Multimedia 2017 - Special Session on Cloud-based Multimedia

Recent years have witnessed a surge of multimedia processing and distribution systems hosted in the cloud, spanning cloud-based music/video processing and distribution, cloud-based 2D/3D games, cloud-based virtual/augmented reality, etc. For example, NetFlix and ComCast are running on Amazon EC2, Skype is moving away from a peer-to-peer system to a cloud-based one, and Pokémon GO is reportedly to be relying on Google’s cloud technologies. Nonetheless, the wide deployment of cloud-based multimedia does not speak of perfection: how should multimedia contents be deployed and replicated to more efficiently achieve globe-scale distribution? Can cloud-based computing enable more efficient multimedia encoding/decoding technologies? How to search multimedia contents when they are stored across multiple cloud sites? Just to name a few. In addition, new domains on cloud-based multimedia are under-explored, such as cloud-based multimedia for e-health, cloud-based multimedia analytics, cloud-based virtual/augmented reality. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following.
Topics of Interest
Cloud-based multimedia encoding/decoding/processing
Cloud-based multimedia content distribution
Cloud-based multimedia search
Cloud-based multimedia analytics
Cloud-based multimedia for e-health
Cloud-based multimedia social networks
Resource allocation in multimedia clouds (for energy efficiency, cost minimization, etc.)
Cloud-based media content recommendation
Security and privacy of media contents in clouds
Cloud-based virtual/augmented reality
Program Committee
Niklas Carlsson (co-chair), Linköping University, Sweden
György Dan, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Derek Eager, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Emir Halepovic, AT&T, USA
Mohamed Hefeeda, SFU, Canada
Fangming Liu, HUST, China
Jiangchuan Liu (co-chair), Simon Fraser University, Canada
Yong Liu, NY University, USA
Jörg Ott, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Wei Wang, HKUST, Hong Kong
Zhi Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Yonggang Wen, NTU, Singapore
Chuan Wu (co-chair), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Henry Xu, CityU, Hong Kong