IEEE COMSOC MMTC E-Letter http://www.comsoc.org/~mmc/ 1/41 Vol.4, No.7, August 2009 IEEE MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE E-LETTER Vol. 4, No. 7, August 2009 CONTENTS Message from Editor-in-Chief ......................................................................................... 2 HIGHLIGHT NEWS & INFORMATION..................................................................... 3 IEEE ICC 2010 @ Cape Town, South Africa ............................................................ 3 Message from the ICC 2010 TPC Co-Chairs ............................................................. 5 Chengshan Xiao, Missouri University of S&T, USA .................................................. 5 Jan C. Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa .................................................. 5 How to Submit Papers to ICC 2010 ............................................................................ 6 TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES ........................................................................................ 7 Distinguished Position Paper Series ............................................................................. 7 A Framework on Multimodal Telecommunications from a Human Perspective ... 7 Zhengyou Zhang (IEEE Fellow), Microsoft Research, USA ...................................... 7 Trends in Mobile Graphics ........................................................................................ 11 Kari Pulli, Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, USA.................................................. 11 Assessing 3D Displays: Naturalness as a Visual Quality Metric ............................ 15 Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands..... 15 Three-Dimensional Video Capture and Analysis .................................................... 19 Cha Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA ...................................................................... 19 3D Visual Content Compression for Communications ........................................... 22 Karsten Müller,FraunhoferHeinrich Hertz Institute, Germany ............................... 22 Interactive 3D Online Applications ........................................................................... 25 Irene Cheng, University of Alberta, Canada ............................................................ 25 Editor’s Selected Paper Recommendation ............................................................... 34 Focused Technology Advances Series ........................................................................ 35 Distributed Algorithm Design for Network Optimization Problems with Coupled Objectives..................................................................................................................... 35 Jianwei Huang, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China ................................ 35 MMTC COMMUNICATIONS & EVENTS ................................................................ 39 Call for Papers of Selected Journal Special Issues .................................................. 39 Call for Papers of Selected Conferences ................................................................... 40 E-Letter Editorial Board ................................................................................................ 41