Enclosed please find the programme for the IAPR International Workshop
 on Multimedia Information Analysis & Retrieval (MINAR'98) to be held
 in Hong Kong, from August 13 to 14, 1998.  More information [including
 registration information] can be found at the website:
                  http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~minar98

    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                      IAPR International Workshop
                                   on
              MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION ANALYSIS & RETRIEVAL

                               (MINAR'98)

              Organised by IAPR TC12 - Multimedia Systems

                   13-14 August 1998 (Thursday-Friday) 
     City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

         Co-Sponsored by
   IEEE (Hong Kong Section) Computer Chapter

                         Local Arrangements 
     by
                    The City University of Hong Kong
            The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
                  The Chinese University of Hong Kong

                            MINAR'98 Programme

 DAY 1 (13 August, Thur)
 AM
 9:30    Opening Keynote I
         Presence Technology: Accessing Live Multimedia Information Systems
         Ramesh Jain
         University of California at San Diego, USA
 10:30   Coffee
         Image Retrieval
         ===============
 10:45   Content-Based Image Database Retrieval Using Variances of Gray
         Level Spatial Dependencies
         S. Aksoy and R. Haralick
         University of Washington, USA
 11:15   Content-Based Access of VRML Libraries
         E. Paquet and M. Rioux
         National Research Council, Canada
 11:45   Web-WISE: Compressed Image Retrieval Over the Web
         G. Wei, D. Li and I.K. Sethi
         Wayne State University, USA
 12:15   Lunch
 PM
         Video retrieval
         ===============
 2:00    Embodying Semiotic Cues in Video Retrieval
         J. Assfaig, C. Colombo, A. Del Bimbo and P. Pala
         Universita di Firenze, Italy
 2:30    Supporting Video Applications Through 4DIS Temporal Framework
         R.W.H. Lau, H.V. Leong, Q. Li, and A. Si
         City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 3:00    Video Sequence Similarity Matching
         D.A. Adjeroh, I. King and M.C. Lee
         The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 3:30    Coffee/ Poster Session
         The PRIME Information Retrieval System Applied on a Medical Corpus
         C. Berrut, P. Mulhem, F. Fourel, and M. Mechkour
         CLIPS IMAG, France

         Intra-Block Max-Min Algorithm for Embedding Robust Digital
         Watermark into Images
         F.Y. Duan, I. King, L.W. Chan and L. Xu
         The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

         Envelope Parameter Calculation of Similarity Indexing Structure
         X.S. Bai, G.Y. Xu and Y.C. Shi
         Tsinghua University, P.R. China

 4:00    Panel (R. Srihari, R. Jain, A. Smeulders, S.K. Chang)
 5:00    End
 5:30    Tour & Workshop Dinner

 DAY 2 (14 August, Friday)
 AM
 9:30    Keynote II
         Image Retrieval by Multi-Scale Illumination Invariant Indexing
         Arnold Smeulders
         University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 10:30   Coffee
         Image Analysis
         ==============
 10:45   Finding Pictures in Context
         R.K. Srihari and Z.F. Zhang
         State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
 11:15   Image Enhancement and Improvement of Both Color and Brightness
         Contrast Based on Lateral Inhibition Method
         T. Sakamoto and T. Kato
         Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan
 11:45   An Area-Based Shape Representation for Affine Invariant
         Content-Based Retrieval
         H.H.S. Ip, D.G. Shen, W.H. Wong and K. Law
         City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 12:15   Lunch
         Video Segmentation and Spatial Query
         ==================================
 2:00    A Spatial Query Language for Multiple Data Sources Based on
         sigma-Operator Sequences
         S.K. Chang and E. Jungert
         Swedish Defence Research Establishment, Sweden 
 2:30    Video Segmentation Using Color Difference Histogram
         C.F. Lam and M.C. Lee
         The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 3:00    A New Scene Breakpoint Detection Algorithm Using Slice of
         Video Stream
         W.X. Kong, R. Yao and H.Q. Lu
         Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China
 3:30    Coffee
         Indexing and storage
         ==================
 4:00    A Low Latency Hierarchical Storage Organization for Multimedia
         Data Retrieval
         P. Tse and C. Leung
         Victoria University of Technology, Australia
 4:30    Exploiting Image Indexing Techniques in DCT Domain
         C.W. Ngo, T.C. Pong, and R.T. Chin
         The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
 5:00    Content-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval in Image Databases
         for Technical Domains
         P. Perner
         Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences,
         Germany
 5:30    End