The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2010) http://ISM2010.asia.edu.tw/ The Splendor Hotel Taichung Taichung, Taiwan December 13-15, 2010 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Asia University, Taiwan IEEE Taipei Chapter KEYNOTE SPEECHES Ruzena Bajcsy Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley, USA Member, National Academy of Engineering, USA Tele-immersion as a collaborative tool over geographically distributed places Henry Fuchs Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Member, National Academy of Engineering, USA Physical and digital media of telepresence Hong-Jiang Zhang Managing Director, Microsoft Advanced Technology Center CTO, Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow Rethink of multimedia search Shigeki Sagayama Professor of Information Physics and Computing University of Tokyo, Japan Speech and spoken language processing The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2010) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing. The technical program of ISM2010 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are not limited to: * Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications * Multimedia networking and QoS * Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming * Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV * Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems * Architecture specification languages * Software development using multimedia techniques * Multimedia signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding * Visualization * Virtual Reality * Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval * Multimedia collaboration * Rich media enabled E-commerce * Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms * Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis * Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems * Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption * Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services * Multimodal Interaction, including Human Factors * Multimodal User Interfaces: Design, Engineering, Modality-Abstractions, etc. * Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award competition. The award winners will be announced at the conference banquet. Official certificates will be given to winners. SUBMISSIONS The written and spoken language of ISM2010 is English. Authors should submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format including the authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the ISM2010 web page. Only on-line electronic submission will be accepted. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and be available for online access via IEEEXplore. A number of the papers presented at the conference will be selected for possible publications in international journals. ISM2010 will include a few workshops or special sessions dedicated to focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops or special sessions of emerging areas are invited. Submissions of proposals on panels are also encouraged. Panel summary articles may also be included in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES April 20, 2010 Submission of workshop proposals May 1, 2010 Notification of workshop acceptances July 12, 2010 Submission of main conference/workshop papers July 12, 2010 Submission of panel proposals August 20, 2010 Notification of panel acceptances August 20, 2010 Notification of acceptance of main conference/workshop papers September 24, 2010 Camera-Ready copy of all accepted papers September 24, 2010 Early Registration October 1, 2010 Regular Registration CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary Conference Co-Chairs Ruzena Bajcsy, University of California, Berkeley, USA Der-Tsai Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Conference Co-Chairs Dick Bulterman, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Wen-Hsiang Tsai, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Steering Committee Chair Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Program Co-Chairs Kuo-Chin Fan, National Central University, Taiwan Max Muhlhauser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas, Dallas, USA Timothy K. Shih, Asia University, Taiwan Workshop Co-Chairs Gerald Friedland, ICS Institute, Berkeley, USA Jin-Jang Leou, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan Panel Co-Chairs Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Roger Zimmerman, National University of Singapore, Singapore Program Committee Marios Angelides, Brunel University, UK Dorin Bocu, University Transilvania of Brasov, Romania Yao-Chung Chang, National Taitung University, Taiwan Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Rong-Ming Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Daniel C. Doolan, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland Alexander Eichhorn, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm, USA Stefano Ferretti, Universita di Bologna, Italy Michael Hartle, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Jianhua He, Swansea University, UK Han C.W. Hsiao, Asia University, Taiwan Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Eenjun Hwang, Korean University, S. Korea Yuming Jiang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Jiro Katto, Waseda University, Japan Jack Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Wing-Ho Howard Leung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chuanjun Li, Brown University, USA Hongli Luo, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA Zhixin Ma, Xidian University, China Balakrishnan S. Manoj, University of California, San Diego, USA Geovanni Martinez, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, China Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Wen-Hsiao Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy Sheng-Wen Shih, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan Alexei Sourin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yu Sun, University of Central Arkansas, USA Motofumi Suzuki, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Tabata Toshihiro, Okayama University, Japan Kuniaki Uehara, Kobe University, Japan Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Jianping Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Meiqing Wang, Fuzhou University, China Qiang Wu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Zhenyu Yang, Florida International University, USA Lei Ye, University of Wollongong, Australia Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia Best Paper Award Committee Co-Chairs Sabato M. Siniscalchi, University of Palermo, Italy Ming-Shing Yu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Publicity Co-Chairs Jean-Luc Dugelay, Institut Eurecom, France Nam Ling, Santa Clara University, USA Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University, China Finance Co-Chairs Rong-Ming Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Wen-Chung Shih, Asia University, Taiwan Publication and Registration Chair Han C.W. Hsiao, Asia University, Taiwan Local Arrangement Chair Anthony Y.H. Liao, Asia University, Taiwan Web Chair Chia-Cheng Liu, Asia University, Taiwan IEEE/CS TCMC Chair Phillip C.Y. Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA For more information, including submission details, conference events, accommodations, area attractions, etc., please visit the ISM2010 web site. |