2ND Call for Papers EUROMEDIA 2008 14TH ANNUAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/100 UNIVERSITY OF PORTO PORTUGAL APRIL 9-11, 2008 Organized by ETI Sponsored by EUROSIS Delft University of Technology Belgacom TTVI Ghent University DG-INFSO Dear Colleague, this is a reminder that the abstract submission deadline for EUROMEDIA 2008 is next January 20. As a reminder also please find enclosed the list of the conference topics: [] WEBTEC * Internet Viewers and Programs * Visual Programming Languages * 3D Web Programs * Video and Audio Streaming on the Web * AI on the Web * Software for Web-based Business Applications [] MEDIATEC * Multimedia Techniques and Telecom * Multimedia Authoring Tools and Software * Multimedia Building Blocks [] COMTEC * Telecommunications Technologies * Networks * Network Security * Mobile Communications * TV Technology * QoS [] APTEC * Telematics Consumer Applications * Cooperative Consumer Application * Tele-Education * Integrated Enterprise Software and Groupware * Telemedicine * Ubiquitous Computing Applications * Embedded Systems and Future Product Market Combinations * Multimodal communication [] ETEC * Tele-X and E-Commerce * Knowledge Management and E-Mobility Special Tracks: [] Knowledge Management and e-Mobility [] In-Car Applications [] Facial Recognition or Non Verbal Communication [] Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications Special Workshops: [] Medical Imaging Systems In recent years, extensive research has been performed to develop more and more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems. Such systems are crucial for medical specialists, allowing a deeper analysis and to understand what is going inside the human body, and therefore they play an essential role for adequate medical diagnosis and treatments. To accomplish efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, many research works have being done in many domains, like the ones related with medical image devices, signal processing, image processing and analysis, biomechanical simulation and data visualization. The main goal of the Workshop "Medical Imaging Systems" is to bring together researchers involved in the related domains, in order to set the major lines of development for the near future. Therefore, the proposed Workshop will consist of researchers representing various fields related to Medical Devices, Signal Processing, Computational Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Mechanics, Scientific Visualization, Mathematics and Medical Imaging. The Workshop endeavors to contribute to obtain better solutions for more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, and attempts to establish a bridge between clinicians and researchers from these diverse fields. The proposed Workshop will cover topics related with medical imaging systems, such as: * image acquisition * signal processing * image processing and analysis * modelling and simulation * computer aided diagnosis * surgery, therapy, and treatment * computational bioimaging and visualization * software development * virtual reality * telemedicine systems and their applications [] D-TV Scope: In contrast to traditional TV DTV is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals. It uses digitally compressed modulation data, which requires decoding by a specially designed television set or a standard receiver (set-top box) as well as via PC-TV based on ADLS (VDSL). Digital Television has several advantages regarding technically as well as content and programme related aspects. One of the most significant is the use of a smaller channel bandwidth. This frees up space for more digital channels, other non-television services such as pay-multimedia services and the generation of new revenue models based on interactive advertisement and marketing features. Furthermore there are special services such as multicasting (more than one programme on the same channel), electronic programme guides and interactivity providing a wider range of application. Accordingly within the last year a growing up of specialised digital TV channels (Special Interest Channels) has to be observed European wide. This new growing up stream is mainly characterised by the phenomena of merging television (TV) and information technology (IT) know how, methods and techniques. In this context the workshop targets to show up the development in both directions: the technically aspects as well as the content and programme issues. It provides a presentation and discussion platform for exchanging experiences made within the establishment as well as the maintenance of digital special interest channels. Main focus will be to point out the interdependencies and the mutual influences of technically streams and content respectively service related issues. Topics: * Broadband Television * Interactive Television * IPTV - Web-TV * DVB-H, DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C * MHP & Interactive Television * Set-Top-Boxes * Full Digital Production Chain Management * Digital-Video-Journalism * DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) * FreeTV & PayTV * Interactive Video * Interactive Advertising Formats * Event Oriented Interview Formats * Event Driven Program Schemes & Formats * Mobile Content * Cross-Format Content & Knowledge Pooling * Cross-Media Content Production & Distribution * Indexing and Retrieval of Digital Content * Semantically Enrichment of Digital Content * Security & Digital Rights Management (DRM) * Watermarking & Copyrights & Protection * Cross-platform productions on TV Media-Convergence * Peer-to-peer Grid TV Applications For more information on the workshops see: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/476 Conference Committee General Conference Chair Joăo Manuel R. S. Tavares, FEUP, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Renato Natal Jorge, FEUP, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal WEBTEC Programme Committee Sameh Abdel-Naby, University of Trento, Trento, Italy Dr. Paul Dowland, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Dipl.