4th International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering (MDDE-04) July 2nd 2004, Washington DC In conjunction with Computer Vision Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR-04) http://cvl.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/cvpr2004 http://mdde04.inf.uni-bayreuth.de/ OBJECTIVES MDDE-04 workshop is aimed to bring together researches working on multimedia problems, including video, audio, image, and text. Works on multimodal analysis of the digital media content, indexing for and mining from multimedia databases and multimedia applications from diverse applied disciplines are invited to participate. Particularly, the workshop will address the following questions: - What are the current research problems and the applications addressed involving multimedia data and documents? - What are the specific issues in knowledge extraction from multimedia data and documents composed of image, sound and video? - What are suitable representations and advanced architectures that can facilitate multimedia data and document management, indexing, retrieval and transmission? - Can the existing database and data mining techniques be adapted and enhanced for knowledge discovery from multimedia data and documents? Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics: - Analysis, content and knowledge extraction from multimedia data - Indexing and content-based retrieval of multimedia data and documents - Semantic representation and modeling - Genre classification for video/image and web documents - Relevance ranking of images, video clips and web documents for queries - Mining from semi structured data (video, image, audio, web documents) - Multimedia query processing and optimization - Multimedia Standardization Models (MPEG7, MXF, SMIL) - Multimedia content description languages and metadata CHAIRS Sadiye Guler, Visual Information Systems, NGIT/TASC, USA, sadiye.guler@ngc.com Alexander G. Hauptmann, School of Computer Science, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA, alex@cs.cmu.edu Andreas Henrich, Media Informatics, Univ. of Bamberg, Germany, mail@andreas-henrich.de PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Marie-Aude Aufaure, Supelec, France - Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA Roquencourt, France - Shih-Fu Chang, University of Columbia, USA - Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany - John Fisher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, USA - Ramesh Jain, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Frank Kurth, University of Bonn, Germany - Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft, China - Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Herve Martin, LSR, IMAG, France - Mark Maybury, MITRE Corporation, USA - Klaus Meyer-Wegener, University of Erlangen and Nuremberg, Germany - Wolfgang Mueller, University of Bayreuth, Germany - Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK - Stefan M. Rueger, Imperial College London, UK - Ingo Schmitt,University of Magdeburg, Germany - Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida, USA - Monique Thonnat, Sophia Antipolis, France - Arjen P. de Vries, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission Deadline: February 24th, 2004 - Notification of Acceptance: April 5th, 2004 - Camera-ready papers due: April 29th, 2004