ACM Mile-High Video Conference 2025: Call for Contributions

MHV 2025: ACM Mile-High Video Conference 2025
Call for Contributions
February 18-20, 2025, The Cable Center, Denver, Colorado
https://www.mile-high.video/

ACM Mile-High Video (MHV) is a flagship industry-oriented technical conference in the area of video technologies, which has been successfully running in Denver, Colorado, starting from 2016. ACM MHV 2025 welcomes contributions from both industry and academia to share real-world problems and solutions as well as novel approaches and innovations from content production to consumption. ACM MHV 2025 will provide a unique opportunity to view the interplay of the industry and academia in the area of video technologies.

ACM MHV contributions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Content production, encoding, and packaging

• Encoding for broadcast, mobile, and OTT (incl. using AI/ML in encoding),

• New and emerging audio, image, and video codecs (incl. point cloud coding, light field coding, holography coding, etc.)

• Edge, network, and cloud-based coding

• Perceptually optimized objective quality metrics

• Quality assessment models and tools, and user experience studies

• Storage applications for video processing and streaming

• Accessibility

• HDR

• Video workflows

• Virtualized headends, cloud-based workflows for production and distribution

• Redundancy and resilience in content origination

• Ingest protocols

• Ad insertion

• Content delivery and security

• Developments in transport protocols and new delivery paradigms

• Protection for OTT distribution and tools against piracy

• Analytics

• Streaming technologies

• Adaptive streaming and transcoding

• Low latency

• Player, playback, and QoE developments

• Content discovery, promotion, and recommendation systems

• Protocol and Web API improvements and innovations for streaming video

• Industry trends

• 3D/XR video (NeRF, Gaussian splatting, etc.)

• Scalable and multi-view video coding deployments

• Video and audio coding for machines

• Cloud gaming and gaming streaming

• Provenance, content authentication, and deepfakes

• Energy management in video compression and streaming

• Edge computing tools and applications

• Hardware for content encoding, storage, and distribution

• Standards and interoperability

• New and developing standards in the media and delivery space

• Interoperability guidelines

Reasons for academics to submit to and attend the ACM Mile-High Video 2025 event:

• Networking with Industry Leaders: Engage with top minds from both academia and industry, fostering collaborations and partnerships in cutting-edge video technology.
• High Visibility: Present your research to a global audience, including key industry players and decision-makers.
• Innovative Content: Showcase your work in emerging areas such as metaverse, AI-driven video technologies, and advanced codecs.
• Research Impact: Influence the direction of next-gen video technology and its applications across industries.

Participating in ACM MHV 2025 is a prime opportunity to boost academic careers by connecting theoretical research with real-world innovations.

Persuasive reasons for industry professionals to submit and attend ACM Mile-High Video 2025:

• Access to Cutting-Edge Research: Stay at the forefront of video technology with insights into innovations in streaming, codecs, and content delivery.
• Collaborate with Academia: Engage with academic researchers to explore potential partnerships that can accelerate R&D and technological breakthroughs.
• Showcase Industry Leadership: Present your company’s pioneering solutions, fostering brand recognition and thought leadership in the global video tech  community.
• Talent and Recruitment: Discover emerging talent and ideas that could impact your organization’s future.

Participating drives industry growth through shared knowledge and collaboration!

Prospective speakers are invited to submit an extended abstract (one page ~400 words + references) that will be peer-reviewed by the ACM MHV technical program committee (TPC) for relevance, timeliness, and technical correctness.

The authors of the accepted extended abstracts will be invited to optionally submit a full-length paper (up to six pages + references) for possible inclusion into the conference proceedings. These papers must be original work (i.e., not published previously in a journal or conference) and will also be peer-reviewed by the ACM MHV TPC.

Accepted extended abstracts and full-length papers will be presented at the ACM MHV conference, and, optionally, will be published at the conference proceedings within the ACM Digital Library.

All prospective ACM authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.

How to Submit an Extended Abstract

Prospective authors are invited to submit one-page extended abstracts here 

Important Dates

• Extended abstract submission deadline: Oct. 31, 2024 AoE (firm deadline)

• Notification of extended abstract acceptance: Nov. 27, 2024 AoE

• Optional: Full-length paper submission deadline: Dec. 16, 2024 AoE

• Notification of full-length paper acceptance: Jan. 22, 2025 AoE

• Camera-ready submission (extended abstracts/full-length papers) deadline: Jan. 31, 2025 AoE

ACM MHV 2025 Program Chairs

• Christian Timmerer (AAU; christian.timmerer AT aau.at)

• Dan Grois (AnyAI; dgrois AT acm.org)

• Gwendal Simon (Synamedia; gsimon AT synamedia.com)

• Jill Boyce (Nokia; jill.boyce AT nokia.com)

• Yuriy Reznik (Brightcove; yreznik AT brightcove.com)

QoMEX’22: 14th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience

Call For Papers

QoMEX’22

14th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience

September 5.-7. 2022 – Lippstadt, Germany

Full Paper Submission: March 31, 2022

https://qomex2022.itec.aau.at/

The 14th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience will be held from September 5th to 7th, 2022 in Lippstadt, Germany. It will bring together leading experts from academia and industry to present and discuss current and future research on multimedia quality, quality of experience (QoE) and user experience (UX). This way, it will contribute to excellence in developing multimedia technology, towards user well-being, and it will foster the exchange between multidisciplinary communities.

The QoMEX 2022 team solicits contributions including but not limited to topics:

• Immersive experiences and technologies
• QoE, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
• Games User Research and Experience
• New assessment and evaluation methods
• Quality, experience, and user state
• Quality of Life and Well-being
• Multimodal perception & quality
• Databases for QoE research
• Audio/Visual user experience
• QoE-aware networks and services management

Prospective authors are invited to submit full (maximum of 6 pages) or short papers (3 +1 page of references) to the general track and to special sessions. Each paper will undergo a double-blind review process. Full and short papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published in IEEExplore (approval pending).

