Barcelona 20 June 2003 – The Spanish technology company Visual Century will co-sponsor the Tenth Congress of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), which will take place in Barcelona from 14 to 17 September 2003.

The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), organized by the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied image and video processing. ICIP-2003, the tenth in the series that has been held annually since 1994, will bring together leading engineers and scientists in image processing from around the world, who will report advances in fields ranging from traditional image processing applications to evolving multimedia and video technologies.

Visual Century, which focuses the development of high-performance rich media asset management software and state-of-the-art image and sound matching applications, has innovation as one of the core values of the company, as well as a dedicated research division. In words of Alba Sort, marketing manager of the company, "sponsoring ICIP gives us the chance not only to reaffirm our belief in technological advances, but also to support them at the highest level".

For more information on the conference, please visit http://www.icip2003.org

About Visual Century

Visual Century is a technology company created in 2001 by a group of entrepreneurs with audiovisual and multimedia research backgrounds. Visual Century develops software products to index, analyze, store and access digital video, audio and images in asset management applications that include archiving, production, retrieval, browsing and navigation of rich media content. The Visual Century team is made up of highly qualified professionals that the quality, technology and innovation objectives of the company, and includes a fully dedicated research division. Visual Century products stand out because of their innovative vision of rich media content, and they are designed to facilitate the use, management and exploitation of video, audio and image content.