International Workshop on Connected Multimedia

多媒体研究，特别是传统上主要依赖于计算机视觉研究的媒体理解研究，已经存在多年。然而，总的来说，由于计算机视觉研究的挑战性，这一领域仍然是开放的。这个项目的目标是试图将整个领域缩小到连接多媒体，希望解决这个狭窄领域中的现实问题，这些问题将导致技术的发展。为实现这一目标，本项目旨在组织一次关于联网多媒体的国际讲习班，以具体解决在两个制约因素-社会方面和文化方面--下的一般媒体理解问题。研讨会结束后，在多媒体、数据挖掘、信息检索以及计算机视觉的文献方面取得了预期的进展，体现了学术上的优势；预计举办这次研讨会可能会加速和催化多媒体、数据挖掘、信息检索和计算机视觉领域的跨学科发展。组织这次研讨会的更广泛的影响包括促进计算机科学家和社会科学家之间以及学术界和工业界之间的合作，共同努力解决关于联网多媒体主题的问题，这可能进一步导致技术发展，为几个重要的现实世界问题提供有效的解决方案。本研讨会所产生的高级文献也可作为相关领域的研究生工作的最新材料，以扩大和丰富他们对专业培训和education.http://www.fortune.binghamton.edu/nsf-iis-0956924.htm的接触。

Multimedia research, in particular, media understanding research which traditionally largely relies on computer vision research, has been around for many years. However, in general this area still remains open due to the challenging nature in computer vision research. The goal of this project is to attempt to narrow down the whole area to the connected multimedia with the hope to solve for real-world problems in this narrow area that shall lead to the technology development. To achieve this goal, this project is aimed at organizing an international workshop on connected multimedia to specifically address the general media understanding problem under the two constraints -- the social aspect and the cultural aspect. The intellectual merits are manifested through the expected advances in the literature of multimedia, data mining, information retrieval, as well as computer vision after the workshop; it is also expected that organizing this workshop may expedite and catalyze the interdisciplinary development in the areas of multimedia, data mining, information retrieval, and computer vision. The broader impacts of organizing this workshop include the promoted collaborations between computer scientists and social scientists and between academia and industries to work together to solve the problems on the topic of connected multimedia, which may further lead to technological development to provide effective solutions to several important real-world problems. The advanced literature this workshop generates may also serve as the updated materials for the graduate students working in the related areas to broaden and enrich their exposure to their professional training and education.http://www.fortune.binghamton.edu/nsf-iis-0956924.htm