MMEDIA 2010 - The Second International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia

The rapid growth of information on the Web, its ubiquity and pervasiveness makes the www the biggest repository. While the volume of information may be useful, it creates new challenges for information retrieval, identification, understanding, selection, etc. Investigating new forms of platforms, tools, principles offered by Semantic Web opens another door to enable humans programs, or agents to understand what records are about, and allows integration between domain-dependent and media-dependent knowledge. Multimedia information has always been part of the Semantic Web paradigm, but requires substantial effort to integrate both.

The new technological achievements in terms of speed and the quality of expanding and creating a vast variety of multimedia services like voice, email, short messages, Internet access, m-commerce, to mobile video conferencing, streaming video and audio.

Large and specialized databases together with these technological achievements have brought true mobile multimedia experiences to mobile customers. Multimedia imply adoption of new technologies and challenges to operators and infrastructure builders in terms of ensuring fast and reliable services for improving the quality of web information retrieval.

Huge amounts of multimedia data are increasingly available. The knowledge of spatial and/or temporal phenomena becomes critical for many applications, which requires techniques for the processing, analysis, search, mining, and management of multimedia data.

MMEDIA 2010 aims to provide an international forum by researchers, students, and professionals for presenting recent research results on advances in multimedia, mobile and ubiquitous multimedia and to bring together experts from both academia and industry for the exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges in multimedia fundamentals, mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, multimedia ontology, multimedia user-centered perception, multimedia services and applications, and mobile multimedia.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.

Fundamentals in multimedia
Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications
New multimedia platforms
Multimedia architectural specification languages
Theoretical aspects and algorithms for multimedia
Multimedia content delivery networks
Network support for multimedia data
Multimedia data storage
Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems
Multimedia signal coding and processing (audio, video, image)
Multimedia applications (telepresence, triple-play, quadruple-play, …)
Multimedia tools (authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, …)
Computational multimedia intelligence (fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, …)
Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis
Multimedia networking
Wired and wireless multimedia systems
Distributed multimedia systems
Multisensor data integration and fusion
Multimedia and P2P
Multimedia standards

Multimedia content and modeling
Interfaces for multimedia creation
Multimedia streaming and services
Image modeling and editing
Audio modeling and transformation
Video modeling and transformation
Image recognition
Multimedia databases
Multimedia coding and encryption
Multimedia modeling for learning content
Multimedia description languages
Image clustering
Media fusion for communication and presentation

Self-organizing multimedia architectures
Self-organization in multimedia systems
Self-organization in multimedia communities
Self-organized multimedia networks
Multimedia content distribution and consumption
Adaptive multimedia interfaces
Multimedia retrieval

Multimedia content-based retrieval and analysis
Multimodal data analysis
Multimedia databases
Semi-automatic and automatic methods for multimedia annotation
Image/video/audio databases
Content-based image retrieval
Semantics-based search and integration of multimedia and digital content
Multimedia data modeling, indexing, and mining
Statistical modeling of multimedia data
Multimedia extraction and annotation
Content search/browsing/retrieval
Internet imaging and multimedia
Multimodal content analysis
Multimedia abstraction and summarization
Semantic analysis of multimedia data
Media assimilation and fusion

Perception and cognition for multimedia users
Quality of experience
Relevance feedback
Human-computer interaction
Multimodal interaction
Multimodal user interfaces
Mobile user-centered interfaces
Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems (digital TV, mobile systems, gaming,…)
Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks
Visualization and virtual reality
Intelligent browsing and visualization
Perception and cognition
Perception and modeling of the environment
Multimedia collaboration
Social networking

Multimedia ontology
Multimedia semantics
Emergent semantics
Media ontology learning
Ontology for media web mining
Multimedia ontologies
Multimedia information management
Approaches using metadata standards
Conceptual clustering
Modeling and recognition of visual objects and actions

Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for multimedia mobility
Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in intelligent transportation systems
Enabling platforms for mobile multimedia
Roaming and limited bandwidth
Intermittent connectivity
Streaming mobile multimedia
Mobile multimedia software architectures
Mobile multimedia applications and services
Communication and cooperation via mobile multimedia
Business models for mobile multimedia
Provisioning of mobile multimedia services
Context-aware mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
Mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment
Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in ad hoc networks
Personalization, privacy and security in mobile multimedia
Social and regulatory aspects of mobile multimedia
Multimedia in the Extended Home
Ubiquitous/Seamless content sharing

Multimedia services
Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services
Multimedia content distribution services
Real-time multimedia services
Audio-visual multimedia services
Multimedia signal processing and communications
Media representation and algorithms
Audio, image, video processing, coding and compression
Multimedia database, content delivery and transport
Multimedia service protocols
Mobility of multimedia services
Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems
Media enabled eCommerce service
Case studies, field trials and evaluation of new multimedia services

Multimedia applications
Real-time interactive multimedia applications
Adaptive and context-aware multimedia applications
Ambiance multimedia applications
Media applications on mobile devices
Multi-modal interaction
Virtual environments
Personalization
Collaboration, contextual metadata, collaborative tagging
Web applications
Multimedia authoring
Multimedia-enabled new applications (eLearning, entertainment,…..)
Cooperative networks and applications
Mobile multimedia applications & services
Semantic metadata for mobile applications
Semantics enabled multimedia applications
Semantics enabled networks and middleware for multimedia applications
Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks/RFID applications
Industrial use-cases and applications

Multimedia security and content protection
Multimedia security (watermark, encryption,… )
Mobile multimedia systems and services
Security, privacy, and cryptographic protocols
Network security issues and protocols
Key management and authentication
Authentication and access control
Intrusion detection and prevention
Content protection and digital rights management
Trusted computing
Information hiding
Protection of user-generated content

Multimedia control and management
Wireless and mobile multimedia network management
Multimedia measurement, control, and management
Content management and delivery
IP multimedia system operations and management
Managing the quality of experience and quality of service
Measuring the quality of performance in multimedia systems
Mobile multimedia network traffic engineering and optimization
Monitoring and managing mobile multimedia
Resource reservation for multimedia services
Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management
Management of service oriented architectures
Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) January 20, 2010
Notification March 12, 2010
Registration March 26, 2010
Camera ready March 21, 2010

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as poster. Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner. The poster slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.

For more details, see the Poster Forum explanation page.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page