Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. 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

2. 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

3. Multimedia Applications and Services
• Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems
• Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment
• Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications
• Mobile Multimedia Applications
• Multimedia Web Applications
• Interactive Multimedia Authoring Personalization
• Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems)
• Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Medical Imaging, Visualization, Social Media, Multimedia Collaboration, etc.)