IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2013) Call for Papers

===================================================== 1st CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------- IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2013) Anaheim, California, USA, December 9-11, 2013 http://ism.eecs.uci.edu/ISM2013/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ===================================================== The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2013) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing. The technical program of ISM2013 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Submissions are solicited for full papers, short papers, industry papers, workshop papers, technical demos, and panels. ----------------------------------------------------- *IMPORTANT DATES* April 21, 2013 <= *approaching soon* ! -> Workshop Proposal Submission May 1, 2013 -> Workshop Notification June 10, 2013 -> Panel Proposal Submission July 15, 2013 -> Regular & Short Paper Submission -> Industry Paper Submission -> Demo Proposal Submission -> PhD Workshop Paper Submission August 23, 2013 -> Panel Notification -> Paper and Demo Notification TBA -> Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due ----------------------------------------------------- *TOPICS* Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are not limited to: * Multimedia Systems and Architectures Architecture and applications GPU-based architectures and systems Mobile multimedia systems and services Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV Multimedia/high definition display systems Multimedia in the Cloud Software development using multimedia techniques * Multimedia Communications and Streaming Multimedia networking and QoS Multimedia synchronization HD video streaming Mobile audio/video streaming Wireless broadcasting and streaming Scalable streaming Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming Multimedia sensor networks Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems Video teleconferencing Popularity algorithms * Multimedia Content Understanding, Modeling, Management, and Retrieval Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms Multimedia storage/archive systems, databases, and retrieval Multimedia data segmentation (shot detection, shot segmentation) Multimedia/video/audio segmentation using aural, visual, and textual features Image, audio, video, genre clustering & classification Video summarization and story generation Multimedia content organization Animation modeling and management Speaker identification, recognition, and location Object, event, emotion, text detection and recognition Mosaic, video panorama and background generation Indexing and retrieval of multimedia data and TV programs Extraction of novel features from specific media Use of sensors for content understanding Multimedia semantics, ontologies, annotation, concept detection and learning Personalization and user preferences 3D and depth information * Multimedia Coding, Processing, and Quality Measurement Multimedia signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding Multimedia Coding Standards Audio, video, and image compression algorithms and performance Scalable coding Multi-view coding 3D/multi-view synthesis, rendering Animation coding Noise removal techniques from multimedia Multi-resolution or super-resolution algorithms Maintenance of perceptual quality with further compression Developing novel quality measures * Multimedia Interfaces Multimedia information visualization and interactive systems Multimodal interaction, including human factors Multimodal user interfaces: design, engineering, modality-abstractions, etc. Multimedia tools for authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, and navigation Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis Novel interfaces for multimedia: touch, tangible, wearable, virtual, 3D, etc. Multimedia user interfaces for mobile devices * Multimedia Security Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption Copyright issues for multimedia data Multimedia for surveillance and monitoring Face detection and recognition algorithms Human behavior analysis Multimedia forensics * Multimedia Applications Multimedia in transportation applications 3D multimedia: graphics, displays, sound, broadcasting, interfaces Multimedia composition and production: capture, authoring, digital art, animations Multimedia gaming Virtual and augmented reality Motion capture for multimedia systems Applications for mobile systems Multimedia interfaces for the web Multimedia in social network analysis: YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. E-learning and distance education Rich media enabled E-commerce and E-shopping Multimedia systems for handicapped (e.g., sign language, navigation assistance) Terrain data coding, management, and visualization Multimedia systems for wild-life monitoring and analysis Analyzing multimedia data for bioinformatics Control systems based on multimedia Collaborative systems Multimedia in robotics There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award competition. Award winners will be announced at the conference banquet. ----------------------------------------------------- *SUBMISSIONS* Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (8-page technical paper), Short Papers (4-page technical paper), Demonstration Papers and Posters (2 page technical paper), PhD Workshop Papers (2 pages), and Workshop Proposals as well as Industry Track Papers (4-page technical paper) which will be included in the proceedings. A main goal of this program is to present research work that exposes the academic and research communities to challenges and issues important for the industry. More information is available on the ISM2013 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals, among them the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. ISM2013 will also include a few workshops and special tracks dedicated to focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special tracks of emerging areas are invited. Please submit proposals to ismwork@eecs.uci.edu and ismspecl@eecs.uci.edu respectively. Papers from Workshops and Focused Tracks will be presented at ISM2013, and included in the Proceedings. Submissions of proposals on panels and demonstrations are also encouraged. Panel proposals should be submitted to ismpanel@eecs.uci.edu. Demo proposals should be submitted to ismdemo@eecs.uci.edu. Panel summary articles may also be included in the conference proceedings. ----------------------------------------------------- *CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION* * General Co-Chairs Qian Lin, HP Labs, USA Max Muhlhauser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Phillip Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA * Program Co-Chairs Gerald Friedland, International Computer Science Institute, USA Zhu Liu, AT&T Research Labs, USA Nadine Steinmetz, HPI, Germany * Workshops Co-Chairs James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh Lars Knipping, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA * Best Paper Award Committee Co-Chairs Oscar Au, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Demo Co-Chairs Ramazan Savas Aygun, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA Robert Mertens, SW University of Applied Sciences, Hamelin, Germany * Panel Co-Chairs Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore Ying Li, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Alexander Loui, Eastman Kodak Company, USA Haohong Wang, TCL Research America, USA * Finance Chair George Wang, California State University Northridge, USA * Publicity Co-Chairs Yu Cao, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA Wolfgang Huerst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Nilesh Patel, Oakland University, USA Atsuo Yoshitaka, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Keiji Yanai, University of Electro-Communications, Japan * Publication Chair Anthony Y.H. Liao, Asia University, Taiwan * Local Arrangement Chair George Wang, California State University Northridge, USA * Registration and Web Co-Chairs Jennifer Kim, University of California, Irvine, USA Shao-Ting Wang, University of California, Irvine, USA * IEEE/CS TCMC Chair Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA * Steering Committee Chair Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA =====================================================