ATQAM: 1st Workshop on Aesthetic and Technical Quality Assessment of Multimedia (ATQAM)

Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2020 in Seattle, USA

https://atqam-workshop.net/

Important Dates (all by midnight, AoE)

• Paper submission deadline: June 29, 2020

• Author notification: August 2, 2020

• Camera-ready submission: August 16, 2020

• Workshop date: October 12 or 16, 2020 (TBC)

Call for Contributions

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the two fields of technical quality assessment (TQA) and aesthetic quality assessment (AQA) for sharing of ideas and discussion on current trends, developments, issues, and future directions, with the vision to accelerate the progress of research in both fields. Our hope is that the bridging between TQA and AQA will result in better understanding of quantitative measures of quality of experience in the broader context of multimedia applications. The scope of this workshop spans the following categories:

Analysis and prediction of aesthetic and technical visual quality:

• Traditional and deep-learning-based approaches

• Aesthetics/QoE related concepts, e.g. interestingness, popularity, viralness

Datasets for TQA and AQA, including:

• New approaches to data collection procedures and sources

• New data augmentation methods

Applications of TQA and AQA in computer vision or image processing tasks:

• Visual filtering and retrieval (recommendation, image gallery/video)

• Visual editing (recomposition, retargeting, cropping)

• Assessment guided visual enhancement

• Real-world systems and applications

• Applications to media such as light fields, 360 or stereo, point clouds.

Invited Speakers

Alan Conrad Bovik Professor, UT-Austin, Primetime Emmy Award Winner for the development of video quality measurement tools that are now standards in television production.

James Z. Wang Professor, Penn. State University, Pioneering researcher in the field of aesthetics quality assessment

Paper Submissions

Original contributions: Full 6 – 8 page paper submissions (not including references).

All contributions must be submitted through CMT using the following link:

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ATQAM2020

For more information, please visit the workshop website: https://atqam-workshop.net/

Organizing Committee

Wen-Huang Cheng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Bastian Goldlücke, University of Konstanz, Germany

Vlad Hosu, University of Konstanz, Germany

Dietmar Saupe, University of Konstanz, Germany

Weisi Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

John See, Multimedia University, Malaysia