IEEE ICME 2009 Call for Papers

2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)

June 28 - July 3, 2009 at Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico


Being a major annual international multimedia conference, ICME serves as a forum for
the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of
multimedia systems, technologies and applications. ICME is co-sponsored by four
IEEE societies (the Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society, the Circuits and
Systems Society, and the Communications Society).

Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column format including
authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submission will be
accepted. Please visit the ICME 2009 website, www.icme09.org for the instructions to
submit papers.

Topics covered include but are not limited to:
Audio, image, video processing
- Signal processing for media integration
- Virtual reality and 3-D imaging
- Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction
- Multimedia Communications and networking
- Multimedia security and content protection
- Multimedia databases
- Multimedia computing systems and appliances
- Multimedia analysis and social media on the Internet
- Hardware and software for multimedia systems
- Multimedia standards and related issues
- Multimedia applications

A number of Awards generously sponsored by industry and academic institutions will
be presented to the Best Papers / Best Student Papers at the conference.
To further foster new emerging topics and areas on multimedia, ICME2009 strongly
welcome researchers, developers, and practitioners to organize workshops in
conjunction with the ICME2009 main conference. Interested organizers please directly
contact Dr. Deepak Turaga at turaga {at} us.ibm.com.

Proposals for Special Sessions and Tutorials are also encouraged. Special Session
proposals should be directed to Dr. Marcel Worring at m.worring {at} uva.nl by
December 1, 2008. Brief tutorial proposals should be submitted by December 1, 2008,
to Prof. Deepa Kundur at deepa {at} ece.tamu.edu, and must include title, outline,
contact information for the presenter, and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Proposals for Demonstrations should be submitted to Dr.
Hari Sundaram at hari.sundaram {at} asu.edu by January 31, 2009.

Workshop Proposals Due:
December 1, 2008

Special Session Proposal Due:
December 1, 2008

Tutorial Proposal Due:
December 1, 2008

Regular Paper Submission:
December 31, 2008

Notification of acceptance:
March 10, 2009

Camera-Ready Paper Due:
March 31, 2009