Special Issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE
INTELLIGENCE on Digital libraries: Representation and Retrieval

Papers are solicited for a special issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE which will address the
subject of Digital libraries: Representation and Retrieval.  The Guest
Editors for the special issue will be Rosalind W. Picard and Alex P.
Pentland, both of the M.I.T.  Media Laboratory, USA.

With the rapid increase in worldwide networks, people will soon have
access to massive libraries of digital text, sound, image, video and
other special-purpose data.  The biggest obstacle to this
``information glut'' is that the technology for organizing, querying,
and retrieving data from these multimedia libraries is still in its
infancy.

Research in pattern analysis and machine intelligence is needed to
provide tools for accessing the content of these databases.  The
papers in this special issue will describing novel and significant
tools and techniques that facilitate access to the content of large
data collections.  Manuscripts will not be accepted if they have been
previously published, or if they describe algorithms that have not
been carefully evaluated on large databases.  Possible topics for
papers submitted to the special issue include, but are not limited to:

* Robust recognition and retrieval of classes of information, such as
``find all photos containing trees'' or ``all places where there is
laughter.''

* Search on compressed representations, and new representations that
facilitate efficient semantic or perceptual searching.

* Intelligent searching through huge amounts of text or data, e.g. for
DNA matching or drug design.

* Automatic annotation to generate descriptions of data, especially
based on combinations of visual, acoustic, and motion (temporal)
features.

* Recognition of video content invariant to viewing conditions, e.g.,
``Find all other shots of this scene.''

* Computational measures of perceptual similarity: especially texture,
shape, color, that have been evaluated on a large set of data, e.g.,
``computer, are there any other drum patterns that sound like this?''
or ``find fabrics which look most like this one.''

* Segmentation of video/soundtrack/image as applied to database search
and retrieval.

* Automatic extraction of video keyframes, or analogous summarizing
information in non-visual media.

All papers will be reviewed by the guidelines of the transactions.
Please submit four copies of your paper to:

	Prof. Rosalind W. Picard
	MIT Media Laboratory, E15-392
	20 Ames Street
	Cambridge, MA 02139

Schedule:

	Deadline for submission of manuscripts:		June 30, 1995 
	First set of reviews to authors:		December 1, 1995 
	Final manuscripts due:				March 1, 1996 
	Publication of special issue:			November, 1996 

For further information, contact 

	Rosalind W. Picard (picard@media.mit.edu) 
or 
	Alex P. Pentland (sandy@media.mit.edu).