------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- WIAMIS 2007 Call for Papers and Special Sessions OBJECTIVES -------------------- 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 (1997), Berlin (1999), Tampere (2001), London (2003), Lisboa (2004), Montreux (2005), Incheon (2006), WIAMIS 2007 is held in Santorini, Greece. TOPICS ------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Multimedia content analysis and understanding 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 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 Multimedia analysis for advanced applications Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware INVITED TALKS ----------------------- WIAMIS 2007 will include in its Technical Program 3 invited talks by leading experts in the field of multimedia processing. For more information please refer to the WIAMIS 2007 web site, http://mkg.iti.gr/wiamis2007/. PAPER SUBMISSION -------------------------------- Prospective contributors are invited to submit extended summaries electronically, following the link to the electronic submission system that will appear on the WIAMIS 2007 web site, http://mkg.iti.gr/wiamis2007/, several weeks before the paper submission deadline. Submissions should be in Adobe PDF file format, written in English, following the two-column IEEE conference proceedings format and extending no more than four two-column pages including all figures, tables and references. The proceedings will be published by IEEE and archived to IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society digital libraries. SPECIAL SESSIONS ------------------------------- WIAMIS 2007 will also include a number of special sessions. For submitting a special session proposal and for information on already established special sessions, please check the related web page, http://mkg.iti.gr/wiamis2007/sessions.html. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------ Proposals for special sessions: 8 December 2006 Paper Submission: 19 January 2007 Review results: 23 February 2007 Submission of camera-ready papers: 9 March 2007 WIAMIS 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs * Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece * Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Technical Program Chairs * Milind R. Naphade, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA * Noel O'Connor, Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University, Ireland * Vasileios Mezaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece Special Sessions Chair * Murat Tekalp, College of Engineering, Koc University, Turkey Industry Liaisons * Adrian Matellanes, Motorola Labs, UK * Nikos Sarris, Athens Technology Center S.A., Greece CONTACT --------------- For questions, problems and all other inquiries, please contact wiamis2007@iti.gr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------