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                          IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
                   Special Issue on Mobile Media Retrieval
                     (Submission deadline: 17-Sep-2012)
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Aim & Scope:
The explosive growth of digital photos and videos, the prevalence of
capture devices, and the advent of media-sharing services have
drastically increased the volume of community-contributed multimedia
resources. Meanwhile, mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous and playing
vital roles in people's daily life.  While on the go, people are using
their phones as a personal concierge discovering what is around and
deciding what to do.  Today's mobile users not only expect fast Internet
connection wherever they go and timely interaction with each other via
social network on the move, but also seek effective and efficient user
experience on searching and managing media contents on mobile devices.
We can see that terminals to share and consume media contents are
shifting from traditional desktops to mobile devices.  Therefore, the
techniques for mobile media retrieval are highly desired along this
trend.
 
Successfully deploying and consuming mobile media applications requires
significant multi-disciplinary research efforts, from media acquisition,
editing, sharing, browsing, analysis, management, search, advertising,
to exciting new opportunities, such as integration with location data,
adaptive video summarization and visualization, context-aware services,
and mobile media experience. 
 
Unlike prior special issues that mostly focus on  mobile communication
and service delivery challenges, this special issue will focus on mobile
media content analysis and retrieval.  Compared with standard media
retrieval, the media objects on mobile devices tend to be associated
with richer context (such as user profile, location, time, weather,
traffic, and so on) and are much more personalized and socially-involved.
In addition, mobile devices are increasingly equipped with advanced
functions, such as multimodal and multi-touch interactions, that can
be used to enrich/manipulate captured media and help users express
their media needs.  These bring new opportunities as well as research
challenges in mobile media retrieval to the multimedia research
community.  The aim of this special issue is to bring out the
state-of-the-art research in this area and discover directions for
future research. 
 
We believe this special issue will offer a timely collection of novel
research results to benefit the researchers and practitioners working
in mobile media retrieval as well as to the broad multimedia community.
 
 
Topics of Interest:
 
This special issue is devoted to the publications of high quality
papers on technical developments and practical applications around
mobile media retrieval.  It will serve as a forum for recent advances
in the fields of mobile media analysis, indexing, mining, search, and
emerging new applications, such as geo-media systems, context-aware
mobile advertising, and personalized mobile experience.  Integration
of media content, semantic concept and mobile context is of particular
interest.  We invite original and high quality submissions addressing
all aspects of this field closely related to mobile multimedia
retrieval, including mobile database management, data mining for
mobile users, social networking analysis, location-based services.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
   - Multimedia retrieval on mobile devices
   - Multimedia indexing and mining on mobile devices
   - Multimodal interaction and visualization on mobile devices
   - Mobile media data management
   - Location-based mobile media applications
   - Visual recognition on mobile devices
   - Mobile media computing for social networks
   - Augmented reality for mobile media applications
   - Media retargeting, editing, and authoring on mobile devices
   - Mobile media recommendation
   - Mobile media search in clouds
   - Context-aware mobile services
   - Geo-media applications
   - Personalized experience in mobile devices
   - Real-time systems for mobile media retrieval
   - Natural language processing for mobile media retrieval
   - New business models and service concepts for mobile media
 
 
Submission Guidelines:
 
Submissions should be submitted through the IEEE Trans. on Multimedia
journal web server (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmm-ieee).  Papers
should be formatted according to the guidelines for authors
(http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/tmm/tmm-author-info/). During
the submission, the authors should indicate that this is a submission
for the special issue on "Mobile Media Retrieval" (i.e., select the
appropriate special issue title under the category "Manuscript Type").
All submissions will undergo a blind peer review by three expert
reviewers to ensure a high standard of quality.  Referees will consider
originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition,
and relevance to the special issue topics above.
 
 
Important Dates:
 
   - Submission deadline: 17-Sep-2012
   - First notification: 01-Feb-2013
   - Revised manuscript deadline: 01-May-2013
   - Notification of acceptance: 01-Jul-2013
   - Final manuscripts due: 15-Aug-2013
   - Estimated publication: December 2013
 
 
Guest Editors:
 
   - Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, China
   - Heng Tao Shen, The University of Queensland, Australia
   - Nicu Sebe, University of Trento, Italy
   - Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA