October 24-26, 2001, Beijing, China

Hosted by:
Tsinghua University
National Science Foundation of China
Microsoft Research China

With many thanks to our corporate donors:
Microsoft
Intel
GE
Legend
Bell Lab
Samsung
AREC
and other companies

The second IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia will be held in Beijing in the next "Golden Autumn". Beijing has been the culture capital of Chinese for near one thousand years with many historical palaces, magnificent museums and beautiful parks, as well as rich culture activities. In the last decade, Beijing has also witnessed spectacular growth of hi-tech industry, especially in the Internet and multimedia applications areas. The conference site, Zhongguanchun, known as China's Silicon Valley, is the national center of research, development and education with hundreds of universities and research institutions, and many successful companies providing both multimedia content and systems expertise. The conference complements this wonderful setting by providing a forum to presenting and exploring technological and artistic advancements in multimedia. Technical issues, theory and practice, artistic and consumer innovations will bring together researchers, artists, developers, educators, performers, and practitioners of multimedia from Pacific-Rim and the world. Present your work at PCM2001 and define the future of multimedia in the next millennium!

The technical program will feature keynote addresses, tutorials, special sessions, panels, technical demonstrations, in addition to technical presentations of refereed papers. We cordially invite you to submit your work in one or more of about forms for, but not limited to, the following three areas:

1. Multimedia processing and coding, including multimedia processing, compression and coding, content analysis, contend-based retrieval, watermarking, security, and media streaming;

2. Multimedia system support and networking, including network protocols, operating systems, middleware, servers, QoS, databases, sensors, actuators and clients;

3. Multimedia tools, end-systems and applications, including hypermedia systems, user interfaces, authoring, multi-model interaction and integration, multimedia education, multimedia in telecommunications, design and applications of virtual environments, and system integrations;

Best Paper Awards

One best paper award and one best student paper award will be selected by 2001 IEEE-PCM Organizing Committee and presented to the winners at the conference.

Submission Deadlines:

Submission of regular papers:	Mar.15, 2001
Proposals for special session, panels, and tutorials:	Mar.15, 2001
Submission poster and demos:	May 15, 2001
Notification of paper proposal acceptance:	June 1, 2001
Submission of camera-ready paper:	June 30, 2001
Pre-registration date:	June 30, 2001
Author registration date:	June 30, 2001
Online registration date:	August 30, 2001