Track Multimedia Information Retrieval and Applications (MIRA)
SITIS 2014: The 10th International Conference on
SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS
November 23 - 27, 2014
MARRAKECH, MOROCCO
http://www.sitis-conf.org/

The track titled "Multimedia Information Retrieval and Application (MIRA)"
focuses on emerging multimedia analysis, modeling, representation and retrieval
techniques. The track also concentrates on new applications, tools, services
that can provide conceptual and contextual information for users using variable
amount, type and diversity of multimedia information accessible in an online
computing environment.

The topics of interest of the track include, but are not limited to:


*** Multimedia Analysis ***
-Multimedia content analysis
-Multimedia signal processing and analysis
-Multimedia search and retrieval
-Query languages and query processing for multimedia retrieval
-Image and video indexing
-High-dimensional clustering for indexing
-Semantics and meta data in multimedia systems
-Multimedia data modeling and visualization
-Multimedia security and rights management
-Multimedia coding, compression, and processing
-Multimedia signal processing and enhancement
-Filtering, Time-Sensitive and Real-time Search
-Computation Linguistics for IR
-Personalized Search
*** Multimedia Application for Information Retrieval ***
-Multimedia networking and communication
-Emergent semantics in content-based retrieval systems
-Multimedia systems, services, architecture and implementations
-Multimedia activity and event understanding
-Mobile, location based and other context based multimedia information retrieval
-Social, user generated, and cloud based multimedia
-3D, Augmented and virtual reality
-Human computer interaction based on multimedia
-Novel IR Interfaces (Exploratory, Interactive, Accessible)
-User Studies, Click Models, Interaction Models
-Entertainment, gaming and e-learning
-Bio-inspired multimedia processing
-Multimedia system for traffic and public security
-Multimedia database and content management
-Multimedia tools (authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing)
-Multimedia benchmarks, evaluation protocols and standards
-Foundations of Information retrieval
-Adversarial IR and Spam
-Cross-language and Multilingual IR
-Semi-Structured Information Retrieval
*** Spatial information systems and applications ***
-Spatial modeling data modeling
-Conceptual and logical models for GIS
-Ontologies for GIS applications
-Semantics issues in GIS
-GIS service modelling
-Spatial data retrieval, query languages and interfaces
-GIS and information grid
-Spatiotemporal data modeling
-Schema mapping and evolution
-Geographical search engines
-Digital geographical libraries
-Spatial information integration and visualization
-Spatial data mining and data warehousing
-Location-based services
-Peer to peer computing for GIS
-Interoperability, standards and metadata management
-GIS middleware architectures
-Environmental and urban GIS
-GIS and remote sensing
*** Submissions including the following topics are also welcomed ***
-eHealthcare and telemedicine
-Social networks, social media and Crowdsourcing
-Cloud computing
-Big data analytics
-Multimedia sensing
-3D and multi-view computing


Submission and publication
The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and
workshop sessions. SITIS'14 invites submission of high quality and
original papers on the topics listed above. All submitted papers will
be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality,
significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages
and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be
included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society
and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes


Important dates
* Paper Submission: September 6, 2014
* Acceptance/Reject notification: October 6, 2014
* Camera ready: October 15, 2014
* Author registration: October 19, 2014

Track Chairs
Andrea KUTICS, International Christian University, Japan
Peter STANCHEV, Kettering University, USA
William GROSKY, University of Michigan, USA

General Co-Chairs
- It will be updated soon. -


Local Organizing Committee Chair
Abdelaziz EL FAZZIKI, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco

Local Organizing Committee
Mohammed SADGAL, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
El Hassan ABDELWAHED, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
Mehdi NAJIB, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco