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Dear Colleagues,

Please let me inform you about an extension of the deadline for the JMM-Special Issue CFP (see below).

The new firm deadline is June 29, 2008!

(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP.)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Journal of Multimedia (JMM, ISSN 1796-2048)
Special Issue on Multimodal Information Retrieval
http://www.academypublisher.com/jmm/specialissues.html
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Nowadays popularity of multimedia demands efficient and intelligent
strategies in order to cope with the large amount of multimedia
data. Recent efforts in the area of Multimedia Retrieval Systems
(MMRS) have led to a growing research community and a number of
International, national and industrial projects. Besides
concentrating on single media retrieval systems (e.g., only images
are considered), latest technologies target on multimodal retrieval
engines. This development explicitly forms the mainstream trend as
queries such as “Show me the movie and related material for the
given score available by melody and text snippets” (maybe by
humming) or “Give me all media (text, image, video, audio)
containing information about the city Paris” come into vogue. In
order to support those challenging requests, research needs to work
on
  a.) new (ontology-based) semantic models for combining individual media models,
  b.) new retrieval engines considering crossing the media boundary during search,
  c.) new interfaces coping the input and presentation of various media data.

For instance, similarity metrics need to be developed/modified which
encompasses the media boundary, with the aim to discover useful
relationships among multimodal multimedia documents and to find a
better way through out the vast amount of media information.

For this purpose, theories and techniques concerning multimodal
information retrieval systems focusing on new approaches for
indexing, representing, organizing, clustering, querying and feature
extraction of multimodal data need to be investigated and evaluated.
Therefore, the aim of this special issue is to provide a deeper look
on current research in the area of Multimodal Multimedia Retrieval
including both, theory and application oriented papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   • Multimodal query languages
   • Multimodal content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio
   • Cross-media clustering, indexing and retrieval
   • Multimedia analysis for advanced multimodal applications
   • Multimodal content summarization, visualization and personalization strategies
   • Distributed heterogeneous multimedia systems and shared applications
   • Semantics modelling of cross media collections
   • Multimodal search engines and interfaces
   • Relevance feedback in multimodal retrieval systems.
   • Evaluation of multimodal retrieval systems
   • Cross media modelling concerning low- and high-level feature annotation and extraction.

Important Dates:

    Submission of papers due: June 29, 2008 *NEW EXTENDED FIRM DEADLINE*
    First round notification of acceptance: September 1, 2008
    Revised paper submission due: October 15, 2008
    Second round notification of acceptance: November 15, 2008
    Submission of final revised paper due: December 15, 2008
    Tentative publication date: March 1, 2009

Submission Instructions:

Submitted papers must be original and not have been previously
published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere.
Papers, which have appeared previously in proceedings of
conferences, could be submitted to this special issue if they are
substantially revised or improved from their earlier versions. All
submitted papers will be refereed on the basis of technical quality,
significance, novelty, and clarity. The full paper should ideally
not exceed 14 single-space pages of A4, including illustrations and
tables. Submissions must be directly sent in PDF format via email to
the guest editor, Prof. Mario Döller: mario.doeller@uni-passau.de.

Please identify your submission in the email subject line:
“Submission - JMM Special Issue on Multimodal Information
Retrieval”.

Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at
http://www.academypublisher.com/forauthors.html.

Guest Editors:

  Mario Döller, Assistant Professor, University of Passau, Germany
  Jaime Delgado, Full Professor, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
  Lionel Brunie, Full Professor, INSA de Lyon, France
  Wo Chang, Manager of Digital Media Group, NIST, USA