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，已经存在了很多年。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的多媒体，并希望在这个狭窄的领域解决现实世界的问题，这将导致技术的发展。为了实现这一目标，本项目旨在组织一个有关互联多媒体的国际研讨会，以具体解决在社会方面和文化方面两方面约束下的一般媒体理解问题。研讨会结束后，在多媒体、数据挖掘、信息检索和计算机视觉等方面的文献取得了预期的进展，从而体现了学术上的优点；希望通过举办本次研讨会，促进多媒体、数据挖掘、信息检索、计算机视觉等领域的跨学科发展。举办这次研讨会的更广泛影响包括促进计算机科学家与社会科学家以及学术界与工业界之间的合作，共同解决有关连接多媒体的问题，这可能进一步导致技术发展，为一些重要的现实问题提供有效的解决方案。本工作坊所产生的先进文献也可作为相关领域的研究生工作的更新材料，以拓宽和丰富他们的专业培训和教育。http://www.fortune.binghamton.edu/nsf-iis-0956924.htm

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