Fw: Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Multimedia

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> Call for Papers
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> Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Multimedia (PDM)
> In conjunction with International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)
'06
>
> 35th Annual Conference, 2006 International Conference on Parallel
> Processing (ICPP 2006)
>
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<http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/%7Eicpp06/>http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~icp
p06/
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> Columbus, Ohio, USA, August 14, 2006
> Scope and Interests
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> Multimedia systems using images, video, audio, graphics, and text are now
> essential to our daily lives. Several emerging multimedia applications,
> such as massive video and image data management, multimedia data mining
and
> retrieval, object recognition, medical aids, etc. require massive
computing
> power, which can only be met through parallel and distributed computing.
> These applications are leading to diverse and innovative research in
> parallel and distributed algorithms, architectures, and systems. Such
> research endeavors have been a subject of prolific research over the past
> two decades and continue to do so. The extensive amount of data present in
> images and videos contain inherent parallelism prompting researchers and
> practitioners to exploit parallel and distributed computing. This workshop
> seeks to consolidate the recent research achievements in developing new
> theories, algorithms, architectures, systems and integrated multimedia
> platforms that exploit parallel and distributed computing.
> Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
> * Multimedia Data Management:
> * Efficient data collection, multimedia databases, and aggregation
from
> heterogeneous sensors;
> * Image and Video Mining:
> * Learning and representation of image and video data, taxonomy and
> ontology of perimeter security events;
> * Parallel and Distributed Video Surveillance:
> * Unsupervised detection of surveillance events, categorization,
> analysis and retrieval of wide-area multiple cameras surveillance videos;
> * Distributed Multimedia Sensor Fusion:
> * Information fusion through a network of biometric sensors and metal
> detectors, and transformation using image and video fusion;
> * Parallel Algorithms and Systems for Efficient Object tracking:
> * Tracking of humans and objects with location-aware and context-aware
> computing;
> * Distributed Multimedia Agents:
> * Exploit agent technology and pervasive computing to carry out
> distributed, real-time collaboration among software agents using
multimedia
> data;
> * Motion-based video retrieval:
> * Parallel algorithms for visual motion descriptors, models for
> motion-based retrieval, matching motion trajectories, meta data,
annotation
> tools and mark up languages;
> * Multimedia Systems on a Grid:
> * Exploiting distributed grids and clusters for multimedia information
> creation, collection, and dissemination.
> * Parallel Video Compression and Processing:
> * Algorithms for video and image compression and decompression.
> * Parallel Architectures:
> * Servers, ASICS (Application Specific Architectures) and
> reconfigurable media architectures exploiting SIMD and MIMD concepts.
> Important Dates
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> Submission Deadline February 20, 2006
> Final Copy Due May 20, 2006
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> Workshop Organizer
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> <http://ranger.uta.edu/%7Eiahmad>Ishfaq Ahmad
> <http://www.cse.uta.edu>Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
> 248 Nedderman Hall, 416 Yates Street,
> <http://www.uta.edu>University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19015
> Arlington, TX 76019. Ph: 817-272-1526;
> <mailto:iahmad@cse.uta.edu>iahmad@cse.uta.edu
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> Committe
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> Shoukat Ali University of Columbia at Rolla
> Suchi Bhandharkar University of Georgia
> Hesham El-Rewini Southern Methodist University
> Kamal Karlapalem Int l Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad,
India
> Ashraf Kassim National University of Singapore
> Ashfaq Khokhar University of Illinois at Chicago
> Yu-Kwong Kwok University of Hong Kong
> Jack Lee Chinese University of Hong Kong
> Qing Li City University of Hong Kong
> John Lui Chinese University of Hong Kong
> Yu Su University of Central Arkansas
> R. Vaidyanathan Louisiana State University
> Bharadwaj Veeravalli National University of Singapore
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Received on Wed Nov 16 10:17:20 2005