The 4th International Forum of Digital TV &

Wireless Multimedia Communication (4th IFTC)

Honorary Co-chair:
Juanqi YAN (Former Deputy Mayor, Shanghai)
Hequan WU(Vice President, CAE, China)
General Chair:
Wenjun ZHANG (Chairman，SIGA；Vice President, SJTU, China)
Executive Chair:
Zhixiang XU(Vice Chairman, SIGA; Chairman, IEEE BTS Chapter of Beijing Section; Prof. Shanghai University, China)
International Steering Committee:(Sorted by surname)
Jialun HU(Vice Chair, SAST, China)
Baichuan DU(Vice Chief Engineer, SARFT, China)
Terry CHENG(President of Asia TI, China)
Yoshihiro FUJITA (Chairman, Digital Broadcasting Systems R&D Group, ARIB, Japan)
Wen GAO(Head, AVS Workgroup of China, China)
Robert K. GRAVES(President, ATSC Forum, USA)
Ruigang LI(President, Shanghai Media Group)
Peter MacAvock(Executive Director, DVB Project Office, Switzerland)
Changwen CHEN(Prof. FIT, USA)
Huifang SUN(Vice President, MERL, USA)
Hequan WU (Vice President, CAE, China)
Jiangxing WU(Director, NDSC, China)
Wenjun ZHANG(President, SIGA, China)
Yiyan WU(Chair Scientist, CRC, Canada)
Weihu XU(President, SVA, China)
Jie ZHENG(President, ShanghaiMobile, China)
Program Chair:
Zhixiang XU (Vice Chair, SIGA; Prof.Shanghai Univ., China)
Program Vice Chair:
Qizhen LIU (Vice Chair, SIGA; Prof. Fudan Univ., China)
Zhen QIN (Deputy Director, Committe of Sci&Tech, Shanghai ARFT, China)
Yijun ZHANG (Vice President, SIGA; Vice General Manager, SSV, China)
Yongqin ZENG (CTO, Philips Far Eastern Asia Labs., China)
Sijun HUANG (Managing Director, China R&D Center, Scientific-Atlantic Inc)
Changsong WANG(Secretary-General, SIAA, China)
Program Committee:
Gang HOU (Associate Chief Engineer, SVA, China)
Dingxiang LIN (Vice President, OPG, China)
Yaojin LIU(China Unicom)
Zhengsheng LUO (Vice President, SSMPTVE, China)
Qingzhong QI (Vice General Manager, SIIC, China)
Minghua RAO(Deputy Director, SMIC, China)
Guoguang WANG(China Mobile)
Jun Yan(Director, CJIG Editorial Dept, China)
Secretary-General:
Songyu YU (Secretary-General, SIGA;Prof. SJTU, China)
Vice Secretary-General:
Cheng ZHI, Xiaokang YANG(SJTU, China)

October 16th-17th, 2007, Shanghai, China
Organized by: Shanghai Image and Graphics Association (SIGA)

    The China International Industry Fair 2007, which is sponsored by National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Information Industry, Chinese Academy of Science and Shanghai Municipal Government, will be held in Shanghai in this autumn. As an important part of the CIIF 2007, The 4th International Forum of Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication(4th IFTC), directed by Shanghai Municipal Informatization Commission (SMIC), Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Shanghai Association of Science and Technology (SAST) and hosted by SIGA, is a summit forum in the field of digital TV and multimedia communication. The Forum is co-hosted by such organizations and communities as Shanghai Media Group (SMG), Shanghai SVA Group, IEEE BTS Chapter of Beijing Section, Shanghai Institute of Communication, Shanghai Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SSMPTVE), Shanghai Information Household Appliance Trade Association (SIAA), Shanghai Communication Industry Association (SCIA). The Forum is supported by Shanghai SVA Group, Philips Far Eastern Asia Labs, Shanghai Oriental Pearl (Group) Co., Ltd (OPG), Shanghai Sony-SVA Electronics Co. Ltd, Scientific-Atlanta Inc, China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics (CJIG), DVBCN. The Forum is undertaken by Shanghai Baohua convention and exhibition Service Company.

    The 4th IFTC aims at extensively exchanging the latest information of digital TV and wireless multimedia communication industries around the world as well as the relevant policies of industry authorities and communicating the development trend and research achievements in the related realm of digital TV, IPTV, Mobile Phone TV, Content and Security Management, Broadband Multimedia and etc. Indicated by the adoption of digital television terrestrial transmission standard, the extensive industrialization of digital television in China has been starting up in an all-round way. The International Forum will provide powerful technical supports and assurance for the development and the innovation of digital TV and wireless multimedia communication industries of China; offer the technology and application platform for broadcasting and television operator, apparatus provider and technological facilitator; and serve as a bridge of mutual exchange between China and the world outside. In the beautiful autumn season, we warmly welcome international and domestic experts and scholars to Shanghai to share your visions on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication with us.

The thematic topics of 4th IFTC include digital TV, IPTV, mobile phone TV, mobile multimedia communication, the content and security management, industry chain and industrialization and etc. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts on topics including but not limited to:

    The forum program will include keynote and invited speakers, contributed papers; oral and poster sessions. The papers will be reviewed by both the program committee members of the Forum and the peer reviewers of Chinese Journal of Image and graphics. The selected papers will be published in the 10th issue of Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics 2007 as regular papers. Each accepted paper will be allowed an oral presentation. The authors should prepare their manuscript according to the MS Word template and the format requirements of Chinese Journal of Image and graphics given in the conference website and submit an MS Word version of their papers no more than 4 pages per paper through email-based submission. Please see the conference website (www.siga.com.cn/iftc2007) for details.

Important Deadlines:

June 10, 2007: 　　　 Deadline of Paper Submission;

June 15, 2007: 　　　 Author Notification;

July 10, 2007: 　　　 Submission of Final Papers and Payment of Registration and Pages Charge;

Oct 16-17, 2007: 　　Date of Forum;

Contact: Ms. Cheng ZHI, Miss. Jinghua WANG
Level 4, 5th Building of SEIEE, No.800 Dongchuan Road, Minhang District, Shanghai 200240, China
Email: iftc2007@cdtv.org.cn 　　　　　Website:www.siga.com.cn/iftc2007
Tel:86-021-34204511; 86-021-34204393　 Fax: 86-021-34204155