The objective of The Fourth Future Multimedia Networking workshop was to discuss state-of-the-art research and developing activities contributing to aspects of multimedia systems, and networking. This year’s theme was “Future Multimedia Networking: Entertainment and Beyond”. The goal was to look beyond the challenges arising from entertainment services also considering the specific requirements coming from other domains. Therefore a considerable promotion of novel topics specifically focusing on these areas was involved.

The topics included in the conference agenda were:

1. Future Internet Architecture for Multimedia Networking
2. Multimedia/Content/Service/People-centric Networking
3. Social Multimedia Networking
4. Network security pertaining to new multimedia applications and networks
5. Acquisition of multimedia content and Quality of Experience management in future multimedia networking and CCTV networks:
6. Multimedia in corporate communications
7. Multimedia security issues & process control
8. CCTV-driven road traffic management
9. Multimedia guidance systems
10. Multimedia in healthcare systems
11. Seamless multimedia mobility
12. Network measurement/monitoring and performance evaluation of multimedia services
13. Reliability, availability and serviceability of multimedia services
14. Advanced searching methods, search engines and applications for multimedia database
15. Multimedia surveillance and compound security
16. Semantic description of multimedia data and metadata information systems
17. Modern computing methods for multimedia systems and authentication of multimedia contents
18. Interactive multimedia applications
19. Ethical issues in video surveillance and Internet monitoring – systems and algorithms for safeguarding of information

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