Call for Papers
Workshop on Multimedia Metadata Management & Retrieval (M3R 08)
8th Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community
URL: http://www.multimedia-metadata.info/Events/m3r08
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In times of ubiquitous access to the internet multimedia systems
utilizing networks gain more and more importance. Multimedia systems
support features beyond the download and display of videos and images:
Adaptation of data and metadata, caching and distribution of multimedia
content and metadata over different types of networks and integration of
the user as critical factor. Focus of the special session is put on
multimedia metadata. Aspects include but are not limited to means of
delivery, adaptation, storage, creation, production and consumption.

Topics in the context of multimedia metadata management & retrieval
include:

    * Distributed multimedia metadata management
    * Metadata based multimedia retrieval
    * Metadata crosswalking & interoperability
    * Metadata in multimedia authoring & publishing
    * Mobile multimedia metadata
    * Multimedia annotation
    * Multimedia metadata models & ontologies
    * Multimedia metadata services
    * Multimedia metadata storage and indexing
    * Multimedia metadata streaming & adaptation
    * Multimedia personalization
    * Social software and social computing for multimedia metadata

We encourage the submission of high quality scientific work as well as
application papers.

Organization:
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The Multimedia Metadata Community (http://www.multimedia-metadata.info)
has already organized a series of 7 successful workshops in the past
taking place in Aachen, Berlin, Graz and Klagenfurt. The Multimedia
Metadata Community welcomes and encourages submissions from outside the
core community to broaden aspects and extend the active and successful
community and network with new members. The event is organized as
special session of the 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for
Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS, http://www.wiamis2008.org/).
Therefore M3R 08 participants can visit the keynote presentations of the
WIAMIS workshop. However paper submission and review process as well as
the program committee are organized separately by the multimedia
metadata community.

The WIAMIS workshop is organized by the Institute for Information
Technology (ITEC) of the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt
(http://www.itec.uni-klu.ac.at). The M3R 08 chair is Mathias Lux,
Klagenfurt University, Austria. Email: mlux  itec.uni-klu.ac.at.

Publication:
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Accepted papers will be part of the WIAMIS Proceedings published online
and on CD by the IEEE Computer Society and made available through IEEE
Xplore™ and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. Papers must be
formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society standards and their
length must not exceed 4 IEEE double column style pages including all
figures, tables, and references.

For details see: http://www.wiamis2008.org/callForPapers.html

Important Dates:
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    * Submission Deadline: 2007-12-14
    * Notification upon acceptance: 2008-01-11
    * Deadline camera ready paper: 2008-02-01
    * Workshop: 2008-03-07 to 2008-03-08

Contact:
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Further questions? Contact the chair at mlux  itec.uni-klu.ac.at