PCM 2010 - Call for Paper

Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. PCM2010 is the 11^th conference in this highly successful and increasingly influential series and will be held from 21^st to 24^th September 2010 in the World Expo 2010 city Shanghai, China. The technical program will feature opening keynote addresses, invited plenary talks, tutorials, special sessions, and technical presentations of refereed papers. The proceedings of the conference will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer, and available in the ISI Web of Knowledge.

High quality original papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following tracks:

Multimedia analysis and retrieval: Including multimedia semantic understanding, modeling and representation, multi-modality fusion and analysis, multimedia content description and indexing, content-based image/video/audio/music retrieval, large-scale cross-media indexing and retrieval.

Multimedia security rights and management: Including robust watermarking of multimedia, authentication of multimedia, informational-theoretical aspects of data hiding, steganography and steganalysis, forensic analysis of digital multimedia, watermarking quality evaluations and benchmarks, content management.

Multimedia compression and optimization: Image and video compression, including JPEG2000, MPEG-4/H.264/AVS, preprocessing, postprocessing, scalable video coding, IPTV, HDTV, transcoding, distributed video coding, multi-view coding, 3DTV, super resolution, demosaicking, denoising, deinterlacing, fast algorithms, speech and audio coding, MP3, AAC, AMR, perceptual masking, pre/post-processing, virtual surround, emerging techniques, etc.

Multimedia communication and networking: Including media streaming, mobile multimedia, multimedia content distribution, wireless multimedia, content-aware multimedia communications, peer-to-peer data streaming, Internet protocols, multimedia services, operating systems, middleware and QoS.

Multimedia systems and applications: Including user interfaces, digital library, multi-modal interaction and integration, distributed collaboration, multimedia authoring, digital protection and restoration of rare cultural relic, multimedia in e-learning and education, multimedia hardware and VLSI, animation and entertainments, personal media, networked appliances, wearable computing, ubiquitous multimedia, entertainment computing, virtual environments, and multimedia processing for social media applications such as multimedia content-sharing, social networking, collaborating, blogging and gamming on the web.

May 3, 2010:                           Paper Submission
March 31, 2010:                  Proposal for special sessions and tutorials
June 14, 2010:                      Notification
June 25, 2010:                      Camera-Ready Paper
July 10, 2010:                        Registration Deadline
September 21-24,2010:        Conference

PCM2010 is seeking high quality original papers reporting state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. As in previous editions of this series, the Proceedings of PCM2010 will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer. Authors should prepare their papers using the LNCS template and papers should not be more than 12 pages long.

The IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2010) September 21-24, Shanghai, China

GENERAL About PCM Organizing Committee Technical Committee Keynote Speakers Conference Program Info for Presenters Venue and Hotel INFORMATION Call for Papers Call for Special Sessions Paper Submission Tutorial Session Special Session Author's Guide Registration (new!) TRAVEL About Shanghai About World Expo About China Contact Us SPONSORED BY HOSTED BY	CALL FOR PAPERS (downloadable PDF version) Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. PCM2010 is the 11^th conference in this highly successful and increasingly influential series and will be held from 21^st to 24^th September 2010 in the World Expo 2010 city Shanghai, China. The technical program will feature opening keynote addresses, invited plenary talks, tutorials, special sessions, and technical presentations of refereed papers. The proceedings of the conference will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer, and available in the ISI Web of Knowledge. High quality original papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following tracks: Multimedia analysis and retrieval: Including multimedia semantic understanding, modeling and representation, multi-modality fusion and analysis, multimedia content description and indexing, content-based image/video/audio/music retrieval, large-scale cross-media indexing and retrieval. Multimedia security rights and management: Including robust watermarking of multimedia, authentication of multimedia, informational-theoretical aspects of data hiding, steganography and steganalysis, forensic analysis of digital multimedia, watermarking quality evaluations and benchmarks, content management. Multimedia compression and optimization: Image and video compression, including JPEG2000, MPEG-4/H.264/AVS, preprocessing, postprocessing, scalable video coding, IPTV, HDTV, transcoding, distributed video coding, multi-view coding, 3DTV, super resolution, demosaicking, denoising, deinterlacing, fast algorithms, speech and audio coding, MP3, AAC, AMR, perceptual masking, pre/post-processing, virtual surround, emerging techniques, etc. Multimedia communication and networking: Including media streaming, mobile multimedia, multimedia content distribution, wireless multimedia, content-aware multimedia communications, peer-to-peer data streaming, Internet protocols, multimedia services, operating systems, middleware and QoS. Multimedia systems and applications: Including user interfaces, digital library, multi-modal interaction and integration, distributed collaboration, multimedia authoring, digital protection and restoration of rare cultural relic, multimedia in e-learning and education, multimedia hardware and VLSI, animation and entertainments, personal media, networked appliances, wearable computing, ubiquitous multimedia, entertainment computing, virtual environments, and multimedia processing for social media applications such as multimedia content-sharing, social networking, collaborating, blogging and gamming on the web. IMPORTANT DATES May 3, 2010: Paper Submission March 31, 2010: Proposal for special sessions and tutorials June 14, 2010: Notification June 25, 2010: Camera-Ready Paper July 10, 2010: Registration Deadline September 21-24,2010: Conference PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION PCM2010 is seeking high quality original papers reporting state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. As in previous editions of this series, the Proceedings of PCM2010 will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer. Authors should prepare their papers using the LNCS template and papers should not be more than 12 pages long.