Recent advances in multimedia processing and communications have potential to significantly advance current healthcare and assisted living services by enabling remote health monitoring, remote diagnostics, increased patient privacy, robotic-assisted surgery, and home-based treatment. A huge diversity of multimedia processing techniques, ranging from image/audio sensing, compression and networking, denoising, feature extraction, security, distributed processing, depth image processing, cloud and social computing, visualization and multimedia big data analytics, can all find their applications in future healthcare and elderly-care. However, to fully realize this potential and embed multimedia solutions into day-to-day healthcare practice, many challenges need to be overcome that call for significant engineering innovation, which can only happen through close interdisciplinary effort.
2018 The 2nd International Conference on Multimedia, Broadcasting and Network (ICMBN 2018) aims to be a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia, broadcasting and network, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of multimedia. ICMBN offers a four-day technical program including keynote speeches, hot-topic oral&poster sessions, tutorials and excursion. It will be held in conjunction with ICGSP 2018, providing great opportunity for participants to meet researchers in other related fields as well.
Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome.
