[image 01957] CFP: MMM 2017, the 23rd International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling

[Shin'ichi Satoh]

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先日来お騒がせしておりますInternational Conference on MultiMedia
Modeling (MMM2017) ですが、論文投稿締め切りが延長されましたのでお知ら
せいたします。新たな締め切りは8/31です。どうかふるってご投稿ください！

					国立情報学研究所
					佐藤真一

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CALL FOR PAPERS
MMM 2017, the 23rd International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling
Web site: http://mmm2017.ru.is/ <http://mmm2017.ru.is/>
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Welcome to MMM 2017, the 23rd International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, in Reykjavik, Iceland, which takes place January 4-6 2017 on the modern campus of Reykjavik University. 

Now in its 23rd year, MMM is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners for sharing new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. For more details of the call for contributions, please see the mail below.

There will be two main social events at MMM 2017: a welcome reception featuring the Video Browser Showdown, on January 4 at Reykjavik University, and the conference banquet which will take place at the exotic Blue Lagoon on the evening of January 5. Optional tours allow participants to further enjoy their stay on the beautiful island.

We sincerely hope that the carefully crafted program that we will put together, the scientific discussions that the conference will stimulate, and your additional activities in Reykjavik and its surroundings, will make participation in MMM 2017 a valuable and a memorable experience.

On behalf of the conference organizers and our hosts at Reykjavik University, we sincerely welcome you to MMM 2017.

Laurent Amsaleg and Shin'ichi Satoh, Program Chairs


===== Conference Overview =============================== 

MMM 2017 calls for full research papers reporting original research and investigation results, as well as demonstration proposals, in all areas related to multimedia modeling technologies and applications. In particular, six special sessions will be held, representing a wide variety of topics of current interest and importance. Finally, MMM 2017 will host the popular Video Browser Showdown.

The topics of interest for MMM 2017 include, but are not limited to:

Multimedia Content Analysis:
- Multimedia Indexing
- Multimedia Mining
- Multimedia Abstraction and Summarisation
- Multimedia Annotation, Tagging and Recommendation
- Multimodal Analysis for Retrieval Applications
- Semantic Analysis of Multimedia and Contextual Data
- Multimedia Fusion Methods
- Media Content Linking and Threading Methods
- Media Content Browsing and Retrieval Tools

Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications:
- Media Representation and Algorithms
- Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression
- Multimedia Sensors and Interaction Modes
- Multimedia Privacy, Security and Content Protection
- Multimedia Standards and Related Issues
- Advances in Multimedia Networking and Streaming
- Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport
- Wireless and Mobile Multimedia Networking

Multimedia Applications and Services:
- Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems
- Augmented and Virtual Reality, Virtual Environments
- Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications
- Mobile Multimedia Applications
- Multimedia Web Applications
- Multimedia Authoring and Personalisation
- Interactive Multimedia and Interfaces
- Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems)
- Social and Educational Multimedia Applications
- Other Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Multimedia Collaboration, etc.)

Other topics related to MultiMedia Modeling that are not listed above are welcome as well. Please also see the description of special sessions below.


===== Submission Details and Links ========================= 

The conference proceedings will be published as series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. Submissions should conform to the formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series, and adhere to the submission schedule. Regular research paper submissions (including special session papers) will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process, while demonstrations and VBS papers will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. Each contribution (research paper or demonstration) must be associated with one full registration; only one contribution can be associated with each registration. The authors of selected top research papers will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP).

For more details, including formatting instructions, please refer to the following pages:
- Call for Research Paper Submissions: http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/call-for-research-paper-submissions/ <http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/call-for-research-paper-submissions/>
- Call for Demonstration Submissions: http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/call-for-demonstration-submissions/ <http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/call-for-demonstration-submissions/>
- Call for Special Session Submissions: http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/call-for-special-session-papers/ <http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/call-for-special-session-papers/>
- Video Browser Showdown (VBS): http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/video-browser-showdown/ <http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/video-browser-showdown/>

To submit to MMM 2017, please go to the MMM 2017 submission site: https://www.conftool.net/mmm2017/ <https://www.conftool.net/mmm2017/>


===== Important Dates ===================================

- 31/08/16: Submission Deadline (Research Papers, Special Session Papers, Demonstrations)
- 16/09/16: Submission Deadline (Video Browser Showdown)
- 22/10/16: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
- 04/11/16: Camera Ready and Author Registration Deadline
- 04/01/17: Conference Starts


===== Special Sessions ==================================

The following six special sessions will be held at MMM 2017:

SS1: CrowdMM: Crowdsourcing for Multimedia
SS2: Social Media Retrieval and Recommendation
SS3: Modeling Multimedia Behaviors
SS4: Multimedia Computing for Intelligent Life
SS5: Multimedia and E-Learning
SS6: Multimedia and Multimodal Interaction for Health and Basic Care Applications

For more details, see the brief description below or follow the links to the more detailed description.

