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Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIVP) - Springer Journal
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Special Issue on "Multimedia Semantics, Adaptation and Personalization"
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The objective of this Special Issue is to collect and report on recent 
high quality research that addresses the problem of accessing, managing 
and adapting multimedia content, according to the meaning it embodies. 
As text-based search engines give way to content and context aware 
engines, which not only personalize searching and delivery but also the 
content format, advanced network infrastructures are emerging capable of 
end-to-end ubiquitous transmission of multimedia content to any device, 
fixed or mobile, on any network, wired or wireless, at any time. This 
has enabled propagation of semantic media, adaptation and 
personalization aspects throughout the entire multimedia analysis value 
chain, recognising the value of individual users and utilizing the 
richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human 
interpretations of audiovisual media. Research in this area is important 
because of the overwhelming amount of information available as 
multimedia for the purpose of entertainment, security, education, 
cultural or technical documentation and the very limited understanding 
of the semantics of such data sources and, hence, the limited ways in 
which they can be personalized and adapted to their end-users.

In spite of the multitude of such activities, there is a lack of 
appropriate outlets for presenting high-quality research in the area of 
"Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization". This Special Issue is 
addressed to those members of the multimedia community interested in 
extending their multimedia analysis, indexing, retrieval, and delivery 
methods by leveraging adaptation and personalization technologies. The 
benefit is to explore how these technologies can be used to increase the 
value of multimedia content, e.g., by using ontologies and reasoning to 
assist multimedia personalization and adaptation. High quality 
contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects are 
expected.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* User Modelling
* Semantic Content Creation and Modelling
* Content Adaptation, Management & Delivery
* Adaptive Content Information Retrieval & Filtering
* Multimedia Content Communities
* Intelligent Personalized Interfaces
* Personalized and Adaptive E-Learning
* Personal & Ubiquitous Application Development
* Adaptive & Personalized Multimedia Summaries
* Adaptation & Personalization in TV Environments
* Adaptive Hypermedia
* Network and Device Adaptation

Submission Procedure:

Prospective contributors are invited to submit papers in A4 letter, 
single column format, up to 30 pages long including figures, tables and 
references. Authors should submit their manuscripts in .pdf, .doc or 
.tex format at http://smap2007.org/SIVP-SpecialIssue.php. Camera-ready 
papers will have to conform to the SIVP journal style.

Important Dates:

Deadline for manuscript submission: 30 May 2008
Notification to authors: 21 July 2008
Final accepted manuscript due: 15 September 2008
Estimated publication date: 15 December 2008

Guest Editors:

Phivos Mylonas
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
fmylonas@image.ntua.gr

Hermann Hellwagner
Klagenfurt University, Austria
hellwagn@itec.uni-klu.ac.at

Pablo Castells
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
pablo.castells@uam.es

Manolis Wallace
University of Peloponnese, Greece
wallace@uop.gr