pv2000 call for papers

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                         PACKET VIDEO 2000
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           The 10th International Packet Video Workshop
                            
                            1-2 May 2000
            Forte Village Resort, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
                   http://www.diee.unica.it/pv2000/

     ********** Submission Date Extended to December 31 **********
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 PV 2000 will be held in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, at the Forte
 Village Resort near Cagliari (Sardinia island), Italy. The workshop is
 devoted to present technological advancements and innovations in video
 communications over packet networks, in particular, the Internet.
 PVs 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 welcoming you in Sardinia in May 2000
 for what will be a rewarding and exciting experience!
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 SUBMISSIONS

 Please submit an electronic manuscript written in Word or HTML,
 not exceeding 10 printed pages. We will produce a CD-ROM (pdf
 format) containing all the accepted papers.
 Please note that the author of the best paper will receive a $250 
 prize and a diploma suitable for framing. 
 Additionally, SELECTED PAPERS ARE LIKELY TO BE PUBLISHED, AFTER REVISION,
 IN THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS:
 - European Transactions on Telecommunications
 - Image Communication

 DEADLINES
 Paper submission: DECEMBER 31, 1999, 
 Notification of acceptance: February 29, 2000
 Final paper delivery: March 31, 2000 

 SUBMISSIONS PROCEDURES
 Submit your work in a Word document OR a set of HTML 
 files organized in a single directory to: pv2000@diee.unica.it
 Detailed instructions for authors and help with manuscript
 preparation can be found on the conference web page.
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 GENERAL CHAIRS:
 Francesco G.B. De Natale, University of Trento, Italy
 Daniel D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, Italy

 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
 Leonardo Chiariglione, CSELT, Italy
 Maurizio Dècina, Cefriel and Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (members):
 John Arnold, Univ. New South Wales, Australia
 Andrea Basso, AT&T, USA
 Stephen Casner, CISCO, USA
 Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, USA
 M. Reha Civanlar, AT&T, USA
 Jon Crowcroft, Univ. College London, UK
 Edward Delp, Purdue Univ., USA
 Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland
 Mohamed Ghanbari, Univ. Essex, UK
 Barry G. Haskell, AT&T, USA
 Yu Hen Hu, Univ. Wisconsin, USA
 Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern Univ., USA
 Jae-Kyoon Kim, Kaist, Korea
 Faouzi Kossentini, Univ. British Columbia, Canada
 C.-C. Jay Kuo, Univ. Southern California, USA
 Steven McCanne, U.C. Berkeley, USA
 James Modestino, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
 Geoff Morrison, BT, UK
 Hans-Georg Musmann, TU Hannover, Germany
 Naohisa Ohta, Sony, Japan
 Sakae Okubo, Telecommunications Adv. Org., Japan
 Joerg Ott, Univ. Bremen, Germany
 Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superiore Técnico, Portugal
 Majid Rabbani, Eastman Kodak, USA
 Amy Reibman, AT&T, USA
 Philippe Salembier, UPC, Spain
 Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia Univ., USA
 Gary Sullivan, Microsoft, USA
 A. Murat Tekalp, Univ. Rochester, USA
 Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France
 Stephan Wenger, TU Berlin, Germany
 John Woods, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
 Hiroshi Yasuda, Tokyo Univ., Japan

 PUBLICATIONS AND DEMOS:
 Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy 
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 TECHNICAL PROGRAM

 The technical program of Packet Video 2000 will consist of invited
 talks, submitted paper presentations, poster sessions and demos. 
 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 Video processing and transmission
 Video streaming over the Internet
 Network adaptive video coding and transport
 Packetized video for home LANs
 Packetized video for wireless/mobile systems
 Packet video protocols and storage formats
 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
 Pre and post-processing for picture quality enhancement
 Statistical multiplexing for greater network and terminal utilization
 Traffic shaping for efficient network and terminal utilization 
 Interstream synchronization for multiple video presentations 
 Packet network performance modeling and evaluation
 Rate control for VBR video
 Standards: MPEG4, MPEG7, H.26L, H.323, RTP, RTSP, SIP, SDP
 Multicasting, MBONE applications
 Implementations and commercial applications
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 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

 PV2000 Organizing Committee
 Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 University of Cagliari
 Piazza d'Armi
 09123 Cagliari, Italy
 pv2000@diee.unica.it