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    Tagging and Metadata for Social

    Information Organization Workshop

    8 May 2007

    Banff, Canada

    This workshop will be held in conjunction with the World Wide Web 2007 conference. A wide range of topics will be considered in the social, design, and computational aspects of tagging and social information organization. The following topics, however, will be of primary interest: semantics, cognition, social networks, usability and interfaces, and tagging multiple kinds of media across multiple media types.

    For more information visit http://www2007.redlog.net.

    Int'l Workshop on Multimedia Content

    Analysis and Mining

    30 June–1 July 2007

    WeiHai, China

    This workshop will consist of four half-day sessions, each consisting of a panel followed by discussions and poster presentations. The four basic session topics are multimedia analysis and applications; multimedia search and mining; peer-to-peer streaming; and security. Within these topics, a wide variety of additional topics could be covered, such as multimodal interaction and integration, multimedia content description and indexing, affective content analysis, context-aware multimedia communications, and robust watermarking and authentication of multimedia.

    For more information visit http://www.mcam07.com.

    Int'l Conf. Mobile Learning

    5–7 July 2007

    Lisbon, Portugal

    This conference seeks to provide an international perspective and empirical research on some of the greater issues in mobile learning. Potential topics include gaming and simulations in mobile learning; collaborative, cooperative, and contextual mobile learning; mobile learning in developing countries; and new tools, technologies, and platforms for mobile learning.

    For more information visit http://www.mlearning-conf.org.

    ACM Int'l Conf. Image and Video Retrieval

    9–11 July 2007

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    A unique feature of this conference is the reportedly high level of participation from practitioners. Potential topics include content-, semantic-, and affect-based indexing, search, and retrieval of images and videos; advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for images, audio, and video; fusion of multimedia data sources; retrieval from multimodal lifelogs; and ontologies for annotation and search of images and videos.

    For more information visit http://www.civr2007.com.

Calls for Papers

    IEEE Int'l Conf. Software, Telecommunications, and

    Computer Networks

    27–29 September 2007

    Split, Croatia

    This conference invites authors to submit papers representing original results in all areas of communication software, telecommunications, and computer networks. Specific topics could include Internet and IP-based environments, mobile and wireless communication, multimedia and virtual reality systems, computer methods in biomedicine, and optical and photonic communications.

    Complete manuscripts are due by 1 June 2007. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors of the selected best papers will be invited to submit revised, extended versions of the manuscripts for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Communications Software and Systems. For more information visit http://www.fesb.ht/SoftCOM.

    IEEE Signal Processing magazine

    Special issue on spoken language technology

    The goal of this special issue is to solicit tutorial articles with comprehensive surveys of important theories, algorithms, tools, and applications of spoken language technologies on existing and new commercial, academic, and government applications. Potential topics include information extraction from speech, machine translation of spoken language, voice-based human-computer interfaces, multimodal processing, and speech and language processing on the Web.

    Prospective authors should submit a white paper by 1 June 2007 summarizing their motivation, the significance of the topic, a brief history, and an outline of the content. Authors with accepted proposals will be invited to write a full manuscript. For more information visit http://www.ee.columbia.edu/spm.

 
 
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