The rapid growth in the number of mobile phones and the Internet users has resulted in spectacular strides being made in the progress of wireless communication systems. The increase in data rates provided by the third generation (3G) wireless systems will facilitate an even wider variety of applications including real-time multimedia. Next generation wireless systems (4G), currently in the design phase and scheduled to be deployed by the end of this decade, will support even higher data rates. Users will be able to receive the same services on their wireless systems that they currently receive over wireline networks, including such bandwidth demanding applications as interactive multimedia, video games, and videoconferencing.
Although the demand for networked and wireless media services involving video is ever-increasing, the high error rates in these channels and stringent delay constraints still remain as significant obstacles to enable these services. Original technical papers are solicited on all aspects of wireless video, including, but not limited to, the following topics: * Error-resilient video coding * Joint source and channel coding for wireless video * Error control and concealment for wireless video * Scalable video coding and its use for wireless video * Rate control for wireless video * Multiple description coding, source and path diversity * Distributed image/video coding for wireless sensor networks * Video over wireless LAN, WPAN, and wireless ATM * Error correcting codes for wireless video * Video over 2.5G, 3G and 4G wireless systems * Congestion control for wireless video * Multimedia transport protocols * Wireless media streaming and synchronization * Wireless personal multimedia communication systems * Wireless video traffic modeling * Power-optimized video coding and transmission * Hybrid FEC-ARQ methods for wireless video * Other wireless imaging applications