International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing (MMAP 2011)

International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing (MMAP 2011)

Szczecin, Poland, September 18-21, 2011

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, 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 2011 (MMAP 2011) 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 exactly fit into these areas will also be considered because they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

Call for Papers

MMAP 2011 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 2011 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 2011 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:

Image and Video Processing
Speech, Audio and Music Processing
3D and Stereo Imaging
Distributed Multimedia Systems
Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval
Data Mining
Multimedia in E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications
Multimedia in Medical Applications
Multimedia Authentication and Watermarking
Entertainment and games
Multimedia Interfaces

Paper Submission and Publication

Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the symposium.
Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore® database and indexed in the DBLP.
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.
Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as a Special Issue of IJCSA: International Journal of Computer Science & Applications (ISSN 0972-9038), as well as Special Issue(s) of journal(s) to be announced later.
Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.

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