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With the explosion of multimedia data (image, video, structured text, etc.) and the recent advances in networks and information technology, multimedia computing is having an unprecedented impact on every aspect of our life, from the personal use of multimedia mobile devices, such as iPod and PDA, to a wide spectrum of domains such as business and healthcare. The new multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in an ever effective way, bringing along the multimedia revolution. Traditional multimedia research, which lies in signal processing and data communication, is now challenged by the new requirements such as multi-modal interaction and mining, cooperative processing, new multimedia standards, Quality of Service (QoS), multimedia security, and social issues, which are just a few of the major research areas.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in the areas of multimedia systems to discuss the state of the art of the research on multimedia information systems, present theoretical frameworks and practical implementations, and identify challenges and open issues in multimedia system design and modeling. This workshop has a special focus on the different system aspects of this growing research in multimedia semantic computing, including pervasive multimedia computing systems, multimedia delivery over the network, personalized multimedia information retrieval systems which adapt to the user¡¯s needs, integration of semantic content and schema from distributed multimedia sources so that the user sees a unified view of heterogeneous data, clustering and classification of semantically-tied information in different multimedia modalities, security issues in multimedia/hypertext systems, etc. We invite researchers from various disciplines to submit original research contributions to this workshop. IEEE SCMS 2007 will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing.
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