The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international events for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in all areas of image, video and audio applications, with a special focus on analysis.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Multimedia content analysis and understanding
* Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio
* Content-based copy detection
* Emotional based content classification and organization
* 2D/3D feature extraction
* Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio and video
* Relevance feedback and learning systems
* Segmentation of objects in 2D/3D image sequences
* Motion analysis and tracking
* Video analysis and event recognition
* Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience
* Analysis and tools for content adaptation
* Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding
* Content summarization and personalization strategies
* End-to-end quality of service support for Universal Multimedia Access
* Semantic mapping and ontologies
* Multimedia analysis for new and emerging applications
* Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
* Semantic web and social networks
* Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback
* Applications

Preliminary schedule

* Proposal of Special Sessions: October 30, 2009
* Notification of a Conditional acceptance of SS proposal: 10 Nov. 2009
* Paper Submission: November 20, 2009
* SS paper submission: November 30, 2009
* Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2010
* Camera Ready Paper: February 15, 2010