International
Symposium on Multimedia Applications and
Processing (MMAP'2012)
Wrocław,
Poland, September 9-12,
2012
Organized by
Software
Engineering Department, Faculty of Automation,
Computers and
Electronics, University of Craiova , Romania
"Multimedia Applications Development" Research
Centre
Background and
Goals
Multimedia
information has
become ubiquitous on the web, creating new
challenges for indexing, access,
search and retrieval. Recent advances in pervasive
computers, networks,
telecommunications, and information technology,
along with the proliferation of
multimedia mobile devices - such as laptops, iPods,
personal digital assistants
(PDA), and cellular telephones - have stimulated the
development of intelligent
pervasive multimedia applications. These key
technologies are creating a
multimedia revolution that will have significant
impact across a wide spectrum
of consumer, business, healthcare, educational and
governmental domains. Yet
many challenges remain, especially when it comes to
efficiently indexing,
mining, querying, searching, retrieving, displaying
and interacting with
multimedia data.
The Multimedia -
Processing and
Applications 2012 (MMAP 2012) Symposium addresses
several themes related to
theory and practice within multimedia domain. The
enormous interest in
multimedia from many activity areas (medicine,
entertainment, education) led
researchers and industry to make a continuous effort
to create new, innovative
multimedia algorithms and applications.
As a result the
conference goal
is to bring together researchers, engineers,
developers and practitioners in
order to communicate their newest and original
contributions. The key objective
of the MMAP conference is to gather results from
academia and industry partners
working in all subfields of multimedia: content
design, development, authoring
and evaluation, systems/tools oriented research and
development. We are also
interested in looking at service architectures,
protocols, and standards for
multimedia communications - including middleware -
along with the related
security issues, such as secure multimedia
information sharing. Finally, we
encourage submissions describing work on novel
applications that exploit the
unique set of advantages offered by multimedia
computing techniques, including
home-networked entertainment and games. However,
innovative contributions that
don't exactly fit into these areas will also be
considered because they might
be of benefit to conference attendees.
Call for Papers
MMAP 2012 is a major
forum for
researchers and practitioners from academia,
industry, and government to
present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address
real-world problems with
real-world solutions.
The MMAP 2012
Symposium welcomes
submissions of original papers concerning all
aspects of multimedia domain
ranging from concepts and theoretical developments
to advanced technologies and
innovative applications. MMAP 2012 invites original
previously unpublished
contributions that are not submitted concurrently to
a journal or another
conference.
Papers acceptance and publication will be judged
based on their relevance to
the symposium theme, clarity of presentation,
originality and accuracy of
results and proposed solutions.
Topics
Topics
of interest are related to Multimedia
Processing and Applications including, but are not
limited to the following
areas:
· Audio,
Image and Video Processing
· Animation,
Virtual Reality, 3D and Stereo Imaging
· Multimedia
File Systems and Databases: Indexing,
Recognition and Retrieval
· Machine
Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval in
Multimedia Applications
· Multimedia
in Internet and Web Based Systems:
· E-Learning,
E-Commerce and E-Society Applications
· Human
Computer Interaction and Interfaces in Multimedia
Applications
· Multimedia
in Medical Applications
· Entertainment
and games
· Security
in Multimedia Applications: Authentication and
Watermarking
· Distributed
Multimedia Systems
· Network
and Operating System Support for Multimedia
· Mobile
Network Architecture
· Intelligent
Multimedia Network Applications
Paper Submission
and Publication
· Authors
should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of
MSWord file).
· The
total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages
(IEEE style).
· Papers
will be refereed and accepted on the basis of
their scientific merit and relevance to the
workshop.
Extended versions of selected best papers
will be
published in a special issue of:
· and
possibly other journals that will be announced
later.
· Organizers
reserve right to move accepted papers between
FedCSIS events.
Important Dates
· Paper
submission: April 22, 2012
· Author
notification: June 17, 2012
· Final
submission and registration: July 8, 2012
·Conference
date: September 9-12, 2012