ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2014)

ACM International 

Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 

Glasgow, UK,

1st - 4th April 2014  

http://www.icmr2014.org/

Important dates

***** DECEMBER 2, 2013 – Paper Submission, Full and Short *****

* December 14, 2013 – Doc Symposium
* December 14, 2013 – PhD Showcase
* December 15, 2013 - Tutorial Proposals
* January 13, 2014 - Demonstrations

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The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR)
offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval
ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of
multimedia retrieval systems. ICMR 2014 is seeking original high quality
submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field of multimedia
retrieval. We wish to highlight significant contributions addressing the
main problem of search and retrieval but also the related and equally
important issues of multimedia content management, user interaction, and
community-based management. The conference will be held in Glasgow during
1-5 April 2014.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Content- and context-based indexing, search and retrieval of images and video
* Multimedia content search and browsing on the Web
* Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio, image, video and 3D data
* Multimedia content analysis and understanding
* Semantic retrieval of visual content
* Learning and relevance feedback in media retrieval
* Query models, paradigms, and languages for multimedia retrieval
* Multimodal media search
* Human perception based multimedia retrieval
* Studies of information-seeking behavior among image/video users
* Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for image/video retrieval
* HCI issues in multimedia retrieval
* Evaluation of multimedia retrieval systems
* High performance multimedia indexing algorithms
* Community-based multimedia content management
* Applications of Multimedia Retrieval: Medicine, Multimodal Lifelogs, Satellite Imagery, etc.
* Image/video summarization and visualization

Based on the Chinese Computing Federation Conference Ranking (2013):
ACM ICMR is the #1 Multimedia Retrieval conference in the world and
the#4 conference in the category of multimedia and graphics.

All papers should be prepared and submitted according to the following
guidelines.

Paper format
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Full papers must not exceed 8 pages in total. Papers must be formatted
according to ACM guidelines and must be in PDF format. Papers exceeding the
limits will be rejected without review.

Submissions
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Submitted papers must describe unpublished original work, emphasizing
completed or advanced research and a parallel submission to other venues
should be clearly indicated to the program committee.
Submissions are double-blind and will be reviewed by at least three program
committee members.

Double-blind Review
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The ICMR uses a double-blind review process for regular paper selection.
Authors should not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and
reviewers should not know the name(s) of the authors.
Please prepare your paper in a way that preserves anonymity of the authors.

* Do not put your name(s) under the title.
* Avoid using phrases such as "our previous work" when referring to earlier
publications by the authors.
* Remove information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments
(e.g., co-workers and grant IDs).
* Check supplemental material (e.g., titles in the video clips, or
supplementary documents) for information that may identify the authors
identity.
* Avoid providing links to websites that identify the authors.

Conference organization
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General Chairs
Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow, UK)
Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Cambridge, UK)

TPC Chairs
Mohan Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Stefan Rueger (The Open University, UK)
R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Industry and Practitioners Day
Rong Yan (Facebook, USA)
Johan Oomen (Sound and Vision, Netherlands)
Alejandro Jaimes (Yahoo! Labs, Spain)

Special session Chairs
Rainer Lienhart (University of Augsburg, Germany)
James Wang (Penn State University, USA)
Jingdong Wang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Workshop Chairs
Benoit Huet (EURECOM, France)
Chong-Wah Ngo (City University HK)
Vincent Oria (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

Demonstrations Chairs
Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ichiro Ide (Nagoya University, Japan)

Tutorials
Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Manjunath B. S. (University of California, USA)
Thierry Urruty (Département XLIM-SIC, France)

Doctoral Symposium
Xuelong Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

Panels Chairs
Shin'ichi Satoh (Japanese National Institute, Japan)
John Smith (IBM, USA)

PhD student showcase
Jialie Shen (Singapore Management University, Singapore )
Ioannis Patras (Queen Margaret University London, UK)

Brave New Ideas
Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, Italy)
Alexander Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Proceedings Chairs
Robert Villa (University of Sheffield, UK)
Frank Hopfgartner (Technical University Berlin, Germany)

Publicity Chairs
Joao Magalhaes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Jun Wang (University College London, UK)

Sponsorship Chairs
Noel O'Connor (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yiannis (Ioannis) Kompatsiaris (ITI, Greece)

Local Organizing Committee
Martin Halvey (University of Caledonian, UK)
Philip McParlane (University of Glasgow, UK)

Website
Philip McParlane (University of Glasgow, UK)

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The Third International Video Browser Showdown Competition (VBS2014)

Call for Papers for
The Third International Video Browser Showdown Competition (VBS2014)

January 7, 2014, held in conjunction with the 20th International
MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) in Dublin, Ireland

http://www.videobrowsershowdown.org/


The VBS2014 will be a half-day workshop that will take place one day
before MMM2014 at the conference venue of MMM2014 in Dublin, Ireland. Only
the last 45 minutes will be public to the audience and act as a live and
moderated "special demo session" of MMM2014 right before the Welcome
Reception. This new schedule will allow a much more detailed analysis of
the search performance of participating teams as well as different kinds
of search tasks. The evaluation of the results will be published in an own
paper after the workshop.

