IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo
July 6-8, 2005
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

www.icme2005.org

IMPORTANT DATES (NO OTHER EXTENSIONS!!!) :

Regular Paper Submission: January 18, 2005 (10 am CET)
Tutorial Proposal Due: January 18, 2005 (10 am CET)
Exhibition Proposal Due: January 18, 2005 (10 am CET)
Special Session Proposal Due: January 18, 2005 (10 am CET)
Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2005
Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 9, 2005

OVERVIEW

IEEE 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 in multimedia. ICME serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applications. ICME is co-sponsored by four IEEE societies (the Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society, the Circuits and Systems Society, and the IEEE Communications Society).

Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column IEEE format including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Topics covered include but are not limited to the following:

Multimedia content management

• Multimedia content analysis, indexing, and retrieval
• Multimedia content modeling
• Multimedia content description
• Multimedia standards and related issues
• Media mining
• Personal multimedia

Multimedia signal processing

• Signal processing for media analysis and integration
• Media synchronization
• Media filtering and enhancement
• Virtual reality and 3-D imaging

Multimedia communications

• Multimedia streaming, networking and distribution
• Multimedia authentication, content protection and digital rights management
• Multimedia QoS
• Multi-modal human-machine interface and interaction
• Context-aware multimedia

Multimedia systems

• Multimedia computing systems and appliances
• Hardware and software for multimedia systems
• Multimedia database and server design

Multimedia applications

• Multimedia for ambient intelligence
• Multimedia in business, e-learning, and e-culture
• Multimedia and security

Tutorial, Special Session, and Exhibition Proposals

Tutorials are scheduled the day preceding the conference. Brief proposals should be submitted by January 18th, 2005 (10 am CET), to Theo Gevers, and must include a title, outline, contact information for the presenter, and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants.

Proposals for Special Sessions are also strongly encouraged. For guidelines to prepare and submit special session proposals please see the Special Sessions page. Special Session proposals (but not the individual papers) should be directed to Franciska de Jong. Special Session proposals are due January 18th, 2005 (10 am CET).

Exhibition participants should be industrial or research organizations. Proposals of exhibitions and demonstrations should be submitted to Jurgen den Hartog or to Jan Nesvadba by January 18th, 2005 (10 am CET).

Affiliated Workshop

2nd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Learning Algorithms (MLMI05)
11-13 July 2005, Edinburgh, UK