Call for Papers
Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal

Special Issue on: "Internet Multimedia Computing & Service"

We are seeing an explosive proliferation of multimedia content made
available on the Internet. There is also an increasing need for its
ubiquitous access, anytime and anywhere, and over a wide variety of
receiving devices. However, current consumer expectations for
multimedia technology and application still far exceed the achievement
of today’s state of the art technologies. There is a technical gap
between rich multimedia contents and multimedia computing
technologies. Challenges on Internet multimedia computing and service
include: 1) large-scale multimedia data; 2) dynamical upload and
change of multimedia data on Internet; 3) correlation of multiple
types of media information; 4) no standard format; 5) no enough
manually labeled training data; 6) many duplicated and noisy data; 7)
device/software/network compatibility; 8) personalization. To tackle
these challenges, this special issue aims to seek innovative papers
that exploit novel technologies and solutions on Internet multimedia
computing and service.
Topics
? Large-scale multimedia indexing, annotation, classification and search
? Distance metric learning for multimedia analysis
? Near-duplicate detection and copy detection
? Performance evaluation for large scale multimedia processing
? Cross media computing by integrating visual, aural and textual information
? Human-centered computing for internet multimedia analysis
? Adaptive multimedia accessing and browsing for mobile devices
? E-commerce based on collaborative recommendation and personalized preference
? Social networks for multimedia computing
? Multimedia information visualization for new service scenarios
? Multimedia consumption for new human-computer interface
Important Dates
Manuscript Submission: May 1, 2011
Acceptance Notification: Oct. 15, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: Nov. 15, 2011
 
 
Submission Guidelines

Papers are invited for the special issue, guidelines for preparation
of the manuscripts, is available at the journal submission website, http://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/
Please Choose Article Type as”Internet Multimedia Computing &
Service”

Note: Some papers are selected from ICIMCS2010 (International
Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service). We also
welcome submissions from the public.
 
Guest Editors:

Shuqiang Jiang (sqjiang@ict.ac.cn),
Institute of Comp. Tech., Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Changsheng Xu (csxu@nlpr.ia.ac.cn)
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yong Rui (yongrui@microsoft.com)
Microsoft, China
Albert Del Bimbo (delbimbo@dsi.unifi.it)
University of Firenze, Italy
Hongxun Yao (hongxun.yao@gmail.com)
Harbin Institute of Technology, China