Advances in Data and Knowledge Engineering

CALL FOR PAPERS

INFOS 2008

The 6^th International Conference on Informatics and Systems

www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/

27 – 29 March, 2008

Cairo, EGYPT

Special Track

Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Computing

The past years have witnessed a large number of interesting applications of various Computational intelligence techniques, such as fuzzy logic, rough sets, neural networks, and evolutionary computation, to multimedia processing. With the advances in production, communication and storage techniques, the amount of digital multimedia content is experiencing a huge increase in recent years. This track will focus mainly on the problems and applications that deal with the multimedia computing using computational intelligence techniques as an emerging research area.

Topics

The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the track:

Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Computing

· Image, speech and video storage and compression

· Image, speech and video browsing and searching

· Multimedia recommender systems

· Multimedia summarization

· Multimedia applications in education, health care, bio-imaging and digital libraries

· Multimedia in E-social networks

· Multimedia annotation and sharing

· Natural interfaces and human computer interaction

· Automated video surveillance

· Biometrics (face, hand, gesture)

· Improving multimedia user experience

· Multimedia enhancement and editing

· Mobile video applications

· Multimedia personalization

· Multimedia categorization

· Document processing

· Handwriting recognition

· Object detection and recognition (including faces)

· Video activity analysis (body, gait and gesture)

· Video object tracking

· Speech recognition

· Microphone arrays

· Image, audio and video segmentation

· Intelligent agents for multimedia

· Multimedia feature extraction and matching

· Extracting syntax and semantics from multimedia

· Scalable video and rate adaptation

· Shape analysis and recognition

· Structure from motion

· Stereo imaging

· Image registration

Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Communications

· Real-time protocols,

· End-to-end streaming media,

· Resource allocation,

· Multicast protocols,

· Mobile multimedia communications

· Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless, mobile and ubiquitous environments,

· Extraction and usage of semantic information

· Performance evaluation of multimedia services,

· Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile environments,

· P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile networks,

· Multimedia-on demand servers,

· Multimedia composition,

· Multimedia services,

· Multimedia data Compression techniques,

· Mobile Multimedia Applications & Services,

· Communication and Cooperation through Mobile Multimedia,

· Mobile Multimedia Software Architectures,

· Mobile Virtual and Augmented Reality

· Next generation multimedia communications

· Audio signal processing for next-generation multimedia communication

Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Applications

· Education,

· Electronic Commerce,

· Mobile Commerce,

· Internet Banking,

· Business,

· Medicine,

· Engineering,

· Entertainment,

· Databases,

· Distributed collaboration,

· Video conferencing,

· 3D virtual environments,

· Distributed virtual reality,

· Multimedia authoring,

· Environmental Systems Military Systems,

· Games

· Ambient Intelligence: A Multimedia Perspective

· Biometrics

· Digital Watermarking

· Security

Invited Speaker

Prof. Ajith Abraham, Visiting Professor, Norwegian Center of Excellence, Center of Excellence for Quantifiable Quality of Service.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Track Chair

Aboul Ella Hassanien,

Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University

Track Co-Chair

Neamat El-Gayar,

Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University

Program Committee

Ali Farag, USA

Ajith Abraham, Korea

Amir Atiya, Egypt

Chang-Wook Han, South Korea

Costas Pattichis, Cyprus