Welcome to the October’14 edition of the IEEE-TCMC (Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing) monthly mailing.
This month’s topics include:
Elsevier Image and Vision Computing (IVC) SI CFP
November Bay Area Multimedia Forum
IEEE Conf. on Semantic Computing submission DL approaching
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CFP: Elsevier Image and Vision Computing (IVC) Special Issue on
Event-based Media Processing and Analysis
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Elsevier Image and Vision Computing
SI on Event-based Media Processing and Analysis
Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2015
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/image-and-vision-computing/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-event-based-media-processing-and-analysis/
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People collect dozens of photos and video clips with their smartphones,
tablets, cameras, and such information is exchanged in a number of
different ways. The growing number of sensors for capturing environmental
conditions in the moment of content creation enriches data with
context-awareness that allows capturing experiences and events of
interest from a very rich personal perspective. This unveils an enormous
potential for event-centred data analysis. The key idea is to use events
as primary means for understanding, organizing and index content
(e.g., photos, videos, news). Events have the ability to semantically
encode relationships of different informational modalities. These
modalities can include, but are not limited to: time, space, involved
agents and objects, with the spatio-temporal component of events being
a key feature for contextual analysis.
A variety of techniques have recently been presented to leverage
contextual information for event-based analysis. Content-based only
approaches have exhibited several limitations in the field of event
analysis, especially for the event detection task. However, vision-based
media analysis is important for object detection and recognition and
can therefore play a significant role, which is complementary to that
of event-driven context recognition.
The aim of this special issue is soliciting novel contributions in
various aspects of event-based processing and analysis, with an emphasis
on vision-based approaches taking also into account additional
event-related contextual information. The convergence of aforementioned
event analysis components, wrapped by appropriate state of the art
human-computer interaction (HCI) technology can result to innovative
applications useful in various sectors.
Both theoretical contributions and interesting applications validated
on large-scale datasets are welcome. For the proposed methodologies,
the authors are encouraged to provide quantitative comparison and
performance evaluation.
Topics
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The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:
Methodology:
– Low-level activity and event detection from multimedia content;
– Semantic event representations;
– Event modelling and representation;
– Event processing and aggregation;
– Understanding scene and objects’ role in events;
– Understanding human interaction in events;
– Semantic content and context analysis for the detection and
recognition of events within multimedia streams;
– HCI techniques for event detection, recognition and exploitation;
– Multiple views and multiple user event analysis;
– RGBD-based event analysis;
– Synchronization of event media;
– Large-scale visual analysis for social media event detection.
Applications:
– Interactive event-based applications and tools;
– (Collaborative) authoring of events;
– Events in mobile computing and ubiquitous computing;
– Applications that show benefits of using events in practical settings;
– User experience, requirements, use cases, and evaluations of event-based applications.
Reviewing process
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Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation,
relevance and contribution to the field, as well as their suitability
to this special issue, and for their overall quality. The submitted
papers must be written in excellent English and describe original
research which has not been published nor currently under review by
other journals or conferences. Previously published conference papers
should be clearly identified by the authors (at the submission stage)
and an explanation should be provided how such papers have been extended
to be considered for this special issue. Papers that either lack
originality, clarity in presentation or fall outside the scope of the
special issue will not be sent for review and the authors will be promptly
informed in such cases. To encourage reproducible research, preference
will be given to submissions accompanied by software that generates the
results claimed in the manuscript.
**Important dates
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Paper Submission: January 15, 2015
First Round Decisions: April 15, 2015
Revisions Deadline: June 30, 2015
Final Round Decisions: September 30, 2015
Online Publication: November 2015
**Submission Guideline
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All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted
through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select
“SI: Event-based Media Proc” when specifying the “Article Type”
in the submission process. The EES website is located at:
http://ees.elsevier.com/imavis/.
The guide for Authors can be found on the journal homepage
(http://www.elsevier.com/journals/image-and-vision-computing/0262-8856/guide-for-authors).
Guest editors
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Bogdan Ionescu, University Politehnica of Bucharest,
Romania (bionescu@alpha.imag.pub.ro)
Giulia Boato, University of Trento, Italy
(boato@disi.unitn.it)
Zhigang Ma, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
(kevinma@cs.cmu.edu)
Yiannis Kompatsiaris,
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece (ikom@iti.gr)
Nicu Sebe, University of Trento, Italy
(sebe@disi.unitn.it)
Shuicheng Yan, National University of Singapore
(eleyans@nus.edu.sg)
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BAY AREA MULTIMEDIA FORUM (BAMMF)
Location: George E. Pake Auditorium, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Time: Nov. 20th, Thursday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
http://www.bammf.org/upcomingEvent
Speakers for the November meeting are as follows:
Li DENG (Deep Learning Technology Center, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA)
Title: Industrial Impact of Deep Learning – From Speech Recognition to Language and Multimodal Processing
Ronan Collobert (Facebook)
Title: Applied Deep Learning
Yangqing Jia (Google)
Title: Brewing a Deeper Understanding of Images
Richard Socher (Stanford)
Title: Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Compositional and Grounded Meaning
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News:
October 31st, 2014 (midnight, PST): Regular/Short/Poster/Demo Paper Submission (Extended)
October 31st, 2014 (midnight, PST): Industry Paper Submission (Extended)
Ninth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
February 9-11, 2015
Anhheim Marriott
Anaheim, California, USA
http://www.ieee-icsc.org/
Semantic Computing (SC) is Computing based on Semantics (“meaning”,
“context”, “intention”). It addresses all types of resource including data,
document, tool, device, process and people. The scope of SC includes
analytics, semantics description languages and integration, interfaces,
and its applications in biomed, IoT, cloud computing, SDN, wearable
computing, context awareness, mobile computing, search engines, question
answering, big data, multimedia, services, etc.
The technical program of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on
Semantic Computing (ICSC 2015) will include workshops, invited keynotes,
paper presentations, panel discussions, demonstrations, and more.
Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or
ongoing work are invited.
SUBMISSIONS
Regular Papers, Short Papers, and Industry Papers
Authors are invited to submit an 8-page (regular), 4-page (short), or
6-page (industry) technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE
format following the guidelines available on the ICSC20105 web page.
Demonstration Papers and Posters
Authors are invited to submit an 2-page (demonstration or poster)
technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format following
the guidelines available on the ICSC2015 web page.
Workshops Proposals
The organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be held
in conjunction with the conference. These will focus on specific
topics of the main conference. More information is available on the
ICSC2015 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by
IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented
at the conference will be selected for publication in
internationally renowned journals.
AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to):
Analytics (from contents to semantics):
Natural language processing
Image and video analysis
Audio, music and speech analysis
Structured data
Description and Integration:
Semantics description languages
Ontology integration
Interoperability
Semantic Interfaces:
Natural
Multimodal
Use of Semantics in IT:
Multimedia
IoT
Big data
Deep learning
Cloud computing
SDN
Wearable computing
Mobile computing
Search engines
Question answering
Web services
Security and privacy
Use of Semantics in Interdisciplinary Applications:
Biomedicine
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Engineering
Education
Finance
Entertainment
Business
Science
Humanity
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