at the Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing
Department of Electronic & Information Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

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Digital signal, image, document, audio, graphics, and video have generally been used separately in various areas for the past decades. With the recent advances in computing power, it is feasible to integrate these different data streams within a single platform to provide more comprehensive and intuitive information for a broad range of applications. Multimedia information technology is having a strong impact on modern life, and changing our way of learning, thinking and planning. The workshop will focus on Multimedia Data Storage, Retrieval, Integration and Applications, and intends to bring a forum for people working in these areas. Tutorials and Industrial demonstrations will be organized. Related research project demonstrations will also be presented. Keynote lectures will be given by the world prominent researchers: Professor Thomas S. Huang from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Dr. HongJiang Zhang from Microsoft Research, China. A panel discussion on future directions will be conducted at the end of this workshop.

Prospective authors are invited to propose papers in one or more, but not restricted to, the technical areas listed below. Both demo proposals and research paper proposals will be considered. Submissions should be directed to:

Papers: Manuscripts should be prepared (5-8 pages) according to the "Information for Authors" in "IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing". Five (5) copies of each manuscript should be submitted.

Demos: Prospective presenters should submit a short (no more than 2 pages) description of the proposed demo. This description should include a list of equipment needs. While we plan to provide Internet access to facilitate the demos, presenters should plan on bringing their own equipment, or having their demos run on standard systems (e.g. Windows or NT).

Publications: Accepted papers and demo proposals will be published in the proceedings.

Submission of full Paper/Demo proposal To be received by: September 15, 1999

Notification of acceptance To be mailed out by: October 15, 1999 or earlier

Submission of photo-ready paper/proposal To be received by: November 15, 1999

General Chair: Professor WanChi Siu, HK Polytechinc University, Hong Kong
General Co-Chiar: Professor Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois, USA

Technical Chair: Professor David Dagan Feng, HK Polytechinc University, Hong Kong
Technical Co-Chair: Professor Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, USA

Finance Chair and General Secretary: Daniel Pak-Kong Lun, HKPU, Hong Kong

Publicity and Publication Chair: Kenneth Lam, HK Polytechinc University, Hong Kong

Prof. Jing. Bai, Tsinghai University, China
Prof. Ewart R. Carson, City University, UK
Dr. C. F. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. S. C. Chan, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Prof. Claudio Cobelli, University of Padova, Italy
Prof. Joseph. J. DiStefano, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Prof. Bernie H. K. Huang, University of California, San Franscisco, USA
Prof. Henry S. C. Huang, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Dr. Jesse. S. Jin, University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Swamy Laxminarayan, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. W. H. Lau, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. T. Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. F. H. F. Leung, Hong Kong Polytechnic university, Hong Kong
Dr. S. H. Leung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. K. C. Lo, Hong Kong Polytechnic university, Hong Kong
Dr. L. M. Po, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Prof. Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Dr. HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, China
Prof. RongChun Zhao, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China
Prof. YuZhuo Zhong, Tsinghua University, China
Prof. TianGe Zhuang, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China

Questions about the workshop can be directed to: mmws2000@eie. polyu.edu.hk

This workshop is also co-sponsered by