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WIAMIS 2007 Call for Papers and Special Sessions
OBJECTIVES
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The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive
Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international fora for the
presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in
interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to
bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry
working in all areas of image, video and audio applications, with a
special focus on analysis. After Louvain (1997), Berlin (1999), Tampere
(2001), London (2003), Lisboa (2004), Montreux (2005), Incheon (2006),
WIAMIS 2007 is held in Santorini, Greece.
TOPICS
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Multimedia content analysis and understanding
Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio
2D/3D feature extraction
Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio and video
Relevance feedback and learning systems
Segmentation of objects in 2D/3D image sequences
Identification and tracking of regions in scenes
Voice/audio assisted video segmentation
Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience
Analysis and understanding tools for content adaptation
Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding
Content summarization and personalization strategies
Data hiding and copyright protection of multimedia content
Semantic mapping and ontologies
Multimedia analysis for advanced applications
Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
INVITED TALKS
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WIAMIS 2007 will include in its Technical Program 3 invited talks by
leading experts in the field of multimedia processing. For more
information please refer to the WIAMIS 2007 web site,
http://mkg.iti.gr/wiamis2007/.
PAPER SUBMISSION
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Prospective contributors are invited to submit extended summaries
electronically, following the link to the electronic submission system
that will appear on the WIAMIS 2007 web site,
http://mkg.iti.gr/wiamis2007/, several weeks before the paper submission
deadline. Submissions should be in Adobe PDF file format, written in
English, following the two-column IEEE conference proceedings format and
extending no more than four two-column pages including all figures,
tables and references. The proceedings will be published by IEEE and
archived to IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society digital libraries.
SPECIAL SESSIONS
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WIAMIS 2007 will also include a number of special sessions. For
submitting a special session proposal and for information on already
established special sessions, please check the related web page,
http://mkg.iti.gr/wiamis2007/sessions.html.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Proposals for special sessions: 8 December 2006
Paper Submission: 19 January 2007
Review results: 23 February 2007
Submission of camera-ready papers: 9 March 2007
WIAMIS 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chairs
* Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
* Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Technical Program Chairs
* Milind R. Naphade, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA
* Noel O'Connor, Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City
University, Ireland
* Vasileios Mezaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Special Sessions Chair
* Murat Tekalp, College of Engineering, Koc University, Turkey
Industry Liaisons
* Adrian Matellanes, Motorola Labs, UK
* Nikos Sarris, Athens Technology Center S.A., Greece
CONTACT
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For questions, problems and all other inquiries, please contact
wiamis2007@iti.gr
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