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.