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Workshops
ACM Multimedia 2006
plans to include seven day-long workshops on topics in new and
emerging areas of interest to members of the multimedia research
community. The workshops are scheduled to be on 26 - 27 October
2006, after the main conference.
Scheduled
Workshops:
1.
Workshop on
Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2006)
Extending beyond the borders of
culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of
the major challenges of our time. MIR 2006 is a peer-reviewed meeting
for scientific researchers and users to discuss important challenges in
multimedia retrieval. Following the success of the five previous MIR
workshops held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conferences, the
purpose of the 8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia
Information Retrieval (MIR 2006) is to bring together researchers,
developers, and practitioners from academia and industry. We are
soliciting original papers that address a wide range of issues in
multimedia information retrieval.
Important Dates
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11 July
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MIR'2006
Submission Deadline |
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Organizers
2.
Workshop on Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences
(CARPE 2006)
Personal
storage of all one’s media throughout a lifetime has been
desired and discussed since at least 1945, when Vannevar Bush
published As We May Think, positing the “Memex” device “in
which an individual stores all his books, records, and
communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be
consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility.” His vision was
astonishingly broad for the time, including full-text search,
annotations, hyperlinks, virtually unlimited storage and even
stereo cameras mounted on eyeglasses. Storage, sensor, and
computing technology have progressed today to the point of
making Memex feasible and even affordable. Indeed, we can now
look beyond Memex at new possibilities. In particular, while
media capture has typically been sparse throughout a lifetime,
we can now consider continuous archival and retrieval of all
media relating to personal experiences.
Following the
success of the two previous CARPE workshops held in conjunction
with the ACM Multimedia Conferences, and the Pervasive 04
workshop on Memory and Sharing of Experience, this one-day
workshop aims to foster deeper and wider discussion on issues
related to capture, archival and retrieval of personal
experiences. We invite regular and position papers as well as
demonstrations on relevant topics, including, sensors, wearable,
data storage and management, content analysis, user interfaces,
applications, etc.
Important Dates
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14 July(extended)
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CARPE'2006
Submission Deadline |
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Organizers:
3.
Workshop on Multimedia Content Protection and Security
(MCPS 2006)
Important Dates
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14 July
(extended) |
MCPS'2006
Submission Deadline |
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Organizers:
4.
Workshop
on Human-Centered Multimedia (HCM 2006)
Human-centered
computing (HCC) lies at the crossroads of multiple disciplines
and research areas that are concerned both with understanding
human beings and with the design of computational methods.
Researchers and designers of human-centered computing methods
and systems include engineers in multimedia information
processing and systems, scholars in psychology, cognitive
science, sociology, and graphic designers. The research in this
area deals with understanding humans, both as individuals and in
social groups, by focusing on the ways that human beings adopt,
adapt, and organize their lives around computational
technologies. Human-centered design of computational tools
attempts to address problems that traditional human computer
interaction does not generally address. For example, the design
of algorithms and systems, and not just of interaction, are some
non-traditional design problems that are of interest to HCC
researchers. The focus of the workshop is the multimedia aspect
of the HCC paradigm.
Important Dates
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10 July(extended)
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HCM'2006
Submission Deadline |
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Organizers:
5.
Workshop on
Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN 2006)
Important Dates
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5 July(extended)
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VSSN'2006
Submission Deadline |
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6.
Workshop
on Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia (AMCMM 2006)
Multimedia is
usually defined as the combination of text, graphics,
full-motion video, and sound into an integrated application. The
final frontier, sound, which includes general-purpose audio,
music, and speech, is an integral, but often neglected,
component of the field. Traditionally, the audio and the image
research communities have developed independently, and almost in
perfect isolation one with another. Our goal is to set a new
trend of active contribution by the audio and music community
through the initiating of a workshop on
Audio and Music
Computing for Multimedia (AMC MM), specifically targeted
to researchers in this community. The workshop will also feature
special sessions and keynotes that will be of relevance and
interest to the general multimedia community, so as to foster a
better understanding of the unique challenges and problems of
interest in the audio realm. The proposed AMCMM workshop will be
held in the last day of the conference in parallel with other
successful workshops
Important Dates
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5 July
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AMCMM'2006
Submission Deadline |
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Organizers:
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