[General] Call for Papers: EG Multimedia 2004 (extended submission deadline)

Due to several requests, the paper submission deadline was extended to May 31st. EG Multimedia 2004 Program Chairs -- EG Multimedia 2004 - 7th Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia http://egmm2004.di.fc.ul.pt Nanjing University, China, 27-28 October 2004 ***** Extended Submission Deadline: May 31st ***** Aims and Scope ------------------ This workshop is a follow up on the Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia held in Manchester, UK, in September 2001 and continues a series of six successful Eurographics workshops in the field. It is also the first time that this workshop takes place in a location outside Europe, which will promote interaction between researchers from different origins. The workshop will cover a wide range of current subjects with a special focus on issues related with Multimedia in Mobile and Augmented Environments. These include approaches for mobile multimedia, using video in mobile devices, using the physical world to present multimedia information, and other context aware applications. Authors are invited to submit technical papers in these or related areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Mobile Multimedia Context Aware Interactive Multimedia Interactive Video Audio and Video in Augmented Environments Multimodal Interaction Ubiquitous Media Broadband Personal Interfaces Auditory Interfaces Audio/Image/Video Processing Content Analysis Media Databases and Search Engines Content Based Retrieval Media Information Retrieval on the Web Delivery of Multimedia Data Media Web Servers and Services Video Coding and Description Standards Multimedia Document Metaphors Authoring Paradigms Media Integration Augmented Reality Storytelling Environments Applications: Entertainment, Learning, etc. Submission Procedure ----------------------- Authors are requested to submit papers, no longer than 10 pages, in the Eurographics Conference Paper Format. Detailed guidelines will be available at the EG Multimedia 2004 Workshop Site. Post-workshop proceedings will be available on-line, through the Eurographics Digital Library, and in paper book form, in the Eurographics Book Series. Selection will be based upon technical and scientific content and relevance to the workshop. Workshop Format -------------------- The workshop will be held in two days, including paper presentation tracks and discussion plenary sessions. Participation is open to everyone, not requiring submission of a paper. The workshop will take place just after the ICIG'2004 Conference (Oct. 23-25, 2004, Hong Kong, China, http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/icig2004). The workshop will be co-located with a conference on Digital Media and Digital Cities. As such, it will provide a very interesting opportunity for researchers that want to attend or present communications at these events. Important Dates ----------------- May 31, 2004 Submission deadline (extended) July 9, 2004 Notification of acceptance July 27, 2004 Deadline for camera-ready copies October 27-28, 2004 Workshop Venue ----- The workshop will be held at Nanjing University, China. Workshop participants will be charged a registration fee that includes a workshop proceedings book (printed by Eurographics Press), coffee breaks, and a social event in the first evening of the Workshop. Nanjing University is located in the Nanjing City, the Capital of Jiangsu Province. Present day Nanjing, with tens of universities and hundreds of high-tech companies, ranks fifth among the "50 strongest" of Chinese cities. It is a transport and telecommunications hub in East China, and the second largest international trade port after Shanghai in the Yangzi River Delta. Comprehensive information about Nanjing, traveling and accommodation will be available at the workshop Web page. Workshop Co-Chairs ----------------------- Nuno Correia, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Hong Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, China Program Co-Chairs -------------------- Joaquim Jorge, IST/INESC, Portugal Teresa Chambel, University of Lisbon, Portugal Zhigeng Pan, Nanjing University, China Honorary Chair ----------------- José Encarnação, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany International Program Committee ------------------------------- Adérito Marcos, Univ. of Minho, Portugal C.C. Chang, National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan, China Carol Strohecker, MIT Media Lab, USA Christophe Quarre, STM-Shanghai, China Colin Allison, Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK Cristina Lopes, UC Irvine, USA David Duce, Oxford Brookes Univ., UK Dongrong Xu, Columbia University, USA Ephraim Glinert, NSF, USA Frank Nack, CWI, The Netherlands Fuyan Zhang, Nanjing Univ., China Gareth Jones, Univ. of Exeter, UK Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Lab, USA Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China Guido Lemos de Souza Filho, UFBP, Brazil Gunnar Liestøl, Univ. of Oslo, Norway Hiromi T. Tanaka, Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan Hyun Seung Yang, KAIST, Korea Jiaoying Shi, Zhejiang Univ., China John Buford, Panasonic Digital Networking Lab, USA Jônatas Manzolli, UNICAMP, Brazil Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, The Netherlands Luís Carriço, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal Makoto Sato, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan Mário Rui Gomes, IST/INESC, Portugal Matthew Turk, UC Santa Barbara, USA Monica Fleichmann, Fraunhofer-IMK, Germany Nicholas Higgett, De Montfort Univ., UK Nik Gaffney, FoAM Group, Brussels Nuno Guimarães, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal P.C. Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., China Piet Kommers, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands Rainer Lienhart, Intel Corp., USA Rebbeca Alen, Media Lab Europe, Ireland Thomas Kirste, IGD/FhG, Germany Robert K Jacob, Tufts Univ., USA Ryohei Nakatsu, ATR MIC Research Labs., Japan Sidney Fels, Univ. British Columbia, CA Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya University, Japan V. Michael Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA Weiying Ma, MSRA, China Wolfgang Mueller-Wittig, CAMTech, Singapore WooWoontack, KJIST, Korea Yangsheng Wang, IA-CAS, China Local Organizing Committee ----------------------------- Co-Chairs Jian Lu, Nanjing University, China Xianglin Fei, Nanjing University, China Zhigeng Pan, Nanjing University, China Members Xiaohu Ma, Nanjing University, China Gangshan Wu, Nanjing Univeristy, China Weiqun Cao, Nanjing University, China Weiqing Li, Nanjing Polytechnic University, China Ruhui Yun, Nanjing Normal University, China Jun Feng, Hehai University, China Zongcai Ruan, South-East University, China For more information please contact egmm2004(a)inesc-id.pt