CALL FOR JOURNAL PAPERS
Content Analysis and Indexing for Distributed
Multimedia Search & Retrieval in Broadcasting
Multimedia Tools and Applications (Special Issue)
The transition to digital broadcasting and the concomitant raise of new
media channels has meant a significant increase in communication potential
for media publishers, which can now leverage the advantages of online
digital technologies to increase the value and attractiveness of their
services, thus gaining renewed value from content.
A side effect of such abundance of content is that consumers are overwhelmed
with "information overload". In fact, while digital and Internet services
are in principle more appealing due to opportunity they offer to increase
the number of thematic channels, the richness of distributed content and the
possibility for the users to interact, on the other side share and
contribute as well as the accessibility of such content still remain mostly
unresolved problems.
On the media production side, professionals often experience dual problems
in content selection and organisation for cross-media and interactive
productions. The organization of content into searchable units through the
use of flexible and scalable indexing techniques is seen as one solution to
these problems. In addition, it is of paramount importance to develop the
ability to generate, represent and distribute such informational units
(e.g., indexes) in a way that is consumable and manageable by a wide range
of end user terminals, and seamlessly integrated with web services and
mobile apps. The implementation of this scenario would give birth to a new
paradigm which would radically overcome the traditional notion of multimedia
indexing, search and retrieval based on bidirectional interactions between
users and index servers, paving the way to an ecosystem in which users of
content can at the same time have the role of indexers and publishers, and
where the universe of accessible objects is dynamically changing to meet
usage trends.
We therefore encourage the submission of works addressing single or several
components of a system for the scenario described above. Submissions should
discuss one of the following topics, with a particular emphasis on
illustrating the context of the work in such a scenario.
* Distributed multimedia feature extraction, clustering and classification
* Distributed architectures for multimedia search
* Topic and concept detection, categorization, multimedia genre / format
characterisation
* Natural query interfaces (e.g., based on speech or gesture input)
* Content segmentation and summarization
* Low complexity algorithms for acoustic, visual, and multimodal indexing
* Multimodal personality identification (i.e. leveraging multiple sources
of information)
* Visual and acoustic event detection in multimedia
* Crowd-assisted news production and material selection
* Context based retrieval and indexing of news content
* Efficient indexing of live multimedia streams
* Automated trust estimation, crowd opinion mining
* Analysis of social network activity about multimedia
* Multimedia ontologies and tagging
* HCI for efficient annotation and retrieval
* Automated cross-media and cross-device linking (incl. multiple screens
and control devices)
* User studies, requirements & trends, standardization
* Advanced user experience with multimedia
Tentative schedule
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Manuscript Due: July 1st, 2012
First Round of Reviews: October 1st, 2012
Editors
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Alberto Messina, RAI – Centre for Research and Technological Innovation, Italy; a.messina@rai.it
Andrea Basso, AT&T Labs - Research, USA; basso@research.att.com
Werner Bailer, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, DIGITAL – Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Austria; werner.bailer@joanneum.at
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