The 14th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2012)

Hyatt Regency Irvine, Irvine, California USA

December 10-12, 2012

http://ism.eecs.uci.edu/

The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2012) is 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 ISM2012 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Submissions are solicited for full papers, short papers, workshop papers, technical demos, and panels.

Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

• Multimedia Systems and Architectures
  Architecture and applications
  GPU-based architectures and systems
  Mobile multimedia systems and services
  Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV
  Multimedia/high definition display systems
  Multimedia in the Cloud
  Software development using multimedia techniques
• Multimedia Communications and Streaming
  Multimedia networking and QoS
  Multimedia synchronization
  HD video streaming
  Mobile audio/video streaming
  Wireless broadcasting and streaming
  Scalable streaming
  Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
  Multimedia sensor networks
  Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems
  Video teleconferencing
  Popularity algorithms
• Multimedia Content Understanding, Modeling, Management, and Retrieval
  Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems
  Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms
  Multimedia storage/archive systems, databases, and retrieval
  Multimedia data segmentation (shot detection, shot segmentation)
  Multimedia/video/audio segmentation using aural, visual, and textual features
  Image, audio, video, genre clustering & classification
  Video summarization and story generation
  Multimedia content organization
  Animation modeling and management
  Speaker identification, recognition, and location
  Object, event, emotion, text detection and recognition
  Mosaic, video panorama and background generation
  Indexing and retrieval of multimedia data and TV programs
  Extraction of novel features from specific media
  Use of sensors for content understanding
  Multimedia semantics, ontologies, annotation, concept detection and learning
  Personalization and user preferences
• Multimedia Coding, Processing, and Quality Measurement
  Multimedia signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding
  Multimedia Coding Standards
  Audio, video, and image compression algorithms and performance
  Scalable coding
  Multi-view coding
  3D/multi-view synthesis, rendering
  Animation coding
  Noise removal techniques from multimedia
  Multi-resolution or super-resolution algorithms
  Maintenance of perceptual quality with further compression
  Developing novel quality measures
• Multimedia Interfaces
  Multimedia information visualization and interactive systems
  Multimodal interaction, including human factors
  Multimodal user interfaces: design, engineering, modality-abstractions, etc.
  Multimedia tools for authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, and navigation
  Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis
  Novel interfaces for multimedia: touch, tangible, wearable, virtual, 3D, etc.
  Multimedia user interfaces for mobile devices
• Multimedia Security
  Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption
  Copyright issues for multimedia data
  Multimedia for surveillance and monitoring
  Face detection and recognition algorithms
  Human behavior analysis
  Multimedia forensics
• Multimedia Applications
  3D multimedia: graphics, displays, sound, broadcasting, interfaces
  Multimedia composition and production: capture, authoring, digital art, animations
  Multimedia gaming
  Virtual and augmented reality
  Motion capture for multimedia systems
  Applications for mobile systems
  Multimedia interfaces for the web
  Multimedia in social network analysis: YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc.
  E-learning and distance education
  Rich media enabled E-commerce and E-shopping
  Multimedia systems for handicapped (e.g., sign language, navigation assistance)
  Terrain data coding, management, and visualization
  Multimedia systems for wild-life monitoring and analysis
  Analyzing multimedia data for bioinformatics
  Control systems based on multimedia
  Collaborative systems
  Multimedia in robotics

Important Dates

Conference Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs

• Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Phillip Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA

Program Co-Chairs

• Ramazan Savas Aygun, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
• Robert Mertens, HSW University of Applied Sciences, Hamelin, Germany
• Atsuo Yoshitaka, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Workshop Co-Chairs

• Lars Knipping, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
• Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA
• Harald Sack, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
• Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
• Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore

PhD Workshop Co-Chairs

• M. EmreCelebi, Lousiana State University in Shreveport, USA
• Mutlu Mete, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA

Industrial Program Co-Chairs

• Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm, USA
• Minwoo Park, Eastman Kodak Company, USA
• Haohong Wang, TCL Research America, USA

Best Paper Award Committee Co-Chairs

• Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA

Demo Co-Chairs

• Markus Ketterl，Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
• Lin Lin, American National Standards Institute, USA
• Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas

Panel Co-Chairs

• Gerald Friedland, International Computer Science Institute, USA
• Alexander C. Loui, Eastman Kodak Company, USA

Finance Chair

• George Wang, California State University Northridge, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs

• Wei-Bang Chen, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
• Wolfgang Hürst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Klaus Schoeffmann, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
• Keiji Yanai, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Publication Chair

• Anthony Y.H. Liao, Asia University, Taiwan

Local Arrangement Chair

• George Wang, California State University Northridge, USA

Registration Co-Chairs

• Ke Hao, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Shao-Ting Wang, University of California, Irvine, USA

Web Chair

• Ke Hao, University of California, Irvine, USA

IEEE/CS TCMC Chair

• Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

Steering Committee Chair

• Jeffrey Tsai, Asia University, Taiwan