CFP: Special Issue on Multimedia Data Semantics, Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP)

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS
           Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer)
           Special Issue on "Multimedia Data Semantics"
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Guest Editors:
   Dr. Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
   Dr. Yu Cao, California State University, Fresno
   Dr. Jun Gao, Hefei University of Technology, Anhui, China
   Dr. Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France

Important dates:
   Manuscript Submission Deadline:       *May 1st, 2010*
   Notification of Acceptance/Rejection:  July 1st, 2010
   Final Accepted Manuscript Due:         September 1st, 2010
   Estimated Publication Date:            December 1st, 2010

URL: 
http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP_11042_06302009.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-760698-p35538244

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Submission Procedure
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Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other 
conference or journal. Prospective contributors are invited to submit 
papers in A4/US letter, single column, double space format, up to 30 
pages long including figures, tables and references. Manuscript 
submission is handled by the MTAP Online Manuscript Submission website 
at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/. During submission, you will 
be asked to "Choose the article type of your manuscript from the 
pull-down menu", please select your article type as "Multimedia Data 
Semantics". Important notes: you must choose "Multimedia Data Semantics" 
if you are submitting your manuscript to our special issue. Detailed 
information about the Journal, including an author guide and detailed 
formatting information is available at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042

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Summary
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This special issue invites high quality scientific contributions in 
multimedia semantic computing, with a focus on how to apply the semantic 
technologies to the acquisition, generation, transmission, storage, 
processing, and retrieval of large-scale multimedia information. 
Discussions on future challenges in multimedia information manipulation, 
as well as practical solutions for the design and implementation of 
multimedia database software systems are also encouraged.

Authors of the selected best papers of The 2nd IEEE International 
Workshop on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications 
(IEEE-DSMSA 2009) will be invited to submit extended versions of their 
papers for this special issue, 
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~yucao/Service/DSMSA2009.htm.

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Topics
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that 
span both semantic technologies and multimedia processing & computing:

* Automatic generation of multimedia presentations
* Semantic multimedia metadata extraction
* Annotation tools and methods for multimedia semantics
* Media ontology generation/learning/reasoning
* Content-based multimedia analysis
* Social media computing
* Web-scale multimedia mining and retrieval
* Multimedia indexing, searching, and retrieving
* Multimedia streaming
* Multimedia data visualization
* Semantic-based QoS control and scheduling
* Semantic-based Internet data streaming and delivery
* Multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-7 and XMP) and Semantic Web
* Semantics enabled multimedia applications (including annotation, 
browsing, storage, retrieval, and visualization)
* Semantics enabled networking and middleware for multimedia applications
* Service Infrastructure, technology, and tools for Multimedia software 
systems

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Contacts
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Please address all correspondences regarding this Special Issue to the 
Guest Editors:

   Dr. Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, 
<praba@utdallas.edu>
   Dr. Yu Cao, California State University, Fresno, <yucao@csufresno.edu>
   Dr. Jun Gao, Hefei University of Technology, Anhui, China, 
<gaojun@hfut.edu.cn>
   Dr. Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France, <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>

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Raphaël Troncy
EURECOM, Multimedia Communications Department
2229, route des Crêtes, 06560 Sophia Antipolis, France.
e-mail: raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy@gmail.com
Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242
Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200
Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/

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