CFP "Real-life Events in Multimedia: Detection, Representation, Retrieval, and Applications" |
30 June 2011 |
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 We invite the submission of previously unpublished manuscripts describing original work in these and related areas, as detailed below.
TopicsTopics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: 1. Event Detection and Processing in Multimedia Data
2. Event Representation and Event Models
3. Events in the Context of Web 2.0
4. Architectures for Event Management
5. Applications and Tools
Important Dates
Paper Submission, Review, and PublicationSubmissions 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
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