CALL FOR CHAPTERS Proposal Submission Deadline: August 10, 2009 Chapter Submission Deadline: December 10, 2009 Internet Multimedia Search and Mining A book edited by Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua Microsoft Research Asia, China Prof. Marcel Worring University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Prof. Tat-Seng Chua National University of Singapore, Singapore To be published by Bentham Science Publishers as an e-Book - http://www.bentham.org Aims and Scope With the explosion of video and image data available on the Internet, desktops and mobile devices, multimedia search becomes more and more important. Moreover, mining semantics and other useful information from large-scale multimedia data to facilitate online and local multimedia content analysis, search, and other related applications has also gained more and more attention from both academia and industry. On the one hand, the rapid increase of multimedia data brings us new challenges to multimedia content analysis and multimedia retrieval especially in terms of scalability. Both computational costs and accuracy are still far from satisfactory. While on the other hand, large-scale multimedia data also provides us new opportunities to attack these challenges as well as conventional problems in media analysis and computer vision. That is, the massive associated metadata, context and social information available on the Internet, desktops and mobile devices, as well as the massive grassroots users, are valuable resources that can be leveraged to solve the aforementioned difficulties. Recently, more and more researchers are realizing both the challenges and the opportunities for multimedia research brought by rapid increases of multimedia data, multimedia users, as well as associated metadata, context and social information. This e-book will bring together high-quality and recent research works on multimedia search and mining, emphasizing particularly on Internet, online and social multimedia techniques, systems and applications. Bentham e-books are published rapidly, and it was chosen as the publisher to publish this book on this emerging area, which aims at advancing the research and development along this promising direction. Target Audience Target audience of this book includes (1) Graduated students working on multimedia search, multimedia content analysis, computer vision, video and image understanding, and pattern recognition. (2) Industry engineers working on multimedia search and management. (3) Multimedia content providers or multimedia service providers. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: · Video and image search ranking and reranking by combining textual description and video or image content. · General video and image search ranking and reranking by exploiting Internet, social data and/or users. · Video and image classification, annotation, and tagging. Approaches which can handle large-scale data are more preferred. · General video and image classification, annotation, and tagging by leveraging Internet and social data and/or users. · Video and image search result presentation and management, such as clustering, summarization, and browsing. · Video and image processing using Internet and social data as a knowledge base. · Tag recommendation, filtering, and ranking based on image and video social tagging. · Multimedia query intention analysis. · Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval (CBIR and CBVR) for large-scale datasets (e.g., high-dimensional feature indexing). · Query suggestion for video and image search based on both text and image and video data. · Novel image and video query interface, such as query by color, sketch, description, audio, and so on. · Knowledge mining from large-scale multimedia data, such as mining semantic distance of keywords or images, and mining video/image copy relationships (e.g., given a video or an image, to find all videos and images on the Internet that have the same content with the video or image, either entirely or partially). · Audio and music search and mining. Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before August 10, 2009, a 1-2 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter by sending email to the book editors. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by September 10, 2009, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by December 10, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Additional information regarding this publication can also be found at http://research.microsoft.com/~xshua/cfc_imsm_hua.html. About Bentham E-Book Bentham eBooks is a comprehensive e-book publication program intended to cover all major disciplines including health and natural sciences, technology, humanities and social sciences. Bentham eBooks publishes monographs, handbooks, conference proceedings, textbooks, review volumes, biographies and autobiographies. Bentham eBooks offer authors flexible publication solutions and e-books are published rapidly. Author Guidelines for Bentham eBook Please refer to: http://www.bentham.org/ebooks/eBkAuthGuide.htm Recent published Bentham e-books : http://www.bentham.org/ebooks/ebkIntro.htm Important Dates August 10, 2009 Proposal Submission Deadline September 10, 2009 Notification of Proposal Acceptance December 10, 2009 Full Chapter Submission February 10, 2010 Review Results Returned March 10, 2010 Final Chapter Submission May 10, 2010 Target Publishing Date Contacts Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded to: • Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia, China Email: xshua [AT] microsoft.com URL: http://research.microsoft.com/~xshua/ • Prof. Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Email: m.worring [AT] uva.nl URL: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~worring/ • Prof. Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore Email: chuats [AT] comp.nus.edu.sg URL: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~chuats/