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Noriko Hosokawa nonko at GITI.OR.JP
Fri Sep 24 01:05:40 EDT 1999


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.)
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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 at 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 at pop16.odn.ne.jp

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                          CALL FOR PAPERS
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                         PACKET VIDEO 2000
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           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 at 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 at diee.unica.it



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