HFM 2011 - Workshop on Human Factors in Multimedia (HFM 2011)

Authors are invited to submit a full paper (two-column format, 6 pages) according to the guidelines available on the conference website at http://www.icme2011.org. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Perceptual quality in image, video and 3D compression;
Universal access, context-awareness, Multiâ?“sensory interfaces, smart environments
Computerâ?“augmented environments, Emotions, Gesture and gaze based interaction;
Social networking, Speech and natural language interfaces;
Situation aware multimedia systems;
Perceptually based techniques in computer vision, graphics and imaging;
Human Factors in Videoconferencing systems;
Perceptual factors in auditory coding, speech synthesis and recognition;
Haptic rendering, haptic input and perception;
Multimodal Interfaces, e.g., integrating audio, visual and haptic ;
Cognitive Modeling, Data Mining, Digital Visible Human
Motion Prediction, Capture and Motion based Interaction
Posture Prediction, Capture and Posture based Interaction
Culture and gender sensitive designs, cross-cultural interfaces
3D mesh refinement and evaluation of simplification algorithms based on perceptual characteristics and skeletonization;
Human factors in 3DTV and stereo visualization;
Visual quality prediction and perceptually driven texture reduction;
Active vision;
Panoramic view perception, capture and rendering;
Perceptually optimized transmission of integrated texture and mesh, taking packet loss into consideration;
Foveation for efficient image, video and 3D transmission;
Human Computer Interaction in Multimedia systems;
Perceptual factors in efficient web-based multimedia education; and
Measuring perceptual relevance of multimedia retrieval.
Standards
Usability of new technologies, small screen devices, touch based devices, web, games
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This workshop will take place in conjunction with:

IEEE nternational Conference in Multimedia and Expo (ICME2011)
La Salle University, Barcelona, Spain, 11-15 July, 2011.