2002 ICME Meeting, August 27, Lausanne. Minutes for the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee Meeting at ICME 2002 in Lausanne Time and place: Tuesday August 27, 2002, at 13.00 to 14.30 at Copernic, on EPFL Campus. Participants: Sankar Basu, Tsuhan Chen, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Alexandros Elefther-iadis, Pascal Frossard, Sadaoki Furui, Antonio Ortega, Wan-Chi Siu, John Smith, John Sorensen, Xinhua Zhuang. I: Call to Order. II: Approval of Minutes of TC meeting at ICASSP'02, Orlando, FL, May 16, 2002. ANNEX 1. The minutes was approved. III: Reports. A. Officers report: John Sorensen (JAaS). Antonio Ortega and Pascal Frossard was applaused for completing an excel-lent technical program for ICME 2002. The coming three activities of the TC, which require major commitments of the TC members, will be concentrated on the 2002 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP’02 at US Virgin Islands Dec. 6-11, with General Co-Chairs Sadaoki Furui, Yun Q. Shi, and Tech. Program Co-Chairs Joern Ostermann, Xinhua Zhuang; and on ICASSP’03 Chaired by Wan-Chi Siu; and on the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2003, ICME’03, Baltimore, July 6-9, with General Chair Rama Chellappa and Tech. Program Chair K.J. Ray Liu. The schedules for submission of proposals for special sessions for ICASSP’03 and for ICME’03 are Sep. 13, and October 15, respectively. B. Report of MMSP'02: Sadaoki Furui, Joern Ostermann. Approx. 150 papers was submitted for MMSP’02. C. Report of ICME'02: Antonio Ortega, Sankar Basu, Pascal Frossard. There were 731 papers submitted for ICME’02 and 350 papers was accepted. There were 450 registered participants. D. Report of ICME'03: ANNEX 2, John Sorensen. Schedule for submission of proposals for special sessions at ICME’03 is Oct. 15, 2002, to Special Sessions Chair Yao Wang at yao@vision.poly.edu. E. Representatives to IEEE Multimedia Conference. No material. F. Representatives to IEEE Trans. on Multimedia Steering Committee. Tsuhan Chen (EIC of TMM) gave a concentrated review of the status of Trans-actions on Multimedia. The TMM is developing positively, though there is still a need for more associate editors. IV: Unfinished Business. A. Proposal for update of the MMSP EDICS ANNEX 3. It is proposed to vote for new EDICS by email according to the following schedule: By October 25, 2002: Submission of proposals for EDICS changes to JAaS at jaas@itu.dk. By October 28, 2002: Ballot with new EDICS circulated to the TC by email for voting. By November 30, 2002: Ballots received, and if the new EDICS are accepted they are forwarded to the SPS. B. Election of Vice Chair and New Members. It is proposed to use this schedule for election of vice chair and 8 new members for the MMSPTC. The terms for the members will start January 1, 2003. By October 25, 2002: Please submit one-page vita for candidates to either: K.J. Ray Liu kjrliu@eng.umd.edu John Aa. Sorensen, jaas@itu.dk By October 28, 2002: Membership ballot circulated to the TC by email for voting. By November 30, 2002. Membership ballots received by: K.J. Ray Liu kjrliu@eng.umd.edu John Aa. Sorensen, jaas@itu.dk Election result is finally confirmed at the MMSP'02 TC meeting. V: New Business. A. Election of nominations of major awards and paper awards. Results are circulated by email immediately after ICME’02. B. Endorsement of Proposal for Special Session on “Multimedia Security and Rights Management” at IEEE ICASSP 2003, Hong Kong, submitted by Min Wu and Mauro Barni, ANNEX 4. The proposal was endorsed. C. Endorsement of International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 24-25, 2003. Committee: T.S. Huang, Michael S. Lew, Nicu Sebe, Xiang Zhou, Shih-Fu Chang, John E. Smith, Erwin Bakker. ANNEX 5. The proposal was endorsed. D. Proposals for ICME’04: Xinhua Zhuang presented the proposal for ICME’04 in Beijing. ICME’04 Great Wall Sheraton Hotel, Beijing, China, Oct. 18-21, 2004. Committee: Xinhua Zhuang, Univ. of Missouri;, Xinggang Lin, Tsinghua Iniv. Beijing; Peter Prisch, Univ. of Hannover; Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Joern Ostermann, AT&T Labs Research; Yun Q. Shi, NJIT; Hongjiang Zhang, Microsoft Beijing. ICME’04 Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2-5, 2002. Committee: Der_Tsai Lee, Inst. Of Informaton Science, Academia Sinica, Nankang Taipei, Taiwan; Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia