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Multimedia information retrieval is a cross-cutting field. Extending beyond the borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-computing & medical science, the Internet and social networking sites, streaming video, multimedia databases, cultural heritage collections and P2P networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techniques on how to browse, search and summarize multimedia collections and more generally how to afford efficient multimedia content consumption.
The 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) is the premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the area of multimedia retrieval. MIR 2010 is on its second year as a full ACM conference, following nine successful years as a workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conference. The growth of MIR is a result the growing importance of multimedia content in our lives.
Preliminary Program and Presenter Information have been posted
Early registration ends on Feb 5th - REGISTER NOW (hotel info also available)
Group Tour to the World Renowned Barnes Foundation -- Impressionist Paintings:
We will have a group tour to the world renowned
Barnes
Foundation on the afternoon of Sunday, March 28, 2010 (meeting at
about 1:00PM),
prior to the first day of the conference. The Foundation houses one
of the finest collections of French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist,
and early Modern paintings in the world, including an extraordinary
number of masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (181 paintings), Paul
Cézanne (69), and Henri Matisse (59). The collection also includes
important works by Pablo Picasso (46), Chaim Soutine (21), Henri
Rousseau (18), Amedeo Modigliani (16), Edgar Degas (11), Vincent van
Gogh (7), Georges Seurat (6), Edouard Manet (4), and Claude Monet (4).
To participate the tour, please indicate this at the time of registration.
The cost is $20 per person. Note that you cannot visit the foundation
by yourself without a prior reservation.
Do not miss this unique opportunity to enjoy the best of Philadelphia!
This tour, which will be guided by a conference volunteer, is not an
ACM MIR sponsored event and is not within the three-day conference
program. The ticketing fees are collected via the conference
registration site as a courtesy to the conference and tour
participants.
You may also want to consider visiting Philadephia Museum of Art
by yourself. In March 2010, they will feature Picasso.
Concerts and Performing Arts:
Philadelphia hosts some of the world's best orchestras. If you
enjoy classical music, do not miss the performances of the
Philadephia Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia while
attending MIR 2010. The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is just
a couple of blocks away from the recommended hotel. Tickets can be
purchased here:
- Brahms
Violin Concerto in D Major and Serenade No. 1 in D Major (Soovin Kim,
violin; Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor) on March 29 at 7:30PM.
- Mozart and
Elgar on March 27 at 8PM.
- Broadway Series:
Disney's The Lion King on March 27, 28, and 31.
- other performances in March...
More information about touring Philadelphia, please contact our Local Tourism Chair: Brian A. Canada (canada@psu.edu), The Pennsylvania State University, USA
General Conference Chairs:
James Z. Wang, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA, France