SS1: CrowdMM: Crowdsourcing for Multimedia [G. Gravier, M. Lux and M. Riegler]
The power of crowds' leveraging the capabilities of a large number of human contributors' has enormous potential for multimedia research, but exploiting crowdsourcing to achieve solid results remains difficult.  For this special session we seek contributions that address the fundamental challenges of crowdsourcing that prevent widespread adoption of crowdsourcing paradigms in the multimedia community. Topics of interest include:
- New applications of crowdsourcing, such as affection and intent
- Social media and game techniques in crowdsourcing
- Methodological issues for crowdsourcing studies, such as human factors and repeatability
http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/special-session-1-crowdmm/ <http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/special-session-1-crowdmm/>

SS2: Social Media Retrieval and Recommendation [L. Nie, Y. Yan, B. Huet]
This special session aims to call for contributions on solutions, models and theories that tackle the key issues in searching, recommending and discovering multimedia content, as well as a variety of multimedia applications based on search and recommendation technologies. Topics of interest include:
- Indexing, ranking and reranking of social media
- Entity search and recommendation in social media environments
- Representation and deep learning for social media data
http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/special-session-2-social-media-retrieval-and-recommendation/ <http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/special-session-2-social-media-retrieval-and-recommendation/>

SS3: Modeling Multimedia Behaviors [P. Wang, F. Hopfgartner, L. Bai]
This special session focuses on the most recent progress on modeling multimedia behavior from various aspects of human factors, such as interacting with multimedia contents, human behavior detection and recognition, behavioral mining and prediction, multimedia content distribution and streaming, etc. Topics of interest include:
- Behavior mining/monitoring using multimedia
- Interfaces and interaction with multimedia
- Multimedia sharing/streaming based on behavior models
http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/special-session-3-modeling-multimedia-behaviors/ <http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/special-session-3-modeling-multimedia-behaviors/>

SS4: Multimedia Computing for Intelligent Life [Z. Chen, W. Zhang, T. Yao, K.-L. Hua, W.-H. Cheng]
Recent advancement in multimedia computing has opened many avenues for multimedia computing towards more intelligent daily life. Thus, innovative algorithms as well as systems that aim at better understanding and enhancing multimedia signals regarding to intelligent life are warmly welcomed. Topics of interest include:
- Multimedia Signal Processing for Intelligent Life
- Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition for Intelligent Life
- Multimodal Signal Representation, Analysis and Visualization for Intelligent Life
http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/special-session-4-multimedia-computing-for-intelligent-life/ <http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/special-session-4-multimedia-computing-for-intelligent-life/>

SS5: Multimedia and E-Learning [V. Oria, A.G. Hauptmann]
Ever since multimedia has started to coalesce as a field, there has been the vision that it would be useful for education. However, the reality is that progress had been slow compared to other advances in the field.
- Learning media content analysis
- Support for audio/visual lecture summarization, segmentation and chaptering
- Multimodal (slides, notes, lectures, etc) course material alignment
http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/special-session-5-multimedia-and-e-learning/ <http://mmm2017.ru.is/index.php/special-session-5-multimedia-and-e-learning/>

SS6: Multimedia and Multimodal Interaction for Health and Basic Care Applications [S. Vrochidis, L. Wanner, E. Andre, K. Schoeffmann]
This special session targets the most recent results and applications in the area of multimedia analysis and multimodal interaction for health and basic care. Of special interest are autonomous human-like social agents that can analyze information and learn from conversational spoken and multimodal interaction, as well as multimedia systems that support exploration of videos from medical endoscopy.  Topics of interest include:
- Multimedia analysis and retrieval for multimodal interaction in the health domain
- Multimodal conversation and knowledge-based systems for social companion agents
- Content exploration and retrieval in endoscopic video
http://mklab.iti.gr/mmih/ <http://mklab.iti.gr/mmih/>


===== Video Browser Showdown ===========================

The Video Browser Showdown (VBS) is an annual live video search competition, where international researchers evaluate and demonstrate the efficiency of their exploratory video retrieval tools on a shared data set in front of the audience.

VBS has been organized as a special session MMM since 2012. In this special session the participating teams start with a quick presentation of their video search systems and then perform several video retrieval tasks with a moderately large video collection. This year, VBS will collaborate with the TRECVID Ad-Hoc search task and use the same data set of about 600 hours of video content.

The aim of the Video Browser Showdown is to evaluate video browsing tools for their efficiency at "Known Item Search" (KIS) tasks with a well-defined data set in direct comparison with other tools. For each KIS task the searchers need to interactively find a short video clip (20 secs) in the video collection within a specific time limit. While the video data is distributed before the event, the tasks are presented on-site via a projector (either as a video clip itself, or as a textual description).

For more details, including videos with impressions from previous events, please go to the official website: http://www.videobrowsershowdown.org/ <http://www.videobrowsershowdown.org/>