About VCIP

The IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP) Conference, sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Malta Section and by the University of Malta, will be held in Valletta, the capital city of the Historical Malta, during December 7-10, 2014.

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 2014 edition will be the forth time that VCIP will be held under the auspices of the IEEE. VCIP 2014 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Original and unpublished work relevant to, but are not limited to, the following topics are hereby solicited.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 3D Videos
• Visual Communications
• Systems and Techniques for Human Interaction
• Embedded Systems and Architecture Implementations
• Cloud Multimedia Systems, Applications and Services

Submission of Regular and Demo Papers:
Prospective authors are invited to submit a 4 page, full-length paper, including results, figures, and references. Furthermore, VCIP 2014 considers the submission of one-page demo paper with the description of the proposed working system.

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 Sunday, December 7, 2014. 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 possible papers with tentative title and abstract. Special session papers will be regularly reviewed.

All Papers must be submitted through Microsoft Content Management System following the IEEE format. Papers accepted for regular and special sessions must be registered and presented to be included in the proceeding that will be submitted in the IEEE Xplore® package. Awards will be given to a number of papers with best quality. Please visit http://www.um.edu.mt/events/vcip2014 for additional information regarding paper and proposal formatting instructions and submission details.

Important Dates:
Submission of special session and tutorial proposals: April 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance for special session and tutorial proposals: April 29, 2014

Submission of Papers for Regular, Demo and Special Session: June 15, 2014
Rebuttal period: August 4-10, 2014
Notification of acceptance: August 24, 2014
Camera-ready papers : September 12, 2014