Thursday, January 28, 2010

Overview of Selected Current MPEG Activities

--this covers a report from the 91st MPEG meeting in Kyoto, Japan

Previously, I've always provided a written report but this time it comes in form of a presentation (slideshow) - enjoy!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Kyoto MMT Workshop Program

The program for the Workshop on MMT is now available!

Date: Wednesday (13:00~ 17:00) January 20 during the 91th WG11 meeting in Japan

Session I, 13:00-14:50

  • Consideration of a transport mechanism on broadcasting from the viewpoint of emerging hybrid content delivery system (by NHK)
  • Industry Viewpoints of Internet TV over IP networks: Trends and Technologies (by Samsung)
  • Future media adaptation and delivery (by Thomson)
  • Experiences and Challenges of Emerging Multimedia Transport Environments from the Operator Point of View (by Avail-TVN)
  • Panel Discussion
Session II, 15:10-17:00
  • DVB Work on Multimedia Transport (by DVB)
  • Cross Layer Optimization for reliable video delivery over mobile wireless networks (by ETRI)
  • Extended NAL (Network Abstraction Layer) for MMT (by KHU)
  • MPEG-21-based cross-layer optimization techniques for enabling Quality of Experience (by U. Klagenfurt)
  • Panel Discussion

Monday, January 11, 2010

CfP: Special Issue of MTAP on Semantic Multimedia

Call for Papers: Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer

*** Special issue on "Semantic Multimedia" ***

Growing amounts of multimedia data of various modalities (video, audio, 3D objects, etc.) make management, distribution of and access to multimedia material ever harder, both for lay and professional users. Novel approaches, bridging the large disparity between descriptors computed automatically from multimedia content and subjectivity and context in user interpretation and interaction, are required. It still needs to be further explored how technologies from different research areas can be used to increase the value of multimedia content, e.g. to assist multimedia representation, analysis and annotation with semantics and knowledge based methods.
This special issue invites high quality contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects of semantic multimedia. We especially invite the submission of extended versions of papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2009) and at the attached workshops.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF MULTIMEDIA
- Knowledge assisted multimedia analysis
- Content-based multimedia analysis linked with natural language/speech processing

SEMANTIC RETRIEVAL OF MULTIMEDIA
- Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval
- Semantic retrieval of 3D objects
- Machine Learning and relevance feedback for finding semantics
- Semantic-driven multimedia content adaptation/summarization

SEMANTIC METADATA MANAGEMENT OF MULTIMEDIA
- Metadata management for multimedia
- Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures
- Standards bridging the multimedia and knowledge domains  

USER INTERFACES FOR SEMANTIC MULTIMEDIA
- Interfaces and personalization for interaction with large multimedia repositories
- Semantic media annotation
- Inference and machine learning for semi-automatic annotation
- Browsing multimedia archives
- Device-specific access to and adaptation of multimedia

SEMANTICS IN VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS
- illustrative depiction and rendering
- mapping meaning to presentation content
- smart virtual environments
- supporting knowledge discovery

APPLICATIONS OF SEMANTIC MULTIMEDIA
- Social multimedia tagging
- Context, user, network, semantics-aware media engineering
- Multimedia mash-ups
- Case studies with clear, innovative lessons learned

Important Dates
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Submission of papers: 15 February 2010
Submission of final accepted papers: 15 May 2010
Submissions
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All the papers should be full journal length versions and follow the guidelines set out by Multimedia Tools and Applications (http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042).
Submissions should be uploaded to http://mtap.editorialmanager.com choosing "Semantic Multimedia" as article type, no later than February 15, 2010.

