CALL FOR PAPERS

The 10th International MultiMedia Modelling Conference

Brisbane, Australia, 5-7 Jan 2004

http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~chenp/MMM2004

MMM2004 will provide a forum to discuss the efficient representation, processing, interaction, integration, communication, and retrieval of multimedia information. In particular, MMM'04 will concentrate on common modeling frameworks for integrating the diverse fields of visual, audio, video, and virtual World information. MMM'04 will take place at QUT Threate on 5-7 Jan 2004 in Brisbane and and sponsored by Centre for Information Technology Innovation Queensland University of Technology and School of Information Technology Deakin University.

Scientific and technical papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas related to multimedia modeling technologies and applications. Submitted papers will be reviewed by an international program committee. MMM offers a high quality technical program.

The proceedings of MMM'04 will be published by IEEE CS Press, and will be available internationally after the conference through IEEE and its agents.

Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Topic of Interests:

• Multimedia Databases

• Formal Methods and multimedia information

• Hypermedia

• Image and Video Retrieval

• Video-based Multimedia Applications

• Topological and 3D Geometric Modeling

• Spatial and Temporal Multimedia Modelling

• Web Information Systems

• Authoring and Visualization of Multimedia Information

• Networked Multimedia and Virtual Environments

• Real-time and Interactive Multimedia Applications

• Virtual Reality

• Multimedia Modeling of Real World Scenarios

• Semantic models for multimedia and for the Web

• GIS and Multimedia

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Tat-Seng  Chua, National Uni of Singapore, Singapore

Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan

PROGRAM CHAIR

Yi-Ping Phoebe  Chen

Deakin University/Queensland University of Technology, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellom University, USA

Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Michel Diaz, LAAS, France
Jean-Pierre Courtiat, LAAS, France
David Dagan Feng, PolyTech Uni, Hong Kong and Univ of Sydney
Shuji Hashimoto, Waseda University, Japan
Horace IP, City Uni, Hong Kong
Jesse Jin, Uni Sydney, Australia
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Mohan Kankanhalli, National Uni of Singapore, Singapore
Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
Clement Leung, Victoria Uni of Tech, Australia
Qing Li, City Uni, Hong Kong
Guojun Lu, Monash University, Australia
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft, China
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Uni of Geneva, Switzerland
Ming Ouhyoung, Taiwan Uni, Taiwan
Alexander Pasko, Hosei University, Japan

Tian Qi, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, Netherlands
Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA
Shinji Shimojo, Osaka University, Japan
Yoshihisa Shinagawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Luiz Fernando G. Soares, PUC-Rio, Brasil
Uma Srinivasan, CSIRO, Australia
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
Kyu-Young Whang, Korean Adv Int of Science and Tech, Korean
Hong Yan, City Uni, Hong Kong
Xiaofang Zhou, Uni of Queensland, Australia
Yanchun Zhang, Uni of Southern Queensland, Australia

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of full papers Fri, 4 July 2003 (Extended to 14 July 2003) Hard Deadline

Notification of acceptance: Thu, 21 Aug 2003

Author registration Fri, 19 Sep 2003

camera-ready copy Fri, 26 Sep 2003

Conference: 5-7 Jan 2004***

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

MMM’04 invites high-quality original papers and exciting tutorial proposals on any topic related to Multimedia Modelling. Papers should be no more than 8 pages in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the IEEE CS Press. Tutorial proposals should be at most two pages long. Each paper will be fully refereed by an international program committee. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and clarity. Authors should submit one (1) copy of a PDF or MS Word file to MMM2004 Paper Submission Website. The title and abstract should be submitted before 27 June 2003, and the full paper must be submitted by 4 July 2003. The proceedings of the conference will be published through the IEEE CS Press . To publish the paper in the conference, one of authors needs to register and present in the conference. Selected papers will be published in "The Visual Computer" journal.

THE ADDRESS FOR ALL CORRESPONDENCE IS AS FOLLOWS:

Dr. Phoebe Chen

Program Chair of MMM2004

Faculty of Information Technology,  

Queensland University of Technology

Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia, Phone: +61 7 3864-9482 Fax: +61 7 38641969

email: p.chen@qut.edu.au