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Workshops at-a-glance (Name: paper submission deadline)
Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications: Feb 14, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Security and Content Protection: Feb 14, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare: Feb 15, 2009 Workshop on Internet Multimedia Search and Mining: Feb 15, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing and Novel Parallel Computing: March 1, 2009
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1st IEEE Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications (W'MAPS 2009) http://www.icme09.org/workshop/WMAPS09
July 3rd, 2009 Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)
The proliferation of mobile multimedia devices and social networks has led to an explosion of digital media content being created, resulting in large personal and public multimedia databases in which it has become increasingly difficult to retrieve specific content and browse the large collections. In the absence of manual annotation specifying the content of the media (in the form of captions or tags), most current content management software only allow simple browsing and navigation options; which severely limits the search and other advanced functionality. This is complicated by the available types of media such as images, video, music, speech, text, and graphics, and the relationship and interactions among them. In addition to personal collections located at home PCs and laptops, the wide spread popularity of media and social networking sites such as Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Easyshare Gallery has enabled users to share and browse images and videos. However, due to the huge magnitude and variety of media content, it is increasing difficult for users and consumers to easily navigate, search, compose, and share their content and memories. When we consider the multimedia information available on public web sites, we will be confronting with a big scalability issue with many existing techniques and algorithms. Solutions that address the broad spectrum of personal and social multimedia applications are needed.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a technical forum for researchers from academy and industry to discuss the advances and challenges of information processing, analysis, and retrieval for multimedia applications in personal and social domains. We propose to explore emerging areas of research such as cross-media and cross-domain information analysis and extraction, which will enhance current capability of information management applications and enrich the overall multimedia experience. Another area is to leverage rich metadata and contextual information associated with the media content. These include GPS, date/time, captions/tags, camera settings, face and other biometric information. The advances in user interface technologies incorporating speech and gesture recognition will also play an important role in enabling more user friendly and easy to use multimedia applications in the consumer domain.
We welcome papers that address fundamental research issues in this challenging area, with emphasis on personal and social applications. We also encourage papers to report on system level research related to multimedia and cross-media analysis, processing, and retrieval. A number of invited papers will also be solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cross-media information analysis and extraction - Machine learning algorithms for media information analysis and extraction - Object, feature, and relation extraction from media - Semantic content understanding and recognition - Context-aware analysis of media and cross-media content - High dynamic range image processing and retrieval - Reasoning and cross-domain learning methodologies - Intra- and inter-media representation and ontology for cross media - Multimedia browsing/visualization tools and cross-media query - Metadata analysis for semantic annotations of multimedia content - Semi-automatic and automatic annotation methods for media content - Media information processing, delivery, and management - Synchronization of media objects for cross media analysis - User interface method for media browsing and search - Speech and gesture interface for consumer multimedia applications - System level research for media and cross-media applications
Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009
Alexander Loui and Susanto Rahardja Workshop Co-Chairs Lekha Chaisorn and Daniel Gatica-Perez Technical Program Co-Chairs
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Scope and Topics Today we live in a digital world. The advent of digital technologies has made the creation and manipulation of multimedia content simpler. It offers higher quality and a lot more convenience to consumers. For example, it allows one to make perfect copies. Together with the growing volumes of digital data, increasingly the Internet is used for the distribution of the digital data. The ease with which digital goods can be copied and redistributed makes the Internet well suited for unauthorized copying, modification and redistribution. The rapid adoption of new technologies such as high-bandwidth connections, wireless networks, and peer-to-peer networks is accelerating this process.
Multimedia security and content protection technologies and systems are intended to protect the intellectual property rights of content owners in scenarios in which the participants have conflicting goals and are not fully trusted. However, developing secure multimedia applications and solutions in a distributed environment with competing technologies and emerging standards is an enormous challenge. This workshop intends to provide a forum that researchers, developers and practitioners from multimedia security communities come together to share the vision of multimedia security and content protection in this rapidly growing digital world. That is from reporting latest technology advances, identifying new high impact problems that can shape the future of research, finding applications for the identified technologies, as well as legal and business issues related to multimedia security.
The workshop seeks submissions in the general areas of multimedia security in its processing, transmission and consumption. We welcome submissions on emerging standards, interoperability and practical application issues. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Content Protection: * Architectures for content protection systems * Broadcast encryption and revocation schemes * Traitor tracing and forensics * Digital Rights Management * Network protection and security * Attacks and protocol security * Security evaluation and benchmarks * Software/hardware tamper resistance (including software watermarking and code obfuscation) * Trusted computing
Multimedia Security * Authentication and encryption * Multimedia watermarking, fingerprinting and identification * Multimedia forensics * Privacy and anonymity * Steganography and steganalysis
Applications, Standard, and Formats: * Emerging applications including secure home network * New business models in multimedia security and content protection * Multimedia security related standards * Legal and policy issues and their interactions with technological development * Implementations, demonstrations and prototypes of secure multimedia application systems
This workshop will contain some invited presentations and presentations accepted by open submission to report latest academic research and recent industrial progress on digital rights management (DRM), multimedia security and content protection technologies and standards. The format will be a series of presentations held in a panel/forum type of environment to encourage interaction and discussion of topics and issues.
