Call for Papers

           *MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS*

  Special Issue on 'Content Based Multimedia Indexing' **********************************************************

Multimedia indexing systems aim at providing user-friendly, fast and accurate access to
large multimedia repositories. Various tools and techniques from different fields such as
data indexing, machine learning, pattern recognition, and human computer interaction have
contributed to the success of multimedia systems. In spite of significant progress in the
field, content-based multimedia indexing systems still show limits in accuracy,
generality and scalability. The goal of this special issue is to bring forward recent
advancements in content-based multimedia indexing. In addition to multimedia and social
media search and retrieval, we wish to highlight related and equally important issues
that build on content-based indexing, such as multimedia content management, user
interaction and visualization, media analytics, etc. The special issue will also feature
contributions on application domains, e.g., multimedia indexing for health or for
e-learning.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

    Audio, visual and multimedia indexing;
    Multimodal and cross-modal indexing;
    Deep learning for multimedia indexing;
    Visual content extraction;
    Audio (speech, music, etc) content extraction;
    Identification and tracking of semantic regions and events;
    Social media analysis;
    Metadata generation, coding and transformation;
    Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text);
    Mobile media retrieval;
    Event-based media processing and retrieval;
    Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval;
    Multimedia data mining and analytics;
    Multimedia recommendation;
    Large scale multimedia database management;
    Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content;
    Personalization and content adaptation;
    User interaction and relevance feedback;
    Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools;
    Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems;
    Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, lifelogs, satellite imagery,
video surveillance.

Submission guidelines

All the papers should be full journal length versions and follow the guidelines set out
by Multimedia Tools and Applications: http://www.springer.com/journal/11042.

Manuscripts should be submitted online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/ choosing
'CBMI 2016' as article type. When uploading your paper, please ensure that your
manuscript is marked as being for this special issue.

Information about the manuscript (title, full list of authors, corresponding author?s
contact, abstract, and keywords) should be also sent to the corresponding editors (see
information below).

All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the MTAP regular paper reviewing
procedures and ensuring the journal high standards.

Important dates

    *Manuscript Due: now postponed to September 30, 2016*
    First Round Decisions: November 1, 2016
    Revisions Due: December 20, 2016
    Final Round Decisions: Feb. 1, 2017
    Publication: First semester 2017

Guest editors
  Guillaume Gravier, IRISA & Inria Rennes, CNRS, France
  Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Information Tech. Institute, CERTH, Greece