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First CALL FOR PAPERS - MMM2010

The 16th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2010)
6-8 January 2010, Chongqing, China.
http://mmm2010.swu.edu.cn
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The International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) is a
leading international conference (http://mmm2010.swu.edu.cn)
for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new
ideas, original research results and practical development
experiences from all MMM related areas.

The conference calls for research papers reporting original
investigation results and industrial track papers reporting
real multimedia applications and system development experience.
The conference also solicits proposals for tutorials on crucial
technologies of multimedia modeling, and calls for special
sessions proposals focusing on specific new challenges in
the multimedia arena.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
1. Multimedia Content Analysis
? Multimedia Indexing
? Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization
? Multimedia Annotation, Tagging and Recommendation
? Multimodal Analysis for Retrieval Applications
? Semantic Analysis of Multimedia and Contextual Data
? Multimedia Fusion Methods
? Media Content Browsing and Retrieval Tools

2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications
? Media Representation and Algorithms
? Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression
? Multimedia Security and Content Protection
? Multimedia Standards and Related Issues
? Advances in Multimedia Networking and Streaming
? Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport

3. Multimedia Applications and Services
? Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems
? Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment
? Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications
? Mobile Multimedia Applications
? Multimedia Web Applications
? Interactive Multimedia Authoring Personalization
? Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems)
? Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Social Media,, Multimedia Collaboration, etc.)


Paper Submission Guidelines

Papers should be no more than 10-12 pages in length, conforming to the
formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series www.springer.com/lncs.
Papers will be judged by an international program committee based on their
originality, significance, correctness and clarity. All papers should be
submitted electronically in PDF format at MMM2010 paper
submission website.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
To publish the paper in the conference, one of the authors needs to
register and present the paper in the conference.
Extensions of selected papers from MMM2010 proceedings will be
considered for publication in a special issue of
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING,
The Visual Computer and possible other international journals


Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: July 12, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 14, 2009
Camera ready papers due: October 12, 2009
Author Registration: October 5, 2009


General Chairs:
Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Deakin University
Zili Zhang, Southwest University

Program Co-Chairs:
Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg
Qi Tian, Microsoft Research Asia
Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia

US Liaison
Jiebo Luo, Kodak Research Lab

Asian Liaison
Tat-Seng Chua,
National University of Singapore

European Liaison
Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg

Steering Committee:
Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Deakin University
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore
Tosiyasu L. Kunii, University of Tokyo
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva
Patrick Senac, ENSICA, France

Local Organizing Chair
Baohua Qiang, Southwest University

Publication Chair
Guoqiang Xiao, Southwest University

Webmaster
Ming Tang, Southwest University

Special Session Co-Chairs:
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam
Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia


Publicity Chairs
Liang-Tien Chia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Benoit Huet, Institut Eurecom
Li Tao, Southwest University


Technical Program Committee (Confirmed):
Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo
Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research,Austria
Timothee Bailloeul, Ricoh Innovations,USA
Cheng Cai, Northwest A&F University,China
Oscar Celma, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,Barcelona,Spain
Pablo Cesar Garcia, CWI,The Netherlands
Lekha Chaisorn, Institute for Infocomm Research,Singapore
Dorai Chitra, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,USA
Pinar Duygulu, Bilkent University,Ankara,Turkey
Romulus Grigoras, ENSEEIHT-INP Toulouse-IRIT,France
William Grosky, University of Michigan,USA
Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University,Ireland
Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology,The Netherlands
Xiaofei He, Zhejiang University
Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg
Winston Hsu, National Taiwan University
Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia,China
Wolfgang H?rst, Utrecht University,The Netherlands
Masashi Inoue, Yamagata University,Japan
Gareth Jones, School of Computing,Dublin City University,Ireland,
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore
Brigitte Kerherve, University of Quebec,Canada
Andruid Kerne, Texas A&M University,USA
Harald Kosch, Passau University,Germany
Martha Larson, Technical University of Delft
Zhiwei Li, Microsoft Research Asia
Jianmin Li, Tsinghua University
Zhu Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ
Rainer Lienhart, University of Augsburg,Germany
Suzanne Little, Open University,UK
Yijuan Lu, Texas State University,USA
Jiebo Luo, Kodak R&D Labs,USA
St?phane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva,Switzerland
Tao Mei Microsoft Research Asia,China
Chong-Wah Ng, City University of Hong Kong
Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University,Ireland
Fernando Pereira, Technical University of Lisbon,Portugal
Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics,Japan
Ansgar Scherp, University of Koblenz,Germany
Patrick Schmitz, Ludicrum Enterprises,USA
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands
Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands
Yan Song, USTC
Sengamedu Srinivasan, Yahoo! India
Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University,USA
Dacheng Tao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Christian Timmerer, University of Klagenfurt,Austria
Raphael Troncy, CWI,The Netherlands
Xin-Jing Wang, Microsoft Research Asia
Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands
Changsheng Xu, NLPR,Chinese Academy of Science
Dong Xu Nanyang, Technological University
Shuicheng Yan, National University of Singapore
Tong Zhang, HP Labs
Zhongfei Zhang, Binghamton University
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore,Singapore


Local Organizations:
Southwest University, China
Chongqing University, China
Chongqing Computer Society, China