This document announces a call for papers for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) on intelligent multimedia systems and technology. It seeks papers on machine learning and data mining techniques for understanding, indexing, searching, and consuming the large amount of multimedia data available online and on mobile devices. Topics of interest include intelligent systems for multimedia data management and search, content understanding of images, video and audio using machine learning, social media analysis, and large-scale learning algorithms for multimedia. Papers will be peer-reviewed and the special issue will be published in two parts, with submission deadlines in February/April 2010 for the first issue and April/May 2010 for the second issue

1. Call for Papers
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)
Special Issue on
Intelligent Multimedia Systems and Technology
Recent years witnessed the explosion of multimedia data on the Internet, desktop and mobile devices,
and there has been an increasing demand of intelligent systems and technology to understand, index,
manage, search and consume these data. Machine learning and data mining have proven to be
promising approaches in many data-intensive applications, and many such efforts have also been
dedicated to multimedia data. The objective of this special issue is to bring together latest research
along this direction. We look for effective machine learning and data mining algorithms, frameworks,
systems, and implementations that particularly work on multimedia data (including image, video, and
audio, which may be also associated with textual information). The focus is to identify real challenges in
intelligent multimedia systems and technology and to investigate practical solutions to the core
problems of multimedia applications in both theoretical and practical perspectives.
Topics of interest include but not limited to:
1) Intelligent systems for multimedia data management, index, search and sharing.
2) Machine learning technology for image, video and audio content understanding.
3) Machine learning technology for multimedia search.
4) Mining of multimedia data (image, video, audio, or any combination of them).
5) Social media analysis and mining.
6) Intelligent technology for Internet multimedia search.
7) Large-scale learning and mining algorithms for multimedia data.
We will publish two issues on this topic, and the two issues have different submission deadlines.
Submissions
On-Line Submission (will be available around April 5, 2010 to accept submissions for the second issue):
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist （please select “Special Issue: Intelligent Multimedia Systems and
Technology” as the manuscript type）
Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the website:
http://tist.acm.org/
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers.

2. Important Dates
Dates for Issue One:
Full Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2010
Review Notification: April 1, 1010
Final Manuscript: May 1, 2010
Publication Date: May/June
Dates for Issue Two:
Full Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2010 May 9, 2010
Review Notification: June 25, 1010
Final Manuscript: July 25, 2010
Guest Editors
Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Qi Tian (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Firenze, Italy)
Ramesh Jain (University of California, Irvine, USA)