The goal of the Telefonica Multimedia Workshop is to provide a forum to discuss the latest contributions of research on multimedia content analysis and their implications to the Telecom industry (e.g. for Telefónica), to hear the newest thoughts about the role of multimedia content analysis in the context of an operator and to brainstorm about new relevant research areas.

There are a few trends that highlight the importance of multimedia analysis in the context of an operator:

• 1. Telecom companies are becoming more Internet-centric;
• 2. Mobile broadband is becoming pervasive;
• 3. Multimedia mobile devices are ubiquitous;
• 4. The vast majority of digital content is of multimedia nature;

Hence, opportunities arise to provide novel multimedia services to their customers. Some of the areas that we would like to cover in the workshop include: multi-modal multimedia analysis, social media, mobile multimedia, personal media management, opportunities in professional media.

Attendees: In addition to all the speakers, there will be researchers and developers from Telefónica R&D and a few key participants from Telefónica business units.