Guest Editors
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Werner Bailer, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria
Bernard Mérialdo, Eurecom, France
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, ITI, Greece
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore
The CfP can be found at http://www.samt2009.org/sites/default/files/mtap_cfp_flyer_v1.pdf

CFP-- 2nd IEEE Int'l Workshop on Multimedia Computing and Communications (MCC'10)


The Second IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Computing and Communications (MCC'10)

August 2 - 5, 2010
ETH Zurich, Switzerland


In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Network (ICCCN) 2010

Call For Paper: http://www.ifp.illinois.edu/~yunfu2/CfP/MCC10-cfp.html

Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
 

* Multimedia content analysis, representation, and understanding
* Multimedia management in social networking environment
* Multimedia data mining and fusing, indexing and retrieval
* Sensorial data processing for interactive games
* Content, user, computation, and network aware media engineering
* Multimedia summarization and abstraction
* Intelligent audio-video surveillance and other security-related applications
* Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models
* Soft-biometrics from multimedia computing
* Multimedia in mobile and smart environment
* Internet human computer interaction
* Image/video processing and analysis
* Image filtering and enhancement, such as noise reduction, edge enhancement, contrast enhancement, color processing
* Image restoration, multiframe image restoration
* Image/video format conversion including de-interlacing, scaling and super-resolution, and frame rate conversion
* Motion detection and estimation
* Image/video segmentation and tracking
* Image/video stabilization
* Stereoscopic and 3D processing
* 3DTV

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission deadline   March 15, 2010
Author notification                April 30, 2010
Camera-ready paper             May 14, 2010
 

Program Chairs:
 

Yun (Raymond) Fu, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA
Fan Zhai, Texas Instruments, USA


Thursday, January 7, 2010

Multimedia Events: A public Google Calendar

The lack of an online calendar for multimedia events, i.e., conferences, workshops, exhibitions in the area of multimedia, motivated me to create a public Google Calendar.

A few events I've already added but you can help me keeping it up-to-date ...

Calender address: XML, ICAL, HTML

CFP - IEEE Globecom 2010 - Communications Software, Services and Multimedia

IEEE Globecom 2010 - Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium Dec 6 - 10, 2010
Miami, FL USA
http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2010

The Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium covers challenges and advances for service delivery and management in fixed and mobile communication networks. These topics are particularly relevant for researchers, developers and industries in the areas of networking and services covered by many Technical Committees. The symposium will follow GC2010 instructions for paper submission, review, and session construction. Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of Communications Software and Services are solicited for submission to the symposium.

Topics of Interest

Next Generation Services and Service Platforms
o Mobile Services and Service Platforms including IMS
o Home Network Service Platform
o VoP2P and P2P-SIP Services
o Converged Application/Communication Servers and Services
o Location-based Services
o Social Networking Communication Services
o Advanced Communication Services and Feature Interaction

Multimedia applications and services including VoIP, IPTV, Gaming
o Multimedia delivery over wired and wireless networks
o Cross-layer optimization for multimedia service support
o Multicast, Broadcast and IPTV
o Media streaming
o Peer-to-Peer services

Software and Protocol Technologies for advanced service support
o Web Services and distributed SW technology
o Distributed systems and applications, including Grid Services
o Peer-to-Peer technologies for communication services
o Service overlay networks
o Context Awareness and Personalization

Network and Service Management and Provisioning
o Multimedia QoS provisioning
o Quality of Experience for End-to-End Communications
o End-to-End Quality of Service Routing algorithms
o Service Creation, Delivery, Management
o Network Management
o Virtual Home Environment
o Charging, Pricing, Business Models
o Triple Play Services
o Security and Privacy in Network and Service Management
o Service Overlay Networks
o Cooperative Networking for Streaming Media Content

Submission deadline: March 15, 2010
Notifications due: July 1, 2010
Final version due: Aug 1, 2010

For more information about IEEE Globecom 2010, please see  http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2010

Symposium Co-Chairs
John Buford, Avaya Labs Research, USA (buford at avaya.com)
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth university, USA (obaidat at monmouth.edu)
Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (joelr at
ieee.org)
Bin Wei, AT&T Research, USA (bw at research.att.com)

Sponsoring Technical Committees
Communications Software
Multimedia Communications

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2010) - Call for Papers

IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP2010) to be held in Saint-Malo, France, from October 4-6, 2010.

All the information about the conference is available at http://www.mmsp2010.org

You are kindly invited to submit original, previously unpublished works within the scope of MMSP2010, by the following deadlines:
Special Session proposals: March 10, 2010
Paper submission: April 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2010
Camera-ready paper submission: July 15, 2010

MMSP-10 is the twelfth international workshop on multimedia signal processing. The workshop is organized by the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Organized in Saint-Malo, MMSP-10 provides excellent conditions for brainstorming on, and sharing the latest advances in multimedia signal processing and technology in one of the most charming and picturesque cities in the world.

