Call for Papers - Special Issue on

 

Automated Information Extraction in Media Production
in
Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer Journal)

The explosive growth of new media distribution channels in the
Internet and the resulting new production workflows based on
computerized tools offer substantial new directions for research in
this area. Media is substantially influenced by the new ways of
acquiring, elaborating, and publishing audiovisual material, as well
as by bandwidth adaptive streaming through Internet portals. Novel
multimedia content analysis methods are the key to make media
production processes easier and more cost effective, help to
disseminate existing archives, and allow for new media experiences,
sometimes even for old content.


This special issue aims at presenting cutting edge research articles
from researchers and practitioners in the field of automatic
information extraction related to the media production process. We
particularly encourage work on real-life applications and on real-life
material.

Authors are encouraged to submit papers on which they enlighten the
features of existing or novel tools in the key aspects of future media
production based on automated information extraction, including
acquisition, editing, publishing, archiving and repurposing of
audiovisual material.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• High- and low-Level acoustic, visual, and multimodal indexing in
media acquisition

• Automated repurposing of archived material on new media channels

• Automated news production

• Computational Journalism

• Efficient navigation and retrieval of multimedia streams

• Automatic speech recognition, keyword spotting, and search

• Personality identification (e.g. face or speaker identification)

• Collaborative systems for media production. broadcast, and
presentation

• Multimodal topic and concept detection, categorization, and genre
detection

• Information Retrieval systems from Multimedia Archives

• Mechanism for the estimation of the trust of news

• Opinion mining

• Ontologies and metadata formats for radio and TV programming

• HCI for efficient annotation and retrieval

• Automated copyright infringement detection and watermarking

• Content summarization (e.g., sports highlights)

• Audiovisual genre and editorial format detection and
characterization

• Automated cross-media linking and integration

• Content segmentation tools (e.g., shot and semantic scene
segmentation)

• Applications of MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standard

• Evaluation methods for TV and radio content analysis tools,
including data sets and standard resources

Submission

Submissions must not have been previously published, with the
exception that substantial extensions of conference papers are
considered.

Submission should be made through Springer’s online submission system: 
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journal/11042

Submission deadline: December 1st, 2010

Optional Test Material

A considerable amount of audiovisual material taken from some of the
major European and Asian broadcasters archives is available for
experimentation. Perspective authors may test their technologies on
this material, in order to further prove the effectiveness of their
research in a real scenario. The test material for experimentation is
available at the Online Media Asset Management System “Mammie”
provided by the organizers of this special issue. Download is
conditioned to terms and conditions for the use of the material. You
can find the full text on the registration page of the Mammie system:
http://media.ibbt.be/mammie

 

Guest Editors

Robbie De Sutter, VRT-medialab, 

Jean-Pierre Evain, EBU, ,

Gerald Friedland, ICSI, 

Alberto Messina, RAI, 

Masanori Sano, NHK,