3rd International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications

Deadline extension for Paper Submission: March 15, 2011
27-29 June 2011, Istanbul, Turkey

http://www.immerscom.org/2011/
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SCOPE AND GOAL OF THE CONFERENCE

Immersive telecommunications is an emerging multi-disciplinary field with contributions from telecommunications and networking, signal processing, computer vision, virtual reality, spatial audio processing, user interfaces, and human factors. IMMERSCOM aims to bring researchers and scientists from academia and industry together to advance the state of the art in immersive telecommunications sciences, technologies and systems.

TOPICS

The conference solicits original technical papers that are not previously published or currently under review for publication elsewhere. General themes of the conference include but are not limited to:

• Scene Capture for Immersive Communication: Multi-camera and depth sensor based 3D video capture systems, multimodal scene capture, 3D reconstruction and other representations from capture data, view synthesis and interpolation, pervasive sensing
• Communications and Networking for Immersive Applications: Communication for rich 3D visualization, tele-presence, and mixed/augmented reality; QoS for immersive applications; robustness to loss over networks, low latency communication, real-time protocols, synchronization
• Computer Vision for Immersive Communication: 3D reconstruction and modeling, activity detection, face and pose detection and recognition, eye contact, gesture recognition, body tracking, mobility issues, tele-reality, data fusion
• User Interfaces and Human Factors for Immersive Experiences: Stereoscopic, auto-stereoscopic and multi-view displays and interfaces; multi-projector and projector-camera systems;mixed/augmented reality interfaces, interactive environment interfaces, affective user interfaces, haptics; handheld and wearable device interfaces, multimodal interfaces, tele-presence interfaces; perceptual interfaces, human factors and usability
• AudioProcessing for Immersive Communication: Multi-channel echo cancellation, de-reverberation, spatial audio capture and synthesis, microphone and speaker arrays, source localization and diarization, multimodal processing
• Multimedia Coding for Immersive Communication: Coding of audio, video, multi-view video, and depth with various 3D representations; coding for distributed multimedia sensors (camera & microphone) networks, compressed sensing, real-time coding
• Applications, Systems, and Architectures: Tele-presence; gaming; medical and bio-medical applications; educational systems; virtual museums, meetings and classrooms; social networking

TUTORIAL/POSTER/PANEL/DEMO/EXHIBITION PROPOSALS

Proposals for tutorials/posters/panels/demos/exhibitions related to Immersive Telecommunications technologies are solicited. Those who are interested are welcome to submit proposals to the respective Chairs. Please visit the Submissions page for details.

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) series.The proceedings will be available in both soft and hard copies by Springer.

SUBMISSIONS

Click here for detailed submission instructions.

SPECIAL ISSUE

Selected papers from the IMMERSCOM Technical program will be invited for publication in a Special Issue of the EURASIP Journal Signal Processing: Image Communication.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2011 March 15, 2011 (extended)
• Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2011 April 10, 2011 (extended)
• Camera Ready Deadline: April 10, 2011 May 1, 2011 (extended)
• Author Registration Deadline: April 10, 2011 May 1, 2011 (extended)
• Tutorial/Poster/Panel/Demo Proposals: March 1, 2011 April 10, 2011 (extended)
• Early Registration Deadline: June 1, 2011

Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs: 

• Murat Tekalp, Koc University, Turkey
• Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France

Technical Program Co-Chairs:

• Marcus Magnor, TU Braunschweig, Germany
• Cha Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA
• Ozgur B. Akan, Koc Univeristy, Turkey

Publication Chair

• Aydin Alatan, METU, Turkey

Tutorials and Panels Chair

• Dinei Florencio, Microsoft Research, USA

Posters and Demo Chair

• Thierry Duval, Universite de Rennes, France
• Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University, Japan

Exhibition and Sponsorship Chair

• Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm, USA

Web Chair

• Mashhour Solh, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs

• Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
• Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Conference Coordinator

• Edit Marosi, ICST, Hungary

CFP-- 2nd IEEE Int'l Workshop on Multimedia Computing and Communications (MCC'10)

The Second IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Computing and Communications (MCC'10)

August 2 - 5, 2010
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Network (ICCCN) 2010

Call For Paper: http://www.ifp.illinois.edu/~yunfu2/CfP/MCC10-cfp.html

Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
 

* Multimedia content analysis, representation, and understanding

* Multimedia management in social networking environment

* Multimedia data mining and fusing, indexing and retrieval

* Sensorial data processing for interactive games

* Content, user, computation, and network aware media engineering

* Multimedia summarization and abstraction

* Intelligent audio-video surveillance and other security-related applications

* Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models

* Soft-biometrics from multimedia computing

* Multimedia in mobile and smart environment

* Internet human computer interaction

* Image/video processing and analysis

* Image filtering and enhancement, such as noise reduction, edge enhancement, contrast enhancement, color processing

