|  | The  First International Conference on Advances in Multimedia MMEDIA 2009  July 20-25, 2009 - Colmar, France | 
     
     
       
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               | Submission (full paper) | Feb 20February 27, 2009 |  
               | Notification | March 25March 30, 2009 |  
               | Registration | April 15, 2009 |  
               | Camera ready | April 20, 2009 |  | Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal
 Publisher: IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services
 Posted: IEEE Digital Library
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     All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.
     Tracks:
     Fundamentals in multimedia
     
        Multimedia  systems, architecture, and applications; 
         New  multimedia platforms; 
         Multimedia  architectural specification languages; 
         Theoretical  aspects and algorithms for multimedia; 
         Multimedia  content delivery networks; 
         Network support for  multimedia data; 
         Multimedia data  storage; 
         Multimedia  meta-modeling techniques and operating systems; 
         Multimedia  signal coding and processing (audio, video, image); 
         Multimedia  applications (telepresence, triple-play, quadruple-play, …); 
         Multimedia tools (authoring,  analyzing, editing, browsing, …); 
         Computational  multimedia intelligence (fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, …); 
         Intelligent  agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis; 
         Multimedia  networking; 
         Wired  and wireless multimedia systems; 
         Distributed  multimedia systems; 
         Multisensor data integration and fusion; 
         Multimedia and P2P; 
         Multimedia standards
     
     Multimedia content  and modeling
     
        Interfaces for  multimedia creation; 
         Multimedia streaming  and services; 
         Image modeling and editing; 
         Audio modeling and transformation; 
         Video modeling and transformation; 
         Image recognition; Multimedia databases; 
         Multimedia coding and  encryption; 
         Multimedia modeling  for learning content; 
         Multimedia  description languages; 
         Image clustering; 
         Media fusion for  communication and presentation
     
     Multimedia  content-based retrieval and analysis
     
        Multimodal data  analysis; 
         Multimedia databases; 
         Semi-automatic and automatic methods for multimedia annotation; 
         Image/video/audio  databases; 
         Content-based image  retrieval; 
         Semantics-based search and integration of multimedia and digital content; 
         Multimedia data modeling,  indexing, and mining; 
         Statistical modeling  of multimedia data; 
         Multimedia extraction and annotation; 
         Content  search/browsing/retrieval; 
         Internet imaging and  multimedia; 
         Multimodal content  analysis; 
         Multimedia  abstraction and summarization; 
         Semantic analysis of  multimedia data; 
         Media assimilation  and fusion
     
     Perception  and cognition for multimedia users
     
        Quality  of experience; 
         Relevance feedback; 
         Human-computer  interaction; 
         Multimodal  interaction; 
         Multimodal  user interfaces; 
         Mobile user-centered interfaces; 
         Peer-to-peer  multimedia systems and streaming; 
         Pervasive  and interactive multimedia systems (digital TV, mobile systems, gaming,…); 
         Multimedia  in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks; 
         Visualization  and virtual reality; 
         Intelligent browsing and visualization; 
         Perception and cognition; 
         Perception and  modeling of the environment; 
         Multimedia  collaboration; 
         Social networking 
     
     Multimedia ontology
     
        Multimedia semantics; 
         Emergent semantics; 
         Media ontology learning; 
         Ontology  for media web mining; 
         Multimedia ontologies; 
         Multimedia information management; 
         Approaches using metadata standards; 
         Conceptual clustering; 
         Modeling and recognition of visual objects and actions 
     
     Mobile and ubiquitous  multimedia
     
        Architectures,  protocols, and algorithms for multimedia mobility; 
         Middleware and  distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia; 
         Mobile and ubiquitous  multimedia in intelligent transportation systems; 
         Enabling platforms  for mobile multimedia; 
         Roaming and limited  bandwidth; 
         Intermittent  connectivity; 
         Streaming mobile  multimedia; 
         Mobile multimedia  software architectures; 
         Mobile multimedia  applications and services; 
         Communication and cooperation  via mobile multimedia; Business models for mobile  multimedia; 
         Provisioning of  mobile multimedia services; 
         Context-aware mobile  and ubiquitous multimedia; 
         Mobile computer  graphics, games and entertainment; 
         Mobile and ubiquitous  multimedia in ad hoc networks; 
         Personalization,  privacy and security in mobile multimedia; 
         Social and regulatory  aspects of mobile multimedia; Multimedia in the Extended Home; Ubiquitous/Seamless content sharing
       
     
     Multimedia  services
     
        Reliability,  availability, serviceability of multimedia services; 
         Multimedia  content distribution services; 
         Real-time multimedia services; 
         Audio-visual multimedia services; 
         Multimedia signal  processing and communications; 
         Media representation  and algorithms; 
         Audio, image, video  processing, coding and compression; 
         Multimedia database,  content delivery and transport; 
         Multimedia service protocols; 
         Mobility  of multimedia services; 
         Internet  telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems; 
         Media  enabled eCommerce service; 
         Case studies, field  trials and evaluation of new multimedia services
     
     Multimedia  applications
     
        Real-time interactive  multimedia applications 
         Adaptive and context-aware  multimedia applications; 
         Ambiance multimedia applications; 
         Media applications on mobile devices; 
         Multi-modal interaction; 
         Virtual environments; 
         Personalization; 
         Collaboration, contextual  metadata, collaborative tagging; 
         Web applications; 
         Multimedia authoring; 
         Multimedia-enabled  new applications (eLearning, entertainment,…..); 
         Cooperative  networks and applications; 
         Mobile multimedia  applications & services; 
         Semantic metadata for mobile applications; 
         Semantics enabled multimedia applications; 
         Semantics enabled networks and middleware for multimedia applications; 
         Wireless  ad-hoc and sensor networks/RFID applications 
         Industrial use-cases and applications 
     
     Multimedia  security and content protection
     
        Multimedia  security (watermark, encryption,… ); 
         Mobile  multimedia systems and services; 
         Security,  privacy, and cryptographic protocols; 
         Network security issues and protocols; 
         Key management and authentication; 
         Authentication and access control; 
         Intrusion detection and prevention; 
         Content protection and digital rights management; 
         Trusted computing; 
         Information hiding; Protection of user-generated content
     
     Multimedia  control and management
     
        Wireless and mobile  multimedia network management; 
         Multimedia  measurement, control, and management; 
         Content management  and delivery; 
         IP  multimedia system operations and management; 
         Managing  the quality of experience and quality of service; 
         Measuring  the quality of performance in multimedia systems; 
         Mobile multimedia  network traffic engineering and optimization; 
         Monitoring  and managing mobile multimedia; 
         Resource  reservation for multimedia services; 
         Multicast  and broadcast multimedia service management; 
         Management  of service oriented architectures; 
         Pricing,  accounting and billing for multimedia services