Call for Paper Conference

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IMPORTANT DATE
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1 June 2009: Paper Submission
1 June 2009: Proposal for Special Session and Tutorial
1 Aug 2009: Notification of Acceptance
22 Aug 2009: Camera-Ready Paper


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OVERVIEW
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Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. The10th PCM conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, a vibrant South-East Asian city. The technical program will feature opening keynote addresses, invited plenary talks, tutorials, special sessions, and technical presentations of refereed papers.

Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following tracks:

1. Multimedia analysis and retrieval
2. Multimedia security rights and management
3. Multimedia compression and optimization
4. Multimedia communication and networking
5. Multimedia systems and applications.

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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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The Proceedings of PCM2009 will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, by Springer. Submitted paper should not be more than 10 pages using the LNCS template.

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SPECIAL ISSUE
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Selected high quality papers will be published in a special issue of Journal of Signal Processing Systems (JSPS).

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HONORARY CHAIRS
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Chidchanok Lursinsap, Chulalongkorn University Ling Guan, Ryerson University

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CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
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Athikom Roeksabutr, Mahanakorn U. of Tech.
Xiaoou Tang, Microsoft Research Asia
Mark Liao, IIS Academia Sinica

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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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Kumazawa Itsuo, Tokyo Institute of Technology Paisarn Muneesawang, Naresuan University Feng Wu, Microsoft Research Asia