NOVEL TECHNIQUES FOR BROWSING IN LARGE MULTIMEDIA COLLECTIONS
Special Session at the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
(ICME 2004)
June 27th-30th, Taipei, Taiwan
 
In the past few years rapid developments in capture and display
technologies have created a crucial need for novel and more effective
approaches for browsing in multimedia collections. Users are able to
acquire large volumes of multimedia data with very little effort. Cameras
in cellular telephones, and other pervasive devices, along with the
increasing use of high-speed internet connections, digital broadcast, and
emerging interoperability standards (MPEG-7, MPEG-21, etc.), facilitate
the collection of multimedia and related metadata. This has created
important technical challenges for the research community: without
effective and fun interactive techniques and browsing mechanisms,
multimedia collections are like just another photography shoebox stored
in a closet.
 
This special session will focus on effective methods (including
visualization, sonification, and immersion) for browsing large multimedia
collections and related metadata using traditional and novel devices. The
session will explore techniques for single displays, as well as new
techniques that utilize multiple, large format, projective, and personal
devices (e.g., wearable and pervasive). Submissions are welcome on papers
that address visualization, sonification, and immersion of any type of
multimedia data (video, consumer images, e-learning materials, multimedia
product catalogs, medicine, surveillance, etc.), with a focused goal on
allowing the user to develop insights into the structural and semantic
relationships present (e.g., using novel ways to represent metadata
including annotations and links between multimedia documents). The aim of
the session is to bring together researchers to discuss, evaluate, and
explore state-of-the art techniques, as well as identify future research
directions related to browsing in large multimedia collections.
 
Topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- New semantic structures and techniques for multidimensional
representation and navigation of multimedia collections (time, space,
etc.)
- Theoretical frameworks for human computer interaction for browsing
large multimedia collections
- Novel techniques for visualization, sonification, and immersion
- Effects of perceptual and cultural factors in browsing systems
- User-centric, context-aware browsing
- Objective criteria and evaluation methods for browsing
- Novel techniques for browsing large multimedia collections with
resource limited pervasive devices
- Applications and demonstration systems
 
Organizers: 
Alejandro Jaimes (alex.jaimes@fujixerox.co.jp), FujiXerox, Nakai Research
Center, Japan
Hari Sundaram (Hari.Sundaram@asu.edu), Arizona State University, USA
 
Submission:  
Papers must be submitted using the ICME guidelines and system.
 
Review Process: 
All papers will be reviewed using the standard ICME procedures. Papers
will be selected on the basis of novelty, relevance, significance,
soundness and clarity.
 
Important Dates: 
 
* Paper submission to the special session:  January 15th, 2004
* Notification of acceptance:   March 1st, 2004.
* Camera-ready paper due:   March 31st, 2004.
 
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