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1st International MXM Developer’s Day

Recently the 1st International MXM Developer’s Day which will be held in London, UK on the 30th of June 2009 from 9am to 1pm has been announced. The event is free of charge but registration is needed. Further details can be found here.

Student Big Days first time at Klagenfurt University

On April 1st Microsoft organizes its roadshow “Student Big Days” in Klagenfurt. From 16.00 to 19.30 there are three sessions and afterwards there is a lot of time to talk to the speakers at a buffet. Horst Kandutsch assured that there will be numerous goodies for participants

You can find more information here (sorry, German only). Please register to give the organizers a chance to get enough food and drinks

Links

• Student Big Days

CfP: Text Information Retrieval Workshop 2009

The CfP for the 6th Intl. Workshop on Text Information Retrieval is out. This renowned workshop is organized by Benno Stein and is a great opportunity to meet experts from the area of information retrieval and to dfiscuss new idea. Find the CfP at: http://www.webis.de/tir-09

Deadline approaching – CfP: Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer) Special Issue

Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer)
Special Issue on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems
Manuscript due: January 15, 2009

See here and here.

In the last decade, substantial progress has been made in content-based analysis and multimedia streaming to facilitate the development of large-scale multimedia information systems. Together with the recent progress on semantic web, it is now possible to build a new generation of multimedia applications that enable large-scale semantic representation, analysis, and delivery of multimedia data from heterogeneous data sources.  However, there is still a long way to go for mature solutions of multimedia database systems that are capable of processing semantics-rich, large-volume multimedia data. It could be even more challenging if such systems are under stringent functional and non-functional (e.g., QoS) requirements.

The goal of this special issue is to bring the semantic web community and multimedia processing & computing community together and provide a forum for multidisciplinary research opportunities, with a focus on how to apply the semantic technologies to the acquisition, generation, transmission, storage, processing, and retrieval of multimedia information. Discussions on future challenges in multimedia information manipulation, as well as practical solutions for the design and implementation of multimedia database software systems are also encouraged.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that span both semantic technologies and multimedia processing & computing:

• Automatic generation of multimedia presentations
• Semantic multimedia metadata extraction
• Annotation tools and methods for multimedia semantics
• Media ontology generation/learning/reasoning
• Content-based multimedia analysis
• Multimedia indexing, searching, and retrieving
• Multimedia streaming
• Semantic-based QoS control and scheduling
• Semantic-based Internet data streaming and delivery
• Multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-7 and XMP) and Semantic Web
• Semantics  enabled  multimedia  applications  (including  annotation,  browsing, storage, retrieval, and visualization)
• Semantics  enabled  networking  and  middleware  for  multimedia applications

Submission Details
Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. Prospective contributors are invited to submit papers in A4/US letter, single column, double space format, up to 30 pages long including figures, tables and references. Manuscript submission is handled by the MTAP Online Manuscript Submission website at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/. During submission, you should select your article type as “SI:Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems”. Detailed information about the Journal, including an author guide and detailed formatting information is available online.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance:  April 15, 2009
Final Manuscript Due:  June 15, 2009
Publication Date: Fall 2009 (Tentative)

Guest Editors:
Dr. Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA. shyu@miami.edu
Dr. Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. baojie@cs.rpi.edu
Dr. Yu Cao, California State University, Fresno, USA. yucao@csufresno.edu
Dr. Jun Kong, The North Dakota State University, USA. jun.kong@ndsu.edu
Dr. Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA. mingli@csufresno.edu
Dr. Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria. mlux@itec.uni-klu.ac.at

Deadline Extension: I-Media Special Session on Multimedia Metadata

The paper submission deadline has been extended to April 28, 2008.

Original CfP: 

Studies show that sales of digital capture devices like video camera, digital photo cameras, or mobile phones with digital cameras are still rising. Therefore it can be expected that the number of created digital multimedia content will rise dramatically in future. Multimedia metadata is currently the only way to cope with problems like semantics based retrieval or organization of content and provides means to specify adaptation and delivery constraints and rules. Within this special session the importance of metadata for media technologies is discussed. We encourage the submission of high quality scientific work as well as application papers. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Multimedia technologies and metadata in the social web
• Multimedia semantics
• Annotation of multimedia content
• Metadata in pervasive multimedia computing
• Metadata for new media
• Studies and surveys in context of multimedia metadata and new media

We encourage the submission of high quality scientific work as well as application papers.

