CALL FOR PAPERS FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING Sponsored by IEEE Visual Signal Processing and Communications Technical Committee http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~haohong/imap2007/index.html Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA August 15-16, 2006 The rapid growth in multimedia applications, such as interactive TV, multimedia games, multimedia messenger services, and multimedia visualization, navigation, search, and retrieval over wired and wireless networks have stimulated research for new technologies in the area of multimedia architectures, processing, analysis, and networking. Considerable amounts of research activities in industry and academia have been devoted to developing the enabling technologies that are essential to such multimedia applications. Particularly, the current third generation (3G) wireless systems and the next generation (4G) wireless systems in planning support higher bit rates and mobility so as to provide opportunities for proposing novel multimedia applications and services that can take the maximum advantage of the new systems. This workshop will provide an excellent forum for experts from around the world to join together and to present their newest accomplishments, exchange latest experiences, and explore future directions in this important and evolving field. It aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. The papers submitted to this workshop should focus on the state-of-the-art research in various important areas related to emerging technologies and standards on analysis, processing, computing, and networking of multimedia information. * Multimedia content analysis, representation, and understanding * Content, user, computation, and network aware media engineering * Multimedia indexing and retrieval * Multimedia processing for wireless sensor networks * Multimedia data mining and fusing * Multimodal signal processing * Multimedia summarization and abstraction * Emerging multimedia applications * Multimedia coding, streaming, and networking * Intelligent audio-video surveillance and other security-related applications * Content authentication, preservation, and digital rights management * Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing * Multimedia security * Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models Only original and unpublished paper will be considered. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than six (6) pages in double-column IEEE format including results, figures and references before April 10, 2007. Important dates: Manuscript Submission: April 10, 2007 Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2007 Camera-Ready Papers Due: May 31, 2007 Conference Date: August 15, 2007 General Co-Chairs: Chia-Wen Lin National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan cwlin@cs.ccu.edu.tw Haohong Wang Marvell Semiconductors, USA haohong@ieee.org Technical Program Co-Chairs: Enrico Magli Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy magli@polito.it Qibin Sun Institute for infocomm Research, Singapore qibin@i2r.a-star.edu.sg Publicity Chair: Junqing Chen Micron, USA junqing.chen@gmail.com Technical Program Committee Meritxell Bach,EPFL, Switzerland Jesus Bescos,Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Jianfei CAI,Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE Junqing Chen,Micron,USA Sen-ching S. Cheung,University of Kentucky, USA Sheng GAO,Institute for Infocomm Research, SINGAPORE Qingming Huang,Chinese Academy of Science, CHINA Jin Li,Microsoft Research, USA Zhu Li,Motorola, USA Alexander Loui,Eastman Kodak, USA Chun-Shien LU,Academia Sinica, TAIWAN Jiebo LUO,Kodak Research Labs, USA Khaled El-Maleh,Qualcomm, USA Enrico Masala,Politecnico di Torino, Italy Alessandro Piva,University of Florence, Italy Gerasimos Potamianos,IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Peter Schelkens,Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Vladimir Stankovic,Lancaster University, UK Bo SHEN,HP labs, USA Min WU,University of Maryland, USA Lexing XIE,IBM Research T.J. Waston, USA Rongshan YU,Dolby Research Labs, USA Dongqing ZHANG,Thomson Research, USA Francesco Ziliani,Visiowave, Switzerland