Call for Papers
 
 Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop 2003
 
 in conjunction with the 26th annual ACM SIGIR conference
 ( http://www.sigir2003.org/ ) on Information Retrieval, 1 Aug 2003, Toronto.
 
 IMPORTANT DATES
   30 May 2003: Submission of full paper
   27 Jun 2003: Notification of acceptance
   15 Jul 2003: Revised full paper to be published on the web
    1 Aug 2003: Workshop at SIGIR, Toronto, Canada.
 
 Full call: http://km.doc.ic.ac.uk/mmir2003/
 
 GENERAL INFORMATION
    Following two SIGIR workshops on Multimedia Information Retrieval
    (1998 and 1999), this workshop aims to provide a platform for
    exchange on recent progress in multimedia document indexing,
    browsing, search and retrieval in multimedia document collections.
    Important applications for MM IR have arisen in medical image
    management, law enforcement, detection of copyright infringement,
    entertainment, knowledge management, digital libraries and the
    world-wide-web. As a consequence, Multimedia Information Retrieval is
    a fast-growing field within information retrieval, databases and
    multimedia. 
 
    This workshop solicits full paper submissions on searching and
    retrieving images, speech, video, text and music as mono-media
    documents or any multimedia combination of these; topics include but
    are not limited to
  - Content-based indexing, search and retrieval
  - Feature extraction and representation 
  - Automated semantic annotation
  - High performance indexing algorithms
  - Similarity measures between documents
  - Human perception
  - Query models, paradigms and languages
  - Search and browsing mechanisms
  - Presentation of search results
  - Representation and summarisation 
  - Relevance feedback (explicit or implicit)
  - User studies
  - Document classification
  - Evaluation of multimedia retrieval systems
  - Database architectures
  - Use of meta-data (eg, MPEG-7)
  - Multimodality and combination of evidence for searches
  - Applications
 Workshop attendance is open to all who register for it.
 
 PAPER SUBMISSION
    Email full papers in English (ideally in the ACM SIG Proceedings
    style http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) to
    http://mmir2003@doc.ic.ac.uk
    with the following information:
    (1) Title of paper & short abstract summarising the main contribution
    (2) Names and contact info of all authors, also specifying the contact
        author. 
    (3) The paper in PDF format.
 
 KEYNOTE TALK
    Prof Alan Smeaton of Dublin City University has kindly agreed to give
    a keynote talk at this workshop. Title and abstract to announced. 
 
 ORGANISERS
  - Stefan Rueger, Imperial College London (http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~srueger)
  - R Manmatha, University of Massachusetts 
(http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/~manmatha)
 
 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
  - Kobus Barnard, University of Arizona
  - Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  - Joemon Jose, Glasgow University
  - Jesse Jin, University of Sydney
  - Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary, University of London
  - Kenneth Lam, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  - Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva
  - Paul Over, NIST
  - Nicu Sebe, University of Leiden
  - Eero Sormunen, Tampere University
  - Uma Srinivasan, CSIRO
  - Arjen de Vries, CWI
  
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