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Dec 16, 2009

WIAMIS 2010

11th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services

12-14 April 2010, Desenzano del Garda, Italy

The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international events for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services.
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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 a series of successful meetings starting in 1997 in Louvain, WIAMIS 2010 will be held in Desenzano del Garda, by the beautiful Garda Lake, close to Brescia, Italy.

WIAMIS 2010, will host keynote and tutorial talks by:

  • Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
  • David Taubman, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • Marco Tagliasacchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Nicu Sebe, University of Trento, Italy

Special Sessions:

  • Semantic Digital Libraries for Cross-Discipline Retrieval
  • Interactive Multimedia in Social Networks

An extended version of selected papers will be published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Multimedia content analysis and understanding
  • Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio
  • Content-based copy detection
  • Emotional based content classification and organization
  • 2D/3D feature extraction
  • Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio and video
  • Relevance feedback and learning systems
  • Segmentation of objects in 2D/3D image sequences
  • Motion analysis and tracking
  • Video analysis and event recognition
  • Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience
  • Analysis and tools for content adaptation
  • Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding
  • Content summarization and personalization strategies
  • End-to-end quality of service support for Universal Multimedia Access
  • Semantic mapping and ontologies
  • Multimedia analysis for new and emerging applications
  • Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
  • Semantic web and social networks
  • Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback
  • Applications
For more information visit the WIMAIS website - http://www.ing.unibs.it/wiamis2010/