===================================================================== PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================================== PACKET VIDEO 2000 The 10th International Packet Video Workshop Date: 1-2 May 2000 Venue: Forte Village Resort, Cagliari, Italy Web site: http://www.diee.unica.it/pv2000/ Organization: Francesco G.B. De Natale and Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari Technical sponsors: EURASIP, IEEE Signal Processing Society (IMDSP and MMSP Technical Committees) ====================================================================== The tenth edition of the International Packet Video Workshop (PV 2000) will be held at the Forte Village Resort, Cagliari, Italy. The workshop is devoted to present technological advancements and innovations in video communications over packet networks, in particular, the Internet. Packet Video Workshops have been unique in providing a common ground for people from video coding and networking fields. Presentations on theory and practice, standards activities, and business and consumer applicatons are encouraged. We cordially invite you to take part in this workshop by submitting your work and look forward to seeing you in Sardinia in May 2000 for what will be a most rewarding and exciting experience! ====================================================================== TECHNICAL PROGRAM Chairs: Leonardo Chiariglione, CSELT, Turin Maurizio Decina, Cefriel and Polytechnic of Milan The technical program of Packet Video 2000 will consist of invited talks, submitted paper presentations, poster sessions and demos Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Video processing and transmission Video streaming over the Internet Network adaptive video coding and transport Packetized video for home LANs Packetized video for wireless/mobile systems Layered coding for error resilience and heterogeneous networks Packet loss resilient coding and transport Terminal and server architectures for Internet TV Efficient transcoding for heterogeneous networks Congestion control Error concealment Pre and post-processing for picture quality enhancement Statistical multiplexing for greater network and terminal utilization Traffic shaping for efficient network and terminal utilization Interstream synchronization for multiple video presentations Performance modeling and evaluation Picture quality evaluation Rate control for VBR video International Standards: MPEG-4, MPEG-7, H.263, RTP, RTSP, SIP, SDP Multicasting, MBONE applications Implementations and commercial applications ====================================================================== Best Paper Award The author of the best paper will receive a $250 prize and a diploma suitable for framing. ====================================================================== Please submit an electronic manuscript written in HTML, not exceeding 7 Mbytes and 10 printed pages. We will produce a CD-ROM containing all the accepted papers. Electronic components accompanying your submission are strongly encouraged. Submit your work in ONE of the following forms: 1) a set of HTML files organized in a single directory OR 2) as a URL (you must have the rights to all the material there, and guarantee stability of the files until the conference). to: pv2000@diee.unica.it Detailed instructions for authors and help with manuscript preparation with HTML can be found on the conference web page. Deadlines: paper submission: December 15, 1999, notification of acceptance: February 29, 2000 final paper delivery: March 31, 2000 ====================================================================== Publication and local arrangements Luigi Atzori Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Cagliari Piazza d'Armi, 19 09123 Cagliari, Italy gigi@diee.unica.it