Call for Papers
     2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)
                            July 9-12, 2006
                        Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 in 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 (the Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society, the Circuits and Systems Society, and the Communications Society).

Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column format including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Visit the ICME 2006 website, www.icme2006.org, to submit papers. Topics covered 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
    * Multimedia computing systems and appliances
    * Hardware and software for multimedia systems
    * Multimedia standards and related issues
    * Multimedia applications

A number of Awards generously sponsored by industry and academic institutions will be presented to the Best Papers/Best Student Papers at the conference. The sponsors include Microsoft Research Redmond, IBM T. J. Watson Center and Ryerson University.

Proposals for Special Sessions and Tutorials are also strongly encouraged. Special Session proposals should be directed to Jiebo Luo at jiebo.luo@kodak.com or Andre Zaccarin at zaccarin@gel.ulaval.ca by December 1, 2005.

Tutorials are scheduled for July 9, 2006. Brief proposals should be submitted by December 1, 2005, to Anthony Vetro at avetro@merl.com or Liang-Gee Chen at lgchen@video.ee.ntu.edu.tw, and must include title, outline, contact information for the presenter, and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants.

Proposals for Exhibitions and Demonstrations should be submitted to Dimitri Androutsos at dimitri@ee.ryerson.ca by December 1, 2005.

Important Dates
  Special Session Proposal Due: December 1, 2005
  Tutorial Proposal Due: December 1, 2005
  Regular Paper Submission: December 31, 2005
  Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2006
  Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2006

General Co-Chairs
  Ling Guan, Ryerson University
  Hong-Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Technical Program Co-Chairs
  Chang Wen Chen, Florida Institute of Technology
  Kostas. N. Plataniotis, University of Toronto

Technical Program Vice Co-Chairs
  Mike Christel, Carnegie Mellon University
  Jean-Luc Dugelay, Eurecom, France
  Panos Nasiopoulos, University of British Columbia
  En-hui Yang, University of Waterloo

Finance Chair
  Liping Fang, Ryerson University

Special Session Co-Chairs
  Jiebo Luo, Eastman Kodak
  André Zaccarin, Université Laval

Tutorial Co-Chairs
  Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University
  Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
  Alagan Anpalagan, Ryerson University
  Sri Krishnan, Ryerson University

Publicity Co-Chairs
  Robert Dony, University of Guelph
  Xiao-Ping Zhang, Ryerson University

Publication Co-Chairs
  Amir Asif, York University
  Liang Zhang, Communications Research Centre Canada

Demo/Exhibit Chair
  Dimitri Androutsos, Ryerson University

Registration Co-Chairs
  Ivan Lee, Ryerson University
  Paisarn Muneesawang, UAE University

Asian Liaison
  Horace Ip, City University of Hong Kong

European Liaison
  Joern Ostermann, University of Hanover, Germany

Webmaster
  Jose Lay, University of Sydney, Australia