About the Workshop

The technological ecosystem to improve the quality of life in urban cities is emerging as a significant revolution. Especially, multimedia driven data analytics and automation tools with breakthroughs are leading towards a new front with visualization systems. Different multimedia sensors and crowdsourcing based data is now available to host the development of new technologies. Considering such importance, this workshop aims to bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss the latest technological developments in urban smart cities. Primarily, the research discussions will focus on various challenges and their resolutions related to urban multimedia processing, retrieval, and security. Such topics include the following:

• Multimodal Content Analysis
  
  • Person Recognition
  • Scene Segmentation
  • Object Detection
  • Gender Recognition
  • Person Behavior Analysis
  • Facial Recognition
  • Anomaly and Violation Detection
• Multimedia Summarization
• Deep Captioning and Content Description
• Advanced Multimedia Enhancement
  
  • Image enhancement under low visibility
  • Image inpainting
  • Image restoration
  • Image dehazing/deraining
• Multimedia Privacy and its Secured Computing
  
  • Secured Multimedia Storage and Retrieval
  • Distributed and Centralized Encrypted Multimedia Computing
  • Security and Privacy Challenges in Multimedia Computing
  • Applications of Secured Multimedia Computing
• Multimedia Retrieval
  
  • Content and context based indexing, search and retrieval of multimedia data
  • Data Indexing Techniques for multimedia retrieval
  • Applications of Multimedia Retrieval to Urban Intelligent Systems
  • Mobile Visual Search
  • Internet of multimedia things
  • Crowdsourcing in multimedia retrieval
  • HCI issues in multimedia retrieval
  • Human perception based multimedia retrieval
  • Query models, paradigms, and languages for multimedia retrieval
  • Deep learning for multimedia retrieval
  • Multimodal content analysis and retrieval

The main goal of the workshop is to promote urban intelligent systems with special emphasis on multimedia computing, retrieval, and security. The workshop is a good opportunity for bringing together leading experts from academia and industry for brainstorming discussions of state-of-the-art methods, challenges, and future prospects.

Authors are invited to submit regular papers (6 pages) and short papers (4 pages). More information: http://www.ieee-mipr.org/submit_instruction.html

Submission address: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MCAUIS2022/Submission/Index

For further queries, please contact: mcauis@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

Keynote Speakers

Kiran Raja
Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Title: Biometric Template Protection and Key Generation using Elliptic Curves

Abstract:
The need to protect biometric data has been well advised according to various regulations and standards. The most popular Bloom Filter-based template protection schemes for iris recognition directly depend on the keys to avoid linkability challenges. This talk discusses existing approaches and a new approach for generating the keys directly from the iris biometric data using chaotic maps and elliptic curves over finite fields. The application of it will be discussed for template protection scheme that can directly exploit the generated keys to provide better security using a Quarter-Rounded template encoding which employs the inter-relation of bits in the neighborhood of the iriscode.

Biography:
Kiran Raja received the Ph.D. degree in computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, in 2016. He is Faculty Member with the Department of Computer Science at NTNU, Norway. He was/is participating in EU projects SOTAMD, iMARS, and other national projects. He is a member of European Association of Biometrics (EAB), chairs Academic Special Interest Group at EAB and is a senior member of IEEE. He serves as a program co-chair of BIOSIG. He is also a member of the editorial board for various journals.