9th Workshop on Multimedia Metadata (WMM'09)

Recently, the integration of accurate hand-held positioning within mobile phones, PDAs, portable computer and the like have brought location-based services directly to individuals, transforming the way we work, travel or play. Therefore location has become an important element of the context when using a mobile multimedia application. The usage context becomes richer and provides new hints for search, delivery and consumption to individual user's situations.

This workshop proposes to disseminate ideas on the usage of location informations for smart media acquisition, multimedia content analysis, indexing and retrieval. More information can be found at the workshop's home page.

The Multimedia Metadata Community (www.multimedia-metadata.info) has already organized a series of 8 successful workshops in the past taking place in Aachen, Berlin, Graz and Klagenfurt.

The Multimedia Metadata Community welcomes and encourages submissions from outside the core community to broaden aspects and extend the active and successful community and network with new members.

The 9th meeting will be organized in Toulouse as a special session of the 13th French Multimedia Conference on Compression and Representation of Audiovisual Signals (CORESA 2009). Both events will share joint panels and sessions bringing researchers and industry experts to fruitful discussions. On March 18th afternoon, an industrial session inlcuding LBS demos of the Toulouse Open platform (www.navigation-satellites-toulouse.com) will bootstrap the academic program.

The WMM'09 workshop is organized by the Institute of Research in Informatics (IRIT) of the University of Toulouse (www.irit.fr). The WMM 08 chairs are Romulus Grigoras (romulus.grigoras AT enseeiht.fr) and Vincent Charvillat (vincent.charvillat AT enseeiht.fr).