IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries in conjunction with CVPR '98 http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/cvpr98/workshop.html June 21, 1998 Santa Barbara, California ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs Call for Papers: The objective of this workshop is to Chung-Sheng Li, promote information exchange and technical IBM T.J. Watson interaction among researchers and developers working Research Center on algorithms or systems for accessing visual content in large image/video libraries. Avi Kak, Purdue Computer Vision and pattern recognition play an University important role in solving many critical problems in this area, in conjunction with other disciplines Technical (e.g., image processing, database, and information Program Chair retrieval). This workshop will focus on several Shih-Fu Chang, important technical challenges, including Columbia representation, analysis, indexing, retrieval, University classification, and summarization of image/video content. Technical Program Representation: Committee Albert Del Bimbo * Integrated models of various visual features (Italy) * Image/video object representations Ruud Bolle supporting content-based search (IBM) * Description of spatio-temporal relationships Carla Brodley of image/video objects (Purdue U) * High-level event representations supporting David Copper semantic queries (Brown U) Dave Forsyth (UC Berkeley) Analysis: Tom Huang (UIUC) * Segmentation of image/video objects with Ramesh Jain salient features/content (UC San Diego) * Adaptive grouping of features and objects S.Y. Kung * Compressed-domain feature extraction (Princeton U) * Features linking across different levels C. C. Jay Kuo (USC) Indexing: B.S. Manjunath (UC Santa * Efficient indexing algorithms for Barbara) high-dimensional feature space Sanjit Mitra * Robust, scalable indexing algorithms for (UC Santa spatio-temporal queries Barbara) A. Desai Retrieval: Narasimhalu (Singapore) * Efficient query interface for query Wayne Niblack manipulation and relevance feedback (IBM) * Integrated search in federated visual Soo-Chang Pei information systems (Taiwan) * User-friendly navigation through large Remi Ronfard visual archives (France) * Query optimization considering multiple Ishwar Sethi criteria (e.g. storage, speed, bandwidth) (Wayne State U.) Linda Shapiro (Wash. U) Classification: Thomas Sikaro (Germany) * Domain-specific or domain-independent John R. Smith image/video classification (IBM) * Automated (or semi-automated) generation of Harold Stone image/video taxonomies (NEC Research, * Semantic decoding and model selection USA) through learning Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood Summarization: (Xerox) Murat Tekalp * Automated summarization of visual content (U. Rochester) from single or multiple sources Wayne Wolf * Visualization of visual content at different (Princeton U) levels Stephen Wong (UC San Francisco) Evaluation: HongJiang Zhang (HP Labs) * Metrics and benchmarking procedures for performance evaluation Original papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the above technical areas. Paper Submission: Four copies of the complete manuscript should be sent by January 30, 1998 to: Professor Shih-Fu Chang Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University New York, NY 10027 Tel: (212) 854-6894 Email: sfchang@ctr.columbia.edu Each paper should include a title page containing the names and addresses of the authors (including e-mail addresses), an abstract of up to 200 words, and at least five subject keywords. Each paper is limited to 10 double-spaced pages (or 5 single-spaced pages) including figures, references, etc.