The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2012) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing. The technical program of ISM2012 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Submissions are solicited for full papers, short papers, workshop papers, technical demos, and panels.

Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

Multimedia Systems and Architectures
Architecture and applications
GPU-based architectures and systems
Mobile multimedia systems and services
Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV
Multimedia/high definition display systems
Multimedia in the Cloud
Software development using multimedia techniques

Multimedia Communications and Streaming
Multimedia networking and QoS
Multimedia synchronization
HD video streaming
Mobile audio/video streaming
Wireless broadcasting and streaming
Scalable streaming
Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
Multimedia sensor networks
Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems
Video teleconferencing
Popularity algorithms

Multimedia Content Understanding, Modeling, Management, and Retrieval
Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems
Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms
Multimedia storage/archive systems, databases, and retrieval
Multimedia data segmentation (shot detection, shot segmentation)
Multimedia/video/audio segmentation using aural, visual, and textual features
Image, audio, video, genre clustering & classification
Video summarization and story generation
Multimedia content organization
Animation modeling and management
Speaker identification, recognition, and location
Object, event, emotion, text detection and recognition
Mosaic, video panorama and background generation
Indexing and retrieval of multimedia data and TV programs
Extraction of novel features from specific media
Use of sensors for content understanding
Multimedia semantics, ontologies, annotation, concept detection and learning
Personalization and user preferences

Multimedia Coding, Processing, and Quality Measurement
Multimedia signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding
Multimedia Coding Standards
Audio, video, and image compression algorithms and performance
Scalable coding
Multi-view coding
3D/multi-view synthesis, rendering
Animation coding
Noise removal techniques from multimedia
Multi-resolution or super-resolution algorithms
Maintenance of perceptual quality with further compression
Developing novel quality measures

Multimedia Interfaces
Multimedia information visualization and interactive systems
Multimodal interaction, including human factors
Multimodal user interfaces: design, engineering, modality-abstractions, etc.
Multimedia tools for authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, and navigation
Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis
Novel interfaces for multimedia: touch, tangible, wearable, virtual, 3D, etc.
Multimedia user interfaces for mobile devices

Multimedia Security
Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption
Copyright issues for multimedia data
Multimedia for surveillance and monitoring
Face detection and recognition algorithms
Human behavior analysis
Multimedia forensics

Multimedia Applications
3D multimedia: graphics, displays, sound, broadcasting, interfaces
Multimedia composition and production: capture, authoring, digital art, animations
Multimedia gaming
Virtual and augmented reality
Motion capture for multimedia systems
Applications for mobile systems
Multimedia interfaces for the web
Multimedia in social network analysis: YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc.
E-learning and distance education
Rich media enabled E-commerce and E-shopping
Multimedia systems for handicapped (e.g., sign language, navigation assistance)
Terrain data coding, management, and visualization
Multimedia systems for wild-life monitoring and analysis
Analyzing multimedia data for bioinformatics
Control systems based on multimedia
Collaborative systems
Multimedia in robotics