20th International Packet Video Workshop 2013 Call for Papers

Call for Papers 20th International Packet Video Workshop 2013 Dec 12-13, San Jose, CA, US Ahttp://pv2013.itec.aau.at/ The 20th International Packet Video Workshop (PV 2013) is devoted to presenting technological advancements and innovations in video and multimedia transmission over packet networks, in particular wireless and Internet networks. The workshop provides a unique venue for people from the media coding and networking fields to meet, interact and exchange ideas. Its charter is to promote the research and development in both established and emerging areas of video streaming and multimedia networking. PV 2013 will be held in San Jose, CA USA on December 12 and 13th. As in previous years, the workshop will be a single-track event and welcomes paper submissions from both cutting-edge research, and business and consumer applications. PV 2013 will be immediately following the Picture Coding Symposium, which will be held also in San Jose, CA. There will be both regular and special sessions. In general, the workshop seeks papers in all areas of media delivery over packet-based networks. Authors are especially encouraged to submit papers with real-world experimental results and real datasets. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Cloud and peer-to-peer system architectures - Media streaming, distribution and storage support - Multimedia communications and system security - Multi-core and many-core architecture support - Networked GPUs, graphics and virtual environments - Networked games, real-time immersive systems - Operating system, middleware and network support - Web 2.0 systems and social networks - Next-generation video like multi-view, panorama and 3D - Wireless networks and embedded systems for multimedia applications - Content-centric networking In particular, we are interested in soliciting papers that discuss system-level support improving performance with multi-core and many-core processors, as well as papers that focus on multimedia applications on mobile devices and/or in a cloud computing environment. Prospective authors are invited to submit an electronic version of full papers, in PDF format, up to 8 printed pages in length (double column IEEE conference format). Call for Special Sessions Packet Video 2013 is the 20th International Packet Video Workshop and will take place on December, 12 and 13th, in San Jose, CA USA. The workshop is devoted to presenting technological advancements and innovations in video and multimedia transmission over packet networks, in particular wireless and Internet networks. The Packet Video Workshop provides a unique venue for people from the media coding and networking fields to meet, interact and exchange ideas. Its charter is to promote the research and development in both established and emerging areas of video streaming and multimedia networking. The Packet Video Workshop is a single-track event, and encourages paper submissions from both cutting-edge research, and business and consumer applications. The workshop will be immediately following the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS 2013), also in San Jose, CA USA. We invite proposals for special sessions. Topics of interest should be timely and significantly important to the technical audience, and the speakers need to convey compelling information about the topic. Special session proposals covering multi-disciplinary areas are particularly encouraged. Each special session is expected to contain between 4 and 6 papers, after an opening keynote on the same subject. Other formats are possible, including panel discussions and demos. Papers solicited for special sessions will undergo the same rigorous reviewing process by anonymous and independent reviewers as regular papers. If after the reviewing process less than 4 papers submitted to a special session are selected, the special session will be cancelled and the papers that passed the review process will be presented within the main technical track of the workshop. Accepted special sessions may also be supplemented by high-quality papers selected from the general pool. Special session papers will be published together with regular papers in the proceedings. At least one author for each paper in the special session must register for the workshop and present their paper. Proposals for special sessions must include: - Title of the special session - Motivation and objective of the special session, including why this special session is timely and state-of-the-art - Specific topics of interest covered - Contact information and short biography for the special session organizer(s) - List of authors who have agreed to submit and present a paper in the special session, and a tentative title and abstract of each paper. Proposals for special sessions should be submitted to John Apostolopoulos (john.apostolopoulos@gmail.com) and Pål Halvorsen (paalh@ifi.uio.no) by April 26th. Prospective organizers are strongly encouraged to contact John and Pål in advance. Notification of accepted proposals will be on May 3rd, and the deadline for paper submissions is the same as for regular papers. Important Dates - Special Session Proposals due: April 26th - Special Session Notifications: May 3rd - All Papers due: June 10th - Acceptance Notifications: September 13th - Camera-ready: October 18th Organization General Co-Chairs - Ali C. Begen, Cisco (Canada) - Bernd Girod, Stanford University Technical Program Co-Chairs - John Apostolopoulos, Cisco (USA) - Pål Halvorsen, University of Oslo Publicity Chair - Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Publications Chair - Zhi Li, Cisco (USA) Technical Program Committee - Oscar Au, HKUST - Jianfei Cai, Nanyang Technological University - Jacob Chakareski, EPFL - Gary Chan, HKUST - Tsuhan Chen, Cornell University - Gene Cheung, National Institute of Informatics Tokyo - Reha Civanlar, Ozyegin University - Magda El-Zarki, UC Irvine, USA - Attilio Fiandrotti, POLITO - Pascal Frossard, EPFL - Wen Gao, Peking University - Christine Guillemot, INRIA - Raouf Hamzaoui, DMU - Frank Hartung, FH Aachen, Germany - Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, Germany - Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University - Jiro Katto, Waseda University - Andre Kaup, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg - Jin Li, Microsoft Research - Zhu Li, Samsung Research America - Chia-Wen Lin, National Tsing Hua University - Phone Lin, National Taiwan University - Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University - Bruno Macchiavello, University of Brasilia - Enrico Magli, POLITO - Maria Martini, Kingston University, UK - Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University - Antonio Ortega, USC - Fernando Pereira, IST, LISBOA - Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Telecom ParisTech - Alexander Raake, Deutsche Telecom Labs - Amy Reibman, AT&T Research - Marco Roccetti, Universiti di Bologna - Kenneth Rose, UC Santa Barbara - Gwendal Simon, Telecom Bretagne - Vladimir Stankovic, University of Strathclyde - Eckehard Steinbach, TUM - Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research - Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington - Marco Tagliasachi, POLIMI - Wai-tian Tan, HP Labs - Yap-Peng Tan, NTU - Murat Tekalp, Koc University - Thierry Turletti INRIA - Mihaela van der Schaar, UCLA - Vladan Velisavljevic, Deutsche Telecom Labs - Jiangtao (Gene) Wen, Tsinghua University - Yonggang Wen Nanyang, Technological University, Singapore - Feng Wu, Microsoft Research - Zixiang Xiong, Texas A&M University - Magda Zarki, UC Irvine - Cha Zhang, Microsoft Research - Xiaoqing Zhu, CISCO, USA