In the Internet as well as in the digital era, cross-media production and distribution represent key developments and innovations that are fostered by emergent technologies to ensure better value for money while optimising productivity and market coverage. AXMEDIS2007 aims to explore all subjects and topics related to cross-media and digital-media content production, processing, management, standards, representation, sharing, protection and rights management interoperability, to address the latest developments and future trends of the technologies and their applications, its impact and exploitation. We are particularly interested in exchanging concepts, requirements, prototypes, research ideas, and findings which could contribute to academic research or could be beneficial to business and industrial communities

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Automatic cross-media production, collection, crawling, composition, formatting, P2P, etc. Formats and models for multi-channel content distribution and interoperability Multimedia standards: MPEG-7, MPEG-21, DMP, etc. High quality audio visual coding Multimedia music representation and formatting Watermarking and fingerprinting techniques GRID and distributed systems for content production Real-time streaming media distribution Multimedia middleware Workflow management systems Web services for content distribution Semantic Web for multimedia production and distribution Collaborative models and tools Distribution with P2P architectures Legal aspects related to digital content Collecting and clearing of rights and licences Business, payment and transaction models Digital Rights Management (DRM), models tools, and interoperability Context Awareness Archives management for cultural and educational applications Synchronisation technologies and solutions Systems and approaches for content production/distribution on demand Content adaptation Accessibility and multimodal user interfaces Novel applications and case-studies of relevant technologies