Call for Papers

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006)

December 11-13, 2006

Paradise Point Resort & Spa, San Diego, California, USA

http://ISM2006.eecs.uci.edu/

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

In cooperation with

Calit2, University of California at San Diego

 

Special Track

 

Perceptually Enhanced Multimedia Processing, Visualization and Transmission

 

In the last decade, multimedia content has become more accessible to users as a result of hardware and communication technology advancement. Voluminous and computational expensive content, that is otherwise too costly and time consuming to generate, store, process and transmit, are now more accessible. However, the increasing demand on more realistic multimedia content surpasses the availability of resources especially in real-time transmission and visualization applications. Despite the promises of high speed networks, latency and interactivity remain an issue when high resolution data are involved.   Consequently, data reduction continues to be a challenging research topic.

 

A number of algorithms were proposed in the literature on data compression and simplification relating to two/three-dimensional, and time-varying data. However, higher compression ratio often generates higher data loss. This leads to two research problems: (1) How to obtain an optimal balance between transmission efficiency and visual quality, and (2) How to allocate given resources among different multimedia data in order to achieve an optimal overall visual quality. In this Special Track, we will address these research problems, and discuss how the perceptual approach can be incorporated so as to inspire future research on perceptually enhanced multimedia communication. 

 

Submission of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

 

  • The evaluation of 3D simplification algorithms based on human perception.
  • Visual quality prediction on multimedia data.
  • Perceptually driven multimedia data reduction.
  • Graphical interfaces for interacting with multimedia events.
  • Perceptual factors in adaptive scaling of motion videos.
  • Perceptually optimized transmission of integrated texture and mesh.
  • The preservation of visual quality of multimedia data when transmitted over unreliable network.
  • Foveation for 3D transmission: efficiency and perceptual issues.
  • Perceptual factors in efficient web-based multimedia education.

 

Submissions

 

The written and spoken language of ISM2006 is English. Authors should submit an 8-pages technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format including authors¡¯ names and affiliations, and a short abstract electronically. Submission can be emailed to ism06@cs.ualberta.ca. 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.

 

 

Important Dates

 

Submission deadline:              August 15, 2006

Notification of acceptance:         September 10, 2006

Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers:    September 25, 2006

 

Special Track Organizing Committee

 

Dr. Irene Cheng, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, lin@cs.ualberta.ca

Dr. Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside, USA bhanu@vislab.ucr.edu

Dr. Walter Bischof, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, wfb@cs.ualberta.ca

Dr. William Gruver, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, gruver@sfu.ca

Dr. Tamas Sziranyi, Scientific Adviser at MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, sziranyi@lutra.sztaki.hu

Dr. Xenophon Zabulis, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, xenophon@iti.gr

 

Special Track Advisory Committee

 

Dr. Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, goebel@cs.ualberta.ca

Dr. Anup Basu, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, anup@cs.ualberta.ca

Dr. Pierre Boulanger, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, pierreb@cs.ualberta.ca