Special Sessions
WIAMIS2010 includes the following special sessions:
- Semantic Digital Libraries for Cross-Discipline Retrieval
- Interactive Multimedia in Social Networks
Important dates
- Deadline for Full Papers: December 9th, 2009
- Notification of Acceptance: February 5th, 2010
- Camera ready Papers due: February 15th, 2010
Paper Submission
The authors that are interested to submit their work to a specific special session are invited to:
1) Submit the paper through the EasyChair conference system at the following address:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wiamis2010
2) Send an e-mail to the general WIAMIS2010 e-mail contact and to the Special Session Chair prof. Jian Zhang indicating the title of the submitted paper and the title of the target special session, using the following link:
submission to special session 1
submission to special session 2
Call for papers
The pdf version of the complete special session calls for paper can be found at the following links:
Download the Special Session 1 call for paper
Download the Special Session 2 call for paper
SS1: Semantic Digital Libraries for Cross-Discipline Retrieval
The Special Session on "Semantic Digital Libraries for Cross-Discipline Retrieval" aims at discussing the current bottlenecks and out-of-the-box ideas in the field of Multimedia Information Retrieval. Although, recent developments in multimedia analysis have resulted in a variety of tools for knowledge extraction from a particular content domain the topic of cross-discipline analysis has been relatively unexplored. Hence there is an emerging interest to exploit the technological developments in media analysis in research communitiesÕ alien to computing such historical study of science and technology. The special session provides an ideal opportunity for researchers tired of "yet another incremental paper in the field" to illustrate novel techniques inspired on approaches from other fields of science or disciplines which may appear alien to signal processing and computer vision technologies.
Topic of interest (but not limited to):
- Evolutionary computation for semantic multimedia analysis
- Content Grammars and context for video annotation
- Ontology Modelling and Mapping for Cross Ð Discipline Retrieval
- Contextualised query interpretation
- Psychological aspects of user relevance feedback
- Crowdsourcing and human computation
- Complementary resource analysis for cross-discipline knowledge extraction
Contact Information of the Special Session Chair
Prof. Ebroul Izquierdo,
Multimedia and Vision Research Group,
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering,
Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7882 5354
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7882 7997
Email: ebroul.izquierdo@elec.qmul.ac.uk
Program Committee of the Special Session
Dr. Krishna Chandramouli, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Dr. Nikos Sarris, Athens Technology Center, Greece
Dr. Roberta Turra, CINECA Consortio Interuniversitario, Italy
Dr. Aristotelis Tympas, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
SS2: Interactive Multimedia in Social Networks
The emerging social networking techniques have introduced enormous impact on nowadays network interactions. At the same time, promising methods have been employed to effectively integrate context and content for multimedia mining, management, indexing, retrieval and video coding in social networks. In addition, increasing service requirements by multimedia consumers inspire rapid developments on interactive interface design and adaptive visualisation. With these developments, extensive research has been carried out on multimedia content production and sharing in P2P/social networks. The aim of this special session is to present the most recent technological and scientific achievements in this scope, in order to analyse the potential of the new technologies in networked media associated with social networking.
Topic of interest (but not limited to):
- P2P social networking techniques
- Interactive multimedia search in network communities
- Human interaction modelling from multimedia
- Personalization for search and for social interaction
- Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
- Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
- Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
- Multi-agent based social network modelling and analysis
- Multimedia search & browsing
- Multimedia applications (e.g. P2P applications; Multimedia broadcasting; Social collections & networking; Lifelogging)
Contact Information of the Special Session Chair
Dr Naeem Ramzan,
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science,
Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7882 7880
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7882 7997
Email: naeem.ramzan@elec.qmul.ac.uk
Program Committee of the Special Session
Dr. Marie Andree Agostini, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Prof. Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Dr. Qianni Zhang, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

