CFP: IEEE Trans. on Multimedia Special Issue on  Integration of Context 
and Content for Multimedia Management

http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~qitian/cfp-TMM-SI.htm

NOTE: The original due date that appeared in IEEE Transactions in
Multimedia has been changed to APRIL 1, 2008

Guest Editors:

Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Alejandro Jaimes, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland
Jiebo Luo, Kodak Research Laboratories, USA
Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Important dates:

Manuscript Submission Deadline:           April 1, 2008
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection:     July 1, 2008
Final Manuscript Due to IEEE:             September 1, 2008
Expected Publication Date:                January 2009

Submission Procedure:

Submissions should follow the guidelines set out by IEEE Transaction on
Multimedia. Prospective authors should submit high quality, original
manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any
other journals.

Summary

Lower cost hardware and growing communications infrastructure (e.g., Web,
cell phones, etc.) have led to an explosion in the availability of
ubiquitous devices to produce, store, view and exchange multimedia
(images, videos, music, text). Almost everyone is a producer and a
consumer of multimedia in a world in which, for the first time, tremendous
amount of contextual information is being automatically recorded by the
various devices we use (e.g., cell ID for the mobile phone location, GPS
integrated in a digital camera, camera parameters, time information, and
identity of the producer).

In recent years, researchers have started making progress in effectively
integrating context and content for multimedia mining and management.
Integration of content and context is crucial to human-human communication
and human understanding of multimedia: without context it is difficult for
a human to recognize various objects, and we become easily confused if the
audio-visual signals we perceive are mismatched. For the same reasons,
integration of content and context is likely to enable  (semi)automatic
content analysis and indexing methods to become more powerful in managing
multimedia data. It can help narrow part of the semantic and sensory gap
that is difficult or even impossible to bridge using approaches that do
not explicitly consider context for (semi)automatic content-based analysis
and indexing.

The goal of this special issue is to collect cutting-edge research work in
integrating content and context to make multimedia content management more
effective. The special issue will unravel the problems generally
underlying these integration efforts, elaborate on the true potential of
contextual information to enrich the content management tools and
algorithms, discuss the dilemma of generic versus narrow-scope solutions
that may result from too much contextual information, and provide us
vision and insight from leading experts and practitioners on how to best
approach the integration of context and content. The special issue will
also present the state of the art in context and content-based models,
algorithms, and applications for multimedia management.
 
Scope

The scope of this special issue is to cover all aspects of context and
content for multimedia management.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

         Contextual metadata extraction
         Models for temporal context, spatial context, imaging context
(e.g., camera metadata), social and cultural context and so on
         Web context for online multimedia annotation, browsing, sharing 
and reuse
         Context tagging systems, e.g., geotagging, voice annotation
         Context-aware inference algorithms
         Context-aware multi-modal fusion systems (text, document, image,
video, metadata, etc.)
         Models for combining contextual and content information
         Context-aware interfaces
         Context-aware collaboration
         Social networks in multimedia indexing
         Novel methods to support and enhance social interaction,
including innovative ideas integrating context in social, affective
computing, and experience capture.
         Applications in security, biometrics, medicine, education,
personal media management, and the arts, among others
         Context-aware mobile media technology and applications
         Context for browsing and navigating large media collections
         Tools for culture-specific content creation, management, and
analysis

Organization

Next to the standard open call for papers, we will also invite a limited
number of papers, which will be written by prominent authors and
authorities in the field covered by this Special Issue. While the papers
collected through the open call are expected to sample the research
efforts currently invested within the community on effectively combining
contextual and content information for optimal analysis, indexing and
retrieval of multimedia data, the invited papers will be selected to
highlight the main problems and approaches generally underlying these
efforts.

All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers. Invited
papers will be solicited first through white papers to ensure the quality
and relevance to the special issue. The accepted invited papers will be
reviewed by the guest editors and expect to account for about one fourth
of the papers in the special issue.

Contacts

Please address all correspondences regarding this special issue to the
Guest Editors Dr. Alan Hanjalic (A.Hanjalic@ewi.tudelft.nl), Dr. Alejandro
Jaimes (alex.jaimes@idiap.ch), Dr. Jiebo Luo (jiebo.luo@kodak.com), and
Dr. Qi Tian (qitian@cs.utsa.edu).