Check out 3D Photo Ring, which is an interactive photo browser for iPhone and iPad!

3D Photo Ring is the first photo browsing app for iPad and iPhone that presents your photos with an intuitive 3D interface arranged by similar colors. This 3D Ring interface provides a good overview of your photos as it allows to keep a large number of photos in view at a glance. The color sorting feature groups together visually similar photos and can speed-up photo search tasks as it enables users to estimate the position of a photo in mind. Furthermore, the app provides an Interactive 3D Slideshow feature and allows to inspect metadata of photos. More information here.

A binary of the H.264/AVC Coding Inspector Tool (see demos page) is freely available here. You are free to use this tool for teaching purpose also (but please cite my name).

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CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2012
June 5-8, 2012, Hong Kong

http://www.icmr2012.org/

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Submission Deadline: January 15, 2012

Multimedia computing, indexing and retrieval continue to be one of the
most exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of
multimedia technology. The Second ACM International Conference on
Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) offers opportunities for the exchange of ideas
between researchers, practitioners and potential users of multimedia
retrieval systems. This conference, puts together the long-lasting
experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR series, was set up to illuminate
the state of the art in multimedia (including image, video and audio)
retrieval.

ICMR 2012 is seeking original high quality submissions addressing
innovative research in the broad field of multimedia retrieval.
Contributions addressing the challenges of large-scale search and user
behavior analysis are especially welcome.

Topics of Interest (not limited to)
- Content/semantic/affective based indexing and retrieval
- Large-scale and web-scale multimedia processing
- Integration of content, meta data and social network
- Scalable and distributed search
- User behavior and HCI issues in multimedia retrieval
- Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics
- Multimedia fusion
- High performance indexing algorithms
- Machine learning for multimedia retrieval
- Ontology for annotation and search
- 3D video and model processing
- Large-scale summarization and visualization
- Performance evaluation
- Very large scale multimedia corpus
- Navigation and browsing on the Web
- Retrieval from multimodal lifelogs
- Database architectures for storage and retrieval
- Novel multimedia data management systems and applications
- Applications in forensic, biomedical image and video collections

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Important Dates

Paper Submission: January 15, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2012
Camera-Ready Papers Due: April 5, 2012
Conference Date: June 5-8, 2012

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Questions?

More information at: http://www.icmr2012.org/
Printed version of CfP:

http://www.icmr2012.org/index.files/icmr2012-cfp.pdf

Prof. Oge Marques from Florida Atlantic University (FAU), who is well known at Klagenfurt University for his very interesting courses about image and video processing, has written a great new book! This book provides up-to-date, technically accurate coverage of essential topics in image and video processing. It is the first book to combine image and video processing with a practical MATLAB®-oriented approach in order to demonstrate the most important image and video techniques and algorithms. Utilizing minimal math, the contents are presented in a clear, objective manner, emphasizing and encouraging experimentation.

Check it out now here: ogemarques.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Video Browser Showdown (held as a separate session of MMM 2012) is a live video browsing competition where international researchers, working in the field of interactive video search, evaluate and demonstrate the efficiency of their tools in presence of the audience. The aim of the Video Browser Showdown is to evaluate video browsing tools for their efficiency at “Known Item Search”(KIS) tasks with a well-defined data set in direct comparison with other tools. For each KIS task the searchers need to interactively find a short video clip in a one-hour video file within a specific time limit.

The Video Browser Showdown will be a moderated “special demo session” of MMM 2012, where 24 KIS tasks (2×12) need to be solved. For each task the moderator presents the target clip on a shared screen that is visible to all participants. The participants use their own equipment to perform an interactive search in the specified video file (taken from a common data set). The performance of participating tools will be evaluated in terms of successful answers and average search time.
The decision for the best-performing tool is based on two runs:

• expert run: the participants (developers of the tools) themselves act as searchers
• novice run: volunteers from the audience act as searchers (after a short training phase)

The overall best-performing tool will be awarded with the “Best Video Browser” certificate.

Paper submission deadline: October 7, 2011

More information: http://mmm2012.org/vbshowdown/

The following work is accepted as demo to ACM Multimedia 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona. I would be happy to show you a live demo there.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 18th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2012)
January 4-6, 2012
Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria.
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The International MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) Conference is a leading
international conference (http://mmm2012.org) 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 demonstrations in, but not limited to, the following areas related to
multimedia modeling technologies and applications:

1. Multimedia Content Analysis
1.1 Multimedia Indexing
1.2 Multimedia Mining
1.3 Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization
1.4 Multimedia Annotation, Tagging and Recommendation
1.5 Multimodal Analysis for Retrieval Applications
1.6 Semantic Analysis of Multimedia and Contextual Data
1.7 Multimedia Fusion Methods
1.8 Media Content Browsing and Retrieval Tools

2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications
2.1 Media Representation and Algorithms
2.2 Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression
2.3 Multimedia Security and Content Protection
2.4 Multimedia Standards and Related Issues
2.5 Advances in Multimedia Networking and Streaming
2.6 Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport
2.7 Wireless and Mobile Multimedia Networking

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

Paper Submission Guidelines:
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Papers should be no more than 10-12 pages in length (demo papers 3 pages), conforming to
the formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series (http://www.springer.com/lncs).
Papers will be judged by an international program committee based on their
originality, significance, correctness and clarity.
All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through
the EasyChair submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmm2012).
The review process is single-blind, therefore please do not conceal authors’
identities from reviewers. To publish the paper in the conference, one of the
authors needs to register and present the paper in the conference.

Important Dates:
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Submission of full papers: July 22, 2011
Notification of acceptance: September 19, 2011
Camera-ready papers due: October 10, 2011
Author registration: October 10, 2011
Conference: January 4-6, 2012

For more information, please visit http://mmm2012.org

The ITEC institute at Klagenfurt University performs research also on the subject of how
to enhance film watching in order to make it an even better experience. The following
video trailer shows a demo of such an enhanced system using sensory effects, such as ambient light and wind.
For more details please contact Markus Waltl.

The 18th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2012)
will be held in Klagenfurt, Austria, on January 4-6 2012!

Check out the website here:
http://mmm2012.org/

What if you would like to query your life-log about: “When did I met person X for the last time and what did we talk about?”. This is a typical Multimedia QA problem, which still has many open issues that need further research.

Prof. Tat-Seng Chua (from NUS) gave an interesting keynote speech on that topic at the 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2011), in Taipei, Taiwan. His conclusion was that multimedia question/answering is an emerging research field with many opportunities and applications.