======================================================================= ======================================================================= 2008 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing October 8-10, 2008 Shangri-la Hotel Cairns, Queensland, Australia http://www.mmsp08.org/ MMSP-08 Call for Papers (please look at the New part of Introduction to Keynote Speakers!!!!) MMSP-08 is the tenth international workshop on multimedia signal processing. The workshop is organized by the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. A new theme of this workshop is Bio-Inspired Multimedia Signal Processing in Life Science Research. The main goal of MMSP-2008 is to further the scientific research within the broad field of multimedia signal processing and its interaction with other new emerging areas such as life science. The workshop will focus on major trends and challenges in this area, including brainstorming a roadmap for the success of future research and application. MMSP-08 workshop consists of interesting features: * A Student Paper Contest with awards sponsored by Canon. To enter the contest a paper submission must have a student as the first author * A Best Paper from oral presentation session with awards sponsored by Microsoft. * A Best Poster presentation with awards sponsored by National ICT Australia (NICTA). * New session for Bio-Inspired Multimedia Signal Processing SCOPE Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following general areas: > Bio-inspired multimedia signal processing * Multimedia processing techniques inspired by the study of signals/images derived from medical, biomedical and other life science disciplines with applications to multimedia signal processing. * Fusion mechanism of multimodal signals in human information processing system and applications to multimodal multimedia data fusion/integration. * Comparison between bio-inspired methods and conventional methods. * Hybrid multimedia processing technology and systems incorporating bio-inspired and conventional methods. > Joint audio/visual processing, pattern recognition, sensor fusion, medical imaging, 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 analysis, representation, indexing, recognition and retrieval) > Human-machine interfaces and interaction using multiple modalities > Multimedia security (data hiding, authentication, and access control) > 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 Application (design, distributed multimedia systems, real time and non-real-time systems; implementation; multimedia hardware and software) > Standards Keynote speakers: 1. Multimedia Medical Signal Management -- New Challenges in Crossing the Image Chasm between Signal Acquisition, Processing, Diagnosis and Treatment -- presented by Prof. H.K. Huang, University of Southern California 2. Multimedia Application to the Simulation of Human Musculoskeletal System: A Visual Lower Limb Model from Multimodal Captured Data -- presented by Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva 3. Multimedia Search: Past and Current Approaches -- Presented by Dr. HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft China 4. Technical Challenges in Video Coding and Processing for Future Digital Entertainment -- presented by Prof. Chang Wen Chen (editor in Chief of T-CSVT), The State University of New York SCHEDULE * Special Sessions (contact the respective chair): March 8, 2008 * Papers (full paper, 4-6 pages, to be received by): April 18, 2008 * Notification of acceptance by: June 18, 2008 * Camera-ready paper submission by: July 18, 2008 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE C.W. CHEN (Univ. at Buffalo, The State Univ. of New York), T. CHEN (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), I.J. COX (Univ. College London, UK), A. VETRO (MERL, USA), S.F. CHANG (Columbia Univ.), J.L. DUGELAY (Institute Eurécom, France), P. FROSSARD (EPFL, Switzerland), J. ZHANG (NICTA, Australia), L. GUAN (Ryerson Univ.), Y. ALTUNBASAK (Georgia Inst. Tech), A. CAVALLARO (Queen Mary, Univ. of London), L. DONG (Microsoft Research), A. DUMITRAS (Appel, USA), C. GUILLEMOT (INRIA, France), Y. HE (Tsinghua Univ), A. KATSAGGELOS (Northwestern Univ.), C.