Guidelines for Submission Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an early stage of development or share future vision. Manuscripts should not exceed four (4) pages in double-column IEEE format. Please visit the ICME 2009 website, www.icme09.org, for the submission instructions. All submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research or engineering work, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Please note that dual submissions to both the main ICME conference and workshop will not be accepted.
Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009
Workshop Chairs Dr. Xin Wang, ContentGuard, Inc., USA xin.wang@contentguard.com Dr. Li Zhao, Tsinghua University, China zhaoli@tsinghua.edu.cn Dr.. HongXia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA jin@us.ibm.com
Workshop Technical Program Committee William Knox Carey (InterTrust, USA) Kai Chen (Intel, China) Diehl Eric (Thomson, France) Changlong He, (Jilin University Information Technologies Co., Ltd., China) Zhongyang Huang (Panasonic, Singapore) Eunjin Jung (University of Iowa, USA) Antonius Kalker (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Xu Li, Tsinghua (University, China) Earnest Ma (Philips, China) Ginger Myles (Apple Computer, USA) Yongdong Wu (I2R, Singapore) Heather Yu (Huawei Technologies, USA) Wenjun Zeng (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA) Bin Zhu (Microsoft Research, China) Sencun Zhu (Penn State University, USA)
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Workshop on Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare July 3, 2009 Workshop webpage: http://multimedia.utdallas.edu/mmph09/index.html -----------------
Workshop Scope: --------------- Human health and performance are broad terms that describe the quality of life but are difficult to quantify. Human health can be broadly identified by two components: physical health and mental health. While there is no "official" definition for mental health (considering cultural differences and subjective assessments), physical health is typically attributed to health of various body organs including muscles, bones, and joints. Human performance can be considered as "focused behavior" or "purposeful work" and hence performance is typically domain specific such as sports performance, or performance of a physically challenged person. Recent advances in various technologies for medical sensors, computing, and wireless communication have resulted in monitoring, tracking, and quantifying the physical health. Providing ubiquitous health care and performance monitoring have thus become feasible, affordable, and in many cases indispensable.
The proposed workshop will be multi-disciplinary, focusing on innovations in information processing and system aspects of health care and performance. The topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to: * Information processing aspects of human health and performance - Data processing, storage and management - Detection, classification, and tracking - Distributed algorithms and reasoning - Programming models and languages * Body sensor networks: Systems and Technology - Novel communication techniques and protocols - In-vivo, on-body, near-body networks - Location, time, and other network services - Network health monitoring and management - Performance modeling * System design issues of Medical Digital Devices - Operating systems and runtime environments - Power - Reliability and fault-tolerance * Assistive Technologies for aged and disabled - Longitudinal studies showing impact on health care and performance * Security and privacy, including HIPAA for medical applications * HCI/Wearable Computing for Medical Applications - Social impacts - Usability - Brain Computer Interactions - Wearable system design issues - Entertainment * Medical Applications - Pervasive health care and patient monitoring within hospitals and other healthcare delivery settings in residential and other non healthcare delivery settings - Prosthetics and other novel medical applications
We will have a special issue based on this workshop in a leading journal.
Important Dates: ---------------- Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009
Workshop Chairs: ---------------- 1. Dr B. Prabhakaran Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: praba@utdallas.edu
2. Prof Klara Nahrstedt Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 3104 Siebel Center, 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 Email: klara@cs.uiuc.edu
3. Dr Roozbeh Jafari Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: roozbeh@utdallas.edu
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Workshop on Internet Multimedia Search and Mining (IMSM'09) July 3, 2009
Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009
With the explosion of video and image data available on the Internet, online multimedia search becomes 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 us new challenges to multimedia content analysis and multimedia retrieval especially in terms of scalability. Both computational costs and accuracy are still far from satisfactory. While on the other hand, Internet also provides us new opportunities to attack these challenges as well as conventional problems in media analysis and computer vision. That is, the massive associated metadata available on the Internet, as well as the massive grassroots Internet users, are valuable 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 workshop aims at bringing together high-quality and novel research works on Internet Multimedia, or more specifically, Internet-based multimedia search as well as Internet-based multimedia mining. Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
1. Internet video/image search ranking and reranking by combining textual description and video/image content.
2. General video/image search ranking and reranking by exploiting Internet data and/or users.
3. Internet video/image classification, annotation, and tagging. Approaches which can handle large-scale data are more preferred.
