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With increased availability of bandwidth and continuing convergence of the computer, television, and telephone, there is great interest in the next generation of technologies that enable individuals and groups to effectively participate in, and experience, remote events. This workshop will focus on multimedia technologies for immersive telepresence. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from various fields such as computer graphics, computer vision, human computer interaction, acoustics, networking, and databases, who are working on different aspects of telepresence. We invite papers from both academia and industry on all aspects of immersive telepresence. 

Areas of interest for this workshop include (but are not limited to):

• Design of telepresence systems
• Architecture of physical spaces to support telepresence
• Multimodal sensing (including cameras/computer vision, microphone arrays/acoustics, haptic sensors, active badges etc.)
• Multimodal presentation and display (including projection systems, flat panels, 3D graphics, 3D audio) 
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Network infrastructure
• Spatio-temporal databases for telepresence
• Design of the telepresence experience
• User studies on effective telepresence
• Example systems for videoconferencing, virtual meetings, remote surveillance etc.

Workshop Format:

This one-day workshop aims to create an atmosphere for stimulating interaction and discussion among researchers interested in Immersive Telepresence. The workshop will include oral presentations by authors of accepted papers and a panel on "The Next Five Years in Telepresence" in which the panelists are several prominent leaders in the telepresence area. Workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM and made available to workshop participants. The proceedings will include accepted papers and position statements of the panelists.

Workshop Co-chairs:

Please feel free to email the workshop co-chairs for further information.

Gopal Pingali           IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Ramesh Jain            Georgia Institute of Technology, USA