Important Dates and Details

• Full Paper Submission: 31 March 2022
• Full Paper Notification: 20 May 2022
• Short Paper Submission: 31 May 2022
• Short Paper Notification: 06 July 2022
• Conference: September 5-7, 2022

Website: https://qomex2022.itec.aau.at

Twitter: @QoMEXconf

 

General Chair

• Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons, HSHL, Germany

Technical Program Chairs

• Luigi Atzori, Univ. Cagliari,  Italy
• Sebastian Möller, TU Berlin/DFKI Berlin, Germany
• Alexander Raake, TU Ilmenau, Germany

10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP)

10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP)

11-14 September 2022, Lisbon, Portugal,

www.euvip2022.org

Call for Papers

The 10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing will be held in 11-14 September 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal; the first day will be dedicated to (half-day) tutorials. The workshop will bring together leading experts from academia and industry interested in visual information processing, applications, and performance assessment for all types of visual modalities. The program will feature lecture, poster, and plenary sessions, as well as special sessions and tutorials.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Modalities:

• Conventional image and video
• Stereoscopic, multi-view, and 360-degree image and video
• Light fields, point clouds, meshes, and holography
• Multi-spectral and hyper-spectral imaging

Visual information processing tasks:

• Sensing, representation, modeling, and registration
• Computational vision modeling, and processing
• Perceptual-based processing
• Deep learning-based visual information processing
• Restoration, denoising, and enhancement
• Detection, recognition, retrieval, and classification
• Coding and transmission
• Analysis and understanding
• Synthesis, rendering, and visualization
• Distributed visual information processing

Performance assessment:

• Subjective and objective quality
• Multimodal quality
• Quality of experience
• Task-based performance
• Immersive experiences
• Visual quality of life
• Emerging performance assessment methods

Applications, services, architectures, and systems:

• Biometrics, forensics, trust, and security
• Augmented and virtual reality
• Personal communications and social networks
• Gaming and broadcasting
• Medical, education, cultural, and industry
• Drones and autonomous vehicles
• Cloud-based and distributed architectures and systems
• Emerging applications, services, architectures, and systems

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, with a maximum of 6 pages of technical content, figures, and references, through the submission system (see website). Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind review process and so the author's affiliations and names should not be included or disclosed in the submitted paper. Accepted papers will be presented in a lecture or poster session. Regular papers presented at the conference will be included in the workshop proceedings and IEEE Xplore.

Important dates:

Deadline for Special Session Proposals: 22 April, 2022

Notification of Special Session Acceptance: 6 May, 2022

Deadline for Tutorial Proposals: 13 May, 2022

Notification of Tutorial Acceptance: 28 May, 2022

Deadline for Paper Submission: 6 June, 2022

Notification of Paper Acceptance: 11 July, 2022

Deadline for Camera-Ready Papers: 20 July, 2022

Organizing Committee

General Chairs

Fernando Pereira, IST-IT, Portugal

Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University, Finland

Technical Program Chairs

Paulo Lobato Correia, IST-IT, Portugal

João Ascenso, IST-IT, Portugal

Elena Alshina, Huawei, Germany

Special Session Chairs

Luis Ducla Soares, ISCTE-IUL-IT, Portugal

Miska Hannuksela, Nokia, Finland

Tutorial Chairs

Paulo Nunes, ISCTE-IUL-IT, Portugal

Marta Mrak, BBC R&D, UK

Awards Chairs

Maria Paula Queluz, IST-IT, Portugal

Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland

Jean-Luc Dugelay, EURECOM, France

Industry Chairs

Christian Timmerer, Bitmovin, Austria

Rufael Mekuria, Unified Streaming, The Netherlands

Nuno Couto, Worten, Portugal

Project Dissemination Chairs

Azeddine Beghdadi, USPN, France

Nuno Rodrigues, Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal

Publications Chairs

Catarina Brites, IST-IT, Portugal

Naima Bousnina, IT, Portugal

Web Chair

André Guarda, IT, Portugal

Publicity Committee

Ali Etemad, Queen’s University, Canada

Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam, Socure Inc, USA

Anthony Vetro, MERL, USA

Eduardo Silva, UFRJ, Brazil

Stuart Perry, UTS, Australia

Xiem HoangVan, VNU, Vietnam

Zhibo Chen, USTC, China

Local Arrangements Committee

Caroline Conti, ISCTE-IUL-IT, Portugal

Henrique Oliveira, IPB-IT, Portugal

Maryam Hamad, ISCTE-IUL-IT, Portugal

IEEE VCIP 2021: Call for Special Session Proposals

2021 International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)

Munich, Germany, December 5-8, 2021

https://vcip2021.org/

Call for Special Session Proposals [PDF]

The 2021 International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, will be held in Munich, Germany, December 5-8, 2021.

As usual, special sessions complement the regular program of VCIP 2021. They are intended to provide a sample of the state-of-the-art and also to highlight important emerging research directions in fields of particular interest to the VCIP participants. The idea is to have a focused effort on a ‘special topic’ rather than a broad focus.

This Call is inviting Special Session Proposals from the visual communications and image processing community according to the requirements defined below.

Requirements

The target for each Special Session is four papers. The following information should be included in the proposal:

• Title of the proposed special session
• Names and affiliations of the organizers (including brief bio and contact info)
• Session abstract (approx. 250 words) including the motivation and significance of the topic, and the rationale for the proposed special session
• List of invited papers (including a tentative title, author list, and abstract for each paper)
• Optionally, the proposal should describe how the special session will be organized at VCIP in order to make it truly a special event

In addition to invited papers, other potential authors will be allowed to submit papers to Special Sessions. 

