Special Announcement
First of all, thank you very much for your participation in ICME 2009. ICME 2009 has been in production for 3 years. The 4 multimedia technical communities work together for this common goal and provide high-quality programs/workshops. We have good quality papers with 22% of oral acceptance rate and 33% of poster acceptance rate. We have been looking for ways to mix regular IEEE SP/CAS/ComSoc short papers with the low-acceptance-rate CS style papers by adding plenary paper presentations. Five additional workshops and nine tutorials will be of great benefit to our participants. All of us are looking forward to this exciting event. But, as you know, we are facing a critical problem.
Unfortunately, the A H1N1 flu outbreak in Mexico is a significant challenge. We conducted a poll on May 4th and 5th to our 400 registrants. 294 out of 400 responded to the poll. Among the respondents, 58% said they were facing travel ban to Mexico by their country, company, or both. 56% said they will not or unlikely go to Cancun in June. Because of personal health, many people showed their strong concern on traveling to Cancun in the foreseeable future.
We take this signal seriously and put the health concern of our participants as the first priority.
Based on IEEE's experience and the survey we conducted, moving dates is not an option. Comparing this situation to the SARS impact on ICASSP 2003, which happened 2 weeks before the conference, we have "just-enough" time to respond. Therefore, cancelation is not an option, either. In a joint meeting on May 11th between the organization committee and the IEEE, a consensus was reached:
ICME 2009 will be in New York City. See the plan.
The conference venue of ICME 2009 is confirmed in the Waldorf=Astoria hotel, New York City. Reserve your rooms in the Waldorf=Astoria.
>>The bullets of why moving out of Cancun?
Announcement
- ACM Multimedia 2009 TPC Meeting & MM Workshop schedules updated. (06/24/2009)
- The ICME 2009 is confirmed in the Waldorf=Astoria hotel, New York. Please reserve your rooms. (05/29/2009)
- The preliminary program for ICME2009 program-at-glance, main conference, and workshop programs, and paper search are posted. (05/11/2009)
- Student travel grant winners are announced.
- The conference registration is open and the tentative technical program is also available.
- See Travel & Visa if you need an invitation letter for visa application
General Information
Being a major annual international multimedia conference, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2009) serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applications. ICME 2009 is co-sponsored by four IEEE societies (the Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society, the Circuits and Systems Society, and the Communications Society). Note that ICME is hosted for the first time in Latin America, and specially welcomes paper submissions from the region.
Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column format including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Please visit the ICME 2009 website, www.icme09.org for the instructions to submit papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to:
- Audio, image, video processing
- Signal processing for media integration
- Virtual reality and 3-D imaging
- Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction
- Multimedia Communications and networking
- Multimedia security and content protection
- Multimedia databases
- Multimedia computing systems and appliances
- Multimedia analysis and social media on the Internet
- Hardware and software for multimedia systems
- Multimedia standards and related issues
- Multimedia applications
Download PDF version of this call for paper.
Awards
A number of Awards generously sponsored by industry and academic institutions will be presented to the Best Papers / Best Student Papers at the conference.
Several student travel awards will be issued to support student travel. Each award will be up to $500.
Student Travel Awards
Thanks to the sponsorship from IBM, HP and Huawei, ICME will make several $500 awards to support student travel to attend ICME 2009 in Cancun.
Any full-time student in good standing is eligible to apply this award. Top priority will be given to students who are the first authors presenting papers at the meeting. Only students traveling more than 100 miles to the meetings are eligible for the awards. Selection of awards will be based on, but not limit to, this order of presentation types: oral presentation of plenary paper, oral presentation of regular paper (including special sessions & workshops), poster presentation of regular paper, and demo presentation.
The ICME 2009 Organizing Committee is happy to annouce the winners of our student travel award. Congratulations to all of them!
- Shuixian Chen, Wuhan University, China
- Jim Kleban, University of California at Santa Barbra, U.S.
- Derek Pang, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Rahul Malik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.
- Pei-Kuei Tsung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Dau-Cheng Lyu, Chang-Gung University, Taiwa
Conference Venue - The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel
The Waldorf=Astoria, the renowned New York luxury hotel in midtown Manhattan, offers elegant accommodations and amenities including boutiques, restaurants and banquet facilities. The Waldorf=Astoria is the embodiment of luxury and splendor. An official New York City landmark since 1993, this legendary Art Deco treasure occupies an entire city block on fashionable Park Avenue, and has completed renovations totaling in excess of $300 million. The hotel is walking distance to Radio City Music... more