[Imageworld] CFP: First IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience 2009 (QoMEX 2009)

[Dane, Gokce]

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*********    Call for Papers  *********
The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) 2009
URL: http://www.qomex.org 
July 29-31, 2009
Paradise Point Resort & Spa
San Diego, CA, USA

Abstract: 
The first International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) will bring together leading professionals and scientists in multimedia quality and user experience from around the world. 

Typically, multimedia processing algorithms are evaluated using objective metrics or through subjective testing in a controlled environment. However, perceived user experience is psychological in nature and changes in different environmental conditions and with different multimedia devices. Therefore, new techniques are needed to asses and enhance multimedia experience from the user perspective. QoMEX'09 is an international forum to gather experts from academia and industry to present the latest developments on evaluation of multimedia quality based on user experience. 
QoMEX'09 features oral presentations, exhibits, panels and poster sessions in order to provide attendees with various channels to exchange and acquire information about the latest developments and future trends in the field of multimedia user experience. 



Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
. User Experience Assessment and Enhancement: New metrics to define quality of user experience, interaction between auditory, visual, affective and other modalities and their impact on user experience, UI design, user experience rendering, user experience acquisition, human and multimedia device interaction, multimedia quality evaluation tools for generic and specific applications.
. Visual User Experience (Image/Video/Graphics) : Objective quality metrics, subjective quality evaluation, psycho-visual modeling, quality-centered processing, compression and transmission, artifacts reduction, relationship between errors/noise/losses to human perception, display-specific processing, 3D Video, quality evaluation in HD and beyond, quality evaluation in HDR content, quality issues in streaming video.
. Auditory User Experience (Speech/Audio) : Psycho-acoustic modeling, quality assessment of interactive speech applications, VoIP, modeling based on human auditory perception, intrusive/non-intrusive models for quality evaluation.
. Standardization Activities in Multimedia Quality Evaluation: Benchmarking efforts, databases and multimedia content characteristics, testing conditions, new objective metrics and models for upcoming standards.

Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs
. Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, NTNU
. Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm

Technical Program Co-Chairs
. Gokce Dane, Qualcomm
. Lina Karam, ASU

Advisory Committee
. Vittorio Baroncini, FUB
. Alan C. Bovik, U Texas
. Jerry D. Gibson, UCSB
. Joyce Farrell, Stanford U
. Bastiaan Kleijn, KTH
. Andrew Perkis, NTNU

Exhibitions and Demo
. Haohong Wang, Marvel Semiconductor
. Heather Yu, Huawei Technologies

Finance
. Michael Ansorge, EPFL
. Ziad Asghar, Texas Instruments

Publicity
. Baoxin Li, ASU
. Ulrich Reiter, NTNU

Local Arrangements
. Yen-Chi Lee, Qualcomm
. Truong Nguyen, UCSD

Technical Program Committee
Ghassan Al Regib
Madhukar Budagavi
Jorge Caviedes
Philip Corriveau
Pamela Cosman
Sujit Dey
Hans W. Gierlich
Hidenobu Harasaki
Yuuko Horita
Hau Hwang
Patrick Le Callet
Weisi Lin
Alessandro Neri
Fernando Pereira
Alexander Raake
Amy Reibman
Bülent Sankur
Nitin Suresh
Stephen Voran
Zhou Wang
Stefan Winkler
Henry Wu
Buyue Zhang

Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2009
Camera ready submission: May 15, 2009