PCM2013 Call For Papers The Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners to share and showcase their new ideas, original research results and engineering development experiences from all multimedia related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial-track papers reporting real multimedia applications and system development experiences. The conference also solicits proposals for tutorials on crucial multimedia technologies, and calls for special session proposals focusing on specific emerging challenges in the multimedia arena. 1. Multimedia Content Analysis Multimedia Indexing Multimedia Mining Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization Multimedia Annotation, Tagging and Recommendation Multimodal Analysis for Retrieval Applications Semantic Analysis of Multimedia and Contextual Data Multimedia Fusion Methods Media Content Browsing and Retrieval Tools 2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications Media Representation and Algorithms Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression Multimedia Security and Content Protection Multimedia Standards and Related Issues Advances in Multimedia Networking and Streaming Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport Wireless and Mobile Multimedia Networking 3. Multimedia Applications and Services Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications Mobile Multimedia Applications Multimedia Web Applications Interactive Multimedia Authoring Personalization Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems) Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Medical Imaging, Visualization, Social Media, Multimedia Collaboration, etc.) The proceedings of the conference will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer, which will be indexed by EI Compendex. High-quality accepted papers will be invited to potential special issues in a two prestigious SCI indexed journals. PCM2013 will provide a best paper award and a best student paper award. Conference Website: http://mcg.ict.ac.cn/pcm2013/ Paper Submission Website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcm2013 Important Dates May 15, 2013: Special sessions and Tutorial Proposal May 31, 2013: Paper submission Jun 25, 2013: Special session paper due Aug 10, 2013: Acceptance notification Aug 31, 2013: Camera-ready paper & registration Dec 13-16, 2013: Conference Program Chairs: Chong-Wah Ngo, Benoit Huet, and Jinhui Tang