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With the proliferation 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 largely lies
in signal processing and data communication, is now facing challenges posed
by the new research trends such as multimedia semantic computing,
multi-modal interaction and cross-mining, cooperative processing, new
multimedia standards, Quality of Service (QoS),
multimedia security, and social issues, which are just a few examples of
the major research areas.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in multimedia semantic
computing to discuss the state of the art of the research on semantic-based
multimedia systems, present theoretical frameworks and practical
implementations, and identify challenges and open issues in multimedia
semantic modeling and integration. Multimedia semantic computing can be
defined as "Computing with (machine processable)
Descriptions of Content and Intentions" of multimedia data and has
been gaining attentions in various applications 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 2009 will be held in conjunction with IEEE International
Conference on Semantic Computing (http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsc/).
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