First
International Symposium on
Multimedia
– Applications and Processing (MMAP'08)
Wisla,
Poland, October 20-22, 2008
Multimedia
– Applications and Processing (MMAP'08) will
be organized within the framework of the International
Multiconference on Computer Science and Information
Technology and co-located with the XXIV Autumn Meeting
of the Polish Information Processing Society.
MMAP'08
will be organized by Software Engineering Department,
Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics,
University of Craiova, Romania ("Multimedia
Applications Development" Research Centre).
CONFERENCE
BACKGROUND AND GOALS
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, and governmental domains. Yet many
challenges remain, especially when it comes to
efficiently indexing, mining,
querying, searching, and retrieving multimedia data.
The
Multimedia - Processing and Applications 2008
(MMAP'08) 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 application.
As a
result the conference goal is to bring together
researchers, engineers and practitioners in order to
communicate their newest and original contributions on
topics that have been identified (see below). 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 fit into these
areas will also be considered because they might be of
benefit to conference attendees.
CALL
FOR PAPERS
MMAP'08
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'08 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'08 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
OF INTEREST
Topics of
interest are related to Multimedia Processing and
Applications including, but are not limited to the
following areas:
- Image and Video Processing
- Speech, Audio and Music Processing
- 3D and Stereo Imaging
- Distributed Multimedia Systems
- Multimedia Databases, Indexing,
Recognition and Retrieval
- Data Mining
- E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society
Applications
- Multimedia in Medical Applications
- Authentication and Watermarking
- Entertainment and games
- Multimedia Interfaces
Papers submission
- Authors
should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of
MSWord file).
- The
total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages
(IEEE style). IEEE style templates are available here.
- Papers
will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the conference.
- Accepted
and Presented paper will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and
included in the IEEE Xplore® database.
- Extended versions of
selected best papers will be published in a special
issue of JDIM: Journal of Digital Information
Management ISSN 0972-7272.
