Past Events

International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010)

The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter. The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas.

Workshop on Interoperable Social Media Applications (WISMA 2010)

Workshop on Interoperable Social Media Applications (WISMA 2010) - 11th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community - 19th-20th May 2010, Barcelona, Spain - http://dmag.ac.upc.edu/conferences/wisma2010/

Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe2009) - 10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community

Ontology-based systems have been developed to structure content and support knowledge retrieval and management. Semantic multimedia data processing and indexing in ontology- based systems is usually done in several steps. One starts by enriching multimedia metadata with additional semantic information (possibly obtained by methods for bridging the semantic gap). Then, in order to structure data, a localized and domain specific ontology becomes necessary since the data has to be interpreted domain-specifically. The annotations are stored in an ontology management system where they are kept for further processing. In this scope, Semantic Database Technologies are now applied to ensure reliable and secure access, efficient search, and effective storage and distribution for both multimedia metadata and data. Their services can be used to adapt multimedia to a given context based on multimedia metadata or even ontology information. Services automate cumbersome multimedia processing steps and enable ubiquitous intelligent adaptation. Both, database and automation support facilitate the ubiquitous use of multimedia in advanced applications. Topics of interest are how multimedia metadata standards and multimedia ontologies are mapped or integrated into databases, how multimedia query languages are built, and how semantic queries are optimized and processed. Moreover, we are interested how multimedia data services are conceived to ensure interoperability, how to improve security and reliability of access and storage of multimedia data and metadata. Adaptation of multimedia, semantic enrichment of multimedia and bridging of media breaks are typical examples of advanced multimedia database services.

9th Workshop on Multimedia Metadata (WMM'09)

Context-aware mobile multimedia services

5th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2008)

The 5th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2008) will be held in Cairns, Australia from 23 to 26 June 2008. The conference is an annual event and is recognized as one of the major series of conferences in Information Technology (IT in short). ICITA continues to retain its tradition of high quality conference and will open up an opportunity for academics and industrial professionals worldwide to exchange their knowledge of the state-of-the-art research and development in information technology and applications, and to establish and extend professional networks. This conference addresses the importance that IT professionals stretch across narrowly defined subject areas and constantly acquire a global technical and social perspective. ICITA 2008 has offered such an opportunity to facilitate cross-disciplinary and social gatherings.

MobSOS Survey on Mobile Multimedia Community Service Success

Within the scope of our WIAMIS'08 contribution "MobSOS - A Testbed for Mobile Multimedia Community Services" we are currently conducting an online survey in order to collect data on the quality of two MPEG-7 multimedia metadata service prototypes. The community is kindly invited to participate in our survey.

MobSOS Survey on Mobile Multimedia Community Service Success

Within the scope of our WIAMIS/M3R'08 contribution "MobSOS - A Testbed for Mobile Multimedia Community Services" we are currently conducting an online survey in order to collect data on the quality of two MPEG-7 multimedia metadata service prototypes. The community is kindly invited to participate in our survey.

Multimedia Metadata Applications (M3A)

7th Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community at I-MEDIA 2007 (Sept. 5-7, 2007, Graz, Austria)

I-MEDIA'07

I-MEDIA '07 is part of the TRIPLE-I conference series and will be held concurrently with the I-KNOW Conference on knowledge management and the I-SEMANTICS Conference on Semantic Technologies

Workshop Multimedia Semantics - The Role of Metadata (WMSRM07)

Workshop Multimedia Semantics - The Role of Metadata (WMSRM07) - The workshop will take place in Aachen from March 5th-6th, 2007, in conjunction with the 12th German Conference on Database Systems in Business, Technology and Web (BTW 2007) http://www.btw2007.de/ at RWTH Aachen University.

ICITA 2007

Fourth International Conference in IT & Application

Workshop on End-to-End QoS for Universal Multimedia

The workshop on End-to-End Quality of Service for Universal Multimedia Access will be held under the auspices of the 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution - AXMEDIS2006 - from December 12-15, 2006 in Leeds, UK. The workshop will be organized by Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University), Paolo Nesi (University of Florence), and Hermann Hellwagner (Klagenfurt University). The major goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are working on different aspects of Quality of Service and Universal Multimedia Access.

2nd intl. Symposium on Media Informatics

Social software - often connected to older forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) and newer discussion about online communities - can be defined as software that supports activities in digital social networks. The use of new digital media tools such as blogs, wikis, tagging and other communicative or multimedia assets create new challenges for interdisciplinary research in media informatics. What are the effects when media get agency in digital networks? How can we trace and understand collective processes on the internet? What is the role of visualisation? What is the role of social software on change processes in organisations? Are there new models of labour, new processes and new forms of organisations possible? Will users be empowered or will lack of data protection and privacy set free new genies? What is the impact of tools supporting social structures on the emancipation and appropriation? Which are the impacts on design and media? Will they help facilitating new forms of democracy, digital rights, and overcome the digital divide? Or will the hunt for digital reputation lead to cow paths where only cows walk by? The second international symposium on perspectives in media informatics is organized jointly by the two leading collaborative research centres for media Media and cultural communication and Medienumbrüche, the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology B-IT and the Network of Excellence on technology enhanced professional learning PROLEARN. It brings together researchers and practitioners from media informatics, sociology, ANT, law, media theory, social software, collaborative work and learning, to discuss current trends and emergent issues of sociality in digital networks in a mixture of invited talks and round table events. The event will be accomplished by online activities and practical exercises in social software.

Workshop MMC'06

The Multimedia Metadata Community aims at bringing together experts from research and industry in the area of multimedia meta data interoperability for collaborative working environments. By establishing a community of professionals it is intended to bridge the gap between an academic research and an industrial scale development of innovative products for natural collaboration, with a strong focus on MPEG-7 & MPEG-21.

I-KNOW'06 Special Track on Knowledge Visualization and Knowledge Discovery

I-KNOW '06 special track on Knowledge Visualization and Knowledge Discovery addresses the emerging fields of knowledge and information visualization, knowledge discovery and information retrieval, involving discovery, interaction with and visual presentation of abstract knowledge, information spaces and structures to facilitate their rapid assimilation and understanding. Original papers are solicited in all aforementioned areas. Submissions will be reviewed by a board of international experts.

77th ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) Meeting

Wikipedia about MPEG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Picture_Experts_Group and official MPEG site: http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/

7th International Workshop in Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Service

The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international fora for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in all areas of image, video and audio applications, with a special focus on analysis. After Louvain'97, Berlin'99, Tampere'01, London'03, Lisbon'04, and Montreux'05 will be held 2006 in Korea at the Hyatt Regency Hotel (Incheon Int'l Airport). A special session dedicated to Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) will be chaired by Christian Timmerer, a member of the MPEG-7/-21 Community.

4th MPEG-7 & MPEG-21 Community-Workshop

"Multimedia Interoperability & MPEG-21"

MPEG-7 & MPEG-21 in Geographic Information Systems

Workshop on "Information Systems for Science, Cultural Heritage Management & e-Government in Afghanistan". Discussion about the case study of the Afghan Community Information System (ACIS).