The 2011 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2011) Call for Papers December 20-22, Sydney, Australia PDF Version: http://www.nnss.net/pcm2011/pcm2011cfp.pdf THE PCM CONFERENCE 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. The proceedings of the conference will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer, and available in the ISI Web of Knowledge. PCM2011 is the 12th conference in this highly successful and increasingly influential series and will be held from 20th to 22nd December 2011 in Sydney Australia. The technical program will feature opening keynote addresses, invited plenary talks, tutorials, special sessions, and technical presentations of refereed papers. IMPORTANT DATE July 31, 2011: Paper Submission ( http://www.pcm2011.org/ ) August 19, 2011: Notification August 26, 2011: Camera-Ready Paper October 28, 2011: Registration Deadline TRACKS High quality original papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following tracks: 1. Multimedia analysis and retrieval: Including multimedia semantic understanding, modeling and representation, multi-modality fusion and analysis, multimedia content description and indexing, content-based image/video/audio/music retrieval, large-scale cross-media indexing and retrieval. 2. Multimedia security rights and management: Including robust watermarking of multimedia, authentication of multimedia, informational-theoretical aspects of data hiding, steganography and steganalysis, forensic analysis of digital multimedia, watermarking quality evaluations and benchmarks, content management. 3. Multimedia compression and optimization: Image and video compression, including JPEG2000, MPEG-4/H.264/AVS, preprocessing, postprocessing, scalable video coding, IPTV, HDTV, transcoding, distributed video coding, multi-view coding, 3DTV, super resolution, demosaicking, denoising, deinterlacing, fast algorithms, speech and audio coding, MP3, AAC, AMR, perceptual masking, pre/post- processing, virtual surround, emerging techniques, etc. 4. Multimedia communication and networking: Including media streaming, mobile multimedia, multimedia content distribution, wireless multimedia, content-aware multimedia communications, peer-to-peer data streaming, Internet protocols, multimedia services, operating systems, middleware and QoS. 5. Multimedia systems and applications: Including user interfaces, digital library, multi-modal interaction and integration, distributed collaboration, multimedia authoring, digital protection and restoration of rare cultural relic, multimedia in elearning and education, multimedia hardware and VLSI, animation and entertainments, personal media, networked appliances, wearable computing, ubiquitous multimedia, entertainment computing, virtual environments, and multimedia processing for social media applications such as multimedia content-sharing, social networking, collaborating, blogging and gamming on the web. Honorary Chairs Thomas Huang, UIUC, USA Gerard Medioni, USC, USA Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia, USA General Chairs Jesse Jin, Newcastle, Australia Yong Rui, MSRA, Microsoft, USA Xiaofang Zhou, UQld, Australia Program Chairs Ernest Edmonds, UTS, Australia Heng Tao Shen, UQld, Australia Changsheng Xu, CAS, China Local Organising Chairs Massimo Piccardi, UTS, Australia Sean He, UTS, Australia Maolin Huang, UTS, Australia Panel Chairs Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin Anthony Maeder, UWS David Taubman, UNSW Tutorial Chairs Mohan Kankanhalli, NUS Manzur Murshed, Monash Phoebe Chen, Deakin Publication Chairs Suhuai Luo, Newcastle David Tien, CSU Special Session Chairs Ishwar Sethi, Oakland Tao Mei, MSRA, Microsoft Richard Xu, CSU Publicity Chairs Edward Chang, Google, USA Sameer Singh, Loughborough Mark Liao, ISAS, Taiwan Shuqiang Jiang, CAS, China Stephan Chalup, Newcastle Zheng-Jun Zha, NUS, S’pore Supot Nitsuwat, KMU, Thailand