Call for Paper Conference

July 19-23, 2010 - Singapore - http://www.icme2010.org

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Overview:
With around 1000 submissions and 500 participants each year, the IEEE
International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) has been the flagship
multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves
as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia
technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and
development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications,
computer, and signal processing communities.

Paper Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper (two-column format,
maximum 6 pages in length) according to the guidelines available on the
conference website. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Speech, audio, image, graphics, video, text processing
- Signal processing for media integration
- Animation, virtual reality, and 3-D imaging
- Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction
- Multimedia communications and networking
- Multimedia security and content protection
- Multimedia databases and digital libraries
- Multimedia computing systems and applications
- Multimedia analysis and social media
- Hardware and software for multimedia systems
- Multimedia standards and related issues
- Multimedia quality assessment

ICME 2010 aims to have the top 15% papers accepted for oral presentation
and additional 15% papers accepted for poster presentation. Several awards
sponsored by industry and institutions will be given out. Best papers will be
presented in a single-track session to all participants. Accepted papers should
be presented, or else they will not be included in the IEEE Xplore Library.

Workshops, Tutorials, Demos and Special Sessions:
A number of Workshops will be organized by the sponsoring societies. To
further foster new emerging topics, ICME 2010 also welcomes researchers,
developers and practitioners to organize regular Workshops. Interested
organizers please contact the Workshop Chairs for further details. Proposals
for Special Sessions, Tutorials, Demos, and Exhibitions are also encouraged.
Please visit the ICME 2010 website for submission details.

Important Dates:
Regular Paper Abstract Submission: December 18, 2009
Regular Paper Submission: December 31, 2009
Notification of Regular Paper Acceptance: March 15, 2010
Camera-Ready Paper Due: April 15, 2010
Special Session Proposal Due: December 5, 2009
Workshop Proposal Due: December 31, 2009
Tutorial Proposal Due: January 31, 2010

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Conference Website: www.icme2010.org
Contact Email: icme2010@gmail.com

http://ism2009.eecs.uci.edu

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing.
The technical program of ISM2009 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions.

Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

• Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications
• Multimedia networking and QoS
• Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
• Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV
• Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems
• Architecture specification languages
• Software development using multimedia techniques
• Multimedia signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding
• Visualization
• Virtual Reality
• Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval
• Multimedia collaboration
• Rich media enabled E-commerce
• Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms
• Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis
• Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems
• Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption
• Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services
• Multimodal Interaction, including Human Factors
• Multimodal User Interfaces: Design, Engineering, Modality-Abstractions, etc.
• Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing

There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award competition. The award winners will be announced at the conference banquet.

SUBMISSIONS
The written and spoken language of ISM2009 is English.
Authors should submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the ISM2009 web page.

Only electronic submission will be accepted. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and be available for online access via IEEEXplore.
A number of the papers presented at the conference will be selected for possible publications in journals.
ISM2009 will include a few workshops dedicated to focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops of emerging areas are invited. Papers from Workshops will be presented at ISM2009, and included in the Proceedings. Submissions of proposals on panels and demonstrations are also encouraged.

Panel summary articles may also be included in the conference proceedings.
Prospective authors are also invited to submit papers to the Industry Program, which will be included in the proceedings.

A main goal of this program is to present research work that exposes the academic and research communities to challenges and issues important for the industry. Please refer to the Industry Program link for submission details.

IMPORTANT DATES
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April 20, 2009 Submission of workshop proposals due
May 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals
July 12, 2009 Submission of main conference papers due (extended)
July 12, 2009 Submission of proposals on panels due (extended)
July 12, 2009 Submission of industry program papers due (extended)
August 10, 2009 Submission of demonstration proposals due
August 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance of main conference papers
August 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance of demonstration proposals
August 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance of industry program papers
September 25, 2009 Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due

