Call for Papers

     Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems (EI121)
      IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging
            26-31 January 2008,  San Jose, CA, USA

http://electronicimaging.org/call/08/conferences/index.cfm?fuseaction=EI119

Paper proposal (up to 5,000 words) Due: 16 July 2007
Final Manuscript Due: 19 November 2007
200-word Final Summary Due: 19 November 2007

Proceedings of this conference will be published and available at the meeting.
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Content Analysis:
*       image, audio and video characterization (feature extraction);
*       fusion of text, image, video and audio data;
*       content parsing, clustering and classification;
*       semantic modeling;
*       image, video and audio similarity measures;
*       object and event detection and recognition; 
*       benchmarking of content analysis methods and algorithms;
*       generic methods and algorithms for content analysis; 
*       affective content analysis.

Content Management and Delivery:
*      (Internet) multimedia databases;
*       multimedia standards (e.g. SVG, SMIL, MPEG-7);
*       efficient peer-to-peer storage and search techniques;
*       indexing and data organization;
*       system optimization for search and retrieval; 
*       storage hierarchies, scalable storage;
*       personalized content delivery.

Content Search/Browsing/Retrieval:
*       multimedia data mining;
*       active learning and relevance feedback; 
*       query models;
*       browsing and visualization; 
*       search issues in distributed and heterogeneous systems; 
*       benchmarking search, browsing, and retrieval algorithms and systems;
*       generation of video summaries and abstracts;
*       cognitive aspects of human/machine systems.

Internet Imaging and Multimedia:
*       peer-to-peer imaging systems for the Internet;	
*       content creation and presentation for the Internet;
*       web cameras: impact on content analysis  techniques;
*       interactive multimedia creation for the Internet;
*       content rating, authentication, non-repudiation, and cultural differences in content perception;
*       XML applications;
*       web crawling, caching, and security;
*       semantic web;
*       (adaptable) user interfaces.

Applications:
*       commerce;
*       medicine; 
*       news;
*       entertainment;
*       wearable and ubiquitous computing;
*       management of meetings;
*       biometrics;
*       cultural heritage and education;
*       collaborative systems and multi-device applications;
*       life log applications;
*       military and civilian security applications.

The conference program will include invited keynote presentations, invited special 
sessions, and a panel of experts who will be discussing the remaining research
challenges related to multimedia content analysis, management and retrieval.