SPIE Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2001 (EI28) ========================================================== January 21-26, 2001 San Jose, California Conference Chairs: Minerva M. Yeung, Intel Corp. Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. Rainer W. Lienhart, Intel Corp. Program Committee: Charles A. Bouman, Purdue Univ. Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia Univ. Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel Corp. John C. Dalton, Synthetik Edward J. Delp III, Purdue Univ. Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research Wolgang Effelsberg, Univ. Mannheim (Germany) Stephan Fischer, Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany) Alan Hanjalic, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands) Matthew J. Holliman, Intel Corp. John R. Kender, Columbia Univ. Zhibin Lei, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs. Shih-Ping Liou, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. Carlton W. Niblack, IBM Almaden Research Ctr. Simone Santini, PRAJA Inc. John R. Smith, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. A. Murat Tekalp, Univ. of Rochester Ahmed H. Tewfik, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities Boon-Lock Yeo, EXP.com Avideh Zakhor, Univ. of California/Berkeley Recent advances in computing and communications are leading to the creation of large scale databases of visual and multimedia information. Such databases are finding ready applications in a wide range of fields such as advertising and marketing, education and training, entertainment, medicine, and remote sensing. Because of the very nature of visual and multimedia data, new and innovative methods are called for in modeling, processing, organizing, and indexing of this data for efficient management, access and delivery of the content. The aim of this conference is to bring together the researchers who are developing such methods, and the users, who are defining the needs for such methods. Over the past few years, this conference has become a premium forum for quality papers addressing these issues. We are soliciting papers in all relevant areas including the following: Areas and topics: Content capture and processing ------------------------------- methods and systems for content population, authoring and capture compressed-domain signal processing, feature extraction and analysis image and video characterization. utilizing standardized media (MPEG1,2,4&7) for efficient media management Database management ------------------- indexing and data organization in databases fast search techniques system optimization for search and retrieval; storage hierarchy platforms issues (distributed, parallel, hybrid, etc.). Similarity measures and semantic features ----------------------------------------- measures and performance evaluation of content similarity similarity measures for audio and music syntactic and semantic feature extraction and classification. Query and content delivery -------------------------- query methods: query by "X" (sketch, face, etc.) browsing and visualization of multimedia data sets user interfaces for audio and music databases fast delivery mechanisms human-computer interaction Integral processing of multimedia data -------------------------------------- joint processing and utilization of text, audio and video data generation of video summary and abstraction (visual and audiovisual). Search, query and delivery on the Internet meta-search engines ------------------- issues related to distributed and heterogeneous systems scalable approaches in storage and network delivery multimedia information retrieval on the Internet. Content protection in media archives ------------------------------------ access control and rights management robust and fragile watermarking of media content. Note: Please note that a 1500-word extended summary which clearly highlights the contributions of the paper is required for application to this conference. The proceedings for this conference will be made available on-site at the symposium. Abstract Due Date: 12 June 2000 Final Summary Due Date: 20 November 2000 Manuscript Due Date: 30 October 2000