[資訊] Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

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CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Special Issue on Integration of Context and Content for Multimedia Management

Guest Editors:
Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Alejandro Jaimes, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland
Jiebo Luo, Kodak Research Laboratories, USA
Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Important dates:
Manuscript Submission Deadline: April 1, 2008
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 1, 2008
Final Manuscript Due to IEEE: September 1, 2008
Expected Publication Date: January 2009

Submission Procedure:
Submissions should follow the guidelines set out by IEEE Transaction on
Multimedia. Prospective authors should submit high quality, original
manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any
other journals.

Summary

Lower cost hardware and growing communications infrastructure (e.g., Web, cell
phones, etc.) have led to an explosion in the availability of ubiquitous
devices to produce, store, view and exchange multimedia (images, videos,
music, text). Almost everyone is a producer and a consumer of multimedia in a
world in which, for the first time, tremendous amount of contextual
information is being automatically recorded by the various devices we
use (e.g., cell ID for the mobile phone location, GPS integrated in a digital
camera, camera parameters, time information, and identity of the producer).

In recent years, researchers have started making progress in effectively
integrating context and content for multimedia mining and management.
Integration of content and context is crucial to human-human communication and
human understanding of multimedia: without context it is difficult for a human
to recognize various objects, and we become easily confused if the audio-visual
signals we perceive are mismatched. For the same reasons, integration of
content and context is likely to enable  (semi)automatic content analysis and
indexing methods to become more powerful in managing multimedia data. It can
help narrow part of the semantic and sensory gap that is difficult or even
impossible to bridge using approaches that do not explicitly consider context
for (semi)automatic content-based analysis and indexing.

The goal of this special issue is to collect cutting-edge research work in
integrating content and context to make multimedia content management more
effective. The special issue will unravel the problems generally underlying
these integration efforts, elaborate on the true potential of contextual
information to enrich the content management tools and algorithms, discuss the
dilemma of generic versus narrow-scope solutions that may result from ¡°too
much¡± contextual information, and provide us vision and insight from
leading experts and practitioners on how to best approach the integration of
context and content. The special issue will also present the state of the art
in context and content-based models, algorithms, and applications for
multimedia management.


Scope

The scope of this special issue is to cover all aspects of context and content
for multimedia management.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

<> Contextual metadata extraction
<> Models for temporal context, spatial context, imaging context (e.g., camera
metadata), social and cultural context and so on
<> Web context for online multimedia annotation, browsing, sharing and reuse
<> Context tagging systems, e.g., geotagging, voice annotation
<> Context-aware inference algorithms
<> Context-aware multi-modal fusion systems (text, document, image, video,
metadata, etc.)
<> Models for combining contextual and content information
<> Context-aware interfaces
<> Context-aware collaboration
<> Social networks in multimedia indexing
<> Novel methods to support and enhance social interaction, including
innovative ideas integrating context in social, affective computing, and
experience capture.
<> Applications in security, biometrics, medicine, education, personal media
management, and the arts, among others
<> Context-aware mobile media technology and applications
<> Context for browsing and navigating large media collections
<> Tools for culture-specific content creation, management, and analysis

Organization

Next to the standard open call for papers, we will also invite a limited
number of papers, which will be written by prominent authors and authorities
in the field covered by this Special Issue. While the papers collected through
the open call are expected to sample the research efforts currently invested
within the community on effectively combining contextual and content
information for optimal analysis, indexing and retrieval of multimedia data,
the invited papers will be selected to highlight the main problems and
approaches generally underlying these efforts.

All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers. Invited
papers will be solicited first through white papers to ensure the quality and
relevance to the special issue. The accepted invited papers will be reviewed
by the guest editors and expect to account for about one fourth of the papers
in the special issue.

Contacts

Please address all correspondences regarding this special issue to the Guest
Editors Dr. Alan Hanjalic ([e-mail]), Dr. Alejandro Jaimes
([e-mail]), Dr. Jiebo Luo ([e-mail]), and Dr. Qi Tian
([e-mail]).


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