Advances in Multimedia Modeling

th Welcome to the 15 International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2009), held January 7–9, 2009 at EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France. MMM is a leadinginternationalconference for researchersandindustry practitionersto share their new ideas, original research results and practical development ex- riences from all multimedia-related areas. MMM 2009 was held in co-operation with the ACM Special Interest Group on MultiMedia (ACM SIGMM). It was a great honor to host MMM 2009, one of the most long-standing th multimedia conferences, at EURECOM in Sophia-Antipolis, France. The 15 edition of MMM marked the return of the conference to Europe after numerous years of activity in Asia, and we are proud to have organized such a prestigious conference on the French Riviera. EURECOM is an engineering school in the domain of information and communication technology and a research center in communication systems. Since its creation in 1991 by TELECOM ParisTech and EPFL, it has developed strong international links with both academic and industrial partners. The heart of EURECOM is its internationally renowned research activities which focus on three areas: networking and security, mobile communications, and multimedia.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2009, held in Sophia-Antipolis, France, in January 2009.

The 26 revised full papers and 20 revised poster papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on automated annotation, coding and streaming, video semantics and relevance, audio, recognition, classification and retrieval, as well as query and summarization.