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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m involved in the organization of the Media in Context
special session for the <a href="http://mmsp2016.ece.mcgill.ca/Program/Special%20Sessions.htm">2016 IEEE
Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2016</a>), an overview of the
session bellow .</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are looking for teams/scientists interested in submitting
papers, and I would greatly appreciate if you could share this call for papers
in your respective networks.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you very much and kind regards</p>
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<h3><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(61,108,135)">SS3: Media in context – cross-media analysis</span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With the continuing increase of multimedia content on the
Web and in electronic libraries around the world, cross referencing data from
heterogonous multimedia sources (audio, video, text), exploiting them and
discovering hidden meaning or knowledge embedded in them is becoming
increasingly difficult.</p>
<p>The task of holistically analysing multimedia files in treating audio,
video and text as the same type of data that, that can be stored, compared,
linked and searched in a consistent manner is still in its infancy and
requires an array of very expert knowledge. The complexity of this task makes
it difficult for public and academic libraries to use and propose this
technology to their clients and for developer to provide the next generation
of multimedia application.</p>
<p>For instance, currently most of cross-multimedia searches and comparison
are based on metadata and do not consider the multi-media content itself. The
approach considering taking a multimedia document - containing audio, video,
metadata and embedded text - and producing: a representation of the video, of
the audio, of the text and the metadata and linking them together in a common
language that could be compared to other multimedia documents and exploited
by application is rare.</p>
<p>This special session will bring together researchers interested in
cross-media analysis technologies allowing real-time analysis of media
resources as well as connected content, including video, images, audio, text,
linked structure and metadata. Topics will cover the entire cross-media
analysis value chain: information extraction from multimedia content,
representation of the extracted data (data ontologies – data modeling - RDF),
storing (triple stores), searching, comparison (distributed recommendation
system), publication of the extracted data and the distributed computing
challenges of dealing with all these steps and making them more reliable.
This special session seeks as well to link multi-media cross analysis with
new type of applications that can take advantage of this rich heterogeneous
multi media paradigm: virtual reality, augmented reality, reactive
interfaces, etc.</p>
<p>Related topics that can be submitted to this special session:</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Linked data and
multimedia ontology, formats for storing and searching multi-media
contents</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Multimedia
applications interoperability, common languages for multi-media
connected applications</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Augmented reality,
mixed and virtual library for Electronic Multimedia Library;</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Advanced User
Interfaces and controls for Electronic Multimedia Libraries searches</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Real-time web based
classification of multimedia content based on web harvesting</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Image recognition and
standardization for automated classification</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Algorithms for
Automated extraction of multimedia content for classification and
automated content enrichment</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Algorithms for
Speech/Audio coding, processing and automated recognition for Public
Multimedia audio archives</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Video codecs
comparison and proposals for Public Multimedia Libraries content on-
demand streaming</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Algorithms for
automated identification and enrichment of authors information</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Advances in document
readers and OCR for National Archives</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(61,108,135)">Important
Dates</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Submission of Papers(regular & special sessions)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">July 10, 2016</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">July 10, 2016</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">September 21-23, 2016</span></p>
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