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Workshops
Following the successful events of previous years, ACM Multimedia 2007 has five day-long workshops and one two days-long workshop on topics in new and emerging areas of interest to members of the multimedia research community.
Important Dates
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28 September 2007
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All Workshops but MIR
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28-29 September 2007
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MIR Workshop
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Accepted Workshops at ACM Multimedia
1. Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2007)
Multimedia information retrieval is being transformed into a cross-cutting field. Extending beyond the borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-computing & medical science, the Internet, streaming video, databases, cultural heritage collections and peer-2-peer networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techniques on how to browse, search, and summarize multimedia collections. MIR 2007 is a peer-reviewed meeting for researchers in both academia and the industry, and users to discuss important challenges in multimedia retrieval. We welcome relevant paper submissions from computer and information sciences, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, business, humanities, biology, medicine, ...
Following the success of the eight previous MIR workshops held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conferences, the purpose of the 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval 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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22 June 2007
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MIR’2007 Submission Deadline
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9 July 2007
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MIR’2007 Acceptance Notification
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15 July 2007
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Camera-ready papers due
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2. Workshop on Mobile Video (MV 2007)
Mobile video is one of the key technologies pushing the development and usage of current and future wireless networks. With applications as diverse as conversational service, mobile TV and video-on-demand, video gaming, and surveillance, mobile video is a major research and business opportunity with great potential to enrich society and to support the needs of our increasingly mobile daily life.
ACM Mobile Video will be held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia on September 28th at the University of Augsburg, Germany. The technical program of the 1st ACM SIGMM Workshop on Mobile Video will consist of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The one-day workshop is single track.
Important Dates
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1 June 2007
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MV’07 Submission Deadline
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1 July 2007
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MV’07 Acceptance Notification
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11 July 2007
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Camera-ready papers due
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3. TRECVID Video Summarization (TVS 2007)
In 2007 the TREC Video Retrieval Workshop series will run a 1-day workshop on video summarization of unedited BBC video (rushes) as part of the ACM Multimedia Conference 2007, Augsburg, Germany on Friday, 28. September 2007.
PLEASE NOTE: Use of the BBC data and presentations at the ACM workshop (oral, poster, demo) will be limited to groups who are already active participants in TRECVID 2007 and have completed submissions for the TRECVID video summarization task. But attendance at the ACM workshop and participation in discussions will be open to all who sign up for the ACM workshop.
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4. Human-Centered Multimedia (HCM 2007)
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 HCC methods and systems include engineers, scholars in psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and graphic designers, among others. Research in HCC 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, and on how the development of computational technologies can be informed by human aspects (culture, social setting, human abilities, etc.). Human-Centered Computing addresses problems that the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) does not generally address. In HCC the focus is not only on interaction, but also on the design of algorithms and systems with a human focus from start to finish.
Following the success of the previous HCM workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 2006 Conference, this year's workshop we will have an entirely different format consisting of very short oral presentations and posters, so the focus will be on group discussions centered around the accepted works and the foundational issues of human-centered multimedia. Workshop attendees will be divided into discussion-focused groups and asked to define frameworks, tasks, or definitions that are relevant to the theme of the workshop. Specific details will be posted in due course, but we expect the new format to allow the presentation of novel technical works as well as the exchange and generation of ideas related to human-centered computing.
Important Dates
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22 June 2007
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HCM’07 Submission Deadline
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9 July 2007
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HCM’07 Acceptance Notification
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15 July 2007
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Camera-ready papers due
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5. The Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics (MS 2007)
Information is increasingly becoming ubiquitous and all-pervasive, with the World-Wide Web as its primary repository. The rapid growth of information on the Web creates new challenges for information retrieval. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the investigation and development of the next generation web – the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web enables programs/agents to automatically understand what data is about, and therefore, bridge the, so-called, semantic gap between the ways in which users request web resources and the real needs of those users, ultimately improving the quality of web information retrieval.
Multimedia information has always been part of the Semantic Web paradigm, but, in general, has been discussed very simplistically by the Semantic Web community. We believe that, rather than trying to discover a media object’s hidden meaning, one should formulate ways of managing media objects so as to help people make more intelligent use of them. The relationship between users and media objects should be studied. Media objects should be interpreted relative to the particular goal or point-of-view of a particular user at a particular time.
Content-based descriptors are necessary to this process. Recently, a major European wireless service provider managed to have all its digital media content providers supply metadata in RDF, and saw their revenues increase by 20% in three months. Major search engines are in the process of rolling out A/V search capabilities. At the same time, such descriptions are definitely not sufficient. Context is also important, and should be managed. The area of emergent multimedia semantics has been initiated to study the measured interactions between users and media objects, with the ultimate goal of trying to satisfy the user community by providing them with the media objects they require, based on their individual previous media interactions.
The arrival of Web 2.0 has added new paradigms to the media mix. Such concepts as a folksonomy, a form of emergent semantics, introduces a collaborative, dynamic approach to the generation of ontologies and media object semantics. That such an approach results in a stable semantics, though surprising, has been recently demonstrated.
Important Dates
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25 June 2007
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MS’07 Submission Deadline
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9 July 2007
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MS’07 Acceptance Notification
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15 July 2007
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Camera-ready papers due
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Organizers:
William Grosky, Farshad Fotouhi, and Peter Stanchev
6. Educational Multimedia and Multimedia Education (EMME 2007)
Advances in multimedia capture, analysis and delivery, combined with the rapid adoption of broadband communication, have resulted in multimedia teaching systems that have advanced traditional forms of education. Research in these areas has achieved impressive results in the last few years and many actual working systems and commercial products are now routinely used by a growing number of people. However, the various web sites and lecture videos produced as part of the e-learning hype generally do not exploit the full potential of multimedia. The question about how multimedia can really make learning more exploratory and enjoyable is as yet unanswered, and we are just beginning to understand the real contribution of multimedia to education. In addition, new trends in multimedia technology, such as multimedia on handheld devices or advanced approaches for the automatic analysis of multimodal signals, offer novel and exciting opportunities for teaching and learning.
The growing pervasiveness of multimedia on any computing device also increases the relevance of knowledge about multimedia for computer scientists and software engineers. However, the significance of multimedia for the future of computing is generally not reflected in current curricula. For example, few universities offer dedicated courses and multimedia is often only taught as part of other courses such as computer graphics or machine learning. In addition, multimedia is a very active and rapidly changing field. New and emerging technologies can not only influence how we teach but also have an impact on what we should teach.
The goal of this workshop is to identify current and evolving trends, specify open problems, and discover challenges and prospects for new research in the broad topic of multimedia-based education. By bringing together researchers working on educational multimedia with multimedia educators, we want to establish an open discussion on these issues and create a reference for future research in this area.
Important Dates
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6 June 2007
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EMME’07 Submission Deadline
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5 July 2007
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EMME’07 Acceptance Notification
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11 July 2007
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Camera-ready papers due
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Organizers:
Gerald Friedland, Wolfgang Hürst, and Lars Knipping
Contacts
If you have any questions regarding the workshops please contact the workshop chairs.
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