**************************************************************************** Call for Papers - deadline extension until January 10, 2011 ========================================================================== The FTRA 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia and Semantic Technologies (MUST'11) http://www.ftrai.org/must2011/ Crete, Greece, 28-30 June, 2011 In conjunction with FutureTech 2011 http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2011/ =========================================================================== The FTRA 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia and Semantic Technologies (MUST'11) aims at high quality research contributions in multimedia semantic computing, with a focus on how to apply the semantic technologies to the acquisition, generation, storage, processing, and retrieval of large-scale multimedia information. A main goal of MUST is to address emerging research challenges in Semantic Multimedia and to help reducing the Semantic Gap between low-level content descriptions of multimedia and the semantics in high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media. Semantic Web and multimedia community researchers are encouraged to join the workshop to benefit from the presentation of results from multimedia based research, which demonstrate important multimedia applications which could be enhanced by Semantic Web technologies. MUST'11 will be held in conjunction with FutureTech 2011, in Crete, Greece, 28-30 June 2011. MUST'11 encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address challenges of multimedia in general or in the context of specific domains. Selected outstanding papers will be published in SCIE Journal: Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE) == Topics == Workshop topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Advanced Semantic Descriptors and Similarity Metrics for Multimedia - Advanced Semantic and Content-based Multimedia Analysis - Machine Learning and Relevance Feedback in Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval - Ontology Engineering and Ontology-based Multimedia Mining and Retrieval - Semantic Web technologies and Multimedia - Semantic-driven Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval - Semantic-driven Multimedia Personalization and Adaptation - Interfaces for Web-scale Multimedia Repositories - Affective/Emotional Interaction or Interfaces in Multimedia Applications - Applications of Semantic Multimedia in Social and Web-based Environments - Collective and Swarm Intelligence for Multimedia Applications - Multimedia and Digital Convergence - Intelligent Multimedia Services for Future Environments - Multimedia Security in Future Environments == Organization == Workshop General Chair ------------------------ Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Workshop Chairs -------------------- Seungmin Rho, Korea University, Korea (Leading Chair) Marco Bertini, Universita di Firenze, Italy Gamhewage C. de Silva, The University of Tokyo, Japan Stephan Kopf, University of Mannheim, Germany International Advisory Committee ----------------------------------- Jong Hyuk Park, Seoul National University of Technology, Korea Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA Technical Program Committee ----------------------------------- Aiden R. Doherty, Dublin City University, Ireland Prarthana Shreshtha, University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece LE Thi Lan, MICA, Hanoi University of Technology , Vietnam Chi-ho Chan, University of Surrey, the United Kingdom Liyanage de Silva, Massey University, New Zealand Ramanathan Subramanian, The National University of Singapore Pradeep K. Atrey, The University of Winnipeg, Canada Masashi Inoue, Yamagata University, Japan Ralf Klamma, Aachen University, Germany Yannis Kompatsiaris, ITI, Greece Andrew Bagdanov, CVC Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau, Germany Carlo Torniai, OHSU, USA Thomas Haenselmann, University of Mannheim, Germany Jungong Han, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dirk Farin, Bosch Research, Germany Oya Aran, Bogazici University, Istanbul == Paper Submission and Publication == Submit a full paper of at most 6 page (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. Additional information about the submission process is found here: http://www.ftrai.org/must2011/submission.html MUST2011 Submission URL: http://www.editorialsystem.net/must2011/ Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press with 6 pages for each paper. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. == Important Dates == Paper Submission: January 10, 2011 Acceptance Notification: February 10, 2011 Camera-Ready Version: February 28, 2011 Workshop Date: June 28-30, 2011 == Contact == For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact Program Chairs: Seungmin Rho (pc.seungminrho@gmail.com) or Marco Bertini (bertini@dsi.unifi.it) or Gamhewage C. de Silva (chamds@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) or Stephan Kopf (kopf@informatik.uni-mannheim.de)