Call for papers Extended Abstract (up to 5,000 words) Due Date: 7 July 2008 Manuscript Due Date: 27 October 2008 Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems III (EI121) Part of the IS&T/SPIE 21st Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2009 18-22 January 2009 • San Jose Convention Center • San Jose, CA USA Conference Chairs: Raimondo Schettini, Univ. degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy); Ramesh C. Jain, Univ. Of California/Irvine; Simone Santini, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) Conference Cochairs: Alan Hanjalic, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands); Nicu Sebe, Univ. van Amsterdam (Netherlands); Edward Y. Chang, Google, Inc. (Taiwan); Theo Gevers, Univ. van Amsterdam (Netherlands) Modern computer technology has brought multimedia to the limelight as a new communication form, quite possibly the first original communication form of the computer age. Today, "being multimedia" is a real possibility for almost any computer user, and the communicative possibilities that will ensue from this fact will have an impact in a wide range of fields. To benefit from this potential, developers need reliable techniques for the analysis, search, and management of multimedia data, as well as distributed system architectures in which these techniques can be embedded to effectively help the users. The purpose of this conference is to create an international forum to address the research challenges and opportunities of multimedia content analysis, management and retrieval. We are soliciting high quality submissions to present new and daring ideas, question established paradigms and unwritten rules, and introduce new and original research directions in the following (and related) areas: * Content Analysis; Content Management and Delivery; * Content Search/browsing/retrieval; * Internet Imaging and Multimedia; * Applications. The complete call for papers is available at http://spie.org//app/program/index.cfm?fuseaction=conferencedetail&export_id=x16280&ID=x16223&redir=x16223.xml&conference_id=863847&event_id=862795&programtrack_id=862801 Submit your abstract online: Browse to locate the conference to which you are submitting at: http://electronicimaging.org Click on “Submit an abstract.”