Call for Papers IEEE International Workshop on Acoustics and Video Coding and Communication in conjunction with ICME 2011 Friday, July 15, 2011, Barcelona, Spain http://www.bitmovin.net/ICME Multimedia communication through mobile networks and the Internet has rapidly become an essential way for us to communicate in the recent years. Multimedia communication includes and is not limited to peer-to-peer video calls and chatting, multi-point video conferences, live or adaptive streaming of movies and events, , interactive viewing of graphic applications fully running in the cloud, etc. It involves audio, speech and video, all at the same time. To guarantee QoS, bandwidth limitation and network congestion are the main issues to be tackled. Furthermore, arising importance of low-delay interactive multimedia communications and applications requires special care and robustness against network delay and jitter. In this workshop, we aim to bring together speech, audio, video, and communication experts to present their latest research ideas on how to improve the QoS of multimedia communication and applications from both source coding and transport perspectives. This workshop aims at high-quality original papers. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Advanced video coding technologies, including high efficiency video coding, scalable video coding, 3D video coding. • Bio-inspired and advanced speech and audio coding • Multi-channel and distributed audio and video coding • Speech, audio, image and video processing • Auditory model, linguistic model and language model for spoken language processing and communication • Sensor array and multichannel systems, localization of audio and acoustic sources • Machine learning and cognitive research in speech and audio processing • Detection of speech and audio signal in complex environments • Statistical methods for speech and audio signal processing • Joint speech, audio and video application and optimization • Low delay, interactive multimedia communications • Error control and congestion control • Error resilience coding and error concealment • Complexity optimization, GPU and ASIC friendly design and implementation of speech, audio and video signal processing system We encourage researchers from industry and academia to submit original works on Acoustics and Video Coding and Communication. Full papers (up to 6 pages) will be published as part of the IEEE ICME 2011 main conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Submit Regular Paper (up to 6 pages) by: February 20, 2011 Notification of Regular Paper Acceptance: April 10, 2010 Camera-Ready Paper Due: April 20, 2010 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Peng Yin, Dolby Laboratories Inc, USA Yan Ye, Dolby Laboratories Inc, USA Pei-jung Chung, University of Edinburgh,UK Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Roland Badeau, Telecom Paris Tech, France Juan Carlos De Martin, Politecnico of Torino, Italy Vasu Chakravarthy, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Pamela Cosman, University of California, San Diego, USA Oscar Divorra, Telefonica Research, Spain Alexandros Eleftheriadis , University of Athens, Greece Edouard Francois, Technicolor, France Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland Christine Guillemot, Irisa, France Woo-Jin Han, Samsung, Korea Michael Horowitz, eBrisk Video, Canada Joel Jung, Orange – France Telecom R&D, France Husheng Li, University of Tennessee, USA Xin Li, University of West Virginia, USA Dingsheng Luo, Peking University, China Ferran Marques, UPC, Spain Giovanni Motta, Google, USA Truong Nguyen, University of California, San Diego, USA Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University, USA Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, T้l้com ParisTech, USA Yuriy Reznik, Qualcomm Inc, USA Gไel Richard, Telecom ParisTech, France Heiko Schwarz, HHI, Germany Andrew Segall, Sharp, USA Gerald Schuller, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany Yi Su, Qualcomm, USA Kemal Ugur, Nokia Inc, Finland Anthony Vetro, MERL, USA Ye-kui Wang, Huawei, USA Ji-Zheng Xu, Microsoft, China Wenjun Zeng,Univeristy of Missouri, USA