Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Web-scale multimedia corpus

Welcome to the 1st International Workshop on Web-Scale Multimedia Corpus (WSMC'09). The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the construction and analysis of Web Scale multimedia datasets and resources. The Workshop will provide a forum to consolidate key factors related to research on very large scale multimedia dataset such as the construction of dataset, creation of ground truth, sharing and extension of such resources in terms of ground truth, features, algorithms and tools etc. The Workshop will discuss and formulate action plan towards these goals. This workshop welcomes contributions from renowned multimedia researchers on the following topics: Construction, Unification and Evolution of Corpus Framework for sharing of dataset, ground truth, features, algorithms and tools Web-scale Corpus analysis techniques Knowledge mining from web-scale multimedia corpus. Optimization techniques on web-scale multimedia data for efficiency. Techniques for web-scale content-based multimedia retrieval. Other related techniques. Performance evaluation methodologies and standards ACM multimedia 2009 hosts the "Multimedia Grand Challenge" for the 1st time. Web- Scale multimedia applications are among the potential competitors for the Grand Challenge. The availability of a Web-Scale Corpus would effectively boost research in this direction and foster many new applications to the grand challenge for the years to come. The call for papers attracted 13 submissions from Asia, North-America, Europe and Africa. The program committee accepted 6 high quality papers. In addition, the program includes a panel on the topics addressed by the workshop and a keynote speech. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for multimedia researchers and developers as well as foster new research direction and results.