The advancement in smart multimedia technologies has led to numerous novel applications for the general public to pursue better quality of living. With the use of tiny portable sensors, we acquire useful signals from ourselves and the surrounding environment in a continuous manner. This provides a good source of data for monitoring, automated reminder, smart adaptation and adjustment, as well as decision making. With a perfect integration of these state-of-the-art technologies and data analysis techniques, we make our daily life easier in various aspects including healthcare, recreation, leisure learning, working, shopping, as well as living habit and pattern. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers and scholars to share and exchange their ideas, experiences, visions and research works, and findings in applications that employ multimedia technologies to achieve better life quality. The ultimate goal is to develop a platform to facilitate cross-disciplinary research collaboration with an emphasis on innovative solutions for healthcare, digital entertainment, and e-Commerce.

Topics of interests include, but are NOT limited to, the following:

Multimedia for monitoring and management of personal life
Ubiquitous solution and IoT application in any aspect that improve life quality
Intelligent and intuitive user interface design
Smart sensor device for novel data acquisition and application
Intelligent image analysis and computer vision solution
Consumer behavior for multimedia application
IoT enhanced e-Commerce system
Novel design and technologies in digital entertainment software
Data analysis and mining in personal or large multimedia data collections
Security and privacy issues of signals acquired from sensors
Daily health monitoring and automated consultation using multimedia data
Information visualization and presentation for quality living
VR and AR technology for working and learning related to life quality enhancement



Submissions
All submissions must be original work not under review by any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work as well as work-in- progress. Authors are invited to submit regular papers (up to 6 pages including references) and short papers (3 pages), which will be included in the main conference proceedings. Workshop papers will be official publications of IEEE which will be included in IEEEXplore.

Manuscripts must be written in English and follow the instructions in the Manuscript Formatting and Templates page as the same as the main symposium requirements here. Please complete your submission to IMAD2017 via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imad2017). For any inquiries, please email to wmpang@ieee.org.



Best Paper Award
To encourage high quality contribution to the workshop, we will award significant works presented at the workshop with the best paper award. The recipient(s) will obtain a certificate at the time of workshop.



Program Committee
Prof. Michael Cohen, University of Aizu, Japan
Prof. Song Guo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Prof. Bing Nan Li, Hefei University of Technology, China
Dr. Edmond Shu-Lim Ho, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Dr. Maurizio Caon, University of Applied Science and Arts Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Dr. Ming-te Chi, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan
Dr. Hu Tian, Fujitsu R&D Center Co., Ltd., China
Dr. Senaka Amarakeerthi, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka



Organizers
Dr. Wai-Man Pang, Raymond, Caritas Institute of Higher Education
Dr. Kup-Sze Choi, Thomas, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Jing Qin, Harry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Vane Ing Tian, The Open University of Hong Kong
Dr. Kin Chung Kwan, Caritas Institute of Higher Education