[AUDITORY] MMSP 2020 - 1st CfP - Tampere, Finland

[Pasi Pertilä (TAU) <pasi.pertila@xxxxxxx>]

Dear list members [Apologies for cross-posting],

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to invite submissions to IEEE 22nd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), which will be held on September 21-23, 2020 in Tampere, Finland. The workshop is organized by the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). The focus of audio research in MMSP is increased this year through specific audio, speech, and music related topic areas and a keynote. 

Prospective authors are invited to submit regular and special session papers (full length, 4-6 pages) and demo papers (1 page). Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

·       Image / video compression
·       Image / video restoration and processing
·       Machine listening for analysis of acoustic scenes
·       Speech / music / audio processing
·       Sound source localization and separation
·       Multimedia communications and networking
·       Multimedia quality assessment
·       Internet of Things (IoT)-based multimedia systems and applications
·       Multimedia hardware design
·       Multimedia databases and digital libraries
·       Multimedia security and forensics
·       Multimedia interaction
·       Multimedia big data analytics
·       Deep learning for multimedia
·       Multimedia processing for tele-medicine and health care
·       Augmented, mixed and virtual reality
·       Multimedia systems for emerging applications


Important dates:

·       01 April, 2020 - Special session / Workshop proposal submission
·       10 May, 2020 - Regular paper submission 
·       05 July, 2020 - Notification of paper acceptance
·       26 July, 2020 - Camera-ready paper submission
·       23 August, 2020 - Demo paper submission (1 page)
·       21–23 September, 2020 - MMSP 2020 in Tampere, Finland


Location

IEEE MMSP 2020 will be held on September 21-23, 2020 in the vibrant city of Tampere, Finland. Tampere is known for its active science and business community, nice location on a scenic spot between two great lakes, and world-class services for its citizens and visitors. It is a lively city, which welcomes millions of congress goers every year. Tampere is easily reachable by air, train and car and offers excellent hosting for any budget.


Keynote Speakers

· Ivan Tashev, "Capture, Representation, and Rendering of 3D Audio", Partner Software Architect, Microsoft Research USA.

· Hong Hua, "Progresses, challenges, and opportunities of head-mounted light field displays for Mixed Reality", Professor of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona.

· Thrasos Pappas, "Perceptual Texture Analysis for Multimedia Processing", Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University.


More Information

Please visit http://mmsp2020.org/


Welcome to Tampere in September 2020!


—
Pasi Pertilä, D.Sc.(Tech),
Staff Scientist,
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 
Tampere University
P.O. Box 553, FI-33014 Tampere, Finland