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