Purpose of Workshop
The purpose of this workshop is to provide an international forum for the discussion of video representation and coding techniques being developed for MPEG-4, MPEG-7, and beyond. Applications include videophone, teleconferencing and telecollaboration, video over ATM, wireless, and the Internet, interactive multimedia databases, remote sensing and surveillance, and communication aids for the hearing impaired. To focus discussions, we have selected as the main theme of this workshop: Visual Content Analysis and Coding. Topics of special interest include
To facilitate the exchange of ideas and to maximize discussion, the
workshop will consist of a number of invited panels. Contributed papers
will be presented as posters.
Time and Venue of Workshop
This two-day workshop is scheduled right after the IEEE International
Conference on Image Processing, Chicago; and will be held at the Beckman
Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. The tentative schedule is available from here.
International Steering Committee
Kiyo Aizawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Leonardo Chiariglione, CSELT, Italy
Nariman Farvardin, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Robert Forchheimer, Linköping Univ., Sweden
Barry Haskell, AT&T Research Labs, USA
Yoshimori Hatori, KDD, Japan
Thomas Huang (Chair), Univ. of Illinois, USA
Nikil Jayant, Lucent Tech. Bell Labs, USA
Murat Kunt, EPFL, Switzerland
Michael Lee, Univ. of Western Australia, Australia
Hans Musmann, Univ. of Hannover, Germany
Don Pearson, Univ. of Essex, UK
Fernando Pereira, Inst. Sup. Tec., Portugal
Philippe Salembier, Univ. Poli. Cata., Spain
Ibrahim Sezan, Sharp Labs, USA
Peter Stucki, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland
"Digital Video: From VLBR to High Definition - Technologies, Standards,
and Markets"
Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang
Director, Multimedia Technology Laboratory
Sarnoff Corporation
Panel Topics:
| Panel 1 - | Image/video feature extraction and segmentation |
| B. Manjunath, UC Santa Barbara (chair) | |
| Munchurl Kim, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute | |
| Murat Kunt, EPFL | |
| Narendra Ahuja, U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| Atul Puri , AT&T Labs - Research | |
| Panel 2 - | Video representation, coding, indexing |
| Wayne Wolf, Princeton U. (chair) | |
| S. Panchanathan, Arizona State U. | |
| Fernando Perira, Tech. Inst., Lisbon | |
| Murat Tekalp, U. Rochester | |
| Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia U. | |
| Panel 3 - | 3D modeling (inc. face) and VR |
| Robert Forchheimer, Linkoping U. (chair) | |
| Eric Petajan, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs | |
| Joern Ostermann, AT&T Labs-Research | |
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Keith Waters, Compaq Cambridge Research
Lab
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| Panel 4 - | Applications |
| HongJiang Zhang, HP Labs (chair) | |
| Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research | |
| Behzad Shahraray, AT&T Labs-Research | |
| Ibrahim Sezan, Sharp Labs of America | |
| Ya-Qin Zhang, Sarnoff Corp. | |
| Panel 5 - | MPEG-7 issues |
| Ibrahim Sezan, Sharp Labs of America (chair) | |
| V. V. Vinod, KRDL | |
| Adam Lindsay, Riverland Research | |
| Philippe Salembier, UPC | |
| H. J. Zhang, HP Labs
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Prospective contributors are invited to submit for consideration 4 copies of a summary of at least 2 pages and no more than 4 pages to:
Email: mohammad@ifp.uiuc.edu
| Paper submission | May 1, 1998 |
| Notification of acceptance | June 15, 1998 |
| Camera-ready paper, 4 pages | September 1, 1998 |
Registration and Registration Fee
All participants must register for the workshop. Registration is limited to 100. The registration of participants who are neither panelists nor poster presenters will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. The deadline is June 22, 1998.
The registration fee is $250 ($150 for students). Checks must be made out to the University of Illinois. (We cannot accept credit cards.)
Please print out the registration form, fill it out, and mail it with your check to:
Email: jweaver@uiuc.edu
October 9-10 is a big 10 football weekend. All hotels will be filled.
Hotel reservation of VLBV attendees must be made by , 1998. For hotel information, please see here.