2016 IEEE - International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY &
INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS 2016)
Track Multimedia Information Retrieval and Applications (MIRA)
November 28 - December 1, 2016
Naples, Italy
http://www.sitis-conf.org/

The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi structured data found in the web.
An explosive growth can be experienced in multimedia and other social media appearing online on mobile, wearable and other devices in recent years. The Multimedia Information Retrieval and Applications (MIRA) track is based on emerging interdisciplinary multimedia research and systems dealing with conventional and big multimedia data. The track focuses on new applications and services that can analyze, retrieve, classify and annotate multimedia information even for big multimedia data as well as to help to establish semantical and contextual connections among users on the basis of the information of their interest.

The topics of interest of the track include, but are not limited to:


Multimedia Analysis and Processing

Multimedia content analysis
Content-based analysis for (big) multimedia data
Feature extraction and learning for (big) multimedia data representation
Multimedia signal processing and analysis
Multimedia search and retrieval
Query languages and query processing for multimedia retrieval
Image and video indexing
Image and video classification
High-dimensional clustering for indexing
Semantics and metadata in multimedia systems
Computation Linguistics for multimedia IR
Multimedia data modeling and visualization
Multimedia coding, compression, and processing
Filtering, Time-Sensitive and Real-time Search
Personalized Search
Multimedia content analysis and event detection
Joint multimodal processing and analysis
Big multimedia data analytics

Multimedia Application for Information Retrieval

Retrieval and annotation of big multimedia data
Multimedia networking and communication
Emergent semantics in content-based retrieval systems
Multimedia activity and event understanding
Mobile multimedia analysis and retrieval
Location based multimedia information retrieval
Object and/or context based multimedia information retrieval
Semantic-based multimedia retrieval and annotation
Medical multimedia information retrieval

Multimedia Systems and Services

Multimedia systems, services, architecture and implementations
Distributed multimedia systems
Mobile and location aware multimedia services
Cloud-assisted multimedia systems
Novel multimedia IR Interfaces
Human computer interaction based on multimedia
Entertainment, gaming and e-learning
3D, Augmented and virtual reality
Bio-inspired multimedia processing
User Studies, Click Models, Interaction Models
Multimedia system for traffic and public security
Multimedia database and content management
Multimedia tools (authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing)
Multimedia benchmarks, evaluation protocols and standards
Multimedia security, rights management and forensics
Adversarial multimedia IR and Spam
Cross-language and Multilingual multimedia IR
Medical multimedia databases
eHealthcare and telemedicine
Social, user-generated, and cloud-based multimedia
Cloud computing for (big) multimedia data
Multimedia sensing systems
Social networks, social media and Crowdsourcing

Submission and publication
The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS'16 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes.

Journal special issue
Extended version of selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in a major journal.



Important dates
* Paper Submission: September 6, 2016
* Acceptance/Reject notification: October 7, 2016
* Camera ready: October 20, 2016
* Author registration: October 20, 2016

Track Chairs
Andrea KUTICS, International Christian University, Japan