-------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Ambient Intelligence (IMAI 2007) July 15-22, 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. http://vireo.cs.cityu.edu.hk/IMAI07/ (In conjunction with Joint Conference on Information Sciences 2007) -------------- IMPORTANT DATE -------------- March 20, 2007 Paper submission due May 10, 2007 Acceptance notification June 10, 2007 Camera-ready paper due -------- OVERVIEW -------- In the last few years, we have witnessed an explosive growth of multimedia computing, ambient intelligent (AmI), pervasive and ubiquitous computing. IMAI 2007 seeks the contribution of high quality papers addressing various aspects of multimedia and ambient intelligence, in particular the techniques that lead the merging of both intelligences, for presentation at the conference and publication in the JCIS proceeding. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: AmI, Multimedia and Ubiquitous Learning Environments AmI, Multimedia and Arts Wearable Computing and Multimedia Physical Browsing (Visual Codes, Visual Hyperlinks) Ambient Multimedia Database Wireless Ambient Multimedia Video/Audio/Image Content Analysis Multimedia Information Retrieval Multimedia Security, Watermark and Copy Detection Multimedia Networking, Compression, Representation Multimedia in Wireless Sensor Networks Sensor Systems (Ambient Care, Visual Interaction) Audio-visual Processing of Human Bodily Activity Bodily Interaction Models and Interaction Planning Music and Sound Stimulating Bodily Interaction Intelligent Sensory Environments Human-Web Interaction (Adaptive Interfaces, Mobile Web) Emerging Technology (Grid, P2P, Pervasive, Embedded Computing) AmI Interfaces for Distributed Workgroups ---------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION ---------------------- Paper submission should follow JCIS submission guidelines at (http://www.jcis.org/page/paper.html). The paper template is provided in pdf and doc format, and the online submission tool is available at www.jcis.org/reg/login.html. --------------- FEATURE SPEAKER --------------- Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada ------------- SPECIAL ISSUE ------------- Selected high quality papers will be published in Information Science Journal. ------------------- CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS ------------------- Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong Athanasios V. Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. ------------------- STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------- Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois , Urbana , USA Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University , USA Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Hong Kong Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong Sheng-Tun Li, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology , Taiwan Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University , Taiwan William Grosky, University of Michigan , USA --------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------- Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands Changsheng Xu, Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore Dimitri Plemenos, University of Limoges, France Dong Xu, Columbia University, USA Edward K. Wong, Polytechnic University, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Fuhua Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada Hui Liu, Missouri State University, USA Jianping Fan, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Lei Zhang, Mircrosoft Research Asia, China Li Deng, Central South University, China Lian Feng, University of Twente, Netherlands Magy Seif El-Nasr, Pennsylvania State University, USA Michael O'Grady, University College Dublin, Ireland Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France Pasi Vlkkynen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong Qingming Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Syin Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tham Chen Khong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Tiecheng Liu, University of South Carolina, USA Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany Tong Zhang, HP Lab William Grosky, University of Michigan , USA Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Yan Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, USA Yuxin Peng, Peking University, China -----------------------------------------------------------