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CALL FOR PAPERS, Special Session on Social Events in Web Multimedia
 
at the 2013 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
(ICMR), Dallas, Texas, USA, April 16 - 19, 2013
 
http://www.icmr2013.org/
 
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The modeling, detection, and processing of events is an area that has
started to receive considerable attention by the multimedia
community. This Special Session aims to attract and present the latest
developments and results on the discovery of social events from web
multimedia content, and on techniques for the detection and retrieval
of media items that are related to such social events. By social
events, we refer to events that are planned by people, are attended by
people, and are represented by multimedia and in general social media
content that is captured by people. A lot of the multimedia content
out there on the Web has been captured during such an event (e.g. a
concert, a football game, an uprising) or is otherwise related to and
conveys information about a social event. However, this content is
often scattered, i.e., is disassociated from the related events. This,
together with the observation that humans often think in terms of
events, generate the need for automatically detecting such events from
multimedia content. Furthermore, they generate the need for
automatically establishing the event-media associations that will
allow multimedia browsing and search, as well as social media
understanding, in a way that is more complete and more natural to the
users.
 
Manuscript preparation and submission:
 
This special session welcomes high-quality papers describing original
research in all areas related to Social Events in Web Multimedia,
especially papers at the intersection of the “event detection from
multimedia”, “event-based multimedia retrieval” and
“social media analysis and retrieval” fields.
 
The submission to this special session is open to all potential
authors. Submitted papers must be formatted according to the ACM
conference style, cannot exceed 8 pages, cannot contain information
that may identify the authors (ICMR 2013 follows a double-blind review
process), and must be submitted as pdf files according to the paper
submission guidelines posted at http://www.icmr2013.org/ (following
the "Paper Submission" link in the menu or the left side of the page).
 
Important dates:
 
* Special Session Paper Submission: January 15, 2013
 
Session Organizers:
 
* Vasileios Mezaris (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas,
Greece)
* Raphael Troncy (Eurecom, France)
* Lexing Xie (Australian National University, Australia)
* Benoit Huet (Eurecom, France)