*INTERNET MULTIMEDIA MINING*

http://research.microsoft.com/IMM2009/

In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2009

December 6, Miami, Florida, USA

Aims and scopeWith the explosion of video and image data available on the Internet, online multimedia applications become more and more important. Moreover, mining semantics and other useful information from large-scale Internet multimedia data to facilitate online and local multimedia content analysis, search and other related applications has also gained more and more attention from both academia and industry. On the one hand, the rapid increase of online multimedia data brings new challenges to multimedia content analysis, multimedia retrieval and related multimedia applications, especially in scalability. Both computation cost and performance of many existing techniques are far from satisfactory. On the other hand, Internet also provides us with new opportunities to attack these challenges as well has conventional problems encountered in multimedia mining, content analysis, image/video understanding and computer vision. That is, the massive associated metadata, context and social information available on the Internet, as well as the massive grassroots Internet users, are invaluable resources that can be leveraged to solve the aforementioned difficulties.

Recently more and more researchers are realizing both the challenges and the opportunities for multimedia research brought by the Internet. This full-day workshop aims at bringing together high-quality and novel research works on "Internet Multimedia Mining".

One of the major obstacles of "Internet Multimedia Mining" research is the difficulty in forming a "good" dataset for algorithm developing, system prototyping and performanceevaluation. Together with this workshop, we release a benchmark dataset, which is based on real Internet multimedia data and real Internet multimedia search engines. Submissions to this workshop are encouraged to use this dataset, but papers/demos working on other Internet-based datasets are also welcome.

MSRA Multimedia Dataset

MSRA-MM Version 1 dataset is ready for shipping. Detailed information about the dataset can

be find at: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79942. Please contact the

dataset chair (Meng Wang: mengwang@microsoft.com) to request the data.

MSRA-MM Version 2 dataset (10 times larger with more metadata) will be ready around June 15.

Please submit your request to the dataset chair.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Internet video/image/audio annotation, classification, tagging, search ranking and reranking by combining textual description and video/image content.

* General video/image/audio annotation, classification, tagging, search ranking and reranking by exploiting Internet data and/or users. Approaches which can handle large-scale data/users are more preferred.

* Video/image/audio processing and analyses using Internet data as a knowledge base.

* Social media processing, such as online media authoring and sharing, tag recommendation, tag filtering, tag ranking, and search ranking based on image/video/audio social context.

* Knowledge mining from Internet multimedia data, such as mining semantic distance of keywords or images, mining video/image/audio copy relationships (e.g., given a video/image/audio, to find all videos/images on the Internet that have the same content with the video/image, either entirely or partially), mining trends of multimedia consuming/sharing, mining knowledge (for example, "photo encyclopedia"", from massive amount of multimedia content on the Internet, etc.

* Web-scale content-based multimedia retrieval (for example, approaches based on large-scale high-dimensional feature indexing).

* Other online multimedia mining applications, such as multimedia advertising, multimedia recommendation, as well as location/GPS/geography-enabled multimedia, multimedia sensor network over the Internet, etc.

Paper Submission

We accept two forms of submissions: regular full papers and demonstrations. Regular submissions for this workshop are required to use the same format as regular ICDM long papers (a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format). And demonstration submission requires a 1- or 2-page demo description. We especially encourage long-paper authors to submit a demo also. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Extended version of selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of a top journal in data mining or multimedia area.

Award

The workshop will present two awards: a best paper award and a best demonstration award, judged by a separate awards committee.

Important Dates

• * August 8 Submission of full paper
• * August 29 Submission of demo paper
• * September 8 Notification of Acceptance
• * September 28 Camera-Ready Paper Due
• * December 6 Workshop
  

The ACM Multimedia Open-Source Software Competition celebrates the invaluable contribution of researchers and software developers who advance the field by providing the community with implementations of codecs, middleware, frameworks, toolkits, libraries, applications, and other multimedia software. This year will be the sixth year in running the competition as part of ACM Multimedia.

To qualify, software must be provided with source code and licensed in such a manner that it can be used free of charge in academic and research settings. For the competition, the software will be built from the sources. All source code, license, installation instructions and other documentation must be available on a public web page. Dependencies on non-open source third-party software are discouraged (with the exception of operating systems and commonly found commercial packages available free of charge). To encourage more diverse participation, previous years' non-winning entries are welcome to re-submit for the 2009 competition. Student-led efforts are particularly encouraged.
Authors are highly encouraged to prepare as much documentation as possible, including examples of how the provided software might be used, download statistics, other public usage information, etc. Entries will be peer-reviewed to select entries for inclusion in the conference program as well as an overall winning entry, to be recognized formally at ACM Multimedia 2009. The criteria for judging all submissions include broad applicability and potential impact, novelty, technical depth, demo suitability, and other miscellaneous factors
(e.g., maturity, popularity, student-led, no dependence on closed source).

Authors of the winning entry, and possibly additional selected entries, will be invited to demonstrate their software as part of the conference program. In addition, accepted overview papers will be included in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates

June 10, 2009 Submission Deadline (Extended)
July 10, 2009 Notification of Acceptance
July 24, 2009 Final Camera-Ready Version
Oct 19-24, 2009 Presentation/demonstration at main conference


Submission Instructions

Authors interested in submitting an entry to the open source software competition should prepare a package containing the following information to be submitted via the EDAS online submission system under the Open Source Software Competition track of ACM Multimedia 2009 Conference (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7783&track=7413):

+ Title of submission
+ Names and affiliations of authors (indicate students). In case of a large distributed project, include full list of contributors, if possible, and indicate main contact (e.g., project owner or maintainer).
+ Two-page summary paper including an overview of the open-source software package, its description, applications, intended audience, main features, etc. Selected entries, in addition to the winning entry, will be included in the conference proceedings. The paper should be prepared in double-column ACM proceedings style as a PDF file, and should include a public URL for project page where software, documentation, and open-source license can be found.
+ Compressed zip archive file with all source code, documentation, build/install instructions, and licenses.

NOTE: If the archive file is more than 5MB in size, please place the file in a web accessible location and include a URL for that location in the PDF paper. In that case, upload only the PDF paper to the online EDAS submission system.

NOTE: The judging committee will make a reasonable effort to build any submitted software. However, if we are unable to make the software run given a reasonable effort, we must unfortunately exclude it from the competition. Therefore, complete and clear build/install instructions will be a crucial component of any submission.

If you have questions about what can or should be submitted, please feel free to address your questions to the competition chair prior to the submission deadline.
We are excited to be organizing this innovative and creative component of the 2009 ACM Multimedia program. Please help us make this venture a continuing success by submitting your entry to the competition. We look forward to your participation.


Contact

For any questions regarding the open source competition please email the chair:

Dr. Apostol (Paul) Natsev (IBM Research) natsev -at- us.ibm.com

http://www.smart-society.net/ssms09
23-28 August 2009, Koblenz, Germany

** Only a few seats available **
Application deadline (extended): 1 June 2009 (Monday)

http://ism2009.eecs.uci.edu

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

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The First (ACM) International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service

November 23-25, 2009

Kunming, Yunnan, China

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General Co-Chairs

Shipeng Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Hanqing Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Dan Xu , Yunnan University, China

Program Co-Chairs

Albert Del Bimbo, University of Firenze

Qi Tian, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Changsheng Xu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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URL: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~qitian/cfp_cviu.htm

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Important dates:

• Submission of Papers: July 1, 2009
• Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 15, 2009
• Submission of Camera-Ready Papers: September 15, 2009
• Early Bird Registration: September 15, 2009

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The First (ACM) International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS’2009) will focus on a wide variety of key issues and investigate new approaches to tackle problems arising from the fast-growing multimedia data on internet and users’ diverse requirement for multimedia service.

The ICIMCS'2009 is a forum for researchers from the academia and the industry, professionals, standard developers to exchange information on the state-of-the-art of internet multimedia information processing technologies and applications, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia information computing from internet.

