Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Interactive Services --------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 6-8 2009, London, UK http://wiamis2009.qmul.net/ The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international fora for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in all areas of image, video and audio applications, with a special focus on analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Multimedia content analysis and understanding * Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio * 2D/3D feature extraction * Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio and video * Relevance feedback and learning systems * Segmentation of objects in 2D/3D image sequences * Motion analysis and tracking * Video analysis and event recognition * Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience * Analysis and tools for content adaptation * Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding * Content summarization and personalization strategies * End-to-end quality of service support for Universal Multimedia Access * Semantic mapping and ontologies * Multimedia analysis for new and emerging applications * Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware * Semantic web and social networks * Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback Important Dates --------------- Proposal for Special Session: November 21, 2008 Paper Submission: December 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: January 16, 2009 Camera-ready Papers: February 06, 2009 Submissions ----------- We intend to publish the proceedings in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series and to make them available in IEEExplore. The authors are requested to send their submissions (4 pages double column in English). All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the technical program committee. General Chairs --------------- Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Program Chairs -------------- Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Special Session Chairs ---------------------- Yiannis Andreopoulos, University College, London, UK Benoit Macq, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Industry Liaison ----------------- Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research Laboratories, NL Publicity and Publications -------------------------- Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Maja Pantic, Imperial College, UK / Univ. of Twente, NL Local Arrangements ------------------ Tijana Janjusevic, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Sander Koelstra, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Tomas Piatrik, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Technical Program Committee (tentative) ----------------- Lourdes Agapito (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Kiyoharu Aizawa (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) Luigi Atzori (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy) Yannis Avrithis (NTUA, Greece) Alberto del Bimbo (Univ. of Florence, Italy) Susanne Boll (Univ. of Oldenburg, Germany) Adrian Bors (Univ. of York, UK) Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA, France) Nikolaos Boulgouris (King's College London, UK) K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State Univ., UK) Tsuhan Chen (CMU, USA) Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL, Switzerland) Moncef Gabbouj (Tampere Univ. of technology, Finland) Aphrodite Galata (Univ. of Manchester, UK) Nikos Galatsanos (Univ. of Patras, Greece) Edwin Hancock (Univ. of York, UK) Alan Hanjalic (Delft Univ. of Technology, NL) Allan Hanbury (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) Hermann Hellwagner (Klagenfurt University, Austria) Thomas Huang (UIUC, USA) Ebroul Izquierdo (Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK) Francisca de Jong (Univ. of Twente, NL) Joemon Jose (Univ. of Glasgow, UK) Moon Gi Kang (Yonsei Univ., Korea) Yiannis Kompatsiaris (ITI, Greece) Janusz Konrad (Boston Univ. USA) Inald Lagendijk Delft UNiv. of Technology, NL) Riccardo Leonardi (Univ. of Brescia, Italy) Zhu Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong) Rainer Lienhart (Univ. of Augsburg, Germany) Dimitris Makris (Kingston Univ., UK) Stephane Marchand-Maillet (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland) Ferran Marques (UPC, Spain) Jose M. Martinez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain) Majid Mirmehdi(Bristol Univ., UK) Sanjit Mitra (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Rafael Molina (Univ. of Granada, Spain) Marta Mrak, University of Surrey, UK Milind Naphade (IBM, USA) Noel O'Connor (Dublin City University, Ireland) Antonio Ortega (USC, USA) Nikos Paragios (ENPC, France) Maria Petrou (Imperial College, UK) Fernando Pereira (IST, Portugal) Andrea Prati (Univ. of Modena, Italy) Philippe Salembier (UPC, Spain) Shin'ichi Satoh (NII, Japan) Thomas Sikora (Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany) John R. Smith (IBM, USA) Qi Tian (Microsoft, China) Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, Austria) George Tziritas (Univ. of Crete, Greece) Paulo Villegas (Telefonica, Spain) Jacob Verbeek (INRIA, France) Arjan de Vries (CWI, NL) Yao Wang (Polytechnic Univ., USA) Marcel Worring (Univ. of Amsterdam, NL) Ying Wu (Northwestern University, USA) WIAMIS 2009 is sponsored by --------------------------- British Machine Vision Association (http://www.bmva.org/) PetaMedia NoE (http://www.petamedia.eu/) Visnet II NoE (http://www.visnet-noe.org/) WeKnowIt (http://www.weknowit.eu/)