All submitted special session papers shall conform to the format and length requirements of the regular session papers. If a special session has more than 4 papers being accepted, some of the papers will be moved to the regular paper sessions of the conference.

Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic and relevance to VCIP, as well as the track record of the organizers and anticipated quality of papers in the proposed session. Kindly note that all papers in a special session will be peer-reviewed following the regular paper review process to ensure that the contributions are of the highest quality.

To submit a special session proposal (in a single PDF file) or for additional information regarding the special sessions, please contact Special Session Co-Chairs: Fernando Pereira (fp@lx.it.pt) and Christian Timmerer (christian.timmerer@aau.at).

Important Dates

• Special Session proposal submission deadline: 28 March 2021
• Special Session proposal acceptance notification: 11 April 2021
• Special Session paper submission: 8 June 2021
• Paper acceptance notification: 6 September 2021

Fourth International Workshop on Quality of Experience Management (QoE- Management 2020) collocated with NetSoft 2020 in Ghent, Belgium

Fourth International Workshop on Quality of Experience Management (QoE-Management)

28th and 29th of June 2020

conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization 2020 (NetSoft 2020)

Gent, Belgium

Recent technological advances have enabled a constant proliferation of novel immersive and interactive services that pose ever-increasing demands to our communication ecosystem. While service and application management has typically been centered around a set of Quality of Service parameters (e.g., packet loss, delay, jitter), there is a clear need to understand and model the impact of management decisions on Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics as perceived by the end-user. To date, a significant amount of research has been devoted to understanding, measuring, and modeling QoE for a variety of media services. The next step is to explore methods that actively exploit such knowledge to improve and manage the quality of multimedia services, while at the same time ensuring efficient and cost-effective network operations. Moreover, with many different players involved in the end-to-end service delivery chain, identifying the root causes of QoE impairments and finding effective solutions for meeting the end-users' requirements and expectations in terms of service quality is a challenging and complex problem.

QoE-Management 2020 aims at providing an international forum for researchers addressing emerging concepts and challenges related to managing QoE for networked services. The workshop addresses QoE management in the context of ongoing developments, such as the move to 5G and virtualized networks; the exploitation of big data analytics and machine learning in the domains of QoE modeling and monitoring; and solutions targeting emerging complex, interactive, and immersive service scenarios. In order to encourage collaboration, the workshop is distributed in two days: seminar and workshop paper presentations.

• 28/06/2020: Seminar. Researchers with expertise in different areas of QoE research will sit together to brainstorm on different topics.
• 29/06/2020: Workshop papers presentation. Original full and short paper presentations and a motivating keynote will thoroughly explore this challenging topic.

Topics of interest: SDN, NFV, and QoE; QoE-aware network and application management; Characterization and modeling of QoE; QoE monitoring and measurement, QoE oriented coding; Quality management applied to different business sectors and use cases; Experimental approaches for QoE management. In addition, we encourage the submission of novel, provocative ideas or late-breaking results that have the potential to generate lively debate and new perspectives as short papers or Seminar topics.

Important dates:

• Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2020; March 2nd (extension)
• Acceptance notification: March 23, 2020
• Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020

For the Seminar topics:

• Topic submission deadline: May 15, 2020
• Acceptance notification: June 1, 2020

Authors should submit their papers and seminar topics electronically via the EDAS online submission system.

For more information, you can visit the QoE-Management workshop website and the NetSoft conference website.

ACM MMSys 2020 Research Track - Call for Papers

ACM MMSys 2020 Research Track - Call for Papers

June 8-11, 2020, Istanbul, Turkey

https://acmmmsys.org/

[PDF]

The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) provides a forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems are regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating systems, real-time systems, databases, mobile computing, distributed systems, computer vision, and middleware communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate the intersections and the interplay of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types.

MMSys is a venue for researchers who explore:

• Complete multimedia systems that provide a new kind of multimedia experience or system whose overall performance improves the state-of-the-art through new research results in more than one component, or
• Enhancements to one or more system components that provide a documented improvement over the state-of-the-art for handling continuous media or time-dependent services.

Such individual system components include:

• Operating systems
• Distributed architectures and protocols
• Domain languages, development tools and abstraction layers
• Using new architectures or computing resources for multimedia
• New or improved I/O architectures or I/O devices, innovative uses, and algorithms for their operation
• Representation of continuous or time-dependent media
• Metrics and measurement tools to assess performance

This touches aspects of many hot topics including but not limited to: content preparation and (adaptive) delivery systems, High Dynamic Range (HDR), games, virtual/augmented/mixed reality, 3D video, immersive systems, plenoptics, 360-degree video, volumetric video delivery, multimedia Internet of Things (IoT), multi and many-core, GPGPUs, mobile multimedia and 5G, wearable multimedia, peer-to-peer (P2P), cloud-based multimedia, cyber-physical systems, multi-sensory experiences, smart cities, Quality of Experience (QoE).

We encourage submissions in the following focus areas

• Machine learning and statistical modeling for video streaming
• Volumetric media: from capture to consumption
• Fake media and tools for preventing illegal broadcasts

Refer to the Web site for more info.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: January 10, 2020 (firm deadline)
• Acceptance notification: March 16, 2020
• Camera-ready deadline: April 17, 2020
• Online submission: https://mmsys2020.hotcrp.com/
• Submission format: 6-12 pages, using ACM style format (double-blind)
• Reproducibility: Obtain an ACM reproducibility badge by making datasets and code available (Authors will be contacted to make their artifacts available after paper acceptance)

General Chairs

• Laura Toni (University College London, UK)
• Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University and Networked Media, Turkey)

TPC Chairs

• Özgü Alay (Simula and University of Oslo, Norway)
• Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and Bitmovin, Austria)

Submission Information

• Papers should be between 6-12 pages long (in PDF format) prepared in the ACM style and written in English. MMSys papers enable authors to present entire multimedia systems or research work that builds on considerable amounts of earlier work in a self-contained manner. MMSys papers are published in the ACM Digital Library. The papers are double-blind reviewed.
• All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three TPC members. All papers will be evaluated for their scientific quality. Authors will have a chance to submit their rebuttals before online discussions among the TPC members.

ACM SIGMM has a tradition of publishing open datasets (MMSys) and open source projects (ACM Multimedia). MMSys 2020 will continue to support scientific reproducibility, by implementing the ACM reproducibility badge system. All accepted papers will be contacted by the Reproducibility Chair, inviting the authors to make their dataset and code available, and thus, obtaining an ACM badge (visible at the ACM DL). The additional material will be published as Appendixes, with no effect on the final page count for papers.

Packet Video Workshop 2018

23rd Packet Video Workshop 2018

June 12, 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

(co-located with ACM MMSys'18)

https://2018.packet.video/

Workshop Co-Chairs

• Ali C. Begen, Ozyegin University / Networked Media, Turkey (ali.begen at networked.media)
• Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt / Bitmovin Inc., Austria (christian.timmerer at itec.uni-klu.ac.at)

Workshop TPC Co-Chairs

• Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (rogerz at comp.nus.edu.sg)
• Thomas Schierl, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Germany (thomas.schierl at hhi.fraunhofer.de)

The 23rd Packet Video Workshop (PV 2018) is devoted to presenting technological advancements and innovations in video and multimedia transmission over packet networks. The workshop provides a unique venue for people from the media coding and networking fields to meet, interact and exchange ideas. Its charter is to promote the research and development in both established and emerging areas of video streaming and multimedia networking. PV 2018 will be held in Amsterdam on June 12th. The workshop will be a single-track event and welcomes paper submissions from both cutting-edge research, and business and consumer applications. PV 2018 will be co-located with ACM MMSys, NOSSDAV, NetGames and MMVE.

PV 2018 seeks papers in all areas of media delivery over current IP and future networks. Authors are especially encouraged to submit papers with real-world experimental results and datasets.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

• Adaptive media streaming, and content storage, distribution and delivery
• Network-distributed video coding and network-based media processing
• Next-generation/future video coding, point cloud compression
• Audiovisual communication, surveillance and healthcare systems
• Wireless, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems for multimedia applications
• Future media internetworking: information-centric networking and 5G
• Immersive media: virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), 360° video and multi-sensory systems, and its streaming
• Machine learning in media coding and streaming systems
• Standardization: DASH, MMT, CMAF, OMAF, MiAF, WebRTC, MSE, EME, WebVR, Hybrid Media, WAVE, etc.
• Applications: social media, game streaming, personal broadcast, healthcare, industry 4.0, education, transportation, etc.

Important dates

• Submission deadline: March 1, 2018
• Acceptance notification: April 9, 2018
• Camera-ready deadline: April 19, 2018

Submission instructions
Prospective authors are invited to submit an electronic version of full papers, in PDF format, up to six printed pages in length (double column ACM conference format) at the PV 2018 Web site. The authors are also encouraged to regularly check the PV 2018 web site for the latest information and updates. The proceedings will be published by ACM Digital Library.

Final Call for Papers: ACM MMSys 2016 Full Papers

The autumn shows itself from its best side here in Klagenfurt and this is the final call for papers for ACM MMSys 2016 full papers with YouTube as gold sponsor and featuring the Excellence in DASH Award sponsored by the DASH-IF.

ACM MMSys 2016

May 10-13, 2016

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria

http://mmsys2016.itec.aau.at/

The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) provides a forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems are regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating system, realtime system, and database communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to view the intersections and the inter-play of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types.

MMSys is a venue for researchers who explore:

• Complete multimedia systems that provide a new kind of multimedia experience or systems whose overall performance improves the state-of-the-art through new research results in one of more components, or
• Enhancements to one or more system components that provide a documented improvement over the state-of-the-art for handling continuous media or time-dependent services.

Such individual system components include:

• Operating systems
• Distributed architectures and protocol enhancements
• Domain languages, development tools and abstraction layers
• Using new architectures or computing resources for multimedia
• New or improved I/O architectures or I/O devices, innovative uses and algorithms for their operation
• Representation of continuous or time-dependent media
• Metrics, measures and measurement tools to assess performance

This touches aspects of many hot topics including but not limited to: adaptive streaming, games, virtual environments, augmented reality, 3D video, Ultra-HD, HDR, immersive systems, plenoptics, 360° video, multimedia IoT, multi- and many-core, GPGPUs, mobile streaming, P2P, clouds, cyber-physical systems.

Submission Guidelines

Papers should be between 6 and 12 pages long (in PDF format) prepared in the ACM style and written in English. The submission site is open and papers can be submitted using the following URL: http://mmsys2016.itec.aau.at/online-paper-submission/

Important dates:

• Submission Deadline: November 27, 2015 December 11, 2015
• Reviews available to Authors: January 15, 2016
• Rebuttal Deadline: January 22, 2016
• Acceptance Notification: January 29, 2016
• Camera-ready Deadline: March 11, 2016

DASH Industry Forum Excellence in DASH Award

This award offers a financial prize for those papers which best meet the following requirements:

1. Paper must substantially address MPEG-DASH as the presentation format
2. Paper must be selected for presentation at ACM MMSys 2016
3. Preference given to practical enhancements and developments which can sustain future commercial usefulness of DASH
4. DASH format used should conform to the DASH IF Interoperability Points as defined by http://dashif.org/guidelines/

Further details about the Excellence in DASH Award can be found here.

