================================================================== Call for papers MMM2011 The 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling 5-7 January 2011, Taipei, Taiwan http://mmm2011.org/ ================================================================= Overview: The International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) is a leading international conference (http://mmm2011.org) for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practicaldevelopment experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial track papers reporting real multimedia applications and system development experience. The conference also solicits proposals for tutorials on crucial technologies of multimedia modeling, and calls for special sessions proposals focusing on specific new challenges in the multimedia arena. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 1. Multimedia Content Analysis * Multimedia Indexing * Multimedia Mining * Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization * Multimedia Annotation, Tagging and Recommendation * Multimodal Analysis for Retrieval Applications * Semantic Analysis of Multimedia and Contextual Data * Multimedia Fusion Methods * Media Content Browsing and Retrieval Tools 2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications * Media Representation and Algorithms * Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression * Multimedia Security and Content Protection * Multimedia Standards and Related Issues * Advances in Multimedia Networking and Streaming * Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport 3. Multimedia Applications and Services * Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems * Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment * Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications * Mobile Multimedia Applications * Multimedia Web Applications * Interactive Multimedia Authoring Personalization * Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems) * Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Medical Imaging, Visualization, Social Media, Multimedia Collaboration, etc.) All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Extensions of selected papers from MMM2011 proceedings will be considered for publication in a special issue of The Visual Computer journal (SCI), Journal of Marine Science and Technology (SCI), and possible other international journals. Important Date Paper submission deadline July 19, 2010 Notification of acceptance September 20, 2010 Camera ready papers due October 12, 2010 Author Registration October 5, 2010 Organizing Committee General Chairs Kuo-Tien Lee, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Wen-Hsiang Tsai, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Hong-Yuan Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Program Co-Chairs Tsuhan Chen, Cornell University, USA Jun-Wei Hsieh, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Chien-Cheng Tseng, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan US Liaison Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio,USA Asian Liaison Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore European Liaison Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany Local Organizing Co-Chairs Tun-Wen Pai, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Shyi-Chyi Cheng, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Special Session Co-Chairs Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, China Demo Chair Meng Wang, Microsoft Research Asia, China. Publication Chair Chih-Min Chao, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Webmaster Chun-Chao Yeh, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Publicity Chair Shu-Hsin Liao, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Exibition Chair Chin-Chun Chang, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Steering Committee Yi-Ping Phoebe CHEN (Chair), La Trobe University, Australia Tat-Seng CHUA, National University of Singapore, Singapore Tosiyasu L. KUNII Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Wei-Ying MA Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing Nadia MAGNENAT-THALMANN University of Geneva, Switzerland Patrick SENAC ENSICA, France Local Organizations National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Academia Sinica, Taiwan The Industrial Liaison Progrom of VBIE, Taiwan Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan, Taiwan IPPR Society, Taiwan