MAED

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA ANALYSIS FOR ECOLOGICAL DATA

With the recent progress in digital cameras and sensors, as well as in network bandwidth and information storage capacities, the production of multimedia data has become an easy task, resulting in a huge amount of multimedia available on the web, in broadcast data streams, or in personal and professional databases.
This explosion of multimedia data has created the urgent need for efficient organization, browsing and retrieval tools. It has also generated new possibilities for exploiting multimedia data in diverse and specialized applications that can significantly gain from the analysis and understanding of such data.

The automated analysis of such diverse ecology-related multimedia data presents new challenges. The results of such analyses are of great interest to the public as well as domain experts. Examples of the latter include biologists working on understanding the natural environment, promoting its preservation, and studying the behavior and interactions of the living organisms (insects, animals, etc.) that are part of it.