The 6th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS 2014), July 10−12, 2014.

Web: http://icimcs2014.xmu.edu.cn/
Email: icimcs2014@gmail.com (Dr. Yan Yan)

SCOPE:
The 6th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS) will be held from July 10−12, 2014 at Xiamen, Fujian, China. The three-day conference will include invited keynotes, oral and poster presentations. ICIMCS2014 will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on the state-of-the-art of internet multimedia processing, multimedia service, analysis and applications. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial-track papers reporting real multimedia applications and system development experiences.The conference also calls for special session proposals focusing on specifice merging topics in the multimedia area.
All previous ICIMCS papers have been included in the ACM digital library and indexed by EI. Selected high quality papers will be invited to submit to special issues in SCI-indexed multimedia-related journals (e.g., Multimedia Systems Journal, Multimedia Tools and Applications journal).

TOPICS:
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas related to multimedia technologies and applications:
Large-scale multimedia analysis and retrieval Multimedia systems and applications Web scale multimedia annotation and classification Multimedia communications, transmission, and system Multimedia security and rights management Multimedia quality assessment 3D media, virtual and augmented reality Interactive media and HCI Mobile multimedia computing Social multimedia analysis and application Computer vision/machine learning for multimedia application 

SPECIAL SESSIONS: 
Special session proposals should be submitted by January 15 2014 by emailing a single PDF document to Prof. Jianfei Cai (asjfcai@ntu.edu.sg). Proposals for special sessions should include a title, a motivation for the special-session topic, potential authors and titles of papers, contact information including name, affiliation, email, and mailing address for each organizer, and a short CV for each organizer.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
All submissions must be in English and should follow ACM guidelines.The whole paper should be written in 9 points and should be prepared in double-column proceedings style. The default paper length for ICIMCS 2014 is 4 pages, and should be not more than 6, for which the authors should pay for the extract page charges. Papers must be submitted as PDF files. Papers violating the formatting rules, or exceeding the format length will be rejected without review. 

IMPORTANT DATES:
Special Session Proposal: January 15, 2014 Submission of Papers: March 10, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2014 Submission of Camera-ready Papers: May 10, 2014

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Chairs:
Hanzi Wang, Xiamen University, China
Larry Davis, University of Maryland, USA 

Technical Program Chairs:
Wenwu Zhu, Tsinghua University, China
Stephan Kopf, University of Mannheim, Germany Yanyun Qu, Xiamen University, China 

Special Session Chairs:
Jianfei Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yugang Jiang, Fudan University, China Peng Cui, Tsinghua University, China 

Sponsorship Chairs:
Shiqiang Yang, Tsinghua University, China Xuelong Li, Xi'An Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of CAS, China

Publicity Chairs:
Yanning Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Chunhua Shen, University of Adelaide, Australia Jinhui Tang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University, Singapore 

Publication Chairs:
Jun Yu, Xiamen University, China
Jitao Sang, Institute of Automation, CAS, China Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, China 

Organizing Chairs:
Jun Li, Xiamen University, China
Cheng Wang, Xiamen University, China
Yan Yan, Xiamen University, China 

Financial Chair:
Dahan Wang, Xiamen University, China
ACM SIGMM China Chapter Chair:
Yong Rui, Microsoft Research Asia, China
ACM SIGMM China Chapter Director of Conferences:
Changsheng Xu, Institute of Automation, CAS, China