Call for papers on "Mobile Media Search", Special Issue of "IEEE Signal Processing Magazine"
The proliferation of mobile and hand-held devices along with
advances in multimodal and multimedia technologies are giving birth to
a new wave of mobile applications that enable users to quickly and more
naturally find information. Mobility is central to these applications
that capitalize on multimodal input to search for media such as videos,
music, business listings, products and services, or to surf the web or
send an SMS.
The commercialization of mobile media search
applications is giving rise to new technical challenges. Examples of
these challenges include creating speech recognition systems that are
robust to surrounding noisy environments, robust image features and
matching methods suitable for mobile devices, searching through a large
amount of unstructured and semi-structured data, understanding a
variety of inquires from keywords to natural language questions,
summarization of multimedia search results, and personalizing the user
interface to more easily adapt to preferences and geo-locations.
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