Call for Papers: Ph.D. Workshop on Multimedia Computing Research held in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2012) Irvine, California, USA December 10-12, 2012 http://ism.eecs.uci.edu/ISM2012/phdworkshop.html INTRODUCTION The ISM 2012 Ph.D. Workshop is an international forum for doctoral students in the field of Multimedia Computing. The workshop provides Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in a constructive atmosphere. The workshop will include prominent researchers from the industry and academia, who will participate actively in the discussions. We particularly encourage submissions from students who are in the final stages of their doctoral work, and who can therefore present a relatively complete picture of their dissertations, as well as students who are in the early stages of their work and thus have a significant future work component. The former group will have the opportunity to showcase their doctoral work to a wider audience in preparation for job search, whereas the latter can obtain valuable feedback about their research plans. PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective Ph.D. students are invited to submit papers of no more than 4 pages in length, formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Guidelines (available at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). Accepted camera-ready papers will be limited to 2 pages in length. The proceedings of the workshop will be published as part of the ISM 2012 proceedings, which will appear in the IEEE Digital Library. Only active Ph.D. students are eligible to submit and the manuscripts should address specifically doctoral work. All submissions must have the student as the lead author (the supervisor may be a co-author). Accepted submissions must be presented by their student authors. Topics of interest include those listed in the call for the main conference. Each submission should include a clear formulation of the research problem, a brief discussion of how the work advances the state-of-the-art, proposed approach, preliminary results, and future work. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full-length papers: July 23, 2012 * Notification of acceptance: August 24, 2012 * Submission of camera-ready papers: TBA WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS M. Emre Celebi Dept of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA ecelebi@lsus.edu Mutlu Mete Dept of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas, USA mutlu_mete@tamu-commerce.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jesus Angulo - Mines ParisTech, France Kemal Aydin - University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA Costantino Grana - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jon Yngve Hardeberg - Gjovik University College, Norway Takahiko Horiuchi - Chiba University, Japan Sae Hwang - University of Illinois at Springfield, USA Nasser Kehtarnavaz - University of Texas at Dallas, USA Sinan Kockara - University of Central Arkansas, USA Jeongkyu Lee - University of Bridgeport, USA Olivier Lezoray - University of Caen, France Samuel Morillas - Technical University of Valencia, Spain Henryk Palus - Silesian University of Technology, Poland Kamisetty R. Rao - University of Texas at Arlington, USA Yong Man Ro - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea Gerald Schaefer - Loughborough University, UK Bogdan Smolka - Silesian University of Technology, Poland Joao Manuel R. S. Tavares - University of Porto, Portugal Yonghui Wang - Prairie View A&M University, USA Huiyu Zhou - Queen's University Belfast, UK