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Call for Papers: WIAMIS 2008
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9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for
Multimedia Interactive Services
7-9 May 2008, Klagenfurt University, Austria

http://www.wiamis2008.org

Proposal for Special Session: November 23, 2007
Paper submission deadline   : December 14, 2007
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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), and Santorini (2007), WIAMIS 2008 is held at
Klagenfurt University, Austria.

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
  - End-to-end quality of service support for
    Universal Multimedia Access
  - Semantic mapping and ontologies
  - Multimedia analysis for advanced applications
  - Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
  - Multimedia standards, e.g., MPEG-7 (incl. Query Format), MPEG-21, …

Paper Submission
  - Proposal for Special Session: November 23, 2007
  - Paper Submission: December 14, 2007
  - Review Results: January 11, 2008
  - Submission of Camera-ready Papers: February 01, 2008

Contact
  - Christian Timmerer, christian.timmerer@wiamis2008.org
  - Hermann Hellwagner, hermann.hellwagner@wiamis2008.org

Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society
and made available through IEEE Xplore™ and the IEEE Computer
Society Digital Library. Papers must be formatted according to
the IEEE Computer Society standards and their length must not
exceed 4 IEEE double column style pages including all figures,
tables, and references.
Details can be found on http://www.wiamis2008.org/.

General Chair
   Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Program Committee Chairs
   Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
   Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal
   Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Special Session Chair
   Jose M. Martinez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Industry Liaisons
   Andreas Hutter, Siemens AG, Germany
   Paulo Villegas, Telefonica I+D, Spain

Technical Program Committee
   Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux I, France
   Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
   Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
   Jesus Bescos, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
   Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany
   Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria
   Christian Breiteneder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   Paulo Lobato Correia, IST, Portugal
   Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA
   Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland
   Horst Eidenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany
   Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
   Christine Guillemot, IRISA/INRIA, France
   Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
   Paola Hobson, Motorola Labs, UK
   Andreas Hutter, Siemens AG, Germany
   Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London, UK
   Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA
   Hyoung Joong Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea
   Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Inst., Greece
   Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria
   Janusz Konrad, Boston University, USA
   Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
   Riccardo Leonardi, University of Brescia, Italy
   Benoit Macq, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
   Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
   Ferran Marques, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
   Jose M. Martinez, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
   Milind Naphade, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
   Jan Nesvadba, Philips Eindhoven, The Netherlands
   Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
   Yong Man Ro, ICU, Korea
   Abdul Hamid Sadka, Brunel University, UK
   Philippe Salembier, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
   Thomas Sikora, Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany
   John R. Smith, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
   Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
   Murat Tekalp, Koc University, Turkey
   Andreas Uhl, University of Salzburg, Austria
   Rik Van de Walle, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium
   Anthony Vetro, MERL Technology Lab, USA