Multimedia Tools and Applications - Call for Papers: Human-centric Multimedia Analysis [1232]
Human-centric multimedia analysis is one of the fundamental problems in multimedia applications. It is a very challenging problem that involves multiple tasks such as face detection and recognition, human pose estimation, human action detection, human-object interaction, person tracking, person re-identification, and so on. Today, ubiquitous multimedia sensors and large-scale computing infrastructures are producing at a rapid velocity a wide variety of big multi-modality data for human-centric analysis, which provides rich knowledge to tackle these challenges. Researchers have strived to push the limits of human-centric multimedia analysis in various applications, such as intelligent surveillance, retailing, fashion design, and services. This special issue will present recent advances in the field of human-centric multimedia analysis, which range from the fundamental problems of face detection and recognition, human body pattern analysis, person re-identification, to human activity analysis or understanding in complex scenarios and industrial applications. They are all important research topics in multimedia tools and applications.
We will discuss the key problems, common formulations, existing methodologies, real industrial applications, and future directions in human-centric multimedia analysis. The scope of this special issue involves in both academic researches and real-world requirements and experiences in the industrial community. Therefore, this special issue will inspire the readers from both academia and industry, and facilitate research in computer vision and multimedia for human behavior analysis and human-centric analysis modeling. The aim of this workshop is to: 1) call for a coordinated effort to understand the opportunities and challenges emerging in human-centric multimedia analysis; 2) identify key tasks and evaluate the state-of-the-art methods; 3) showcase innovative methodologies and ideas; 4) introduce interesting real-world human-centric multimedia analysis systems or applications; and 5) propose new real-world datasets and discuss future directions. We solicit original contributions in all fields of human-centric multimedia analysis that explore the multi-modality data to understand the behavior of humans. We believe this special issue will offer a timely collection of research updates to benefit researchers and practitioners in the broad multimedia communities. To this end, we solicit original research and survey papers in (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Face detection and recognition, face anti-spoofing, face landmark detection and parsing
- Human detection, pose estimation, human parsing, and pose tracking
- Human 3D shape estimation and reconstruction
- Human gait recognition, person re-identification, and person tracking
- Human action recognition and detection
- Human activity recognition using non-visual sensors
- Huma-computer interaction / Human object interaction
- Multimedia event detection
- Anomaly event detection
- Human crowd analysis
Guest Editors:
Chaowei Fang (lead GE), cwfang@xidian.edu.cn, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
Dingwen Zhang, zdw2006yyy@nwpu.edu.cn, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Wu Liu, liuwu1@jd.com, JD AI Research, Beijing, China
Xinchen Liu, liuxinchen1@jd.com, JD AI Research, Beijing, China
Jingkuan Song, jingkuan.song@gmail.com, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Hongyuan Zhu, zhuh@i2r.a-star.edu.sg, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Wenbing Huang, hwenbing@ruc.edu.cn, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: June 13, 2023
Reviewing deadline: August 11, 2023
Author revision deadline: October 2, 2023
Final notification date: November 2, 2023
Submission Guidelines:
Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website. Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx and select “SI 1232 - Human-centric Multimedia Analysis” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at HMCA 2022 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of HMCA papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.