First IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience

July 29-31, 2009

San Diego, CA, USA

Call for Papers

The first International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience
(QoMEX) will bring together leading professionals and scientists in
multimedia quality and user experience from around the world.
Typically, multimedia processing algorithms are evaluated using
objective metrics or through subjective testing in a controlled
environment. However, perceived user experience is psychological in
nature and changes in different environmental conditions and with
different multimedia devices.  Therefore, new techniques are needed to
asses and enhance multimedia experience from the user
perspective. QoMEX'09 is an international forum to gather experts
from academia and industry to present the latest developments on
evaluation of multimedia quality based on user experience.

QoMEX'09 features oral presentations, exhibits, panels and poster
sessions in order to provide attendees with various channels to
exchange and acquire information about the latest developments and
future trends in the field of multimedia user experience.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* User Experience Assessment and Enhancement: New metrics to define
quality of user experience, interaction between auditory, visual,
affective and other modalities and their impact on user experience, UI
design, user experience rendering, user experience acquisition, human
and multimedia device interaction, multimedia quality evaluation tools
for generic and specific applications.

* Visual User Experience (Image/Video/Graphics) : Objective quality
metrics, subjective quality evaluation, psycho-visual modeling,
quality-centered processing, compression and transmission, artifacts
reduction, relationship between errors/noise/losses to human
perception, display-specific processing, 3D Video, quality evaluation
in HD and beyond, quality evaluation in HDR content, quality issues in
streaming video.

* Auditory User Experience (Speech/Audio) : Psycho-acoustic modeling,
quality assessment of interactive speech applications, VoIP, modeling
based on human auditory perception, intrusive/non-intrusive models for
quality evaluation.

* Standardization Activities in Multimedia Quality Evaluation:
Benchmarking efforts, databases and multimedia content
characteristics, testing conditions, new objective metrics and models
for upcoming standards.

==== Organizing Committee =====

General Co-Chairs
 * Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, NTNU
 * Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm
 
Technical Program Co-Chairs
 * Gökçe Dane, Qualcomm
 * Lina Karam, ASU

Advisory Committee
 * Vittorio Baroncini, FUB
 * Alan C. Bovik, U Texas
 * Jerry D. Gibson, UCSB
 * Joyce Farrell, Stanford U
 * Bastiaan Kleijn, KTH
 * Andrew Perkis, NTNU

Exhibitions and Demo
 * Haohong Wang, Marvel Semiconductor
 * Heather Yu, Huawei Technologies

Finance
 * Michael Ansorge, EPFL
 * Ziad Asghar, Texas Instruments

Publicity
 * Baoxin Li, ASU
 * Ulrich Reiter, NTNU

Local Arrangements
 * Yen-Chi Lee, Qualcomm
 * Truong Nguyen, UCSD

==== Technical Program Committee ====
Ghassan Al Regib, Madhukar Budagavi, Jorge Caviedes, Philip Corriveau,
Pamela Cosman, Sujit Dey, Hans W. Gierlich, Hidenobu Harasaki, Yuuko
Horita, Hau Hwang, Patrick Le Callet, Weisi Lin, Alessandro Neri,
Fernando Pereira, Alexander Raake, Amy Reibman, Bülent Sankur, Nitin
Suresh, Stephen Voran, Zhou Wang, Stefan Winkler, Henry Wu, Buyue
Zhang

==== Important Dates ====
Submission deadline:         March 1,  2009
Notification of acceptance:  April 15, 2009
Camera ready submission:     May 15,  2009

Further information is available at: http://www.qomex.org