Univ.; Mark Liao, Inst. of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Nankang Taipei, Taiwan; Timothy K. Shih, Dept. of Inf. Eng., Tamkang Univ., Taipei, Taiwan; Ying-Hong Wang, Dept. Inf. Eng., Tamkang Univ. Taipei. VI: Adjournment. ANNEX 1: Minutes of MMSP TC meeting at ICASSP 02 , Orlando, FL on May 16, 2002. Participants: Michael Brandstein, Ling Guan, Thrasos Pappas, K.J.Ray Liu, Sadaoki Furui, Monty Hayes, Russ Mersereau, Antonio Ortega, Chin Lee, Tsuhan Chen, John Apostolopoulos, Michael Chan, Chalapaty Neti, S.Y.Kung, Jeng-Neng Hwang, Wan-Chi Siu, Min Wu, Joern Ostermann, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Sankar Basu, Amed Tewfik, Yu-Hen Hu, John Sorensen. 1) Members were introduced. 2) Approval of minutes of Cannes meeting. 3) Award recipients were congratulated 4) Election of 4 new members to take place before the meeting at ICME. Further discussion and subsequent election will be conducted by email. 5) Minor changes in EDICS will take place before ICME. Further discussion will be conducted by email. 6) Report on MMSP01 by Jean-Luc Dugelay: 19% surplus, 2 special sessions on a) Mobile MM, b) AV Processing. 7) Sadaoki Furui reported on MMSP02: Paper submission deadline postponed, 2 tutorial and 3 special sessions planned. 8) Report on ICME 2002 by Ortega: 700 submissions and 375 accepts. Need more area chairs in overcrowded areas e.g., MM database. 9) Report on ICME 2003 by Ray Liu: Gen (co)Chair is Rama Chellappa. CMS will get contract. 10) Report on MMSP conference committee by Sankar Basu. Separately attached (below). Suggestion was made by Tsuhan Chen that multiple ICME proposals for 2004 be consolidated. 11) Mauro Barni's proposal to hold MMSP 04 in Siena approved by vote. 12) Ling Guan still have to talk to University of Toronto for hosting a future MMSP/ICME. 13) EIC Tsuhan Chen announced that Transactions on TMM has established a best paper award. He also thought that the award should be given at ICME every year. He also reported on TMM status and its future directions. 14) New Business: a) Election of New business will be carried out until ICME 2002. b) Deadline for best paper award solicitation by September 15. c) It was mentioned that call for special session ICASSP 03 is out and ICASSP 03 will be video conferences from Beijing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subcommittee report on ICME/MMSP planning Sankar Basu (Chair), Antonio ortega, K. J. R Liu, John Sorensen, Ahmed Tewfik, Joern Osterman, Yu-Hen Hu, Tsuhan Chen. Attached at the bottom are some detailed discussion on the issue of MMSP/ICME. Here are the findings and tentative recommendations: 1. It is premature to merge MMSP with ICME (although ICME is in good health and concrete plans are under way for several years to come). We might revisit this issue in the future again (MDSP workshop went on for more than 15 years before it was discontinued after several years after ICIP came into existence). 2. It appears though that for now it is a good idea to hold MMSP bi-annually (instead of anuually) so that ICME and MMSP can continue together without too much conflict. This would mean we skip MMSP for 2003. 3. We move that proposal for MMSP 2004 by Mauro Barni at Siena be approved (we do not have another proposal for MMSP2003/2004). 4. The MMSP proposal by Ling Guan at Toronto is being converted to an ICME proposal (with A. Venetsanopoulos and others from U. of Toronto). in 2005 or 2006. Ling Guan has agreed. A. Venetsanopoulos has been contacted and Ling Guan has a bare bone committee in mind. 5. Status of ICME planning (this may be relevant in the planning of future MMSP). ICME 2002 is projected as a big success with total no of submissions between 800 and 1000 (Antonio Ortega has more info). ICME 2003 is in Baltimore (Rama Chellappa and Ray Liu). ICME 2004 in Asia has 4 competing proposals (decisions to be made In August). ICME 2005 tentative proposals have been discussed from Toronto and Amsterdam. There is a proposal in ICME steering committee to break the "US-Asia-Europe" cycle and make it into "US-Asia-US- Europe" cycle. This will be voted upon at the ICME steering commuttee. ANNEX 2: ICME 2003 Call for Papers [PDF Version available at http://www.icme2003.com/ICME_CFP.pdf] IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), scheduled for July 6-9, 2003, is a major annual international conference organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas in multimedia. ICME serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applications. ICME is co-sponsored by four IEEE societies (the Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society, the Circuits and Systems Society, and the IEEE Communications Society). Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column format including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Visit the ICME 2003 website, www.icme2003.com, to submit papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to the following: * Audio, image, video processing * Virtual reality and 3-D imaging * Signal processing for media integration * Integration of media, art, and multimedia technology Multimedia * Communications and networking Multimeda security and content * Protection Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction * Multimedia database * Location aware multimedia systems * Multimedia computing systems and appliances * Hardware and software for multimedia systems * Multimedia standards and related issues * Multimedia application Tutorial and Special Session Proposals Proposals for Special Sessions and Tutorials are also strongly encouraged. Tutorials are scheduled for July 6, 2003. Brief proposals should be submitted by Dec. 1, 2002, to B. S. Manjunath at manj@ece.ucsb.edu, and must include title, outline, contact information for the presenter, and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Special Session submissions should be directed to Yao Wang at yao@vision.poly.edu. Special Session proposals are due by Oct 15, 2002. Special Session Proposal Due: Oct 15, 2002 Tutorial Proposal Due: Dec 1, 2002 Regular Paper Submission: Dec 15, 2002 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2003 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2003 ANNEX 3: The boldfaced text represents proposed changes to the current MMSP EDICS. SP 7. Multimedia Signal Processing 7.1 Joint Processing of Multimedia. 7.2 Content-Based Multimedia Processing: Indexing, Retrieval, Authoring. 7.3 Architecture and Algorithms. 7.4 Multimedia Human-Machine Interface and Perception. 7.5 Communication Issues: Synchronization, Error Concealment, QoS. 7.6 Multimedia Applications. 7.6.1 Education, Distant Learning, Telemedicine. 7.6.2 Digital Library 7.6.3 Virtual Reality, and others. 7.6.4 Integration of media, art, and multimedia technology. 7.6.5 Location avare multimedia systems. 7.7 Standards and Related Issues. 7.7.1 ITU H-Series, ISO MPEG, DAVIC, VRML, and others. 7.7.2 Compressed Domain Processing. 7.8 Data Encryption, Security and Privacy. -> substituted by 7.8 (New) Multimedia encryption, security, contents protection and rights management. ANNEX 4: A Proposal for Special Session on “Multimedia Security and Rights Management” IEEE ICASSP 2003, Hong Kong submitted by Min Wu and Mauro Barni The fast advances in communications, computing, and multimedia technologies have created a new era of industrial revolution. Novel devices and powerful software have made it possible for consumers worldwide to create, manipulate, share, and enjoy the multimedia data. Internet and wireless networks offer ubiquitous channels to deliver and to exchange multimedia information for such purposes as remote collaboration, distant learning, and entertainment. Despite of the progress in multimedia coding and communications, a major hurdle for allowing much broader access of multimedia assets and deployment of multimedia services lies on assuring that content is used for its intended purpose by its intended recipients. The core issue now becomes the development of secure management of multimedia content usage and secure delivery across heterogeneous communication channels. Many existing tools for data security and secure communications have been designed for generic data. The rich features and unique characteristics associated with multimedia data have presented new challenges and created new research opportunities. While multimedia watermarking/data-hiding has become one of the most notable contributions from signal processing community to information security, successful solutions to multimedia security and rights management have to consider a number of challenging aspects and take into account the joint technical issues of security, multimedia, and communications as well as non-technical issues such as business models. This special session will