Call for Submissions ACM International Workshop on Ambient Media Computing: Media Data Integration (MDI 2009) Beijing Hotel, Beijing, China October 23, 2009 http://www.hkws.org/events/ACM-MDI2009 In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2009 ______________________________________________________ In multimedia computing and management, ambient/ubiquitous/pervasive media integration is attracting a lot of attention. In particular, we are seeing large quantities of media data generated from various sources and presented to users. New emerging applications, such as digital entertainment, gaming, and e-learning, often require multimedia data objects that can be of different modality yet semantically relevant to be integrated in order to meet various requirements and achieve user objectives. While human brains can “integrate” media data objects naturally by fusing and associating them quickly, existing multimedia computing and processing techniques, unfortunately, do not provide adequate support to facilitate ambient media data integration automatically and semi-automatically. This workshop aims at addressing the various issues and challenges in ambient media data integration. The topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: a.. Discovery of media data semantics b.. Media data mining c.. Multi-modal data search and query processing d.. Cross-media indexing and association e.. Media object identification and (semantic) equivalence f.. Context-aware media data delivery and presentation g.. Location-based multimedia services h.. Wearable and wireless media computing i.. Cross-network server and management systems j.. Media synchronization k.. Pervasive multimedia applications Paper Submissions Each paper for submission should be formatted using the ACM Proceedings templates. It should be written in 9 points and must not be longer than 10 pages in length, including references and figures. Authors may submit their papers in PDF format via the ACM Multimedia 2009 paper submission system. Note that the review process is double-blind, i.e., all submissions must contain no information identifying the authors or their organizations. The Workshop Proceedings will be published by ACM. For more information regarding the paper submission, please check the workshop web site or send email to: mdi2009@cs.cityu.edu.hk Important Dates June 1, 2009 Paper Submission Deadline July 3, 2009 Paper Acceptance Announcement July 24, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Deadline Workshop Committee Workshop Co-Chairs Qing Li, CityU, HK Rynson W.H. Lau, CityU, HK Benjamin Wah, UIUC, USA Program Co-Chairs Howard Leung, CityU, HK Cha Zhang, MSR, USA Program Committee Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia U, USA Lei Chen, HKUST, HK Tsuhan Chen, Cornell U, USA Ricky Kwok, Colorado State U, USA Helen Huang, U Queensland, Australia Yiu-Wing Leung, HKBU, HK Ling Feng, Tsinghua U, China Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, U Geneva, Switzerland Dennis McLeod, USC, USA Timothy K. Shih, NTUE, Taiwan Marc Spaniol, MPI, Germany Deepak Turaga, IBM Research, USA Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland Ji-Rong Wen, MSRA, China Andy Wilson, MSR, USA Xiaofang Zhou, U Queensland, Australia Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang U, China