CALL FOR PAPERS

Singapore is pleased to announce the 7^th International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology, IWAIT’04. IWAIT aims to provide a forum to discuss the latest research, development and applications of image, video, graphics and other related technologies. It is targeting at academia, research scientists, engineers and those who are interested in the field. The previous workshops were held in: Korea (1998), Taiwan (1999), Japan (2000), Korea (2001), Taiwan (2002) and Japan (2003).

We invite contributions describing research, development and applications in the following areas:

   ·   Image Processing                     ·   Image Data Compression           ·   Image Coding

   ·   Multimedia Search                   ·   Networked Multimedia              ·   Broadcasting

   ·   Video on Demand                    ·   Computer Vision                       ·   Computer Graphics

   ·   Virtual Reality                          ·   Animation                                 ·   Medical Applications

Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop proceedings. The best Workshop papers will be invited to participate in a special issue of the Journal of Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers.

      Organized by:

            School of Computing, National University of Singapore

            School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University

      Co-Organized by:

            The Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Engineers Japan

The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers Japan

National Science Council R.O.C.

The Institute for Information Industry R.O.C.

The Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers

      General Co-Chairs:

            Prof Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)

            Prof King-Ngi Ngan (Nanyang Technological University)

            Prof. Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

      Program Co-Chairs:

            Prof Mohan Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore)

            Prof Tat-Jen Cham (Nanyang Technological University)

      International Program Co-Chairs:

            Prof Makoto Kosugi (Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan)

            Prof Hyoung-Joong Kim (Kangwon National University, Korea)

            Prof Zen-Chung Shih  (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

            Prof Y.K.Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

      Publication Chair:

          Prof Liang-Tien Chia (Nanyang Technological University)

            Full Paper due (extension)                    27 September 2003

            Notice of acceptance                           14 October 2003

            Camera-ready paper due                      10 November 2003

Please submit the 5-page 2-column 10-point font-sized single-spaced A4 format full paper electronically in the PDF format to iwait@comp.nus.edu.sg.

with the following information:
(1) Title of paper
(2) Names and contact info of all authors, also specifying the contact author.