EUROMEDIA 2011, April 18-20, 2011, British Institute of Technology and Ecommerce, London UK, Workshops



Conference Workshops

Medical Imaging Systems

Efficient and powerful medical imaging systems have been assuming a growing and crucial importance in medicine, allowing to deeply examination and understanding on the human body and, therefore, playing an essential role for adequate diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.
To accomplish more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, many research works have been done in many domains, such as the ones related with medical image devices, signal processing, image processing and analysis, biomechanical simulation and data visualization.
The main goal of the Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems” is to bring together researchers involved in the related domains, in order to set the major lines of development for the near future.
The Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems” will consist of researchers representing various fields related to Medical Devices, Signal Processing, Computational Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Mechanics, Scientific Visualization, Mathematics, Medicine, Medical Imaging and Hardware Manufacturers. The Workshop endeavours to the contribution of obtaining better solutions for more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, and attempts to establish a bridge between clinicians, researchers and manufacturers from these diverse fields.

The Workshop "Medical Imaging Systems" will cover topics related with (not exhaustive):

  • image acquisition
  • signal processing
  • image processing and analysis
  • modelling and simulation
  • computer aided diagnosis
  • surgery, therapy, and treatment
  • computational bioimaging and visualization
  • software development
  • virtual reality
  • telemedicine systems and their applications
  • assistive technology
  • computational anatomy
  • medical robots
  • imaging devices
  • hardware systems

Organized by:

Joao Manuel R. S. Tavares
Institute for Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management (INEGI)
Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal
Email: tavares@fe.up.pt, web: www.fe.up.pt/~tavares

Daniela Iacoviello
Department of Computer and System Sciences "A.Ruberti"
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Email: Daniela.Iacoviello@dis.uniroma1.it, web: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~iacoviel/

You can download the Call for Papers here

Submissions for the Medical Imaging Systems can be sent in here

Cloud Computing

As one of the fastest growing fields in present-day media cloud computing will constitute for the first time a dedicated track at EUROMEDIA'2011.

  • Software and computing architectures for SaaS and PaaS
  • Programming models for cloud applications and virtualization
  • Cloud application deployment tools and Application Clouds
  • Public, private, hybrid and Community cloud application and data integration architectures
  • Portability of applications and data between different cloud providers
  • Programming tools, plug-ins, and technologies for application monitoring, provisioning
  • Software architectures for cross-cloud integration and inter-operability
  • Web portals for provisioning, monitoring, and deploying Cloud applications
  • Privacy and security in Clouds
  • Experiences with cloud SaaS and PaaS systems
  • Infrastructure as a Service Clouds
  • Software Clouds
  • Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing
  • Case study involving enterprise, business, and government services deployment on cloud

Organized by:

 

Jan Broeckhove
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Email:jan.broeckhove@ua.ac.be.

Submissions for the Cloud Computing can be sent in here

cultrd-it.tv Workshop

3rd Workshop on Digital Television & Digital Special Interest Channels at the Euromedia 2011 - From Realisable Visions to Feasible and Sustainable Applications.

Scope:
In contrast to traditional TV DTV is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals. It uses digitally compressed modulation data, which requires decoding by a specially designed television set or a standard receiver (set-top box) as well as via PC-TV based on ADLS (VDSL). Digital Television has several advantages regarding technically as well as content and programme related aspects. One of the most significant is the use of a smaller channel bandwidth. This frees up space for more digital channels, other non-television services such as pay-multimedia services and the generation of new revenue models based on interactive advertisement and marketing features. Furthermore there are special services such as multicasting (more than one programme on the same channel), electronic programme guides and interactivity providing a wider range of application.
Accordingly within the last year a growing up of specialised digital TV channels (Special Interest Channels) has to be observed European wide. This new growing up stream is mainly characterised by the phenomena of merging television (TV) and information technology (IT) know how, methods and techniques.
In this context the workshop targets to show up the development in both directions: the technically aspects as well as the content and programme issues. It provides a presentation and discussion platform for exchanging experiences made within the establishment as well as the maintenance of digital special interest channels. Main focus will be to point out the interdependencies and the mutual influences of technically streams and content respectively service related issues.

Topics:

 

  • Broadband Television
  • Interactive Television
  • IPTV - Web-TV
  • DVB-H, DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C
  • MHP & Interactive Television
  • Set-Top-Boxes
  • Full Digital Production Chain Management
  • Digital-Video-Journalism
  • DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting)
  • FreeTV & PayTV
  • Interactive Video
  • Interactive Advertising Formats
  • Event Oriented Interview Formats
  • Event Driven Program Schemes & Formats
  • Mobile Content
  • Cross-Format Content & Knowledge Pooling
  • Cross-Media Content Production & Distribution
  • Indexing and Retrieval of Digital Content
  • Semantically Enrichment of Digital Content
  • Security & Digital Rights Management (DRM)
  • Watermarking & Copyrights & Protection
  • Cross-platform productions on TV Media-Convergence
  • Peer-to-peer Grid TV Applications

 

Organised by Dr. Hans-Joachim Nern, cultrd-it.tv, Germany.

You can download the Call for Papers here NOT YET LINKED

Submission Deadlines TBA

: Abstract Submission
: Notification
: Final Paper Submission

Submissions for the cultrd-it can be sent in here

Social Networks

This workshop will look at the applications to search, retrieval, recommendation, and navigation within social networks and covers the following topics:

  • Explicit vs. inferred social links (e.g. mining query logs)
  • Integration of different social networks (e.g. links between blogs and bookmarking systems)
  • Socially induced measures of similarity, relatedness, or distance
  • Co-evolution of social, information, and semantic networks
  • Analysis of the structure and the dynamics of social information networks
  • Behavioral patterns of social linking
  • Linguistic analysis of social annotation spaces
  • Formal and generative models of social annotation
  • Unstructured vs. structured social knowledge representations
  • Implementation and scalability of social link representations
  • Automatic and user-based evaluation
  • Emergent semantics in social networks
  • Robustness against spam and other forms of social abuse
  • Design of collaborative annotation mechanisms
  • Critical mass and incentives of social participation (e.g. games)
  • User interfaces for collaborative annotation

Submissions for the Social Network Track can be sent in here

Cyber Security

Access Control, Applications of Cryptography, Attacks and Viral Software, Polymorphic Threats, Authentication and Authorization, Biometrics and Applications, Critical ICT Resources Protection, Data and System Integrity, Data Protection, Ethics, Digital Content Security, Identity Management, Information Hiding, Information Warfare, Internet and Web Security, Intrusion Detection, Password Protection(alfanumeric, mnemonic and disposable passwords), Peer-to-Peer Security, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Risk Analysis and Management, Secure Electronic Voting, Secure Sensor Networks, Secure Systems Development, Security Architectures, Security Economics, Security Education, Security Management, Security Metrics, Smart Cards, SPAM, SPIT, SPIM, Trust Management and Models

Submissions for the Cyber Security Track can be sent in here

Computer Graphics

Computer Graphics applied into everyday appliances and multimedia hardware.

Submissions for the Graphics Track can be sent in here