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Special session on the Intelligent Multimedia Information System
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~yucao/Service/IMIS2008.htm
for the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (IEEE ICNSC'08)
http://liu.ece.uic.edu/ICNSC08
April 6-8, 2008 International Asia Pacific Convention Center & HNA Resort Sanya,  Hainan, China.

 
With the rapid advances in imaging and video technology, multimedia
data has been widely used in today’s information system. A critical
part of the modern Multimedia Information System, from multimedia
databases to video surveillance system, is the manner and extent to
which information systems can be said to be "intelligent". Due to the
unique characteristics of multimedia data, new methods for
automatically collecting, delivering, and analyzing multimedia data
are becoming more and more important.

The goal of this special session is to bring together experts in all
aspects of intelligent multimedia information systems, which includes
but not limited to: multimedia databases, multimedia data mining,
intelligent vision system, content-based analysis, multimedia
networking, graphics and visualization, artificial intelligence, and
algorithms.

A special theme of this session is Intelligent Analysis for Biomedical
Images and Videos. Papers focusing on the information integration,
fusion, delivery, and analyze for biomedical images and videos as well
as systems, networking and application issues in biomedical data are
especially encouraged. In addition, papers on traditional multimedia
information systems are also solicited.
Topics of Interest:

    * Multimedia Tools and Architectures
    * Multimedia Broadcasting Systems
    * Operating System Support for Multimedia
    * Multimedia Communication Systems
    * Multimedia Networking
    * Distributed Multimedia Systems
    * Multimedia Performance and Management
    * Mobile Multimedia
    * Vision systems
    * Image and Video Processing
    * Pattern Analysis and Content-Based Image Retrieval
    * Still Image and Video Transmission
    * System Architecture and Performance Evaluation

 
Paper Submission and Publication

Complete manuscripts must be electronically submitted at ICNSC08 Web
site. Submitted manuscripts should be six (6) pages in IEEE two-column
format, including figures, tables, and references. A LaTeX style file
and a Microsoft Word template are available from the conference web
site. However, submission MUST be PDF FORMAT. In additional to submit
your paper through ICNSC08 Web site, please send a notice to the
special session organizer Yu Cao (yucao@csufresno.edu) and cc to
Zhixiong Chen (zxchen@ieee.org).

Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least two experts in the
topical area. All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings and will be indexed by EI.


 
Important Dates

    * Paper submission deadline: October 1, 2007
    * Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2007
    * Camera-ready copy and author registration: December 15, 2007

 
Session Organizer:
Session Chair 	Yu Cao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
California State University,  Fresno
email: yucao@csufresno.edu
Web:   http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~yucao/

 
Session Co-Chair 	
Degui Xiao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Computer and Communication
Hunan University, P.R.China
email: jt_dgxiao@hnu.cn
Web:  http://ccc.hnu.cn