==================================================================================================================== The 13-th Pacific-rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2012) 4th-7th Dec 2012, Singapore Main conference website: http://cemnet.ntu.edu.sg/pcm2012/ Main Conference email: pcm2012.org@gmail.com The Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners to share and showcase their new ideas, original research results and engineering development experiences from all multimedia related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial-track papers reporting real multimedia applications and system development experiences. The conference also solicits proposals for tutorials on crucial multimedia technologies, and calls for special session proposals focusing on specific emerging challenges in the multimedia arena. Original high-quality papers will be presented, but not limited to, the following areas related to multimedia technologies and applications: - Multimedia analysis and retrieval - Multimedia systems and applications - Multimedia signal processing and compression - Multimedia communications and networking - Multimedia security and rights management - Multimedia quality assessment - 3D media, virtual and augmented reality - Interactive media and HCI The proceedings of the conference will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer, which will be indexed by EI Compendex. High-quality accepted papers will be invited to potential special issues in a few prestigious journals including Machine Vision Application Journal, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI) and Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems. Important Dates Apr 30, 2012: Special sessions and Tutorial Proposal May 31, 2012: Paper submission Jun 25, 2012: Special session paper due Aug 10, 2012: Acceptance notification Aug 31, 2012: Camera-ready paper & registration Dec 4-7, 2012: Conference Honorary Co-Chairs Tat-Seng CHUA, National University of Singapore, Srikanthan THAMBIPILLAI, Nanyang Technological University General Co-Chairs Jianfei CAI, Nanyang Technological University, Mohan KANKANHALLI, National University of Singapore, Ming-Ting SUN, University of Washington, USA Program Co-Chairs Weisi LIN, Nanyang Technological University, Dong XU, Nanyang Technological University, Anthony TS HO, University of Surrey, UK Special Session Co-Chairs Shuicheng YAN, National University of Singapore, Junsong YUAN, Nanyang Technological University Tutorial Co-Chairs Liang-Tien CHIA, Nanyang Technological University, Qingming HUANG, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Publicities Co-Chairs Chang-Sheng XU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Jian ZHANG, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Chia-Wen LIN, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Yo-Sung Ho, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea, Tat Jet CHAM, Nanyang Technological University, Yonggang WEN, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Industrial/Sponsorship Co-Chairs Feng WU, Microsoft Research Asia, China, Zhengguo LI, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Finance/Registration Co-Chairs Jun LUO, Nanyang Technological University, Kap-Luk CHAN, Nanyang Technological University, Local Arrangement Co-Chair Chan Hua VUN, Nicholas, Nanyang Technological University, Jialie SHEN, Singapore Management University Publication Co-Chair Jianxin WU, Nanyang Technological University, Ying HE, Nanyang Technological University Steering Committee Changwen Chen, University at Buffalo, Sadoaki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ling Guan (Chair), Ryerson University, Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton University, Yong Rui, Microsoft Research Asia, Changsheng Xu (Vice Chair), Chinese Academy of Sciences