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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
International Conference on
*IS&T and SPIE Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems V*

23 - 27 January 2011, Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel
San Francisco, California United States
http://spie.org/ei122
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*Aims and Scope*
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Modern computer technology has brought multimedia to the limelight as a new communication form,
quite possibly the first original communication form of the computer age. Today, "being multimedia" is
a real possibility for almost any online computer user, and the communicative possibilities that will
ensue from this fact will have an impact in a wide range of fields. To benefit from this potential,
developers need reliable techniques for the analysis, search, and management of multimedia data, as
well as distributed system architectures in which these techniques can be embedded to effectively
help the users. The purpose of this conference is to create an international forum to address the
research challenges and opportunities of multimedia content analysis, management and retrieval.

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*New*
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--Keynotes by
* Academia leader: pending
* Industry leader: Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo! Research

--Special Session:
* Bay Area Multimedia: what's cooking in the multimedia research
labs of Bay Area industry?

--Fresh program committee

--Move from San Jose to *San Francisco*

We are soliciting high quality submissions to present new and daring ideas,
question established paradigms and unwritten rules, and introduce new and
original research directions in the following (and related) areas:

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*Topics of Interest*
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--Image and Video Content Analysis:

* image, audio and video characterization (feature extraction)
* fusion of text, image, video and audio data
* content parsing, clustering and classification
* semantic modeling
* image, video and audio similarity measures
* object and event detection and recognition
* content analysis methods and algorithms
* benchmarking of content analysis methods and algorithms
* affective content analysis
* image and video quality assessment

--Content Management and Delivery:

* multimedia databases
* multimedia standards
* peer-to-peer storage and search techniques
* indexing and data organization
* system optimization for search and retrieval
* storage hierarchies, scalable storage
* personalized content delivery

--Image and Video Content Search:

* multimedia data mining
* active learning and relevance feedback
* query models
* browsing and visualization
* search issues in distributed and heterogeneous systems
* benchmarking search, browsing, and retrieval algorithms and systems
* generation of video summaries and abstracts
* cognitive aspects of human/machine systems

--Internet Imaging and Multimedia:

* peer-to-peer imaging systems for the internet
* content creation and presentation for the internet
* content analysis for social tag generation, denoising and propagation
* socially enriched image and video retrieval
* web cameras: impact on content analysis
* interactive multimedia creation for the internet
* content rating, authentication, non-repudiation, and cultural
differences in content perception
* web crawling, caching, and security
* multimedia on the semantic web
* user interfaces
* mobile visual information processing and management.

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*Paper Submission*
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Papers covering original material should be at least 6 pages long and contain
a text summary (200 words maximum) suitable for early release. Manuscripts
should be formatted according to the SPIE template specified at:
http://spie.org/x14101.xml

Your manuscript must be submitted in appropriate format using the SPIE submission
website at: http://myspie.org/submission/index.cfm?fuseaction=act_AbstractInit&EventId=929450

To ensure a high-quality conference, all submissions will be assessed by the
program committee for technical merit and suitability of content. Publication of your
manuscript on SPIE Digital Library offers worldwide access within 2 to 4 weeks after the meeting.

With over 289,000 papers covering 1990 to the present, SPIE Digital Library is the world's
largest collection of research papers in optics and photonics. Proceedings are indexed
in numerous online databases including INSPEC, Ei Compendex, Physics Abstracts,
Chemical Abstracts, SPIN, International Aerospace Abstracts, ISI Index to Scientific and
Technical Proceedings, and the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service (ADS)

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*Important Dates*
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-- Paper submission deadline: June 28, 2010
-- Notification of acceptance: September 17, 2010
-- Camera-ready manuscript: November 15, 2010

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*Program Committee*
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John Adcock, FX Palo Alto Lab.
Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka Univ. (Japan)
Tat-Seng Chua, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
Matthew L. Cooper, FX Palo Alto Lab.
Francesco G. B. De Natale, Univ. degli Studi di Trento (Italy)
Alberto Del Bimbo, Univ. degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)
Jianping Fan, The Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte
Yuli Gao, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Alan Hanjalic, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands)
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Winston H. Hsu, Columbia Univ.
Gang Hua, Nokia Research Ctr. Hollywood
Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia (China)
Yu-Gang Jiang, Columbia Univ.
Paul H. Lewis, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)
Rainer W. Lienhart, Univ. Augsburg (Germany)
Vasileios Mezaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute (Greece)
Chong-Wah Ngo, City Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
Alan F. Smeaton, Dublin City Univ. (Ireland)
John R. Smith, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.
Hari Sundaram, Arizona State Univ.
Qi Tian, The Univ. of Texas at San Antonio
Luc J. Van Gool, Katholieke Univ. Leuven (Belgium)
Dong Wang, Hulu (China)
Meng Wang, Akiira Media Systems (USA)
Changsheng Xu, Institute of Automation (China)
Rong Yan, Facebook
Jun Yang, Facebook

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*Organizing Committee*
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Cees G. M. Snoek, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Nicu Sebe, University of Trento (Italy)
Lyndon Kennedy, Yahoo! Research (USA)