MIR 2005

7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval
November 10-11, 2005
Singapore

in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2005

IMPORTANT DATES:

August 5th ,  2005:   Extended submission deadline of full paper
August 22th, 2005:   Notification of acceptance
August 29th,  2005:  Camera-ready full paper

OVERVIEW

The content extraction, indexing, and retrieval of multimedia data continue to be one of the most challenging and fast-growing research areas. Digital libraries, education and training, media commerce, entertainment, home media, video surveillance, bio-computing in bioinformatics, biometrics, and medical multimedia database, have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techniques on how to browse, search, and summarize multimedia collections.

Following the success of the six previous MIR workshops held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conference, the purpose of the 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005) is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry. MIR2005 is calling for originals, high-quality submissions that address innovative research in the broad field of multimedia information retrieval.

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

• Learning and relevance feedback in multimedia retrieval
• Content-based indexing, search, and retrieval of multimedia data
• Summarization and visualization of multimedia
• Indexing and retrieval of streaming audio and video
• Semantic representation and modeling
• Semantic content analysis and annotation
• User perspectives and user modeling
• Intelligent agents for multimedia indexing and retrieval
• Multimedia query languages, query processing and optimization
• Multi-modal human-computer interaction
• Media mining from semi structured data (video, image, audio, and documents)
• High performance multimedia indexing algorithms
• Tools, benchmarks, and standards
• Emerging query and retrieval models: beyond client and server (peer-to-pee)
• Multi-modal/multi-sensor fusion techniques
• Applications in biometrics, bioinformatics, medical multimedia mining and indexing (MRI, CT, PET, …), and surveillance (multi-modal event detection and recognition).

Note: This year the workshop will encourage the submission of paper on emerging topics which we believe that are going to be interesting to the community. Some topics are such as video mining, new applications in biometrics (person identification using face, fingerprint, iris, or multiple soft biometrics), video surveillance, and medical databases, and retrieval of novel media.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submit online. The submitted paper should be no longer than 8 pages in the ACM style sheet in English.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. The workshop proceedings will be printed and appear in the ACM Digital Library.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Hongjiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Center, Beijing, China
John Smith, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, U.S.A
Qi Tian, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A

PANEL SESSION CHAIR

Alejandro (ALEX) Jaimes, FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox (Nakai Research Center) Tokyo, Japan

SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR

James Wang, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Special Session Program

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ramazan S. Aygun, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Nozha Boujemaa, Inria, France
Edward Chang, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Shahram Ebadollahi, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Theo Gevers, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Horace Ip, City University Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Alejandro Jaimes, FXPAL Japan
Munchurl Kim, Information and Communications University, Korea
Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria
C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California, USA
Kenneth K. Lam, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
Michael Lew, LIACS Media Lab, The Netherlands
Mingjing Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Xing Li, Tsinghua University, China
Jiebo Luo, Kodak, USA
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research, China
B. S. Manjunath, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Apostol Natsev, IBM Research, USA
Silvia Pfeiffer, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia
Stan Sclaoff, Boston University, USA
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, USA
James Z. Wang, Penn. State University, USA
Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Tong Zhang, HP Lab, USA
Sean Zhou, Siemens Research, USA