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International Workhsop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining (MCAM'07)
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June 30-July 1 2007, Shandong University, WeiHai, China

Through recent advances in computing, networking and data
storage, multimedia will create new interesting technical
possibilities in a wide range of fields, such as entertainment,
commerce, science, medicine and public safety. 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.

Recently, there have been many workshops and meeting dedicated to
Multimedia but most of them were following the standard pattern consisting
mainly of oral and poster presentations. We all feel that there is a need
for a meeting which is really a workshop, i.e., providing a lot of
opportunities for discussions and dissmenination. Consequently,
the workshop format will containt 4 half-day sessions, each consisting
of a panel followed by discussions and poster presentations. The intended
topics and panelel chairs are as follows:

1. Muyltimedia Analysis and Applications
Arnold Smeulders, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (chair)

2. Multimedia search and mining
John R. Smith, IBM, USA (chair)

3. P2P streaming
Wen Gao, Chinese Academy of Science, China (chair)

4. Security
Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia Univ., USA (chair)

For the poster sessions we seek technical contributions and position statements in
the  four areas listed above. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to the following:

Multimedia Analysis and Applications
 - multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications
 - multimedia authoring
 - multi-modal interaction and integration
 - multimedia in e-learning and entertainment
 - personal media, assisted living, and virtual environments
 - national initiatives such as call for projects, national strategies, etc.

Multimedia search and mining
 - multimedia semantics
 - multimedia modeling and fusion
 - audio/video/multi-modal processing
 - multimedia content description and indexing
 - content-based retrieval with emphasis on multiple and novel media
 - object and event detection and recognition
 - benchmarking of content analysis methods and algorithms
 - generic methods and algorithms for content analysis
 - affective content analysis.

Multimedia networking and system support
 - context-aware multimedia communications
 - peer-to-peer streaming
 - audio/video streaming
 - multimedia content distribution
 - wireless multimedia
 - adaptive support for scalable media
 - Quality of Service

 Security
 - multimedia digital rights management (protection and attribution)
 - robust watermarking of multimedia
 - authentication of multimedia
 - informational-theoretical aspects of data hiding
 - watermarking quality evaluations and benchmarks
 - new applications, security issues and legal aspects

Important Dates
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Paper Submission:                   March 19, 2007
Notification of Acceptance:         April 15, 2007
Camera-ready Papers:                April 23, 2007

Submissions
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The intention is to publish the proceedings is the Springer's Lecture Notes
in Computer Science Series. The authors are requested to send their submissions
(no longer than 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style in English). All submissions
will be peer reviewed by at least three memebers of the technical program committee.

Honorary Chair
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Tao Zhan, Shadong University, China

Co-General Chairs
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Thomans S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dongfeng Yuan, Shadong University, China

Co-Program Chairs
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Yuncai Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University, China

International Steering Committee
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Wen Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, USA
Kiyo Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Alan Smeaton, Dublin city University, Ireland
Ed Chang, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA & Google, China
Bob Liang, Motorola, Intel Research, USA