**************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Multimedia Tools and Applications An International Journal SPECIAL ISSUE ON "MULTIMEDIA FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE" PDF version at: http://www.imagelab.unimore.it/mm4ch2013/cfp_mtap.pdf **************************************************************************** Multimedia technologies are more and more in the hands of the people, and Cultural Heritage could definitely benefit from their introduction in all aspects of study, valorization, and fruition of artistic works. Research in Multimedia for Cultural Heritage covers a wide spectrum of topics in content analysis, content description, content retrieval and presentation to the user. Various tools and techniques from different fields such as Data Indexing, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Human Computer Interaction have contributed to the success of multimedia systems. Although, there has been a significant progress in the field, too many systems are prototyped but never leave this early stage. The goal of this special issue is to bring forward the recent advancements in Multimedia with specific application to Cultural Heritage, where open and flexible platforms are needed, to allow building services that support use of cultural resources for research and education. Topics of interest for the Special Issue include, but are not limited to: - Audio content extraction and indexing (audio, speech, music) - Content-based search - Identification of semantic events (historical value) - Interactive 3D media and immersive environments - Large scale multimedia database management - Matching and similarity search - Metadata generation, coding and transformation, multi-modal fusion - Multimedia data mining - Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools - Multimedia recommendation - Multimedia retrieval multi-modal and cross-modal indexing - Personalization and content adaptation - Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content - Security issues in the presentation and distribution of cultural information - User interaction and relevance feedback - Virtual tours and virtual museums experiences ----------------------- Submission instructions ----------------------- All the papers should be full journal length versions and follow the guidelines set out by Multimedia Tools and Applications: http://www.springer.com/11042. Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mtap.editorialmanager.com choosing "Multimedia for Cultural Heritage" as article type. When uploading your paper, please ensure that your manuscript is marked as being for this special issue. All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the MTAP reviewing procedures. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Manuscript due: November 25th, 2013 Notification: January 30th, 2014 ------------- Guest Editors ------------- Costantino Grana University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy costantino.grana@unimore.it Giuseppe Serra University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy giuseppe.serra@unimore.it ------------------------------------ Multimedia Tools and Applications An International Journal ------------------------------------ Editor-in-Chief: Borko Furht ISSN: 1380-7501 (print version) ISSN: 1573-7721 (electronic version) Journal no. 11042 ------------------------------------