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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>======================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> The 9th International Conference on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS-13)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> December 2 - 5, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Kyoto Terrsa, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <a href="http://www.sitis-conf.org/">http://www.sitis-conf.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> In cooperation with <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> ACM SIGAPP French Chapter and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>======================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data found in the web.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SITIS 2013 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on three main tracks:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>****** Track on SIGNAL & IMAGE TECHNOLOGIES (SIT) It focuses on recent developments in digital signal processing and pays particular attention to evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication, and retrieval techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including:Image Processing and Analysis, Signal processing, Image/Video Coding and Authentication, and Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>****** TRACK on WEB COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS (WeCA)"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>It's focus is on emerging and novel concepts, architectures, technologies, and methodologies for information management related to the Web and cloud computing. In essence, the Web, with its different versions, has created an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, communities of users with similarly interests can be formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance, etc. Taking full advantage of these interconnected environments to meet the ever increasing needs of emerging applications requires solutions that address new issues and challenges. The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including: Data Semantics,Web-Centric Systems, Big Data, Information System Interoperability, Cloud, Cooperative information and Distributed Systems, and Information security<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>****** Track on MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND APPLICATION (MIRA) It focuses on emerging modeling, representation and retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type and diversity of multimedia information accessible in distributed computing environment. The internet, social networking, multimedia databases and management of multimedia cultural collections have created the need for cross-fields models, paradigms and techniques for efficient modeling, management and consumption of multimedia contents. The track calls for research papers and reports directed at several areas including Multimedia Query and Retrieval; Mobile and Location-Based Media, Social media and Social networking, Multimedia Security, and Multimedia Arts, Entertainment and Digital Culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submission and publication<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS-13 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Journal special issue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Extended version of selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal: Multimedia Tools and Applications edited by Springer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Paper Submission: September 8, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Acceptance/Reject notification: October 6, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Camera ready: October 13, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Author registration: October 20, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Committees<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-----------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>General Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Setsuo Tsuruta, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>WeCA Track Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France Richard Chbeir, University of Pau, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>MIRA Track Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SIT Track Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Andrea Kutics, International Christian University, Japan Albert Dipanda, University of Bourgogne, France <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>More details about each track and detailed topics can be found on the conference website: <a href="http://www.sitis-conf.org/">http://www.sitis-conf.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>