CALL FOR PAPERS
Journal of Multimedia (JMM, ISSN 1796-2048)
Special Issue on Connected Multimedia [PDF]
TOPICAL THEME
Social media has received extensive attention recently and has become a very popular research area due
to its wide spectrum of applications. We note that even though the whole area of social media is very
popular in the literature, there are a group of research issues that are related to the social-cultural
constraints in the social media study that have not yet received sufficient attention. In this context, we group
all these issues together under the umbrella of a new sub-area of social media that we call connected
multimedia.
Consequently, by connected multimedia, we mean the study of the social and technical interactions
among users, multimedia data, and devices across cultures and the explicit exploitation of cultural
differences. Hence, connected multimedia involves the three elements – the users, the multimedia data,
and the devices – with two perspectives – the social focus and the cultural focus. In short, connected
multimedia is about multimedia content and connection across community and cultural boundaries. In
comparison with those existing research areas including social media as its super-area and human
centered computing, we here emphasize that connected multimedia pays more attention to the cultural
difference. The definition of the social side is broader than just national cultures; it possibly includes
cultures of groups, disciplines, organizations, communities, ethnicities, religions, and nations. This
emphasis distinguishes connected multimedia from all other existing areas, which may claim to include
some of these aspects, among many others.
The purpose of this special issue on connected multimedia is to further exploiting social and cultural
constraints for distributed multimedia computing.
Examples of the connected multimedia problems include but are not limited to:
- • Internet multimedia search
• Multimodal and networked surveillance
• Sensor data understanding and mining
• Human behavior understanding under specific cultural constraints
• Social network community discovery and tracking
• Social relationship identifications in imagery/video data
• Multimedia collaborative filtering
• Social games
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper submission deadline April 15, 2011
Notifications of the first round of reviews June 1, 2011
Deadline of the revised submissions July 15, 2011
Final decisions for all the accepted papers Aug 15, 2011
Publication of the special issue Oct, 2011
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors should submit high quality and original contributions that have not appeared, nor are
under consideration, in any other journals. Submissions should follow the guidelines of Journal of
Multimedia, which can be found at: http://www.academypublisher.com/jmm/forauthors.html. For further
questions or inquiries, please contact the corresponding Guest Editor, Dr. Zhongfei Zhang by Email at:
zhongfei@cs.binghamton.edu.
GUEST EDITIORS
- Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang (Email: zhongfei@cs.binghamton.edu)
Computer Science Department, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA
Zhengyou Zhang (Email: zhang@microsoft.com)
Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, USA
Ramesh Jain (Email: jain@ics.uci.edu)
Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Yueting Zhuang (Email: yzhuang@cs.zju.edu.cn)
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China
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