We cordially invite you to submit your original contributions to IWCIM 2020 – the 8th International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding (IWCIM), which will take place as a satellite workshop to MISSI-2020, to be held in Paris, France, on August 26-28, 2020:
http://iwcim.itu.edu.tr/
https://missi.pwr.edu.pl/2020/

IWCIM 2020 is the annual workshop organized by the working group Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning (MUSCLE) of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM).

Multimedia understanding is an important part of many intelligent applications in our social life, be it in our households, or in commercial, industrial, service, and scientific environments. Analyzing raw data to provide them with semantics is essential to exploit their full potential and help us manage our everyday tasks. Nowadays, raw data normally come from a host of different sensors and other sources and are different in nature, format, reliability and information content. Multimodal and cross-modal analysis are the only ways to use them at their best. Besides data analysis, this problem is also relevant to data description intended to help storage and mining. Interoperability and exchangeability of heterogeneous and distributed data is a need for any practical application. Semantics is information at the highest level, and inferring it from raw data (that is, from information at the lowest level) entails exploiting both data and prior information to extract structure and meaning. Computation, machine learning, statistical and Bayesian methods are tools to achieve this goal at various levels.

TOPICS:

The scope of IWCIM 2020 includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

o Multisensor systems
o Multimodal analysis
o Crossmodal data analysis and clustering
o Mixed-reality applications
o Activity and object detection and recognition
o Text and speech recognition
o Multimedia labelling, semantic annotation, and metadata
o Multimodal indexing and searching in very large databases
o Big and Linked Data
o Search and mining Big Data
o Large-scale recommendation systems
o Multimedia and Multi-structured data
o Semantic web and Linked Data
o Case studies

PUBLICATION:

The workshop proceedings will be published in the main conference, MISSI 2020, proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer Nature in its "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series" (indexed by ISI Proceedings, included in ISI Web of Science, EI, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, Scopus, etc.).

SUBMISSION:

All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically in ".pdf" format, through EasyChair. All the special sessions are centralized as tracks in the same conference management system as the regular papers. Therefore, to submit a paper please activate the following link and select the workshop track "8th International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding":

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=missi2020

Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers written in English, of up to 10 pages, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines. Authors can download the Latex (recommended) or Word templates available at Springer's web site. Submissions not following the format guidelines will be rejected without review.

To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the IWCIM 2020 Program Committee and the final decision as for the acceptance will be taken by the MISSI 2020 Program Committee based on recommendations provided by IWCIM committee. Each paper will have at least two reviews.  All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

. Enis Cetin, Bilkent University, Turkey and UIC, USA
. Michal Haindl, Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
. Andras L. Majdik, MTA SZTAKI – Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
. Cristina Ribeiro, INESC TEC- Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
. Emanuele Salerno, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Pisa, Italy

DATES:

Submission of papers: May 15th, 2020
Notification of acceptance: May 25th, 2020
Camera-ready papers: June 1st, 2020
Registration: June 1st, 2020
Workshop date: August 26-28, 2020

Looking forward to meeting you in Paris in August!

– Workshop Organizers –

Behçet Ugur Töreyin, Informatics Instititute, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey
Maria Trocan, Institut Supérieur d'Électronique de Paris (ISEP), Paris, France
Davide Moroni, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Pisa, Italy

http://iwcim.itu.edu.tr/

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