MMSP 2004

                             IEEE Workshop
                                   on
                      Multimedia Signal Processing

                     September 29 - October 1, 2004
                             Siena - ITALY
                          http://mmsp.unisi.it

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MMSP-04 is the sixth international workshop on multimedia signal
processing. The workshop is organized by the Multimedia Signal
Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

SCOPE: The workshop focuses on all the aspects of multimedia signal
processing, ranging from theoretical analysis through practical
applications.

Papers are solicited for, but not limited to,
the following general areas:

- Multimedia Processing (joint audio/visual processing,
   2-D and 3-D, graphics/geometry coding and animation,
   pre/post- processing of digital, video,
   joint source/channel coding, data, streaming,
   speech/audio, image/video coding and processing)
- Multimedia Databases (content recognition,
   analysis, representation, indexing, and retrieval)
- Human-Machine Interface
- Security, Data Hiding, Digital Right Management
- Multimedia Networking
   (priority-based QoS control and scheduling,
   traffic engineering, soft IP multicast support,
   home networking technologies, position aware computing,
   wireless communications)
- Multimedia Systems:
   Design, Implementation and Applications
   (entertainment and games, IP video/web conferencing,
   wireless web, wireless video phone, distance learning
   over the Internet, telemedicine over the Internet,
   distributed virtual reality)
- Human Perception (including integration of art and technology)
- Standards

Paper submission and review process

Prospective authors should prepare a 2-page summary and submit it
electronically. All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 members
of the Program Committee; additional reviewers will be consulted if
needed. The papers should provide sufficient background information and
should clearly indicate the original contribution. They should state and
discuss the main results and provide adequate references. Paper
submission implies that one of the authors will present the paper if it
is accepted.

Important deadlines

March 31, 2004:  2-page summary submission
May 31, 2004:    Notification of acceptance
June 30, 2004:   Camera-ready papers due

Steering committee

M. Barni (Univ. of Siena, Italy)
F. Bartolini (Univ. of Florence)
T. Chen (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
S. Tubaro (Polytechnic of Milan)
R. Caldelli (Univ. of Florence)
J-L. Dugelay, (EURECOM)
A. Piva, (CNIT)
A. De Rosa, (Univ. of Florence)
A. Mecocci, (Univ. of Siena)
S. Sagayama, (Univ. of Tokyo)
K. J. R. Liu (Univ. of Maryland)

Technical Program committee

S. Basu (IBM), M. Brandstein (Harvard), P. Campisi (Univ. of Rome 3), C.
W. Chen (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia), M. R. Civanlar (AT&T Labs), I. J.
Cox (Univ. College, London), Z. Ding (Univ. of California), T. Ebrahimi
(EPFL), A. Eleftheriadis (Columbia Univ.), S. Furui (Tokyo Inst. of
Technology), A. Garzelli (Univ. of Siena), L. Granai (EPFL), L. Guan
(Ryerson Polytechnic Univ.), M. Hayes (Georgia Inst. of Technology), Y.
H. Hu (Univ. of Wisconsin), J.-N. Hwang (Univ. of Washington), A.
Katsaggelos (Northwestern Univ.), S.-Y. Kung (Univ. of Princeton), C.
Kyriakakis (USC), R. Lancini (Cefriel), C.-H. Lee (Lucent Technologies),
R. Leonardi (Univ. of Brescia, Italy), L. Lucchese (Oregon State Univ.),
E. Magli (Turin Polytechnic), G. Menegaz (Univ. of Fribourg), C. Neti
(IBM), A. Ortega (USC), J. Ostermann (AT&T), T.N. Pappas (Northwestern
Univ.), K. Ramchandran (UC Berkeley), Y. Q. Shi (NJ Inst. of
Technology), W.C. Siu (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.), J. R. Smith (IBM),
J. A. Sorensen (IT Univ. of Copenhagen), M. Van Der Schaar (Philips), M.
Wu (Univ. of Maryland), Z. Xiong (Texas A&M Univ.), H. Zheng (Lucent
Technologies)

We look forward to welcoming you at MMSP 2004