IEEE JSAC Special Issue: Video Distribution over Future Internet

Special issue on Video Distribution over Future Internet 

Extended Submission Deadline: May 1529, 2015

http://www.comsoc.org/jsac

The current Internet is under tremendous pressure due to the exponential growth in bandwidth demand, fueled by the transfer of video consumption to online distribution, IPTV, streaming services such as Netflix, and from phone networks to videoconferencing and Skype-like video communications. The Internet has also democratized the creation, distribution and sharing of user-generated video contents through services such as YouTube, Vimeo or Hulu. The situation is further aggravated by the emerging trends of adopting higher definition video streams, requesting more and more bandwidth. Indeed, the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) projects that video consumption will amount to 90% of the global consumer traffic by 2017. Another shift predicted by Cisco VNI is that most data communications will be wireless by 2018.

To cope with the bandwidth growth, the shift to wireless, and to solve other related issues (e.g., naming, security, etc) with the current Internet, new architectures for the future Internet have been proposed and prototyped. Examples include Content-Centric Networks (CCN) or Named Data Networking (NDN), or some content-based extensions to Software-Defined Networking (SDN), among others. None of these emerging architectures deals specifically with video distribution, as they need to support a wider range of services, but all would have to support videos in an efficient manner. Therefore, the study of video distribution over the future Internet is of primary importance: how well does future Internet architecture facilitate video delivery? What kind of video distribution mechanisms need to be created to run on the future Internet? How will video be supported in the wireless portion of the future Internet? Can the current video distribution mechanisms (such as end-to-end dynamic rate adaptation schemes) be used or even enhanced for the future Internet? What are subjective/objective metrics for performance measurement? How to provide real-time guarantees for live and interactive video streams?

While the topic is quite wide, we will narrow the focus of this special issue on the fundamental problems of video distribution and delivery in the future Internet. We invite submissions of high-quality original technical and survey papers, which have not been published previously, on video distribution in the future Internet, including the following non-exhaustive list of topics. Please note that all topics must be understood in the context of the future Internet as outlined above.

• Network-assisted video distribution, network support for multimedia, specifically supporting wireless environments
• New information-centric and software-defined architectures to support wired and wireless video streaming
• Resource allocation for wired and wireless video distribution
• Media streaming, distribution, and storage support in the future Internet
• In-network caching/storage, named data retrieval, publish/subscribe for video distribution in wired and wireless networks
• Next generation Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
• Adaptive streaming and rate adaptation for video streaming in the future Internet for wired and wireless networks
• Peer-to-peer aspects of video multimedia distribution, including scaling and capacity
• QoS/QoE measurement and support for video distribution in the future Internet
• User-generated content and social networks for multi-media
• Video compression techniques explicitly supporting the future Internet
• Big-Data mechanisms (say referral engines or content placement algorithms) for video content over future Internet
• Social-aware video content distribution over future Internet
• Integration of video distribution and multimedia computing over future Internet
• Testbeds and measurements of video distribution over future Internet
• Cost and economic models for video distribution over future Internet
• Theoretical foundations for video distribution over future Internet, e.g., network coding, information theory, machine learning, etc

Special Issue Editors

• Prof. Cedric Westphal, Huawei Innovations & UCSC, USA 
• Prof. Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA 
• Prof. Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
• Prof. Wenwu Zhu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Important Dates

• Paper Submission due: 05/29/2015
• First review complete: 09/15/2015
• Acceptance Notification: 11/15/2015
• Camera-ready version: 12/15/2015
• Publication date: Second Quarter 2016 

Manuscript submissions and reviewing process: All submissions must be original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. For submission format, please follow IEEE JSAC guidelines (http://www.comsoc.org/jsac/paper-submission-guidelines). Each paper will go through a two-round rigorous reviewing process by at least three leading experts in related areas. Papers should be submitted through EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=19291).

Multimedia Streaming in Information-Centric Networks (MuSIC)

Call for Papers

2015 IEEE ICME Workshop

Multimedia Streaming in Information-Centric Networks (MuSIC)

Friday, July 3, 2015, Torino, Italy

http://music2015.itec.aau.at/

Motivation and Goals

According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index and to Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Reports, multimedia, in particular video for real-time entertainment, are the predominant sources of traffic on the current Internet and continue to grow. However, the Internet protocols and mechanisms have not at all been designed for the challenging real-time communication media like video and voice streaming and conferencing, such that îthe Internet only just works,î as Mark Handley put it. Intense research on Quality of Service (QoS) schemes and frameworks has been conducted over the past decades, not resulting in practical and widely accepted mechanisms in the IP networking world. Currently, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are the primary means to deliver massive amounts of real-time content, e.g., video streams, to clients in a satisfying manner.

Countering these problems and challenges, many Future Internet initiatives and projects have been and are being undertaken around the globe. Among them, Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a promising approach, bringing content and efficient content distribution into focus. Several basic ICN concepts are quite similar to application-layer protocols in the IP world, e.g., a publish-subscribe approach in PSIRP/PURSUIT, pull-based data transport in CCN/NDN (interest/data packets) and in Adaptive HTTP Streaming approaches (request/response behavior).

