The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international fora for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in all areas of image, video and audio applications, with a special focus on analysis.

After Louvain (1997), Berlin (1999), Tampere (2001), London (2003), Lisboa (2004), Montreux (2005), Incheon (2006), Santorini (2007) and Klagenfurt (2008), WIAMIS 2009 will be held at the Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK.

Decision notifications issued

Paper authors (excluding special session authors) have been notified today of the decisions regarding their paper submissions. If you are an author and have not received the decision on your paper, please contact Sander Koelstra (sander.koelstra@elec.qmul.ac.uk.

Registration opened

The registration site is now opened. Please visit the registration page to register.

Important Dates:

• Notification of acceptance:

  February 3, 2009 (delayed)

• Camera-ready papers:

  February 20, 2009

• Author registration deadline:

  March 1, 2009

• Early registration deadline:

  March 15, 2009

• Conference dates:

  May 6-8, 2009

WIAMIS 2009 will host keynote talks of

• Andrew Zisserman University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Fernando Pereira Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Multimedia content analysis and understanding
• Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio
• 2D/3D feature extraction
• Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio and video
• Relevance feedback and learning systems
• Segmentation of objects in 2D/3D image sequences
• Motion analysis and tracking
• Video analysis and event recognition
• Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience
• Analysis and tools for content adaptation
• Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding
• Content summarization and personalization strategies
• End-to-end quality of service support for Universal Multimedia Access
• Semantic mapping and ontologies
• Multimedia analysis for new and emerging applications
• Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
• Semantic web and social networks
• Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback