IEEE Signal Processing Society

1999 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing September 13 - 15, 1999 Copenhagen, Denmark

Call for Papers

Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of no more than 4 pages. The camera-ready full papers (each up to 4 pages) of accepted proposals will be published in proceedings and distributed at the workshop.

Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following general areas:

1. Multimedia Processing: Compression for Multimedia (Audio, Video, Speech, etc.), Integration of Media, Joint Audio-Video Processing.
2. Multimedia Databases: Indexing, Retrieval and Archiving, Authoring and Editing, Digital Library, Content Preparation and Presentation.
3. Multimedia System Design and Implementation: Parallel Architecture, ASIC Design, Software and Hardware Design, System Integration, Signal Acquisition.
4. Human-Machine Interface and Perception: Content Recognition/Analysis/Synthesis, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Audio/Music Signal Processing and Synthesis, Multimodal Interaction (Speech, Image, and Video), Audiovisual Perception Quality and Human Factors, Agents, Avatars and Talking Heads.
5. Multimedia Communications: Equalization and Synchronization, Transport Protocols, QoS Control, Error Concealment and Loss Recovery, Rate Control and Hierarchical Coding, Wireless Communication.
6. Multimedia Applications: WWW and Hypermedia, Videoconferencing and Collaboration Environments, Education and Distant Learning, Telemedicine, Home-shopping, Gaming and Virtual Reality, SDTV, HDTV, SHDTV and Video on Demand.
7. Standards and Related Issues: ITU-T Standards for Audiovisual Communication, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MHEG, DAVIC, ATM Forum, HTML, VRML, and others. Compressed Domain Processing.

A Postscript version of Call for Papers is also available, however additional information is given here.

Submission Schedule

Extended summary received by:	January 15, 1999
Notification of acceptance:	April 15, 1999
Camera ready papers received by:	June 4, 1999
Advance registration before:	August 1, 1999

Paper Summary - Submission Guidelines

The extended summary submission procedure is as follows.

1. Prepare Paper Summary:

• No more than 4 pages.
• The top of the first page of the summary should include a title, authors names, affiliations, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address.
• Please state if partial travel funding is applied for. (This is applicable for Ph.D. students and Postdocs.)
• For electronic submission, the Paper Summary must be in either Postscript file format (preferred) or ASCII text.

• Go to the Paper Summary Registration Form, fill in the form and submit it. This will register your summary and you will be assigned a Reference ID number.
• Print out and keep the automatically generated Confirmation web-page. This page contains the Reference ID number, the registered Paper Summary information, and Paper Summary submission guidelines.

1. The Paper Summary can be submitted electronically by ftp upload (preferred).
2. The summary can be sent as an attachment to an email.
3. If you cannot submit your Paper Summary electronically, it can be sent by standard mail following the steps below:

• Print out 5 (five) copies of the Paper Summary including figures and references.
• On a separate page supply all relevant information of the paper, including: Email address, state names, addresses, affiliation, topic identification and preferred presentation form (oral or poster).
• Send it by standard mail to:

MMSP'99
Section for Digital Signal Processing
Department of Mathematical Modelling, Build. 321
Technical University of Denmark
DK-2800 Lyngby
Denmark

Now go to the Paper Summary Registration Form.

Demo - Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit proposals for demonstrations. Please contact the Demo Sessions Chair: Kim Tilgaard, ktp@tdk.dk.

Final Papers - Layout and Submission    (Authors' Kit)

Dear MMSP99 Author:

Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper and/or demo for presentation at MMSP99. This Authors' Kit provides general instructions and materials to help you to prepare your paper for inclusion in the printed proceedings and the CD-ROM.

There are two types of submissions to MMSP99: papers and demos. Authors whose papers are accepted please follow the instruction for papers (oral and poster). Authors whose demos are accepted please follow the instruction for demos.

Please note that each paper must be accompanied by a workshop registration fee.

