ASMMC 2016 - 2nd International Workshop on Affective Social Multimedia Computing (ASMMC) 2016

The 2nd International Workshop on Affective Social Multimedia Computing (ASMMC) 2016, Seattle, USA
A one-day workshop of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2016), 15 July 2016
Website: http://www.nwpu-aslp.org/asmmc2016/
In co-located with ICME2016 Website: http://www.icme2016.org/
Important Dates
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Full Paper Submission March 18, 2016
Notification of Acceptance April 22, 2016
Camera-Ready Submission May 13, 2016
Workshop Scope
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Social multimedia is fundamentally changing how we communicate, interact, and collaborate in our daily lives. Recent advances in multimedia computing attract an increase in the research on multimedia content analysis, indexing and retrieval based on subjective concepts such as emotion, aesthetics, and preference. Different from the traditional content-based retrieval methods, the affective social media computing aims to process affective content from social multimedia. As the availability of massive and heterogeneous social media data, the problem becomes challenging because it requires multidisciplinary understanding of content and perceptional cues from social multimedia. From the multimedia perspective, research relies on the theoretical and technological findings in affective computing, machine learning, pattern recognition, signal/multimedia processing, computer vision, speech processing, behavior and social psychology. Affective analysis of social multimedia is attracting growing attention from industry and businesses that provide social networking sites, content-sharing services, distribute and host the media.
The first ASMMC workshop has been successfully held in Xi'an, China on September 21 2016. The second ASMMC workshop will come to Seattle, USA, as an affiliated workshop of International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2016), a flagship conference on Multimedia. This workshop focuses on the analysis of affective signals in social multimedia(e.g. twitter, weichat, weibo, youtube, facebook, etc). It seeks contributions on various aspects of affective computing in social multimedia on related theory, methodology, algorithms and techniques. We are inviting original submission to this workshop from topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
? Affective/Emotional content analysis of images, videos, music, metadata (text, symbols, etc.)
? Affective indexing, ranking, and retrieval on big social media data
? Affective computing in social multimedia by multimodal integration (face expression, gesture, posture, speech, text/language)
? Emotional implicit tagging and interactive systems
? User interests and behavior modeling in social multimedia
? Video and image summarization based on affect
? Affective analysis of social media and harvesting the affective response of crowd
? Affective generation in social multimedia, expressive text-to-speech and expressive language translation
? Applications of affective social multimedia computing
The best paper award(s) and journal special issue
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The workshop will select the best paper with a cash award from sponsors. In order to promote this emergent research area, we currently seek to publish a special issue or a special section on affective social multimedia in a relevant journal. If successful, the extensions of the best paper(s) and honorable mention papers will have a priority to be included into the special issue or session of the journal.
Workshop Co-Chairs
Dong-Yan HUANG , Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Lei XIE, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Shuicheng YAN, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jie YANG, National Science Foundation, USA
Programme Committee
Shih-Fu CHANG (Columbia University, USA)
Stephen COX (University of East Anglia, UK)
Minghui DONG (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Wolfgang HUERST (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Qiang JI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Jia JIA (Tsinghua university, China)
Qin JIN (Renmin University of China, China)
Swee Lan SEE (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Bo LI (Google, USA)
Haizhou LI (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Weisi LIN (Nanyang Technology University, Singapore)
Jiebo LUO (University of Rochester, USA)
Hichem SAHLI (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Bjoern SCHULLER (TUM, Germany)
Vidhyasaharan SETHU (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
Rainer STIEFELHAGEN (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, USA)
Yan TONG (University of South Carolina, USA)
Jia-Ching WANG (National Central University)
Chung-Hsien WU (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Zhiyong Wu (Tsinghua University, China)
Changsheng XU (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Yanning ZhANG (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Peng ZHANG (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Yuexian ZOU (Peking University, China)
Zhongfei ZHANG(Binghamton University, USA)
Xuan ZHU (Samsung R&D Institute of China, China)
Sponsors
Northwestern Polytechnical Univeristy, Xi'an, China
Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society, Singapore
Contacts
Please email inquiries concerning ASMMC2015 to:
Dr. Huang Dong Yan, Email: huang-AT-i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Prof. Lei Xie, Email: lxie-AT-nwpu.edu.cn