Test Procedure

In VBS2014 we will use four different search categories:
- Visual KIS in a single video: the moderator presents a short video clip,
randomly selected from a common video file, which has to be found within 3
minutes (the video file will be mentioned).
- Descriptive KIS in a single video: the moderator presents a textual
description about a specific segment, randomly selected from a common
video file, which has to be found within 3 minutes (the video file will be
mentioned).
- Visual KIS in a video archive: the moderator presents a short video
clip, randomly selected from a common collection of ten videos, which has
to be found within 6 minutes.
- Descriptive KIS in a video archive: the moderator presents a textual
description about a specific segment, randomly selected from a common
collection of ten videos, which has to be found within 6 minutes.

Each search category will consist of several Known Item Search (KIS) tasks
that should be solved as fast as possible by interactive search. A
participant may register for only one or even for all four search
categories.

Interactive Search

The videos to be used for the Video Browser Showdown will be provided
without any metadata. However, participants are allowed to perform content
analysis that supports interactive browsing in the video (e.g., through
novel content visualization, content clustering, or advanced seeker-bars
etc.). The search process must be interactive, i.e., no text-queries are
allowed.

Data Set and Search Tasks

The data set will consist of about 30 video files (average duration of 1
hour) and will be made available to accepted participants several weeks
before the competition. These video files will have the following
characteristics: .mp4 file format, MPEG-4 video codec (H.264/AVC), AAC-LC
audio codec, standard-definition resolution. The KIS search tasks will be
presented on-site. The goal of each KIS task is to find a preselected
segment of interest (typically with a duration of 20 seconds) within a
specified time limit by interactive search. The segment of interest
doesn't necessarily start and stop at shot boundaries.

VBS Server

The Video Browser Showdown uses an own server application to evaluate
found segments for correctness. Therefore, all participants will be
connected to the server via a dedicated WiFi network and need to submit
found segments to the server via a simple HTTP-like protocol. The server
is connected to a beamer and presents the current score of all teams in a
live manner.

Participation

Anyone with a video browsing tool that allows for interactive browsing,
exploration, or navigation in a single video file or in video archives may
participate. However, search shouldn't be based on automatic queries.
Examples of tools of interest are: a video shot browser (e.g.,
temporal-based or concept-based), a video player with extended
navigation/interaction means, a video content exploration tool, or tools
using advanced visualizations for improved navigation/interaction (video
surrogates), etc. Tools developed for interactive video search on mobile
devices are of special interest. Moreover, also tools with collaborative
interactive search (e.g., with two users) are allowed.

Submission

To apply for participation please submit a scientific demo paper (2-3
pages in Springer LNCS format) via the MMM2014 submission system at
https://www.conftool.com/mmm2014/ (VBS track) until September 16, 2013.
The submission should include a detailed description of the video browsing
tool and how it supports interactive search in video. Submissions will be
peer-reviewed to ensure maximum quality. Accepted submissions will be
published in the conference proceedings of MMM 2014.

Important Dates

Demo paper submission deadline: September 16, 2013
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2013
Camera-ready paper due: October 16, 2013
Author registration deadline: October 16, 2013

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Special Issue on Smart Media-Optimized Applications in the Cloud - Springer Computing Journal

Computing Journal

Publisher: Springer 

Guest Editors: Rajiv Ranjan, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Lizhe Wang

*** Call for Papers ***

CISCO (a network technology giant) predicts that by 2016, 90% of internet traffic will be multimedia content (3D images, high resolution video, and audio). In addition to entertainment and advertising applications, the new multimedia content-driven applications in the domain of healthcare, aged-care, surveillance, and education will contribute significantly to this traffic. The new applications? contribution to the traffic will be due to their unprecedented processing (storage, distribution, and indexing) requirements for hundreds of petabytes of content. In the healthcare domain, live as well as archived videos will be used as a medium to educate patients about the aftercare treatment (follow-ups), once the patient is at home. This will include video instructions about how to change the dressing on a healing wound or how to brush their teeth after having braces installed. Other scenario from healthcare domain will arise from the problem of managing petabytes of multimedia content produced by advanced medical imaging devices. In the aged-care domain, health professional will rely on real-time or recorded video feeds from patient?s home to monitor clinical signs and indicators such as skin color, mood, affect, and to determine whether a patient is utilizing devices and medications appropriately. In the surveillance domain, governments, small businesses, and individuals will need to deal with stream of video content from security cameras and perform analytics (event detection, event tracking, and alert generation) on-the-fly for protecting citizens, homes and nations? critical infrastructures. Finally, in the education domain, students will need to have the opportunity to access teachers from home; especially, the students in rural or remote areas need an opportunity to be able to receive interactive lessons or instructions via live video streaming, from specialised teachers or trainers who are not available locally.