Interestingly, though, the two communities, on Multimedia Systems/Communications and on Information-Centric Networking, have barely interacted. Multimedia communications researchers still mostly think and operate in the context of IP networks, while ICN researchers mainly discuss key networking aspects, not focusing on the requirements, challenges and opportunities of real-time multimedia data delivery/streaming (even though there are notable exceptions). Yet, recent intense discussions on the IRTF mailing list on video delivery and QoS/QoE and several publications (among them, an Internet Draft) indicate increased interest of ICN experts in multimedia communication.
The most important goal of this workshop is therefore to provide a forum that brings those two communities together, to spawn vivid discussions and intense exchange and learnings at the intersection of the two areas, and to help establish common terminology, work, and projects. The committees of the workshop are composed of leading members of both communities, in an attempt to solicit broad interest and good submissions to the workshop.

The workshop will emphasize video-on-demand (VoD) and voice/video conferencing (live) applications on ICNs, but other distributed multimedia applications are welcome, such as gaming. All aspects of media streaming in ICN will be addressed, including: basic principles and insights; protocols, mechanisms and policies (strategies) in ICN nodes; routing; measures and metrics for real-time behavior, QoS and QoE; evaluation methodology; prototype implementations, testbeds, and demos; and comparisons with IP-based systems. The workshop is open to discuss media streaming in all ICN approaches; comparisons of different ICN architectures are encouraged. Demos are welcome.

Topics of Interest (including, but not limited to)

• Video-on-demand applications, prototypes, and demos over ICN
• Voice/video conferencing applications, prototypes, and demos over ICN
• Novel multimedia applications, prototypes, demos over ICN
• Error and loss control and mitigation
• Congestion detection and control
• Naming and routing of media streams
• Forwarding, aggregation, replication strategies (interests and content)
• Caching strategies
• Caching effects (probably unexpected and/or undesired)
• DRM and its impact on or interplay with caching
• Content adaptation in ICN
• Media stream adaptation, bandwidth estimation,... on clients
• Use of scalable media content
• Fairness issues and metrics in ICN
• Security and privacy issues for MM streaming over ICN
• QoS and QoE mechanisms and metrics: impact on and interplay with ICN
• Evaluation methodologies, in particular ICN simulation and experimental testbeds
• Deployment and scalability issues

Submissions to the Workshop

• Paper length: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, up to 6 pages long, by March 30, 2015.
• Paper format: For author guidelines†and†paper templates please see: http://www.icme2015.ieee-icme.org/authorguide.php.
• Paper submission: All submissions are to be made via CMT web site at:†https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICMEW2015. Please select "Workshop on Multimedia Streaming in Information-Centric Networks (MuSIC)".
• Review process: Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the TPC.
• Accepted papers: Papers accepted for the workshop must be presented by one of the authors. Papers will be published in the Proceedings of ICME Workshops and also on-line in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

Important Dates

• Paper submission:   March 30, 2015
• Paper acceptance:   April 30, 2015
• Camera-ready paper: May 15, 2015
• Workshop:           July 3, 2015

Committees

Organizers and Technical Program Committee Chairs
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- Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
- George C. Polyzos, AUEB, Greece

Steering Committee
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- Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC, USA
- George Pavlou, University College London, UK
- Cedric Westphal, Huawei, USA
- Chang Wen Chen, SUNY at Buffalo, USA

Technical Program Committee
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- Alexander Afanasyev, UCLA, USA
- Ali Begen, Cisco, Canada
- Laszlo Bˆszˆrmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria
- Jeff Burke, UCLA, USA
- Giovanna Carofiglio, Cisco Systems, France
- Wei Koong Chai, University College London, UK
- Wolfgang Effelsberg, Univ. Mannheim & TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland
- Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Lab & Univ.of Oslo, Norway
- Mohamed Hefeeda, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Dirk Kutscher, NEC Labs Europe, Germany
- Giannis Marias, AUEB, Greece
- Luca Muscariello, Orange Labs, France
- Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC, USA
- Bˆrje Ohlman, Ericsson Research, Sweden
- Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore
- Dave Oran, Cisco, USA
- Jˆrg Ott, Aalto University, Finland
- Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State University, USA
- Benjamin Rainer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
- Damien Saucez, INRIA, France
- Gwendal Simon, Telecom Bretagne, France
- Vasilios Siris, AUEB, Greece
- Ignacio Solis, PARC, USA
- Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
- Dirk Trossen, InterDigital, UK
- Laura Toni, EPFL, Switzerland
- Christian Tschudin, Universit‰t Basel, Switzerland
- George Xylomenos, AUEB, Greece
- Yonggang Wen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore

Call for Poster/Demo: ACM VideoNext 2014

Call for Posters/Demo: ACM VideoNext 2014

http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2014/Workshops/VideoNext/cfd.html

02 December, Sydney Australia

In Conjunction with ACM CoNEXT 2014

http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2014/index.html

VideoNext 2014 is inviting submissions for a special poster and demo session that will foster lively, informal, and in-depth discussions on emerging topics in video streaming and multimedia communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Media streaming, distribution, and storage
• Cloud-assisted video streaming including encoding, transcoding, and adaptation
• Energy efficient multimedia streaming
• Peer-to-peer and cooperative video streaming
• Multimedia communications and system security
• Networked games and real-time immersive systems
• Web 2.0 systems and social networks
• Streaming next generation video like multi-view, panorama and 3D
• Wireless networks and embedded systems for multimedia applications
• Compressive sensing for efficient video capture, processing, and streaming

What and How to Submit

VideoNext posters and demos will be selected on the basis of two-page PDF abstracts, with fonts no smaller than 10 point, using the same format as for regular papers.  Abstracts must be submitted using the submission system linked from the call for poster/demo site:

http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2014/Workshops/VideoNext/cfd.html

Posters will be reviewed and selected on the following basis:

• Submissions must describe new, interesting work, not previously presented. Posters may be accompanied by demos (subject to limited space). Preference will be given toward posters accompanied by demos.

• Student submissions meeting the above criteria will be given preference; however, non-students may also submit abstracts.

Please provide the following information in your PDF file in addition to presenting your research:

• Poster title
• Author names, affiliations and email addresses
• Mark which authors, if any, are students
• Indicate if you plan to set up a demo with your poster. If so, the submission must include the requirements for the demo setup and presentation. Note that the authors will be responsible to bring and set up any equipment they will need.

All submissions will be reviewed by the TPC of VideoNext 2014.

Accepted posters will be published online on the workshop Web site. At least one author should register and present the poster throughout the entire session. Authors of the best posters will be given award certificates and three minutes each to present their work before the poster session.

Important Dates

• Submission: 17 October 2014
• Notifications: 24 October 2014

Special Sessions at QoMEX 2014

QoMEX 2014 is inviting submissions to the following special sessions:

• Experiencing Multimedia Quality Fluctuations
• Media Synchronization and QoE
• Perceptual Graphics, Rendering, and High-dynamic Range Imaging
• Quantitative QoE Assessment: Augmenting Psychophysical Experiments with Psychophysiological Measurements

The purpose of these special sessions is to complement the regular program with new or emerging topics of particular interest to the community.

The submission deadlines and review process for papers in the special sessions are the same as for regular papers. To submit your contribution to a special session, follow the submission process for regular papers and select the session title as one of the paper’s topics.

Important dates:

• Submission deadline: May 4, 2014
• Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014
• Camera-ready papers: July 13, 2014
• Workshop dates: September 18-20, 2014

Further details at QoMEX 2014 Special Session Web site.

Call for Papers: QoMEX 2014

6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience

Singapore, 18-20 Sept. 2014

www.qomex2014.org

The sixth International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) will bring together leading experts from academia and industry interested in evaluating multimedia quality and user experience. Coming to Asia for the first time, QoMEX 2014 will be held in Singapore, conveniently located adjacent to InterSpeech and MMSP.

Prospective organizers of special sessions are invited to submit proposals as per the guidelines on the web site. Prospective authors are invited to prepare full (six pages) and/or short (two pages) papers. Furthermore, authors of recent journal papers will have the opportunity to present their work as a poster. Please refer to the workshop web site (www.qomex2014.org) for more details. Proceedings will be published in the IEEE Xplore digital library (pending).

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

QoE Fundamentals: Understanding experience and quality formation; alternatives to MOS; quality vs. user satisfaction vs. acceptance; crowdsourcing studies; long-term quality measurement; physiological QoE assessment; emotions & QoE.

Audio/Visual User Experience: Objective/subjective quality evaluation of speech, audio, video, multimedia; spatial/3D audio and stereo/multi-view video quality; psycho-physical modeling; quality-centered processing, compression and transmission; perceptual optimization.

QoE in Graphics & Rendering: High-dynamic range imaging; (non-)photorealistic rendering; object/texture/motion modeling; special effects; virtual/augmented/mixed realities, games.

Sensory User Experiences: Methods for sensory user feedback; quality metrics for ambient and sensory experiences; novel sensory interfaces; multisensory interaction.

Interactive Systems QoE: Tele-conferencing/tele-presence; multimedia-based group inter-action; gaming; multimedia Web search/browsing; e-commerce; social media applications.

QoE for Mobile Devices: Evaluating multimedia applications and interactive experiences on mobile devices; impact of viewing conditions and device properties; adaptive user interfaces.

QoE-centric Network and Application Management: Distributed and central management approaches; cloud-based multimedia services; adaptive media streaming; link between QoS and QoE; interoperability; performance optimization; pricing and service-level agreements.

Reproducible QoE Research: Multimedia databases/datasets; benchmarking and certification; testing conditions and methods; standardization efforts; open-source QoE tools.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Special session proposals:
Submission deadline: 23 February 2014
Notification of acceptance: 9 March 2014

Full & short papers:
Submission deadline: 4 May 2014
Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2014
Camera-ready submission: 13 July 2014

Journal paper presentations:
Submission deadline: 29 June 2014
Notification of acceptance: 13 July 2014


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Chair
Stefan Winkler, ADSC/UIUC

General Co-Chair
Susanto Rahardja, NUS

Technical Program Chairs
Weisi Lin, NTU
Alexander Raake, TU Berlin
Zhou Wang, Univ. Waterloo

Special Session Chair
Luigi Atzori, Univ. Cagliari

Steering Committee
Loretta Anania, EC
Ian Burnett, RMIT
Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL/NTNU
Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm
Lina Karam, ASU
Patrick Le Callet, Univ. Nantes
Sebastian Mˆller, TU Berlin
Fernando Pereira, IST-IT
Andrew Perkis, NTNU
Amy Reibman, AT&T Labs
Peter Schelkens, iMinds/VUB
Christian Timmerer, AAU

Publicity Chairs
Guangtao Zhai, SJTU
Margaret Pinson, NTIA

Finance Chair
Pina Marziliano, NTU

Local Arrangements Chairs
Lai-Tee Cheok, SMU
Ngai-Man Cheung, SUTD


SPONSORS:
ACM SIGGRAPH Singapore Chapter
IEEE Singapore Section Signal Processing Chapter

2nd IEEE/IFIP Workshop on QoE Centric Management - QCMAN 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS : QCMAN 2014

2nd IEEE/IFIP Workshop on QoE Centric Management - Part of  IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2014

Krakow, Poland,  9 May 2014

http://www.qcman.org

ABSTRACT REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 7 December 2013

PAPER SUBMISSIONS DUE: 15 December 2013

The Second IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Experience Centric Management (QCMan)  will be held in conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2014 in Krakow, Poland, from May 5-9, 2014. The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and supported by the Klagenfurt University and iMinds. The workshop is endorsed by the Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM).

In recent years, the Internet has evolved from a pure packet forwarder to a provider of complex and high demanding services and applications (e.g., video, voice, on-line gaming, cloud applications). These services and applications are typically managed through a set of Quality of Services parameters (e.g. packet loss, delay, jitter).  However, it is widely agreed that the management of these services and applications should be centered on their quality as perceived by the end user: the Quality of Experience (QoE). However, this QoE centric management is greatly challenged in today’s Internet by (i) the stringent QoE requirements of the supported services and applications (e.g., timing constraints, loss intolerance) and users (e.g., unpredictability of user behavior, request for high quality services), (ii) the plethora of service consumption possibilities (e.g. for video: live vs on-demand, managed vs over-the-top), (iii)  the inherent complexity of services and applications which can be offered to users in several ways to reach the same QoE level and (iv) the difficulty in assessing the quality as perceived by the end user also due to insufficient insight in the psychological and sociological factors of the service and application consumption.

QCMan 2014 aims at providing an international forum for researchers addressing these challenges. QCMan 2014 will combine original full paper presentations with a motivating keynote to thoroughly explore this challenging topic.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas listed below:

Characterization of QoE

• Definition of QoE: methods and tools
• Relationship between QoE and QoS in multimedia networking
• Objective & subjective QoE assessment of multimedia delivery systems
• New objective & subjective methods and algorithms
• QoE-aware management systems

QoE management in heterogeneous networks

• QoE optimized multimedia network management
• Adaptive video streaming in Over-The-Top and IPTV networks
• QoE issues of multimedia services and applications
• QoE management of multimedia services over wireless networks
• Energy efficient QoE management
• QoE driven network diagnostics, tracing, troubleshooting 

Nature-like techniques for QoE management

• Adaptive QoE management
• Self-organization techniques for the management of multimedia services
• Cognitive approaches, self-learning and Computational Intelligence-based algorithms for QoE management
• Autonomic techniques for QoE management
• Policy-based QoE management

QoE oriented coding

• Streaming aware video encoding
• QoE oriented coding for multimedia streaming
• Energy aware video coding and decoding

Experimental approaches

• Subjective studies in commercial settings
• Subjective studies in a controlled lab environments
• QoE of mobile services
• Experimental facilities for QoE evaluation of algorithms and services
• Subjective QoE evaluation pilots

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Paper submissions must present original, research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission must be written in English, accompanied by a 75 to 200 word abstract and a list of up to 5 key words. There is a length limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, figures, tables, and references) for workshop papers. Submissions must be in IEEE 2-column style. Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review.

Authors should submit their papers in PDF, postscript, or Word formats via JEMS: (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=1969).

IMPORTANT DATES

• Abstract registration deadline: December 7, 2013
• Paper submission: December 15, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2014
• Final version of papers due: February 15, 2014

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

• Prof. Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
• Prof. Filip De Turck, Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium
• Prof. Steven Latré, University of Antwerp – iMinds, Belgium

For more information, please contact one of the Co-Chairs at info@qcman.org

CfP: MMM2012 Video Browser Showdown

CALL FOR PAPERS

**Video Browser Showdown**

http://mmm2012.org/vbshowdown/

January 6, 2012, Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria.

The Video Browser Showdown (held as a separate session of MMM 2012) is a live video browsing competition where international researchers, working in the field of interactive video search, evaluate and demonstrate the efficiency of their tools in presence of the audience. The aim of the Video Browser Showdown is to evaluate video browsing tools for their efficiency at "Known Item Search"(KIS) tasks with a well-defined data set in direct comparison with other tools. For each KIS task the searchers need to interactively find a short video clip in a one-hour video file within a specific time limit.

The Video Browser Showdown will be a moderated "special demo session" of MMM 2012, where 24 KIS tasks (2◊12) need to be solved. For each task the moderator presents the target clip on a shared screen that is visible to all participants. The participants use their own equipment to perform an interactive search in the specified video file (taken from a common data set). The performance of participating tools will be evaluated in terms of successful answers and average search time. The decision for the best-performing tool is based on two runs:

• expert run: the participants (developers of the tools) themselves act as searchers
• novice run: volunteers from the audience act as searchers (after a short training phase) 

The overall best-performing tool will be awarded with the "Best Video Browser" certificate.

No Metadata:
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The videos to be used for the Video Browser Showdown will be provided without any metadata.
However, participants are allowed to perform any content analysis that supports interactive browsing in the video (e.g., through novel content visualization, content clustering, or advanced seeker-bars etc.). The search process must be interactive, i.e., no text-queries are allowed.

Participation:
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Anyone who has a video browsing tool that allows to interactively browse, explore, or navigate in a single video file (search shouldnít be based on automatic queries) may participate. Examples of tools of interest are: a video shot browser(e.g., temporal-based or concept-based), a video player with extended navigation/interaction means, a video content exploration tool, or tools using advanced visualizations for improved navigation/interaction("video surrogates") etc. Also tools developed for interactive video search on mobile devices are of interest.

Submission:
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To apply for participation please submit a scientific paper (2-3 pages in Springer LNCS format) to one of the organizers via email until October 7, 2011. The submission should include a detailed description of the interaction with the video browsing tool and how it supports interactive search in video. Submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure maximum quality. Accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings of MMM 2012.

Important dates:
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October 7, 2011 paper submission (2-3 pages, Springer LNCS)
October 12, 2011 notification of acceptance
October 19, 2011 camera-ready versions due
January 6, 2012 competition at MMM 2012

Organizers:
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Klaus Schoeffmann, Klagenfurt University, Austria, ks@itec.aau.at
Werner Bailer, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria, werner.bailer@joanneum.at
Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, cgmsnoek@uva.nl

More information:
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http://mmm2012.org/vbshowdown/