BRAVE NEW TOPICS
Special Sessions

ACM Multimedia 2004 is seeking to extend the boundaries of multimedia research presented at the conference through the introduction of its Brave New Topics Sessions. We solicit proposals for special sessions dealing either with topics not usually covered at ACM Multimedia or which introduce entirely new research areas. Example topics include but are not limited to: biomedical applications, multimodal biometrics, multimedia use experience, gaming, and pervasive computing.

The Brave New Topics session is being handled as a separate track at this year's conference. Since acceptance is likely to be highly selective, we encourage you to submit a short session proposal well in advance of the final submission dates. We can provide feedback on your proposal or help bring groups together in expanded sessions.

A total of four brave new topics sessions are being organized at ACM MM 2004
1. Multimedia Service Composition
2. From Context to Content:Leveraging Contextual Metadata to Infer Multimedia Content
3. The Effect of Benchmarking on Advances in Semantic Video Retrieval
4. Multimedia in Life and Health Sciences

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Submission Instructions

Final session proposals are due April 15, 2004. Sessions will nominally consist of three full papers. Session proposals should include a title, a one-page abstract describing the scope of the session, names and bios of the organizers, names of the participants, and abstracts for each of the proposed papers.

Submission should be sent to:

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Important Dates

February 27, 2004
Special session proposals due

March 26, 2004
Feedback notices sent

April 15 , 2004
Final session proposal due

April 30, 2004
Acceptance notification for sessions

June 1, 2004
Full papers due

July 1, 2004
Paper review to authors

July 23, 2004
Camera ready papers due