Instructions for Papers (Oral and Poster):

• On or before June 4, 1999, submit
  
  
  1. Three copies of your camera ready paper (limit: 6 pages).
     See guidelines for camera-ready manuscripts.
  2. An electronic HTML version of your paper (limit: 4 M bytes).
     See guidelines for electronic manuscripts.
  3. A note on a piece of paper indicating how the electronic paper was transmitted, the name of the electronic file containing the paper, and information on the computer operating system (PC, Mac, unix) that was used to generate the archive file.
     See packaging and delivering the electronic manuscript for information on sending the electronic manuscript to IEEE.
  4. A signed IEEE copyright form.

  to

  Ms. Elisabeth Aubrey
  IEEE Publishing
  445 Hoes Lane
  Piscataway, NJ 08854
  e.aubrey@ieee.org
  tel: (732)-562-6546
  fax: (732)-562-1746

  Please mark on the envelope "MMSP99 manuscript."

• On or before May 15, 1999, email or fax the title, author names with affiliations, exactly as they appear in the final paper to

  Jörn Ostermann
  osterman( a )research.att.com
  fax: ++1-732-345-3033

  This is for compiling a table of contents for the proceedings.

• Summary: (1) Send printed version of your paper and IEEE copyright form to IEEE. (2) Upload HTML version of your paper to submit.seps.com. (3) Send email with title and authors to Joern Ostermann.

Instructions for Demos:

• On or before June 4, 1999, submit
  
  
  1. Two copies of your camera ready summary (limit: 2 pages).
     See guidelines for camera-ready manuscripts.
  2. An electronic version of your summary (limit: 4 M bytes).
     See guidelines for electronic manuscripts.
  3. A note on a piece of paper indicating how the electronic paper was transmitted, the name of the electronic file containing the paper, and information on the computer operating system (PC, Mac, unix) that was used to generate the archive file.
     See packaging and delivering the electronic manuscript for information on sending the electronic manuscript to IEEE.
  4. A signed IEEE copyright form.

  to

  Ms. Elisabeth Aubrey
  IEEE Publishing
  445 Hoes Lane
  Piscataway, NJ 08854
  e.aubrey@ieee.org
  tel: (732)-562-6546
  fax: (732)-562-1746

  Please mark on the envelope "MMSP99 manuscript."

• On or before May 15, 1999, email or fax the title, author names with affiliations, exactly as they appear in the final demo to

  Jörn Ostermann
  osterman( a )research.att.com
  fax: ++1-732-345-3033

  This is for compiling a table of contents for the proceedings.

• Summary: (1) Send printed version of your paper and IEEE copyright form to IEEE. (2) Upload HTML version of your paper to submit.seps.com. (3) Send email with title and authors to Joern Ostermann.

Instructions for Presentations    (Authors' Kit)

• Authors whose papers are accepted for oral presentations will have 15 minutes for presentation, including time for questions and answers. There will be an overhead projector, a projector for PC's, and a slide projector.
  
  
• For poster papers, please follow the guidelines below:
  
  
  1. The size of the poster board will be 120 cm (height) x 180 cm (width) (4 feet x 6 feet). Push tacks will be available.
  2. The title of your poster should appear at the top across the poster or on the top left corner. The flow of your poster should be from the top left to the bottom right. Use arrows to lead your viewer through the poster.
  3. The smallest text on your poster should be at least 9 mm high (24 pt font), and important points should be in a larger size.
  4. Please prepare a one-minute one-viewgraph oral presentation to be made at the beginning of the poster session, summarizing the major contributions of your paper.
  
  
• For special requirements in demo presentations, please contact the Demo Sessions Chair:

  Kim Tilgaard
  Tele Danmark A/S
  2630 Taastrup, Denmark
  ktp( a )tdk.dk

• For possibilities regarding other A/V equipment, please contact the Local Arrangement Chair:

  Peter Søren Kirk Hansen
  Section for Digital Signal Processing
  Department of Mathematical Modelling
  Technical University of Denmark
  2800 Lyngby, Denmark
  pskh( a )imm.dtu.dk

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