The 3rd international Workshop on Multimedia Data
and Document Engineering is aimed to bring together experts from all aspects of
multimedia data and document engineering, including experts in data mining,
documents engineering, digital media content analysis, multimedia databases and
domain experts from diverse applied disciplines with potential in multimedia
data and document engineering. Particularly, the workshop will address the
following questions:
- What are the problems and the applications addressed
by multimedia data and document engineering?
- What are the specific issues
in knowledge extraction from multimedia data and documents composed of image,
sound and video?
- What are the advanced architectures for multimedia data
and document storage and retrieval?
- What are suitable representations and
formats that can facilitate multimedia data and document management?
- How
can the existing database and data mining techniques be adapted and enhanced for
knowledge discovery from unstructured complex multimedia data and
documents?
Research papers are solicited in, but not limited
to, the following topics:
- Analysis, indexing and retrieval of multimedia
data and documents
- Models and languages for documents and semi-structured
data
- Semantic modeling and retrieval
- Content description definition
languages and metadata
- Mining from semi structured data (video, image,
audio, web documents)
- Content-based multimedia indexing and retrieval
-
Video analysis and content exploration
- Video genre classification
-
Multimedia database management systems
- Relevance ranking of video clips for
queries
- Query processing and optimization
- Multimedia Standardization
Models (MPEG7, MPEG4, SMIL)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: June 9,
2003
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2003
Camera-ready papers due:
July 20, 2003
Workshop: September 8, 2003
PROGRAM CHAIR
Sadiye Guler, Northrop Grumman
Information Technology / TASC, USA
PROGRAM COMITTEE MEMBERS
Michel Adiba
(University of Joseph Fourier, France)
Mokrane Bouzeghoub (University of
Versaille, France)
Chabane Djeraba (University of Nantes, France)
Dave
Doermann (University of Maryland, USA)
Jianping Fan (University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Elena Ferrari (University of Milano,
Italy)
Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University, USA)
William Grosky
(University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
Alex Hauptman (Carnegie Mellon
University, USA)
Tom D. Little (Boston University, USA)
Andrew Merlino
(Virage Inc., USA)
Deb Kumar Roy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
USA)
Gunther Saake (Universität Magdeburg, Germany)
Mohand-Said Hacid
(University of Lyon, France)
Ishwar Sethi (Oakland University,
USA)
Mubarak Shah (University of Central Florida, USA)
Christine
Vanoirbeck (EPFL, Switzerland)
Aidong Zhang (University of Buffalo,
USA)
SUBMISSIONS
Only electronic submission is
accepted. The submission deadline is June 9, 2003. Please follow
the
instructions given below. Papers will be reviewed using a double blind review
process and
accepted papers will appear in MDDE'03 proceedings. Proceedings
will be distributed to all
participants at the workshop. If you have any
questions or problems regarding the submission
process, please send e-mail
to SGuler@northropgrumman.com
with subject MDDE03.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION
1.. Prepare your
manuscript, in English, using one of the two provided style files, either
LaTeX (in tar gzipped format) or Microsoft Word 97/2000 (in Zip format). The
submitted
manuscript should correspond to the full paper and be no longer
than 8 (double-column) pages.
2.. Create a Portable Document Format
(PDF) version of your manuscript.
3.. Send your manuscript in PDF to
SGuler@northropgrumman.com