The 5th International Forum of Digital TV &

Wireless Multimedia Communication (5th IFTC)

Honorary Co-chair:
Juanqi YAN (Vice Chairman, 11th NPC, China)
Hequan WU (Vice President, CAE, China)
General Chair:
Wenjun ZHANG (Chairman, SIGA; Vice President, SJTU, China)
Executive Chair:
Zhixiang XU (Executive Vice Chairman, SIGA; President, IEEE BTS Chapter of Beijing Section; Prof., Shanghai University, China)
International Steering Committee:(Sorted by surname)
Changwen CHEN (Prof., FIT, USA)
Terry CHENG (President of Asia, TI, China)
Baichuan DU (Vice Chief Engineer, SARFT, China)
Xinhua FU (President, SVA, China)
Wen GAO (Head, AVS Workgroup of China, China)
Robert K. GRAVES (President, ASTC Forum, USA)
Jialun HU (Vice President, SAST, China)
Ruigang LI (President, Shanghai Media Group, China)
Peter MacAvock (Executive Director, DVB Project Office, Switzerland)
Huifang SUN (Vice President, MERL, USA)
Hequan WU (Vice President, CAE, China)
Jiangxing WU (Director, NDSC, China)
Yiyan WU (Chief Scientist, CRC, Canada)
Wenjun ZHANG (Chairman, SIGA, China)
Jie ZHENG (President, Shanghai Mobile, China)
Program Chair:
Zhixiang XU (Executive Vice Chairman, SIGA; Prof., Shanghai University, China)
Program Vice Chair:
Qizhen LIU (Vice Chairman, SIGA; Prof., Fudan University, China)
Zhen QIN (Deputy Director, Committee of Sci & Tech, Shanghai ARFT, China)
Yijun ZHANG (Vice Chairman, SIGA; Vice General Manager, SSV, China)
Yongqin ZENG (CTO, Philips Far Eastern Labs., China)
Dingxiang LIN (Vice President, OPG, China)
Gang HOU (Associate Chief Engineer, SVA, China)
Changsong WANG (Secretary-General, SIAA, China)
Program Committee:
Zhengsheng LUO (Executive Vice President, SSMPTE, China)
Chunqiang LI (Secretary-General, SCIA, China)
Qingzhong QI (Vice General Manager, SIIC, China)
Minghua RAO (SMIC, China)
Haikang YANG (Assistant General Manager, Shanghai Mobile, China)
Jun YAN (Director, CJIG Editorial Dept., China)
Sijun HUANG (Managing Director, China R&D Center, Scientific-Atlantic Inc.)
Secretary-General:
Songyu YU (Secretary-General, SIGA; Prof., SJTU, China)
Vice Secretary-General:
Cheng ZHI (Associate Prof., SJTU, China)
Shouzhong HUANG (SIAA, China)
Xiaokang YANG (Prof., SJTU, China)

November 7th-8th, 2008, Shanghai, China
Organized by: Shanghai Image and Graphics Association (SIGA)

   The 8th China International Industry Fair (CIIF), 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 November 2008. As an important part of CIIF 2008, the 5th International Forum of Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication (5th IFTC), which is 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 Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Information Household Appliance Trade Association (SIAA), IEEE BTS Chapter of Beijing Section, Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics (CJIG), Shanghai Institute of Communication, Shanghai Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SSMPTE).

    The 5th IFTC aims at extensively exchanging the latest information of digital TV and wireless 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, Web Video Retrieval, Broadband Multimedia and etc. The Forum is to enhance and promote the technology, equipment and application in the field of digital TV and multimedia to a new stage by comparing the characteristic, framework, significant techniques and their maturity, analyzing the performance of various applications in terms of extensibility, upgradeability, manageability and portability and discussing the interfaces among varieties of networks and platforms. Marked by the adoption of digital television terrestrial transmission standard, the Forum is to take the opportunity of the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Shanghai 2010 World Expo to further promote the large-scale industrialization of digital TV in China in an all-round way. The International Forum will provide powerful technical supports and assurance for the development and innovation of digital TV and wireless multimedia communication industries of China, 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, government officials and industry leaders to Shanghai to share your visions on digital TV and wireless multimedia communication with us.

The thematic topics of 5th IFTC include digital TV, IPTV, Mobile TV, Mobile multimedia communication, content and security management, web video retrieval 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 2008 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/iftc2008) for details.

Important Deadlines:

June 20th , 2008 　　　 Deadline of Paper Submission;

July 1st , 2008 　　　     Author Notification;

July 15th , 2008　　　  Submission of Final Papers and Payment of Registration and Pages Charge;

Nov 7th -8th , 2008 　　Date of Forum;

Contact: Ms. Cheng ZHI, Ms. Hongling LI
4th Floor, 5th SEIEE Building Complex, No. 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240
Email: iftc2008@cdtv.org.cn 　　　　　Website:www.siga.com.cn/iftc2008
Tel:86-021-34204511; 86-021-34204393　 Fax: 86-021-34204155