IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2013 ================================================ July 15-19, 2013, San Jose, California, USA. Visit http://www.icme2013.org for details Sponsored by: IEEE Circuits & Systems Society IEEE Communications Society IEEE Computer Society IEEE Signal Processing Society With nearly 1200 submissions in 2011, the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities. In 2013, an Exposition of multimedia products, animations and industries will be held in conjunction with the conference. Authors are invited to submit a full paper (two-column format, 6 pages maximum) according to the guidelines available on the conference website atwww.icme2013.org. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Speech, audio, image, video, text processing - Signal processing for media integration - 3D visualization, animation and virtual reality - 3D imaging and 3DTV - Multi-modal multimedia computing systems and human-machine interaction - Multimedia communications and networking - Multimedia security and content protection - Multimedia databases and digital libraries - Multimedia applications and services - Media content analysis - Multimedia standards and related issues - Multimedia quality assessment ICME 2013 aims to have high quality oral and poster presentations. Several awards sponsored by industrial and scholarly organizations will be presented. Best papers will be presented in a single-track session to all participants. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference in order to be included in the IEEE Xplore Library. A number of Workshops will be organized by the sponsoring societies. To further foster new emerging topics, ICME 2013 also welcomes researchers, developers, and practitioners to organize regular Workshops. Potential organizers please contact the Workshop Chairs for further details. Proposals for Tutorials, Demos, and Exhibitions are also encouraged. Please visit the ICME 2013 website for submission details. Schedule - Regular Paper Abstract Submission:December 10, 2012 - Regular Paper Submission:December 15, 2012 - Workshop & Demo Paper Submission:February 20, 2013 - Industrial & Application Short Paper Submission:March 31, 2013 - Notification of Regular Paper Acceptance:March 1, 2013 - Notification of Workshop and Demo Paper Acceptance:April 15, 2013 - Camera-Ready Paper Due:April 30, 2013 - Workshop Proposal Due:December 31, 2012 - Tutorial Proposal Due:January 31, 2013 Contact Email: webmaster@icme2013.org Website: http://www.icme2013.org Organizing Committee ================ General Chairs ========== Anup Basu, University of Alberta, Canada Nam Ling, Santa Clara University, USA Sethuraman Panchanatha, Arizona State University, USA Program Chairs =========== Demetri Terzopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Society Program Co-Chairs =================== Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands - IEEE Signal Processing Society Representative Belle Tseng, Apple, USA - IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Representative Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore - IEEE Computer Society Representative Weisi Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - IEEE Communications Society Representative Workshop Chairs ============ Zhengguo Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Maria Luisa Sapino, University of Torino, Italy Timothy K. Shih, National Central University, Taiwan Tutorial Chairs ========== Aljoscha Smolic, Disney Research, Zurich, Switzerland Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University, USA Theme Chairs ========== Irene Cheng, University of Alberta, Canada Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada Haohong Wang, TCL Research America, USA Panel Chairs ========= Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze, Italy Lingzhi Liu, Intel, USA Local/Events Chairs ============== Mrinal Mandal, University of Alberta, Canada Ted Selker, Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley, USA Industrial Program Chairs ================== Tom Malzbender, HP Labs, USA Cha Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA Industrial/Short Papers Chairs ===================== Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research, USA Fan Zhai, Texas Instruments, USA Andres Kwasinski, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Jonathan Wu, University of Windsor, Canada Expo Chairs ======== Frederic Dufaux, Telecom ParisTech, France Jiang Zhu, Cisco Systems, USA Zhihui Xiong, National University of Defense Technology, China Finance Chairs ========== Xiao Su, San Jose State University, USA Vicky Zhao, University of Alberta, Canada Publicity Chairs ========== Pradeep K. Atrey, University of Winnipeg, Canada Guillaume Lavoué, INSA Lyon, France Li Song, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Myung Hoon Sunwoo, Ajou University, Korea Jian Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Sponsorship Chairs ============== J. Zhu, Griffith University, Australia Seyfullah Halit Oguz, Qualcomm, USA Sriganesh Madhvanath, HP Labs, India Zhu Li, Huawei, USA Publications Chair ============ Xenophon Zabulis, FORTH, Greece Web Chair ======= Rui Shen, University of Alberta, Canada