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The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications (DSMSA2010)

http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~yucao/Service/DSMSA2010.htm

held in conjunction with
The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2010)
December 13-15, 2010
Taichung, Taiwan
http://ism2010.asia.edu.tw/

In the last decades, substantial progress has been made in content
analysis, multimedia streaming, and human-centered computing to
facilitate the development of large-scale multimedia systems. Together
with the recent progress on semantic web, scalable machine learning,
and multi-modal interaction, it is now possible to build a new
generation multimedia applications that enable large-scale semantic
representation, analysis, and delivery of multimedia data from
heterogeneous data sources. However, there is still a long way to go
for mature solutions of multimedia database systems that are capable
of processing semantics-rich, large-volume multimedia data. It could
be even more challenging if such systems are under stringent
functional and non-functional (e.g., QoS) requirements.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in
multimedia semantic computing and provide a forum for
multidisciplinary research opportunities, with a focus on how to apply
the semantic technologies to the acquisition, generation,
transmission, storage, processing, and retrieval of large-scale
multimedia information. Discussions on future challenges in multimedia
information manipulation, as well as practical solutions for the
design and implementation of multimedia database software systems are
also encouraged.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that
span a variety of aspects of multimedia semantic computing including

    * Automatic generation of multimedia presentations
    * Semantic multimedia metadata extraction
    * Annotation tools and methods for multimedia semantics
    * Media ontology generation/learning/reasoning
    * Content-based multimedia analysis
    * Social media computing
    * Web-scale multimedia mining and retrieval
    * Multimedia indexing, searching, and retrieving
    * Multimedia streaming
    * Multimedia data visualization
    * Semantic-based QoS control and scheduling
    * Semantic-based Internet data streaming and delivery
    * Multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-7 and XMP) and Semantic Web
    * Semantics enabled multimedia applications (including annotation, browsing, storage, retrieval, and visualization)
    * Semantics enabled networking and middleware for multimedia applications
    * Service Infrastructure, technology, and tools for Multimedia software systems


Paper Submission and Publication

Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other
conference or journal. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full
paper should be submitted by the paper submission deadline to the
workshop website
(http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~yucao/Service/DSMSA2010.htm). All
submissions will be acknowledged. Submitted manuscripts should not
exceed six (6) pages in IEEE two-column format, including figures,
tables, and references. Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least
two experts in the topical area. All accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings and will be indexed by EI.



Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: July 23, 2010 (Extended)
Notification of acceptance:  August 20, 2010
Camera-ready copy and author registration:  September 24, 2010


Workshop Organizers

(Any general questions regarding the DSMSA workshop should be directed to dsmsa2010@easychair.org)
Workshop Co- Chair
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Yu Cao, California State University at Fresno, USA
Raphaël Troncy, Institut Eurécom (EURECOM), France