SCOPE: The focus of MMSP-10 is Entertainment, Gaming and Virtual Reality for the Future. Everyday services at home and away, gaming and entertainment are more and more interconnected with multimedia systems and applications and have a bigger than ever part in our lives. Virtual and augmented reality, haptics and sensor networks are transforming this field and will deeply modify our perception and interaction with these future services and appliances. What are the new challenges for multimedia signal processing in this context, what are the emerging applications, and what theoretical tools will produce the next breakthroughs?

Papers are solicited on the following topics (but not limited to):
1) Entertainment and gaming signal processing
- Online multiplayer gaming
- Haptic technology and interfaces
- Social networking
- Multimodal collaboration
- Object detection, identification, and tracking for gaming
- Gesture, face, and human pose recognition
2) Virtual reality signal processing
- Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality and 3D imaging
- 2D and 3D graphics/geometry coding and animation
- Distributed virtual reality and immersive telecommunication
- 3D audio and 3D video processing and coding
3) Systems and applications
- Teleconferencing, human-human collaboration, immersive environments
- Virtual classrooms and e-learning
- Telemedicine, multimodal storage and retrieval
4) Multimedia for communication and collaboration
- Ad hoc broadband sensor array processing
- Microphone and camera array processing
- Automatic sensor calibration and synchronization
- Source separation, source localization, de-noising, enhancement,
spatialization
5) Scene analysis for immersive telecommunication and human
collaboration
- Audiovisual scene analysis
- Presence detection and activity classification
- Multimodal sensor fusion
6) Coding
- Distributed/centralized source coding for sensor arrays
- Scalable source coding for multiparty conferencing
- Error/loss resilient coding, channel coding, error protection
7) Networking
- Voice & video over IP and wireless, quality monitoring, management,
security
- Priority-based QoS control and scheduling, ad-hoc and real time
communications, traffic engineering, soft IP multicast support
- Channel coding, packetization, synchronization, buffering
- Position aware computing, wireless, P2P networks for multimedia
delivery

SPECIAL SESSIONS
MMSP 2010 will include a number of special sessions. Proposals for special sessions must include a title, contact information for the session chair(s), and a list of authors who have been or will be contacted to present papers if the session is accepted. Proposals for special sessions should be submitted to the Special Sessions Co-Chairs Min Wu (minwu@eng.umd.edu) and Enrico Magli (enrico.magli@polito.it) by March 10th, 2010.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers of not more than six (6) pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site http://www.mmsp2010.org

MORE INFORMATION is available at http://www.mmsp2010.org

General Chairs
Christine Guillemot - INRIA Rennes
Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu - Telecom ParisTech
Technical Chairs
Eckehard Steinbach - Technische Universität München
Yves Grenier - Telecom ParisTech
Special Sessions Chairs
Min Wu - University of Maryland
Enrico Magli - Politecnico di Torino
Finance Chair
Edith Blin - Inria Rennes
Publicity Chairs
Marc Antonini - University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
John Apostolopoulos - HP Labs
Publication Chair
Stéphane Pateux - Orange Labs, France
Electronic Media Chair
Marco Cagnazzo - Telecom ParisTech
Industry Liaison
Thomas Guionnet - Envivio, France
Jean-Hugues Lauret - Institut Télécom
Local Arrangements Chairs
Luce Morin - INSA Rennes
Huguette Bechu - INRIA Rennes
Edith Blin-Guyot - INRIA Rennes
Asia Liaison
Shipeng Li - Microsoft Research Asia
North America Liaison
Anthony Vetro - MERL Research

Final Call for Papers - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2010)

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Final CALL FOR PAPERS
2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2010)
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: January 15, 2010 (Final Extension)
Regular Paper Submission: January 15, 2010 (Final Extension)
Notification of Regular Paper Acceptance: March 15, 2010
Camera-Ready Paper Due: April 15, 2010
Special Session Proposal Due: December 18, 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
(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers.)