2006 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2006)
Nov 2-4, 2006, Hangzhou, P.R.China

General Information
Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing.

PCM 2006, the 7th in the series that has been held annually since 2000, will be held by Zhejiang University from November 2 (Thursday), 2006 to November 4 (Saturday), 2006 at Hangzhou, P.R.China.

Hangzhou is one of the seven ancient capitals and the key scenic tourism and historical culture city in China, Hangzhou once was applauded as ¡°the most splendid and luxurious city in the world¡± by Marco Polo, the Italian traveler in the 13th century. The city locates close to China east coast (200km south to Shanghai) with convenient public transport.

Conference Topics
Papers presenting original research are being sought in all areas of multimedia. Suggested areas of interest include but are not limited to:
Multimedia processing and retrieval: including multimedia data analysis and understanding, signal modeling and representation, multi-modal data processing, multimedia coding and compression, multimedia content description and indexing, content-based retrieval, cross-media indexing and retrieval.
Multimedia system support and networking: including media streaming, multimedia content distribution, wireless multimedia, content-aware multimedia communications, peer-to-peer data streaming, Internet protocols, multimedia services, operating systems, middleware and QoS.
Multimedia security: including robust watermarking of multimedia, authentication of multimedia, informational-theoretical aspects of data hiding, steganography and steganalysis, forensic analysis of digital multimedia, watermarking quality evaluations and benchmarks, content management.
Multimedia tools, end-systems and applications: including user interfaces, digital library, multi-modal interaction and integration, distributed collaboration, multimedia authoring, digital protection and restoration of rare cultural relic, mobile multimedia, multimedia in e-learning and education, animation and entertainments, personal media, networked appliances, wearable computing, ubiquitous multimedia, entertainment computing, virtual environments. 

Paper Format & Submission Procedure
Original unpublished papers of up to 8 pages (single-spaced, 10 point font, including figures, tables and references) are invited. Manuscripts must be written in English. The first part of the paper should include a title, an abstract, keywords, and author¡¯s information (name, title, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address). Any animation sequences should be provided as an archive .zip file with your manuscript. Submissions are made electronically in PDF format only (no paper copy will be accepted).
All accepted papers will be prepared in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series format.
 

Important Dates
Proposals for Special Sessions, Panels, Demos, and Tutorials¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ May 15, 2006
Paper Submission Deadline ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ June 10, 2006
Papers Notification of Acceptance ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ July 25, 2006     
Camera Ready Papers Due¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­August 15, 2006
Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia 2006¡­¡­............¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­November 2-4, 2006

For more information, visit: http://www.pcm2006.org

PCM 2006 Organization Committee

Conference Chair:   
Yunhe Pan        Zhejiang University, China

Program Co-chairs:  
Yueting Zhuang    Zhejiang University, China
Shiqiang Yang     Tsinghua University, China
Yong Rui         Microsoft Research, USA

Organizing Chair:
Qinming He      Zhejiang University, China

Organizing vice-Chair: 
Fei Wu          Zhejiang University, China

Tutorial Co-Chairs :   
Nicu Sebe       University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hao Yin         Tsinghua University, China

Special Sessions Co-Chairs:
Daniel Gatica-Perez  EPFL, Switzerland
Lifeng Sun         Tsinghua University, China

Poster/Exhibition Co-Chairs:
Alejandro Jaimes   FX PAL£¬Japan
Li Zhao          Tsinghua University, China

Financial  Chair:        
Jiangqin Wu       Zhejiang University, China
Proceedings  Chair:    
Shijian Luo         Zhejiang University, China

Registration Chair:      
Jianguang Weng     Zhejiang University, China

Web  Chair:           
Honglun Hou       Zhejiang University,China

Publicity and Liaison Chairs:  
Xilin  Chen        Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Qing Li            City University of Hongkong, China
Hari Sundaram      Arizona State University£¬USA
Rainer Lienhart      University of Augsburg£¬Germany
Kiyoharu Aizawa    University of Tokyo, Japan
Yo-Sung Ho        GIST, Korea
Mark Liao         Academic Sinica, Taiwan, China
Qibin Sun         I2R, Singapore

Advisory Committee:
Sun-Yuan Kung     Princeton University, USA
Thomas S. Huang   University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Hongjiang Zhang    Microsoft Research Asia, China