Subject: Packet Video'99 First Call for Papers

From: Andrea Basso <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 21:54:31 -0500

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Andrea Basso
Senior Technical Staff Member 
AT&T Labs - Research
Room 3-219, 100 Schultz Drive, Red Bank, NJ  07701
tel:+1 732 345 3302 fax:+1 732 345 3033
E-mail: [email-masked]
WWW   : http://www.research.att.com/info/basso
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Packet Video '99 
The 9th International Packet Video Workshop 
26-27 April 1999 
New York City, U.S.A
http://www.research.att.com/~mrc/PacketVideo99.html 
 
Sponsored by: AT&T, Columbia University, EURASIP
(tentative list) 

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The ninth International Packet Video Workshop (PV' 99) will be held at
the Davis auditorium, of Columbia University in New York City. The
workshop is devoted to presenting technological advancements and
innovations in video transmission over packet networks, in particular,
the Internet. Packet Video Workshops have been unique in providing a
common ground for people from video coding and networking fields.
Presentations on theory and practice, standards activities, and
business and consumer applications are encouraged.

We cordially invite you to take part in this workshop by submitting
your work and look forward to seeing you in New York City in April
1999 for what will be a most rewarding and exciting experience!  

PV'99 is scheduled to take place in the week following Picture Coding
Symposium 99 (PCS' 99)  which is being held in Portland Oregon, on
21-23 April 1999. For information on  PCS'99 please contact:
[email-masked]

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TECHNICAL PROGRAM 

The technical program of Packet Video '99 will consist of invited
talks, submitted paper presentations, poster sessions and a plenary
session: "After Internet Telephony, Internet Television..."

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Video streaming over the Internet
Network adaptive video coding and transport
Packetized video for home LAN's
Packetized video for wireless/mobile systems
Layered coding for error resilience and heterogeneous networks
Packet loss resilient coding and transport 
Terminal and server architectures for Internet TV
Efficient transcoding for heterogeneous networks 
Congestion control
Error concealment
Statistical multiplexing for greater network and terminal utilization
Traffic shaping for efficient network and terminal utilization 
Interstream synchronization for multiple video presentations 
Performance modeling and evaluation
Rate control for VBR video
International Standards: MPEG-4, MPEG-7, H.263+, RTP, RTSP, SIP, SDP
Multicasting, MBONE applications
Implementations and commercial applications

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Best Paper Award;

The author of the best paper will receive:
A $250 cash prize graciously donated by NEC USA, C&C Research
Laboratories.

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Please submit an electronic manuscript written in HTML, not exceeding
7 Mbytes and 10 printed pages. We will produce a CD-ROM containing the
accepted papers. Electronic components accompanying your submission
are strongly encouraged.

Submit your work in ONE of the following forms: 

1) a set of HTML files organized in a single directory OR
2) as a URL (you must have the rights to all the material there,
and guarantee stability of the files until the conference).

to:

[email-masked]

Detailed instructions for authors and help with manuscript preparation
with HTML can be found on the conference web page:
http://www.research.att.com/~mrc/PacketVideo99.html 

ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED no later than: December 15th, 1998, 
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: February 1, 1999
FINAL PAPERS DUE: March 15, 1999 

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GENERAL CHAIR
M. Reha Civanlar
AT&T Labs - Research
100 Schultz Drive, 3-213
Red Bank, NJ 07701
USA
[email-masked]

PUBLICATION & LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Andrea Basso
AT&T Labs - Research
100 Schultz Drive, 3-219
Red Bank, NJ 07701
USA
[email-masked]

PACKET VIDEO' 99 INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE

John  Arnold, 		University of New South Wales,	Australia
Andrea Basso, 		AT&T Labs - Research,		USA
Stephen Casner, 	Precept Software,		USA
Shih-Fu Chang, 		Columbia University,		USA
Leonardo Chiariglione, 	CSELT,				Italy
M. Reha Civanlar, 	AT&T Labs - Research,		USA
Jon Crowcroft, 		University College of London,	UK
Mohammed  Ghanbari, 	University of Essex,		UK
Barry G. Haskell, 	AT&T Labs - Research,		USA
Steven McCanne, 	U. C. Berkeley,			USA
Geoff Morrison,		BT Labs,			UK
Joerg Ott, 		University of Bremen,		Germany
Sakae Okubo, 		Graphics Communication Labs,	Japan
D. Raychaudhuri, 	NEC Research,			USA
Amy  Reibman, 		AT&T Labs - Research,		USA
Henning Schulzrinne, 	Columbia University,		USA
Gary  Sullivan, 	PictureTel,			USA
Toshitaka Tsuda, 	Fujitsu,			Japan
Thierry  Turletti, 	INRIA,				France
Stephan Wenger, 	Technical University of Berlin,	Germany
Hiroshi Yasuda, 	NTT,				Japan