CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CIVR 2003 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE AND VIDEO RETRIEVAL Website: http://www.civr.org July 24-25, 2003 Beckman Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 USA Keynote speakers: Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research Ramesh Jain, Georgia Tech Plenary Talks: Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University Chris Porter, Getty Images Panels Sessions: Experiential Media Environment and Interaction Organizer: Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University Evaluating Video Navigation: Pointers for the Future Organizer: Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University WHY ATTEND? CIVR is one of the leading forums for image and video retrieval. The conference program contains papers on a wide variety of topics including user modelling, shape matching, benchmarking/evaluation, clustering, compressed retrieval, video summarization, and many more. A feature of this conference is the mixture of researchers and practitioners which makes CIVR a unique forum for ideas and collaborations. The conference program contains forty-six papers which represent the state-of-the-art in image and video retrieval. The presentations include the leading work from research labs such as IBM Research, Philips Research, University of Tokyo, University of Illinois at UC, Carnegie-Mellon, etc. These are augmented with panel discussions on the user experience and evaluation of retrieval systems. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Previous conferences have attracted computer scientists, strategists, librarians, museum informatics specialists, archivists, digital library researchers, government information providers, publishers, and content specialists from a broad cross-section of sectors and disciplines. Typically, there is an equal mix of university and industy/government attendees. VENUE The conference takes place at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For further details of the conference venue see http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/ ACCOMMODATION Attendees can find a number of good hotels within walking distance of the Beckman Institute. REGISTRATION Registration covers attendance at the conference, proceedings, refreshments, and all meals (breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, and dinner). Graduate students qualify for discounts. The sponsoring institutions are: Beckman Institute, Tsinghua University, The Institute for Electrical Engineers, Philips Research, and Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. The fees are: $250.00 (student) and $350.00 (others). Full details of the program, together with registration forms, are available at the conference website www.civr.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Thomas Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, huang@ifp.uiuc.edu Michael Lew, LIACS Media Lab, University of Leiden, mlew@liacs.nl Program Co-Chairs Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, nicu@science.uva.nl Xiang (Sean) Zhou, Siemens Research, xiang.zhou@scr.siemens.com Practitioner Co-Chairs Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, sfchang@ee.columbia.edu Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, delbimbo@dsi.unifi.it Publications Chair Erwin Bakker, LIACS Media Lab, University of Leiden, erwin@liacs.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORS Beckman Institute Tsinghua University The Institute for Electrical Engineers Philips Research Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science and in cooperation with the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Tech. Comm.