**** CFP MMSP 2008 Special Session: Search and Beyond Search - Online Multimedia Applications **** Call for Papers Special Session: Search and Beyond Search: Online Multimedia Applications of MMSP (2008 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing) http://mmsp08.org/Special_Session The core technologies for different online multimedia applications are closely related. "Multimodal Relevance" is one of the key technologies that many applications involve. This special session will include papers addressing existing and potential issues, scenarios, research topics of online video, image and audio related applications, including but not limited to 1. Video/image search and re-ranking 2. Social media and media sharing 3. Multimedia recommendation 4. Multimedia advertising 5. Online multimedia annotation/categorization/tagging 6. Online multimedia presentation, browsing and management 7. Online multimedia authoring 8. Other multimedia related technologies and applications on the Internet Organizer: Dr. Tao Mei Email: tmei [AT] microsoft [DOT] com Microsoft Research Asia Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua Email: xshua [AT] microsoft [DOT] com Microsoft Research Asia Dr. Lingyu Duan Email: lingyu [AT] i2r [DOT] a-star [DOT] edu [DOT] sg Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Prof. Jesse Jin Email: jesse.jin [AT] newcastle [DOT] edu [DOT] au The University of Newcastle, Australia Deadline: Abstract Registration: April 18, 2008 Paper Submission: May 2, 2008 Acceptance Notification: June 18, 2008 Notes: * Please send the potential title and author list to the organizers (Dr. Tao Mei tmei@microsoft.com and/or Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua xshua@microsoft.com) by April 18 if you are interested in this special session. * The Special Session (SS) papers will be submitted to the same submission portal by choosing relevant Special Session as the Main Topic. The deadline of the SS submission is 2 May 2008. However, the potential authors MUST register their interests by lodging a PDF format file of paper abstract into the system before or on the regular paper submission deadline to GET a paper submission ID. This is because that the on-line submission will be closed after the regular paper submission deadline, which, currently, is 18 April, 2008. For final SS paper submission, authors MUST send the final copy with submission ID to the SS organizer. Please note that any submitted SS paper with no ID will not be accepted by MMSP08!