ACM Multimedia Workshop on "Geotagging and Its Applications in Multimedia"

Oct 29 2012 at ACM Multimedia 2012 in Nara, Japan.
http://www.geomm.org/

In recent years, the rise of wide-spread use of GPS sensors and the
increasing availability of open geographical databases has motivated a
large volume of work on geotagging. The increase in the use of
geotagging and improvements in geo-location support systems open up a
new dimension for the description, organization and manipulation of
multimedia data. This new dimension radically expands the usefulness
of multimedia data both for daily users of the Internet and social
networking sites as well as for experts in particular application
scenarios.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together cutting-edge research
in geotagging as well as novel applications related to geotagging. It
will help facilitate in-depth discussions, share existing tools, and
ultimately enhance the research efforts in this area. The workshop
will serve as a forum for the presentation and synthesis of vision and
insight from leading experts and practitioners on the developing
directions of geotagging research related to multimedia.

Topics:
- Collection and estimation of geotags
- Location estimation: inferring geolocation from visual and audio cues
- Mining unstructured web text (e.g., news, blogs) for location
- Knowledge discovery from open geographical databases (e.g., Google earth, GeoNames) and - web photos
- Mining geotags from mobile devices and sensor network
- Applications of geotagging
- Photo and video annotation
- Business applications (e.g., geomarketing, targeted advertising, recommendation, etc.)
- Social networking
- Privacy and security issues
- Visualization of geotagged information
- 3D construction of world model
- Visualization of tourism, travel routes, and other spatial-temporal patterns

Submissions:
Workshop submissions of 4-6 pages should be doubled blinded and
formatted according to the ACM Multimedia author kit.

Submission website: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ACMMMWS2012/

Important dates:
Workshop paper submission: June 29, 2012
Notification of acceptance: July 24, 2012
Camera ready instructions: on or before August 8-9, 2012
Camera ready submission to Sheridan:  August 15, 2012 
Workshop date: Monday, October 29, 2912, ACM Multimedia 2012, Nara, Japan

Contact:
For more information contact:
Liangliang Cao (liangliang dot cao at us dot ibm dot com)

Organizers:
Liangliang Cao IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA. 
Gerald Friedland International Computer Science Institute, USA
Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands