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                 3rd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
        VIDEO PROCESSING AND MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
                        VIPromCom-2001
                       13-15 June 2001
             Borik Hotel Complex, Zadar, Croatia
                  http://www.vcl.fer.hr/vip/


                       CALL FOR PAPERS


The 3rd International Symposium on Video Processing and Multimedia
Communications (VIPromCom-2001), will be held in Borik Hotel Complex,
in the beautiful old town of Zadar on the Croatian Adriatic coast.
VIPromCom-2001 is sponsored by EURASIP, IEEE Region 8 *, IEEE Croatia
Section and University of Zagreb. The aim of the VIPromCom-2001 is to
cover selected aspects of video and image processing theory and its
applications, as well as advances in multimedia communications, and
to be an international forum for presentation and discussion of advances
in the field and new perspective research areas. VIPromCom-2001 scientific
program will consist of invited lectures and oral presentations on new
research results. Papers describing original work would be welcome in
the areas listed below. All papers will be peer reviewed and acceptance
will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Accepted papers will
be published in the VIPromCom-2001 Proceedings that will be distributed
to the participants at the symposium.


TOPICS

- Image and Video Processing
- Image and Video Coding
- Image Scanning, Display and Printing
- Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Watermarking and Encryption
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Standards and Related Issues
- Multimedia Signal Processing
- Multimedia Databases
- Multimedia and DTV Technologies
- Multimedia Applications
- Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
- Video Streaming and Videoconferencing
- Broadband Mobile Technology
- Transport Protocols


INVITED PAPERS:

Dr. Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary Univ of London, UNITED KINGDOM:
Efficient Hierarchical Video Indexing and Retrieval

Professor Paul Dan Cristea, "Politehnica" Univ of Bucharest, ROMANIA:
Time Series Prediction with Wavelet Neural Networks

Professor Ryszard Stasinski, Poznan University of Technology, POLAND:
Shape-Adaptive Transforms for Image Coding, an Overview


SUBMISSION

To submit proposal prepare a full paper (four pages).
Paper submission (tree-copies) must be sent by regular
post to the VIPromCom-2001 program co-chair:

Dr Mislav Grgic
VIPromCom-2001
FER, Unska 3 / XII
HR-10000 Zagreb
CROATIA


SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper (four pages) submission to be received by: February 02, 2001
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: March 25, 2001
Camera-ready paper to be received by: April 13, 2001
Preliminary program sent to authors by: April 29, 2001
Registration deadline (Reg Fee ~ 250 DEM): May 18, 2001


SPONSORED BY

EURASIP
IEEE Region 8 *
IEEE Croatia Section
University of Zagreb

* approval pending


GENERAL CHAIR

Branka Zovko-Cihlar
University of Zagreb, Croatia


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Sonja Grgic
University of Zagreb, Croatia

Mislav Grgic
University of Zagreb, Croatia
mgrgic@ieee.org


INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Paul Cristea, Romania
Zarko Cucej, Slovenia
Anthony Davies, UK
Marek Domanski, Poland
Marko Jagodic, Slovenia
Kalman Fazekas, Hungary
Janus Filipiak, Poland
Borko Furht, USA
Mohammed Ghanbari, UK
Sonja Grgic, Croatia
Ebroul Izquierdo, UK
Andy Kucar, Canada
Panos Liatsis, UK
Basil G. Mertzios, Greece
Pavol Podhradsky, Slovakia
Karolj Skala, Croatia
Franc Solina, Slovenia
Ryszard Stasinski, Poland
Jan Turan, Slovak Republic
Krzysztof Wajda, Poland
Branka Zovko-Cihlar, Croatia


CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr Mislav Grgic
VIPromCom-2001
FER, Unska 3 / XII
HR-10000 Zagreb
CROATIA

Telephone: + 385 1 6129 851
Facsimile: + 385 1 6129 717
E-mail: mgrgic@ieee.org


PLEASE VISIT VIPromCom WEB-SITE

http://www.vcl.fer.hr/vip/