Overview:

The International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) is a leading international conference (http://mmm2010.swu.edu.cn) for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial track papers reporting real multimedia applications and system development experience. The conference also solicits proposals for tutorials on crucial technologies of multimedia modeling, and calls for special sessions proposals focusing on specific new challenges in the multimedia arena.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
1. Multimedia Content Analysis
• Multimedia Indexing
• Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization
• Multimedia Annotation, Tagging and Recommendation
• Multimodal Analysis for Retrieval Applications
• Semantic Analysis of Multimedia and Contextual Data
• Multimedia Fusion Methods
• Media Content Browsing and Retrieval Tools
2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications
• Media Representation and Algorithms
• Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression
• Multimedia Security and Content Protection
• Multimedia Standards and Related Issues
• Advances in Multimedia Networking and Streaming
• Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport

3. Multimedia Applications and Services
• Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems
• Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment
• Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications
• Mobile Multimedia Applications
• Multimedia Web Applications
• Interactive Multimedia Authoring Personalization
• Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems)
• Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Social Media,, Multimedia Collaboration, etc.)

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: July 12, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 14, 2009
Camera ready papers due: October 12, 2009
Author Registration: October 5, 2009

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Extensions of selected papers from MMM2010 proceedings will be considered for publication in a special issue of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING and possible other international journals.