The proliferation of multimedia devices and networks has led to an explosion of digital media content being created, resulting in large personal and public multimedia databases in which it has become increasingly difficult to retrieve specific content and browse the large collections. Advances in computing technologies also have brought dramatic improvement in collecting, storing and sharing personal information among government agencies and private sectors. From the use of sophisticated pattern recognition in surveillance video to the simple browsing of personal images or videos – people become increasing demand of the management technologies of their multimedia data: Multimedia Contents Analysis and Applications. Even though the research on Multimedia Contents Analysis technologies began many years ago, most of the existing schemes are inadequate for current multimedia applications.

The paper may focus on architecture construction, algorithm designing or hardware implementation. Both review paper and technical paper are expected. The topics include but are not limited to

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