The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Basic techniques for image, video and audio processing
• Learning techniques for large scale multimedia annotation and classification
• Image/Video indexing, query and re-ranking
• Performance evaluation for large scale multimedia processing
• Cross media computing by integrating visual, aural and textual information
• Human factor issues for internet multimedia computing
• Adaptive multimedia accessing and browsing for mobile equipment
• Digital right management and data protection for multimedia
• Novel multimedia data management systems and applications
  

http://www.cis.uab.edu/kddm/scms09/index.htm

Held in conjunction with the Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC 2009)
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsc/

CFP:

With the proliferation of multimedia data (image, video, structured text, etc.) and the recent advances in networks and information technology, multimedia computing is having an unprecedented impact on every aspect of our life, from the personal use of multimedia mobile devices, such as iPod and PDA, to a wide spectrum of domains such as business and healthcare. The new multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in an ever effective way, bringing along the multimedia revolution. Traditional multimedia research, which largely lies in signal processing and data communication, is now facing challenges posed by the new research trends such as multimedia semantic computing, multi-modal interaction and cross-mining, cooperative processing, new multimedia standards, Quality of Service (QoS), multimedia security, and social issues, which are just a few examples of the major research areas.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in multimedia semantic computing to discuss the state of the art of the research on semantic-based multimedia systems, present theoretical frameworks and practical implementations, and identify challenges and open issues in multimedia semantic modeling and integration. Multimedia semantic computing can be defined as "Computing with (machine processable) Descriptions of Content and Intentions" of multimedia data and has been gaining attentions in various applications including pervasive multimedia computing systems, multimedia delivery over the network, personalized multimedia information retrieval systems which adapt to the user's needs, integration of semantic content and schema from distributed multimedia sources so that the user sees a unified view of heterogeneous data, clustering and classification of semantically-tied information in different multimedia modalities, security issues in multimedia/hypertext systems, etc. We invite researchers from various disciplines to submit original research contributions to this workshop.

IEEE SCMS 2009 will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsc/).

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:


* semantic content analysis
* semantic integration
* multimedia retrieval (image, video, audio, etc.)
* multimodal data analysis and interaction
* Multimedia streaming and networking
* human-centered multimedia computing
* image/video/audio databases
* multimedia data mining
* multimedia data storage
* social network analysis from multimedia
* multimedia data modeling
* distributed multimedia systems
* multimedia data visualization
* multimedia assurance and security
* novel applications

Instructions for authors:

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited. Authors should submit a 6-page technical paper manuscript (in English) in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract, following the document templates available on the ICSC2009 paper submission web site http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsc/. Manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to one of the Program Chairs listed below on or before the deadline date of June 5th, 2009. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). Submissions should include the name and the email address of the corresponding author.

All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on the review results. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings together with the proceedings of the IEEE ICSC 2009 conference. Based on the quality of the manuscripts, selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM).

Important Dates:

Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 5, 2009 (PDF format)
Notification of Results: July 1, 2009
Camera Ready Due: TBA
Author Registration: TBA

Program Co-Chairs:

Chengcui Zhang (zhang@cis.uab.edu)
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Hongli Luo (luoh@ipfw.edu)
Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne

Min Chen (chen@cs.umt.edu)
University of Montana

Program Committee:

Yu Cao California State University, Fresno, USA
Nabil J. Sarhan Wayne State University, USA
Xingquan Zhu Florida Atlantic University, USA
Yijuan (Lucy) Lu Texas State University
Chong-Wah Ngo City University of Hong Kong
Ming Li California State University, Fresno, USA\
Zhixin Ma Xidian University, China
Shih-Hsi Liu California State University, Fresno, USA
Alan Sprague The University of Alabama at Birmingham

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

* Prof. Nicolas D. Georganas, Distinguished University Professor of the University of Ottawa, Canada, Chair of Excellence of the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
* Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Steinmetz, Technical University of Darmstadt - DE

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ACCEPTANCE RATE

The program committee accepted 16 full-papers (an acceptance rate of 25%) and 12 short-papers from several countries.

