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                  IET VIE'08 workshop on
          Scalable coded media beyond compression
 
          http://vie08.qmul.net/vie_ws/visnet.htm
 
                29th July 2008, Xi'an, China
 
           Submission deadline: 31st March 2008 ------------------------------
 
                 CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS
 

Last few years have seen the emergence of different solutions for
achieving high-quality compression of images/video resulting in
scalable bit streams. Scalable coding has now become an integral part
of International standardisation efforts and has lead to successful
standardisation of JPEG2000 for image coding and the scalable
extension of the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 for video coding.  With the
availability of these scalable coding technologies, it is vital to
investigate the effect and influence of scalable coded visual content
on the existing compression domain visual content analysis, robust
streaming, search and retrieval from distributed databases and digital
rights management applications. Future commercialisation of scalable
coding technology mainly depends on the success of its integration
with the whole multimedia usage experience.
 
This workshop aims to present the application challenges of recently
established scalable visual content coding, new techniques of usage of
scalable coded visual content and to address future applications based
on scalable coded content.  This event will create an important
networking forum in which academic and industrial participants can
discuss the future of scalable coded visual content technologies and
applications.

TOPICS
 
- Content adaptation and summarisation using
 scalable bit-streams
- Robust streaming, error resilience and error concealment
- Compressed domain analysis
- Content based retrieval of scalable content
- Digital rights management
- Complexity optimisation and new tools for achieving  scalability
 
 
KEYNOTE TALK
 
- Prof Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy:
 "Robust Streaming, Error Resilience and Error Concealment"
 

 
SUBMISSION
 
Accepted papers will be published in the VIE 2008 Conference
Proceedings. Extended versions of papers will be invited for review
and consideration for publication in Special Issues of the IET Image
Processing, IET Computer Vision and the EURASIP journal on Image and
Video Processing.
 
"Author's Kit" is available from the conference website http://vie08.qmul.net/. Prospective
authors are invited to submit papers using the on-line paper
submission system at the conference website. To indicate submission to
the workshop, on the submission site, after login, select the workshop
instead of the conference main track.
 
DEMOS
 
Interested parties are invited to present posters and demos related to
the workshop during the event. Contact workshop co-chairs for details.
  
IMPORTANT DATES
 
- Paper submission: 31st March 2008
- Notification of acceptance: 30th April 2008
- Camera ready paper submission: 20th May 2008
 
 
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
 
Marta Mrak, University of Surrey, UK
Charith Abhayaratne, University of Sheffield, UK
 
 
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
 
Giovanni Cordara, Telecom Italia, Italy.
Ahmet Kondoz, University of Surrey, UK.
Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, ENST, France.
Peter Schelkens,Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Christian Timmerer, University of Klagenfurt, Austria.