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Call for Short Papers

The 15th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2007) will be held in Augsburg, Germany, September 23 – 29, 2007. ACM Multimedia is the premier technical multimedia conference attended by an international community of researchers from both academia and industry.

For this conference, we are seeking outstanding short paper submissions that will be presented in an interactive poster format at the conference.

Short papers should present interesting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. We are looking for original and bold papers in all areas of multimedia technology, its application, and use Submissions are encouraged in areas including multimedia databases, content analysis, media processing, compression, multimedia storage, networking, copyright protection, multimedia and hypermedia authoring, multimedia user interfaces, innovative applications and in emerging topics of social media and collaborative tagging. Submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality. Accepted short papers will be presented in an interactive poster presentation at the conference.
 

Areas of interest include, but not restricted to:

    (a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval;
    (b) Multimedia networking, sensor networks, and systems support;
    (c) Multimedia tools, interfaces, end-to-end-systems, and applications.
     

Submission Instructions

Prepare a 4-page paper using the ACM template for the conference—Portable Document Format (PDF) or PostScript (version 2 or later), formatted in two-column conference style. Please see the ACM proceedings template available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

All submitted papers will undergo a double-blind review process. Please note that the formatting template given above refers to final format of accepted papers. For the purpose of double blind review, please remove names of authors and affiliations from the paper heading, and all references to (your own) papers or systems that may reveal your identity. In place of names of authors and affiliations in the heading, please replace it by the paper id as “Paper xxx”. For some references to your own papers, you may want to leave the reference id but remove the details of references by stating: “reference removed for the purpose of anonymous review.”

All short papers must be submitted through EDAS. Follow the link, create either a new user account or use your existing EDAS account and submit your paper under one of the three tracks. Every paper must be assigned to one of the three tracks!

Important Dates

1 June 2007

Short Paper Submission deadline ( EDAS - Content Track ,EDAS - System and Network Track, EDAS - Applications Track )

5 July 2007

Notification of acceptance

11 July 2007

Camera-ready papers


Contacts

For any questions regarding short papers please email the co-chairs:

 

Technical Program Committee

Imad Aad, DoCoMo Euro-Labs
Arnon Amir, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Marcelo Bagnulo, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Kathrin Berkner, Ricoh Innovations, USA
Julien Bournelle, France Telecom R&D, France
Andreas Butz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Doree Duncan Seligman, Avaya Labs, USA
Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Lynda Hardman, CWI, The Netherlands
Hermann Hellwagner, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Otthein Herzog, Universität Bremen, TZI and MRC, Germany
Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University London, UK
Erik Mannens, Ghent University – IBBT, Belgium
Klaus Meyer-Wegener, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Andreas Nürnberger, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway
Ansgar Scherp, OFFIS, Germany / Visiting Scholar at UCI, USA
Klaus Tochtermann, Know Center Graz, Austria
Lars Wolf, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Christian Vogt, Ericsson Research NomadicLab, Finland
Wassim-Michel Haddad, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Ahsan Habib, Siemens Technology-To-Business Center
Giridharan Iyengar, IBM Research
Ying Li, IBM Research
Xuelong Li, University of London, UK
Gabriel Montenegro, Microsoft Corporation
Vincent Oria, NJIT, USA
Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo! Research, USA
S H Srinivasan, Yahoo!, India
Ba Tu Truong, Curtin University, Australia
Raphael Troncy, CWI, The Netherlands
Hannes Tschofenig, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Jana Urban, University of Glasgow, UK
Wolfgang Müller, University of Bamberg, Germany