- C. Jay KUO (Univ. of Southern California), S. LI (Microsoft Research), H.Y.M. LIAO (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), C. Y. LIN (IBM), K.J.R. LIU (Univ. of Maryland), N. MEMON (Polytechnic Univ.), S. NARAYANAN (Univ. of Southern California), B. PESQUET-POPESCU (France), F. PEREIRA (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), H. RADHA (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), A. SAID (HP Lab), J. VILLASENOR (Univ. of California Los Angeles), Z. ZHANG (Microsoft Research), W. ZENG (Univ. of Missouri), Y-H HU(Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Y. Q. SHI (New Jersey Inst. Tech), E. IZQUIERDO (Queen Mary, Univ. of London), W. LI (Univ. of Wollongong), X. He (Univ. of Tech. Sydney), M. VAN DER SCHAAR (Univ. of California Davis), F. PORIKLI (MERL, USA), Y. WANG (Polytechnic Univ.), Z. XIONG (Texas A&M Univ.), J. APOSTOLOPULOS (HP Labs), P. CHOU (Microsoft Research), K. ROSE (Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA), M. WU (Univ. of Maryland), ), M. Li (Microsoft Research), X. Hua (Microsoft Research), (Y.N. ZHANG (Northwestern Polytech. Univ.), T. Mei (Microsoft Research), L. ZHUO (Beijing Univ. of Tech), W.D. CAI (Univ. of Sydney), Z.Y. WANG (Univ. of Sydney), Q. WU (Univ. of Tech. Sydney), M. Frater (Uni. of NSW, Australia), M. Peaking (Uni. of NSW), G. Lu (Monash Uni.), S. Luo (Newcastel Uni. Australia), H.T. Shen (Queensland Uni.), Zhenghua Yu (Seekpai Inc, China), M. Murshed (Monash Uni.), M. Paul (Monash Uni.), H. Wu (RMIT, Australia), D. Taubaan (Univ. of NSW, Australia), W. Huang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), K. H. Yap(Nanyang Technological Univ. Singapore) H.S. Wong (City Univ, of Hong Kong), P. Muneesawang (Naresuan Univ. Thailand), M. Kyan (Ryerson Univ. Canada),J. Lay (Univ. of Sydney, Australia), S. W. Perry (CSIRA Canon, Australia), I. Lee (Univ. of South Australia, Aust.) General Co-Chairs Prof. David Feng, University of Sydney, Australia, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University feng@it.usyd.edu.au Prof. Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin Germany sikora@nue.tu-berlin.de Prof. W.C. Siu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University enwcsiu@polyu.edu.hk Technical Program Co-Chairs Dr. Jian Zhang, National ICT Australia jian.zhang@nicta.com.au Prof. Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada lguan@ee.ryerson.ca Prof. Jean-Luc Dugelay, Institute EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France Jean-Luc.Dugelay@eurecom.fr Special Session Co-Chairs: Prof. Wenjun Zeng, University of Missouri, USA zengw@missouri.edu Prof. Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland pascal.frossard@epfl.ch Publicity Co-Chairs Prof. Yu-Hen Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA hu@engr.wisc.edu Prof. Yun He, Tsinghua University, China hey@tsinghua.edu.cn Publication Chair Dr. Wanqing Li, University of Wollongong, Australia wanqing@uow.edu.au Registration Mr. Sijun Lu, National ICT Australia Sijun.lu@nicta.com.au Finance Chair Dr. Qiang Wu, University Technology of Sydney, Australia wuq@it.uts.edu.au Electronic Media Chair Dr. Rupeng Zhao, Science Platform Corporation Pty Ltd, Australia rpzhao@optusnet.com.au Local Arrangements Chair Dr. Getian Ye, National ICT Australia getian.ye@nicta.com.au Europe Liaison Prof. Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK ebroul.izquierdo@elec.qmul.ac.uk North America Liaison Prof. Yun Qing Shi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA shi@njit.edu IEEE Signal Processing Society ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jian Zhang PhD Principal Researcher & Project Leader Multimedia & Video Communication Research SMLKA Program National ICT Australia (NICTA) T:61-2-83060780 F:61-2-83060403 M:0408626200 http://nicta.com.au/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conjoint Associate Professor – NICTA School of Computer Science & Engineering The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052 Australia http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~jzhang