[image 02734] CFP: MMPrag'18: FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN MULTIMEDIA PRAGMATICS, co-located with MIPR'18

[Shin'ichi Satoh]

image-mlの皆様、

下記の通り、International Workshop in Multimedia Pragmatics
(MMPrag'18) の論文募集についてお知らせ致します。

					国立情報学研究所
					佐藤真一

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CALL FOR PAPERS
FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN MULTIMEDIA PRAGMATICS (MMPrag'18)
Co-Located with the IEEE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION PROCESSING AND RETRIEVAL (MIPR'18)
April 10-12, 2018 . Miami, Florida
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Most multimedia objects are spatio-temporal simulacrums of the real
world. This supports our view that the next grand challenge for our
community will be understanding and formally modeling the flow of life
around us, over many modalities and scales. As technology advances,
the nature of these simulacrums will evolve as well, becoming more
detailed and revealing to us more information concerning the nature of
reality.

Currently, IoT is the state-of-the-art organizational approach to
construct complex representations of the flow of life around
us. Various, perhaps pervasive, sensors, working collectively, will
broadcast to us representations of real events in real time. It will
be our task to continuously extract the semantics of these
representations and possibly react to them by injecting some response
actions into the mix to ensure some desired outcome.

Pragmatics studies context and how it affects meaning, and context is
usually culturally, socially, and historically based. For example,
pragmatics would encompass the speaker’s intent, body language, and
penchant for sarcasm, as well as other signs, usually culturally
based, such as the speaker’s type of clothing, which could influence
a statement’s meaning. Generic signal/sensor-based retrieval should
also use syntactical, semantic, and pragmatics-based approaches. If we
are to understand and model the flow of life around us, this will be a
necessity.

Our community has successfully developed various approaches to decode
the syntax and semantics of these artifacts. The development of
techniques that use contextual information is in its infancy,
however. With the expansion of the data horizon, through the
ever-increasing use of metadata, we can certainly put all media on
more equal footing.

The NLP community has its own set of approaches in semantics and
pragmatics. Natural language is certainly an excellent exemplar of
multimedia, and the use of audio and text features has played a part
in the development of our field.

However, if we are to develop more unified approaches to modeling the
flow of life around us, both of our communities can certainly benefit
by examining in detail what the other can offer. Many approaches are
the same, but many are different. Certainly, the research in many
areas, such as word2vec, from the NLP community can have a positive
benefit to the multimedia community.

Now is the perfect time to actively promote this cross-fertilization
of our ideas to solve some very hard and important problems.

Authors are invited to submit regular papers (6 pages), short papers
(4 pages), and demo papers (2 pages) at the workshop website
mipr.sigappfr.org. Guidelines can also be found there.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: . Affective
computing . Computational semiotics . Cross-cultural multi-modal
recognition techniques . Distributional semantics . Event modeling,
recognition, and understanding . Gesture recognition . Human-machine
multimodal interaction . Integration of multimodal features . Machine
learning for multimodal interaction . Multimodal analysis of human
behavior . Multimodal datasets development . Multimodal deception
detection . Multi-modal sensor fusion . Multi-modality modeling
. Sentiment analysis . Structured semantic embeddings . Techniques for
description generation of images/videos/other signal-based modalities

To be included in the IEEE Xplore Library, accepted papers must be
registered and presented.

Here are some important dates:
Submissions due: December 20, 2017
Acceptance notification: January 10, 2018
Camera-ready papers due: January 20, 2018
Workshop date (tentative date): April 10, 2018