CALL FOR PAPERS - CBMI'03
 
 Third International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing,
 CBMI'03
 
 September 22-24, 2003
 IRISA, Rennes, France
 http://www.irisa.fr/CBMI03
 
 Programme committee chair : Moncef Gabbouj (Tampere Univ of Technology) 
 Organizing committee chair : Patrick Bouthemy (IRISA / INRIA Rennes)
 
 Schedule :
    Paper submission deadline:   March 1, 2003
    Notification of acceptance:  May 15, 2003
    Camera-ready papers due:     June 15, 2003
 
 CBMI'03 is the third in a series of successful workshops aiming at
 bringing together various communities (audio, video, and image
 processing, textual information retrieval, multimedia databases)
 involved in various aspects of Content-Based Multimedia Indexing.
 Following CBMI'99 and CBMI'01 that were held respectively in Toulouse,
 France, and in Brescia, Italy, CBMI'03 will take place in Rennes,
 Brittany, France. The scientific program of CBMI'03 will include the
 presentation of invited plenary talks and contributed research papers.
 Selected papers from CBMI'99 and CBMI'01 were published in a special
 issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications (14(2), 2001) and of IEEE
 Multimedia (9(2), 2002). Selected papers from CBMI'03 will appear (after
 extension and reviewing) in a special issue of Multimedia Tools and
 Applications. 
 
 The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
 ·       Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
 ·       Multimedia content extraction
 ·       Matching and similarity search
 ·       Construction of high level indices
 ·       Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
 ·       Representation models
 ·       Content-based search techniques
 ·       Video summarization
 ·       Multimedia data mining
 ·       Presentation tools
 ·       Meta-data compression and transformation
 ·       Handling of very large scale multimedia databases
 ·       Applications
 
 PAPER SUBMISSION:
    Full papers (no longer than 8 double-column pages) should be
    electronically submitted no later than March 1, 2003 on the Workshop
    website: http://www.irisa.fr/CBMI03/. Style files (Latex and Word)
    are provided for the convenience of the authors. Please see the
    website of the conference for further information and instructions.