CFP - The Second IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Oct. 24-26, 2001, Beijing, China

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 The Second IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia
 Oct. 24-26, 2001, Beijing, China
 
 IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
 National Science Foundation of China
 IEEE China, Electronics Society Of China, China Society of Electronics
 China Society of Computers, China Society of Image and Graphics
 
 
 The second IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia will be held in
Beijing in the next "golden autumn."  Beijing has been the culture
capital of Chinese for near one thousand years with many historical
palaces, magnificent museums and beautiful parks, a
 s well as rich culture activities.  In the last decade, Beijing has
also witnessed spectacular growth of hi-tech industry, especially in the
Internet and multimedia applications areas.  The conference site,
Zhongguangchun, known as China's Silicon Valley,
  is the national center of research, development and education with
hundreds of universities and research institutions, and many successful
companies providing both multimedia content and systems expertise.  The
conference complements this wonderful setti
 ng by providing a forum to presenting and exploring technological and
artistic advancements in multimedia.  Technical issues, theory and
practice, artistic and consumer innovations will bring together
researchers, artists, dev!
 elop
 ers, educators, performers, and practitioners of multimedia from
Pacific-Rim and the world.  Present your work at PCM2001 and define the
future of multimedia in the next millennium!
 
 The technical program will feature keynote addresses, tutorials,
special sessions, panels, technical demonstrations, in addition to
technical presentations of refereed papers.  We cordially invite you to
submit your work in one or more of about forms for,
  but not limited to, the following three areas:
 
 Multimedia processing and coding, including multimedia processing and
compression, content analysis, content-based retrieval, watermarking and
security;
 Multimedia system support and networking, including network protocols,
operating systems, middleware, servers, QoS, databases, sensors and
actuators, and thin clients;
 Multimedia tools, end-systems and applications, including hypermedia
systems, user interfaces, authoring, multi-modal interaction and
integration, multimedia education, multimedia in telecommunications,
design and applications of virtual environments, and
  system integrations;
 
 Best Paper Awards
 One best paper award and one best student paper award will be selected
by 2001 IEEE-PCM Organizing Committee and presented to the winners at
the conference. 
 

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 Submission Deadlines:
 
 Submission of regular papers:					Mar. 15, 2001
 Proposals for special sessions, panels, and tutorials:		Mar. 30, 2001
 Submission poster and demos:   				May 15, 2001
 Notification of paper and proposal acceptance:			June 1, 2001
 Submission of camera-ready papers:				June 30, 2001
 Advanced registration, before:					Sep. 1, 2001
 

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 PCM 2001 Organizing Committees:
 
 Advisory Committee Chair
 Chao-Huan Ho		National Science Foundation, China
 Sun-Yuan Kung		Princeton University
 Ya-Qing Zhang		Microsoft Research, China
 
 
 General Co-Chairs:
 P.C Chen		Chinese University of Hong Kong
 Xing-Gang Lin		Tsinghua University
 Hong-Jiang Zhang	Microsoft Research, China
 
 Program Co-Chairs:
 Shih-Fu Chang		Columbia University
 Mark Liao		Academy Senica
 Harry Shum		Microsoft Research, China
 
 Poster Chair: 
 Yu-Jin Zhang		Tsinghua University
 
 Tutorial and Special Session Chairs:
 Mohan Kankanhalli	National University of Singapore
 Shin'ichi Satoh,		Japan National Institute of Informatics
 
 Demo Chair: 
 Yun He			Tsinghua University
 
 Publicity Chair:
 Ching-Yung Lin		IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
 
 
 Proceedings Chair: 
 Yanchun Shi		Tsinghua University
 
 Local Arrangement Chair:
 Shipeng Li, 		Microsoft Research, China
 
 Japan Liaison: 
 Kiyoharu Aizawa	University of Tokyo
 
 Australia Liaison: 
 Svetha Venkatesh	Curtin University of Technology
 
 Treasurer:
 Wen-Yin Liu		Microsoft Research, China
 
 Web Master: 
 Feng Wu		Microsoft Research, China
 

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 For more information:
 Please send an e-mail to: PCM2001@list.research.microsoft.com.  More
information will also on the conference website, which will be set up
soon.
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor  Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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