-Inf. Steffen Harneit, CUTEC-Institute GmbH, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany Ass. Prof. Qingping Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Prof. Dr. Jörn Loviscach, Hochschule Bremen, University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany Assoc. Prof. Wenji Mao, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China Lorenzo Motta, Ansaldo Segnalamento Ferroviaro s.p.a. Genova, Italy Dr. H. Joachim Nern, Aspasia Knowledge Systems, Dusseldorf, Germany Dr. Carlos E. Palau, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Prof. Paola Salomoni, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Dr. Elpida Tzafestas, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece Dr. Matthew Warren, Deakin University Geelong, Victoria, Australia MEDIATEC Programme Committee Assoc. Prof. Vincent Charvillat, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse cedex, France Dr. Fernando Boronat Segui, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Gran de Gandia, Spain Ignazio Infantino, ICAR-CNR, Palermo (PA), Italy PhD. Jens Mueller-Iden, University of Münster, Münster, Germany Dr. Ana Pajares, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Jehan Francois Paris, University of Houston, Houston, USA Prof. Marco Roccetti, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Dr. Leon Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Dr. Leonid Smalov, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom Prof. Rik Van de Walle, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium COMTEC Programme Committee Prof. Dr. Marwan Al-Akaidi, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom Boguslaw Butrylo, Bialystok Technical University, Bialystok, Poland Dr. Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Dr. Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Prof. Chris Guy, The University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom PhD Mohammad Riaz Moghal, Ali Ahmad Shah-University College of Engineering and Technology, Mirpur, Pakistan PhD Roberto Montemanni, IDSIA, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland Maria Papadaki, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Ph. D. Oryal Tanir, Bell Canada, Montreal, Canada Ass. Prof. Vassilis Triantafillou, ?echnological Educational Institution of Messolonghi Applied, Greece APTEC Programme Committee Prof. Dr. J. Broeckhove, RUCA-UA, Antwerp, Belgium Dr. Juan Carlos Guerri Cebollada, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Hatice Gunes, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), NSW Australia Carsten Magerkurth, SAP RESEARCH, St. Gallen, Switzerland Dr.ir. Johan Opsommer, Belgacom - BUS, Brussels, Belgium Prof. Matthias Rauterberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Francisco Reinaldo, FEUP, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Zasriati Azla Sabot, University College Jubail, Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia Prof. Jeanne Schreurs. Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium Ass. Prof. Ramiro Velázquez, Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes, Mexico Dr. Charles van der Mast, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands E-TEC Programme Committee Dr.Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Dr. Paul Dowland, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Knowledge Management and E-Mobility Prof. Ricardo Chalmeta, Universidad Jaume I, Castellon, Spain Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Kassel, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany Workshops Medical Imaging Systems General Chair Joăo Manuel R. S. Tavares, FEUP, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal General Co-Chair Renato Natal Jorge, FEUP, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal International Programme Committee Alberto De Santis, Universitŕ degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Arrate Muńoz Barrutia, University of Navarra, Spain Behnam Heidari, University College Dublin, Ireland Bernard Gosselin, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium Chandrajit Bajaj, University of Texas, USA Christos E. Constantinou, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA Daniela Iacoviello, Universitŕ degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Dinggang Shen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Djemel Ziou, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Gerald Schaefer Aston University, United Kingdom Joăo Krug Noronha, Dr. Krug Noronha Clinic, Portugal Joăo Manuel R. S. Tavares, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal Joăo Paulo Costeira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Jorge M. G. Barbosa, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal Lyuba Alboul, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Manuel González Hidalgo, Balearic Islands University, Spain Maria Elizete Kunkel, Universität Ulm, Germany Mário Forjaz Secca, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Miguel Angel López, Faculty University of Ciego de Avila, Cuba Miguel Velhote Correia, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal Patrick Dubois, Institut de Technologie Médicale, France Reneta Barneva, State University of New York, USA Renato M. Natal Jorge, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal Sabina Tangaro, University of Bari, Italy Valentin Brimkov, State University of New York, USA Yongjie Zhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA D-TV Workshop Dr. Hans-Joachim Nern, TTVI, Germany CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS Philippe Geril Ghent University Faculty of Engineering Dept. of Industrial Management Technologiepark 803 B-9062 Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium Tel: +32 9 2645509 Fax: + 32 9 2645824 Email: philippe.geril@eurosis.org -- Philippe Geril Tel: +32.9.264.55.09 EUROSIS -ETI Fax: +32.9.264.58.25 Ghent University E-mail: philippe.geril@eurosis.org Dept.of Industrial Mgmt. E-mail: pgeril@yahoo.co.uk Technologiepark 903 URL: http://www.eurosis.org Campus Ardoyen B-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde Belgium