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PROGRAMME

For all details of the two-days programme visit http://fmn2009.dei.uc.pt/prog.html

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SPONSORS

CONTENT Network of Excellence in Content Distribution Network Research
ACM
IEEE Portugal Section
University of Coimbra
PEERFACTSIM.KOM
BCS
IET

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SCOPE

In recent years real-time multimedia services have been contributing extensively to our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in the future Internet. The management of content distribution services is an important key to attract and keep customers, while increasing profits to content providers. The efficient delivery and deployment of real-time multimedia services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wired and wireless systems is a challenging research objective. The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols, as well as, the demand for improved Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE), and seamless mobility control creates a challenging study field and also possibilities for research of novel communication protocols, architectures and methods towards Future Multimedia Networking Systems. One major challenge in this context is the ever growing complexity of communication management and network maintenance in this context. Thus, solutions are required in which services, management and administration entities interact and behave autonomously with the overall goal of creating Autonomic Content Networks.

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TOPICS

The objective of the Future Multimedia Networking (FMNŽ09) workshop is to discuss state-of-the-art research and developing activities contributing to aspects of multimedia systems, content networking, and autonomous communication. We are inviting both theoretical and experimental papers as well as work-in-progress research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Autonomous management in next generation content networks
* Content delivery networks and autonomic content networks
* Audio-visual systems
* Novel protocols for multimedia services supporting autonomous network operations
* Grid networking for multimedia services
* Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks
* Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks and autonomic network infrastructures
* Quality of service management in content networks and emerging autonomous content networks
* Quality of experience management in content networks and emerging autonomous content networks
* Management of service oriented architectures
* Seamless mobility of multimedia services in emerging autonomous content networks
* Novel multimedia architectures/platforms
* Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management
* IP multimedia system operations and management
* Resource reservation for multimedia services
* Multimedia in mobile and broadband wireless access networks, and emerging autonomous content networks
* Context-aware content distribution

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REGISTRATION

Register here: http://fmn2009.dei.uc.pt/registration.html

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GENERAL CHAIR

Marília Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal @ marilia@dei.uc.pt

GENERAL CO-CHAIR

Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra, Portugal @ ecoelho@dei.uc.pt

TPC CHAIRS

Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK @ a.mauthe@lancaster.ac.uk
Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA @ szeadally@udc.edu

For all members visit http://fmn2009.dei.uc.pt/committees.html

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Mikolaj Leszczuk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland @ leszczuk@agh.edu.pl
Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Jo Yew THAM, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore

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RELATED NEWS

To find out about other news in the field visit http://fmn2009.dei.uc.pt/index.html

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VENUE

FMN 2009 will take place in University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.

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SOCIAL EVENTS

* Gala Dinner – The Basófias - http://www.basofias.com/
* Guided tour: University of Coimbra - http://www.uc.pt/

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IMPORTANT DATE
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1 June 2009: Paper Submission
1 June 2009: Proposal for Special Session and Tutorial
1 Aug 2009: Notification of Acceptance
22 Aug 2009: Camera-Ready Paper


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OVERVIEW
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Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. The10th PCM conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, a vibrant South-East Asian city. The technical program will feature opening keynote addresses, invited plenary talks, tutorials, special sessions, and technical presentations of refereed papers.

Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following tracks:

1. Multimedia analysis and retrieval
2. Multimedia security rights and management
3. Multimedia compression and optimization
4. Multimedia communication and networking
5. Multimedia systems and applications.

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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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The Proceedings of PCM2009 will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, by Springer. Submitted paper should not be more than 10 pages using the LNCS template.

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SPECIAL ISSUE
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Selected high quality papers will be published in a special issue of Journal of Signal Processing Systems (JSPS).

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HONORARY CHAIRS
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Chidchanok Lursinsap, Chulalongkorn University Ling Guan, Ryerson University

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CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
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Athikom Roeksabutr, Mahanakorn U. of Tech.
Xiaoou Tang, Microsoft Research Asia
Mark Liao, IIS Academia Sinica

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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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Kumazawa Itsuo, Tokyo Institute of Technology Paisarn Muneesawang, Naresuan University Feng Wu, Microsoft Research Asia