In the aforementioned application scenarios: (i) hundreds of petabytes of multimedia content will be generated in real-time as well as offline which will be required to be efficiently processed (stored, distributed, and indexed with a schema and semantics) in a way that does not compromise end-users? Quality of Service (QoS) in terms of content availability, content search delay, content analysis delay, and the like and (ii) the information retrieved from content will be consumed and processed in many places concurrently and collaboratively. Many of the existing ICT (Information and Communication Technology) infrastructures that store, distribute, and index hundreds of petabytes of multimedia content fall short of this challenge or do not exist. Hence, we need more powerful and fast ICT infrastructures that can support scalable storage, indexing, and distribution of petabytes of multimedia content produced by aforementioned applications.

We believe that Cloud computing infrastructures (e.g., Amazon, Microsoft Azure, etc.) in conjunction with fast communication infrastructure will emerge as the platform for hosting and delivering aforementioned multimedia-content driven applications. Cloud computing assembles large networks of virtualised ICT services such as hardware resources (such as CPU, storage, and network), software resources (such as databases, application servers, and web servers) and applications. Cloud computing services are hosted in large data centres, often referred to as data farms, operated by companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsof Azure. In industry these services are referred to as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Cloud computing gives multimedia application developers the ability to marshal virtually infinite resources with an option to pay-per-use and as needed, instead of requiring upfront investments in resources that may never be optimally used. Once multimedia applications are hosted on cloud infrastructures, users are able to access them from anywhere at any time, using devices ranging from smartphones to desktop computers. While Cloud computing optimises the use of resources, it does not (yet) provide an effective solution hosting multimedia content-driven applications which has to process tsunami (often in real-time) of content from heterogeneous sources such as surveillance camera, medical imaging devices, etc.

Developing a software tools and technologies that can support end-to-end lifecycle operations of different multimedia content-driven applications on Cloud infrastructures (while ensuring the QoS targets) remains a challenging research problem. This challenge mainly arises from the uncertainty posed by application workloads (streaming vs. static content), resources capacity demands (e.g., bandwidth, memory, storage, and processors), failures (e.g., failure of a network link), access patterns (e.g., number of end-users and location), different device types (e.g., mobile phone, laptop, and smart TV), indexing needs (e.g., text and content based), and different network types (e.g. wired and wireless).

TopicsNovel software tools, techniques, and technologies for delivering smart media-optimized applications in the CLOUD, but not limited to:


- Cloud-based petabyte multimedia content storage tools and indexing algorithms
- Techniques for petabyte efficient non-SQL indexing of multimedia content
- Statistical multimedia application workload estimation and related cloud service optimization
- Network QoS aware provisioning of multimedia applications
- Techniques for provisioning multimedia applications in collaborative environments
- Autonomic techniques for provisioning cloud services to multimedia applications
- Techniques for content personalization and adaptation
- Innovative application case study from healthcare, aged care, surveillance, and education domains

Important Dates

November 1, 2013 Paper submission deadline
February 1, 2014 First notification
March 1, 2014 Revision submission
April 1, 2014 Second notification
May 1, 2014 Final version submission


Paper Submisison
The editors of the special issue are Rajiv Ranjan, Dimitrios Georgeakopoulos, and Lizhe Wang
Please submit a paper to Springer Editorial System for special issue by November 1, 2013
*Please select Special Issue Paper as your manuscript type, and enter ?Media Cloud? as both the Special Issue title and as your Preferred Editor*
Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference.
Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue.
There is a 20 page length limit (12 point single space inclusive of figures and tables).
Springer has Latex templates but no special templates for Word; most papers are submitted in Word. Either Latex OR Word accepted.

