Call for Papers

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IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) is a major annual international conference organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas in multimedia. ICME serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applications. ICME is co-sponsored by four IEEE societies (the Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society, the Circuits and Systems Society, and the Communications Society).

Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column format including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Visit the ICME 2006 website, www.icme2006.org, to submit papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to:

    * Audio, image, video processing
    * Virtual reality and 3-D imaging
    * Signal processing for media integration
    * Multimedia Communications and networking
    * Multimedia security and content protection
    * Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction
    * Multimedia databases
    * Multimedia computing systems and appliances
    * Hardware and software for multimedia systems
    * Multimedia standards and related issues
    * Multimedia applications

A number of Awards generously sponsored by industry and academic institutions will be presented to the Best Papers/Best Student Papers at the conference. The sponsors include Microsoft Research Redmond, IBM T. J. Watson Center and Ryerson University.

Proposals for Special Sessions and Tutorials are also strongly encouraged. Special Session proposals should be directed to Jiebo Luo at jiebo.luo@kodak.com or Andre Zaccarin at zaccarin@gel.ulaval.ca by December 1, 2005.

Tutorials are scheduled for July 9, 2006. Brief proposals should be submitted by December 1, 2005, to Anthony Vetro at avetro@merl.com or Liang-Gee Chen at lgchen@video.ee.ntu.edu.tw, and must include title, outline, contact information for the presenter, and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants.

Proposals for Exhibitions and Demonstrations should be submitted to Dimitri Androutsos at dimitri@ee.ryerson.ca by December 1, 2005.
Important Dates
Special Session Proposal Due:	December 1, 2005
Tutorial Proposal Due:	December 1, 2005
Regular Paper Submission:	January 16, 2006
Notification of acceptance:	March 20, 2006
Camera-Ready Paper Due:	April 17, 2006