The International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. MMM2012 welcomes proposals for special sessions focusing on specific new challenges in multimedia research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• 3D object and face retrieval
• Annotation and multimedia metadata
• Cross-modal and cross-media analysis and modeling
• Events and actions in multimedia
• Multimedia in interactive entertainment
• Music and audio content analysis
• Modeling user context in multimedia retrieval

Also the topics mentioned in the conference call for papers in the fields of multimedia content analysis, multimedia signal processing and communications, and multimedia applications and services (see also http://mmm2012.org/call-for-papers/) are of interest for the special session.

A typical MMM special session features 5-6 contribution discussing the proposed topic. The proposal should include the following information:

• Tentative title of the proposed special session
• Names and affiliations of the organizers (including brief bio and contact information)
• Session abstract (statement of the significance of topic)
• List of potential contributors (together with tentative paper titles) who agree to submit a paper if the proposal is accepted

Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness and significance of the topic, as well as the qualifications of the organizers and the tentative papers proposed.

Papers of accepted special sessions need to be submitted using the MMM2012 conference submission system. Special session organizers will be responsible for managing the review process of the papers submitted to their special sessions. All special session papers will be included in the conference proceedings.

Important dates:

• Proposal submission: June 6, 2011
• Notifications: June 20, 2011
• Papers submission: July 22, 2011

Special session co-chairs:

• Marco Bertini, Università di Firenze, Italy, bertini<at>dsi.unifi.it
• Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria, mlux<at>itec.uni-klu.ac.at

For more information, please visit http://www.mmm2012.org/

Submission Deadline: 1 March 2011

The field of spoken content indexing and retrieval has a long history dating back to the development of the first broadcast news retrieval systems in the 1990s. More recently, however, work on searching speech has been moving towards spoken audio that is produced spontaneously and in conversational settings. In contrast to the planned speech that is typical for the broadcast news domain, spontaneous, conversational speech is characterized by high variability and the lack of inherent structure. Domains in which researchers face such challenges include: lectures, meetings, interviews, debates, conversational broadcast (e.g., talk-shows), podcasts, call center recordings, cultural heritage archives, social video on the Web, spoken natural language queries and the Spoken Web.
We invite the submission of papers that describe research in the following areas:

• Integration of information retrieval algorithms with speech recognition and audio analysis techniques
• Interfaces and techniques to improve user interaction with speech collections
• Indexing diverse, large scale collections
• Search effectiveness and efficiency, including exploitation of additional information sources

For more information see http://tois.acm.org/announcement.html

Streaming video has recently surpassed peer-to-peer networks in terms of network capacity hunger. Reports estimate a share of 40% of peak network capacity dedicated to entertainment, mostly streaming video. A large share of this traffic originates from web based services. YouTube alone takes up to 8% of the prime time internet traffic. So multimedia on the web is currently a big issue. While transmission currently works in a best effort system, multimedia information system on the web are far from being perfect. Retrieval, annotation, validated and useful metadata, reliable and trusted services, and user interaction and context-based adaptation are still under discussion and allow improvement. Currently, the Web itself faces dramatic changes, looking for example at the spread of social networks, Linked Data or the impact of HTML5 or WebM. These activities also have a deep effect on multimedia data and content provider. Following this, we aim to bring together researchers from the area of multimedia and the web to discuss innovative ideas and new directions in this workshop.

Topics of interest

We encourage the submission of high quality papers from applied and basic research as well as applications for multimedia on the web. Submissions have to relate to multimedia on the web, or more specifically on the following topics:

• Annotation of multimedia for the web
• Multimedia databases and metadata models
• Multimedia & metadata adaptation
• Multimedia in the social web
• Multimedia user communities
• Multimedia semantics & ontologies for the web
• Proactive delivery and recommender systems
• Semantic multimedia information services
• User interaction & context
• Web based emergence and self-organization
• Web based multimedia search and retrieval

Organization

The workshop is organized by the Multimedia Metadata Community which has already organized many successful events in the past. The Multimedia Metadata Community aims to extend the active and successful community and network with new members.

