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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> The 3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis for Ecological Data </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> (Regular and Data Challenge workshop)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> <a href="http://maed2014.dieei.unict.it/" target="_blank">http://maed2014.dieei.unict.it</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> November 7, 2014, Orlando, Florida</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> in association with ACM MM 2014</div>
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<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>>> PAPER submission: June 30, 2014 <<</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>>> Data Challenge registration: April 30, 2014 <<</div>
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<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Best Student Paper Award sponsored by the Group of Italian Researchers in </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Pattern Recognition (GIRPR)</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Digital cameras and sensors are used increasingly in a range of monitoring or exploratory applications, in particular for biological, geological and physical surveys. These technologies have revolutionized our ability to capture multimedia data on large scale for environmental monitoring and are also greatly improving our ability to effectively manage natural resources and increasing our competitiveness. For example, the Xeno-canto project has recorded several thousands of bird sounds from all over the world; the Pl@ntNet project has collected massive plant images for analyzing geographic distribution of plants in the Mediterranean area; the Fish4Knowledge project has recorded many Terabytes of video data for monitoring Taiwanese coral reefs.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Despite the recent technology advances has enabled massive data collection, its analysis usually requires very time-consuming and expensive input by human observers. This analytical “bottleneck” greatly restricts the use of these technologies and demands for efficient organization, browsing and retrieval tools to enable proactive provision of analytical information.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The automated analysis of such ecology-related multimedia data presents new challenges and the results are of great interest to the general public (e.g. considering mobile-based plant recognition applications for amateurs) as well as to domain experts. Examples of the latter include biologists working on understanding the natural environment, promoting its preservation, and studying the behavior and interactions of the living organisms (insects, animals, etc.) that are part of it.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The 3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis for Ecological Data features two tracks:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1) Regular Track aiming to present and report on the most recent methods for the management, processing, interpretation, and visualization of multimedia data recorded for monitoring ecological systems, with particular attention to the understanding of the behavior of animals and insects.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2) Data Challenge Track aiming to test image retrieval, computer vision and machine learning methods on a complex and extensive ecological visual dataset, which poses significant challenges in large-scale visual analysis, feature indexing and similarity search. For more details, see <a href="http://maed2014.dieei.unict.it/data-challenge-track/" target="_blank">http://maed2014.dieei.unict.it/data-challenge-track/</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Papers may be submitted to any of the two tracks, and there is no requirement for participating to the data challenge in order to submit a regular paper, and vice versa. Both regular and data challenge submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted submissions will be included in the workshop proceedings.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">IMPORTANT DATES</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
REGULAR WORKSHOP</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Deadline for paper submission: June 30, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2014</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Deadline for camera ready paper and registration: August 24, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- October 12, 2012: workshop day</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">DATA CHALLENGE TRACK</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Data Challenge Registration: April 30, 2014</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Training Data Release: May 7, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Test Data Release: May 20, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
-- Deadline for run submission: June 30, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Notification of acceptance and release of results: August 7, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
-- Deadline for camera ready paper and registration: August 24, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">SCOPE</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The topics of interest for the convention include, but are not limited to, the following areas:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Ecological Multimedia Content Analysis and Processing</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Ecological Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Computer Vision for Ecological Video/Image Processing</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Animals and Insects Behavior and Event Understanding</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Video and Signal Based Surveillance of Ecological Sites</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Participatory and Social Environmental Media Analysis</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Multimedia Systems and Middleware for Ecological Data</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Summarization, browsing and organization of ecological content</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Interfaces, presentation, integration and visualization tools of ecological data</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Methods for ecological content annotation including crowdsourcing solutions</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Semantic Web approaches for ecological data sharing and representation</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Semantic and ontology-driven understanding of ecological data content</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> -- Fine-grained indexing, recognition, classification, categorization and crowdsourced discovery of fine-grained attributes</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ORGANIZATION</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Concetto Spampinato, University of Catania, Italy</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas – Greece. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Marco Cristani, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alexander Loos (Fraunhofer IDMT, DE)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alexis Joly (INRIA, FR)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Angel Sappa (Computer Vision Center, ES)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Antoine Vacavant (Université d’Auvergne Clermont 1, FR)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Barbara Caputo (Idiap Research Institute, China)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Bas Boom (University of Edinburgh, UK)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Benoit Huet (EURECOM, FR)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Daniela Giordano (University of Catania, IT)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Fei-Fei Li (Stanford University, US)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Francesco De Natale (University of Trento, IT)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Gabriella Sanniti di Baia (CNR, IT)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Harald Bosch (University of Stuttgart, DE)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Jenny Benois-Pineau (University of Bordeaux, FR)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kostas Karatzas (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, EL)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Leo Wanner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Loris Bazzani (Dartmouth College,US)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Margrit Betke (Boston University, US)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Nikolaos Gkalelis (CERTH-ITI, Greece & Imperial College London, UK) </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, IT)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ryan Farrell (Brigham Young University, US)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Stefanos Vrochidis (CERTH-ITI, Greece & Queen Mary University, UK) </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Yuanqing Lin (NEC Labs America, US)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Yiannis Kompatsiaris (CERTH-ITI, EL)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Victor Lempitsky (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, RU)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Vittorio Murino (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IT) </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Authors are invited to check the MAED 2014 website link</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://maed2014.dieei.unict.it/paper-submission/" target="_blank">http://maed2014.dieei.unict.it/paper-submission/</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">for details regarding the submission instructions. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
PROCEEDINGS</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Workshop proceedings will be published together with the proceedings of the main conference. Extended and peer-reviewed versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of a top ranked journal.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">RESOURCES</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* MAED 2014 homepage:</div>
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