SSSMP 2012 - IEEE Signal Processing Society Seasonal School on Social Media Processing

Summer School on Social Media Processing
Call for Participation

IEEE Signal Processing Society Seasonal School on Social Media Processing
University of Technology, Sydney
Sydney, Australia

2nd - 6th July, 2012

WEB: http://www.icme2012.org/S3P/index.php
Email: vzhao-AT-ece.ualberta.ca, Qiang.Wu-AT-uts.edu.au

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 1st July, 2012
http://www.icme2012.org/S3P/Registration_index.php

[MOTIVATIONS AND DESCRIPTION]
The past decade witnesses the emergence and popularity of online social websites, blogs, instant messaging systems, and media-sharing networks, where millions of people actively interact with each other and expand their social circles. Such social networks bring new experience to users, and profoundly change the way we create, share and consume multimedia content. These trends also pose new challenges to the effective management of the resulting avalanche of multimedia content that people create, share and distribute over networks. In addition, users demand personalized services to meet their individual needs. These trends also raise new challenges related to security and privacy issues. This is an interdisciplinary research area covering multimedia signal processing, social signal processing, information science, sociology, psychology, and economics.

The Seasonal School on Social Media Processing is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society Seasonal Schools in Signal Processing (S3P) Program under the auspices of the IEEE SPS Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP TC) in coordination with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 9th ? 12th July 2012. The Seasonal School aims to provide a comprehensive overview of recent advances in this emerging research field, to provide graduate students, early stage researchers and practitioners a platform to interact with international and local researchers, and to engage local chapters in membership development and educational activities. This seasonal school will cover the following topics in social media processing:
1) multimedia social network analysis and user behavior modeling;
2) multimedia data mining and retrieval in social context;
3) multimedia communication and networking in social context; and
4) trust, privacy and security in social networks.

[APPLICATION]
The school will be open to graduate students, Ph.D. students, post-docs, young researchers, senior researchers and practitioners. Both academic and industrial professionals are encouraged to apply:
http://www.icme2012.org/S3P/Registration_index.php

[MORE INFORMATION]
http://www.icme2012.org/S3P/index.php
Email: vzhao-AT-ece.ualberta.ca, Qiang.Wu-AT-uts.edu.au