Multimedia Metadata Management & Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community

URL: http://www.multimedia-metadata.info/Events/m3r08

Chairs: Mathias Lux (Department of Information Technology (ITEC), Klagenfurt University, Austria)

In times of ubiquitous access to the internet multimedia systems utilizing networks gain more and more importance. Multimedia systems support features beyond the download and display of videos and images:

Adaptation of data and metadata, caching and distribution of multimedia content and metadata over different types of networks and integration of the user as critical factor. Focus of the special session is put on multimedia metadata. Aspects include but are not limited to means of delivery, adaptation, storage, creation, production and consumption.

Topics in the context of multimedia metadata management & retrieval include

• Distributed multimedia metadata management
• Metadata based multimedia retrieval
• Metadata crosswalking & interoperability
• Metadata in multimedia authoring & publishing
• Mobile multimedia metadata
• Multimedia annotation
• Multimedia metadata models & ontologies
• Multimedia metadata services
• Multimedia metadata storage and indexing
• Multimedia metadata streaming & adaptation
• Multimedia personalization
• Social software and social computing for multimedia metadata

Important Dates

• Proposal for Special Session: November 23, 2007
• Paper Submission: December 21, 2007
• Review Results: January 25, 2008
• Submission of Camera-ready Papers: February 18, 2008

Papers should conform to the usual WIAMIS guidelines for authors.

For more information contact

• Mathias Lux: mlux (at) itec (dot) uni-klu (dot) ac (dot) at