2nd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Computing (MMC 2015)
In conjunction with the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2015)
June 29 - July 3, 2015, Torino, Italy

CALL FOR PAPERS

The intimate presence of mobile devices in our daily life, such as smartphones and various wearable gadgets like smart watches, has dramatically changed the way we connect with the world around us. Users rely on mobile devices to maintain an always-on relation to information, personal and social networks, etc. With a growing number of powerful embedded mobile sensors like camera, microphone, GPS, gyroscope, accelerometer, digital compass, and proximity sensor, there is a variety of data recorded and hence enables new sensing applications across diverse research domains comprising mobile media analysis, mobile information retrieval, mobile computer vision, mobile social networks, mobile human-computer interaction, mobile entertainment, mobile gaming, mobile healthcare, mobile learning, and mobile advertising.
The workshop on Mobile Multimedia Computing, MMC 2015, aims to bring together researchers and professionals from worldwide academia and industry for showcasing, discussing, and reviewing the whole spectrum of technological opportunities, challenges, solutions, and emerging applications in mobile multimedia.

Topics of interest include (not limited to)
- Novel multimedia applications taking advantage of mobile devices
- Mobile multimedia indexing and retrieval
- Mobile visual search
- Mobile multimedia content adaptation and adaptive streaming
- Mobile social signal processing
- Human computer interaction with mobile and wearable devices
- User behavior analysis of mobile multimedia applications
- 2D/3D computer vision on mobile devices
- Computational photography on mobile devices
- Ubiquitous computing/adaptation on mobile and wearable devices
- Mobile virtual and augmented reality
- Multi-modal and multi-user mobile sensing
- Action/gesture/object/speech recognition with mobile sensors
- Power saving issues of mobile multimedia computing
- Personalization, privacy and security in mobile multimedia
- Other topics related to mobile multimedia computing

Organizers
- Wen-Huang Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
- Kai-Lung Hua (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
- Klaus Schoeffmann (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
- Wolfgang Huerst (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

Important dates
- Paper submission deadline: March 30, 2015
- Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2015
- Camera-ready due: May 15, 2015 (no extension)

Best Paper Award and more
The MMC Best Paper Award will be granted to the best overall paper. The selection is based on the quality, originality, and clarity of the submission. Besides, selected quality papers will be invited for a related SCI journal publication.

Paper submission and other infos
- The submission guidelines for workshops are the same as those for ICME 2015.
- Workshop paper submission guidelines: http://www.icme2015.ieee-icme.org/submission.php
- More information about this workshop: http://mclab.citi.sinica.edu.tw/open/mmc2015/