Message from the ICSC-SMM´15 program chairs

ICSC-SMM´15 is the fourth International Workshop on Semantic Multimedia. The aim of the workshop is to promote the state-of-the-art research regarding semantic multimedia. The ICSC-SMM´ 15 workshop provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and scientists in affiliated disciplines to present their latest research progress, exchange brilliant ideas/thoughts, and explore new research directions. We continue seeking high quality research contributions and encouraging significant work that addresses the major challenges in the semantic multimedia domain. Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that span a variety of aspects of semantic multimedia including: • Multimedia big data • Multimedia search and recommendation • Multimedia social networks • Multimedia data mining and retrieval • Media transport and delivery • Semantic multimedia metadata ontology and management • Multimedia content analysis and processing • Social media and presence • Semantics-enabled networking and middleware for multimedia applications • Multimedia security, content protection and forensics • Multi-modal integration, human-machine interaction and applications • Semantic-based QoS control and scheduling • Semantic-based Internet data streaming and delivery • Multimedia-enriched semantic web • Multimedia event detection and understanding • Semantic multimedia demonstrations and applications • Multimedia information fusion for semantics mining • Multimedia near duplication detection • Multimedia mobile applications • Semantic multimedia web interfaces and applications • Semantic web annotations and recommendations • Other related areas