Subject: 1997 Int. Workshop on Audio-Visual Services over Packet Networks (formerly Packet Video Workshop)

From: "M. Reha Civanlar" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:32:48 -0500

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
1997 International Workshop on Audio-Visual Services over Packet
Networks (AVSPN) (Formerly the International Workshop on Packet Video)

15-16 September 1997
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Sponsored by the Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical
Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

CONTACT: [email-masked], http://www.eee.rgu.ac.uk/AVSPN/

INTRODUCTION

For the past decade, the series of seven International Workshops on
Packet Video have provided the leading forum for discussion of the
field of video transport over packet networks. This is an important
and rapidly developing area and in recognition of this the Workshop
will be renamed in 1997.

The 1997 International Workshop on Audio-Visual Services over Packet
Networks (AVSPN) will be held in Aberdeen, Scotland in the week
following the 1997 Picture Coding Symposium in Berlin, Germany.
AVSPN97 aims to bring together experts in all aspects of audio/visual
communications for packet-based networks. With delivery of multimedia
over the Internet and ATM now a reality, the topics addressed at the
Workshop are extremely important to future developments in this area.
If you are involved or interested in this field, whether from
industry, research, academia or commerce, you are invited to
participate in AVSPN97.

The venue for AVSPN97 is the world-class Aberdeen Exhibition and
Conference Centre. Aberdeen is a vibrant city on the Scottish coast,
surrounded by the Highlands of Scotland. Aberdeen and the Scottish
countryside offer many opportunities for recreation and sightseeing
including magnificent scenery, historic castles, world-famous golf
courses and the only Malt Whisky Trail in the world ! Opportunities to
sample the local Scottish culture and to sight- see will be included
in the programme of activities for AVSPN97. Aberdeen is well-served
with air links to several major European cities. CALL FOR PAPERS

The Workshop will run as a single stream of oral and poster
presentations over two days. Prospective authors are invited to submit
for review 5 COPIES of a 1500-2000 word abstract of their paper.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: 

I. APPLICATIONS & SERVICES
o    Architectures and Systems
o    Software  
o    Wireless and Cellular Video

II. CODING & COMPRESSION
o    Layered Coding Techniques
o    Very Low Bitrate Packet Schemes
o    Error Impact and Concealment
o    Novel A/V Coding Techniques for Packet Networks
o    Compressed Domain Processing for Packet Network Applications

III. NETWORK PERFORMANCE
o    Performance Statistics for Modelling
o    A/V Traffic Estimation and Shaping
o    Congestion Monitoring and Control

IV. A/V TRANSPORT & OTHER PROTOCOLS
o    A/V transport over ATM Networks
o    A/V transport over the Internet
o    Quality of service
o    Resource reservations
o    Privacy and Security Aspects.

V.   HUMAN FACTORS
o    Quality metrics and measurements
o    Multimedia interactions over packet networks

DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSIONS:

   April 4, 1997        Submit 5 copies of 1500 to 2000-word abstracts
to
   the address below May 30, 1997         Notice of acceptance July
   11, 1997     Submit camera-ready manuscript

SUBMIT TO:

AVSPN97
c/o Iain Richardson
The Robert Gordon University
Schoolhill
Aberdeen AB10 1FR
United Kingdom

CONTACT DETAILS:

For any further information or to receive regular updates please
contact Iain Richardson at the address above or at: 
Telephone (+44) 1224 262400, Fax (+44) 1224 262444 
Email [email-masked]

An up-to-date Call for Proposals together with further information on
AVSPN97 can be found at: http://www.eee.rgu.ac.uk/AVSPN/

GENERAL CHAIR: Mohammed Ghanbari, University of Essex, UK

TECHNICAL CHAIR: Iain Richardson, Robert Gordon University, UK

STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

John Adams British Telecom Labs, UK
Dimitris Anastassiou Columbia University, USA
John Arnold UNSW, Australia
Michal Biggar Telstra, Australia 
Reha Civanlar AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Bernd Girod University of Erlangen, Germany
Gunnar Karlsson SICS, Sweden
Ming Liu HKUST, Hong Kong
Geoff Morrison British Telecom Labs, UK
Don Pearson University of Essex, UK
Amy  Reibman AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Ralf  Schaefer HHI, Germany
Bing Sheu University of Southern California, USA
Mischa Schwartz University of Columbia , USA
Ali Tabatabai Tektronix, USA
Martin Vetterli EPFL, Switzerland
Hiroshi Yasuda NTT, Japan
Yasuhiko Yasuda Wasada University, Japan

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International Workshop on Audio-Visual Services over Packet Networks
AVSPN97
15-16 September 1997
Email [email-masked]
Web http://www.eee.rgu.ac.uk/avspn/
Contact Iain E G Richardson
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
The Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen, UK
Tel +44 1224 262400
Fax +44 1224 262444
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