**** CFP MMSP 2008 Special Session: Search and Beyond Search - Online Multimedia Applications ****

Call for Papers

Special Session:
Search and Beyond Search: Online Multimedia Applications of MMSP
(2008 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing)

http://mmsp08.org/Special_Session
The core technologies for different online multimedia applications are
closely related. "Multimodal Relevance" is one of the key technologies
that many applications involve. This special session will include
papers addressing existing and potential issues, scenarios, research
topics of online video, image and audio related applications,
including but not limited to

            1. Video/image search and re-ranking

            2. Social media and media sharing

            3. Multimedia recommendation

            4. Multimedia advertising

            5. Online multimedia annotation/categorization/tagging

            6. Online multimedia presentation, browsing and management

            7. Online multimedia authoring

            8. Other multimedia related technologies and applications on the Internet

Organizer:  
            Dr. Tao Mei Email: tmei [AT] microsoft [DOT] com Microsoft
            Research Asia

            Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua Email: xshua [AT] microsoft [DOT] com
            Microsoft Research Asia

            Dr. Lingyu Duan Email: lingyu [AT] i2r [DOT] a-star [DOT]
            edu [DOT] sg Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

           Prof. Jesse Jin Email: jesse.jin [AT] newcastle [DOT] edu
           [DOT] au The University of Newcastle, Australia

Deadline:
            Abstract Registration: April 18, 2008
            Paper Submission: May 2, 2008
            Acceptance Notification: June 18, 2008

Notes:

            * Please send the potential title and author list to the
            organizers (Dr. Tao Mei tmei@microsoft.com and/or
            Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua xshua@microsoft.com) by April 18 if you
            are interested in this special session.

            * The Special Session (SS) papers will be submitted to the
            same submission portal by choosing relevant Special
            Session as the Main Topic. The deadline of the SS
            submission is 2 May 2008. However, the potential authors
            MUST register their interests by lodging a PDF format file
            of paper abstract into the system before or on the regular
            paper submission deadline to GET a paper submission
            ID. This is because that the on-line submission will be
            closed after the regular paper submission deadline, which,
            currently, is 18 April, 2008. For final SS paper
            submission, authors MUST send the final copy with
            submission ID to the SS organizer. Please note that any
            submitted SS paper with no ID will not be accepted by
            MMSP08!