============== ICIMCS 2011 | Call for Papers =============== Chengdu is hosting the 3rd ICIMCS, ACM SIG Multimedia Beijing Chapter's flagship conference. Chengdu is the capital of "Heavenly State", the habitat of giant pandas, and the great masterpiece of nature having dreamlike scenery and abundant natural resources, such as Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area. It combines blue lakes, waterfalls, verdant forests, and snow-covered mountains. Sampling the famous Sichuan cuisine is a must on a trip to Chengdu. ICIMCS 2011: The Third International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service August 1-3, 2011 - Chengdu, China Web page: http://sist.swjtu.edu.cn/icimcs/ or http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~wuxiao/ICIMCS/ The Third International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service The Third International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS 2011) will focus on a wide variety of key issues and new approaches, which aim to tackle problems arising from the fast-growing internet multimedia and the users' requirements on multimedia service. The ICIMCS 2011 is a forum for both academic researchers and industry developers to exchange information on the state-of-the-art of internet multimedia processing, analysis and applications. The ICIMCS 2011 also provides perspective attendees the chances to identify the emerging research topics, as well as the future of internet multimedia computing. The First International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS 2009) was held on November 23-25, 2009 at Kunming, China. The Second International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS 2010) will be held on December 30-31, 2010 at Harbin, China. The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Learning techniques for web scale multimedia annotation and classification * Large-scale image/video indexing, query and re-ranking * Performance evaluation for large scale multimedia processing * Multimedia mining and understanding in social network environment * Cross media computing by integrating visual, aural and textual information * Human factor issues for internet multimedia computing * Adaptive multimedia accessing and browsing for mobile equipment * Digital right management and data protection for multimedia * Interactive multimedia data management and service systems PAPER SUBMISSION The default paper length for ICIMCS 2011 is 4 pages, or the authors should be paid for the extra page charges. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. IMPORTANT DATE Paper Submission: May 1, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2011 Camera-ready Due: June 15, 2011 OTHER INFORMATION The conference proceedings will be published by ACM and all papers will be included in ACM digital library. All ICIMCS 2009/2010 papers have been indexed by EI. Selected high quality papers will be invited to submit to special issues in prestigious multimedia journals after expansion.