Call for Papers
The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Processing (IMAP)
URL: http://ivpl.ece.northwestern.edu/~zli/new_home/imap08-cfp.html
St. Thomas, US Virgin Island, USA
(in conjunction with IEEE ICCCN 2008 )
 
August 4-7, 2008

Abstract: 
The rapid advances in computing, communication and storage technologies have heralded a new age of explosive growth in multimedia applications, such as online image and video repository, mobile TV and IPTV, video on demand, interactive multimedia game, video blogging, multimedia based social interaction. These applications open up new opportunities and present new challenges to the technologies in the area of multimedia computing architectures, audio/visual information processing, multimedia analysis and understanding, multimedia retrieval and mining, multimedia coding, communication and networking. In recent years, considerable amounts of research activities in both industry and academia have been devoted to these topics and a key piece of puzzle is to develop novel and effective approaches in modeling and analyzing, representing and understanding, encoding and distributing multimedia content, which will be the focus of this workshop.

IMAP will provide an excellent forum for experts around the world to join together and to present their newest research results, exchange latest experiences and insights, and explore future directions in this important and evolving field. It aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. The papers submitted to this workshop should focus on the state-of-the-art research in various important areas related to emerging technologies, standards and applications on analysis, processing, computing, and communication of multimedia information. The interested topics include but are not limited to:

· Multimedia content analysis, representation, and understanding 
· Content, user, computation, and network aware media engineering 
· Multimedia indexing and retrieval 
· Multimedia processing for wireless sensor networks 
· Multimedia data mining and fusing 
· Multimodal signal processing 
· Multimedia summarization and abstraction 
· Emerging multimedia applications 
· Multimedia coding, streaming, and networking 
· Intelligent audio-video surveillance and other security-related applications 
· Content authentication, preservation, and digital rights management 
· Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing 
· Multimedia security 
· Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models

Only original and unpublished paper will be considered. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than six (6) pages in double-column IEEE format including results, figures and references before March 30, 2008. In addition, selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the Springer-Verlag book on Multimedia Analysis, Processing and Communications (MAPC).

Important Dates (tentative):
· Manuscript Submission: March 30, 2008 
· Acceptance Notification: May 11, 2008 
· Camera-Ready Papers Due: June 1, 2008 
· Conference Date:  August 7, 2008

General Chair: 
Weisi Lin,  Nanyang Tech University, Singapore

Technical Program Co-Chairs: 
Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Zhu Li,   Motorola Labs, USA

Special Session Chair: 
Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London, UK          

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Dacheng Tao,  Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China 
Gokce Dane,  Qualcomm, USA

Technical Program Committee:
· Changwen Chen  State University of New York at Buffalo, USA 
· Mary Comer  Purdue University, USA
· Ajay Divakaran Mitsubishi Electronics Research Lab, USA 
· Paola Hobson  Motorola Labs, UK 
· Akira Inoue  NEC Laboratories, Japan 
· Moncef Gabouj  Tampere University of Technology, Finland 
· Ling Guan  Ryerson University, Canada 
· Joemon Jose  University of Glasgow, UK 
· Aggelos Katsaggelos Northwestern University, USA 
· Mark Liao  Academia Sinica, Taiwan 
· Chia-Wen Lin  National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
· Zhu Liu  AT&T Research, USA 
· Zicheng Liu  Microsoft Research, USA 
· Enrico Magli  Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
· Noel O'Connor  Dublin City University, Ireland  
· Fernando Pereira Instituto Superior Tcnico, Portugal, 
· Dan Schonfeld  Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago, USA 
· Nicu Sebe  University of Amsterdam, Netherland 
· Thomas Sikora  Technical Unversity Berlin, Germany 
· Eckehard Steinbach Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany 
· Yap-Peng Tan  Nanyang Tech University, Singapore 
· Lexing Xie  IBM Research, USA 
· Suicheng Yan  University of Illinois at Ubana-Champaign, USA