MMM is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners for sharing new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original research and investigation results in all areas related to multimedia modeling technologies and applications.

Topics of Interests:
The topics of interests of this special issue include, but not limited to, the followings:
Multimedia Content Analysis
Multimedia Indexing
Multimedia Mining
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
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
Wireless and Mobile Multimedia Networking
Multimedia Applications and Services

Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems
Augmented and Virtual Reality, Virtual Environments
Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications
Mobile Multimedia Applications
Multimedia Web Applications
Multimedia Authoring & Personalisation
Interactive Multimedia and Interfaces
Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems)
Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Social Media, Multimedia Collaboration, etc.)

Paper Submission:
Submissions must be original which are not submitted to or accepted by any other conferences or journals. The reviewing process will be double blind. Each paper will receive at least 3 reviews by the experts in multimedia field. Submissions should be formatted according to the instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series at http://www.springer.com/lncs/. Page limit for full papers is 12 pages. To submit to MMM 2016, please go to the MMM 2016 submission site at Microsoft CMT system https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MMM2016/.

Important Dates:
Special Session Proposal Jun. 30, 2015
Special Session Paper submission Jul. 31, 2015
Conference Paper submission Jul. 31, 2015
Acceptance Notification Sept. 10, 2015
Registration & camera-ready submission Oct. 10, 2015

Organizers:
Guojun Qi (University of Central Florida, USA)
Benoit Huet (Eurocom, France)
Richang Hong (Hefei University of Technology, China)