My eDirector 2012 is participating in the the International Workshop on Social, Adaptive and Personalized which is part of the ACM Multimedia 2010 conference

ACM Multimedia 2010, is the worldwide premier multimedia conference and a key event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products.

Please look inside the ACM MULTIMEDIA Website for more information.

Workshop Overview

In an effort to address and overcome some of these open issues that hinder effective access and interaction of multimedia content, this workshop will bring together individuals from a number of research communities, including but not limited to Multimedia Distribution and Access, Social Network Analysis, Multimedia Content Analysis, and User Modelling Adaptation and Personalization. It is our belief that a synergetic approach involving these areas of work can exceed their individual potentials, leading to improved access, understanding, and retrieval of multimedia content. The main objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to disseminate work that explicitly exploit the synergy between multimedia content analysis, personalisation, and next generation networking and community aspects of social networks. We believe that this integration could result on robust, personalized multimedia services, providing users with an improved multimedia experience.

In particular, user modelling and adaptation techniques can help alleviate the above problems by taking the user into consideration when accessing multimedia content. Information related to the user such as interests, current context or past interaction behaviour can provide additional valuable information that allows multimedia systems to better present, adapt, retrieve, or understand multimedia content. In addition, this workshop will also focus on the analysis of user networked communities, which can potentially provide richer and more structured information related to users and multimedia content. Hence, this workshop is distinct from and complementary to previous initiatives in that it involves the integration multimedia content analysis techniques with information derived from users, networked communities, and context awareness.

Topics of interest

PERSONALIZATION AND ADAPTATIOIN OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT

• Personalized access to multimedia content
• Multimedia content-based recommendation and collaborative filtering
• Interactive multimedia systems
• Semantic technologies for multimedia content personalization and adaptation
• Adaptive models for exploration of multimedia archives: adaptive browsing, collaborative search
• Adaptive user interfaces for multimedia browsing and searching
• Evaluation of adaptive multimedia systems

SOCIAL NETWORKS ON MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS

• Social networks analysis to multimedia content personalization and adaptation
• Multimedia interaction in networked communities
• Social multimedia applications (e.g. P2P applications, Multimedia broadcasting, social collections & networking, lifelogging)

DISTRIBUTED MEDIA

• Ubiquitous access to multimedia content and pervasive multimedia content delivery
• Interactive multimedia systems
• Techniques for robust and scalable distribution of multimedia content.
• Robust distribution of multimedia services over heterogeneous networks and access technologies

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: 10th June 2010
• Notification of acceptance: 10th July 2010
• Camera Ready Submission: 20th July 2010

Paper format and Submission

All the details can be found in: http://ir.ii.uam.es/sapmia2010/submissions.html

Accepted papers will be published together with the ACM Multimedia 2010 proceedings

ORGANIZERS

• David Vallet, Universidad Autσnoma de Madrid, Spain
• Naeem Ramzan, Queen Mary, University London, UK
• Martin Halvey, University of Glasgow, UK
• Charalampos Z. Patrikakis,NTUA, Greece

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

• Ralf Bierig, Rutgers University, USA
• Ivαn Cantador, Universidad Autσnoma de Madrid, Spain
• Pablo Castells, Universidad Autσnoma de Madrid, Spain
• Frιdιric Dufaux, EPFL, Switzerland
• Nikolaos Doulamis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Juan M. Fernαndez-Luna, Universidad de Granada, Spain
• Enrique Frνas, Telefσnica Research, Madrid, Spain
• Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Frank Hopfgartner, University of Glasgow, UK
• Juan F. Huete, Universidad de Granada, Spain
• Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University London, UK
• Joemon M. Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
• Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Nikolaos Papaoulakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Josep M. Pujol, Telefσnica Research, Madrid, Spain
• Paulo Villegas, Telefσnica Research, Madrid, Spain
• Murat Tekalp, KOC University, Turkey
• Robert Villa, University of Glasgow, UK
• Theodore Zahariadis, Synelixis/TEI of Chalkida, Greece

CONTACT

• David Vallet, UAM, Spain david.vallet@uam.es
• Naeem Ramzan, QMUL, UK naeem.ramzan@elec.qmul.ac.uk