Special Issue on
Intelligent Multimedia Interactivity

The explosive growth of digital photos and videos, the prevalence of
capture devices, and the advent of media-sharing services on the
Internet have drastically increased the volume of
community-contributed multimedia resources. Billions of photos,
videos, and music clips shared on websites bring profound social
impacts on the human society and pose new challenges for analyzing
such large-scale multimedia data. On the other hand, we have witnessed
the power of human efforts in the Web 2.0 era in providing
quality-controlled interactions such as annotations, ratings, question
answering, and so on. By incorporating those human efforts into
computational process of multimedia, it is promising to solve
conventional problems in the multimedia domain such as tagging or
annotation, interactive search, user-targeted services, as well as
personalized recommendation. Recently, many research efforts are
dedicated to developing new technologies, pipelines, tools, or even
games to leverage user interactions for multimedia analysis. This
trend of exploring human knowledge for computing is anticipated to
spread across a still wider range of research communities. To address
this trend and other outstanding challenges, submissions are invited
in the following areas (but not limited to):

- Active multimedia annotation and tagging
- Interactive image, music, and video search
- Relevance feedback for multimedia retrieval
- Multimedia visualization with user interaction
- Personalized multimedia analysis such as recommendation, search, advertising, etc.
- Active learning for multimedia content analysis
- Human computer interaction for multimedia analysis
- Novel interaction (accelerometer, touch screen, haptics, etc.)
- User interfaces for interactive multimedia systems
- Natural interaction for gaming, exercises, etc.

Important Dates:
Submission of full papers October 1st, 2010
Notification to authors February 1st, 2011
Submission of camera ready April 1st, 2011
Publication date May, 2011 (tentative)

Guest Editors:
Ling Shao, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (ling.shao@sheffield.ac.uk)
Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (qitian@cs.utsa.edu)
Alberto del Bimbo, The University of Florence, Italy (delbimbo@dsi.unifi.it)
Changsheng Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (csxu@nlpr.ia.ac.cn)

Submission Procedure:

Prospective authors should visit
http://www.elsevier.org/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505619/authorinstructions
for information on paper submission. Manuscripts should be submitted
using the Elsevier Editorial System at http://ees.elsevier.com/patrec/
and the article type “IMI” should be selected. All submissions
will be peer reviewed according to the standard PRL process. Pattern
Recognition Letters