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                        IEE European Workshop on
                          DISTRIBUTED IMAGING

            Organised by E4 (Image Processing and Vision)

        Co-sponsored by TERENA (Trans-European Research And
                Education Networking Association)                     

                 Call For Papers and Participation

                        November 18-19, 1999
                           Savoy Place, 
                             London 




The advent of the World Wide Web, advances in network communications, etc 
have seen an upsurge in the creation of multimedia information  and thus
caused a demand for remote access of images for high quality presentation
etc. This requires a number of different strategies and technologies
interoperating in a coherent manner. These include distributed
processing, heterogeneous computational paradigms, image processing
principles, high speed networks, video conferencing capabilities and
search/browse/retrieve features. Other concerns include adaptability and
security. Whilst image processing is currently at the stage of
single-site, single-user environment, there is a growing demand to adapt
image processing principles to manage images in a distributed environment.

Images feature quite strongly in Computer Supported Cooperative Work
(CSCW) and tools, approaches and methodologies are emerging for
distributed learning through Computer Supported Coorperative Learning.
The range of ways in which the Internet and the Web are being used for
collaboration and the CSCW tools appearing in this domain already have
an impact on distributed groups currently using them.

The IEE Professional Group E4 (Image and Vision) will be staging a 
two-day European Workshop on Distributed Imaging in order to highlight 
advances in facets of Video Conferencing, World Wide Web, Image Databases, 
Intelligent Networks, and distributed Image Processing theory and practical 
applications. 

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a venue for and bring
together industrialists, academics, practitioners, tool developers and users 
from these  various disciplines to compare and discuss various approaches 
to the use of images in a distributed environment.

The two-day workshop will include presentations by invited
speakers, complemented by the presentation of reviewed papers, tutorials,
posters and demonstrations.

The topics for which papers are solicited include but are not limited to:

o  Client/Server imaging applications
o  Distributed image/video databases
o  Image processing of remote data
o  Computer Supported Cooperative Work
o  Image coding
o  Hypermedia
o  Editing and post production of distributed video archives
o  Multimedia over IP, including techniques and applications
o  Video in intelligent networking environment
o  Mobile multimedia
o  Advances in video conferencing.
o  Image processing aspects of WAP
o  Standards use - CORBA, XML, OLE etc.


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline:  31st July 1999
Notification of acceptance: 1st September 1999
Camera-ready copy due: 1st November 1999

Abstracts for oral presentations, tutorials, posters and demonstrations
(clearly marked with the category of the abstract), should be submitted 
to either of the following: 
 
 
 
 Dr Ransford B. Johnson                 Dr Paola Hobson  
 Department of Electrical and           European Research Laboratory 
 Electronic Engineering                 Motorola      
 University of Bristol                  Jays Close 
 Merchant Venturers Building            Basingstoke 
 Woodland Road, Clifton                 Hants 
 Bristol BS8 1US                        RG22 4PD
 United Kingdom                         United Kingdom 
 Email: [log in to unmask]       Email: [log in to unmask] 
                                        Tel: +44 (0) 1256 484643


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