CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Databases (CAIVD'98) (in conjunction with ICCV'98) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India 3 January 1998 Content-based access of multimedia databases is a problem that is attracting increasing attention from researchers in the computer vision, image processing, database and information retrieval communities. Robust content-based access of multimedia data involves addressing the difficult issues of multimedia feature extraction, data representation, organization, query formulation and search. This workshop attempts to bring together researchers in these communities that are addressing some fundamental issues in developing robust and computationally effective content-based search of multimedia databases. The workshop received several high quality submissions and 10 papers have been accepted for oral presentation after a fairly rigorous journal-style review process. The accepted papers reflect state-of-the-art research in content-based retrieval, and we hope you will find interesting theoretical contributions as well as attempts to turn them into practical systems. Thanks to Industrial sponsorship, it has been possible to keep the registration fees low. Registration information for the workshop may be found at http://secure.computer.org/conf/iccv/register.htm (email forms are also available). For futher details regarding the workshop including the advance program, please refer to our website at: http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/~sfchang/cbiv98/workshop.html We look forward to meeting you at the Workshop in I.I.T. Bombay. Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood (Chair) Ramesh Jain Linda Shapiro Shih-Fu Chang Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood 128-30e Xerox Webster Research Center 800 Phillips Rd. Webster, NY 14580