Research Scope
Topics of interest
Submissions include, but are not limited to, the following topics.
Systems and Architectures
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Forensic use of biometrics
- Data hiding, stenography, and steganalysis
- Trust and privacy issues in media systems
Content Understanding, Modeling, Management, and Retrieval
- 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
- Viewer perception, emotion analysis and visual attention
- Multimedia datasets and open source code for research
- Multimedia recommender systems
- Fake multimedia detection
Mobile Media
- 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
- 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