Call for Papers and Announcement: Internet Multimedia Management Systems VI (IT108) Part of SPIE's International Symposium on Optics East 2005 23-26 October 2005 * Boston Marriott Copley Place * Boston, MA, USA Abstract Due: April 11, 2005 To submit an abstract, please go to www.spie.org. Conference Chairs: Tong Zhang, Hewlett-Packard Labs.; Qi Tian, Univ. of Texas/San Antonio; John R. Smith, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. Program Committee: Ajay Divakaran, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs.; Yihong Gong, NEC Labs. America; Alan Hanjalic, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands); Jesse S. Jin, The Univ. of Newcastle (Australia); Sunil Kumar, Clarkson Univ.; C.C. J. Kuo, Univ. of Southern California; Michael S. Lew, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (Netherlands); Ying Li, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Beth Logan, Hewlett-Packard Labs.; Bernard Merialdo, Institut Eurécom (France); Milind R. Naphade, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Yong Rui, Microsoft Research; Stan Sclaroff, Boston Univ.; Nicu Sebe, Univ. van Amsterdam (Netherlands); Ahmet M. Tekalp, Univ. of Rochester; Robert A. Ulichney, Hewlett-Packard Labs.; HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia (China); Wensheng Zhou, HRL Labs. LLC Advances in multimedia systems and the Internet are stimulating new developments in technologies for capturing, searching, filtering, editing and indexing of multimedia data. As one result, multimedia systems are finding diverse applications in areas such as education, entertainment, telemedicine, remote sensing, and on-line information services. In addition, the tremendous growth of E-commerce on the Internet is driving many new applications for multimedia technologies including browsing and content-based searching of rich media-enabled product catalogs and mobile commerce. The recently finished ISO MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standards promise to enable multimedia system interoperability by standardizing description structures for multimedia data. More than ever there is an urgent need for developing efficient and effective methods for analyzing, searching, browsing, retrieving, indexing, and storing multimedia data for the growing diversity of multimedia applications on the Internet. Papers are solicited in all areas of Internet multimedia management systems including, but not limited to: * image, video, and audio database management * content-based searching and query processing * video and audio parsing, segmentation, and analysis * multi-modal analysis (text, audio, image, and video) * multimedia data modeling and representation * multimedia content description standards, such as MPEG-7, MPEG-21, DICOM * languages for describing/exchanging media content * multimedia indexing and archiving techniques * lossless and near-lossless compression * image/video transmission and distribution over the Internet and intranets * media adaptation and Universal Multimedia Access * 3D representation and display techniques on the Web * performance evaluation measures * video on demand (VoD) and media servers * experimental prototypes embodying the state-of-the-art in multimedia information systems * security and integrity of multimedia databases * applications: E-commerce, entertainment, education, homeland security, health care, telemedicine, remote sensing, GIS, Interactive TV, CAD, digital libraries * audio/video browsing and thumbnailing * wireless media communication * digital rights management * audio and video enhancement.