-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] Call for papers for MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 08) Datum: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:19:36 +0200 Von: Frank Nack Frank.Nack@CWI.NL Antwort an: Frank Nack Frank.Nack@CWI.NL An: MM-INTEREST@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

CALL FOR PAPERS The 14 th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2008) Kyoto, Japan, 9 - 11 January 2008 http://research.nii.ac.jp/mmm2008/

The International MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) Conference is a leading international conference http://research.nii.ac.jp/mmm2008/ for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for original high-quality papers in, but not limited to, the following areas related to multimedia modeling technologies and applications:

1. Multimedia Content Analysis * Image/Video/Audio Content Analysis * Media Assimilation and Fusion * Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval and Browsing * Multimedia Indexing * Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization * Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data * Statistical Modeling of Multimedia Data

2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications * Media Representation and Algorithms * Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression * Multimedia Database, Content Delivery and Transport * Multimedia Security and Content Protection * Wireless and Mobile Multimedia * Multimedia Standards and Related Issues

3. Multimedia Applications and Services * Real-Time, Interactive Multimedia Applications * Ambiance Multimedia Applications * Multi-Modal Interaction * Virtual Environments * Personalization * Collaboration, Contextual Metadata, Collaborative Tagging * Web Applications * Multimedia Authoring * Multimedia-Enabled New Applications (E-Learning, Entertainment, Health Care, Web2.0, SNS, etc.)

Paper Submission Guidelines Papers should be less than 10 pages in length, conforming to the formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series www.springer.com/lncs. Papers will be judged by an international program committee based on their originality, significance, correctness and clarity. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through the MMM2008 Paper Submission Website: http://research.nii.ac.jp/mmm2008/. To publish the paper in the conference, one of the authors needs to register and present the paper in the conference. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to "The Visual Computer" journal.

Important Dates Submission of full papers : 6 Jul. 2007 (23:59 Japan Standard Time (GMT+9)) Notification of acceptance : 10 Sep. 2007 Camera-ready Copy Due : 5 Oct. 2007 Author registration : 5 Oct. 2007 Conference : 9 -11 Jan. 2008

General Co-Chairs Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka University, Japan

Program Co-Chairs Shin’ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Minoru Etoh, NTT DoCoMo Research Laboratories, Japan Frank Nack, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France