Audio and Multimedia

[Lonce LaMar Wyse <lwyse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

              Special Issue of the ACM Multimedia Systems Journal
                         Audio and Multimedia
                 Guest Editors: David Wessel & Lonce Wyse


                Deadline for Submissions: Feb. 28, 1997



Audio has been the neglected stepchild of multimedia family but is
increasingly being recognized as an integral, and even central, part
of applications ranging from data analysis to games.

We hope that this special issue of the Journal will provide some
indication of the breadth of multimedia applications involving audio,
as well delve into the technical issues researchers and developers are
facing regarding sound integration, compression, immersion,
spatialization, design & modeling, networking, and interaction within
a multimedia context.

For the Journal of Multimedia Systems, theoretical, experimental and
survey articles are appropriate, as are descriptions of
state-of-the-art methods and tools. We encourage submissions along the
lines of (without being limited to) the following:


        Synchronizing sound and images in interactive environments

        Timing issues: Latency, jitter, and related temporal
        requirements

        Current tools for incorporating sounds in applications

        Virtual Musical Instruments

        Streaming audio

        Compression technologies

        Java, the net, multiple clients and sound

        Foley and post-production in the digital age

        Interactive music

        Immersive sound (spatialization, off screen information, ...)

        Data sonification

        Sound design for control by graphic object behaviors

        Sound/Music driven graphics

        A future beyond sample-file playback - the importance of general
        purpose synthesis

        Applications in different areas of science and engineering



SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

If you would like to contribute to this special issue, please send 5
copies of your manuscript to the the address below.  For papers that
do not include color pictures, email submission is strongly encouraged.

David Wessel
Director, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
Department of Music
University of California Berkeley
1750 Arch Street
Berkeley, California 94709

Tel: 1 510 643 9990 extension 302
Fax: 1 510 642 7918
Web:  http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu

For Guidelines on Submission of accepted papers, please see
http://www.acm.org
or
ftp ftp.acm.org, and cd to pubs/submitting_accepted_articles

Important Dates:

submission date: Feb 28 1997
reviews back to authors: May 1
Final papers due: July 1
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