Funding for Graduate Student Travel to ICME, August 26 - 29, 2002

2002年国际多媒体会议博览会（ICME）是IEEE第三届多媒体会议，由IEEE的四个学会（电路与系统学会、计算机学会、信号处理学会和通信学会）联合举办。今年的会议将于8月26日至29日在瑞士洛桑举行。ICME作为一个论坛，传播最新的IEEE以及非IEEE的多媒体系统、技术和应用的研究、开发和实现。它汇集了学术界和工业界在多媒体各个领域的研究人员、开发人员和实践者。它可以说是所有IEEE会议中最跨学科的一次。此外，它还为工业界提供了展示产品的机会。ICME涵盖的典型主题包括媒体集成的信号处理、多媒体系统的组件和技术、人机界面和交互、多媒体数据库和文件系统、多媒体通信和网络、系统集成、应用、标准（如MPEG）和相关问题。

Ahmed H. TewfikUniversity of Minnesota-Twin CitiesThe 2002 International Conference On Multimedia & Expo (ICME) is the third IEEE multimedia conference to take place in joint collaboration with four IEEE societies: the Circuits and Systems Society, the Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society, and the Communications Society. This year, the conference will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, from August 26 to August 29. ICME serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art IEEE as well as non-IEEE research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applications. It brings together researchers, developers and practitioners fromacademia and industry working in all areas in multimedia. It is arguably the most inter-disciplinary of all IEEE conferences. Furthermore, it provides industry an opportunity to showcase products. Typical topics covered by ICME include signal processing for media integration, components and technologies for multimedia systems, human-machine interface and interaction, multimedia databases and file systems, multimediacommunication and networking, system integration, applications, standards (e.g., MPEG) and related issues.