The Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) Conference, sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and supported by University of Southern California (USC), San Diego State University (SDSU) and University of California San Diego (UCSD), will be held at The Westin San Diego of the beautiful city of San Diego, CA, USA, during November 27-30, 2012.

Since 1986, VCIP has served as a premier forum in SPIE for the exchange of fundamental research results and technological advances in the field of visual communications and image processing. The 2012 edition will be the second time that VCIP will be held under the auspices of the IEEE. VCIP 2012 shall inherit the tradition of previous conferences in providing fertile ground for leading engineers and scientists from around the world to escalate collaboratively the research frontiers within these and related areas. Original and unpublished work relevant to, but are not limited to, the following topics are hereby solicited:

Emerging Techniques for Next Generation Video/Image Coding
Advanced Techniques for Emerging 3D Videos
Visual Communications
Systems and Techniques for Human Interaction
Embedded Systems and Architecture Implementations
Cloud Multimedia Systems, Applications and Services

Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit a 4-6 pages, full-length paper, including results, figures, and references. VCIP 2012 additionally encourages the submission of one-page demo papers with a description of proposed working systems. Only electronic submission through the conference website http://vcip2012.org will be accepted.

Tutorial and Special Session Proposals: Researchers, developers, and practitioners from related communities are invited to submit proposals for organizing tutorials and special sessions on various emerging topics described above. Tutorials will be held on Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Proposals must include title, outline, contact and biography information of the presenter, and a short description of the material to be distributed. Special session proposals must provide title, rationale, contact and biography information of the organizers, and a list of invited papers with tentative title and abstract.

Papers accepted for regular, special, and demonstration sessions must be registered and presented to assure their inclusion in the IEEE Xplore. Awards will be given to a number of papers with best quality. Please follow the navigation links to the left of this web page for additional information regarding paper and proposal formatting instructions and submission details.