The 19th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2017)
December 11-13, 2017
Taichung, Taiwan
Call for Papers
(CFP available for download here)
Research in multimedia computing is generally concerned with presentation, integration and computation of one or more media, such as text, image, graphics, audio, video, social data, and data collected from various sensors, etc., using computing techniques. The 19th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2017) is the flagship conference of IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia (TCMC) and an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing.
The technical program of ISM2017 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Submissions are solicited for full papers and workshop papers. Topics for submission include but are not limited to:
Systems and Architectures
- Mobile multimedia systems and services
- Pervasive and interactive media systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV
- Multimedia data in the Cloud
- GPU-based multimedia architectures and systems
- Software development framework using multimedia techniques
Communications and Streaming
- Multimedia networking and QoS
- Mobile audio/video streaming
- Wireless broadcasting and streaming
- Scalable streaming
- Peer-to-peer media systems and streaming
- Sensor networks
- Internet telephony technologies and systems
- Video teleconferencing
Multimedia Interfaces
- Information visualization and interactive systems
- Multimodal user interfaces: design, engineering, modality-abstractions, etc.
- Tools for media authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, and navigation
- Intelligent agents for content creation, distribution, and analysis
- Novel interfaces for multimedia: touch, tangible, wearable, virtual, 3D, etc.
- User interfaces for mobile devices
Media Coding, Processing, and Quality Measurement
- Signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding
- Coding standards
- Scalable and Multi-view coding
- Multi-resolution or super-resolution algorithms
- Maintenance of perceptual quality with further compression
- Developing novel quality measures
Multimedia Security and Forensics
- Data security including digital watermarks and encryption
- Copyright issues for multimedia data
- Surveillance and monitoring methods
- Face detection and recognition algorithms
- Human behavior analysis from motion images/videos
- Multimedia-based computer forensics (e.g., crime scene investigation, user profiling)
- Multimedia Captchas, including attacks and counter-attacks
- On forensic use of biometrics
- Data hiding, stenography, and steganalysis
- Trust and privacy issues in media systems
Content Understanding, Modeling, Management, and Retrieval
- Media meta-modeling techniques
- Storage systems, databases, and retrieval
- Data segmentation
- Image, audio, video, genre clustering & classification
- Video summarization and story generation
- Speaker identification, recognition, and location
- Object, event, emotion, text detection and recognition
- Mosaic, video panorama and background generation
- Media semantics, ontologies, annotation, concept detection and learning
- Personalization and user preferences
- 3D and depth information
Mobile Media
- Mobile and location-based media techniques
- Mobile visual search
- Social networks for mobile users
- Augmented reality for mobile users
- Content delivery in mobile networks (e.g., 3G, 4G and future 5G)
- Mobile applications
Applications
- Big data
- 3D data: graphics, displays, sound, broadcasting, interfaces
- Media composition and production: capture, authoring, digital art, animations, etc.
- Gaming
- Virtual and augmented reality
- Robotics
- Media interfaces for the Web
- Media in social network analysis
- Rich media enabled E-commerce and E-shopping
- Media systems for handicapped
- Collaborative systems
- Interdisciplinary media applications: Bioinformatics, Transportation systems, Wild-life monitoring and analysis, etc.
- Deep learning of multimedia data
Important Dates
Workshop Proposals | April 21, 2017 |
Workshop Notification | May 1, 2017 |
Panel Proposals | June 10, 2017 |
Paper/Demo Submission | July 15, 2017 |
Paper/Demo/Panel Notification | August 25, 2017 |
Camera-ready/Registration | September 15, 2017 |
Symposium | December 11-13, 2017 |
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
- Dick C.A. Bulterman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Phillip C.-Y. Sheu, University of California at Irvine, USA
- Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, Asia University, Taiwan
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
- Han C.W. Hsiao, Asia University, Taiwan
- Wolfgang Huerst, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Jianquan Liu, NEC, Japan
- Robert Mertens, HSW University of Applied Sciences, Hamelin, Germany
INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
- David Gonzalez-Aguirre, Intel, USA
- Ilija Hadzic, Nokia, USA
- Viswanathan Swaminathan, Adobe Systems, USA
- Xiaoqing Zhu, Cisco, USA
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
- Pao-Chi Chang, National Central University, Taiwan
- Rodrigo da Silva Ferreira, IBM Research, Brazil
- Mustafa Sert, Başkent University, Turkey
- Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Kyoungro Yoon, Konkuk University, Korea
- Guigang Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
BEST PAPER AWARD CO-CHAIRS Gerald Friedland, ICSI, Berkeley, USA Max Muehlhaeuser, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
- Gerald Friedland, ICSI, Berkeley, USA
- Max Muehlhaeuser, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
PANEL CHAIR
- Yang Lei, HP Labs, USA
- Yago Sánchez de la Fuente, Fraunhofer-HHI, Germany
DEMO CO-CHAIRS Ramazan Savas Aygun,
- Ramazan Savas Aygun, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
- Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
- Ivan Bajic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Marco Bertini, Università di Firenze, Italy
- Håkan Grahn, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Rodrigo Laiola Guimaraes, IBM Research, Brazil
- Norio Katayama, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Robert Skupin, Fraunhofer-HHI, Germany
- Minseok Song, Inha University, Korea
FINANCE CHAIR
- Rong-Ming Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan
REGISTRATION CHAIR
- Wen-Thong Chang, Asia University, Taiwan
LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
- Anthony Y.H. Liao, Asia University, Taiwan
WEB CHAIR
- Chun-Ming Chang, Asia University, Taiwan