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                                  WIAMIS 2004
    5th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive
                                    Services

                      April 21-23, 2004, Lisboa, Portugal

                             First Call for Papers
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The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive
Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international fora for the
presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in
interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to
bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry
working in all areas of image, video and audio applications, with a
special focus on analysis. After Louvain'97, Berlin'99, Tampere'01 and
London'03, WIAMIS, from now on held annually, will be organized in 2004
by Instituto Superior Tecnico, in the city of Lisbon, Portugal.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
*        Multimedia content analysis and understanding
*        Content generation and manipulation
*        Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video
and audio
*        2D/3D feature extraction
*        Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio and video
*        Relevance feedback and learning systems
*        Supervised and unsupervised segmentation of objects in 2D/3D
image sequences
*        Identification and tracking of regions in scenes
*        Voice/audio assisted video segmentation
*        Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience
*        Analysis and understanding tools for content adaptation
*        Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding
*        Content summarization and personalization strategies
*        Data hiding and copyright protection of multimedia content
*        Semantic mapping and ontologies
*        Objective and subjective performance evaluation
*        Multimedia analysis for advanced applications
*        Multimedia analysis for surveillance, broadcasting,
mobile/wireless environments and the Internet
*        Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware

Paper Submission

Prospective contributors are invited to submit extended abstracts of not
more than four pages, in pdf format, following the instructions available
at http://amalia.img.lx.it.pt/wiamis2004/


Submission of extended abstract - November 28, 2003
Notification of acceptance - January 23, 2004
Submission of camera ready paper - February 13, 2004

Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop proceedings. The best
Workshop papers will be invited to participate in a special issue of a
well-known journal.


Chairman: Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Co-Chairman: Paulo Lobato Correia, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal

Technical Program Committee

Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Jaakko Astola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA
Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Christine Guillemot, INRIA, France
Tom Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA
Hyoung-Joong Kim, Kangwon National Univ., South Korea
Riccardo Leonardi, University of Brescia, Italy
Ferran Marques, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Maria Paula Queluz, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Abdul-Hamid Sadka, University of Surrey, UK
Philippe Salembier, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Ralf Schaefer, HHI, Germany
Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Michael Strintzis, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
Murat Tekalp, University of Rochester, USA