General Chairs:
Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen,
Deakin University
Zili Zhang,
Southwest University

Program Co-Chairs:
Susanne Boll,
University of Oldenburg
Qi Tian,
Microsoft Research Asia
Lei Zhang,
Microsoft Research Asia

US Liaison:
Jiebo Luo,
Kodak Research Lab

Asian Liaison:
Tat-Seng Chua,
National University of Singapore

European Liaison:
Susanne Boll,
University of Oldenburg

Steering Committee:
Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen,
Deakin University
Tat-Seng Chua,
National University of Singapore
Tosiyasu L. Kunii,
University of Tokyo
Wei-Ying Ma,
Microsoft Research Asia
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,
University of Geneva
Patrick Senac,
ENSICA, France

Local Organizing Chair:
Baohua Qiang,
Southwest University

Special Session Co-Chair:
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam
Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia

Publication Chair:
Guoqiang Xiao,
Southwest University

Publicity Chairs: 
Liang-Tien Chia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Benoit Huet, Institut Eurecom
Li Tao, Southwest University, China 

Demo Chairs: 
Berna Erol, Ricoh California Research Center
Meng Wang, Microsoft Research Asia

Webmaster:
Ming Tang,
Southwest University

Local Organizations:
Southwest University, China
Chongqing University, China
Chongqing Computer Society, China

Overview:
The International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) is a leading international conference http://mmm2010.swu.edu.cn) for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial track papers reporting real multimedia applications and system development experience. The conference also solicits proposals for tutorials on crucial technologies of multimedia modeling, and calls for special sessions proposals focusing on specific new challenges in the multimedia arena.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. 1. Multimedia Content Analysis
   • Multimedia Indexing
   • Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization
   • Multimedia Annotation, Tagging and Recommendation
   • Multimodal Analysis for Retrieval Applications
   • Semantic Analysis of Multimedia and Contextual Data
   • Multimedia Fusion Methods
   • Media Content Browsing and Retrieval Tools
   2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications
   • Media Representation and Algorithms
   • Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and ompression
   • Multimedia Security and Content Protection
   • Multimedia Standards and Related Issues
   • Advances in Multimedia Networking and Streaming
   • Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport
   3. Multimedia Applications and Services
   • Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems
   • Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment
   • Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications
   • Mobile Multimedia Applications
   • Multimedia Web Applications
   • Interactive Multimedia Authoring Personalization
   • Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems)
   • Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Social Media,, Multimedia Collaboration, etc.)

Important Dates: 
Paper submission deadline: July 19, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 21, 2009
Camera ready papers due: October 12, 2009
Author Registration: October 5, 2009