Call for Paper: Special Issue on ?Real-life Events in Multimedia: Detection, Representation, Retrieval, and Applications? of the Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) Journal, Springer.

Special Issue Description

Real-life events are ubiquitous in multimedia. We find them in the multimedia content we all have created and shared or simply have encountered on the Web. For example, images of a concert we recently attended, an interesting location we visited during an overseas trip a long time ago, amateur video footage of a friend’s wedding, official footage of an important game of our favourite football team, or eye- witness descriptions and infrared satellite images of a devastating tornado that made it to the headlines. All this content comes in different types of media (images, videos, text, etc.) using different modalities and was created by different devices under different conditions and with radically different usage in mind.

What is common though for all these media items is that they all have captured and convey information about a real-life event. Efficiently and effectively understanding these underlying, heterogeneous real-life events from the multimedia content and using them in order to better organize, share, retrieve and consume the content in any possible way, represents a significant challenge in today’s connected world.

This special issue focuses on methods for the event-based processing and organization of multimedia content, with particular emphasis on the detection of real-live events in multimedia, the modeling of such real-life events, the sharing and the event-based retrieval of content, and other novel applications that jointly consider multimedia content and the real-life events that this content represents. We invite the submission of previously unpublished manuscripts describing original work in these and related areas, as detailed below.

Topics

Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

1. Event Detection and Processing in Multimedia Data

Event clustering towards domain-level events
Recognition of events from large scale, unreliable and/or noisy media data and media streams
Combining low-level events with domain-level events
Complex-event processing
Event-stream processing

2. Event Representation and Event Models

Modeling of events on domain-level
Ontology-based representation of events
Languages for events
Formal modeling of events, activities, accomplishments, achievements, context, etc.
Reasoning with events under consideration of causality, uncertainty, similarity, etc.
Semantic description and annotation for events and event sources

3. Events in the Context of Web 2.0

Collaborative event creation and sharing
Events in social networks
Event syndication (e.g., RSS) and attention management

4. Architectures for Event Management

Middleware solutions for event management
Event-driven architectures
Experimental methodologies
Domain-specific solutions for event management, such as for emergency response

5. Applications and Tools

Event-based applications and tools, including event-based retrieval of multimedia
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

Important Dates

Submission of papers: 30 June, 2011
Acceptance/Revision notification: 30 September 2011
Revised manuscript due: 15 November 2011
Final acceptance notification: 15 January 2012
Final manuscript due: 15 February 2012
Tentative publication: May 2012

Paper Submission, Review, and Publication

Submissions for this special issue must follow the standard style guidelines of the Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal. Submissions are made throughhttp://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/

In submitting a manuscript to this special issue, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

Guest Editors

Dr. Ansgar Scherp, University of Koblenz-Landau, GermanyProf. Ramesh Jain, University of California at Irvine (UCI), USA
Dr. Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Greece
Prof. Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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