(DBWORLD) IEEE Multimedia Systems '97

Nicolas D. Georganas (georgana@mcrlab.uottawa.ca)
Thu, 1 May 1997 16:35:39 -0500 (CDT)

PLEASE NOTE: Early Registration ends on May 12, 1997.

IEEE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS'97
(4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS)
June3-6, 1997
Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/ICMCS97.html

Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society TC Multimedia, Nortel, Newbridge,
Honeywell, Telesat,
OCRI, TRIO

The 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and
Systems (IEEE Multimedia Systems'97), the premier Multimedia event of
the IEEE Computer Society, TC Multimedia Computing, will be held in Ottawa,
from June 3-6, 1997.
It follows the ones in Boston, Washington and Hiroshima. The conference
will address but is not limited to practical, technical, strategic, and
standardization issues.

SUMMARY OF ADVANCE PROGRAM

TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1997 (9:00-17:30)

FULL-DAY Tutorials

[ ] 1. MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING: QOS PRINCIPLES AND PROTOCOLS
[ ] 2. BUILDING AND APPLYING DIGITAL LIBRARIES
[ ] 3. MULTIMEDIA: TECHNOLOGY FOR BRINGING NEW APPLICATIONS TO THE
INTERNETWORKS
[ ] 4. IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES FOR A LAN BASED VIDEO SERVER

HALF-DAY Tutorials

[ ] 5. ISO MPEG-4 - A CODING STANDARD FOR MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS
[ ] 6. THE GOLBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE: EVOLUTION AND
EXPECTATIONS
[ ] 7. MULTIMEDIA MOBILE AUDIOVISUAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES
[ ] 8. MULTIMEDIA DATA MANAGEMENT

[ ] 11. DISTRIBUTED SEMANTIC MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
[ ] 12. FORMAL METHODS FOR BROADBAND MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
[ ] 13. VIDEO INDEXING, BROWSING AND RETRIEVAL

TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1997: 6:30 pm:

WELCOME RECEPTION AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION AND
"ATM INTERACTIVE DANSE DEMO FROM GERMANY TO OTTAWA", sponsored by
Newbridge and Siemens

TECHNICAL PROGRAM
(see Web site for details on the 71 papers in three parallel session streams)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1997

KEYNOTE ADDRESS (9:00-10:30)

"Hyper-Communication: Toward the Creation of New Media for the
Information Network"
Dr Ryohei Nakatsu President ATR Media Integration & Communications
Research Laboratories
Kyoto, JAPAN

Session 1: Communication Protocols I (11:00-12:30)
Session 2: Video Servers I (11:00-12:30)
Session 3: Music and Distributed Cinema (11:00-12:30)
Session 4: Communication Protocols II (14:00-15:30)
Session 5: Video Servers II (14:00-15:30)
Session 6: Video Content Processing (14:00-15:30)
Session 7: Communication Protocols III (16:00-17:30)
Session 8: Video Servers III (16:00-17:30)
Session 9: Video and Audio Content Analysis (16:00-17:30)

THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1997

Session 10: Models for Multimedia Presentations (9:00-10:30)
Session 11: Video Servers IV (9:00-10:30)
Session 12: Editing MPEG Streams (9:00-10:30)
Session 13: Quality of Service (11:00-12:30)
Session 14: Multimedia Database Systems (11:00-12:30)
Session 15: Still Image Content Processing I (11:00-12:30)
Session 16: Multimedia Synchronization I (14:00-15:30)
Session 17: Operating System Support for Multimedia I (14:00-15:30)
Session 18: Still Image Content Processing II (14:00-15:30)
Session 19: Multimedia Synchronization II (16:00-17:30)
Session 20: Operating System Support for Multimedia II (16:00-17:30)
Session 21: Coding and Compression (16:00-17:30)

FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1997
Session 22: Multimedia Applications (9:00-10:30)
Session 23: Hypermedia Systems (9:00-10:30)
Session 24: Virtual Reality (9:00-10:30)
Closing Panel (11:00-12:30)

POSTER SESSION (WEDNESDAY , JUNE 4 and THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1997)

(Includes 40 poster presentations, see web site for details)

FOR REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFO

http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/ICMCS97.html

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More information may be obtained from :

Prof. Nicolas D. Georganas
General Conference Chair
Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab)
School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE)
University of Ottawa
Tel: (613) 562-5800 x 6225
Fax: (613) 562-5175
e-mail: georgana@mcrlab.uottawa.ca

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