CALL FOR PAPERS - MIR 2003 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval November 7, Berkeley, CA, USA in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2003 Website: http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~nicu/MIR/ GENERAL INFORMATION The explosion of multimedia content in databases, broadcasts, streaming media, etc. has generated new requirements for more effective access to these global information repositories. Content extraction, indexing, and retrieval of multimedia data continues to be one of the most challenging and fastest-growing research areas. Following the success of the four previous MIR workshops held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conferences, the purpose of the 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2003) is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss issues in retrieving multimedia information from libraries, databases, and streaming media sources. We are soliciting high quality original papers which address a range of issues in multimedia information retrieval including, but not limited to: * Content-based indexing, search, and retrieval of multimedia data * Multimedia data modeling and visualization * Automated semantic annotation * Metadata for multimedia retrieval * Multi-modal human-computer interaction * Query languages and query processing for multimedia retrieval * Multimedia and media mining * User perspectives and user modeling for multimedia retrieval * Semantic content analysis * Intelligent agents for multimedia indexing and retrieval * Tools, benchmarks, and standards * Multimedia retrieval for pervasive devices * New media types and new applications * Multi-modal event detection and recognition * Multi-modal/Multi-sensor fusion techniques * Indexing and retrieval from streaming media * Issues in high performance multimedia databases IMPORTANT DATES August 1, 2003: Submission of full paper August 18, 2003: Notification of acceptance August 29, 2003: Camera-ready full paper PAPER SUBMISSION Email full papers (no longer than 8 pages in the ACM style sheet in English), to lim@liacs.nl with the following information: (1) Title of paper & short abstract summarizing the main contribution (2) Names and contact info of all authors, also specifying the contact author. (3) The paper in postscript or PDF format. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. The workshop proceedings will be printed and appear in the ACM Digital Library. KEYNOTE ADDRESS Prof. David Forsyth of UC Berkeley ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Chabane Djeraba, University of Nantes, France Michael Lew, LIACS Media Lab, The Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Kiyo Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, USA Mohamed Daoudi, LIFL, France Chabane Djeraba, University of Nantes, France Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Alan Hanjalic, TU Delft, The Netherlands Thomas Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK Brigitte Kerherve, University of Quebec, Canada Anil Kokaram, Trinity College, Ireland Michael Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands Maude Manouvrier, Universite Paris IX Dauphine, France Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Stefan Rueger, Imperial College London, UK Yong Rui, Microsoft Research, USA Marta Rukoz, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Stan Sclaroff, Boston University, USA Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands John R. Smith, IBM Research, USA Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, USA Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China Xiang (Sean) Zhou, Siemens Research, USA