-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: IEEE Trans. on MM, SI on Multimedia Applications in Mobile/Wireless Context Datum: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:09:05 +0200 Von: Eckehard Steinbach Eckehard.Steinbach@tum.de An: Eckehard Steinbach eckehard.steinbach@tum.de

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia -------------------------------------------------- Special Issue on Multimedia Applications in Mobile/Wireless Context --------------------------------------------------

Mobile computing is cultivating an environment for novel multimedia applications. The very nature of mobile computing requires non-traditional human-to-human and human-to-machine interactions. Due to design limitations of mobile devices (such as lack of keyboard), multimedia-based interaction becomes a natural mode of interaction in mobile computing. Further, mobile context automatically induces a rich set of meta information (semantic or non semantic) and provides different senses (other than audio visual) to the users. For example, information such as location, environmental temperature, or subject velocity brings new dimensions to the problem space. The meta information from different senses may help us create new solutions that are not possible using traditional multimedia techniques. Mobile computing also presents challenging resource (bandwidth/storage/ computing/power) constraints for multimedia applications that are often resource-intensive. Such constraints become even more stringent in emerging mobile communication environments such as ad-hoc networks, vehicular area networks, and sensor and actor network. Finding solutions to such impedance mismatch is crucial to deployment of rich multimedia applications on mobile platforms. We have started to see innovative mobile multimedia applications and system/algorithm designs in this context, but many challenging issues remain to be solved.

This special issue solicits research papers addressing research challenges in multimedia applications in the context of mobile computing. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

- New multimedia-based interaction techniques that naturally bridge the interface between human and mobile devices.

- New techniques that address the conflict between resource limitation and the desire for natural multimedia-based interaction in mobile computing. - Innovative uses of rich meta information (semantic or non semantic) automatically induced in the mobile context to context-aware searching and context-aware processing of multimedia content.

- System design considering infrastructure-to-mobile and mobile-to-mobile multimedia content delivery and distribution. - Novel uses of non-audio/visual senses in mobile computing context. - Multimedia over mobile wireless networks with special emphasis on emerging mobile networking environments, i.e., ad-hoc networks, vehicular area networks, and mobile sensor and actor networks.

Submission Procedure:

Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors as published in any recent issue of the Transactions and as available on the web at

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/infotsa.html.

Note that all rules will apply with regard to submission length, mandatory overlength page charges, and color charges. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at

http://sps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/.

When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on "Special Issue on Multimedia Applications in Mobile/Wireless Context." Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and indicate the Comments to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for publication in the Special Issue on Multimedia Applications in Mobile/Wireless Context. We require a completed copyright form to be signed and faxed to +1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate the manuscript number on the top of the page. Updated information of this call can be found at

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Bo_Shen/IEEE-trans-Multimedia-CFP.html.

Submission Schedule:

Submission deadline: July 31 2007; Notification of acceptance/rejection: Oct. 31 2007; Final manuscript due: Nov. 30 2007; Publication date: Apr. 2008;

Guest Editors:

Dr. Bo Shen Mobile and Media Systems Lab. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories 1501 Page Mill Rd. 1181 Palo Alto, CA 94539 USA bo.shen@hp.com

Dr. Wei Tsang Ooi Department of Computer Science, SOC1-04-20, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543. ooiwt@comp.nus.edu.sg

Dr. Giacomo Morabito Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni University of Catania giacomo.morabito@diit.unict.it

Dr. Eckehard Steinbach Institute of Communication Networks Media Technology Group Munich University of Technology Eckehard.Steinbach@tum.de