Dear All,
Please forward the following call for papers to any potential
contributor(s).
Many thanks,
R. Johnson
************* APOLOGIES FOR UNAVOIDABLE CROSS POSTINGS **************
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEE COLLOQUIUM
MULTIMEDIA DATABASES AND MPEG-7
January 29, 1999
IEE Savoy Place
London
U.K.
Various Multimedia databases have emerged as a result of the overwhelming
amount of easily accessible data, increase in computational power,
affordable storage and fast networks. Current distributed environments
have given rise to management, browsing, navigation and querying issues
relating to these databases. Various standards have also been promoted for
dealing with some of the key issues, such as representation and heterogenous
applications of multimedia databases. However, the limitations and
co-existence of standards, mobility of databases and the advancement of
browsing techniques to suit multimedia databases have to be addressed.
New challenges have emerged in the areas of indexing and retrieval of
multimedia information in large archives. For text information, powerful
search engines are available to easily locate documents of interest. A
similar searching approach is desirable for multimedia data consisting of
still pictures, graphics, 3D models, audio, speech and video. The use of
image processing techniques are currently being investigated for content
description and searching.
Metadata can be associated with the multimedia data to provide descriptor
information for processing by search engines. This descriptor information
can be derived using manual, semi-automatic or fully automatic means and
describes the multimedia data at a variety of abstraction levels. The MPEG-7
standard aims to specify a set of descriptors and a description definition
language to describe various types of multimedia data. The immediate
benefit of MPEG-7 will be that proprietary multimedia databases, metadata
extraction tools and search engines can share a standard description
format.
This call for papers invites contributions from research and industry on
topics not limited to the following:-
* Multimedia databases
* Image Processing for Relational and Object-oriented databases
* Distributed/Hypertext/Hypermedia databases
* Interoperability of databases
* Database mobility
* Indexing schemes for multimedia databases
* Content analysis algorithms
* Manual, semi-automatic and fully-automatic extraction methods
* MPEG-7 study proposals
* Standards' use - SQL, ODBC, OLE, DDE, XML, CORBA, etc.
High quality papers will be considered for a Special Issue of Electronic
and Communication Engineering Journal. There will be scope for poster
sessions and demonstrations.
Authors wishing to submit a paper should send an extended abstract of
maximum two A4 pages of text, excluding diagrams, on or before
FRIDAY, 9 OCTOBER to one of the following:
Dr Ransford B. Johnson Mr John Stone
Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Broadcast & Professional R&D
Engineering Sony Broadcast & Professional Europe
Merchant Venturers Building Jays Close
Woodland Road Viables
Clifton Basingstoke
Bristol BS8 1US Hampshire RG22 4SB
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