Call for Papers

                    ACM MULTIMEDIA 2001

            The 9th ACM International Multimedia Conference
                  September 30 - October 5, 2001
                    Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
                 http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM2001

        Sponsored by ACM SIGMM, SIGGRAPH, and SIGCOMM.

Multimedia at the Dawn of the Millennium

The ACM Multimedia 2001 will be held in Ottawa, Canada's beautiful
capital, often called "Silicon Valley North" because of the high
concentration of major telecommunications and software companies, such as
NORTEL, ALCATEL, MITEL, COREL, COGNOS, JDS Uniphase, Entrust and many
others. The conference complements this setting by 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. Present your work at Multimedia 2001 and
define the future of multimedia in the next millennium.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with
topics of general interest in three main tracks:

    multimedia processing and coding, including multimedia content analysis,
    content-based multimedia retrieval, multimedia security,
    audio/image/video processing, and compression.
    multimedia system support and networking, including network
    protocols, operating systems, middleware, servers, QoS, databases,
    sensors and actuators, and thin clients.

    multimedia tools, end-systems and applications, including hypermedia
    systems, user interfaces, authoring, multi-modal interaction and
    integration, multimedia education, multimedia in telecommunications,
    design and applications of virtual environments, etc.

Submissions covering other areas of multimedia computing and systems are
also welcome. An award will be given for the best paper, as judged by the
program committee. Papers with a student as the primary author will
separately enter a student paper award competition; cover letter must
identify the paper as a candidate for the student paper competition, if
applicable. The top 3-5 papers in each track will be recommended for a
special issue of ACM/Springer Verlag Multimedia Systems Journal. The Best
Student Paper will be awarded a laptop computer, one of the latest models
from Hewlett-Packard. All papers must be submitted electronically. Only if
electronic submission is not possible at all, hardcopy should be sent.
Papers should not exceed 5000 words. We encourage submissions formatted in
two-column conference style that do not exceed 10 pages in length
including all figures, tables and references. A template is available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. In the cover letter of
your submission, please, indicate which one of the three main track areas
your paper fits best:

     multimedia processing and coding
     multimedia system support and networking
     multimedia tools, end-systems and applications

The authors may also indicate other track of interest, which will then
trigger a cross-track reviewing. We will also produce an electronic
version of the proceedings, and electronic components accompanying your
submission are required. Authors of accepted papers will be required to
prepare an electronic version for the online conference proceedings, which
will supplement the traditional printed volume. Authors of accepted papers
will be asked to submit their papers in validated HTML 4.0 Strict for the
Electronic Proceedings. A free validation service is available at
http://validator.w3.org. Further instructions for the Electronic
Proceedings are available at
http://woodworm.cs.uml.edu/~rprice/ep/index.html.

Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign copyright to ACM as a
condition of publishing their work in the proceedings. An author who
embeds an object such as an art image, copyrighted by third party, is
expected to obtain that party's permission to include the object with the
understanding that the entire work may be distributed as a unity to ACM
members and others.

Please submit full papers by one of the following two submission methods,
by February 28, 2001:

        1.Register and submit your paper in PDF electronically.
          (http://acm-mm.cse.buffalo.edu/2001)
        2.Send 8 hard copies of full papers (if no electronic submission
is possible) to:
          Prof. Aidong Zhang
          226 Bell Hall
          SUNY at Buffalo
          Buffalo, NY, USA 14260

Prof Bruce Royan, CEO,  SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network)
http://www.scran.ac.uk/    tel (+44) 131 662 1211    fax(+44) 131 662 1511