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Call for Participation
ACM Multimedia 2005 in Singapore, November 6-11, 2005 
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We are pleased to announce that ACM Multimedia 2005 will be held at
the Hilton Hotel, Singapore, from November 6-11.

We invite your participation in the premier annual multimedia
conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from
underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and
servers to networks to devices.

Conference website - http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/

Please distribute this as widely as possible. Subscribe/Remove
instructions can be found at the bottom of this email.

*** TECHNICAL PROGRAM -
http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/pdfdocs/draft-program.pdf

The technical program begins on Tuesday, October 8th, with an opening
plenary and keynote given by Kazumasa Enami, Director-General, Science
and Technical Research Laboratories, Japan Broadcasting Corporation.
The keynote is titled "The Future of Home Media."

The 3-day technical program includes:
  - 9 Technical sessions with talks from a wide variety of 
    multimedia disciplines
  - 2 Technical and Art Demonstration sessions
  - 3 Brave New Topic sessions
  - An evening Poster session with both technical and arts tracks
  - 2 Doctoral Symposium sessions
  - An Open Source Competition session
  - A Video Demonstration session

*** TUTORIAL PROGRAM -
http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/tutorialsparticipation.html

Three full-day and two half-day tutorials will be given over two days,
Sunday and Monday, Nov. 6-7. Tutorials include:

- Multimedia Collaboration and Human-Centered Multimedia Information
     Systems
- Peer-to-peer Multimedia
- Media Semantics and the Statistical Foundations for Understanding It
- Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): A Protocol for Supporting
     Multimedia in Next Generation Networks
- Multimedia Content Repurposing


*** WORKSHOPS - 

Six day-long workshops will be held on Friday and Saturday,
Nov. 10-11.  They include:

- Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005)
  http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~mir/ 

- Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN 2005)
  http://imagelab.ing.unimo.it/vssn05/

- Multimedia Service Composition (MSC 2005)
  http://www.l3s.de/msc05/

- Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences (CARPE 2005)
  http://research.microsoft.com/CARPE2005/

- Multimedia for Human Communication - From Capture to Convey (MHC 05)
  http://homepages.cwi.nl/~media/conferences/mhc05/mhc05.html

- Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming (P2MS 2005)
  http://mwnet.cs.ust.hk/P2Pstreaming2005/

*** REGISTRATION - http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/registration.html

Online registration is now open.  

*** TRAVEL - http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/singapore-general.html

*** INTERACTIVE ART EXHIBIT 

The 2nd ACM Multimedia Interactive Art Exhibition will take place at the
LASALLE-SIA Gallery, Singapore.

http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/artprogram.htm

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