4. General video/image classification, annotation, and tagging by leveraging Internet data and/or users.
5. Internet video/image search result presentation and management, such as clustering, summarization, and browsing.
6. Video/image processing using Internet data as a knowledge base.
7. Tag recommendation, filtering, and ranking based on image/video social tagging.
8. CBIR for large-scale datasets (i.e., high-dimensional feature indexing).
9. Query suggestion for video/image search based on both text and image/video data.
10. Knowledge mining from Internet multimedia data, such as mining semantic distance of keywords or images, and mining video/image copy relationships (e.g., given a video/image, to find all videos/images on the Internet that have the same content with the video/image, either entirely or partially).
Submissions for this workshop are required to use the same format as regular ICME papers. All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. Extended version of selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of a top journal in multimedia area (pending).
Workshop Chair
Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Program Committee
Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Winston Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Lyndon Kennedy (Columbia University, USA) Zhu Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research, Spain) Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong, China) Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Bo Tao (Google China, China) Dacheng Tao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Adrian Ulges (DFKI, Germany) Rong Yan (IBM TJ WatsonResearch Center, USA) Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
More information please visit: http://research.microsoft.com/~xshua/imsm
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Call for Poster Papers Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing and Novel Parallel Computing at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo July 1, 2009 (second day of the ICME conference), Cancun, Mexico
http://www.icme09.org/workshops.html
The goal of this workshop is to give the attendees (1) an overview and trend of the emerging MMSP applications and (2) a deep-dive into the interaction between multimedia application and novel parallel architecture.
In particular, the increasing architectural complexity and application sophistication make it essential to have an inter-disciplinary research between algorithms and hardware designs. The workshop is to bridge the gap between algorithms and architecture designs for the development of future computer and multimedia systems. In particular, multi-core processors are now prevalent everywhere from desktops and graphics processors to laptops and embedded systems. Technology predictions indicate that this trend will continue and that there will be increasing numbers of cores (homogenous or heterogeneous) in future systems. It is clear that multimedia systems of tomorrow will be (and must be) implemented on platforms with multiple cores. While the challenges of designing multi-core systems in hardware are many, writing efficient parallel applications that utilize the computing capability of many processing cores may reveal to be even more challenging. Existing serial algorithms will need to be redesigned -- the best sequential algorithm is not necessarily the best parallel algorithm. Signal processing algorithm designers must understand the nuances of a multi-core computing engine. Only then can the tremendous computing power that such platforms provide be harnessed efficiently.
We are organizing a poster session in the workshop. We would like to attract both tutorial-like and non-tutorial, research-oriented poster papers on (1) novel multimedia applications that can be enabled by platform with multiple cores, and (2) design examples of multimedia signal processing on platforms with multiple cores that demonstrate the techniques or algorithm changes for efficient implementations.
*****Submission Procedure***** Prospective authors should submit 2-page white papers to the workshop chairs according to the following timetable. The white paper should summarize the key takeaway messages ("What can the attendee learn from the poster?"), the motivation ("Why should a attendee care the poster?"), the significance of the topic ("Why is this topic important?"), a brief history ("What are the related work and authors' prior publications in this topic?"), and the outline of the content ("What do you plan to explain the poster?"). The authors should properly answer all the questions above so that the white paper can be reviewed efficiently. After answering the above questions, the authors can selectively describe some details within the rest of page limit. The white paper should be no more than 2 pages in the IEEE single-space double-column format.
Please note that a special issue on "Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores" that focuses on design and applications is planned for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (http://apollo.ee.columbia.edu/spm/?i=cfp/Mar10). Prospective authors are encouraged to submit the tutorial-like whitepapers to both the workshop and the Magazine.
*****Schedule***** 2-page summary due: Mach 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: March 31, 2009
*****Workshop Chairs***** Li Deng, Microsoft, USA (deng@microsoft.com) Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft, USA (zhang@microsoft.com) Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel Corporation, USA (yen-kuang.chen@intel.com)
*****ICME and Workshop Keynote Speaker (Invitation Pending)***** Wen-mei W. Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA: Parallelization of Video Processing
*****Confirmed Workshop Speakers***** * Li Deng, Microsoft, USA: Speech Signal Processing * Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada: Multimodal Media Fusion and 3D Data Analysis and Visualization * Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal: Distributed Video Coding * Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy: Image and Video Analysis for the Geometric and Radiometric Modeling of 3D Scenes * Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft, USA: Multimodal Collaboration and Human-Computer Interaction ---------------------------- (3394 wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de) TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS LIST You are receiving this email because you have participated previous ICME events. If you would like to be removed from this email contact list, please reply to this message, including the text of the entire message above in the body of your email message, and the words 'REMOVE ME' in the subject line. This email should be addressed to: icme2009_publicity@cmsworkshops.com. You will be removed from this list when we receive your reply.