Call for Papers: Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems II

• Call for Papers and Announcement *********

             Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems II

      November 2-7, 1997, The Grand Kempinski Hotel, Dallas, TX

          (Part of SPIE's International Symposium on Voice,
                   Video and Data Communications)


Conference Chairs: C.-C. Jay Kuo (Univ. of Southern California)
                   Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia University)
                   Venkat N. Gudivada (University of Missouri)

Program Committee:

Nevenka Dimitrova (Philips Research Labs) William Grosky (Wayne State University)
Pascal Faudemay (Laboratoire MASI/IBP) Ramesh Jain (University of California, San Diego) Chung-Sheng Li (IBM Watson Research Center) B. S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara) Rakesh Mohan (IBM Watson Research Center) HweeHwa Pang (National University of Singapore) Fang Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood (Xerox Webster Research Center) Murat Tekalp (University of Rochester)
George Thoma (National Library of Medicine) Asha Vellaikal (Hughes Research Lab.)
Wayne Wolf (Princeton University)
HongJiang Zhang (HP Labs)       

Advances in technologies have resulted in huge archives of sounds, images and videos in diverse application areas such as medicine, remote sensing, industry engineering, entertainment, education and on-line information services. To exploit the full benefit of explosive growth of information, there is a great need in the development of efficient techniques for the storage, browsing, indexing, retrieval of multimedia data. This conference will address various aspects of multimedia information management such as system architecture design, data compression for archiving, indexing and retrieval techniques, image/video segmentation and analysis, data modeling and representation, and practical database applications.

Papers are solicited in all areas of multimedia information management systems including, but not limited to:

• audio, image or video databases
• system architecture design
• indexing and archiving techniques
• query processing
• multimedia content characterization
• video parsing, segmentation and analysis
• data modeling and representation
• neural network, fuzzy and information theoretic approaches toward multimedia indexing
• content-based retrieval methods
• storage design and management for archiving
• user interfaces
• media presentation
• performance evaluation measures
• compression schemes supporting archiving
• lossless and near-lossless compression
• integration of multimedia (text, audio, image and video) in indexing and retrieval
• actual experimental prototypes embodying the state-of-the-art in multimedia information systems
• long-term preservation methodology and quality assurance management
• data transfer models for platform-independent internet access
• video on demand and media servers
• applications: telemedicine, remote sensing, GIS, education, entertainment, interactive TV, CAD, digital libraries, etc.

              ABSTRACT DUE DATE: 24 MARCH 1997             MANUSCRIPT DUE DATE: 11 AUGUST 1997 Instructions for Submitting Abstracts:

Your abstract must include all of the following information:

1. SUBMIT TO: VV02, KUO
2. SUBMIT EACH ABSTRACT TO ONE CONFERENCE ONLY: Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems II
3. ABSTRACT TITLE
4. AUTHOR LISTING (principal author fist) First(given)name Last(family)name, Affiliation, Mailing address, Telephone, Fax, Email address.
5. PRESENTATION Indicate your preference for "Oral Presentation" or "Poster Presentation". Placement is subject to chairs' discretion.
6. ABSTRACT TEXT Approximately 250 words.
7. KEYWORDS List a maximum of five keywords.
8. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (of principal author) Approximately 50 words.

Please choose only one of the following options and send by the due date:

1. SPIE WEB - Complete the convenient form found at SPIE Web site: http://www.spie.org/info/W97_home.html
2. E-mail each abstract separately to: abstracts_at_spie.org in ASCII text (not encoded) format. IMPORTANT: to ensure receipt and proper processing of your abstract, the Subject line must include the following: SUBJECT: VV02, KUO
3. Mail three copies of your abstract to: VOICE, VIDEO, AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98225 USA Telephone (360)676-3290
4. FAX one copy to SPIE at: (360)647-1445 (send each abstract separately).