Call for Panel Proposals

The 15th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007) will be held in Augsburg, September 23-29, 2007. ACM Multimedia is the premier technical multimedia conference attended by an international community of researchers from both academia and industry.

The panels at Multimedia 2007 will provide a forum for bold position statements and insightful debates on controversial, unresolved, or emerging issues related to all aspects of multimedia. With the panels we would specifically like to stimulate discussions on challenges and research trends. The conference will host two panels, one each on the first and the second day of the conference.

Potential Topics

We solicit proposals in, but not at all limited to, the following topics:

• Is the semantic gap the main obstacle to pervasive multimedia content access?
• Multimedia context is much more than just time and location.
• Personalization challenges for multimedia usage, delivery and recommendation systems
• The impact of a multi-sensory world on multimedia research
• Content analysis versus social network analysis
• Opportunities in the convergence of cyberspace and real space
• Why can't we still build a really usable multimedia content authoring system?

Submission Instructions

The panel proposal (2-3 pages) should include:

• Panel title
• Panelists (name, position, affiliation, country) 
• Panel topic (motivation, issues to be discussed) 
• Panel structure (time needed, schedule of presentations and discussions) 
• Proposers of the panel (name, position, affiliation, country) 

Please e-mail your panel proposal in PDF to the panel co-chairs. Best panel proposals will be selected by the panel co-chairs supported by a Panel Selection Board comprised of members from the ACM MM 2007 Program Committee.

Important Dates

Contacts?

For any questions regarding panels please email the panel co-chairs:

•  Mohan Kankanhalli (NUS, Singapore)
•  Yap-Peng Tan   (NTU, Singapore)