* Top quality papers of this workshop will be recommended to a journal special issue in the Journal of Communications. CALL FOR PAPERS The First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Computing and Communications (MCC’09) Story continued on The First IEEE International Workshop on IP Multimedia Communications (IPMC) and The Second International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Processing (IMAP) August 2 - 6, 2009 San Francisco, CA, USA In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Network (ICCCN) 2009 The explosively growing momentum behind worldwide broadband deployment and the emerging convergence of voice, image, video and data services offer the base for various modern multimedia applications and services such as mobile TV, multimedia messenger and blog, social networking, video conferencing, Internet gaming, interactive TV, IPTV, and multimedia visualization, navigation, management, search and retrieval. The advances of computing and communication over wired and wireless networks and new technologies ranging from multimedia coding, network infrastructure, content distribution protocols, quality of service (QoS) management to post-processing and analysis, have stimulated more diversified multimedia applications and services. In recent years, the emerging new techniques have been employed to effectively integrate context and content for multimedia mining, management, indexing and retrieval. The semantic and sensory gaps, which are difficult or even impossible to bridge using traditional approaches, have been narrowed to facilitate many real-world multimedia applications. Popular applications and services such as youtube, facebook, Google, Windows Live messenger, myspace, and variations are breaking the media monopoly of big content and distribution companies, new multimedia based social networking applications demand even more efficient and intelligent multimedia search and mining capabilities. The increasing service requirements by multimedia consumers inspire the rapid developments of interface design, interactive models, communication infrastructure, mobile devices, etc. In addition, the advances of video coding make many bandwidth-hungry video communication applications possible. Novel video source and channel coding techniques such as multiple description codes, transcoding, and network coding can certainly improve the efficiency of video transmission over the Internet. New communication protocols such as peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies further significantly improved the video broadcasting quality due to its distributed architecture that is capability to provide scalability, inherent robustness and fault tolerance to the best effort-based Internet. On the other hand, IPTV, built on managed IP network, is growing rapidly, targeting at providing high quality video viewing experience that is at least as good as what is offered by today's cable/satellite TV. At the same time, advances in wireless network technologies and video delivery mechanisms such as IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and the 3G and 4G cellular systems provide alternatives to their wired peers, allowing users to access and produce video at any time from anywhere. The challenges for those applications and services to be successfully deployed range from limited computation power considering the rich media content, difficulty in content analysis and understanding, to the state of the transport network. Besides, better video viewing experience always calls for better compression algorithm, data rate adaptation, adaptive error control, and error concealment technologies. A central theme in all these efforts is novel approaches and solutions for multimedia computation and communications. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a professional forum for industry and academic researchers from around the world to present their state-of-the-art accomplishments, exchange latest experiences, and explore future directions for multimedia computing and communications. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following: Multimedia content analysis, representation, and understanding Content, user, computation, and network aware media engineering Multimedia management in social networking environment Multimedia indexing and retrieval Multimedia processing for wireless sensor networks Multimedia data mining and fusing Multimodal signal processing Sensorial data processing for interactive games Multimedia summarization and abstraction Intelligent audio-video surveillance and other security-related applications Content authentication, preservation, and digital rights management Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models Multimedia coding, streaming, and networking Video transcoding Multimedia transmission networks, systems, and applications QoS management Content-aware multimedia distribution P2P multimedia networks Joint source-channel video coding IPTV architecture and standards Network security for P2P and IPTV services Internet traffic classification and management algorithm and architecture for IPTV Multimedia Advertising for IPTV Services Error control and concealment Video quality assessment Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers limited to 6 pages. Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the ICCCN 2009 website. Note that, in compliance with the ICCCN requirements, an accepted paper, if not presented by an author, will be removed from the IEEE Xplore library unless the absence is approved by the ICCCN'09 organization in advance. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline March 13, 2009 Author notification May 1, 2009 Camera-ready paper May 15, 2009 Author registration May 15, 2009 Conference date August 2–6, 2009 General Co-Chairs: Zhu Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China zhu.li@ieee.org Steven Wright, AT&T, USA steven.wright.3@att.com Program Co-Chairs: Yun (Raymond) Fu, BBN Technologies, USA yfu@bbn.com Fan Zhai, Texas Instruments, USA fzhai@ti.com Publicity Chair: Dacheng Tao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore dacheng.tao@gmail.com Technical Program Committee: Dan Schonfeld, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago, USA Qi Tian, Microsoft Research Asia, China Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Shuicheng Yan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Eckehard Steinbach, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Onur Guleryuz, DoCoMo USA Labs, USA Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland Jiebo Luo, Kodak, USA Thomas Little, Boston University, USA Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA Paris, France Guodong Guo, North Carolina Central University, USA Julien Maisonneuve, Alcatel-Lucent, France Charalabos Skianis, University of Aegean, Greece Greg Thompson, Thompson Video Consulting, USA Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada Ye-Kui Wang, Huawei Technologies, USA Truong Nguyen, University of California at San Diego, USA Lisimachos Kondi, University of Ioannina, Greece Jie Liang, Simon Fraser University, Canada Lexing Xie, IBM, USA Wai-tian Tan, HP Labs, USA Ghassem Koleyni, Consultant, Canada Ying Li, Samsung Telecommunications America, USA Yijuan (Lucy) Lu, Texas State University, USA Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, Germany Raheem Beyah, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Luca Salgarelli, Università di Brescia, Italy Al Bovik, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm, USA Jun Kyun Choi, Information Communication University, Korean Gerald Schaefer, Aston University, UK