion control
· Motion capture and retargeting
· Physics-based animation
· Behavioral animation
· Artificial life
· Autonomous characters and actors
· A.I. - based animation
· Deformable Models
4: Media Content Processing Standard
· Video and Audio Codec Design
· Data Compression
· Multimedia Computing
· Links with MPEG4, MPEG7 and MPEG21
5: Content protection
· Watermarking
· Fingerprinting
· Authentication of rich media data
6: Interfaces
· Interaction with Virtual Humans
· Social and Conversational agents
· Perceptual models
· Inter-agent communication
· Emotions and personality
· User interface and usability
PAPER SUBMISSION
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Prospective authors are invited to submit electronically full papers of no
more than 5000 words that include results, figures, and references using the
on-line system at:
http://www.richmedia2003.org/
Submissions should be full paper 5000 words describing original work. All
manuscripts must be written in English. The first page of each paper should
contain: the title of the paper, the name(s) and affiliation of the
author(s) as well as the full address, e-mail, and phone number of the
corresponding author In addition, the first page should include a list of
keywords and main categories from the above list as well as a summary of up
to 100 words on the main achievements presented in the contribution and the
novelty of the work. Acceptable format is PDF (1200 DPi). Please use 11-pt
font size (preferably Times New Roman) and A4 paper format for your
submission
Paper submission (max 5000 words) 20 April 2003
Notification of authors 25 May 2003
Final camera ready papers (max 5000 words) 10 June 2003
TUTORIALS, EXHIBITS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS PROPOSALS
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Proposals for tutorials on topics related to Rich multimedia content
production, applications, Special Effects, Vision for Graphics are invited.
Each proposal must contain a description with a detailed course outline,
course objectives, target audience and prerequisites, course length and
brief presenters' biographical sketches and should be submitted to
submission@richmedia2003.org .
We also encourage the submission of proposals for special sessions on
related topics. Each proposal for a special session should outline the
motivation, scope, brief organizers' biographical sketches, target audience,
and a list of possible contributors. Special sessions on closely related IST
projects are welcome as well. Proposals for special sessions should be
submitted to
submission@richmedia2003.org.
CONFERENCE VENUE
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The RichMedia2003 will be held in the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de
Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. This city is one of the most attractive
destinations in Europe both for its environment (Leman Lake, Alps) and its
cultural life.
BEST PAPERS
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RichMedia2003 is pleased to announce that the best papers will be selected
in a Special Issue of the Journal of Visualization & Computer Animation.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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General/Program Co-Chair
Prof. Ioannis Pitas (pitas@zeus.csd.auth.gr )
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Prof. Daniel Thalmann
(daniel.thalmann@epfl.ch)
EPFL, Switzerland
Organization Committee
Dr. Frederic Vexo (frederic.vexo@epfl.ch)
Workshop organization
EPFL, Switzerland
Virtools Exhibits
Prof. Constantine Kotropoulos
(costas@zeus.csd.auth.gr) Publications
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Laurent Denizot
(laurent.denizot@sysde.eads.net)
Finance
EADS, France
Dr. Holger Sprengel
(sprengel@planb-media.de) Publicity
Planb media AG, Germany
Guido Doublet
(guido.doublet@broadview.tv) Web and
Computer Services
Broadview.tv, Germany
Zerrin Celebi (zerrin.celebi@epfl.ch) Local
Arrangements
EPFL, Switzerland
WS 2003 Secretariat
Josianne Bottarelli
(josiane.bottarelli@epfl.ch)
EPFL, Switzerland
European Commission Liaison
Alexander McAllister
(alexander.mc-allister@cec.eu.int)
European Commission, Luxembourg
INTERNATIONNAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TENTATIVE)
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E. Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany
O. Avaro, France Telecom, France
N. Ayache, INRIA, France
N. Badler, University of Pennsylvania, USA
D. Ballin, BT, UK
R. Boulic, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
A. Bors, University of York, UK
G. Burdea, Rutgers University, USA
C. Busch, IGD, Germany
A. de Antonio, University Polytechnic of Madrid, Spain
H. Delingette, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique (INRIA), France
L. Denizot, EADS, France
G. Doublet, Broadview.tv, Germany
D. Ebert, Purdue Univ., USA
T. Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
S. Feiner, Columbia University, USA
N. Foster, PDI, USA
P. Fua, Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
R. Hersch, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
H. Ip, City University of Hong Kong, China
P. Kalra, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi), INDIA
H. Ko, Seoul National University, South Korea
C. Kotropoulos,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
F. Lavagetto, University of Genoa, Italy
T. L. Kunii, Hosei University and Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
M. Lin, University of North Carolina (UNC), USA
B. Loftin Old Dominion University, USA
N. Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland
E. Mamdani, Imperial College, UK
D. Manocha, University of North Carolina (UNC), USA
D. Metaxas, Rutgers University, USA
N. Nikolaidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
L. Moccozet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
A. Nasri, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
J. F. O'Brien, University of California, Berkeley, USA
C. O'Sullivan, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
D. Pai, Rutgers University, New-Brunswick, USA
R. Parent, Ohio State University, USA
C. Pelachaud, U. Paris VII, France
I. Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
L. Porcher Nedel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
F. Preteux, Institut Nationale des Telecommunications, France
S. Raupp Musse, University do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
J. Rickel, University of Southern California, USA
T. Rist, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
L. Robert, RealViz, France
J. Rossignac, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
P. Salembier, Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain
H. Sprengeln, Planb media AG, Germany
S. Y. Shin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
South Korea
G. Szekely, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland
D. Terzopoulos, New York University, USA
D. Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
R. Trappl, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria
L. Velho, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Brazil
F. Vexo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
M. Zyda, Naval Postgraduate School, USA