*****10th International Workshop On Content –Based Multimedia Indexing******
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Call for papers

Following the nine successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999,
Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008,
Chania 2009, Grenoble 2010 and Madrid 2011), LISTIC University of
Savoy/CNRS will organize the next Context Based Multimedia Indexing
event on June 27-29 2012 10th. www.polytech.univ-savoie.fr/cbmi2012

 International Workshop CBMI 2012 aims at bringing together the
various communities involved in the different aspects of content-based
multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and presentation. The
scientific program of CBMI 2011 will include invited keynote talks and
regular and special sessions with contributed research papers. Best
papers will be published in a special issue of ACM Multimedia tools
and Applications, Springer. The Workshop is supported by IEEE, French
national Research network GDR-CNRS ISIS, Rhône-Alpes Region. ACM SIGMM
and Eurasip supports are pending.

Technical Program:
Topics of interest, grouped in technical tracks, include, but are not limited to:    
      * Visual Indexing (image, video, graphics) 
      * Visual content extraction Identification and tracking of semantic regions 
      * Identification of semantic events    
      * Audio and Multi-modal Indexing 
      * Audio indexing (audio, speech, music) 
      * Audio content extraction 
      * Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing 
      * Metadata generation, coding and transformation    
      * Multimedia Information Retrieval (image, audio, video, …) 
      * Matching and similarity search 
      * Content-based search 
      * Multimedia data mining 
      * Multimedia recommendation 
      * Large scale multimedia database management 
      * Multimedia Browsing and Presentation 
      * Summarisation, browsing and organization of multimedia content 
      * Personalization and content adaptation 
      * User interaction and relevance feedback 
      * Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools 

All accepted and registered papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings which will be indexed and distributed by the
IEEExplore. Selected papers will appear, after extension and
peer-review, in a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications
journal.

Paper submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of not more than
six (6) pages including results, figures and references. Papers will
be accepted only by electronic submission through conference
management system. Style files (Latex and Word) will be provided for
the convenience of the authors at www.polytech.univ-savoie.fr/cbmi2012

Important dates: 
      * Submission of full paper (to be received by): January 13, 2012 
      * Notification of acceptance: February 27, 2011 
      * Submission of camera-ready papers: March 12, 2011 

Chairs:  
General chair: Patrick Lambert, LISTIC, Polytech de Savoie Technical 
Technical Program chair: Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva 
Technical Program co-chair: Shin’ichi Satoh, NII, Japan 
Special Session chair: Philippe Joly, IRIT, France 
Publicity chair: Jenny Benois-Pineau, LABRI, University of Bordeaux, France 
Publication chair: Alexandre Benoit, University of Savoie, France 
Demo chair: Sid-Ahmed Berrani, Orange Labs, France 
ACM SIGMM liaison officer: Suzanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany 

Steering committee:
Régine André-Obrecht, IRIT, France
Jenny Benois-Pineau, LABRI, University of Bordeaux, France
Chabane Djeraba, LIFL, France Moncef Gabbouj, University of Tampere, Finland
Patrick Gros, INRIA, France
Ebroul Izquierdo, QMUL, UK
Philippe Joly, IRIT, France
Riccardo Leonardi, University of Brescia, Italy 
Bernard Merialdo, EURECOM, France
Georges Quénot, LIG, France
Thomas Sikora, TUB, Germany

Special issue:
Extended communications will be published in a special issue of an
open call of ACM Multimedia Tools and Applications journal, Springer
after peer-review.

Cultural program: 
The cultural program will be devoted to the history of media
production and will comprise a visit to the French museum of cartoons
and a cruise at a historical lake of Annecy with finest testing of
traditional French cuisine.

CALL FOR PAPERS www.polytech.univ-savoie.fr/cbmi2012
contact: patrick.lambert@univ-savoie.fr