FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The 15th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2009)
7-9 January 2009,
Institut EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France.

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The International MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) Conference is a leading
international conference http://mmm2009.eurecom.fr for researchers and
industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research
results and practical development experiences from all MMM related
areas. The conference calls for original high-quality papers in, but
not limited to, the following areas related to multimedia modeling
technologies and applications:

1. Multimedia Content Analysis
1.1 Multimodal Content Analysis
1.2 Media Assimilation and Fusion
1.3 Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval and Browsing
1.4 Multimedia Indexing
1.5 Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization
1.6 Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data
1.7 Statistical Modeling of Multimedia Data
2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications
2.1 Media Representation and Algorithms
2.2 Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression
2.3 Multimedia Database, Content Delivery and Transport
2.4 Multimedia Security and Content Protection
2.5 Wireless and Mobile Multimedia Networking
2.6 Multimedia Standards and Related Issues
3. Multimedia Applications and Services
3.1 Real-Time, Interactive Multimedia Applications
3.2 Ambiance Multimedia Applications
3.3 Multi-Modal Interaction
3.4 Virtual Environments
3.5 Personalization
3.6 Collaboration, Contextual Metadata, Collaborative Tagging
3.7 Web Applications
3.8 Multimedia Authoring
3.9 Multimedia-Enabled New Applications
(E-Learning, Entertainment, Health Care, Web2.0, SNS, etc.)

Paper Submission Guidelines
Papers should be no more than 10-12 pages in length, conforming to the
formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series
www.springer.com/lncs. Papers will be judged by an international
program committee based on their originality, significance,
correctness and clarity. All papers should be submitted electronically
in PDF format at MMM2009 paper submission website: http://mmm2009.eurecom.fr To
publish the paper in the conference, one of the authors needs to
register and present the paper in the conference.  Authors of selected
papers will be invited to submit extended versions to "EURASIP Journal
on Image and Video Processing" journal.

Important Dates
Submission of full papers: 6 Jul. 2008 (23:59 Central European Time (GMT+1))
Notification of acceptance: 15 Sep. 2008
Camera-ready Copy Due: 10 Oct. 2008
Author registration: 10 Oct. 2008
Conference: 7-9 Jan. 2009

General Chair
Benoit HUET, Institut EURECOM

Program Co-Chairs
Alan SMEATON, Dublin City University
Ketan MAYER-PATEL, UNC-Chapel Hill
Yannis AVRITHIS, National Technical University of Athens

Local Organizing Co-Chairs
Jean-Luc DUGELAY, Institut EURECOM
Bernard MERIALDO, Institut EURECOM

Demo Chair
Ana Cristina ANDRES DEL VALLE, Accenture Technology Labs

Finance Chair
Marc ANTONINI, University Nice Sophia-Antipolis

Publication Chairs
Thierry DECLERCK, DFKI GmbH

Publicity & Sponsorship Chair
Nick EVANS, Institut EURECOM

US Liaison
Ketan MAYER-PATEL, UNC-Chapel Hill

Asian Liaison
Liang Tien CHIA, National Technical University Singapore

European Liaison
Suzanne BOLL, University of Oldenburg

Steering Committee
Yi-Ping Phoebe CHEN, Deakin University , Australia
Tat-Seng CHUA, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tosiyasu L. KUNII, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Wei-Ying MA, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
Nadia MAGNENAT-THALMANN, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Patrick SENAC, ENSICA, France

In cooperation with Institut EURECOM and ACM SigMM