CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Special Issue on Interactive Multimedia

Schedule:
Manuscript submission:  30 September 2010 
Acceptance/Revision notification:  15 January 2011
Revised manuscript due: 1 March 2011 
Final acceptance notification: 15 April 2011
Final manuscript due:   1 May 2011
Tentative publication:  August 2011               

Guest Editors: 
Prof. S.-H. Gary Chan, HKUST, Hong Kong (gchan@cse.ust.hk)
Dr. Jin Li, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research, U.S.A. (jinl@microsoft.com)
Prof. Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland (pascal.frossard@epfl.ch)
Dr. Gerasimos Potamianos, NCSR "Demokritos" (gpotam@iit.demokritos.gr)


With the advances in broadband networks, networking and QoS standards,
audio/video coding and processing techniques and multimedia-capable
user devices, multimedia streaming over networks has become a reality.
With the popularity of peer-to-peer and social network applications,
there has been increasing interest of interactive multimedia
applications.  An interactive multimedia application refers to live
sharing of multimedia contents in terms of video, audio, texts or
images among distributed users in a network.  An interactive session
requires real-time processing of data and media streams, with the
support of user interactions at any time.  Examples are voice over IP
(VoIP), video conferencing, distributed collaborative environments,
teleconferencing, online multiplayer games, social games, etc.  As
enterprises and interpersonal/business communications are increasingly
global, such distributed interactive multimedia applications overcome
accessibility and co-location barriers by bringing people together,
leading to tremendous saving in time, operational and fuel costs.

Distributed interactive multimedia application is one of the fastest
growing market sectors.  While there are many business opportunities
and advancements, the design of a good interactive multimedia system
still faces many technological challenges today.  Overcoming these
challenges requires joint effort of various multimedia communities of
system integration and architecture, signal processing,
communication/coding and transmission, network design and measurement,
standardization, etc. Furthermore, design of good user interfaces for
smart interactive systems, and the incorporation of automatic
perception of human activity (presence, speech, interaction), remains
an important area at its infancy.
 

This special issue intends to bring together papers from experts in
various multimedia areas to address challenges and present effective
solutions for interactive multimedia applications, as well as to
promote the development of novel interactive technologies. We solicit
original contributions in the areas related to, but not limited to,
the following: 

* Multimedia processing for interactive applications
* Scheduling and coding techniques for interactive VoIP and multimedia
  conferencing 
* Congestion control and QoS/error correction to mitigate network anomalies
* Interactive multimedia messaging protocol
* Low bit-rate multimedia processing and delivery
* Design of collaborative conferencing networks 
* Novel architecture and optimization for interactive multimedia applications
* Real-time, low-delay and interactive telepresence networks 
* Interactive technologies and applications over mobile, ad-hoc or
  infrastructure-based overlay (peer-to-peer) or social networks  
* Support of real-time interactivity 
* Session initiation, maintenance and control 
* Quality monitoring and management for multi-party voice and video
  interactive applications 
* Security and privacy solutions 
* Multimodal perception technologies of human activity in the design
  of smart interactive systems 
* Design of smart spaces for interactive systems
* Automatic detection of human presence and speech
* Speech enhancement and transcription, speaker localization and
  interactive control of audio-visual content
* User interface design 
* Measurements and standards for interactive applications
* System design, integration, trials and measurements
* Success or failure experiences for interactive multimedia systems or networks
* Standardization activities for interactive multimedia 

Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Transactions on
Multimedia guidelines for authors (see:
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/tmm/author_info.html).
Mandatory overlength page charges and color charges will apply.
Manuscripts (both 1-column and 2-column versions are required) should
be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript
submission system at http://tmmieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. When
selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on Special Issue on
Interactive Multimedia.  A copyright form with the manuscript number
on the top of the page is required to be completed, signed and faxed
to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission.