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                        VLBV03 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                            http://vlbv03.upm.es

                        International Workshop VLBV03
             Theme: Visual content processing and representation

             September 18-19, 2003  (right after IEEE ICIP 2003)
                                Madrid, Spain
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WORKSHOP FOCUS
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The purpose of this workshop is to provide an international forum for
discussion of state-of-the-art visual content processing techniques,
standards, and applications covering areas such as: video/image analysis,
representation and coding, communications and delivery, consumption,
synthesis, protection, and adaptation.


PROGRAM
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Keynote speeches
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Two leading experts, Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione (Telecom Italia Lab., Italy)
and Dr. Gary J. Sullivan (Microsoft Corp., USA), will give the keynote
speeches to open each day of the workshop.

Panels
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To facilitate the exchange of ideas and discussion, the workshop will include
the following four invited panels (two each day):
· Panel I: "Image and video analysis: ready to allow full exploitation of
  MPEG services?". Chairman: Thomas Sikora (Technische Univ. Berlin,
  Germany).
· Panel II: "Content adaptation". Chairman: Fernando Pereira (Instituto
  Superior Técnico, Portugal).
· Panel III: "Video coding: present and future". Chairman: Ralf Schäfer
  (Heinrich-Hertz Institut, Germany).
· Panel IV: "3D graphics standards: present and future?". Chairman: Gauthier
  Lafruit (IMEC, Belgium).

Panellists will include: Kiyoharu Aizawa (Univ. Tokyo, Japan), Jim Beveridge
(Microsoft, UK), Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL, Switzerland) Bernd Girod (Stanford
Univ., USA), Philippe Joly (IRIT, France), Andrew Perkins (Norwegian Univ.
Science and Technology, Norway), Julien Signès (Envivio, USA), John R. Smith
(IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA), Murat Tekalp (Univ. Rochester, USA),
and Anthony Vetro (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs., USA).

Poster sessions
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Contributed papers will be presented as posters. After a thorough review
process, 40 high quality papers have been selected for presentation at
VLBV03.

A detailed and up-to-date program is available at
http://vlbv03.upm.es/program.html.


REGISTRATION
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Registration is now open. Three periods of registration have been defined for
VLBV03:
· Early period: by July 18.
· Advanced period: by September 5.
· Late and on-site period: after September 5.

For registration procedures, please visit
http://vlbv03.upm.es/registration.html