RNDM 2007 : Retrieval 'N' Delivery of Multimedia content Workshop

June 7, 2007 Suzhou, China
in conjunction with INFOSCALE: The Second International Conference on Scalable Information Systems.

Introduction and Motivation

Google's recent acquisition of YouTube has highlighted the public interest in having easy access to a large volume of multimedia content. Nonetheless, indexing and retrieval of  multimedia data are still highly challenging research problems. While text search is strong and mature, techniques for searching multimedia information are still in their infancy. It is still very hard to find pictures by similarity, or to allow users to express complex queries in terms of multimedia features. The "Search by humming" service is a bright example in a very unexplored area. Substantial research is needed to weave together text search and multimedia search.

P2P algorithms offer robust, scalable and highly available ways of exploiting large pools of storage and computational resources. We believe that such algorithms will play an important role in the definition of next generation multimedia retrieval and delivery paradigms. The approach has been shown to be effective for tasks such as file sharing. BitTorrent, for instance, has appeared as a highly efficient means of content distribution. We imagine P2P as a way to connect major content distributors and final users, who can access through desktop computers, and mobile devices. Very complex problems appear when trying to connect devices with limited bandwidth and computing power.

Besides technological problems, there are strong open issues on copyright management, payment schemes, authorship. All these need to be solved for every actor interested in entering the area of content distribution.

Topics of Interest

In this workshop, we will bring together active researchers, developers, and practitioners from both academia and the industry, to discuss technological and management problems related to multimedia information access, distribution and retrieval. Papers are invited in the following (and other related) topics of interest:

   
• Content-based indexing, search, and retrieval of multimedia data
   
• Algorithms for data distribution and search on P2P networks
   
• Multimedia query languages, query processing and optimization
   
• Efficient and scalable storage and search techniques
   
• Tools, benchmarks, and standards
   
• Datasets for multimedia IR applications
   
• Approaches to copyright management
   
• Mobile and low-bandwidth devices

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: April 10, 2007Extended to April 17
• Paper Notification: April 26, 2007
• Camera-ready: April 30, 2007

Papers will be accepted at RNDM after a careful peer-review process.
Accepted papers will be included in the Infoscale 2007 Conference Proceedings.

The workshop will take place on June 7, 2007.

Program Committee

• Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
• Salvatore Orlando, University of Venice, Italy
• Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Fausto Rabiti, ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
• Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA
• Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Submission Guidelines

Papers in PDF should be submitted via COCUS website in ACM conference proceedings format, up to 8 pages in two-column, 10 pt font .

Chairs

Claudio Lucchese and Diego Puppin, ISTI-CNR, Italy