Overview

Recent advances in pervasive computers, networks, telecommunication, and information technology, along with the proliferation of multimedia-capable mobile devices, such as laptops, portable media players, personal digital assistants, and cellular telephones, have stimulated the development of intelligent and pervasive multimedia applications in a ubiquitous environment. The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, education, and governmental domains. This conference provides an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of multimedia and ubiquitous environment including models and systems, new directions, novel applications associated with the utilization and acceptance of ubiquitous computing devices and systems.

Topics (included, but are not limited to):

• Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing and Beyond
• Ubiquitous Computing and Technology
• Context-Aware Ubiquitous Computing
• Parallel/Distributed/Grid Computing
• Novel Machine Architectures
• Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid
• Smart Home and Generic Interfaces
  
  
• Track 2: Multimedia Modeling and Processing
• AI and Soft Computing in Multimedia
• Computer Graphics and Simulation
• Multimedia Information Retrieval (images, videos, hypertexts, etc.)
• Internet Multimedia Mining
• Medical Image and Signal Processing
• Multimedia Indexing and Compression
• Virtual Reality and Game Technology
• Current Challenges in Multimedia
  
  
• Track 3: Ubiquitous Services and Applications
• Protocols for Ubiquitous Services
• Ubiquitous Database Methodologies
• Ubiquitous Application Interfaces
• IPv6 Foundations and Applications
• Smart Home Network Middleware
• Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID
• U-Commerce and Other Applications
• Databases and Data Mining
  
  
• Track 4: Multimedia Services and Applications
• Multimedia RDBMS Platforms
• Multimedia in Telemedicine
• Multimedia Embedded Systems
• Entertainment Industry
• E-Commerce and E-Learning
• Novel Multimedia Applications
• Computer Graphics
  
  
• Track 5: Multimedia and Ubiquitous Security
• Security in Commerce and Industry
• Security in Ubiquitous Databases
• Key Management and Authentication
• Privacy in Ubiquitous Environment
• Sensor Networks and RFID Security
• Multimedia Information Security
• Forensics and Image Watermarking
  
  
• Track 6: Other IT and Multimedia Applications


 

Important Dates

 

March 1, 2010	Special Session Proposal Due
March 15, 2010	Paper submission deadline
April 15, 2010	Notification of acceptance
April 30, 2010	Camera-ready paper due
August 11 - 13, 2010	Conference events