Call for Papers

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2006)

Special Track on

Doctoral Dissertation in Multimedia

December 11-13, 2006
Paradise Point Resort & Spa, San Diego, California, USA

 

A special track (http://ISM2006.eecs.uci.edu/tracks/diss.html) on Doctoral Dissertation in all areas of Multimedia like Computing, Communication and Security will be held in conjunction with the IEEE ISM 2006. We invite advanced doctoral students to submit extended abstracts of their doctoral dissertation to this track. This special track is envisaged as a forum for doctoral students in this field to interact with each other and researchers in academe, industry and government. A best doctoral dissertation award will be chosen from the accepted submissions. Papers can be a summary of the entire dissertation work or highlight a specific problem from the dissertation. A substantial amount of the submission must be as yet unpublished, and previously published components of the work must be clearly identified. Each technical paper must clearly indicate the novelty of the proposed approaches/algorithms/techniques. For multiple author papers, the first author must be a doctoral student and no more than one non-student author is allowed per paper. For multiple student authored papers, the first author must be a doctoral student. Please identify the designation (student/non-student) of each contributing author. In order to be considered for the best doctoral dissertation award, please indicate the percentage of contribution by each individual doctoral student(s).

Topics for interest include but are not limited to:

  • Multimedia Signal Processing including Audio, Video, Image processing, and Coding
  • Multimedia Content Analysis and Representation
  • Multimedia Networking and QoS
  • Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Systems and Streaming
  • Multimedia Mining
  • Feature Extraction and Content Classification
  • Multimedia Modeling Techniques
  • Multimodal Signal Processing
  • Multimedia Tools including Authoring, Analyzing, Editing, and Browsing
  • Multimedia Fusion in Surveillance and Monitoring Systems
  • Visualization
  • Virtual Reality
  • Multimedia and Multimodal user Interfaces and Interaction Models
  • Multimedia file Systems, Databases, and Retrieval
  • Intelligent Agents for Multimedia Content Creation, Distribution, and Analysis
  • Computational Intelligence including Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, and Genetic Algorithms
  • Content Authentication, Preservation, and Digital Rights Management
  • Multimedia Security including Watermarking, Fingerprinting, Steganography, Steganalysis, and Encryption
  • Biometric Identification

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors should submit a 5-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the ISM2006 web page. Only electronic submission will be accepted. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The paper should have a cover page, which includes a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's phone number and e-mail address, contribution of the doctoral students and author designations. The accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Please submit all papers to the organizers via e-mail.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

  • August 15, 2006: Extended abstract submission deadline
  • September 10, 2006: Notification of acceptance
  • September 25, 2006: Camera-Ready copy of full-paper due

ORGANIZERS

Hafiz Malik, Stevens Institute of Technology, U.S.A, e-mail: Hafiz.Malik@stevens.edu

Sai Shankar Nandagopal, Qualcomm, U.S.A, e-mail: nsai@qualcomm.com

Giovanni Pau, UCLA, U.S.A, e-mail: gpau@cs.ucla.edu

R.N. Uma, North Carolina Central University, U.S.A, e-mail: ruma@nccu.edu

Decision and Presentation: Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by September 10, 2006. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference.

Conference Proceedings: Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the conference. Clear instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. The final copies of the accepted papers will be due on September 25, 2006.