Selection and Evaluation Criteria

- Significance to the readership of the journal
- Relevance to the special issue
- Originality of idea, technical contribution, and significance of the presented results
- Quality, clarity, and readability of the written text
- Quality of references and related work
- Quality of research hypothesis, assertions, and conclusion

Guest Editors

Dr. Rajiv Ranjan ? Corresponding Guest Editor
Research Scientist and Project Leader, Information Engineering Laboratory
CSIRO ICT Centre, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601
Email: raj.ranjan@csiro.au

Prof. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Research Director, Information Engineering Laboratory
CSIRO ICT Centre, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601
Email: dimitrios.georgakopoulos@csiro.au

Prof. Lizhe Wang
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
No.9 Dengzhuang South Road, Hadian District
Beijing 100094, P.R. China
Email:lzwang@ceode.ac.cn

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CIKM'13 Workshop - Sixth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR'13)

Call for Papers

Sixth Workshop on

Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR'13)

CIKM 2013, October 28, San Francisco

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair13/

Submissions due: June 21

There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of modern
Web languages, micro-formats and linked data, user tagging and annotation,
and emerging robust NLP tools. These meaningful, semantic, annotations hold
the promise to significantly enhance information access, by increasing the
depth of analysis of today's systems. Currently, we have only started
exploring the possibilities and only begin to understand how these valuable
semantic cues can be put to fruitful use. To complicate matters, standard
text search excels at shallow information needs expressed by short keyword
queries, and here semantic annotation contributes very little, if anything.

The main questions for the workshop are: How to make use of the currently
emerging knowledge resources (such as DBpedia, Freebase) as underlying
semantic model giving access to an unprecedented scope and detail of factual
information? How to include annotations beyond the topical dimension (think
of reading level, prerequisite level, content credibility, transaction
trustworthiness, freshness, genre, sentiment, etc) that contain vital cues
for matching the specific needs and profile of the searcher at hand?

* Many Open Questions

The Workshop will bring together researchers working with semantic
annotations, its use cases, its sources (authoring to NLP tools), its users,
and its use in DB, IR, KM, or Web research, and work together on a range of
open questions:

Application/Use Case: What are use cases that make obvious the need for
semantic annotation of information? What tasks cannot be solved by document
retrieval using the traditional bag-of-words? What is keeping searchers from
exploring these powerful search request? What impact has the web of data
with more and more information in preprocessed form?

- Annotations: What types of annotation are available? Are there crucial
differences between author-, software-, user-, and machine-generated
annotations? Do we annotate types/classes/categories ("person") or instances
("Albert Einstein")? How similar or different are linked data and annotated
text? What are the limitations of the current annotations schemes, and how
to overcome them?

- Rich Context: Do we annotate text? Or also search requests and
interactions, and their broader context? Besides personalization and
geo-positional information, mobiles have a wide and growing range of
locational, mechanical and even biometrical sensor data available to them.
Can kick-start the query by inferring task and situational context in the
mobile use case?

- (Un)certainty: How should we interpret the annotations? Can we reliably
link textual annotations to known entity catalogs? Can expect a messy world
to be captured in a clean set of meaningful categories? Or is all
information fundamentally uncertain and only partly known? How can we
fruitfully combine information retrieval and semantic web approaches?

These and other related questions will be discussed at this open format
workshop -- the aim is to provide paths for further research to change the
way we understand information access today!

* We Need Your Help!

Help us shape the future of information access by increasing the depth of
analysis of today's systems:

- Submit a short 2+1-page research or position paper explaining your key
wishes or key points,

- and take actively part in the discussion at the Workshop.

What's a 2+1 page paper? We like short and focused contributions
highlighting your main point, claim, observation, finding, experiment,
project, etc, (roughly 2 pages of mainly text) but we also like clear
tables, graphs, and full citations (that's the "+1" page). So your
submission can up three pages, as long as max. 2 of them are narrative text.

The deadline is Friday June 21, 2013, further submission details are on
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair13/

We are looking forward to a productive, stimulating and fruitful workshop
day in the tradition of previous ESAIR workshops -- come join the
discussion!

Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Google
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai Stockholm

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The Second IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Multimedia (ICSC-SMM'13)

The Second IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Multimedia (ICSC-SMM'13)

in conjunction with THE SEVENTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC

COMPUTING

(http://www.ieee-icsc.org/ICSC2013/)

Hyatt Regency Irvine

Irvine, California, USA

September 16-18, 2013

Semantic multimedia-related research gains increasing attention nowadays to satisfy the needs of understanding and managing the semantics within the multimedia data, efficient and effective retrieval of semantic information, fast and secured delivery and sharing of semantic multimedia, and etc. As a
workshop focusing on the state-of-the-art research regarding semantic multimedia, the ICSC-SMM'13 provides a forum for researchers to present their latest research progress, exchange brilliant ideas and thoughts, and explore new research directions. We continue seeking high quality research contributions and encouraging significant work that addresses the major challenges in the semantic multimedia domain. Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that span a variety of aspects of semantic multimedia including

• Semantic multimedia metadata ontology and management
• Multimedia content analysis and processing
• Social media computing
• Large-scale multimedia data mining and retrieval
• Multimedia security, content protection and forensics
• Multi-modal integration, human-machine interaction and applications
• Semantic-based QoS control and scheduling
• Semantic-based Internet data streaming and delivery
• Multimedia-enriched semantic web
• Semantics-enabled networking and middleware for multimedia applications
• Multimedia event detection and understanding
• Semantic multimedia demonstrations and applications


SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit a paper up to 6 pages (in English) in
double-column IEEE format following the submission guidelines available at
the ICSC-2013 web page. Papers must be original and not submitted to or
accepted by any other conference or journal. An electronic version (PDF
format) of the full paper should be submitted by the paper submission
deadline to EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=icsc2013). All
submissions will be acknowledged. More information is available on the ICSC
2013 web page.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the topical
area. Papers accepted by the workshops will be published in the conference
proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Outstanding papers
will be selected for extension and publication in the International Journal
of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM).


IMPORTANT DATES
Regular paper submission: May 31, 2013
Notification of acceptance: June 28, 2013 Camera-ready & author
registration: July 10, 2013

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
(Any general questions regarding the workshop should be directed to workshop
co-chairs.)

Workshop Co-Chairs
Chao Chen, Capital One Bank, USA (c.chen15@umiami.edu) Dianting Liu,
University of Miami, USA (d.liu4@umiami.edu) Lin Lin, American National
Standards Institute, USA (l.lin2@umiami.edu) Mei-Ling Shyu, University of
Miami, USA (shyu@miami.edu)

Program Committee
TBD

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The 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM 2013)

The 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia

http://www.acmmm13.org

October 21-25, 2013 Barcelona, Spain.

Since the founding of ACM SIGMM in 1993, ACM Multimedia has been the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. At ACM Multimedia 2013, we will celebrate its twenty-first iteration with an extensive program consisting of technical sessions covering all aspects of the multimedia field in forms of oral and poster presentations, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations and workshops, bringing into focus the principal subjects of investigation, competitions of research teams on challenging problems, and also an interactive art program stimulating artists and computer scientists to meet and discover together the frontiers of artistic communication

UPCOMING DEADLINES

* Abstracts for Papers Due: March 1, 2013

* Full/short Papers Due: March 8, 2013 http://acmmm13.org/submissions/call-for-papers/

* Workshop Proposals Due: January 9, 2013 http://www.icwsm.org/2013/submitting/workshops/

* Tutorials Due: January 15, 2013 http://www.icwsm.org/2013/submitting/tutorials/

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Full paper format: Full paper submissions to ACM MM '13 are recommended to be 10 pages long at maximum, including figures and citations. The final camera-ready length for each full paper in the proceedings will be at the discretion of the program chairs. All papers must follow the ACM formatting guidelines.

Anonymity: Paper submissions to ACM MM '13 must be anonymized.

TOPIC AREAS

* Art, Entertainment, and Culture

* Authoring and Collaboration

* Crowdsourcing

* Media Transport and Delivery

* Mobile & Multi-device

* Multi-media Analysis

* Multimedia HCI

* Music & Audio

* Search, Browsing, and Discovery

* Security and Forensics

* Social Media & Presence

* Systems and Middleware

ORGANISATION

General Chairs

Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes, Yahoo!, Spain

Nicu Sebe, Univ. of Trento, Italy

Nozha Boujema, INRIA, France

Program Co-Chairs

Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP & EPFL, CH

David A. Shamma, Yahoo!, US

Marcel Worring, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Roger Zimmermann, Natl. Univ. of Singapore, SG

Author's Advocate

Pablo Cesar (CWI, The Netherlands)

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Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics" - IJSWIS

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)

Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics"

Guest Editors:

Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University, Greece
Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece
Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

URL: http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node/45

Important dates:

Manuscript Submission Deadline: *February 15, 2013*
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 31, 2013
Final Accepted Manuscript Due: July 31, 2013
Estimated Publication Date: Vol. 9, Issue 3 or 4, 2013

Submission Procedure

Submissions to this special issue should follow the journal's guidelines for
submission (http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node/36). Manuscripts should be
submitted through the online EasyChair Submission Site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssmd13. After submitting a
paper, please also inform guest editors by email to
ijswis-ssmd13@image.ntua.gr about the specific paper ID assigned by the
submission system. If a submission is based on a prior publication in a
workshop or conference, the journal submission must involve substantial
advance (a minimum of 50%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition
(e.g., more comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional
applications/usage). More info on this Special Issue may be found at:
http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node/45.

