WIAMIS 2011 - The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS)

The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international fora for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in the areas of image, video and audio applications, with a special focus on analysis.
After a series of successful meetings starting in 1997 in Louvain, WIAMIS 2011 will be held at Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), Delft, The Netherlands.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
* 2D/3D feature extraction
* Segmentation and reconstruction of objects in 2D/3D image sequences
* Motion analysis and tracking
* Video/Audio special event recognition
* Multimedia coding efficiency and increased error resilience
* Multimedia browsing, indexing and retrieval
* Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for multimedia
* Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding
* Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback
* End-to-end quality of service support for Universal Multimedia Access
* Semantic mapping and ontologies
* Semantic web and social networks
* Relevance feedback and learning systems
* Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
* Advanced multimedia applications
* Video/Audio based human behavior analysis systems
* Camera based human computer interaction

Paper Submission
All submissions will be handled electronically. Submission instructions will be posted on the workshop website (http://www.wiamis2011.org/) in due course.

Important Dates
Proposal for Special Session: October 31, 2010
Notification of SS Proposal Acceptance: November 12, 2010
Proposal for Tutorial: October 31, 2010
Notification of Tutorial Proposal Acceptance: November 12, 2010
Paper Submission: December 10, 2010
SS Paper Submission December 10, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: January 28, 2011
Camera-ready Papers: February 16, 2011

Program Committee (tentative)

Lourdes Agapito, Yiannis Andreopoulos, Yannis Avrithis, Susanne Boll, Adrian Bors, Nozha Boujemaa, Nikolaos Boulgouris, Selcuk Candan, Andrea Cavallaro, Alberto Del Bimbo, Moncef Gabbouj, Allan Hanbury, Hermann Hellwagner, Emile Hendriks, Joemon Jose, Aggelos Katsaggelos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Janusz Konrad, Bangjun Lei, Ido Leichter, Rainer Lienhart, Jose M . Martinez, Dimitrios Makris, Stephane Marchand-Maillet, Ferran Marques, Majid Mirmehdi, Rafael Molina, Marta Mrak, Noel O'Connor, Maja Pantic, Ioannis Patras, Fernando Pereira, Andrea Prati, Shin'ichi Satoh, Nicu Sebe, Shuifa Sun, Qi Tian, Christian Timmerer, Georgios Tziritas, Paulo Villegas, Marcel Worring, Li-Qun Xu, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Sheng Zheng, Luigi Atzori, Jan Biemond, Aytul Ercil, Wen Gao, Alan Hanjalic, Ebroul Izquierdo, Inald Lagendijk, Martha Larson, Shaozi Li, Zhu Li, Benoit Macq, Antonio Ortega, Philippe Salembier, Oliver Schreer, Emanuel Trucco, Alessandro Vinciarelli