The 1st Workshop on Large-Scale Multimedia
Retrieval and Mining (LS-MMRM)
in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2009 

Beijing Hotel, Beijing, China
October 23, 2009
http://www.acmmm09.org/workshop/MRM2009/default.aspx

Important Update: In order to share the workshop papers with a broader audience with common interests in large-scale multimedia processing, this workshop will be held in conjunction with the workshop on Web-Scale Multimedia Corpus. The joint technical program is now available: Joint LS-MMRM and WSMC 2009 Program.

The program features keynote address by Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia), and a panel discussion on large-scale multimedia corpus, retrieval and mining by Alexander Hauptmann (CMU), Yihong Gong (NEC Research), Michelle Zhou (IBM Research) and Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo Research).

Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth of multimedia content driven by the wide availability of massive storage devices, high-resolution video cameras and fast networks. Stimulated by recent progress in scalable machine learning, feature indexing and multi-modal analysis techniques, researchers are becoming increasingly interested in exploring challenges and new opportunities for developing much larger scale approaches for multimedia retrieval and mining. Many of these computationally-intensive ideas are now becoming practical because of the broader availability of high-speed clusters and the advent of cloud computing.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners interested in large-scale multimedia retrieval and mining. The workshop will provide a venue for the participants to explore a variety of aspects and applications on how advanced multimedia analysis techniques can be leveraged to address the challenges in large-scale data collections.

All papers in the technical sessions must be high quality original papers which should address important issues in large-scale multimedia analysis, and should be able to demonstrate the proposed approaches can scale to sufficiently large multimedia collections (e.g., hundreds of thousands of images, or hundreds of hours of video or audio content). The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to:

• Indexing and retrieval for large multimedia collections (including images, video, audio and other multi-modal data)
• Large-scale copy detection and near-duplicate detection
• Video event and temporal analysis over large-scale multimedia sources
• Web-scale social-network and content-network analysis
• Machine tagging, semantic annotation, object recognition and ontology management on massive multimedia collections
• Collaborative image and video annotation for distributed users
• Interfaces for exploring, browsing and visualizing large multimedia collections
• Scalable and distributed machine learning and data mining methods for multimedia 
• Scalable and distributed systems for multimedia content analysis
• Construction of standard large-scale multimedia collections

Submissions for this workshop are required to follow the same format as regular ACM Multimedia papers with no more than 8 pages. All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. We will invite extended versions of selected papers for a special issue of a top-tier multimedia journal.

Important Dates:

  Jul. 5, 2009 (Sunday): Extended Submission Deadline

  Jul. 19, 2009 (Sunday): Acceptance Notification

  Jul. 24, 2009 (Friday): Camera-Ready papers