Submission

Full-paper submissions are limited to a maximum of 4 pages and demo/poster submission to 2 pages. The papers must be in English and should be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column format. All submitted papers will be issue to a peer review by at least 3 program committee members. The publishing media for the workshop is currently under negotiation and will be announced in subsequent call for papers.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: April 30th, 2011
• Notification of acceptance: May 20th, 2011
• Camera ready papers due: June 15th, 2011

Chairs

• Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria (General Chair)
• Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, USA (Co-Chair)
• Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria (Co-Chair)
• Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany (Co-Chair)
• Florian Stegmaier, Passau University, Germany (Demo Chair & W3C Liaison)
• Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, Austria (Demo Chair & W3C Liaison)

Contact

For any requests, please contact chairs [at] mmweb2011 [dot] org.

User Intentions in Image Production, Sharing, and Retrieval

The lifecycle of images and other types of visual information contains numerous actions that are triggered by user intentions and goals. Every little action, from content production to retrieval of previously stored visual information, takes the user a step forward towards a state where a user assumes that a goal has been achieved. Examples of such intentions are “learn how to tie a tie”, “be entertained” or “show video of a holiday to relatives”.

With the advent of social systems and its social multimedia networks, the actions of a user have become more and more transparent. Comments, ratings, recommendations, search queries and history, upload activity logs, and communication records can be analyzed to infer a user’s goal. This goal can then be used to leverage retrieval of multimedia content and to better adapt multimedia systems to users’ needs. Moreover, the goals of content producers and providers can be analyzed and matched with the goals of the content consumers.

Content-based analysis, indexing and search of visual information often does not take the user’s intentions into account. Research activity on the user roles in multimedia systems has, so far, focused on specific topics (e.g., “personalized multimedia delivery” or “adaptive multimedia systems”). Investigating the actual intentions or goals of a user throughout the lifecycle of image production, sharing, and retrieval is a fairly young research topic that has just recently started to attract attention from the multimedia research community.

In this special session we want to bring together researchers and practitioners from the visual information retrieval, image analysis and multimedia systems research. We aim to discuss recent scientific advances and also first results of greenhouse work on user intentions in multimedia.

Submission

Submission deadline is Dec 10, 2011. Additional information is available at http://www.wiamis2011.org/

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

• User intentions in visual content production
• User intentions in visual content sharing
• User intentions in visual information retrieval
• User intentions and image sharing in social networks
• Models and taxonomies for user intentions in multimedia in narrow domains (e.g., medical imaging, video surveillance, how-to videos, etc.)
• Multimedia metadata for user intentions
• Analysis and mining of user goals and intentions
• Studies on user goals, motivations and intentions in multimedia  systems
• Methods to leverage user intentions in multimedia applications

Organizers

• Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria (mlux [at] itec [dot] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at)
• Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, USA (omarques [at] fau [dot] edu)

Links

• http://www.acmmm10.org/volunteers/

Links

• Homepage

Important dates:

Submission deadline - 5 July, 2009
Notification date – 17 July, 2009
Camera ready date – 24 July, 2009
Workshop date – 23 October, 2009

Background:

Recent years have witnessed a growing number of user-centric multimedia applications, especially with the popularity of web 2.0. Examples include Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, fotocommunity.com, etc. The emerging applications on social web and social networks have produced a new type of multimedia content, termed as “social media” here as it is created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies for sharing via the web. With social media, web images, videos and audios are generally accompanied by rich contextual information, such as, tag, category, title, metadata, comments, and viewer ratings, etc. Massive emerging social media data offer new opportunities for resolving the long-standing challenges in multimedia understanding, e.g., the semantic gap issue. This new media also introduces many challenging and new research problems and as well as many exciting real-world applications (e.g. social image search, social group recommendation, etc.). This workshop solicits novel contributions on various aspects of social media research. Workshop papers will elaborate related theory, methodology, algorithms and issues associated to social media content creation, manipulation, content analysis, storage, search, learning, and mining.