More Information …

CfP: I-Media Special Session on Multimedia Metadata

I’m happy to announce that there will be a special session of the Multimedia Metadata Community at the TRIPLE-I / I-Media conference in Graz in September.

CfP: I-Media Special Session on Multimedia Metadata

Studies show that sales of digital capture devices like video camera, digital photo cameras, or mobile phones with digital cameras are still rising. Therefore it can be expected that the number of created digital multimedia content will rise dramatically in future. Multimedia metadata is currently the only way to cope with problems like semantics based retrieval or organization of content and provides means to specify adaptation and delivery constraints and rules. Within this special session the importance of metadata for media technologies is discussed. We encourage the submission of high quality scientific work as well as application papers. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Multimedia technologies and metadata in the social web
• Multimedia semantics
• Annotation of multimedia content
• Metadata in pervasive multimedia computing
• Metadata for new media
• Studies and surveys in context of multimedia metadata and new media

We encourage the submission of high quality scientific work as well as application papers.

Organization

The special session is organized by the Multimedia Metadata Community which has already organized a series of 8 successful workshops in the past taking place in Aachen, Berlin, Graz and Klagenfurt. The Multimedia Metadata Community aims to extend the active and successful community and network with new members.

Submission

Submissions for the special session are handled via the submission system of the TRIPLE-I/I-Media and are reviewed by the TRIPLE-I/I-Media program committee.

14 April 2008: Submission of the full papers (4-8 pages)
31 May 2008: Notification of acceptance
30 June 2008: Camera ready version (8 pages)
3-5 September 2008: TRIPLE-I Conference

Special Session Chairs

• Michael Granitzer, Know-Center Graz
• Mathias Lux, ITEC / Klagenfurt University

Contact: mlux <at> itec <dot> uni-klu.ac.at

Related Links

• Special Session Homepage

Call for Papers “Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web” KASW’08

I wanted to write it myself, but Markus did such a good job …

The focus of this workshop is on techniques and algorithms to acquire knowledge of different forms (e.g. commonsense knowledge, knowledge about user intentions, knowledge about social processes) from social web corpora, such as weblogs, wikis and others. The goal is to attract high quality submissions and to gather a strong community of researchers with different backgrounds that share a common interest in knowledge acquisition from the social web. The Call for Papers is out now – the Submission Deadline is April 28 2008.

International Workshop on
“Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web” KASW’08

held in conjunction with the Triple-I Conference
http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/KASW08/

CfP: TRIPLE-I Conference

From the web page: The TRIPLE-I Conference series is a joint venture of the conferences I-KNOW, I-MEDIA and I-SEMANTICS. TRIPLE-I reflects the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management, new media technologies and semantic systems. This unique concept aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and their technology fields.

Last years  TRIPLE-I  was a great success, so I’m looking forward to this event. It’s scheduled 3-5 September in Graz. Austria. Full paper submission deadline is April, 14th.

CfP: Sixth International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI’08)

The CBMI’08 takes place on 18-20th June, 2008, London, UK. Submission deadline is 5th of February. Conference homepage can be found at http://cbmi08.qmul.net/.

From the CfP: CBMI is the main international forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances, industrial needs and product developments in multimedia indexing, search, retrieval, navigation and browsing. Following the five successful previous events (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, and Bordeaux 2007), CBMI’08 will be hosted by Queen Mary, University of London in the vibrant city of London. The focus of CBMI’08 is the integration of what could be regarded as unrelated disciplines including image processing, information retrieval, human computer interaction and semantic web technology with industrial trends and commercial product development. The technical program of CBMI’08 will include presentation of invited plenary talks, special sessions as well as regular sessions with contributed research papers.

M3R 08: Deadline Extension

The deadline for submissions to the WIAMIS has been extended to 21.12.2007. Therefore also the deadline for the the 8th workshop of the multimedia metadata community (http://www.multimedia-metadata.info) M3R 08 has been extended.

Hubert J. Farnsworth would put it this way: “Good news, everyone!”