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The 1st International Workshop on
Multimedia and Semantic Technologies (MUST'10)


http://www.ftrg.org/must2010/

Busan, Korea, 21-23 May, 2010


In conjunction with FutureTech 2010
http://www.ftrg.org/futuretech2010/
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The Workshop on Multimedia and Semantic Technologies (MUST'10) aims at high quality research contributions in multimedia semantic computing, with a focus on how to apply the semantic technologies to the acquisition, generation, storage, processing, and retrieval of large-scale multimedia information. A main goal of MUST is to address emerging research challenges in Semantic Multimedia and to help reducing the Semantic Gap between low-level content descriptions of multimedia and the semantics in high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media. Semantic Web and multimedia community researchers are encouraged to join the workshop to benefit from the presentation of results from multimedia based research, which demonstrate important multimedia applications which could be enhanced by Semantic Web technologies.
MUST'10 will be held in conjunction with FutureTech 2010, in Busan, Korea, 21-23 May 2010.

MUST'10 encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address challenges of multimedia in general or in the context of specific domains.
Workshop topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

== Topics ==

Semantic Analysis of Multimedia
- Content-based multimedia analysis linked with natural language/speech processing
- Knowledge assisted multimedia analysis

Semantic Retrieval of Multimedia
- Machine learning and relevance feedback for finding semantics
- Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval

Semantic Metadata Management of Multimedia
- Metadata management for multimedia
- Multimedia ontology and interoperability
- Semantic enrichment and annotation of multimedia

Semantic User Interfaces for Multimedia
- Human-computer interfaces for interaction with large multimedia repositories
- Semantic adaptation of multimedia
- Semantic media annotation

Semantic Multimedia Applications
- Context-aware multimedia
- Mobile multimedia database services
- Multimedia mash-ups
- Social multimedia tagging



== Organization ==

Workshop General Chair
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Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA


Program Co-Chairs
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Seungmin Rho, Korea University, Korea (Leading Chair)
Marco Bertini, Universita di Firenze, Italy
Gamhewage C. de Silva, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Stephan Kopf, University of Mannheim, Germany


International Advisory Committee
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Jong Hyuk Park, Seoul National University of Technology, Korea
Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA


International Program Committee
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(TBA)



== Paper Submission and Publication ==

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Papers must be 6 pages or less in size, including references, figures and tables (at least 10pt font, 2-column format). The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as information for formatting the manuscript can be found here. Papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. All accepted papers will be included in the FutureTech-10 Workshop Proceeding published by IEEE. (The proceeding will be included in EI and other index). Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; ( 2 extra pages will be allowed at additional cost only for camera ready papers).
All paper submissions will be handled electronically. The submission process is described on the Submission Page http://www.editorialsystem.net/must2010/

Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press with 6 pages for each paper. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference.



== Important Dates ==

Paper Submission: December 31, 2009
Author Notification: January 30, 2010
Final Manuscript Due: February 28, 2010



== Contact ==

For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact Program Chairs.
Seungmin Rho, pc.seungminrho@gmail.com