2nd International Workshop on Multimedia for Cultural Heritage Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE (MM4CH 2013) 9-10th September 2013 Naples, Italy http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/MM4CH2013 Submission Deadline : May 15th, 2013 In conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Naples, Italy, http://www.iciap2013-naples.org/ Selected papers will appear (after extension and peer-review) in a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer. Multimedia technologies have recently created the conditions for a true revolution in the Cultural Heritage area, with reference to the study, valorization, and fruition of artistic works. The use of these technologies allow creating new digital cultural experiences by means of personalized and engaging interaction. New multimedia technologies could be used to design new approaches to the comprehension and fruition of the artistic heritage for example through smart, context-aware artifacts and enhanced interfaces with the support of features like story-telling, gaming and learning. To these aims, open and flexible platforms are needed, to allow building services that support use of cultural resources for research and education. A likely expectation is the involvement of a wider range of users of cultural resources in diverse contexts and considerably altered ways to experience and share cultural knowledge between participants. The 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia for Cultural Heritage, will be held on the 9-10th of September 2013, in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Naples, Italy, aims to be a profitable informal working day to discuss together hot topics in multimedia applied to cultural heritage. Submissions are expected to deal with multimedia in areas including, but not limited to: Interactive 3D media and immersive environments Multi-modal multimedia computing systems and human machine interaction Multimedia databases and digital libraries Multimedia applications and services Media content analysis and search Hardware and software for multimedia systems, also in mobile scenarios Security issues in the presentation and distribution of cultural information IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2013 Notification of acceptance: June 15th, 2013 Camera ready version: June 25th, 2013 Workshop: September 9th or 10th, 2013 SUBMISSIONS For all information on paper format and submission, visit the workshop website: http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/MM4CH2013 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Costantino Grana, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Johan Oomen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands Giuseppe Serra, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maristella Agosti, Università di Padova, Italy Olga Regina Pereira Bellon, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil Lamberto Ballan, Università di Firenze, Italy Rita Cucchiara, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Alberto Del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, Italy Matteo Dellepiane, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy Kate Fernie, MDR Partners, United Kingdom Antonio Gentile, Università di Palermo, Italy Martin Kampel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Eamonn Keogh, University of California - Riverside, USA Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Josep Lladós, Centre de Visió per Computador, Spain Jan Nouza, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic Edgar Roman-Rangel, University of Geneva, Switzerland Enrique Vidal, Istituto Tecnologico de Informatica, Valencia, Spain