Presumably last WIAMIS'08 blog entry...

Some pictures from WIAMIS'08 have been posted on [1] and there you will find a link to some more pictures ... enjoy!

Note that at some point in time www.wiamis2008.org will disappear but the content will be kept on [2].

Thanks again for attending WIAMIS'09 and see you next year in London for WIAMIS'09 [3].
(on behalf of the organization committee)

[1] http://www.wiamis2008.org/pics.html
[2] http://wiamis2008.itec.uni-klu.ac.at
[3] http://wiamis2009.qmul.net/

WIAMIS 2009, 6-8 May 2009, London, UK

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 (1997), Berlin (1999), Tampere (2001), London (2003), Lisboa (2004), Montreux (2005), Incheon (2006), and Santorini (2007), Klagenfurt (2008) WIAMIS 2009 will be held in London.

Important Dates:

• Proposal for Special Session: November 21, 2008
• Paper Submission: December 1, 2008
• Notification of Acceptance: January 16, 2009
• Camera-ready Papers: February 06, 2009

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
• 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
• Identification and tracking of regions in scenes
• Voice/audio assisted video segmentation
• Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience
• Analysis and understanding 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 advanced applications
• Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
• Multimedia standards, e.g., MPEG-7 (incl. Query Format), MPEG-21, etc.

Further information: http://wiamis2009.qmul.net/

Web site updates: Workshop Venue, Travel Info, ...

The Web site has been updated:

• Information about the venue
• Travel Information and local transport can be found here

Email address of the webmaster.