Ebook: Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining: International Workshop, MCAM 2007, Weihai, China, June 30-July 1, 2007. Proceedings
- Tags: Multimedia Information Systems, Information Storage and Retrieval, Computer Communication Networks, Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Image Processing and Computer Vision, Computer Graphics
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4577 Information Systems and Applications incl. Internet/Web and HCI
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Welcome to the International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining, MCAM 2007. Our workshop gives a snapshot of the current wor- wide research in multimedia analysis. Through recent advances in computing, networking, and data storage, multimedia will create new interesting technical possibilities in a wide range of ?elds, such as entertainment, commerce, science, medicine, and public safety. To bene?t from this potential, developers need - liable techniques for the analysis, search, and management of multimedia data, as well as distributed system architectures in which these techniques can be embedded to e?ectively help the users. Recently, there have been many workshops and meetings dedicated to M- timedia, but most of them followed the standard pattern consisting mainly of oral and poster presentations. We all feel that there is a need for a meeting that really is a workshop, i.e., one that provides a lot of opportunities for discussions and dissemination. Consequently, the format of the workshop consists of 4 p- els on hot topics in multimedia followedby discussions and poster presentations. The topics of the panels are: Multimedia Analysis and Applications, Multi- dia Search and Mining, P2P Streaming, and Security. This volume contains a number of invited contributions from experts in the area as well as the selected regular contributions. This year 139 submissions from 13 countries were submitted and 46 were accepted for presentation at the conference after being reviewed by the Program Committee members.
The International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining, held in Weihai, China in June/July 2007, was an opportunity for prominent international experts to come together to present and debate the latest findings in the field. This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of this important workshop.
The volume includes forty-six papers as well as thirteen invited papers. Each paper was carefully reviewed by the editors to ensure thoroughness, accuracy, and readability.
The papers cover a wide range of issues, including all aspects of multimedia in the fields of entertainment, commerce, science, medicine, and public safety. Among the topics addressed are multimedia analysis and applications, multimedia search and mining, p2p streaming, and security.
Readers gain access to the latest thinking in the field as well as the most advanced applications.