June 27th, 2020 
Daniela Lopez de Luise Call for Submissions
Special Session on “Multimedia Datasets for Repeatable Experimentation (MDRE)”
MMM 2021 – 27th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling
January 25-27, 2021 @ Prague, Czech Republic
Information retrieval and multimedia content access has a long history of comparative evaluation and many of the advances in the area over the past decade can be attributed to the availability of open datasets that support comparative and repeatable experimentation. Sharing data and code to allow other researchers to replicate research results is needed in the multimedia modeling field and helps to improve the performance of systems and the reproducibility of published papers.
The MDRE’21 special session at MMM 2021, the third in the MDRE series, presents an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to submit their datasets to this track, making their work permanently available and citable via the http://mmdatasets.org forum, as well as to increase the public awareness of their considerable efforts. Together with the dataset, authors are asked to provide a paper describing its motivation, design, and usage, a brief summary of the experiments performed to date on the dataset, as well as discussing the way it can be useful to the community. We may additionally accept a small number of position papers of high quality, which we believe can significantly impact multimedia datasets in the future, by addressing various aspects of the dataset creation and release process. We will prefer position papers that are backed up by recent results, which could be already published or appear first in the MDRE submission.
We seek high-quality submissions of length up to 12 pages. We invite a variety of submissions to the special session:
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Dataset papers: These papers should present recent and impactful datasets that would be of interest to the MMM community.
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Position papers: These papers can address various aspects of the creation, release or use of multimedia datasets.
All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review.
Special session papers will supplement the regular research papers and will be included in the proceedings of MMM 2021 and the datasets will be indexed by the MDRE website (http://mmdatasets.org).
Submissions:
Submissions will follow the exact same author guidelines of MMM 2021. The conference proceedings will be published in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. Submissions must not exceed 12 pages and must conform to the formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series, and adhere to the submission schedule. Regular research paper submissions will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process; thus, the submissions must be properly anonymised. Each contribution must be associated with one full registration; only one contribution can be associated with each registration. The submission site can be found here: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mmm2021
Regarding the submission of a paper describing a new MM dataset, the authors are encouraged to make it available by providing a public URL on the MDRE dedicated site that archives outputs of the MDRE special sessions. All datasets described must be licensed in such a manner that it can be legally and freely used with all appropriate ethical approvals completed. Authors are encouraged to prepare appropriate and helpful documentation to accompany the dataset submissions, including examples of how it can be used by the community, examples of successful usage and restrictions on usage.
Why Submit to the MDRE Special Session?
– Accepted contributions will be included in the MMM conference proceedings, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Authors of selected MMM papers will be invited to publish extended versions in a journal special issue.
– Accepted contributions will be listed in the new archive of MDRE multimedia datasets and frameworks (http://mmdatasets.org), thereby increasing their visibility.
– Authors of accepted contributions will be invited to present their dataset (or framework) as part of the special session at MMM 2021.
– MDRE is planned to be an annual special session at the MMM conference series.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: July 12, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: September 20, 2020
Camera-ready submissions: October 18, 2020
Session organizers:
– Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University)
– Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen (Dublin City University)
– Klaus Schoeffmann (Klagenfurt University)
– Björn Þór Jónsson (IT University of Copenhagen)
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