***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Environmental Multimedia Retrieval 2014 (EMR 2014) EMR 2014 web page: http://mklab2.iti.gr/emr2014/ In Conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2014 (http://icmr2014.org/) Glasgow, UK, April 1 - 4, 2014 **************************************************************************** The goal of EMR workshop is threefold. First, the workshop aims at presenting and reporting on the most recent methods for the extraction, processing, interpretation, retrieval, fusion and visualization of environmental information encoded in multimedia data with particular attention to personalised services. Second, it aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers, both from multimedia and environmental domain, to share ideas and experiences in designing and implementing novel multimedia analysis techniques and tools for environmental applications. Third, the workshop aims at evaluating the maturity and efficiency of the multimedia analysis and processing techniques for realistic applications in the environmental domain. Research topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Analysis and Processing of Environmental Multimedia - Environmental Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval - Computer Vision for Environmental Video and Image Processing - Plant and Animals Identification - Multimedia Processing for Pollution Monitoring - Multimedia Analysis for Weather Phenomena and Natural Disasters Understanding - Participatory and Social Environmental Media Analysis - Discovery of Environmental Multimedia Information in the web - Content Extraction from Environmental Multimedia Data. - Personalised Services based on Environmental Information. - Fusion of Multimedia Environmental Information. - Summarization of Environmental Information - Interfaces, Presentation and Visualization tools for Environmental Data - Semantic Web Approaches for Environmental Data - Decision support services and reasoning of Multimedia Environmental Data Important dates: - Submission deadline: February 1, 2014 - Author notification: February 28, 2014 - Camera ready: March 10, 2014 - Workshop day: April 1, 2014 Workshop Chairs: - Stefanos Vrochidis (Information Technologies Institute/CERTH, Greece) - Kostas Karatzas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) - Ari Karppinen (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland) - Alexis Joly (INRIA, France)