ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television & Online Video

*** TVX 2015 ***

ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television & Online Video

3rd – 5th June 2015

http://tvx2015.com/

Hosted by iMinds Digital Society Department at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Brussels, Belgium

Jointly organised with the International Symposium on Media Innovations (ISMI) and the Private Television Conference

IMPORTANT DATES:

•  November 15, 2014: Course and Workshop proposals
• January 12, 2015: Full and Short Paper submissions
• March 2, 2015: WiP, TVX in Industry, Demo, Doctoral Consortium

TVX is the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video. TVX is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into online video and TV interaction and user experience. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. In addition to standard research paper presentations the conference includes a wide range of formats for presentation and discussion of research, including Industry Papers, Demos, Works-in-Progress, and also provides the opportunity to participate in the Doctoral Consortium and to run and attend courses and workshops on specialist topics in TV and online video interaction and user experience.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Content Production: traditional & novel content production for the new media landscape, including cross-platform services and interactive storytelling, and personalisation.
• Systems & Infrastructures: system designs and architectures and their evaluation, including delivery, transmission, and synchronization of media.
• Interaction Technologies & techniques: including gestural and multi-sensory, multi-display systems, and interaction for device ecosystems.
• Experience Design & Evaluation: TV and online video design and evaluation research, including social and shared experiences.
• Media Studies: including consumption practices and theoretical and practical ethical, regulatory, and policy issues.
• Empirical Methods: novel methods for evaluating TV and online video experience, and audience measurement.
• Data Science for TV & Online Video: advances in techniques for collaborative filtering, interactive/synchronous environments, collective intelligence and crowd-sourcing, and location-based and context-aware applications and services.
• Business Models & Marketing: research and practice around novel business models and marketing strategies for the new media landscape of television and online video. Studies around novel ways of advertisement models and strategies.
• Innovation & Visions of Future TV & Online Video: research on innovative design strategies, new concepts, and prototype experiences for television and online video, including case studies and media artworks and performances.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Contributions must describe unpublished original work, emphasizing completed or advanced research, and a parallel submission to other venues should be clearly indicated to the program committee. Research paper submissions are double-blind and will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.

For detailed submission guidelines, including the use of the ACM SIGCHI PCS submission system see: http://tvx2015.com/participation

MENTORING PROGRAM

Along the inclusion and accessibility strategy at TVX2015, we also provide a mentoring opportunity. During the TVX submission process, we can provide the opportunity to bring the experience of established researchers to new researchers. In the mentorship program we get you in contact with a specific member of the community who will provide feedback and support for your submission.

Please find more information on how to ask for mentoring, becoming a mentor, and our existing mentors: http://tvx2015.com/inclusion-accessibility/mentoring-program/

CONTACT

For up-to-date information and further details visit: http://tvx2015.com/

For questions, please contact us on: info@tvx2015.com

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIRS

David Geerts, iMinds / KU Leuven, Belgium

Lieven De Marez, iMinds / UGent, Belgium

Caroline Pauwels, iMinds / VUB, Belgium

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Frank Bentley, Yahoo Labs, USA

Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

WORK IN PROGRESS CHAIRS

Hokyoung Blake Ryu, Hanyang University, South Korea

Jeroen Vanattenhoven, iMinds / KU Leuven, Belgium

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Rene Kaiser, Joanneum Research, Austria

Noor Ali-Hasan, Google, USA

COURSE CHAIRS

Pedro Almeida, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Santosh Basapur, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS

Marian Ursu, University of York, UK

Teresa Chambel, University of Lisbon, Portugal

TVX IN INDUSTRY CHAIRS

Katia Aerts, Mike Matton, VRT, Belgium

DEMO CHAIRS

Tom Bartindale, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK

Rinze Leenheer, iMinds / KU Leuven, Belgium

INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY CHAIR

Reuben Kirkham, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK

Tom Evens, iMinds / UGent, Belgium

LOCAL PRODUCTION CHAIR

Jonathan Huyghe, iMinds / KU Leuven, Belgium

CfP: IEEE Trans. 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.

Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Applications (WIMA)

held as special session in conjunction with

USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure

November 4th-5th 2010

Klagenfurt, Austria

URL: http://tinyurl.com/wima2010

Multimedia applications have become ubiquitous lately. People record and watch videos on mobile and stationary devices, they use non linear video editors, and they share and organize their personal multimedia archives. Lots of research has been done on the technical aspects of multimedia, like streaming, presentation, transcoding, adaptation and content based retrieval and analysis. But handling multimedia is an interactive process and users have to be taken into account. Even consumption is often accompanied with communication, non linear browsing and search. This interactivity in multimedia applications is a challenging yet very promising topic as especially in multimedia applications people more often accept innovative ideas and fundamental changes more easily. This workshop should bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction research (HCI). In this workshop we aim to discuss recent scientific advances and also first results of greenhouse work in the field of interactive multimedia applications. We also encourage the submission of papers presenting studies on interactivity in multimedia systems or discussing the development of applications in this field.

Topics include the aspects of interactivity in the following fields:
* Multimedia Retrieval, Browsing & Navigation
* User Intentions in Multimedia Search, Annotation & Production
* Multimedia Production and Post-Production
* Multimedia in Specialized Domains (e.g. Medical Scenarios, Sports,
Security, etc.)
* Image, Audio and Video Analysis
* Mobile Multimedia Applications
* Multimedia on the Web
* Social Multimedia
* Multimedia Management and Databases
* Distributed Multimedia Systems
We also encourage the submission of greenhouse work and preliminary
results to be discussed in the workshop.
Submission
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Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:
* Full papers (14-20 pages)
* Short papers (6-14 pages)
* Posters (4 pages)
All papers have to be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Style.
Submission is handled by easychair, see http://tinyurl.com/wima2010 for
details.
Important Dates
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* June 25, 2010 Deadline for Paper Submission
* July 23, 2010 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
* August 15, 2010 Camera-Ready Deadline
* Nov 4 & 5, 2010 USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure
Program Committee (to be extended)
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* Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Dalibor Mitrovic, TU Wien, AT
* Frank Hopfgartner, International Computer Science Institute, USA
* Harald Kosch, University of Passau, DE
* Mario Döller, University of Passau, DE
* Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, AT
* Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, US
* Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China
* Vincent Charvillait, ENSEEIHT Toulouse, FR
* Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, AT
* Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen, DE
* Yu Cao, California State University of Fresno, US
Workshop Chairs
===============
* Klaus Schöffmann, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, AT
For further questions please contact the program chairs at
wima2010@itec.uni-klu.ac.at

WIAMIS-2010: Deadline Extension

DEADLINE EXTENSION: WIAMIS-2010
New Paper Submission Deadline: December 9, 2009
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11th Int. Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
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April 12-14 2010
Desenzano del Garda - Italy

http://www.wiamis2010.org

Sponsored by:
- IEEE Signal Processing Society
- EURASIP
- ACM (pending)

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An extended version of selected papers will be published in the
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer
Science Series.

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Keynote talks:
- Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence
- David Taubman, The University of New South Wales

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Tutorial talks:
- Marco Tagliasacchi, Politecnico di Milano
- Nicu Sebe, University of Trento

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Special Sessions:
- Semantic Digital Libraries for Cross-Discipline Retrieval
- Interactive Multimedia in Social Networks

Important Dates
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Paper Submission: December 9, 2009
Special Sessions Paper Submission: December 9, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2010
Camera Ready Papers: February 15, 2010
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The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia
Interactive Services is one of the main international events for the
presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in
interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to
bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry
working in the areas of image, video and audio applications, with a
special focus on analysis. After a series of successful meetings
starting in 1997 in Louvain, WIAMIS 2010 will be held in Desenzano del
Garda, by the beautiful Garda Lake, close to Brescia, Italy.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Multimedia content analysis and understanding;
Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and
audio;
Content-based copy detection;
Emotional based content classification and organization;
2D/3D feature extraction;
Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio and video;
Relevance feedback and learning systems;
Segmentation of objects in 2D/3D image sequences;
Motion analysis and tracking;
Video analysis and event recognition;
Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience;
Analysis anP tools for content adaptation;
Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding;
Content summarization and personalization strategies;
End-to-end quality of service support for Universal Multimedia Access;
Semantic mapping and ontologies;
Multimedia analysis for new and emerging applications;
Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware;
Semantic web and social networks;
Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback;
Applications.