Summary

The objective of this Special Issue is to collect and report on recent high
quality research that addresses the problem of mass digital media content
generation and sharing. As social media keep extending over the Web as we
know it, new innovative dynamics are formed in the sense of media content
acquiring and sharing trends. Research in this area is important to combine
the fields of semantics and knowledge engineering within social media
platforms, mainly because of the overwhelming amount of disseminated
information and different contextualization types. High quality
contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects are
expected.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following semantic
media adaptation & personalization aspects in social media:

# Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic social web
# Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents
# Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications
# Semantic context modelling and extraction
# Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis)
# Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities
# Content customization and adaptation
# Context-aware multimedia applications
# Social network aggregation
# User modelling and dynamic profiling
# Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries
# Intelligent personalized interfaces
# Hybrid socio-semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems

Contacts

Please address all correspondences regarding this Special Issue to the Guest
Editors:

Phivos Mylonas, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Fernando Bobillo, Markus
Strohmaier, Geert-Jan Houben
ijswis-ssmd13@image.ntua.gr

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IEEE CollaborateCom 2012 Contributions from the ACIS Group at RWTH Aachen University

This is our first presentation for the the IEEE CollaborateCom 2012 in Pittsburgh, USA. Dejan Kovachev gave the presentation on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 in the Collaboration in Mobile Environments
session.

A Real-time Collaboration-enabled Mobile Augmented Reality System with Semantic Multimedia from Dejan Kovachev

Abstract—Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) enables overlays of semantically-enriched multimedia on video streams of smart phone cameras. These new ways to interact with digital objects via position and 3D movement can be helpful for on-site professional communities. However, current MAR applications lack real-time collaborative features. Moreover, blending multimedia semantics in collaborative MAR is still challenging. In this paper, we present a mobile real-time semantic multimedia-based collaborative system with augmented reality features based on open standards like XMPP and MPEG-7. The prototype system is evaluated in the digital documentation of historical sites for cultural heritage management. The evaluation results indicate increased productivity and awareness within on-site professional communities. 


Our second presentation will come in a later post.

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New Book on the Frontiers of Multimedia Information Retrieval

This is the new book of my colleague Horst Eidenberger. I collaborated with him in several workshops of our multimedia metadata group. It is on the frontiers of machine intelligence for multimedia understanding.


Frontiers of Media Understanding: The Common Methods of Audio Retrieval, Biosignal Processing, Content-Based Image Retrieval, Face Recognition, Music Classification, Speech Recognition, Text Retrieval and Video Surveillance


Author
Horst Eidenberger
Vienna University of Technology
http://www.ims.tuwien.ac.at/hme/


Abstract

Media understanding is the science/art of identifying semantic structures in digital media objects such as audio, biosignals, images, text and videos. This volume ends the work started in "Fundamental Media Understanding" and continued in "Professional Media Understanding" (atpress, 2011/12). It investigates the scientific frontiers of multimedia information retrieval. Soft frontier areas such as the influence of media theory and psychophysical research are considered as well as core topics such as semantic template matching, Kalman filtering, the limits of learning, dynamic aspects of categorization, human-like similarity perception and developing a neural view on the machine learning problem. In contrast to related publications, this book does not focus on one type of media but considers all the above-named as well as a few others. The author endeavors to identify similarities between the methods employed in audio retrieval, image understanding, text summarization and many other research domains. It turns out that a number of significant parallels do exist. Structuring the methods along common criteria and discussing their similarities and differences breaks the ground for a new research discipline: true computational understanding of multimedia content.

Link
http://www.amazon.com/Frontiers-Media-Understanding-Horst-Eidenberger/dp/3848210924/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350041726&sr=8-1&keywords=horst+eidenberger


Table of Contents

1 Reflection of Professional Methods
1.1 Conclusions from Advanced Methods
1.2 Building Blocks of Categorization
1.3 Which Methods When?
1.4 Overview Over Scientific Frontiers

2 Media Philosophies
2.1 The Image in Philosophy
2.2 Media Theories
2.3 Semiotics
2.4 Media and Information

3 Perception and Psychophysics
3.1 Human Perception and Cognition
3.2 Perceptual and Cognitive Errors
3.3 Psychophysical Theory
3.4 Psychoacoustics and Psychophysics of Vision

4 Description by Templates
4.1 Convolution Everywhere
4.2 Templates for One-Dimensional Media
4.3 Static Visual Templates
4.4 Dynamic Template Adaptation Models

5 Semantic Descriptions and Applications
5.1 The Semantic Scale
5.2 Semantic Feature Transformations
5.3 Semantics in Audio, Biosignals and Text
5.4 Visual Semantic Applications

6 Convergent Filtering
6.1 Models of Convergence
6.2 Vector Quantization
6.3 The Kalman Filter
6.4 Associative Memories

7 Frontiers of Learning Machines
7.1 Analysis of Categorization Methods
7.2 Limits of Learning
7.3 Dynamical Systems Theory
7.4 Oscillating Classifiers

8 Human-Like Similarity Perception
8.1 Similarity as Measurement
8.2 Similarity as Counting
8.3 Dual Process Models
8.4 Similarity as Alignment and Transformation

9 Neural Media Understanding
9.1 Neural Foundations
9.2 Artificial Neural Networks
9.3 Neural Description and Filtering
9.4 Neural Networks for Categorization

10 Finale and Future
10.1 Summary
10.2 Essential Findings
10.3 Critical Review
10.4 Outlook: To Do List

Appendix A Mathematical Notation
Appendix B Similarity Models


Description of Chapters

Chapter 1 lists the major findings of the second part, names major potentials of the professional methods, develops a set of categorization building blocks, sketches best combinations of media understanding methods and provides an overview over the third part.

