Multimedia and the Cloud 2017 and
Multimedia Streaming in Information-/Content-Centric Networks (MuSIC)

Workshop held in conjunction with ICME 2017
Monday, July 10, 2017, 8:15AM - 12:30PM


Call for papers


Subject Areas: Multimedia Cloud and Big Data

The proliferation of cloud computing and storage infrastructure as well cloud services provides a rich platform for multimedia researchers and developers to innovate new applications and services which would not have been possible before. For example, video streaming of high-definition content has now reached a fairly mature state. However, going forward we will only see an increase in multimedia applications which will require assistance from the cloud for multimedia processing and delivery. Examples include 3D content (stereo vision, 360° virtual reality), interactive content, server-assisted multi-party conferencing and gaming, and large-scale visual recognition. Microsoft Azure’s Cognitive Services APIs and Google Cloud’s Vision, Speech, and NLP APIs are just beginning to scratch the surface of what will be possible when multimedia meets the cloud. In addition, the proliferation of mobile devices which need assistance from the cloud for multimedia applications keeps increasing. Also, the number of applications utilizing big data keeps increasing. In this workshop, we aim to provide a forum for research which includes both multimedia services (recognition, processing, coding, delivery) running in the cloud, multimedia applications which utilize the cloud, and big data multimedia applications.


High quality research in all areas related to multimedia and the cloud are solicited. Potential topics of interest are the following.


  • Cloud-assisted multimedia content ingestion, processing, coding, storage, and delivery
  • Multi-party conferencing and gaming
  • Multimedia big data processing
  • Interactive client-server multimedia applications
  • Cloud-assisted virtual reality and augmented reality applications
  • Multimedia recognition in the cloud and hybrid cloud/device recognition
  • Multimedia social applications and content sharing utilizing the cloud
  • Cloud resource management issues specific to multimedia
  • Privacy / access control for cloud hosted multimedia content
  • Mobile multimedia cloud applications and stream analytics

  • Important Dates

    Workshop paper submission deadline: 13 March 2017
    Author decision notification: 7 April 2017
    Camera-ready paper: 19 April 2017
    Workshop date: 10 July 2017, Morning (AM)
    ICME 2017 Conference date: 10 - 14 July 2017


    Paper submission

    Please follow the paper formatting procedures outlined here. Paper submission should be done at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICME2017W. Each workshop is listed as a subject area in the system, please make sure to choose "Multimedia and the Cloud".


    Organizing committee

    Sanjeev Mehrotra (sanjeevm@microsoft.com), Microsoft Research, Redmond
    Honggang Wang (hwang1@umassd.edu), University of Massachusetts (UMass), Dartmouth
    Zhi Wang (wangzhi@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn), Tsinghua University, Beijing
    Wenwu Zhu (wwzhu@tsinghua.edu.cn), Tsinghua University, Beijing


    TPC Members

  • Fangming Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
  • Zhang Wei, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Luo Yong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Han Hu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
  • Feng Wang, The University of Mississippi, USA
  • Zhenghua Li, Tsinghua University, China
  • Chuan Wu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Vladimir Rocha, University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Laura Toni, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

  • Technical Program
    The technical program of the workshop has been merged with the Workshop on Multimedia Streaming in Information-/Content-Centric Networks (MuSIC).

    Monday, Monday, July 10, 2017, 8:15AM - 12:30PM

    Welcome + Keynote Talk: 8:15AM-9:00AM

  • Towards Cost-Driven Control and Management for Cloud Multimedia Networks
    Yonggang Wen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Oral Session #1: 9:00AM-10:30AM
    Session Chair: Sanjeev Mehrotra

  • Color Me, Store Me, Know Me Not: Supporting Image Color Transfer and Storage in Encrypted Domain over Cloud
    Amitesh Singh Rajput and Balasubramanian Raman, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
  • RNCDDS – Random Network Coded Distributed Data System
    Hiroshi Nishida, ASUSA Corporation, USA
    Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University, USA
  • Privacy-preserving Outsourced Image Feature Extraction
    Li Dongmei, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
    Dong Xiaolei and Cao Zhenfu, East China Normal University, China
  • Visual Saliency for Image Captioning in New Multimedia Services
    Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Giuseppe Serra, and Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena, Italy


  • Break: 10:30AM-11:00AM

    Oral Session #2: 11:00AM-12:30PM
    Session Chair: Zhi Wang

  • Investigation of Push-based Traffic for Conversational Services in Named Data Networking
    Philipp Moll, Daniel Posch, and Hermann Hellwagner, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
  • INADS: In-Network Aggregation and Distribution of IoT Data Subscription in ICN
    Lijun Dong and Guoqiang Wang, Futurewei Technologies Inc., USA
  • Efficient and Compact Visual Feature Descriptors Hashing using Hierarchical Multiple Assignment K-Means
    Simone Ercoli, Marco Bertini, and Alberto Del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, Italy
  • Classification of Commodity Based on Multimodal Image and Text Information
    Yan Xu, Yufang Tang, and Yuanjie Zheng, Shandong Normal University, China
    Chingyi Suen, Concordia University, Canada