From - Mon Oct 14 09:03:45 2002 Subject: multimedia call for paper Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:54:56 +0100 ******************************************************** IMPORTANT NOTES of this Call for Papers: 1- WIAMIS is the main international forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services, sponsored by the European Union. 2- The 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, WIAMIS 2003, will be held at Queen Mary, University of London, London, U.K, April 9-11, 2003 3- Extended versions of selected papers recommended by the technical program committee and IEEE guest editors will be reviewed for publication in two special issues of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 4- It is technically sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and the IEE 5- It will feature an informative special session on IST European projects 6- Most contributors will be entitled to reduced fees. 100=A3 including Conf. proceedings, CD, refreshments and lunches for the three days http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/wiamis ******************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in all areas of image, video and audio applications. After Louvain'97, Berlin'99 and Tampere'01, WIAMIS'03 is the fourth in the biannual series. In 2003 it will be hosted by Queen Mary, University of London in the vibrant city of London. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio * Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for Audio and Video * Digital music technology * 2-D and 3-D feature extraction * Relevance feedback * Data hiding and copyright protection of Multimedia content * Supervised and unsupervised segmentation of objects in 2-D/3-D video * Identification and tracking of regions in scenes * Voice/audio assisted image/video segmentation * Generation and manipulation of Multimedia content * Multimedia and the Internet * Multimedia content analysis and understanding * Multimedia hardware architectures SPECIAL SESSIONS: In cooperation with European IST projects, WIAMIS03 will feature three special panel sessions: * Special session on Content-Based Semantic Scene Analysis and Information Retrieval: organized by the SCHEMA network of excellence * Special session on Flexible Media Delivery and User Adaptation: organized by the IST project BUSMAN * Special session on Audio Segmentation and Digital Music: organized by Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London ****************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES AND SUBMISSION: Deadline for submission of extended summary: 22 November 2002 Notification of acceptance: 10 January 2003 Submission of camera-ready papers: 21 February 2003 Extended summaries of not more than four pages should be sent either by email to the conference chair: Ebroul Izquierdo Queen Mary, University of London Multimedia & Vision Research Laboratory Email: ebroul.izquierdo@elec.qmul.ac.uk or using the online submission field at http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/wiamis ******************************************************************* PUBLICATION: Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop Proceedings. Extended versions of selected papers recommended by the technical program committee and IEEE guest editors will be reviewed for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, special issue on "Audio and Video Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services" (Editor in Chief: Prof. T. Sikora, Technical University Berlin) SPONSORS: EU-FORUM COST211 IST NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE -SCHEMA- Tecnical Sponsors: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society IEE IST BUSMAN Project Queen Mary University of London TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Jaakko Astola Tampere University of Technology, Finland Michel Barlaud University of Nice, France David Bull University of Bristol, UK Moncef Gabbouj Tampere University of Technology, Finland Paola Hobson Motorola Research Labs, UK Aggelos K. Katsaggelos Northwestern University, USA Janusz Konrad University of Boston, USA Murat Kunt Swiss Federal Inst. of Tec., Switzerland Benoit Macq Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Ferran Marques Technical Univ. Catalonia, Spain Geoff Morrison British Telecom, UK Alan Pearmain Queen Mary, University of London, UK Fernando Pereira IST, Portugal Philippe Salambier Technical Univ. Catalonia, Spain Mark Sandler Queen Mary, University of London, UK Ralf Schaefer HHI, Germany Thomas Sikora Technical University Berlin, Germany Michael Strintzis Aristotle Univ of Thessaloniki, Greece Jukka Yrj=E4n=E4inen Nokia Research Center, Finland _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Dr. Ebroul Izquierdo _/ Multimedia and Vision Research Lab _/ Electronic Engineering Department _/ Queen Mary, University of London _/ Mile End Road, London E1 4NS U.K. _/ Tel: +44 20 7882 5354 _/ Fax: +44 20 7882 7997 _/ URL: www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/staffinfo/ebroul _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/