[Eurchap] MTAP: Special Issue on Multimedia Data Annotation and Retrieval using Web 2.0

[Tara Dahal]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Richard Chbeir <
Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr> wrote:

>  Sorry for cross-postings
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> Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal
> Special Issue on Multimedia Data Annotation and Retrieval using Web 2.0
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> Introduction
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> Currently, more than 80% of the information exchanged on the Web carry
> personal data and are primarily of multimedia nature (video, audio, images,
> etc.). Two main reasons are behind this phenomenon: 1) each of the major
> players on the Internet (individual users, companies, local and/or regional
> authorities, etc.) is both data producer and data consumer at the same time,
> and 2) the use of various tools of Web 2.0 (blogs, social networks, etc.)
> allows to ease sharing, accessing, and publishing information on the Web.
> While such tools provide users many easy-to-use functionalities, several
> issues, however, remain unaddressed. For instance, how to automate the
> processes of annotation and description of some photos using the
> annotations/descriptions provided by the user friends on his/her
> blog/wiki/social network? How to provide the user with more effective and
> expressive means to multimedia information retrieval? How to protect a
> multimedia data repository (e.g., photo album) wh!
>  ile several related information about the same content is already
> published (by some user friends) on the same or other blog/wiki/social
> network?
> The general aim of this special issue is to assess the current approaches
> and technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future
> perspectives, related to the use of Web 2.0 in providing automatic
> annotation and easing retrieval and access control of multimedia data. It
> aims to provide an overview of the state of the art and future directions in
> this field, by including a wide range of interdisciplinary contributions
> from various research groups.
>
> Topics
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>
> Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
>
> * Semantic Web and Web 2.0
> * Social Networks
> * Multimedia Semantics
> * Contextual Multimedia Metadata
> * Annotation Enriching
> * Query Rewriting
> * Metadata Modeling and Contextual Ontologies for Multimedia Applications
> * Management of Multimedia Metadata (Relational and XML Databases, Semantic
> Stores, etc.)
> * Multimedia Authoring
> * Multimedia-based Access Control and Authorization
> * Multimedia Retrieval
> * Personalizing Multimedia Content
> * Cross-media Clustering
> * Mobile Applications
> * Multimedia Web Applications and Related Metadata Support
> * Novel and Challenging Multimedia Applications
>
> Important Dates
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>
> Submission Deadline: November 15, 2010
> Notification of First Round of Review: January 30, 2011
> Submission of the Revised Manuscript: March 15, 2011
> Notification of Final Acceptance: April 30, 2011
> Camera-ready Submission: May 30, 2011
>
> Submission
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>
> Authors are invited to submit contributions at the journal Online
> Submission System (http://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap) not exceeding
> 8000 words (approx. 20 pages single-spaced) including diagrams and
> references with at least 10-point Times Roman like font. All submissions
> will undergo a blind peer review by at least three external expert reviewers
> to ensure a high standard of quality. Referees will consider originality,
> significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance to
> the special issue topics above.  Since a "blind" paper evaluation method
> will be used, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the full
> paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. The manuscript must
> contain, in its first page, the paper title, an abstract and a list of
> keywords but NO NAMES OR CONTACT DETAILS WHATSOEVER are to be included in
> any part of this file.
>
> Guest Editors
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>
> Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, France,
> richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr)
> Vincent Oria (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, oria at homer.njit.edu
> )
>
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