News

 

July 26, 2007:  JJ Johnston's keynote speech slides are available here (9.7MB PPT file). Phil Chou's overview slides are available here (2.3MB PPT file)

October 25, 2006: MMSP'06 survey results are available here . Thanks to all of you for your comments and suggestions!

August 29, 2006: Oral presentation guidelines and poster presentation guidelines have been added.

August 14, 2006: The conference hotel offers a special rate (see local-information page) for student occupancy of MMSP06 attendants with a limited number of rooms (19 single rooms). If you are a student and have interest in this, please send your student ID number, University, and paper ID (if you have papers accepted) to Prof. Shoja (gshoja@cs.uvic.ca) by September 2. There is no guarantee you will get the room but we will try our best to accommodate you, especially if you have a paper accepted.August 12, 2006: The final technical program and program-at-a-glance have been posted. Please check the Technical Program page.

August 2, 2006: Hotel reservation is open. Note that you need to join in the Fairmont President's Club (free) to have free high-speed internet access.

August 2, 2006: Camera ready papers are listed  here. Please check to make sure it is the correct version.

July 17, 2006: The list of papers for which we have received copyright forms is available here.

July 5, 2006: The oral/poster decisions of papers are available here. The conference program is available here.

June 8, 2006: The list of accepted papers is available here. Camera ready papers: see For Authors

 

April 8, 2006: Submission is now closed. Peer-review of the submitted papers is underway.

 

 

MMSP-06 Call for Papers

 

MMSP-06 is the eighth international workshop on multimedia signal processing organized by the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The MMSP-06 workshop features several new components that include:

 

»  A Student Paper Contest with awards sponsored by Microsoft Research. To enter the contest a paper submission must have a student as the first author 

»  Overview talks that present the state-of-the-art in methods and applications for selected topics of interest in multimedia signal processing 

»  Wrap-up presentations that summarize the main contributions of the papers accepted at the workshop, hot topics and current trends in multimedia signal processing  

»   New content requirements for the submitted papers 

»   New review guidelines for the submitted papers

 

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SCOPE

 

Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the general areas:

 

»    Multimedia Processing (modalities: audio, speech, visual, graphics, other;  processing:  pre- and post- processing of multimodal data, joint audio/visual and multimodal processing, joint source/channel coding, 2-D and 3-D graphics/geometry coding and animation, multimedia streaming)

»    Multimedia Databases (content  analysis, representation, indexing, recognition, and retrieval)

»    Multimedia Security  (data hiding, authentication, and access control)

»    Multimedia Networking (priority-based QoS control and scheduling, traffic engineering, soft IP multicast support, home networking technologies, wireless technologies)

»    Multimedia Systems Design, Implementation and Applications (design: distributed multimedia systems, real-time and non real-time systems; implementation: multimedia hardware and software; applications: entertainment and games, IP video/web conferencing, wireless web, wireless video phone, distance learning over the Internet, telemedicine over the Internet, distributed virtual reality)

»    Human-Machine Interfaces and Interaction using multiple modalities

»    Human Perception (including integration of art and technology)

»    Standards

SCHEDULE

 

»    Special Sessions (contact the respective chair by):

March 8, 2006 (Call for Special Sessions)

»    Papers (full paper, 4 pages, to be received by):      

April 8, 2006    (Instructions for Authors)

»    Notification of acceptance by:                                

June 8, 2006

»    Camera-ready paper submission by:

July  8, 2006  (Instructions for Authors)

 

Check the workshop website http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/MMSP06  for updates.