VIE 2006 Bangalore India September 26-28, 2006 http://conferences.iee.org/vie2006/ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Image and video communication, coding and compression. 2. Image and video interpretation, classification and motion tracking. 3. Image and video analysis, segmentation, event-based surveillance, video indexing and retrieval. 4. Graphics, visualisation, synthetic image generation and manipulation, animation, rendering, image and video-based model synthesis. 5. Architectures and implementation, image acquisition, and hardware. 6. Applications of VIE e.g. TV and video, mobile communications, robotics, medical, forensic, security and surveillance, industrial inspection, handwriting analysis/recognition, biometrics, virtual and augmented reality, advanced and immersive videoconferencing, and computer/video games. 7. Tools for the content value chain, e.g. repurposing (e.g. transcoding), delivery mechanisms (networking), and consumer devices for visual media consumption. 8. Visual media standards e.g. JPSearch, JPIP, MPEG-21, UMA (Universal multimedia access) andscalable video coding. 9. Visual media management, multimedia database management, watermarking, privacy, and digital rights management. Paper Submission and Publication Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (http://iee-pn.conference-services.net/directory.asp) of up to 6 pages using the on-line system. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEE. Exceptional papers will be invited for consideration for a Special Issue of the IEE Proceedings on Vision and Image Processing. Important Dates 3 April 2006 Submission of full papers 26 May 2006 Notification of acceptance 26 June 2006 Submission of camera-ready paper VIE 2006 is Organised by the VIsual Information Engineering Professional Network http://www.iee.org/oncomms/pn/visualinformation/index.cfm The Institution of Electrical Engineers is a not for profit organisation, registered as a charity in the UK. From: Farzin Deravi