The Third International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2011) April 16, 2011

The rapid growth of information on the Web, its ubiquity and pervasiveness makes the www the biggest repository. While the volume of information may be useful, it creates new challenges for information retrieval, identification, understanding, selection, etc. Investigating new forms of platforms, tools, principles offered by Semantic Web opens another door to enable humans programs, or agents to understand what records are about, and allows integration between domain-dependent and media-dependent knowledge. Multimedia information has always been part of the Semantic Web paradigm, but requires substantial effort to integrate both.

The new technological achievements in terms of speed and the quality of expanding and creating a vast variety of multimedia services like voice, email, short messages, Internet access, m-commerce, to mobile video conferencing, streaming video and audio.

Large and specialized databases together with these technological achievements have brought true mobile multimedia experiences to mobile customers. Multimedia imply adoption of new technologies and challenges to operators and infrastructure builders in terms of ensuring fast and reliable services for improving the quality of web information retrieval.

Huge amounts of multimedia data are increasingly available. The knowledge of spatial and/or temporal phenomena becomes critical for many applications, which requires techniques for the processing, analysis, search, mining, and management of multimedia data.

MMEDIA 2011 aims to provide an international forum by researchers, students, and professionals for presenting recent research results on advances in multimedia, mobile and ubiquitous multimedia and to bring together experts from both academia and industry for the exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges in multimedia fundamentals, mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, multimedia ontology, multimedia user-centered perception, multimedia services and applications, and mobile multimedia.

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.

Fundamentals in multimedia

Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications

New multimedia platforms

Multimedia architectural specification languages

Theoretical aspects and algorithms for multimedia

Multimedia content delivery networks

Network support for multimedia data

Multimedia data storage

Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems

Multimedia signal coding and processing (audio, video, image)

Multimedia applications (telepresence, triple-play, quadruple-play, …)

Multimedia tools (authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, …)

Computational multimedia intelligence (fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, …)

Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis

Multimedia networking

Wired and wireless multimedia systems

Distributed multimedia systems

Multisensor data integration and fusion

Multimedia and P2P

Multimedia standards

Multimedia content and modeling

Interfaces for multimedia creation

Multimedia streaming and services

Image modeling and editing

Audio modeling and transformation

Video modeling and transformation

Image recognition

Multimedia databases

Multimedia coding and encryption

Multimedia modeling for learning content

Multimedia description languages

Image clustering

Media fusion for communication and presentation

Self-organizing multimedia architectures

Self-organization in multimedia systems

Self-organization in multimedia communities

Self-organized multimedia networks

Multimedia content distribution and consumption

Adaptive multimedia interfaces

Multimedia retrieval

Multimedia content-based retrieval and analysis

Multimodal data analysis

Multimedia databases

Semi-automatic and automatic methods for multimedia annotation

Image/video/audio databases

Content-based image retrieval

Semantics-based search and integration of multimedia and digital content

Multimedia data modeling, indexing, and mining

Statistical modeling of multimedia data

Multimedia extraction and annotation

Content search/browsing/retrieval

Internet imaging and multimedia

Multimodal content analysis

Multimedia abstraction and summarization

Semantic analysis of multimedia data

Media assimilation and fusion

Perception and cognition for multimedia users

Quality of experience

Relevance feedback

Human-computer interaction

Multimodal interaction

Multimodal user interfaces

Mobile user-centered interfaces

Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming

Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems (digital TV, mobile systems, gaming,…)

Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks

Visualization and virtual reality

Intelligent browsing and visualization

Perception and cognition

Perception and modeling of the environment

Multimedia collaboration

Social networking

Multimedia ontology

Multimedia semantics

Emergent semantics

Media ontology learning

Ontology for media web mining

Multimedia ontologies

Multimedia information management

Approaches using metadata standards

Conceptual clustering

Modeling and recognition of visual objects and actions

Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia

Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for multimedia mobility

Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia

Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in intelligent transportation systems

Enabling platforms for mobile multimedia

Roaming and limited bandwidth

Intermittent connectivity

Streaming mobile multimedia

Mobile multimedia software architectures

Mobile multimedia applications and services

Communication and cooperation via mobile multimedia

Business models for mobile multimedia

Provisioning of mobile multimedia services

Context-aware mobile and ubiquitous multimedia

Mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment

Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in ad hoc networks

Personalization, privacy and security in mobile multimedia

Social and regulatory aspects of mobile multimedia

Multimedia in the Extended Home

Ubiquitous/Seamless content sharing

Multimedia services

Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services

Multimedia content distribution services

Real-time multimedia services

Audio-visual multimedia services

Multimedia signal processing and communications

Media representation and algorithms

Audio, image, video processing, coding and compression

Multimedia database, content delivery and transport

Multimedia service protocols

Mobility of multimedia services

Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems

Media enabled eCommerce service

Case studies, field trials and evaluation of new multimedia services

Multimedia applications

Real-time interactive multimedia applications

Adaptive and context-aware multimedia applications

Ambiance multimedia applications

Media applications on mobile devices

Multi-modal interaction

Virtual environments

Personalization

Collaboration, contextual metadata, collaborative tagging

Web applications

Multimedia authoring

Multimedia-enabled new applications (eLearning, entertainment,…..)

Cooperative networks and applications

Mobile multimedia applications & services

Semantic metadata for mobile applications

Semantics enabled multimedia applications

Semantics enabled networks and middleware for multimedia applications

Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks/RFID applications

Industrial use-cases and applications

Multimedia security and content protection

Multimedia security (watermark, encryption,… )

Mobile multimedia systems and services

Security, privacy, and cryptographic protocols

Network security issues and protocols

Key management and authentication

Authentication and access control

Intrusion detection and prevention

Content protection and digital rights management

Trusted computing

Information hiding

Protection of user-generated content

Multimedia control and management

Wireless and mobile multimedia network management

Multimedia measurement, control, and management

Content management and delivery

IP multimedia system operations and management

Managing the quality of experience and quality of service

Measuring the quality of performance in multimedia systems

Mobile multimedia network traffic engineering and optimization

Monitoring and managing mobile multimedia

Resource reservation for multimedia services

Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management

Management of service oriented architectures

Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services

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