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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
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           Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2007)
                      December 11-14, 2007
               City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
                      http://www.pcm2007.org

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IMPORTANT DATE
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	1 June 2007: Paper Submission
        1 June 2007: Proposal for Special Session and Tutorial
        1 Aug 2007:  Notification of Acceptance
        22 Aug 2007: Camera-Ready Paper


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OVERVIEW
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Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing.  

PCM 2007 is seeking high quality submissions in the broad field of multimedia. The technical program will consist of the following tracks: 

a.	Multimedia analysis and retrieval 
b.	Multimedia security rights and management 
c.	Multimedia compression and optimization 
d.	Multimedia communication and networking 
e.	Multimedia systems and applications. 


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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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The Proceedings of PCM2007 will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer. Submitted paper should not be more than 10 pages using the LNCS template. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.


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SPECIAL ISSUE
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Selected high quality papers will be published in a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP).


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CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
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Horace H. S. Ip, City University of Hong Kong
Oscar C. Au, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology


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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia
Shi-Min Hu, Tsinghua University


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TRACK CHAIRS
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[Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval] 
Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong

[Multimedia Security Rights and Management] 
Qibin Sun, I2R Singapore
Oscar C. Au, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

[Multimedia Compression and Optimization] 
Lap-Pui Chau, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Man Wai Mak, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

[Multimedia Communication and Networking]   
Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland
Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong
 
[Multimedia Systems and Applications] 
Pong Chi Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist University
Shing-Chow Chan, University of Hong Kong