######################## Call For Papers ######################## IEEE MultiMedia Special Issue on Multimedia-Metadata and Semantic Management ################################################################# IMPORTANT DATES ------------------- - 15 January 2009: Paper submission - 31 March 2009: Authors notified of acceptance, rejection, or needed revisions. - 05 May 2009: Revisions due. - 16 June 2009: Final versions due. OVERVIEW ------------ Multimedia metadata description standards (e.g. MPEG-7/21) proposed in the recent years have been an important aspect of the creation of multimedia content and related semantic management. A number of multimedia metadata formats and standards have been tailored to specific application domains (e.g. broadcasting, multimedia mobile, etc.). The application of Semantic Web technologies to multimedia content has brought forward the use of Resource Description Framework, XTM, and Topic Maps for the description of multimedia metadata. But, in order to make multimedia applications ubiquitous, accessible, and interoperable, we need new mechanisms to describe and process contextual semantics of multimedia artefacts, especially over the Web. Contextual metadata, including linguistic semantics and visual semantics (e.g. semaphore) about multimedia artefacts, will play an important role in these mechanisms. The general aim of this special issue is to assess the current status and technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future perspectives, related to multimedia production, management, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective in contextualized ubiquitous, accessible and interoperable environments. It aims to provide an overview of the state of the art and future directions in this field, by including a wide range of interdisciplinary contributions from various research groups. Overall, it aims to outline the rich potential of the multimedia area for advanced contextual metadata- and semantic-driven multimedia systems and semantic-oriented services along the Web 3.0 evolutions. TOPICS ----------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multimedia Semantics - Contextual Multimedia Metadata - Contextual Multimedia Metadata Interoperability - Metadata Modeling and Contextual Ontologies for Multimedia Applications - Multimedia and Web 3.0 - Multimedia Authoring - Multimedia-based Access Control and Authorization - Management of Multimedia Metadata (Relational and XML Databases, Semantic Stores, etc.) - Multimedia Retrieval - Personalizing Multimedia Content - Cross-media Clustering - Mobile Applications - Multimedia Web Applications and Related Metadata Support - Novel and Challenging Multimedia Applications PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------ Manuscript must be submitted at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee after preparing it according to the instructions for authors (more details are provided at http://www.computer.org/multimedia/author.htm). When uploading your paper, please select the appropriate special issue title under the category 'Manuscript Type'. If you have any questions regarding the submission system, please contact Alkenia Winston at mm-ma@computer.org. All submissions will undergo a blind peer review by at least two expert reviewers to ensure a high standard of quality. Referees will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance to the special issue topics above. More details are provided here: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/multimedia/menuitem.deecb35fb1b4b95f96d34f108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=multimedia_level1&path=multimedia/content&file=CFPOct-Dec09.xml&xsl=article.xsl& GUEST EDITORS --------------- Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France (richard.chbeir@u-bourgogne.fr) Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany (Harald.Kosch@uni-passau.de) Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan (andres@nii.ac.jp) Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan (ishikawa@inf.shizuoka.ac.jp) Please contact the guest editors for any inquiries regarding the special issue.