The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia
(ISM2010)(http://ISM2010.asia.edu.tw/)

The Splendor Taichung (http://www.splendor?taichung.com.tw/)
Taichung, Taiwan, December 13-15, 2010

Sponsors
IEEE Computer Society
Asia University, Taiwan
IEEE Taipei Chapter

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
Submission of workshop proposals April 20, 2010
Notification of workshop acceptances May 1, 2010
Submission of main conference/workshop papers July 12, 2010
Submission of panel proposals July 12, 2010
Notification of panel acceptances August 20, 2010
Notification of acceptance of main conference/workshop papers August 20, 2010
Camera-Ready copy of all accepted papers September 24, 2010
Early Registration September 24, 2010
Regular Registration October 1, 2010

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
Wen?Hsiang Tsai, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Program Co-Chairs
Max Muhlhauser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Kuo?Chin Fan, National Central University, Taiwan
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, The 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

Finance Co-Chairs
Rong?Ming Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan
Wen?Chung Shih, Asia University, Taiwan

Publication and Registration Chair
Han C. H. Hsiao, Asia University, Taiwan

Local Arrangement Chair
Anthony Y. H. Liao, Asia University, Taiwan

Website Chair
Chia?Cheng Liu, Asia University, Taiwan

Publicity Co?Chairs
Chengcui Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Nam Ling, Santa Clara University, USA
Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University, China
Jean?Luc Dugelay, Institut EURECOM, France
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan