Dear SG16 colleagues,
Please find attached the following calls in the areas close to that of our standardization efforts:
- ICIP-99 Call for participation, 24-28 October 1999 in Kobe (Japan) - Packet Video Workshop Call for papers, 1-2 May 2000 in Cagliari (Italy)
Best regards,
Sakae OKUBO (Mr.) *********************************************************** Waseda Research Center Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO) 5th Floor, Nishi-Waseda Bldg. 1-21-1 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0051 Japan Tel: +81 3 5286 3830 Fax: +81 3 5287 7287 e-mail: okubo@giti.or.jp ***********************************************************
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ICIP-99 Tutorials The IEEE 1999 International Conference on Image Processing October 24-28, 1999, International Conference Center Kobe - Kobe, JAPAN
Tutorials will be held Sunday, October 24, 1999
Please select from below, and note that some sessions are given in parallel. Tutorial day is Sunday, October 24, 1999. Tutorials Cost 12,000 JPY for Non-Students and 6,000 JPY for Students who register in advance, 17,000 JPY and 6,000 JPY for those who register after September 6, 1999 or later, respectively. Tutorial-only registration will be available exclusively on-site.
All-Day Session: 9:00 AM-12:00 Noon & 2:00 PM-5:00 PM Session SF1: Introduction to Multimedia Systems and Standards A. M. Tekalp (Univ. of Rochester) , A. Puri (ATT Research Labs.)
Morning Tutorials (Select One): 9:00 AM-12:00 Noon Session SA1: Content Security & Data Hiding in Digital Media A.N. Akansu (New Jersey Inst. of Tech.), E.J. Delp (Purdue Univ.) Session SA2: Intelligent Multimedia Processing T.Chen (Carnegie-Mellon Univ.), J.N.Hwang (Univ. of Washington), S.Y. Kung (Princeton Univ.) Session SA3: Model-Based Halftoning T. N. Papas (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies), D. L. Neuhoff (Univ. of Michigan)
Afternoon Sessions (Select One): 2:00 PM-5:00 PM Session SP1: The JPEG 2000 C. Christopulos (Ericsson Telecom), A. N. Skodras (Univ. of Patras) Session SP2: Biometrics: Techniques for Personal Identification A. K. Jain (Michigan State Univ.) , L. Hong (Visionics), S. Pankanti (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Session SP3: Introduction to Medical Image Processing M. Analoui (Indiana Univ.) Session SP4: Image and Video Recovery Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern Univ.)
Early Registration Deadline September 6, 1999
For more details on the rest of the ICIP-99 program, visit:
http://icip99.ozawa.ics.keio.ac.jp/
General Chair:Yasuhiko Yasuda, Waseda University Conference Manager: Shingo Abe, J Communications, Email: abes@pop16.odn.ne.jp
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CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------
================= PACKET VIDEO 2000 =================
The 10th International Packet Video Workshop
1-2 May 2000 Forte Village Resort, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy http://www.diee.unica.it/pv2000/
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The 10-th edition of the International Packet Video Workshop (PV 2000) will be held in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, at the Forte Village Resort near Cagliari (Sardinia island), 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 applications are encouraged.
We cordially invite you to take part in this workshop by submitting your work and look forward to welcome you in Sardinia in May 2000 for what will be a rewarding and exciting experience!
Francesco G.B. De Natale and Daniele D. Giusto PV2000 General Chairs, University of Cagliari, Italy
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TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Leonardo Chiariglione, CSELT, Italy Maurizio D $B=D (Bina, Cefriel and Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (members)
John Arnold, Univ. New South Wales, Australia Andrea Basso, AT&T, USA Stephen Casner, CISCO, USA Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, USA M. Reha Civanlar, AT&T, USA Jon Crowcroft, Univ. College London, UK Edward Delp, Purdue Univ., USA Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland Mohamed Ghanbari, Univ. Essex, UK Barry G. Haskell, AT&T, USA Yu Hen Hu, Univ. Wisconsin, USA Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern Univ., USA Jae-Kyoon Kim, Samsung, Korea Faouzi Kossentini, Univ. British Columbia, Canada C.-C. Jay Kuo, Univ. Southern California, USA Steven McCanne, U.C. Berkeley, USA James Modestino, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Geoff Morrison, BT, UK Hans-Georg Musmann, TU Hannover, Germany Sakae Okubo, Telecommunications Adv. Org., Japan Naohisa Ohta, Sony, Japan Joerg Ott, Univ. Bremen, Germany Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superiore T $B;D (Bnico, Portugal Majid Rabbani, Eastman Kodak, USA Amy Reibman, AT&T, USA Philippe Salembier, UPC, Spain Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia Univ., USA Gary Sullivan, Microsoft, USA A. Murat Tekalp, Univ. Rochester, USA Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France John Woods, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Stephan Wenger, TU Berlin, Germany Hiroshi Yasuda, Tokyo Univ., Japan
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PUBLICATIONS AND DEMOS
Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy
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TECHNICAL PROGRAM
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 Packet video protocols and storage formats 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 Packet network performance modeling and evaluation Rate control for VBR video Standards: MPEG4, MPEG7, H.263, H.323, RTP, RTSP, SIP, SDP Multicasting, MBONE applications Implementations and commercial applications
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BEST PAPER AWARD
The author of the best paper will receive a $250 prize and a diploma suitable for framing.
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SUBMISSIONS
Please submit an electronic manuscript written in Word or HTML, not exceeding 10 printed pages. We will produce a CD-ROM (pdf format) containing all the accepted papers.
Submit your work in ONE of the following forms:
1) a Word document
OR
2) a set of HTML files organized in a single directory
to:
pv2000@diee.unica.it
Detailed instructions for authors and help with manuscript preparation can be found on the conference web page.
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SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Paper submission: December 15, 1999, Notification of acceptance: February 29, 2000 Final paper delivery: March 31, 2000
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LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
PV2000 Organizing Committee Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Cagliari Piazza d'Armi 09123 Cagliari, Italy pv2000@diee.unica.it