Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

 

Systems and Architectures

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Mobile multimedia systems and services

Pervasive and interactive media systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV

Multimedia data in the Cloud

GPU-based multimedia architectures and systems

Software development framework using multimedia techniques

 

Communications and Streaming

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Multimedia networking and QoS

Mobile audio/video streaming

Wireless broadcasting and streaming

Scalable streaming

Peer-to-peer media systems and streaming

Sensor networks

Internet telephony technologies and systems

Video teleconferencing

 

Multimedia Interfaces

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Information visualization and interactive systems

Multimodal user interfaces: design, engineering, modality-abstractions, etc.

Tools for media authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, and navigation

Intelligent agents for content creation, distribution, and analysis

Novel interfaces for multimedia: touch, tangible, wearable, virtual, 3D, etc.

User interfaces for mobile devices

 

Media Coding, Processing, and Quality Measurement

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Signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding

Coding standards

Scalable and Multi-view coding

Multi-resolution or super-resolution algorithms

Maintenance of perceptual quality with further compression

Developing novel quality measures

 

Multimedia Security and Forensics

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Data security including digital watermarks and encryption

Copyright issues for multimedia data

Surveillance and monitoring methods

Face detection and recognition algorithms

Human behavior analysis from motion images/videos

Multimedia-based computer forensics (e.g., crime scene investigation, user profiling)

Multimedia Captchas, including attacks and counter-attacks

On forensic use of biometrics

Data hiding, stenography, and steganalysis

Trust and privacy issues in media systems

 

Content Understanding, Modeling, Management, and Retrieval

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Media meta-modeling techniques

Storage systems, databases, and retrieval

Data segmentation

Image, audio, video, genre clustering & classification

Video summarization and story generation

Speaker identification, recognition, and location

Object, event, emotion, text detection and recognition

Mosaic, video panorama and background generation

Media semantics, ontologies, annotation, concept detection and learning

Personalization and user preferences

3D and depth information

 

Mobile media

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Mobile and location-based media techniques

Mobile visual search

Social networks for mobile users

Augmented reality for mobile users

Content delivery in mobile networks (e.g., 3G, 4G and future 5G)

Mobile applications

 

Applications

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Big data

3D data: graphics, displays, sound, broadcasting, interfaces

Media composition and production: capture, authoring, digital art, animations, etc.

Gaming

Virtual and augmented reality

Robotics

Media interfaces for the Web

Media in social network analysis

Rich media enabled E-commerce and E-shopping

Media systems for handicapped

Collaborative systems

Interdisciplinary media applications: Bioinformatics, Transportation systems, Wild-life monitoring and analysis, etc.

Deep learning of multimedia data

 

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Submissions

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Authors are invited to submit Research Papers (6-page technical paper) and Workshop Proposals which will be included in the proceedings. Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. More information is available on the ISM2016 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

 

Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.

 

There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award competition. Award winners will be announced at the conference banquet.

 

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