The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) is an annual joint activity of the Circuits and Systems Society, the Communications Society, the Computer Society, and the Signal Processing Society of IEEE. The past conferences were held in New York City, NY, USA (2000), Tokyo, Japan (2001), Lausanne, Switzerland (2002), and Baltimore, MD, USA (2003). This annual event brings together researchers, engineers, and students of more than 500 people each year, to discuss state-of-the-art research, technologies and applications in multimedia. In addition to paper presentations, the ICME'2004 features distinguished keynote speeches, tutorials, and poster presentations. Continuing the spirit of the conference series, the ICME'2004 will also host industrial exhibitions and academia research demonstrations.

ICME addresses many of the following topics: audio, speech, image, graphic, and video processing, Hardware and software for multimedia systems, Integration of media, art, and multimedia technology, Intelligent multimedia signal processing, Location aware multimedia systems, Multimedia applications
Multimedia communications and networking, Multimedia computing systems and appliances, Multimedia database and retrieval, Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction, Multimedia security and content Protection, Multimedia standards and related issues, Signal processing for media integration, Virtual reality and 3-D imaging