* Image restoration, multiframe image restoration

* Image/video format conversion including de-interlacing, scaling and super-resolution, and frame rate conversion

* Motion detection and estimation

* Image/video segmentation and tracking

* Image/video stabilization

* Stereoscopic and 3D processing

* 3DTV

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission deadline   March 15, 2010
Author notification                April 30, 2010
Camera-ready paper             May 14, 2010
 

Program Chairs:
 

Yun (Raymond) Fu, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA
Fan Zhai, Texas Instruments, USA

CFP - IEEE Globecom 2010 - Communications Software, Services and Multimedia

IEEE Globecom 2010 - Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium Dec 6 - 10, 2010
Miami, FL USA
http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2010

The Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium covers challenges and advances for service delivery and management in fixed and mobile communication networks. These topics are particularly relevant for researchers, developers and industries in the areas of networking and services covered by many Technical Committees. The symposium will follow GC2010 instructions for paper submission, review, and session construction. Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of Communications Software and Services are solicited for submission to the symposium.

Topics of Interest

Next Generation Services and Service Platforms
o Mobile Services and Service Platforms including IMS
o Home Network Service Platform
o VoP2P and P2P-SIP Services
o Converged Application/Communication Servers and Services
o Location-based Services
o Social Networking Communication Services
o Advanced Communication Services and Feature Interaction

Multimedia applications and services including VoIP, IPTV, Gaming
o Multimedia delivery over wired and wireless networks
o Cross-layer optimization for multimedia service support
o Multicast, Broadcast and IPTV
o Media streaming
o Peer-to-Peer services

Software and Protocol Technologies for advanced service support
o Web Services and distributed SW technology
o Distributed systems and applications, including Grid Services
o Peer-to-Peer technologies for communication services
o Service overlay networks
o Context Awareness and Personalization

Network and Service Management and Provisioning
o Multimedia QoS provisioning
o Quality of Experience for End-to-End Communications
o End-to-End Quality of Service Routing algorithms
o Service Creation, Delivery, Management
o Network Management
o Virtual Home Environment
o Charging, Pricing, Business Models
o Triple Play Services
o Security and Privacy in Network and Service Management
o Service Overlay Networks
o Cooperative Networking for Streaming Media Content

Submission deadline: March 15, 2010
Notifications due: July 1, 2010
Final version due: Aug 1, 2010

For more information about IEEE Globecom 2010, please see  http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2010

Symposium Co-Chairs
John Buford, Avaya Labs Research, USA (buford at avaya.com)
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth university, USA (obaidat at monmouth.edu)
Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (joelr at
ieee.org)
Bin Wei, AT&T Research, USA (bw at research.att.com)

Sponsoring Technical Committees
Communications Software
Multimedia Communications

International Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless - ISMW 2009

Co-located with the Int'l Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC2009)
June 21-24, 2009 in Leipzig, Germany

http://ismw2009.itec.uni-klu.ac.at/

One of the key elements in the convergence of future networks and services to IP technology is the efficient support of rich multimedia applications and services over wireless networks including sensor and mesh networks. The delivery and transport of multimedia in such wireless environments, to heterogeneous mobiles and users, is very challenging. The multimedia services should face many shortcomings caused mainly by the wireless channel unreliability and its sharing among many users, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, etc. Future multimedia services require innovation and advances in better MAC and routing protocols, session establishment and signaling architectures, cross-layer interaction and optimization, QoS provisioning and continuity, adaptive transmission techniques, and scalability support, among others.

The purpose of this symposium is to solicit high-quality theoretical and practical research on the landscape of recent advances on multimedia over wireless.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• Architectures for wireless multimedia communications
• Multimedia over Cognitive Radio Networks
• Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless networks (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks/relay, WLAN, WMAN, multi-hop wireless, and hybrid networks)
• Wireless video sensor networks
• Multimedia over wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) network
• Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks
• QoS support for wireless multimedia networks
• Multimedia delivery over wireless embedded devices
• Scalable multimedia delivery over wireless
• Multimodal multimedia services
• Error resilience and concealment
• Joint source-channel coding and adaptive media delivery
• Cross-layer optimizations and interactions
• Interaction among (MAC), radio link control (RLC), IP and application layers
• Wireless multimedia terminal and devices
• Wireless multimedia traffic modeling
• Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices
• Multimedia over wireless testbeds and related research infrastructures and demo
• QoS signaling and protocols for wireless multimedia
• Applications, best practices, and standard's support

