IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo is a major annual international conference with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of multimedia. 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 including the Circuits and Systems Society, the Com-munications Society, the Computer Society, and the Signal Processing Society. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, exhibits, special sessions, tutorials, and paper presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit a four-page paper in double-column format including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Topics include but are not limited to:
*Audio, image, video processing
*Virtual reality and 3-D imaging
*Signal processing for media integration
*Multimedia communications and networking
*Multimedia security and content protection
*Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction
*Multimedia databases
*Hardware and software for multimedia systems
*Multimedia standards and related issues
*Multimedia applications
*Medical signal processing

A number of awards will be presented to the Best Papers and Best Student Papers at the conference. Participation for special sessions and tutorial proposals are encouraged.
Special session topics will include Distributed Video Coding, Peer-to-Peer Networking, and Reconstruction of 3D models from CT and MRI.

SCHEDULE
Special Session Proposal Due: November 26, 2007
Tutorial Proposal Due: November 26, 2007
Regular Paper Submission Due: December 24, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: February 29, 2008
Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 24, 2008