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---> DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15, 2002 !!

CALL FOR PAPERS: ICME 2002 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo http://www.icme2002.org

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland August 26-29 2002

NEWS In addition to the regular tracks, seven high-quality Special Sessions are accepting submissions. Submit your paper today at http://www.icme2002.org ! ... Or remember the final deadline: February 15, 2002!

GOALS OF THE CONFERENCE 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 of multimedia. ICME serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applications.

Co-sponsored by four IEEE societies (the Circuits and Systems Society, the Communications Society, the Computer Society and the Signal Processing Society) the third edition of ICME will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland.

INSTRUCTIONS AND TOPICS 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. Submissions have to be made through the conference Web site: http://www.icme2002.org. A sample of the papers presented at the conference will be selected for a possible publication in an upcoming special issue of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. There will also be a student best paper award as well as a best paper award.

Topics covered include but are not limited to the following: * Audio, image and/or video processing * Components and technologies for multimedia systems * Human-machine interface and interaction * Multimedia applications * Multimedia hardware architectures * Multimedia communication and networking * Multimedia computing systems * Multimedia content access and distribution * Multimedia databases * Signal processing for media integration * Standards (e.g., MPEG) and related issues * System integration, integration of art and technologies * Virtual reality and computer graphics * Watermarking and security

Seven special sessions have also been organized and are now open to submissions.

CONFERENCE WEB SITE AND CONTACT Web: http://www.icme2002.org Contact: info@icme02.epfl.ch

TUTORIALS, DEMO/EXHIBITS Proposals for Tutorials and Demo/Exhibits are also strongly encouraged. Authors are referred to the ICME website to additional information regarding submissions.

IMPORTANT DATES Regular Papers Submission Due February 15, 2002 Tutorial Proposal Due March 1, 2002 Demo/Exhibit Proposal Due May 1, 2002

Thierry Pun, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland Jean-Luc Dugelay, Eurecom, France ICME Publicity co-Chairs

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