Chairs

Toufik Ahmed
University of Bordeaux I, France

Christian Timmerer
Klagenfurt University, Austria

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008
• Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009
• Camera-ready Paper Submissions: April 15, 2009
• Registration Deadline for Authors: April 15, 2009

Submission

Please register and upload your paper via EDAS. All papers are limited to six printed pages, including text, figures and references, and must be written in English and follow the standard IEEE double-column format. The font size must be at least 10 points. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a double peer-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of IWCMC2009, which will be included in ACM/IEEE Digital Library (pending approval). Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in a special issue of the Wiley Journal of "Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC)," and "International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS)". There will also be best paper and best symposium awards.

Contact

For further details please contact the chairs via chairs-ismw2009(at)itec(dot)uni-klu(dot)ac(dot)at.

Note: Replace (at) by @ and (dot) by . in the above email.

Technical Program Committee

• Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux I, France
• Eugen Borcoci, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania
• Cyril Concolato, TELECOM ParisTech France
• Annie Gravey, INSTITUT TELECOM - TELECOM Bretagne, France
• Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA
• Zhihai He University, of Missouri-Columbia, USA
• Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
• ChingYao Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
• Andreas Hutter, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany
• Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
• Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
• Sastri Kota, Harris Corporation, USA
• Francine Krief, University of Bordeaux I, France
• Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
• Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Paris - Descartes, France
• Marta Mrak, University of Surrey, UK
• Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Hamid Nafaa, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Gabriella Olmo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• George Pavlou, University College London, UK
• Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
• Fabrizio Rovati, STMicroelectronics, Italy
• Zafer Sahinoglu, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
• Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade

Report of a keynote given by Ian F. Akyildiz at AICCSA2008.

The keynote was very interesting as it provided a very good overview about existing/emerging technologies which are as follows:

• xG Networks also referred to as dynamic spectrum access networks
• Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN)
  
• WiMAX
• Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)

xG Networks
The next generation (xG) networks will follow a dynamic spectrum assigned (versus fixed spectrum assignment as exists today) where so-called unlicensed users may make use of any available spectrum in cases where licensed users do not use them. That is, they'll jump from one 'spectrum hole' to another based on their availabilities. To me, the concept is very similar to connection-oriented vs. connection-less services or circuit-switched vs. packet-switched networks ... it seems, history repeats again ;-)

In any case, the framework elements for dynamic spectrum assignment (aka cognitive radio) has been presented:

• Spectrum sensing: what's available?
• Spectrum decision: select the best channel available
• Spectrum sharing: coordinate with other users
• Spectrum mobility -> hand-off: in case the licensed user appears the unlicensed one has to jump to another hole...

I.F. Akyildiz, W.-Y. Lee, M. C. Vuran, S. Mohanty, "NeXt generation/dynamic spectrum access/cognitive radio wireless networks: A survey", Computer Networks, vol. 50, no. 13, September 2006, pp. 2127-2159.

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN)
This technology seems to be researched very well and there's a trend to merge channel allocation and routing. Also, cross-layer designs are making their way towards WMNs. The remaining challenge is how to manage the dynamics of WMNs?

I.F. Akyildiz, X. Wang, W. Wang, "Wireless mesh networks: a survey", Computer Networks, vol 47, no. 4, March 2005, pp. 445-487.

WiMAX
Should be a cheap alternative to cable/DSL but research is rare because it's difficult to get funding therefore, at least in the US...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
Basically, they've adopted (tweaking) tools from ad-hoc networks for WSNs which has become a paper writing race

As for WMNs, it seems it's heading towards cross-layer designs where the traditional layers are merged to a single communication module with the application layer sitting on-top.

M.C. Vuran, O.B. Akan, I.F. Akyildiz, "XLM: Cross Layer Module for Efficient Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks", submitted for journal publication, October 2007.

I.F. Akyildiz, T. Melodia, K.R. Chowdhury, "A survey on wireless multimedia sensor networks", Computer Networks, vol. 51, no. 4, March 2007, pp. 921-960.

Nano-Communication Networks
Finally, the next step will be the communication between nano devices that opens a huge amount of (new) research areas in the same way it was introduced when mirco devices began to communicate...

S. Hara, H. Yomo, P. Popovski, K. Hayashi, "New Paradigms in Wireless Communication Systems", Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 37, no. 3-4, May 2006, pp. 233-241.