Chapter 2 discusses the relationship of perception and reality, theories of media content and media usage, the semiotic analysis of arbitrary symbol systems and potentials for merging of media theory, semiotics and information theory for the benefit of better media understanding.

Chapter 3 lists fundamental aspects of human perception, shows where perceptual and cognitive insufficiencies of the human brain lie, gives an introduction into the psychophysical model and discusses psychophysical aspects of hearing and vision.

Chapter 4 revisits the fundamental convolution problem, links it to human similarity measurement, lists templates for audio, biosignals and stock data, and introduces static and dynamic models for visual media representation.

Chapter 5 introduces the semantic scale, describes the usage of low-level descriptions for semantic enhancement and semantic applications in the audio and the visual domain.

Chapter 6 develops a model of convergence for iterative filtering processes, discusses learning vector quantization, the Kalman filter for scalar quantization and quantization by associative memories such as the Hopfield network and the Boltzmann machine.

Chapter 7 reviews communalities of categorization methods, presents a system of learning bounds, introduces fundamental methods of dynamical systems and applies these methods on dynamic classifiers.

Chapter 8 explains distance-based similarity, the improvements reached through the usage of predicate-based models, their integration in dual process models and the new perspectives gained from structural alignment and transformational similarity.

Chapter 9 analyzes the building blocks of human cognition, explains how these are imitated in artificial neural networks and discusses practical networks for description, filtering and categorization, including the spike response mode, radial basis function networks and cascade correlation.

Chapter 10 summarizes the findings of the book, emphasizes the most important points, estimates the practical applicability of some important ideas and sketches a vision of future media understanding research.

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29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013)

CALL FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY PAPERS

ICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

SPONSORED BY THE IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY

SOFITEL BRISBANE CENTRAL HOTEL, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, APRIL 8-11 2013

http://www.icde2013.org

Submissions: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICDE2013

The annual ICDE conference addresses research issues in designing, building,
managing, and evaluating advanced data-intensive systems and applications.
It is a leading forum for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users
to explore cutting-edge ideas and to exchange techniques, tools, and
experiences. We invite the submission of original research contributions and
industrial papers, as well as proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials,
and demonstrations.
ICDE 2013 will be held in Brisbane, Australia, April 8-11, 2013. Brisbane is
the capital city of the state of Queensland. The conference will be held at
the Sofitel Hotel in the center of Brisbane.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
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All submissions must be prepared in the IEEE camera-ready format and
submitted to the CMT system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICDE2013.
Research and industrial paper submissions are limited to 12 pages. A paper
submitted to ICDE 2013 cannot be under review for any other conference or
journal during the entire time it is considered for ICDE 2013, and it must
be substantially different from any previously published work (other than
posters or short papers with a length of up to 4 pages when converted into
the IEEE format). Submissions to the industrial program may be paper-length
or extended abstracts of 1-2 pages. They should present interesting aspects
of commercial products and services and lessons learned from practical
usage, not research results or prototypes from industry labs.

Submissions are reviewed in a single-blind manner. Authors of research
papers will have an opportunity to give concise feedback on preliminary
reviews within a one-week time window.

All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings. The online proceedings
may be published as early as February 1, 2013. Accepted papers will be 12
pages long. The best papers will be selected for extended versions to be
published in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. IEEE
reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference
(e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the authors do not attend the conference
to present their paper.

Formatting instructions and LaTeX macros are now available for download:
Important note: Only submissions in PDF format are accepted.

Call for proposals for demos, seminars (tutorials), and workshops are to be
issued separately.

