CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS ACM Multimedia 2007 University of Augsburg Augsburg, Germany September 23 - 29, 2007 http://www.acmmm07.org The 15th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2007) will be held in Augsburg, Germany, September 23 – 29, 2007. ACM Multimedia is the premier technical multimedia conference attended by an international community of researchers from both academia and industry. For this conference, we are seeking outstanding short paper submissions that will be presented in an interactive poster format at the conference. Short papers should present interesting recent results or novel thought- provoking ideas that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. We are looking for original and bold papers in all areas of multimedia technology, its application, and use submissions are encouraged in areas including multimedia databases, content analysis, media processing, compression, multimedia storage, networking, copyright protection, multimedia and hypermedia authoring, multimedia user interfaces, innovative applications and in emerging topics of social media and collaborative tagging. Submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality. Accepted short papers will be presented in poster format and are an opportunity for researchers to present new work and ideas in an interactive setting. Areas of interest include, but not restricted to: (a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval; (b) Multimedia networking, sensor networks, and systems support; (c) Multimedia tools, interfaces, end-to-end-systems, and applications. Accepted short papers will be published in the ACM Multimedia Conference proceedings. Key Dates: --------- June 1, 2007 Submission Deadline July 1, 2007 Acceptance Notification The short paper program chairs, Susanne Boll Chitra Dorai Julien Laganier