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13th Int. Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive
Services (WIAMIS 2012)
23-25 May 2012
Dublin City University, Ireland
http://wiamis.dcu.ie
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We are pleased to annouce the following exciting updates for WIAMIS 2012:
WIAMIS 2012 is Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing
Society. All accepted and registered papers will be published in the
workshop proceedings which will be indexed and distributed by
IEEExplore.
Keynote speakers
- Dr. Aljoscha Smolic, Disney Research Zurich, "Content Creation for
Stereoscopic 3D and Beyond"
- Prof. Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Signapore, "Learning the
Social Pulse of a City from User-generated Content" (Title TBC)
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The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia
Interactive Services is one of the main international events for the
presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in
interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to
bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry
working in the areas of image, video and audio applications, with a
special focus on analysis. After a series of successful meetings
starting in 1997 in Louvain, WIAMIS 2012 will be held in Dublin City
University, Ireland.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- 3D data processing and visualization;
- Multimedia content analysis and understanding;
- Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio;
- Content-based copy detection;
- Emotional based content classification and organization;
- 2D/3D feature extraction;
- Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for multimedia;
- Segmentation and reconstruction of objects in 2D/3D image sequences;
- Motion analysis and tracking;
- Multi-modal analysis for event recognition;
- Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience;
- Analysis and tools for content adaptation;
- Content summarization and personalization strategies;
- End-to-end quality of service support;
- Multimedia analysis for new and emerging applications;
- Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware;
- Semantic web and social networks;
- Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback;
- Video/audio-based human behavior analysis;
- Advanced multimedia applications.
Important Dates
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Paper submission: 3rd Feb 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 30th Mar 2012
Camera ready version due: 13th Apr 2012
Paper Submissions
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas
listed above. All papers must be written in English, and the length
should not exceed 4 pages in IEEE double column, single space format
(including figures and tables). All submissions will be peer reviewed
by at least three members of the technical program committee. Papers
(in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the web-based
Easy chair submission system . Instructions for preparingand
submitting the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available
at the following web page: wiamis.dcu.ie/instructions.php
General Chair
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Noel O'Connor, CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin
City University, Ireland
Program Chairs
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Petros Daras, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for
Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico - Instituto de
Telecomunicações, Portugal
Special Session Chair
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Peter Eisert, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications / HHI
Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany
Practitioner/industry Liaison
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Jan Bouwen, Alcatel-Lucent Bell N.V., Belgium
Local Organisation Chair
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Philip Kelly, CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City
University, Ireland
US Liaison
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Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern Uni., USA
Asian Liaison
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Hyoung Joong Kim, Korea University, Korea
European Commission Liaison
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Theodore Zahariadis, Synelixis Solutions Ltd, Greece
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