Call for papers
Special Issue on “Content Based Multimedia Indexing”

associated to CBMI 2018 – https://cbmi2018.univ-lr.frMultimedia Tools and Applications, Springer
Guest editors: Georges Quénot, Renaud Péteri and Philippe Joly
ISSN: 1380-7501 (print version)
ISSN: 1573-7721 (electronic version)
2017 Impact Factor 1.541


Motivation
Multimedia indexing systems aim at providing user-friendly, fast and accurate access to large multimedia repositories. Various tools and techniques from different fields such as data indexing, machine learning, pattern recognition, and human computer interaction have contributed to the success of multimedia systems. In spite of significant progress in the field, content-based multimedia indexing systems still show limits in accuracy, generality and scalability. The goal of this special issue is to bring forward recent advances in content-based multimedia indexing.
This call is related to the CBMI 2018 international conference but is open to all contributions on a relevant topic, whether submitted to CBMI 2018 or not. Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished research papers in the broad field of content-based multimedia indexing and related applications. For papers submitted as extended version of CBMI 2018, at least one third of the work should be previously unpublished.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Semantic multimedia analysis
  • Summarization and semantic abstraction of multimedia content
  • Multimedia content characterization and classification
  • Metadata generation, coding and transformation;
  • Multimodal and cross-modal indexing and retrieval
  • Mobile and social media analysis and retrieval
  • Multimedia recommendation
  • Multimedia analysis and indexing beyond semantics, e.g. affect, sentiment, interest
  • Personalization of multimedia content access
  • Interactive multimedia indexing and retrieval
  • Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems
  • Applications of multimedia indexing and retrieval, e.g. in medicine, lifelogs, satellite imagery, video surveillance and culture

Submission guidelines
All the papers should be full journal length versions and follow the guidelines set out by Multimedia Tools and Applications: http://www.springer.com/journal/11042.
Manuscripts should be submitted online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/ choosing as article type “1104 – Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2018)”. When uploading your paper, please ensure that your manuscript is marked as being for this special issue. Information about the manuscript (title, full list of authors, corresponding author’s contact, abstract, and keywords) should be also sent to the corresponding editors (see information above). All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the MTAP regular paper reviewing procedures and ensuring the journal high standards.

Important dates

  • Manuscript Due: March 1, 2019; March 15, 2019
  • First round Decisions (tentative): July 1, 2019;
  • Revisions Due: August 1, 2019;
  • Final Round Decisions: August 25, 2019;
  • Publication: End of 2019.