ADVANCED CALL FOR PAPERS CIVR '2002 - THE CHALLENGE OF IMAGE AND VIDEO RETRIEVAL European Conference on Image and Video Retrieval July 18-19, 2002, London, UK http://www.civr2002.org IMPORTANT DATES: March 4, 2002: Submission of full paper April 10, 2002: Notification of acceptance May 1, 2002: Camera-ready full paper GENERAL INFORMATION Image and video storage and retrieval continues to be one of the most exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. However, opportunities within the UK for the exchange of ideas between different groups of researchers, and between researchers and potential users of image retrieval systems, are still limited. The Challenge of Image Retrieval series of conferences was originally set up to bridge the gap between the different communities with an interest in image retrieval. This conference, the fourth in the series, aims to provide a European-wide forum for the discussion of challenges in the fields of image and video retrieval. A unique feature of this conference is the high level of participation from practitioners. Applications papers and presentations suitable for a wide audience are therefore particularly welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Query models, paradigms and languages for image/video retrieval Content-based indexing, search and retrieval of images Feature extraction and representation Visual perception and image/video retrieval Image/video search and browsing on the Web Similarity measures between images/video Semantic retrieval of images and video Pattern recognition techniques for image classification and retrieval Evaluation of image and video retrieval systems Studies of information-seeking behaviour among image/video users HCI issues in image/video retrieval Database architectures for image/video retrieval High performance image/video indexing algorithms Novel image data management systems and applications Image data management for multimedia systems Further areas of interest are security and rights management pertaining to visual data. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Prof. David Forsyth, UC Berkeley SUBMISSIONS Authors are asked to email full papers (no longer than 8 pages in the Springer LNCS style in English), to mailto:civr@liacs.nl with the following information: 1. Title of Paper 2. Short Abstract summarising the main contribution of the paper 3. Contact Author: Name, Email, and Phone Number 4. The paper in postscript or PDF format. Electronic submissions are preferred. If electronic submission is not possible by the author, then 5 paper copies may be sent to: Dr. Michael Lew, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science Leiden University, 2333 CA Leiden NETHERLANDS Phone: +31-71-527-7077, mailto:mlew@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/home/mlew All submissions will be peer reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE John Eakins, University of Northumbria Peter Enser, University of Brighton Margaret Graham, University of Northumbria Richard Harvey, University of East Anglia (Publicity Chair) Michael Lew, University of Leiden (Technical Program Chair) Paul Lewis, University of Southampton Chris Porter, Getty Images, London (Local Chair) Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Larry Chen, Kodak Research Labs, Peter Enser, University of Brighton, David Forsyth, UC Berkeley, John Eakins, University of Northumbria, Graham Finlayson, University of East Anglia, Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam, Margaret Graham, Univ. Northumbria, Richard Harvey, University of East Anglia, Tom Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Josef Kittler, University of Surrey Clement Leung, University of Melbourne Michael Lew, University of Leiden Paul Lewis, University of Southampton Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University Geneve Jiri (George) Matas, CVUT Prague Chris Porter, Getty Images Tony Rose, Reuters Limited Yong Rui, Microsoft Research Phillipe Salembier, University of Barcelona Stan Sclaroff, Boston University Nicu Sebe, University of Leiden Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam CIVR is sponsored by the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA), the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science.