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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
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	    International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia
                  and Ambient Intelligence (IMAI 2007)
	      		July 15-22, 2007
		    Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
		http://vireo.cs.cityu.edu.hk/IMAI07/
	(In conjunction with Joint Conference on Information Sciences 2007)

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IMPORTANT DATE
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	March 20, 2007 Paper submission due
	May 10, 2007   Acceptance notification
	June 10, 2007  Camera-ready paper due

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OVERVIEW
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In the last few years, we have witnessed an explosive growth of
multimedia computing, ambient intelligent (AmI), pervasive and ubiquitous
computing. IMAI 2007 seeks the contribution of high quality papers
addressing various aspects of multimedia and ambient intelligence, in
particular the techniques that lead the merging of both intelligences, for
presentation at the conference and publication in the JCIS proceeding. The
topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

       AmI, Multimedia and Ubiquitous Learning Environments
       AmI, Multimedia and Arts
       Wearable Computing and Multimedia
       Physical Browsing (Visual Codes, Visual Hyperlinks)
       Ambient Multimedia Database
       Wireless Ambient Multimedia
       Video/Audio/Image Content Analysis
       Multimedia Information Retrieval
       Multimedia Security, Watermark and Copy Detection
       Multimedia Networking, Compression, Representation
       Multimedia in Wireless  Sensor Networks
       Sensor Systems (Ambient Care, Visual Interaction)
       Audio-visual Processing of Human Bodily Activity
       Bodily Interaction Models and Interaction Planning
       Music and Sound Stimulating Bodily Interaction
       Intelligent  Sensory Environments
       Human-Web Interaction (Adaptive Interfaces, Mobile Web)
       Emerging Technology (Grid, P2P, Pervasive, Embedded Computing)
       AmI Interfaces for Distributed Workgroups


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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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Paper submission should follow JCIS submission guidelines at
(http://www.jcis.org/page/paper.html). The paper  template is provided in
pdf and doc format, and the online submission tool is available at
www.jcis.org/reg/login.html.

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FEATURE SPEAKER
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	Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA
	Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada

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SPECIAL ISSUE
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Selected high quality papers will be published in Information Science
Journal.

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CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
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Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong
Athanasios V. Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

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STEERING COMMITTEE
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Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois , Urbana , USA
Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University , USA
Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Hong Kong
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong
Sheng-Tun Li, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology , Taiwan
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University , Taiwan
William Grosky, University of Michigan , USA

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TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands
Changsheng Xu, Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore
Dimitri Plemenos, University of Limoges, France
Dong Xu, Columbia University, USA
Edward K. Wong, Polytechnic University, USA
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Fuhua Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada
Hui Liu, Missouri State University, USA
Jianping Fan, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Lei Zhang, Mircrosoft Research Asia, China
Li Deng, Central South University, China
Lian Feng, University of Twente, Netherlands
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Michael O'Grady,  University College Dublin, Ireland
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
Pasi Vlkkynen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong
Qingming Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Syin Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tham Chen Khong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tiecheng Liu, University of South Carolina, USA
Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
Tong Zhang, HP Lab
William Grosky, University of Michigan , USA
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Yan Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, USA
Yuxin Peng, Peking University, China

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