CALL FOR PAPERS
 ACM Multimedia 2004
 October 10-16, New York, NY USA
 http://www.mm2004.org/


 Present at Multimedia 2004 and help define the future of multimedia!

 ACM Multimedia 2004 invites your participation in the premier annual
 multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing:
 from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and
 servers to networks to devices. We especially encourage introduction
 of novel media such as haptic, smell, sensors, animation, etc.

 Technical Program

 The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with
 topics of interest in:

 * Multimedia analysis, processing, and retrieval, including multimedia
   semantics, aesthetics, modeling, fusion, audio/video/multi-modal
   processing, multimedia content description and indexing, multimedia
   digital rights management (protection and attribution),
   content-based retrieval with emphasis on multiple and novel media.

 * Multimedia networking and system support, including context-aware
   multimedia communications, Internet telephony, peer-to-peer
   streaming, audio/video streaming, multimedia content distribution,
   wireless multimedia, adaptive support for scalable media, Internet
   protocols, multimedia servers, operating systems, middleware and
   QoS.

 * Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications, including new UI
   metaphors, usable distributed collaboration, authoring, multi-modal
   interaction and integration, multimedia in e-learning,
   entertainment, personal media, assisted living, and virtual
   environments.

 We particularly encourage submissions in new and emerging areas.
 Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. In
 order to encourage sharing of implementations, this year will also
 initiate awards for best demo, best art exhibit and the best
 contributed open-source software.


 Short papers will be presented in poster format and are an opportunity
 for researchers to present new work and ideas in an interactive
 setting.

 State-of-the-Art Tutorials by leading experts will precede the
 technical
 program. The full- and half-day offerings will span a wide variety of
 topics.

 Brave New Topics is a special sessions track containing papers, which
 extend
 the boundaries of multimedia research.

 Technical Demonstrations will include leading edge work in every area
 of
 multimedia technology and its application. An award will be given to
 the
 best
 technical demo.

 Interactive Art Program will include tools for creating multimedia art,
 tools
 created by artists, and an Art Exhibition. Digital Boundaries:
 Multiculturalism,
 Identity, and Awareness: art works that, using multimedia, explore
 issues
 of
 cultural identity, cultural awareness, and the boundaries created or
 enforced
 through the use of multimedia technology.

 Video Demonstrations allow researchers and artists to demonstrate their
 tool,
 system or application without having to bring the equipment for a
 "live"
 demo.

 Day-long Workshops on topics of great current interest to members of
 the
 multimedia
 research community will precede the technical program.

 The Doctoral Symposium is a venue for doctoral students to present
 their
 research
 and receive feedback from members of the multimedia research field.

 Panels will consist of discussions on timely and controversial topics.


 Important Dates

 April 16, 2004        Abstract registration deadline  - extended!!!
 April 25, 2004        Full papers, panel proposals submission deadline -
 extended!!!
 May    3,2004        Art Exhibition submission deadline
 June   1,2004        Tutorials submission deadline
 June   1,2004        Demos, posters, software, art exhibition, video
 program,
                                  doctoral symposium submission deadline
 July   1,2004         Notification of acceptance for full papers
 July  20,2004        Camera-ready papers due


 Organizing Committee
 General Co-Chairs
 Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia U
 Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research
 Program Co-Chairs
 M. Angela Sasse, UCL
 Sue Moon, KAIST
 Rainer Lienhart, Intel
 Tutorial  Co-Chairs
 Yong Rui, Microsoft
 Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge U
 Video Program Chair
 Frank Nack, CWI Amsterdam
 Workshop Chairs
 Chitra Dorai, IBM; Tat-Seng Chua, NUS
 Technical Demos Chairs
 Michael Vernick, Avaya
 Jim Griffioen, U Kentucky
 Art Exhibit  Chairs
 Pamela Jennings, CMU
 Alejandro Jaimes, FujiXerox
 Doctoral Symposium Chairs
 Hari Sundaram, ASU
 Pal Halvorsen, U Oslo
 Panel Chair
 Susanne Boll, U Oldenburg
 Poster Chairs
 Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin U
 Brian Bailey, U Illinois U-C

 Brave New Topics Chairs
 Lynn Wilcox, FX Pal
 Dick Bulterman, CWI Amsterdam
 Best Open-source Software Chair
 Ketan Mayer-Patel, UNC Chapel Hill
 Roger Zimmerman, USC
 Publicity Chairs
 Liming Chen, U Lyon
 John C.S. Lui, CUHK
 Michael Vernick, Avaya
 Proceedings Chair
 Dongge Li, Motorola Labs
 Web Site
 Lalitha Agnihotri, Philips Research
 Design
 Lira Nikolovska, MIT
 Registration  Chair
 Andrew Miller, Columbia U
 Local Organization Chairs
 Belle Tseng, IBM
 Weibin Zhao, Columbia U
 Asia Liaison
 HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft, China
 Europe Liaison
 Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt U, Germany
 ACM SIGMM Chair
 Ramesh Jain, Georgia Tech, and Larry Rowe, UC Berkeley

 Questions? Send e-mail to: mm04-chairs@cs.columbia.edu