SMPTE Deadline for Technical Papers is June 6

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is seeking proposals for technical papers and tutorials for presentation during the 2008 SMPTE Technical Conference & Exhibition. Technical paper proposals must be submitted to SMPTE no later than June 6th.

Proposed papers are to be informational in nature and must address technical theory, application or practice associated with technologies relevant to the motion imaging industry.

Abstracts must be one page, no more than 300 words and include topic heading, paper title, delivery method, a brief description of the proposed paper's content, name of author/presenter, company, mailing address, telephone/fax numbers and related e-mail addresses. Previously published, product-specific or promotional papers will not be accepted.

Technical Topics:

Digital Intermediates: process, advancements and case studies
Stereoscopic 3D Imaging, processing, distribution and display
Digital Cinema Exhibition: servers, content storage, networks
and scheduling
Image Acquisition for filmmaking, broadcast news, studio
production and sports
Wide bandwidth infrastructure: 1080p60, 4K and beyond
Animation: new techniques and process
Advancements in film technologies: film stocks, restoration
techniques
Electronic Display technologies: plasma, LCD, LCoS, OLED's,
laser
Color management, interchange, correction techniques
Metadata and file management
IP Content networks, transport, architectures, standards and
applications
Content security, rights management, watermarking
Digital audio for cinema, broadcast and gaming
Consumer technologies: HD deployment, transmission, home
networking
Historical topics on early filmmaking, animation and
television technologies

Authors will be notified regarding the status of their submitted abstracts no later than July 11, 2008.

Selected presenters are required to provide electronic versions of final technical papers to SMPTE by August 29, 2008 for distribution at the conference.

SMPTE www.smpte.org