The International Forum on Multimedia and Image Processing 2006 is a forum in World Automation Congress 2006. WAC consists of six tracks or symposia. IFMIP is one of them. Development in multimedia and image processing, which are more and more growing up as an essential discipline in the field of computer science are covered. The major goals of this forum are to bridge the gap between theory and applications as well us to encourage interactions between basic and practice and high quality international meetings.

Chair: Yutaka Hata, University of Hyogo, Japan (hata@ieee.org)


Co-Chairs
Image Processing: Erzse'bet Mere'nyi, Rice University, USA (erzsebet@ece.rice.edu )

Biomedicine: Syoji Kobashi,University of Hyogo, Japan (kobashi@ieee.org)

Financial Engineering: Jorge Marx Gomez, University of Magdeburg, Germany (gomez@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de)

Multimedia: Naoyuki Kubota, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, (kubota@comp.metro-u.ac.jp)


Symposium Topics of Interest:

• Cryptography
• Content-Based Video Signal Processing and VLSI Architectures
• Soft computing: Thoery and applications
• Medical Engineering