[Imageworld] MA3HO'11 - Call for Papers - Submission deadlines extended

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International ACM Workshop on Multimedia Access to 3D Human Objects

           (MA3HO'11)

http://www-rech.telecom-lille1.eu/ma3ho


In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2011
Nov 28 - Dec 1, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Call for papers

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The Event
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Human Gesture and Behavior Understanding event with two workshops/parts:
- Workshop on Social Signal Processing (SSPW'11);
- Workshop on Multimedia Access to 3D Human Objects (MA3HO'11)

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Background and Motivations
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Modeling, processing, recognizing, searching, and retrieving 3D objects
is a well-established research in multimedia. In these last years,
human-centric multimedia applications for humans and about humans are
becoming popular.

This workshop focuses on “3D humans objects” are three-dimensional
human-objects, that is body, head and face, arms and hands modeled in 3D
for animation, security, HVI, motion and activity analysis; but they
also are three-dimensional objects for humans, such as virtual objects
to be manipulated or graphic instruments for augmented, virtual reality
applications and 3D advanced interactivity.

This workshop aims at taking a leap forward in emerging research of
multimedia access of 3D human objects, aggregating together basic
research in 3D graphics, 3D recognition and retrieval, with experiences
in many different multimedia fields where humans are involved such as
security surveillance and biometry, animation and entertainment, web

and video retrieval, sport analytics, natural interaction, augmented and
virtual reality.

The MA3HO Workshop calls for brave and innovative contributions in this
emerging field of research and aims to create a multidisciplinary
community with converging interests in web access and computer vision,
computer graphics, content-based retrieval, gesture modeling and virtual
worlds.


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Topics of interest
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Topics of interest of MA3HO Workshop include but are not limited to:

- 3D human objects reconstruction from 2D views
- 3D pose estimation from local 2D information
- 2D, 2D1/2 to 3D content-based matching
- Generative / discriminative approaches in 3D object categorization
- 3D face and people identification and re-identification
- Local and global 3D shape descriptors
- Feature extraction for 3D model decomposition and segmentation
- Feature extraction for 3D motion detection and behavior classification
- Partial and many-to-many 3D matching
- Query interfaces and search modalities
- 3D object/face similarity matching, indexing, and mining
- Retrieval with large distributed and heterogeneous 3D datasets
- Semantics-driven 3D object retrieval and classification
- 3D Object ontology
- 3D Social networking
- 3D Retrieval benchmarking
- 3D Gesture analysis and natural interface
- Applications in Multimedia industry, Games industry, Biometrics,
Surveillance and Security, Medicine and Biology,

Augmented reality, Cultural Heritage


We invite researchers interested in these topics to join the MA3HO
workshop, submitting their new ideas, research works on  algorithms,
systems and solutions, or present working demos and applications that
allow efficient, well-tailored multimedia  access to every type of 3D
human objects.

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Program organization and duration
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ACM MA3HO Workshop is planned to be a full day workshop.

The program will include a keynote talk by a well-known researcher in
the field, 2-3 oral sessions with 4 talks each, one poster session with
10-15 poster presentations, and one demo session with 5-6 demos and open
discussion.

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Journal special issue associated
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A special issue on Multimedia Tools and Application has been already
planned with the Journal Editor in Chief, that will collect the six best
papers.


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Important Dates
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Submission deadlines extended:

* Deadline to register a paper:  July 6, 2011, 11:59pm PDT
* Deadline to submit the paper: July 11, 2011, 11:59pm PDT
* Notification deadline: July 30, 2011 August 12, 2011
* Camera ready deadline: September 5, 2011
* Workshop dates: Nov. 28 – Dec. 1, 2011




Workshop chairs
- Rita Cucchiara (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy);
- Mohamed Daoudi (TELECOM Lille 1/LIFL, France);
- Alberto del Bimbo (Univ Florence, Italy).



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