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CALL FOR PAPERS

Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer)
Special Issue on Multimedia Data Semantics
Manuscript due: May 1st, 2010

This special issue invites high quality scientific contributions in
multimedia semantic computing, 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.

Authors of the selected best papers of The 2nd IEEE International
Workshop on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications
(IEEE-DSMSA 2009) will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers for this special issue.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that
span both semantic technologies and multimedia processing & computing:

    * 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




Submission Details

Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other
conference or journal. Prospective contributors are invited to submit
papers in A4/US letter, single column, double space format, up to 30
pages long including figures, tables and references. Manuscript
submission is handled by the MTAP Online Manuscript Submission website
at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/. During submission, you will
be asked to “Choose the article type of your manuscript from the
pull-down menu”, please select your article type as “Multimedia
Data Semantics”. Important notes: you must choose “Multimedia
Data Semantics” if you are submitting your manuscript to our
special issue. Detailed information about the Journal, including an
author guide and detailed formatting information is available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042


Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: May 1st, 2010
Notification of acceptance (first decision): July 1st, 2010
Final Manuscript Due: September 1st, 2010




Guest Editors

Dr. Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX 75083, USA
praba@utdallas.edu

Dr. Yu Cao
Department of Computer Science
California State University, Fresno
Fresno, CA 93740, USA
yucao@csufresno.edu

Dr. Jun Gao
Department of Computer and Information Hefei University of Technology
Hefei, Anhui, 230009, P. R. China,
gaojun@hfut.edu.cn

Dr. Raphaël Troncy
Multimedia Communications Department,
EURECOM,
Sophia Antipolis, 06904, France
raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr