Informatica - An International Journal of Computing and Informatics   
 
  Special Issue on 

 

 Multimedia Mining in Soft Computing

http://ai.ijs.si/informatica/

 

The Deadline is Extended to 15/12/2004

 

Guest editors

 

 Prof. Karen Egiazarian

 

       Dr. Aboul Ella Hassanien

 

       A significant amount of multimedia data is being generated every day and the explosion of multimedia content in digital libraries, bio-medical science, the Internet, streaming video, databases, cultural heritage collections and peer-2-peer networks has created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techniques on how to browse, search,   and summarize media collections and mining multimedia data. Multimedia Data Mining can be defined as a study to find unknown knowledge and unique patterns in the multimedia data by reducing the gap between the high-level semantics of media objects and the low-level features extracted from them.   

 

Soft computing methodologies (involving fuzzy sets, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and rough sets) are most widely applied in the data mining.   Fuzzy sets provide a natural framework for the process in dealing with uncertainty. Neural networks and rough sets are widely used for classification and rule generation. Genetic algorithms (GAs) are involved in various optimization and search processes, like query optimization and template selection. Other approaches like case based reasoning and decision trees are also widely used to solve data mining problems. Due to their strong learning and cognitive ability and good tolerance of uncertainty and imprecision, Soft Computing techniques have found wide applications.   For soft-computing, multimedia mining brings new challenges as data is extremely large in size, uses different modalities and has a rich internal structure.  Required technologies are speech recognition, text mining, video and image analysis, information retrieval, and summarization

 

This special issue aims at providing an opportunity for researchers from different disciplines to present state-of-the-art and trends in   multimedia mining in soft computing.  The special issue will be oriented towards both theoretical and applications aspects of multimedia mining in soft computing. The issue will also make it possible for researchers and developers to highlight new research directions, new applications, and a growing number of relationships between soft computing and data mining and knowledge discovery, intelligent information systems, synthesis and analysis of complex objects and non-conventional models of computation. We emphasize that articles to appear in this special issue must satisfy the high standards of the Informatica - An International Journal of Computing and Informatics http://ai.ijs.si/informatica/

 

 

Submissions will be evaluated on Novelty, Generality, Significance, Clarity and Support criteria. We invite the submission of full length   papers to  Informatica - An International Journal of Computing and Informatics special issue that will detail the state-of-the-art and trends in multimedia mining in soft computing.  Example topics include but are not limited to:

*       Soft-computing for Spoken interface for data retrieval

*       Soft-computing for Music Similarity, Clustering and Understanding

*       Soft-computing for Audio/Video indexing for the Web

*       Soft computing for Content-based information retrieval and Similarity

*       Soft computing for  matching in multimedia information access

*       Soft computing for  knowledge extraction from image data;

*       Soft computing for knowledge extraction from sound data;

*       Soft computing for knowledge extraction from video data;

*       Soft computing for automatic video annotation and indexing;

*       Soft computing for internet multimedia information access

*       Soft computing for Intelligent agents for multimedia indexing and retrieval

*       Soft computing for Multi-modal event detection and recognition

*       Soft computing for Retrieval from multi-modal life logs

*       Soft computing for High performance multimedia databases

*       Soft computing for Fusion of Multimedia

*       Soft computing for Content based retrieval of novel media

*       Soft computing for supported information visualization, browsing and navigation

*       Soft computing for Multimedia data analysis

*       Soft computing for Classification and indexing of multimedia information objects

*       Soft computing for Theoretical framework for multimedia data mining;

*       Soft computing for Multimedia data mining methods and algorithms;

*       Soft computing for Complexity, and scalability of multimedia mining algorithms;

*       Soft computing for Classification of multimedia documents;

*       Soft computing for Clustering and proximity of multimedia documents;

*       Soft computing for  Preprocessing and representation of multimedia data;

Prospective papers should be unpublished and present novel, fundamental research offering innovative contributions either from a methodological or an application perspective. The special issue will consist of peer-reviewed original contributions and peer-reviewed invited contributions of an explanatory/review type. We expect to have a fast reviewing process and publish the special issue less than one year after the deadline for submitting papers.  (See below). Those accepted for publication are edited for conformance to the journal's style. A submitted paper may be either theoretical or experimental; research surveys will also be considered

Authors should follow the Informatica - An International Journal of Computing and Informatics http://ai.ijs.si/informatica/  format described at the journal site.  Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete paper by email to one of the guest editors, according to the following timetable.
 

Manuscript Due

15  Dec.  2004

Acceptance Notification  

1 Feb. 2005

Final Manuscript Due

1, May, 2005

Publication Date

2nd Quarter, 2005

 
 
If you have any additional questions, don't hesitate to contact either of the guest editors.  All submissions will be refereed following the normal practices of the journal.  
 
Guest Editors

1.       Prof. Karen Egiazarian

Tampere University of Technology
Institute of Signal Processing
Spectral & Algebraic Methods in Signal Processing
Korkeakoulunkatu 1
33720 Tampere
Finland

Phone: +358 3 3115 3860
Fax: +358 3 3115 4326
E-mail: karen@cs.tut.fi
Homepage: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~karen 

2.     Dr. Aboul Ella Hassanien

Kuwait University
College of Business Administration
Quantitative and Information System Department
P.O. Box 5486 Safat
Code No. 13055
Kuwait

Phone: +965 611 6203
Fax: +965 483 9406
E-mail: Abo@cba.edu.kw
Homepage: http://www.cba.edu.kw/abo