focus on the emerging technologies and broader aspects of multimedia security and rights management. The topics include, but not limited to: * Joint consideration of business models, system architectures and technical solutions of digital rights management (DRM) for multimedia * Efficient encryption for multimedia and authentication of scalable multimedia * Novel use of data hiding for secure multimedia communications and rights management, and new security aspects of data hiding * Multimedia identification * Secure multimedia transmission over lossy channels and for multi-user environment * New security analysis and evaluation methodologies in multimedia security and rights management * Low-power low-cost implementation of secure multimedia communication and rights management systems * Emerging standards for multimedia security and rights management The potential contributors (but not limited to) to this special session are: * Jeffery Bloom, Sarnoff Corp (Princeton, NJ) * Ingemar Cox, NEC Research Institute * Jana Dittman, GMD - IPSI, Germany * Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland * Teddy Furon, Univ. Cath. De Louvain, Belgium * Bernd Girod, Stanford Univ. * Ton Kalker and J.P. Linnartz, Philips Research * Deepa Kundur, Univ. Toronto * C-C Jay Kuo, Univ. of Southern California * Bede Liu, Princeton Univ. * Ray Liu, Univ. Maryland * Henrique Malvar, Yacov Yacobi, and Fabien Petitcolas, Microsoft Research * Nasir Memon, Polytechnic Univ. (Brooklyn, NY) * Klara Nahrstedt, Univ. Illinois * Wade Trappe, WINLAB/Rutgers * Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy and Thierry Pun, Univ. Geneva, Switzerland * Wenjun Zeng, PacketVideo Corp. Contact: Min Wu Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Univ. of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 minwu@eng.umd.edu http://www.ece.umd.edu/~minwu/ Mauro Barni Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Universita' di Siena Via Roma 56, 53100, Siena - Italy barni@dii.unisi.it http://www.dii.unisi.it/~barni/ ANNEX 5: CIVR 2003 International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval Preliminary Call for Papers July 24-25, 2003 Beckman Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 USA Important Dates: Feb. 24, 2003: Submission of full paper, April 7, 2003: Notification of acceptance May 1, 2003: Camera-ready full paper General Co-Chairs Thomas S. Huang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, huang@ifp.uiuc.edu Michael S. Lew, LIACS Media Lab, Univ. of Leiden, mlew@liacs.nl Program Co-Chairs Nicu Sebe, LIACS Media Lab, Univ. of Leiden, nicu@liacs.nlT Xiang Zhou, Siemens Research, xzhou@scr.siemens.com Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia Univ., sfchang@ee.columbia.edu John R. Smith (pending), IBM T.J. Watson Research, jrsmith@watson.ibm.com Publications Chair Erwin Bakker, LIACS Media Lab, Univ. of Leiden, erwin@liacs.nl Program Committee Erwin Bakker, Univ. of Leiden, Alberto Del Bimbo, Univ. of Florence, Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon Univ., John Eakins, Univ. of Northumbria, Peter Enser, Univ. of Brighton Graham Finlayson, Univ. of E. Anglia, Richard Harvey, Univ. of E. Anglia General Information As digital imagery and video become prevalent it will be necessary to have effective methods and paradigms to browse, share, and search for visual content. This conference aims to provide an international forum for the discussion of challenges in the fields of image and video retrieval. A unique feature of this conference is the high level of interaction between researchers and practitioners. Papers which illuminate important topics or introduce novel techniques are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Query models, paradigms and languages for image/video retrieval Content-based indexing, search and retrieval of images & video Human perception based image/video retrieval Image/video search and browsing on the Web Similarity measures between images/video Semantic retrieval of images and video Evaluation of image and video retrieval systems Studies of information-seeking behaviour among image/video users HCI issues in image/video retrieval Database architectures for image/video retrieval High performance image/video indexing algorithms Novel image data management systems and applications Image/Video summarization and visualization Learning and Relevance Feedback in image/video retrieval