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The IEEE International Workshop on Data Semantics for Multimedia
Systems and Applications (DSMSA2008)
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~yucao/Service/DSMSA2008.htm

held in conjunction with
The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2008)
December 15-17, 2008
Berkeley, California, USA
http://ism2008.eecs.uci.edu/


Outstanding papers will be invited for extension and publication in a special issue of JMM (Journal of Multimedia) published by Academy Publisher.


In the last decade, substantial progress has been made in
content-based analysis and multimedia streaming to facilitate the
development of large-scale multimedia databases. Together with the
recent progress on semantic web, it is now possible to build a new
generation multimedia applications that enable large-scale semantic
representation, analysis, and delivery of multimedia data from
heterogeneous data sources.  However, there is still a long way to go
for mature solutions of multimedia database systems that are capable
of processing semantics-rich, large-volume multimedia data. It could
be even more challenging if such systems are under stringent
functional and non-functional (e.g., QoS) requirements.

The goal of this workshop is to bring the semantic web community and
multimedia computing community together and provide a forum for
multidisciplinary research opportunities, with a focus on how to apply
the Semantic Web technologies to the acquisition, generation,
transmission, storage, and processing of multimedia
information. Discussions on future challenges in multimedia
information manipulation, as well as practical solutions for the
design and implementation of multimedia database software systems are
also encouraged.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that
span both Semantic Web and Multimedia computing including

    * Automatic Generation of Multimedia Presentations
    * Semantic Multimedia Metadata Extraction
    * Multimedia Ontology
    * Multimedia Standards (e.g. MPEG-7 and XMP) and Semantic Web
    * Multimedia Reasoning
    * Annotation tools and methods for Multimedia
    * Content based multimedia analysis
    * Multimedia Indexing, Searching, and Retrieving
    * Multimedia Streaming
    * Semantic-based QoS Control and Scheduling
    * Semantic-based Internet Data Streaming and Delivery
    * Service Infrastructure, technology, and tools for Multimedia software systems

Paper Submission and Publication

Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other
conference or journal. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full
paper should be submitted by the paper submission deadline to the
workshop website
(http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~yucao/Service/DSMSA2008.htm). All
submissions will be acknowledged. Submitted manuscripts should not
exceed six (6) pages in IEEE two-column format, including figures,
tables, and references.

Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least two experts in the
topical area. All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings and will be indexed by EI.

A number of selected papers will be invited for extension and
publication in a special issue of JMM (Journal of Multimedia)
published by Academy Publisher.


Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2008

Notification of acceptance:  August 31, 2008

Camera-ready copy and author registration:  September 19, 2008


Workshop Organizer (Any general questions regarding the DSMSA workshop
should be directed to ieee.dsmsa@gmail.com)

General Chair: Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA            
          
Workshop Co-Chairs:           
Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA            
Yu Cao, California State University at Fresno, USA            
Jun Kong, The North Dakota State University, USA            
Ming Li, California State University at Fresno, USA