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  Call for papers: MA3HO’11
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International ACM Workshop on Multimedia ?access to 3D Human Objects (MA3HO'11)   
                                                                                
In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2011, Nov 28 - Dec 1, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA


Modeling, processing, recognizing, searching, and retrieving 3D objects is a well-established research in multimedia.  In these last years, human -centric multimedia applications for humans and about humans are becoming popular.
This workshop  focuses on “3D humans objects” are three-dimensional human-objects, that is body, head and face,  arms and hands modeled in 3D for animation, security, HVI, motion and activity analysis; but they also are three-dimensional objects for humans, such as virtual objects to be manipulated or graphic instruments for augmented, virtual reality applications and 3D advanced interactivity.
This workshop aims at taking a leap forward in emerging research of multimedia access of 3D human objects, aggregating together basic research in 3D graphics, 3D recognition and retrieval, with experiences in many different multimedia fields where humans are involved such as security surveillance and biometry, animation and entertainment, web and video retrieval, sport analytics, natural interaction, augmented and virtual reality.

The MA3HO Workshop calls for brave and innovative contributions in this emerging field of research and aims  to create a multidisciplinary community with converging interests in web access and computer vision, computer graphics, content-based retrieval, gesture modeling and virtual worlds. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

    * 3D human objects reconstruction from 2D views
    * 3D pose estimation from local 2D information
    * 2D, 2D1/2 to 3D content-based matching
    * Generative / discriminative approaches in 3D object categorization
    * 3D face and people identification and re-identification
    * Local and global 3D shape descriptors
    * Feature extraction for 3D model decomposition and segmentation
    * 3D Gesture analysis and natural interface
    * Feature extraction for 3D motion behavior classification
    * Partial and many-to-many 3D matching
    * Query interfaces and search modalities
    * 3D object/face similarity matching, indexing, and mining
    * Retrieval with large distributed and heterogeneous 3D datasets
    * 3D Object ontology
    * 3D Social networking
    * 3D Retrieval benchmarking


 
and related Applications in Multimedia industry, Games industry, Biometrics, Surveillance and Security, Medicine and Biology, Augmented reality, Cultural Heritage…..
Extended versions of selected papers will appear, after a further review, in a Special Issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications Springer Ed.

Paper Submission, Review, and Publication:

Submissions must be sent in PDF following the ACM MM 2011 workshop paper format guidelines.
Maximum paper length: 6 pages (in ACM format).
Detailed submission instructions can be found at:
http://www.acmmm11.org/workshop-paper-formatting-guidelines.html.
 Each submission to the workshop will be peer-reviewed by at least three expert reviewers.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings together with the proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2011 conference.

 
Workshop General Chairs

Rita Cucchiara,   Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Mohamed Daoudi, TELECOM Lille 1/LIFL, France
Alberto Del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, Italy


Important dates

submission deadline:     June 19,  2011
notification deadline:   July  30,  2011
camera ready deadline    September 5,  2011
workshop dates: Nov. 28 – Dec. 1, 2011

http://www-rech.telecom-lille1.eu/ma3ho/


Program Committee 

 

    * Andrew Bagdanov, (CVC Barcelona, S)
    * Stefano Berretti (University of Florence, Italy)     
    * Michael Bronstein (Univ. della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)
    * Boulbaba Ben Amor (TELECOM Lille1 / LIFL, France)
    * Liming Chen  (LIRIS, Ecole centrale Lyon, France)  
    * Petros Daras (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece)
    * Luigi Di Stefano (Università di Bologna, Italy) 
    * Bianca Falcidieno (IMATI-CNR, Italy)
    * Tung-Ying Lee (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
    * David Marshall (Cardiff School of Computer Science UK)        
    * Ram Nevatia (University of Southern California, USA)
    * Ryutarou Ohbuchi (University of Yamanashi, Japan)    
    * Ioannis Pratikakis (IIT / NCSR Demokritos, Greece)  
    * Pietro Pala  (University of Florence, Italy)
    * Gang Qian (Arizona State University USA)
    * Stan Sclaroff (Boston University, USA)
    * Leonid Sigal (Disney Research, Pittsburgh USA
    * Michela Spagnuolo (IMATI-CNR, Italy)    
    * Anuj Srivastava (Florida State University, USA)   
    * Theoharis Theoharis (University of Athens, Greece )  
    * Jean-Philippe Vandeborre (TELECOM Lille1 / LIFL, France)
    * Roberto Vezzani (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
    * Wang Yunhong (Beihang University, China)  
    * Ziheng Zhou (University of Oulu, Finland )