The purpose of SIGMAP 2010, the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications in the context of Signal Processing, including theory and practice in the field of telecommunications, image, video, audio, biometrics, etc., and Multimedia Applications related to representation, storage, authentication and communication of multimedia information.

The signal processing field, when combined with multimedia information encompasses a large number of research topics and emerging applications. A list of relevant topics is provided below, though many other topics could be listed.

Ideas on how to analyse and apply signal processing techniques to solve problems involving multimedia information and technology, either in the scope of R&D projects, engineering or business applications, are welcome. Papers describing new methods or technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged.

Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of SIGMAP, with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

The best papers will be selected to appear either in an international journal or in a book to be published by Springer-Verlag.

Special sessions, case-studies and tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics related to the main conference are also envisaged: researchers interested in organizing a special session, companies interested in presenting their products/technology or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

• › Multimedia Communications
  
• › Multimedia Signal Processing
  
• › Multimedia Systems and Applications
  

• › Digital Audio and Video Broadcasting
  
• › Mobile Multimedia
  
• › MPEG Standards and Related Issues
  
• › Error Control and Concealment
  
• › Performance Measurement and Evaluation
  
• › Architecture and Protocols
  
• › RF and Microwave Communications
  
• › Multimedia Security
  

• › Image and Video Processing
  
• › Speech, Audio and Music Processing
  
• › Multidimensional Signal Processing
  
• › Biometrics and Pattern Recognition
  
• › Multimodal Signal Processing
  
• › Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms
  
• › Perceptual/Human Audiovisual System Modelling
  
• › Education in Signal Processing
  

• › Interactive Digital Television
  
• › Audio and Video Quality Assessment
  
• › Internet QoS for Multimedia Applications
  
• › Distributed Multimedia Systems
  
• › Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval
  
• › Authentication and Watermarking
  
• › Human-Machine Interface
  
• › e-Learning, e-Commerce and e-Society Applications
  
• › Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
  
• › Multimedia Authoring, Editing and Sharing
  
• › Multimedia Supported Collaboration and Conferencing Tools
  
• › Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data
  

Petar M. Djuric, Stony Brook University, U.S.A.
Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University, U.S.A.

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be indexed by Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and DBLP.
EI already agreed to index the proceedings of SIGMAP 2006, 2007 and 2008. Proceedings of SIGMAP 2009 are under evaluation and the proceedings of SIGMAP 2010 will be considered by EI after their publication.

› Conference date: 26-28 July, 2010

› Regular Paper Submission: February 26, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Authors Notification (regular papers): April 08, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 22, 2010 (deadline expired)

› Position Paper Submission: March 25, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Authors Notification (position papers): April 26, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: May 06, 2010 (deadline expired)

SIGMAP Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5432
e-mail: sigmap.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.sigmap.icete.org/

Greece, located in the southeastern Europe, is a very beautiful country that offers top quality tourist attractions to the visitor. Consisting of the main land and several islands, it offers beautiful beaches, lovely mountain landscapes, many picturesque villages, and a wealth of archaeological sites and treasures.
Piraeus, Greece's third largest urban centre and now part of the Athens metropolitan area, is located a few minutes away from the center of Athens - Greece's capital named after Athena, the goddess of wisdom, is a very attractive and busy city.
Piraeus has the biggest harbour in all Greece and one of the most important in the mediterranean. At the top of that harbour, many little picturesque and lively bays may be found having many excellent cafeterias and traditional Greek restaurants and taverns.
Piraeus is an ideal place to start off excursions both for island cruising and mainland sightseeing. There are many boats that start off their journey to the numerous beautiful Greek islands from the harbour of Piraeus which is the main connection point to all of the Greek islands.
The conference will be held at the University of Piraeus, which was founded in 1938 under the title of the “School for Industrial Studies” and located in a modern building in the centre of Piraeus (one of the 8 universities in the region of Athens), in collaboration with the department of informatics. The department began operating in 1992 and focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects and advancements of computer science.

George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece

Gwo Giun (Chris) Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Harry Agius, Brunel University, United Kingdom
João Ascenso, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal
Oscar Au, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Arvind Bansal, Kent State University, United States
Adrian Bors, University of York, United Kingdom
Wai-Kuen Cham, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ryszard S. Choras, University of Technology & Life Sciences, Poland
José Alfredo Ferreira Costa, Rio Grande do Norte Federal University, Brazil
Michel Crucianu, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, France
Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Javier Del Ser, TECNALIA, Spain
Chitra Dorai, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, United States
Rob Evans, University of Melbourne, Australia
Marco Furini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Lorenzo Granai, Cisco Systems, Inc., Switzerland
William Grosky, University of Michigan - Dearborn, United States
Malka Halgamuge, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Khaled Harfoush, North Carolina State University, United States
Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Richang Hong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea, Republic of
Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Pradeep K. Atrey, The University of Winnipeg, Canada
Chehdi Kacem, University of Rennes 1, France
Hari Kalva, Florida Atlantic University, United States
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece
Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Tayeb Lemlouma, IRISA / Iut of Lannion (University of Rennes 1), France
Jing Li, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Alejandro Murua, University of Montreal, Canada
Manuel Perez Malumbres, Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
Andrew Perkis, NTNU, Norway
Gang Qian, Arizona State University, United States
Maria Paula Queluz, Instituto Superior Técnico - Instituto De Telecomunicações, Portugal
Anthony Quinn, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Rudolf Rabenstein, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Matthias Rauterberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Xiaowei Shao, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mingli Song, Zhejiang University, China
Daniel Thalmann, VR Lab EPFL, Switzerland
Steve Uhlig, TU Berlin/Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Zhiyong Wang, University of Sydney, Australia
Michael Weber, University of Ulm, Germany
Kim-hui Yap, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Tianhao Zhang, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Ce Zhu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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