MPIS-08 Call for Papers

Multimedia technologies and intelligent computing are emerging rapidly as an exciting paradigm including multimedia signal processing, information hiding, evolutionary computing such as neural network and fuzzy theory to enable the process of creating applications of intelligent computing in multimedia for various domains. This workshop on Multimedia, Information Privacy and Intelligent Computing Systems is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of multimedia and intelligent computing including multimedia signal processing, information security, soft computing such as neural network, fuzzy theory and genetic algorithm, and novel applications of intelligent computing in multimedia. As a follow-up to the workshop, we plan to publish high quality papers, covering the various theories and practical applications related to multimedia and intelligent computing. The published papers are expected to present high level results to solve the application services and various problems in the multimedia and intelligent computing fields. In addition, we expect they will trigger further related research and technological improvements of the multimedia and intelligent computing. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems, and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of Information Technology as related to multimedia and the applications of intelligent computing in multimedia.

Proceedings: With regard to the papers submitted to MPIS-08, all accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed by EI).

We invite new and original submissions addressing theoretical and practical topics in information technology and intelligent computing fields including (but not limited to these topics): - Multimedia Signal Processing - Multimedia source coding and channel coding - Multimedia signal analysis and visualization - Multimedia signal mining and data fusion - Multimedia/multimodal signals interpretation and automatic recognition - Multimedia databases and retrievals - Multimedia hyperlink techniques and applications - Advances in multimedia content description interface (e.g. MPEG-7) - Advances in multimedia framework: (e.g. MPEG-21) - Advances in multimedia framework: (e.g. MPEG-21) - Systems engineering and development for multimedia systems - Enabling technologies and emerging standards for multimedia applications Information Privacy and Security Applications - Data/image authentication issues and access control themes - Watermarking: techniques, attacks, protocols, applications - Steganography and steganalysis: techniques, protocols, applications - Cryptography and cryptanalysis: techniques, protocols, applications - Visual cryptography - Forensic analysis and tracing traitors - Digital rights management and legal aspect - RFID security and home network privacy - Platform integrity and trusted computing - Systems engineering and development for imaging hiding & security - VLSI/ASIC/FPGA/SOC design and implementation for information hiding & security - Enabling technologies and emerging standards for information hiding & security Intelligent Computing - Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis -Artificial neural networks for multimedia processing: models, learning paradigms, architectures, and implementations - Fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing for intelligent multimedia processing - Intelligence-related knowledge discovery - Applications of digital library technologies in intelligence data processing, preservation, sharing, and analysis - Agents and collaborative systems for intelligence sharing - Information sharing policy and governance - Intelligence-computerized community security and surveillance system

The complete list of topics will be updated some times later. Please check MPIS'08 home page at http://mpis08.ialab.cs.pu.edu.tw/mpis08/ Important Dates: Submission of Papers: July 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2008 Submission of the camera ready: September 1, 2008 Workshop Dates: December 9 to 10, 2008 Submission and Publications: Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee.

The organizing committee of MPIS-08 : General Co-chairs ---------------------------------- Chin-Chen Chang (IEEE Fellow, Feng Chia University, Taiwan) Jin-Fa Tsai (IEEE Fellow, Asia University, Taiwan)

Program Co-chairs ---------------------------------- Shiuh-Jeng Wang (Central Police University, Taiwan) Chia-Chen Lin (Providence University, Taiwan)

Publicity Co-chairs ---------------------------------- Jeng-Shyang Pan (National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan) Zhe-Ming Lu (Sun Yat-Sen University, China) Jim-Min Lin (Feng Chia University, Taiwan)

Local Organizing Chair ---------------------------------- Der-Chyuan Lou (Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, Taiwan) Chin-Feng Lee (Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan)

Program Committee ---------------------------------- Paulo Pedreiras (University of Aveiro, Portugal) Marco Aiello (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Kuiyu Chang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Kazuto OGAWA (Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan) Noël Crespi (Institut TELECOM SudParis, France) Jeng-Shyang Pan (National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan) Xiaofeng Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China) Neil Bergmann (The University of Queensland, Australia) Mei-Ling Shyu (University of Miami, USA) Der-Chyuan Lou (National Defense University, Taiwan) Harry Wechsler (George Mason University, USA) Haipeng Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China) Pilar Herrero (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Vladimir Estivill-Castro (Griffith University, Australia) Tony Shan (IBM Corp, USA) Zhe-Ming Lu (Sun Yat-Sen University, China) Stefanos Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece) Yufeng Wang (National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan) Fevzi Belli, (University of Paderborn, Germany) Chin-Laung Lei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Iuon-Chang Lin (Nat'l Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Narn-Yih Lee, (Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Taiwan) Isabelle Simplot-Ryl (CNRS UMR, Univ. Lille 1, France) Rodrigo de Mello(University of Sao Paulo, Brazil ) Biplab K. Sarker (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada) Bo Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) Hsien-Chu Wu (National Taichung Institute of Technology, Taiwan) Xinpeng Zhang (Shanghai University, China) Kwok-Yan Lam (Tsinghua University, China) Jiwu Huang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China) Jordi Forne Munoz (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Chwei-Shyong Tsai (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Frode Eika Sandnes (Oslo University College, Norway) Ing-Ray Chen (Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), USA) Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta, Canada) Jemal Abawajy (Deakin University, Australia) Geyong Min (University of Bradford, UK) Yong Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, China) Hsiang-Cheh Huang (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Clement Leung (Victoria University, Australia) Sander Stuijk (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) Wei-Bin Lee (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) Mingchu Li (Dalian University of Technology, China) Ali Shahrabi (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) Jinn-Ke Jan (Nat'l Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Hongli Luo (Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA) Li Li (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China) Yao Zhao (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) Damien Sauveron (University of Limoges, France) Bin Luo (Anhui University, China) Fang-Hsuan Cheng (Chung Hua University ,Taiwan) Shu-Ching Wang (Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan) Willy Susilo (University of Wollongong, Australia) Min-Shiang Hwang (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Konstantinos Markantonakis (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) Ioannis G. Askoxylakis (FORTH -ICS, Greece) Jau-Ling Shih (Chung Hua University, Taiwan) Mike Burmester (Florida State University, USA) Cheng-Hsing Yang (National Pingtung University of Education, Taiwan) Chung-Huang Yang (National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan) Ching-Nung Yang (National Dong Hwa University Shoufeng, Taiwan) Jonathan C.L. Liu (University of Florida, USA) Jing-Jang Hwang (Chang-Gung University, Taiwan) Ren-Junn Hwang (Tamkang University, Taiwan) Jau-Hwang Wang (Central Police University, Taiwan) Wen-Shenq Juang (National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan) Xiamu Niu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) Javier Silvestre (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) Zhi-Ping Zhou (Jiangnan University, China) Paris Avgeriou (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Luis Javier Garcia Villalba (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Kouichi SAKURAI (Kyushu University, Japan) Marc Lacoste (France Télécom R&D / Orange Labs, France) Bosheng Zhou (Queen’s University of Belfast, UK)