Welcome to August’s edition of the IEEE-TCMC (Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing) monthly mailing.
This month’s topics include:
Industry notes
IJMDEM CFP
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Industry Events
IFA 2013
September 6 – 11, 2013
ExpoCenter City
Berlin, Germany
http://b2b.ifa-berlin.com/en/Home.html
IFA is one of the largest consumer electronics trade shows in the world. At this year’s event expect to find presentations, announcements, and product releases in areas like: ultra HD displays, smart TVs, smart phones, tablets, networked appliances, social media, digital ecosystems, energy efficiency, and others.
Intel Development Forum (IDF) September 10 – 12, 2013 Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intel-developer-forum-idf/san-francisco/2013/idf-2013-san-francisco.html
Many of the IDF technical lectures and lab sessions will cover recent software and hardware advances in multimedia computing. There are for example lectures on video communications, video transcoding, dual-screen applications, and several others. The complete catalog of lectures and lab sessions can be found at:
IBC 2013
September 12 – 17, 2013
RAI Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.ibc.org/page.cfm/NewSection=Yes/GoSection=0
IBC is one of the largest venues in Europe for technologists and strategists in the media and entertainment industries. This year’s program includes sessions with imaginative topics such as “Personalized TV and the Cloud”, “Beyond HD: Beyond Belief, Beyond Doubt, Beyond Price?”, and “Second Screen and Social Innovations.” The complete conference program is available from:
http://www.ibc.org/files/ibc1219_conference_brochure_v12.pdf
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CFP
International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM)
http://www.igi-global.com/ijmdem
Editor-in-Chief: Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
CALL FOR PAPERS
MISSION OF IJMDEM:
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM). The primary objective IJMDEM is to promote and advance multimedia research from different aspects in multimedia data engineering and management. It provides a forum for university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers and graduate students who need to be become acquainted with new theories, algorithms, and technologies in multimedia engineering, and to all those who wish to gain a detailed technical understanding of what multimedia engineering involves. Novel and fundamental theories, algorithms, technologies, and applications will be published to support this mission.
COVERAGE OF IJMDEM:
Among topics to be included (but not limited) are the following:
– content-based retrieval (image, video, audio, etc.)
– multimodal data analysis – relevance feedback
– multimedia databases – image/video/audio databases
– multimedia data mining
– learning support for multimedia data
– multimedia data engineering
– multimedia data modeling
– multimedia data indexing
– multimedia data storage
– security support for multimedia data
– new standards
– network support for multimedia data
– multimedia systems
– technologies and applications
SUBMITTING TO IJMDEM:
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal and/or ad-hoc reviewers for a peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be submitted via email to chens@cs.fiu.edu.
All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management
E-mail: chens@cs.fiu.edu
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