More information …

Deadline for paper submission 7th September 2009

From the original CfP:

We invite papers for forthcoming issues of NRHM on the following topics and related issues:
- Conceptual basis of hypertext systems
cognitive aspects,
design strategies

- Intelligent and adaptive hypermedia
personalisation, adaptation,
knowledge organisation systems / services, semantic web, Web 2.0

- Multimedia issues
time and synchronisation,
link dynamics, link metrics,
multimedia authoring,
content-based retrieval

- Interaction
navigation and browsing; search systems,
studies of information seeking and navigation behaviour, testing and evaluation
user interfaces, experience design, multi-modal interaction

- Tools for hypermedia
(automatic) authoring systems

- Applications
literary and creative hypermedia, social networking,
physical hypermedia, virtual environments,
applications in commerce, digital libraries, e-learning, e-Government, the professions, etc.

The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM) is published by Taylor & Francis and appears in both print and digital formats. For more details and indicative topics, see the journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/nrhm

Submissions may take the form of research papers or shorter technical notes and should be submitted electronically at the Journal’s Manuscript Central site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham

Informal enquiries may be sent to the Editors:
Editor: Doug Tudhope (dstudhope@glam.ac.uk)
Associate Editor: Daniel Cunliffe (djcunlif@glam.ac.uk)
Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, UK

More information: 3rd Workshop on Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics.

List of Topics

We welcome all papers relevant to topics in multimedia semantics, including those at the confluence of multimedia information management, the Semantic Web, and Web 2.0, such as,

• Computational semiotics
• Conceptual clustering
• Emergent semantics in the social web
• Event representation and detection
• Folksonomies in social media sharing
• Genre detection
• Industrial use-cases and applications
• Intelligent browsing and visualization
• Media ontology learning
• Media mining in the social web
• Modeling and recognition of visual objects and actions
• Multimedia management and consumption in communities
• Multimedia extraction and social annotation
• Multimedia ontologies for the social web
• Multisensory data integration and fusion for decision making
• Perception and cognition in the context of Web 2.0
• Semantic metadata for mobile applications
• Semantics enabled multimedia applications (including search, browsing, retrieval, visualization) for the social web
• Social networking
• Spectral methods
• Standards for the social web
• User interfaces

Important Dates

• 11:59 PM EST, July 20, 2009 — Submissions due
• August 20, 2009 — Acceptance notification
• September 25, 2009 — Camera-ready papers due

Contact

For further information or questions please contact the workshop organizers:

• Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA (fotouhi@wayne.edu)
• William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA (wgrosky@umich.edu)
• Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria (mlux@itec.uni-klu.ac.at)
• Peter Stanchev, Kettering University, Flint, USA (pstanche@kettering.edu)

The delivery of multimedia content to every mobile handset on every mobile network, anytime and anywhere is still a major challenge. Several European research projects from the FP6 and the FP7 programme are addressing the challenges of mobile media delivery. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of mobile media delivery, projects from the mobile and wireless area, from the networked media area as well as from the content technologies area, not neglecting security and experimental facilities, are dealing with mobile media delivery.

One of the goals of the symposium is to allow exchange of ideas and interaction among the different European Projects on the topic in question, with a special focus on recently started FP7 projects. European technology platforms are also invited to present their views in the area.

Besides these projects, other research work about mobile media delivery is carried out in academia, research institutes and industrial companies. EUMOB 2009 will give researchers the opportunity to present their latest results on this topic. Researchers active in FP6 and FP7 research projects as well as other leading international researchers are invited to participate and share their latest findings.

URL: http://www.mobimedia.org/eumob2009.shtml

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: May 31, 2009
• Review Results: June 26, 2009
• Submission of Camera-ready Papers: July 23, 2009