CFP: Special Session: Learning from user-generated data in Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, to be held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia from Dec 1-4, 2014.
Website: http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/pcm2014/


In recent years, with the development of social sharing web service, user-generated multimedia contents such as videos, photos, micro-blogs become so pervasive that it is now feasible to exploit them to help us know more about our cyber world and real world. In multimedia community, new algorithms for analyzing user-generated heterogeneous contents have become one of the most active research areas.
This special session focuses on the emerging and challenging researches topics, learning from user-generated and unorganized social multimedia contents, which will facilitate us to understand both of the social multimedia and the real world.
The topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Real-world event/trend detection, localization, tracking and visualization from social multimedia
- Context modeling and understanding of multimedia contents from social media
- Sentiment analysis, preference analysis, and user profiling from social multimedia
- Content analysis, indexing, retrieval of social multimedia
- Location based search, retrieval and services

Organizers:
Xueliang Liu, Hefei University of Technology, China (liuxueliang1982@gmail.com)
Feng Wang, East China Normal University, China (fwang@cs.ecnu.edu.cn)
Meng Wang, Hefei University of Technology, China (eric.mengwang@gmail.com)

Submissions
This special session accepts the full papers which are formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science template available at the PCM2014 website. All of the accepted paper will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcm2014

Important dates
11 July 2014: Paper submission
1 Sept 2014: Notification of acceptance
18 Sept 2014: Camera ready submission