Call for Papers

The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Processing (IMAP)

URL: http://ivpl.ece.northwestern.edu/~zli/new_home/imap08-cfp.html

St. Thomas, US Virgin Island, USA

(in conjunction with IEEE ICCCN 2008 )

August 4-7, 2008

Invited Talk (joint with IPMC workshop):

“Video Quality and Video Database”, Professor Alan Bovik, University of Texas, Austin.

Abstract:

The rapid advances in computing, communication and storage technologies have heralded a new age of explosive growth in multimedia applications, such as online image and video repository, mobile TV and IPTV, video on demand, interactive multimedia game, video blogging, multimedia based social interaction. These applications open up new opportunities and present new challenges to the technologies in the area of multimedia computing architectures, audio/visual information processing, multimedia analysis and understanding, multimedia retrieval and mining, multimedia coding, communication and networking. In recent years, considerable amounts of research activities in both industry and academia have been devoted to these topics and a key piece of puzzle is to develop novel and effective approaches in modeling and analyzing, representing and understanding, encoding and distributing multimedia content, which will be the focus of this workshop.

IMAP will provide an excellent forum for experts around the world to join together and to present their newest research results, exchange latest experiences and insights, 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, standards and applications on analysis, processing, computing, and communication of multimedia information. The interested topics include but are not limited to:

· Multimedia content analysis, representation, and understanding

· Content, user, computation, and network aware media engineering

· Multimedia indexing and retrieval

. Multi-view signal processing, coding and systems

· 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

A special session is also being set up with the following topics:

. Multimedia security, Special Session Organiser: Dr. Wu Yong Dong

. Media (image, video, audio, speech) encryption, and watermarking,

. Streaming Media Forensics

. Image based authentication

. More special sessions to come.

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 15^th (new deadline), 2008. The proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore digital library, and indexed by EI. Selected papers from the submission will also be invited to submit an extended version to the forth coming Springer-Verlag book on “Multimedia Analysis, Processing and Communication”.

Important Dates (tentative):

· Manuscript Submission: March 30, 2008

· Acceptance Notification: May 11, 2008

· Camera-Ready Papers Due: June 1, 2008

· Conference Date: August 7, 2008

. Submission URL: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6300&

General Chair:

Weisi Lin, Nanyang Tech University, Singapore

Technical Program Co-Chairs:

Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Zhu Li, Motorola Labs, USA

Special Session Chair:

Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Dacheng Tao , Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Gokce Dane, Qualcomm, USA

Technical Program Committee:

· Changwen Chen State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

· Mary Comer Purdue University, USA

· Ajay Divakaran Mitsubishi Electronics Research Lab, USA

· Paola Hobson Motorola Labs, UK

· Akira Inoue NEC Laboratories, Japan

· Moncef Gabouj Tampere University of Technology, Finland

· Ling Guan Ryerson University, Canada

· Joemon Jose University of Glasgow, UK

· Aggelos Katsaggelos Northwestern University, USA

· Mark Liao Academia Sinica, Taiwan

· Chia-Wen Lin National Tsinghua University, Taiwan

· Zhu Liu AT&T Research, USA

· Zicheng Liu Microsoft Research, USA

· Enrico Magli Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

· Noel O'Connor Dublin City University, Ireland

· Fernando Pereira Instituto Superior Tcnico, Portugal,

· Dan Schonfeld Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago, USA

· Nicu Sebe University of Amsterdam, Netherland

· Thomas Sikora Technical Unversity Berlin, Germany

· Eckehard Steinbach Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

· Yap-Peng Tan Nanyang Tech University, Singapore

· Lexing Xie IBM Research, USA

· Suicheng Yan University of Illinois at Ubana-Champaign, USA