Paper Submissions
---------------
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas
listed above. All papers must be written in English, and the length
should not exceed 4 pages in IEEE double column, single space format
(including figures and tables).

Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats)
are available at the following web page:
http://www.ing.unibs.it/wiamis2010/submission.php

Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the web-
based Easy chair submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wiamis2010

All accepted and registered papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings which will be indexed and distributed by the IEEExplore.
All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the
technical program committee.

General Chair
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Riccardo Leonardi
University of Brescia, Italy

Program Chairs
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Pierangelo Migliorati
University of Brescia, Italy
Andrea Cavallaro
Queen Mary, University of
London, UK

Special Session Chair
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Jian Zhang
National ICT Australia, Australia

Sponsors and Industry Liaison
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Alberto Signoroni
University of Brescia, Italy

US Liaison
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Aggelos Katsaggelos
Northwestern University, USA

Asian Liaison
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Hsueh Ming Hang
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Publication Chair
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Nicola Adami
University of Brescia, Italy

Local Arrangements Chair
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Sergio Benini
University of Brescia, Italy

Technical Program Committee
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Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Yiannis Andreopoulos, University College, London, UK
Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy
Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Susanne Boll, University of Vienna, Austria
Adrian Bors, The University of York, UK
Nikolaos Boulgouris, Kings College, University of London, UK
Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA, France
Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA
Tsuhan Chen, Cornell University, USA
Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Allan Hanbury, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Edwin Hancock, The University of York, UK
Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, NL
Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Emile Hendriks, Delft University of Technology, NL
Thomas Huang, University of Illinois, USA
Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
Moon Gi Kang, Yonsei University, Korea
Aggelos Katsaggelos, Nothwestern University, USA
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Janusz Konrad, Boston University, USA
Inald Lagendjik, Delft University of Technology, NL
Zhu Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Rainer Lienhart, University of Ausgburg, Germany
Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dimitrios Makris, Kingston University of London, UK
Jose M. Martinez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Benoit Macq, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Ferran Marques, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Majid Mirmehdi, University of Bristol, UK
Sanjit Mitra, University of Southern California, USA
Rafael Molina, University of Granada, Spain
Marta Mrak, University of Surrey, UK
Milind Naphade, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California, USA
Maja Pantic, Imperial College, UK / University of Twente, NL
Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Nikos Paragios, Ecole Central de Paris, France
Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal
Andrea Prati, University of Modena, Italy
Philippe Salembier, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Shin'ichi Satoh, NII, Japan
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, NL / University of Trento, Italy
Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, USA
Thomas Sikora, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Qi Tian, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA
Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
George Tziritas, University of Crete, Greece
Paulo Villegas, Telefonica I+D, Spain
Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, NL

WIAMIS 2009: Deadline extended to December 12

10th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Interactive Services
May 6-8 2009, London, UK
http://wiamis2009.qmul.net/

The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international fora for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in all areas of image, video and audio applications, with a special focus on analysis.

WIAMIS 2009, will host keynote talks by:
Prof. Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Prof. Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico - Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Multimedia content analysis and understanding
* Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio
* 2D/3D feature extraction
* Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio and video
* Relevance feedback and learning systems
* Segmentation of objects in 2D/3D image sequences
* Motion analysis and tracking
* Video analysis and event recognition
* Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience
* Analysis and tools for content adaptation
* Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding
* Content summarization and personalization strategies
* End-to-end quality of service support for Universal Multimedia Access
* Semantic mapping and ontologies
* Multimedia analysis for new and emerging applications
* Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
* Semantic web and social networks
* Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback

Important Dates
---------------
Proposal for Special Session: November 21, 2008 (closed)
Paper Submission: December 12, 2008 (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2009
Camera-ready Papers: February 20, 2009

Submissions
-----------
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas listed above. All papers must be written in English, and the length should not exceed 4 pages in IEEE double column, single space format (including figures and tables).

Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the following web page:
http://wiamis2009.qmul.net/submissions.php

Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the web-based Easy chair submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wiamis2009

Workshop Proceedings
---------------
All accepted and registered papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be indexed and distributed by the IEEExplore. All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the technical program committee.

