SMC 2012 - 2012 First International Workshop on Social Multimedia Computing (SMC)

The First International Workshop on Social Multimedia Computing (SMC2012) will be held at Melbourne, Australia, in conjunction with 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, which is a flagship conference in the multimedia field. The theme of this workshop is Social multimedia computing: challenges, techniques and applications. Its goal is to present a concise reference of state-of-the-art efforts in social multimedia computing, and in particular the entailed opportunities and challenges fostering some interesting future developments in social multimedia computing research and applications.
Specifically, the workshop is intended to present both survey and original research articles on emerging theoretical and technological developments for applying knowledge from social studies to design and improve multimedia applications, as well as using multimedia technology and tools to enable more powerful social interaction and to study and model social behavior and organization dynamics in a multimedia social network. It also focuses on the promising applications of social multimedia computing in online content-sharing services, multimedia communication and networking, social multimedia search, interactive services and entertainment, social services and security applications. We believe this workshop will offer a timely meeting to benefit social scientists and multimedia scholars and provide exciting new insights both on the social phenomena being studied and on the development of multimedia research.