Packet Video 99 Call for Papers

[Andrea Basso <basso@research.att.com>]

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Andrea Basso
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AT&T Labs - Research
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				CALL FOR PAPERS

				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 
		In Europe: http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/turletti/pv99/
 
Sponsored by: AT&T, Columbia University, EURASIP,
IEEE Signal Processing Society IMDSP & MMSP Technical Committees 

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:
pcs@pcs.ece.orst.edu

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

Best Paper Award: The author of the best paper will receive: A $250 cash prize graciously donated by NEC USA, C&C Research Laboratories.
Manuscripts submitted to PV'99 will be considered for publication in the special issue of EURASIP Journal Signal Processing: Image Communication, REAL-TIME VIDEO OVER THE INTERNET also.

Submissions
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:           pv99-submissions@research.att.com

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 



GENERAL CHAIR 				PUBLICATION & LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
M. Reha Civanlar 			Andrea Basso
AT&T Labs - Research			AT&T Labs - Research
100 Schultz Drive, 3-213                100 Schultz Drive, 3-219
Red Bank, NJ 07701                      Red Bank, NJ 07701
USA 					USA
civanlar@research.att.com               basso@research.att.com

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