IEEE Multimedia: Special Issue on Multimedia-Metadata and Semantic Management

[CHBEIR Richard]

[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

######################## Call For Papers ########################

                        IEEE MultiMedia

Special Issue on Multimedia-Metadata and Semantic Management


#################################################################

IMPORTANT DATES
-------------------
- 15 January 2009: Paper submission
- 31 March 2009: Authors notified of acceptance, rejection, or needed revisions.
- 05 May 2009: Revisions due.
- 16 June 2009: Final versions due.


OVERVIEW
------------
Multimedia metadata description standards (e.g. MPEG-7/21) proposed in the
recent years have been an important
aspect of the creation of multimedia content and related semantic management. A
number of multimedia metadata
formats and standards have been tailored to specific application domains (e.g.
broadcasting, multimedia mobile,
 etc.). The application of Semantic Web technologies to multimedia content has
brought forward the use of Resource
Description Framework, XTM, and Topic Maps for the description of multimedia
metadata. But, in order to make
multimedia applications ubiquitous, accessible, and interoperable, we need new
mechanisms to describe and process
contextual semantics of multimedia artefacts, especially over the Web.
Contextual metadata, including linguistic
semantics and visual semantics (e.g. semaphore) about multimedia artefacts, will
play an important role in these
mechanisms.

The general aim of this special issue is to assess the current status and
technologies, as well as to outline the
major challenges and future perspectives, related to multimedia production,
management, and exchange from a
Semantic Web perspective in contextualized ubiquitous, accessible and
interoperable environments. 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. Overall, it aims
to outline the rich potential of
the multimedia area for advanced contextual metadata- and semantic-driven
multimedia systems and semantic-oriented
services along the Web 3.0 evolutions.


TOPICS
-----------
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Multimedia Semantics
- Contextual Multimedia Metadata
- Contextual Multimedia Metadata Interoperability
- Metadata Modeling and Contextual Ontologies for Multimedia Applications
- Multimedia and Web 3.0
- Multimedia Authoring
- Multimedia-based Access Control and Authorization
- Management of Multimedia Metadata (Relational and XML Databases, Semantic
Stores, etc.)
- Multimedia Retrieval
- Personalizing Multimedia Content
- Cross-media Clustering
- Mobile Applications
- Multimedia Web Applications and Related Metadata Support
- Novel and Challenging Multimedia Applications

PAPER SUBMISSION
------------------
Manuscript must be submitted at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee after
preparing
it according to the instructions for authors (more details are provided at
http://www.computer.org/multimedia/author.htm).
When uploading your paper, please select the appropriate special issue title
under the category 'Manuscript Type'.
 If you have any questions regarding the submission system, please contact
Alkenia Winston at mm-ma at computer.org.
All submissions will undergo a blind peer review by at least two 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.
More details are provided here:
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/multimedia/menuitem.deecb35fb1b4b95f96d34f108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=multimedia_level1&path=multimedia/content&file=CFPOct-Dec09.xml&xsl=article.xsl&

GUEST EDITORS
---------------
Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France (richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr)
Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany (Harald.Kosch at uni-passau.de)
Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan (andres at nii.ac.jp)
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan (ishikawa at inf.shizuoka.ac.jp)


Please contact the guest editors for any inquiries regarding the special issue.


####################################################
#   Richard CHBEIR, Ph.D. in Computer Science      #
#   Associate Professor                            #
#   Laboratoire LE2I (UMR - CNRS)                  #
#   Bourgogne University                           #
#   Aile de l'Ingénieur                            #
#   Office GS 16                                   #
#   BP 47870                                       #
#   21078 Dijon CEDEX France                       #
#   Tel.: +333 80 39 36 55                         #
#   Fax: +333 80 39 68 69                          #
#   Email: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr           #
#   Web: http://www.le2I.com                       #
####################################################