CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ICME 2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA & EXPO Website: http://www.icme2005.org July 6-8, 2005, NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, The Netherlands WHY ATTEND? IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) is a major annual international conference organized 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. The conference program contains 190 oral presentations selected out of 850 submissions from 65 countries. In addition, there are 190 poster presentations and 4 special sessions on e-lectures & e-meetings, emotion detection, sports, and enterprise streaming. There are 8 tutorials on the Tuesday preceding the conference, together with one pre-conference event: Visual 2005 Conference. The expo has drawn 8 exhibitors. The ICME'2005 features three distinguished keynote speeches in man-machine interaction, sensor databases and networks, and multimedia industrial research. Past conferences were held in New York City, NY, USA (2000), Tokyo, Japan (2001), Lausanne, Switzerland (2002), Baltimore, MD, USA (2003) and Taipei, Taiwan (2004). WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Previous conferences have attracted computer scientists, strategists, librarians, digital library researchers, government information providers, publishers, and content specialists from a broad cross-section of sectors and disciplines. Typically, there is an equal mix of university and industry attendees. Amsterdam, the capital of The Netherlands, is a small city by European standards (population 750.000) but one of the most charming and delightful towns of Europe. It possesses the largest historical inner city of Europe, with beautiful monumental buildings and an extensive web of canals. The city can easily be explored on foot: museums, theatres, shopping streets, monuments, open air markets and most other features of interest are generally within walking distance of one another. The city is famous for its 17th century canals: a boat trip along the canals is a special experience. Amsterdam is one of the leading cultural centers of Europe, with a high concentration of famous museums, including the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk Museum, the Van Gogh Museum and the Anne Frank House. Other cultural attractions include the Diamantslijperijen (diamond cutting establishments) and the Rembrandt House. WHERE TO VISIT? The conference takes place at NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. What once began, as a coffeehouse became the largest, grandest five star hotel in the Netherlands. NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky has 468 rooms, including 1 tower suite, 6 junior suites and 36 apartments, a congress center with a capacity up to 2.000 persons, the historical Winter Garden, the monumental Restaurant Reflet that dates from 1883 and the Japanese Restaurant Edo & Kyo. Herewith NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky has created its own "Village on the Dam" that still carries the romantic aura of the earlier golden years. REGISTRATION Registration covers attendance at the conference, proceedings, and refreshments. Graduate students and IEEE members qualify for discounts. The fees are (in euros): Early fee till 30 April 2005 IEEE Member 470.00 Non-member 725.00 Student-IEEE member 190.00 Student non-member 280.00 Late fee IEEE Member 640.00 Non-member 975.00 Student-IEEE member 240.00 Student non-member 330.00 Tutorial fee (half day) 185.00 Full details of the program, together with registration forms, are available at the conference website: www.icme2005.org