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IMPORTANT DATES FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL PAPERS
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Abstract due: July 16, 2012
Full paper submissions due: July 23, 2012 Notification to authors: October
14, 2012 Final versions due: November 30, 2012
Conference: April 8-11, 2013

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
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GENERAL CHAIRS

Rao Katagiri (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Christian S. Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Chris Jermaine (Rice University, USA)
Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)

WORKSHOPS CHAIRS

Chee Yong Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Kjetil Nørvåg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway)

PROCEEDINGS CHAIRS

Jiaheng Lu (Renmin University of China, China)
Egemen Tanin (University of Melbourne, Australia)

INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM CHAIRS

Sang Cha (Seoul National University, Korea)
Haixun Wang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

SEMINAR/TUTORIAL CHAIR

Alexandros Librinidis (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

PANEL CHAIR

Jun Yang (Duke University, USA)

DEMO CHAIRS

Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia)
Rui Zhang (University of Melbourne, Australia)

POSTER CHAIR

Wook-Shin Han (Kyungpook National University, Korea)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIRS

Heng Tao Shen (University of Queensland, Australia)
Shazia Sadiq (University of Queensland, Australia)

FINANCE CHAIR

Marta Indulska (University of Queensland, Australia)

WEB AND PUBLICITY CHAIR

Mohamed Sharaf (University of Queensland, Australia)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE TRACK CHAIRS
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DATA WAREHOUSING, ANALYTICS, MAPREDUCE, AND BIG DATA
Wolfgang Lehner (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

DATA INTEGRATION, METADATA MANAGEMENT, INTEROPERABILITY
Xin (Luna) Dong (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)

DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY: ALGORITHMS
Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY: APPLICATIONS
Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University, USA)

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE AND MOBILE, DISTRIBUTED, AND PEER-TO-PEER DATA
MANAGEMENT
Panos Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

INDEXING AND STORAGE
Paul Larson (Microsoft Research, USA)

PRIVACY AND SECURITY
Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan, Italy)

QUERY PROCESSING AND QUERY OPTIMIZATION
Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland, USA)

SCIENTIFIC DATA AND DATA VISUALIZATION
Magda Balazinska (University of Washington, USA)

SEMISTRUCTURED DATA, RDF, XML
Jeffrey Xu Yu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

SOCIAL NETWORKS, WEB, AND PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Xifeng Yan (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)

SPATIAL, TEMPORAL, AND MULTIMEDIA DATA
Simonas Saltenis (Aalborg University, Denmark)

STREAMS, SENSOR NETWORKS, AND COMPLEX EVENTS PROCESSING
Nesime Tatbul (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

SYSTEMS, PERFORMANCE, AND TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT
Alan Fekete (University of Sydney, Australia)

TEXT, GRAPHS, AND SEARCH
Vagelis Hristidis (University of California at Riverside, USA)

UNCERTAIN AND PROBABILISTIC DATA
Xuemin Lin (University of New South Wales, Australia)

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Special Issue on Intelligent Multimedia Processing - JMPT

Call for Papers

Special issue of the Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies:

Intelligent Multimedia Processing

Background and Scope:
Multimedia processing has been emerging as an important technology
to generate content based on images, video, audio, visuals, and scripts.
The past years have witnessed the implementation of large number of
interesting applications of various intelligent computing techniques
such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, and evolutionary computation.

Computational intelligence has been a fertile area of research for the
past decade. There are numerous successful applications of computational
intelligence in many subfields of multimedia, including image and audio
processing and retrieval as well as text processing. However, there are
still numerous open problems in multimedia processing such as multimedia
communication and computing.

This special issue of the Journal of Multimedia Processing and
Technologies targets advances in the area of intelligent multimedia
processing. It aims to attract contributions of leading experts in their
fields addressing important and timely problems in intelligent multimedia
computing.

Major topics for the special issue include, but are not limited to,
the following:

Multimedia processing
Multimedia content analysis
Multimedia context analysis
Multimedia data mining
Multimedia indexing and retrieval
Multimedia interfacing
Multimedia communication
Multimedia sampling techniques
Multimedia filtering
Multimedia recognition and compression
Active multimedia systems

All contributions will be peer-reviewed according to the usual standards
of the journal.

Submission guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit papers to this special issue. The submitted
papers must describe original research which is neither published, nor
currently under review by other journals or conferences. The author
guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at:
http://www.dline.info/jmpt/submission.php

Important Dates:
Submission of manuscripts: August 15, 2012
Author notification: October 15, 2012
Final paper submission: January 15, 2013
Estimated publication date: First quarter of 2013

Guest editor-in-chief for this Special Issue:
Ramzi A. Haraty, Lebanese American University

For more information, please visit the journal's website at:
http://www.dline.info/jmpt/index.php or contact the guest editor-in-chief
at: rharaty@lau.edu.lb

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Special Issue Content Analysis and Indexing for Distributed Multimedia Search & Retrieval in Broadcasting - Springer MTAP

CALL FOR JOURNAL PAPERS

Content Analysis and Indexing for Distributed

Multimedia Search & Retrieval in Broadcasting

Multimedia Tools and Applications (Special Issue)

http://www.springer.com/journal/11042

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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