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                         *CALL FOR PAPERS*

            *Special Session on Socio-Video Semantics*

       ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
                     Hong Kong, Jun. 5 - 8, 2012
                         www.icmr2012.org
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*Aims and Scope*
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All of a sudden video became social. In just five years, individual
and mostly inactive consumers transformed into active and connected
prosumers, revolutionaries even, who create, share, and comment on
massive amounts of video artifacts all over the world wide web
2.0. Pronounced manifestations of social video on the Internet include
industry initiatives like YouTube, Vimeo, WikiPedia, and Flickr, who
manage to attract millions of users, daily. It has been predicted that
soon 91 percent of Internet data will be video, where smartphones will
only accelerate the unstoppable momentum. In order to make sense of
the massive amounts of video content, online social platforms rely on
what other people say is in the image, which is known to be ambiguous,
overly personalized, and limited. Hence, the lack of semantics
currently associated with online video is seriously hampering
retrieval, repurposing, and usage. In contrast to social video
platforms, academic video sensemaking approaches rely on an analysis
of the multimedia content. Such content-driven image search is
important, if only to verify what people have said is factually in the
video, or for (professional) archives which cannot be shared for
crowdsourcing. Despite good progress, automated multimedia analysis of
video content is still seriously hampered by the semantic gap, or the
lack of correspondence between the low-level audiovisual features that
machines extract from video and the high-level conceptual
interpretations a human gives to multimedia data. For sensemaking,
exploiting the social multimedia context of video has largely been
ignored in the multimedia community. This special session provides a
unique opportunity for high-quality papers connecting the social
context of online video to video sensemaking.


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*Topics of Interest*
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

-- Socio-video content analysis
     * Cross-modal (social / visual / audio) socio-video content analysis
     * Contextual models for socio-video analysis
     * Novel features for socio-video analysis
     * Complex event recognition in socio-videos
     * Socio-video copy detection
     * Content-aware ads optimization in socio-video sharing sites
     * Efficient learning and mining algorithms for scalable socio-video content analysis

-- Socio-video browsing and retrieval
     * Socio-video retrieval systems
     * Socio-video summarization
     * Recommender techniques for socio-video browsing
     * Mobile socio-video browsing and retrieval
     * User-centered interface and system design for socio-video browsing and retrieval

-- Socio-video benchmark construction and open-source software
     * Benchmark database construction for socio-video semantic analysis
     * Ontology construction for socio-video semantic analysis
     * Open-source software libraries for socio-video analysis


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*Paper Submission*
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All papers must be formatted according to the ACM conference style,
cannot exceed 8 pages in 9 point font, and must be submitted as pdf
files.

ACM ICMR 2012 follows double-blind review. Please make sure that the
names and affiliations of the authors are excluded in the
document. Also remember to avoid information that may identify the
authors.

Either the Microsoft Word or LaTex can be used to prepare the
manuscripts (but final submission file should be in pdf format). The
paper templates can be downloaded directly from the ACM ICMR 2012
website: http://www.icmr2012.org/submission.html

Selected manuscripts will also be invited for a special issue in IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia on the same topic.


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*Important Dates*
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-- Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2012
-- Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2012
-- Camera-ready manuscript: April 5, 2012


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*Organizers*
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Cees G. M. Snoek, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University (China)