General Chairs
---------------
Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Program Chairs
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Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA
Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Special Session Chairs
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Yiannis Andreopoulos, University College, London, UK
Benoit Macq, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Industry Liaison
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Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research Laboratories, NL

Publicity and Publications
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Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Maja Pantic, Imperial College, UK / Univ. of Twente, NL

Local Arrangements
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Tijana Janjusevic, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Sander Koelstra, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Tomas Piatrik, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Technical Program Committee (tentative)
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Lourdes Agapito (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Kiyoharu Aizawa (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Luigi Atzori (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy)
Yannis Avrithis (NTUA, Greece)
Alberto del Bimbo (Univ. of Florence, Italy)
Susanne Boll (Univ. of Oldenburg, Germany)
Adrian Bors (Univ. of York, UK)
Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA, France)
Nikolaos Boulgouris (King's College London, UK)
K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State Univ., UK)
Tsuhan Chen (CMU, USA)
Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL, Switzerland)
Moncef Gabbouj (Tampere Univ. of technology, Finland)
Aphrodite Galata (Univ. of Manchester, UK)
Nikos Galatsanos (Univ. of Patras, Greece)
Edwin Hancock (Univ. of York, UK)
Alan Hanjalic (Delft Univ. of Technology, NL)
Allan Hanbury (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
Hermann Hellwagner (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
Thomas Huang (UIUC, USA)
Ebroul Izquierdo (Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK)
Francisca de Jong (Univ. of Twente, NL)
Joemon Jose (Univ. of Glasgow, UK)
Moon Gi Kang (Yonsei Univ., Korea)
Yiannis Kompatsiaris (ITI, Greece)
Janusz Konrad (Boston Univ. USA)
Inald Lagendijk Delft UNiv. of Technology, NL)
Riccardo Leonardi (Univ. of Brescia, Italy)
Zhu Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong)
Rainer Lienhart (Univ. of Augsburg, Germany)
Dimitris Makris (Kingston Univ., UK)
Stephane Marchand-Maillet (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)
Ferran Marques (UPC, Spain)
Jose M. Martinez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Majid Mirmehdi(Bristol Univ., UK)
Rafael Molina (Univ. of Granada, Spain)
Marta Mrak, University of Surrey, UK
Milind Naphade (IBM, USA)
Noel O'Connor (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Antonio Ortega (USC, USA)
Nikos Paragios (ENPC, France)
Fernando Pereira (IST, Portugal)
Andrea Prati (Univ. of Modena, Italy)
Philippe Salembier (UPC, Spain)
Shin'ichi Satoh (NII, Japan)
Thomas Sikora (Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany)
John R. Smith (IBM, USA)
Qi Tian (Microsoft, China)
Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
George Tziritas (Univ. of Crete, Greece)
Paulo Villegas (Telefonica, Spain)
Jacob Verbeek (INRIA, France)
Yao Wang (Polytechnic Univ., USA)
Marcel Worring (Univ. of Amsterdam, NL)
Ying Wu (Northwestern University, USA)

WIAMIS 2009 is sponsored by
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IEEE Signal Processing Society (http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/)
British Machine Vision Association (http://www.bmva.org/)
PetaMedia NoE (http://www.petamedia.eu/)
Visnet II NoE (http://www.visnet-noe.org/)
WeKnowIt (http://www.weknowit.eu/)

CfP: International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) 2009

May 6-8 2009, London, UK

Call for Papers

The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international fora for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in all areas of image, video and audio applications, with a special focus on analysis.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Multimedia content analysis and understanding
• Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio
• 2D/3D feature extraction
• Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio and video
• Relevance feedback and learning systems
• Segmentation of objects in 2D/3D image sequences
• Motion analysis and tracking
• Video analysis and event recognition
• Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience
• Analysis and tools for content adaptation
• Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding
• Content summarization and personalization strategies
• End-to-end quality of service support for Universal Multimedia Access
• Semantic mapping and ontologies
• Multimedia analysis for new and emerging applications
• Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
• Semantic web and social networks
• Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback

Paper Submission

The intention is to publish the proceedings in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series and to make them available in IEEExplore. The authors are requested to send their submissions (4 pages double column in English). All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the technical program committee.

Important Dates:

• Proposal for Special Session: November 21, 2008
• Paper Submission: December 1, 2008
• Notification of Acceptance: January 16, 2009
• Camera-ready Papers: February 06, 2009