IMMPD 2012 - Workshop on Interactive Multimedia on Mobile and Portable Devices

With the development of silicon technologies, mobile and portable electronics devices, such as personal computers, mobile phones, digital cameras, and PDA, have become ubiquitous for people's daily life. These devices provide multimedia sources for entertainment, communication, and so on. How to design user interfaces of these products that enable natural, intuitive and fun interaction is one of the main challenges the multimedia community is facing.
Considering that mobile and portable devices are usually supplied with multiple sensors (e.g., camera and microphone), how to employ multimodal information for interaction has recently received much attention in both academia and industry. But interactive multimedia is still an under-explored field. Many challenges exist when moving to multimodal interaction: for example, how to annotate and search huge data acquired by using multiple sensors, especially in the unconstrained end-user environments? how to effectively extract and select representative multimedia features for human behavior recognition? and how to select the fusion strategy of multimodal data for a given application? To address these challenges, we must adapt the existing approaches or find new solutions suitable for multimedia interaction on mobile and portable devices.
This workshop will bring together researchers from both academia and industry in domains including computer vision, audio and speech processing, machine learning, pattern recognition, communications, human-computer interaction, and media technology to share and discuss recent advances in interactive multimedia. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Multimedia description and markup
Multimedia representation and annotation
Multimedia search and retrieval
Presence and environment sensing
Face detection, tracking, and recognition
Hand detection, tracking, and recognition
Emotion/mood recognition
Gesture/action/activity recognition
Audio-visual recognition and interaction
Novel interaction (accelerometer, touch screen, haptics, voice, etc.)
Multimodal data modeling and fusion
Multimedia content adaptation
Social media computing and interaction
Context-aware services
Interaction with depth-sensing (e.g., Kinect)
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 30 June 2012
Notification of acceptance: 5 August 2012
Camera-ready due: 15 August 2012
Workshop: 30 October 2012
Workshop Chairs
Ling Shao, The University of Sheffield, UK
Caifeng Shan, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Minoru Etoh, NTT DOCOMO, Japan
Technical Program Committee (Tentative)
Xavier Binefa, University of Barcelona, Spain
Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Berna Erol, Ricoh Innovations, USA
Yun (Raymond) Fu, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada
Aki Harma, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Winston Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Tae-Kyun Kim, Imperial College London, UK
Qian Lin, HP Labs, USA
Alexander C. Loui, Kodak Research Labs, USA
Xiaoming Liu, GE Global Research, USA
Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Jean-Marc Odobez, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland
Yoichi Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan
Wolfgang Hurst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Shihong Lao, Omron, Japan
Kari Pulli, NVIDIA, USA
Xiaoyi Jiang, University of Munster, Germany
Paper Submission
When submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another conference, workshop, or journal.
Full papers may be up to 6 pages (in ACM format). All papers must follow the general paper submission instructions of ACM Multimedia 2012.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the ACM Multimedia submission site .
Review and Publication
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three TPC members and/or external reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance and technical contents.
The review process will be double-blind.
Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the workshop proceedings together with the ACM Multimedia 2012 proceedings. Extended versions of accepted papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of a top journal or an edited book.
Workshop Program
Will be announced later.
Contacts
Ling Shao (ling.shao-AT-sheffield.ac.uk)
Caifeng Shan (caifeng.shan-AT-gmail.com)