----- Message Text ----- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple CFPs. ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPER ----------------------------------------------------------- Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TAIWAN December 9-13 2008 http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/pcm2008/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------- =============== Important Dates =============== Regular Paper Submission: 15 June 2008 Proposal for Special Sessions and Tutorials: 1 June 2008 Decision for Special Session Proposal: 15 June 2008 Manuscripts for Special Session due: 8 July 2008 Feedback by Special Session Chair: 1 Aug 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 8 Aug 2008 Camera-Ready Papers: 22 Aug 2008 ------- Summary ------- Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. PCM 2008 is seeking high quality submissions in the broad field of multimedia. The technical program will consist of the following topic of interest: * Multimedia Compression, Communication, and Networking * Multimedia Processing, Analysis, and Retrieval * Multimedia Databases, Systems, and Applications * Multimedia Human Computer Interfaces * Multimedia Security and Digital Right Management -------------- Important Note -------------- Venue: National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS) ---------------- Keynote Speakers ---------------- Sheila S. Hemami, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University Jenq-Neng Hwang, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington ---------------- Honorary Chairs ---------------- Ming-Chiao Lai, National Cheng Kung University,Taiwan Yang-Kuin Su, Kun Shun University, Taiwan ----------------- Conference Chairs ----------------- Yueh-Min Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Changsheng Xu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Kuo-Sheng Cheng, Kun Shan University, Taiwan -------------- Program Chairs -------------- Jar-Ferr Kevin Yang, National Cheng Kung University Shipeng Li, Microsoft Research Asia M.N.S. Swamy, Concordia University ----------------------- Special Session Chairs ----------------------- Ajay Divakaran, Sarnoff Corporation Shuqiang Jiang, Digital Media Research Media Institute of Computing Technology ---------------- Tutorial Chairs ---------------- Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong, China ------------------------ Local Arrangement Chair ------------------------ Ching-Shine Hwang, Kun Shan University, Taiwan --------------- Financial Chair --------------- Ming-Shi Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan ------------------ Registration Chair ------------------ Tzing-I Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan ------------------- Publication Chairs ------------------- Jen-Wen Ding, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan ---------------- Publicity Chairs ---------------- Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ting-Wei Hou, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan ------------------ Advisory Committee ------------------ Ramesh Jain, University of California, USA Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton University, USA Yong Rui, Mircrosoft China Research & Development Group Hongjiang Zhang, Microsoft China Research & Development Group ------------ Track Chairs ------------- Chun-Lin Lu, Kun Shun University Ja-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University Lap-Pui Chau, Nanyang Technological University Oscar C. Au, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Best, Qi, Marcel, and Ting-Wei Publicity Chairs of PCM 2008