It can be expected in the near future that the number of created digital multimedia content will rise dramatically. Multimedia metadata is currently the only way to cope with problems like semantics based retrieval or organization of content and provides means to specify adaptation and delivery constraints and rules. In addition, 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 multimedia content analysis, indexing and retrieval, multimedia semantics and in special on the usage of location information for smart media acquisition and multimedia content analysis.

Important Dates:

•    Submission deadline : Dec. 1 2008
•    Notification upon acceptance : Jan. 13 2009
•    Camera-ready papers deadline : Feb. 13 2009
•    Workshop : Mar. 19 to 20 2009 (Mar. 18 for the industrial demo session)


Topics of interest include:

•    Multimedia Metadata: interoperability, semantics, content analysis
•    Multimedia databases and information management
•    Mobile multimedia metadata
•    Location and Context Modeling for mobile multimedia communities
•    User-adaptive maps
•    Visual 2D/3D registration for LBS: integrating GPS/GNSS signals and GIS data, meta-data
•    Personalized/location-aware delivery of multimedia content


Besides traditional applications using multimedia metadata, we are seeking:
•    Location-based multimedia applications such as:
•    LBS for mobile citizens and workers (individuals and groups)
•    LBS for geographical coordination in emergency scenario
•    Next-generation multimedia guiding applications such as rich media tourist guides
•    Standards, open architectures, standardized APIs for context-aware multimedia information systems


Submission & Contact

Submissions must be in English. All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity by three reviewers. The page limit is 20 pages for full papers, 10 pages for short papers. The submissions should follow the LNI format specification (see http://tinyurl.com/y48b6a).

The proceedings will be published within Proceedings and selected workshop papers will be invited for a special issue under negotiation at the moment.

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

PC chairs are Romulus Grigoras, Vincent Charvillat, Harald Kosch and Ralf Klamma