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|                           CALL FOR PAPERS                           |
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|  INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE (MM4CH) |
|                       Wednesday May 3th, 2011                       |
|                            Modena, Italy                            |
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|                 http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/MM4CH                |
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*IMPORTANT DATES*
Expression of interest and provisional title: March 20th, 2011

Workshop paper submission: April 3rd, 2011


Multimedia technologies have recently created the conditions for a true 
revolution in the Cultural Heritage area, with reference to the study, 
valorization, and fruition of artistic works. The use of these 
technologies allow creating new digital cultural experiences by means 
of personalized and engaging interaction. New multimedia technologies 
could be used to design new approaches to the comprehension and 
fruition of the artistic heritage for example through smart, context-
aware artifacts and enhanced interfaces with the support of features 
like story-telling, gaming and learning. To these aims, open and 
flexible platforms are needed, to allow building services that 
support use of cultural resources for research and education. A likely 
expectation is the involvement of a wider range of users of cultural 
resources in diverse contexts and considerably altered ways to 
experience and share cultural knowledge between participants.

This workshop aims to be a profitable informal working day to discuss 
together hot topics in multimedia applied to cultural heritage. 

We kindly ask you to submit a contribution in the form of papers 
presenting original research, new ideas, work in progress, industrial 
experience, case studies or position statements in this area. 
Submissions are expected to deal with multimedia in areas including, 
but not limited to,
- Interactive 3D media and immersive environments
- Multi-modal multimedia computing systems and human-machine 
  interaction
- Multimedia databases and digital libraries
- Multimedia applications and services
- Media content analysis and search
- Hardware and software for multimedia systems also in mobile scenarios
- Security issues in the presentation and distribution of cultural 
  information for Cultural Heritage. 

*WORKSHOP STRUCTURE*
The day will be structured as follows:
- An opening key note speech, given by Prof. Arnold Smeulders 
  (University of Amsterdam)
- Oral presentations of the participants
- Open discussion during the buffet lunch
- Other presentations with particular preference for demo and research
  showcase
- "Sandpit" style discussion on few topics collected from the 
  participants before the workshop. This could be particularly 
  referenced to ICT Call 9 of the FP7, which will be the next 
  opportunity to submit proposals in the field "Digital Preservation" 
  or "ICT for access to cultural resources" 
  (http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/telearn-digicult/digicult-calls_en.html).

*WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS*
We ask for an expression of interest for the workshop and a provisional 
title by March 20th, 2011. The final paper should be submitted by April
3rd, 2011. Details on the format of the final papers are still being 
discussed with the publishers.

We hope to meet you in Modena!

*WORKSHOP CHAIRS* 
Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Costantino Grana, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

*LOCAL CHAIR*
Daniele Borghesani, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

*SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE*
Maristella Agosti, Università di Padova, Italy
Giuseppe Amato, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Giovanni Attolico, ISSIA-CNR, Bari, Italy
Sebastiano Battiato, Università di Catania, Italy
Olga Regina Pereira Bellon, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Alberto Del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, Italy
Antonio Gentile, Università di Palermo, Italy
Martin Kampel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Eamonn Keogh, University of California - Riverside, USA
Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Frank Le Bourgeois, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France
Giuseppe Maino, Università di Bologna, Italy
Raimondo Schettini, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Roberto Scopigno, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Enrique Vidal, Istituto Tecnologico de Informatica, Valencia, Spain