--------------------------------------------------------------------------- MIR 2004 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval October 15-16, 2004 New York, NY, USA www.liacs.nl/~mir in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2004 IMPORTANT DATES: July 5, 2004: Submission of full paper August 1, 2004: Notification of acceptance August 6, 2004: Camera-ready full paper OVERVIEW Extending beyond borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-medical science, the Internet, streaming video, databases, cultural heritage collections and peer-2-peer networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techiques on how to browse, search, and summarize multimedia collections. MIR2004 is a peer-reviewed meeting for scientific researchers and users to discuss important challenges in multimedia retrieval. We are soliciting high quality original papers which address important issues in multimedia information retrieval including, but not limited to: Learning and relevance feedback in multimedia retrieval Bio-medical multimedia mining and indexing (MRI, X-Ray, CT, ...) Indexing and retrieval from streaming audio & video Summarization and visualization of multimedia Multi-modal human-computer interaction Query languages and query processing for multimedia retrieval User perspectives and user modeling for multimedia retrieval Semantic content analysis Intelligent agents for multimedia indexing and retrieval Multimedia retrieval for pervasive computing Preserving cultural heritage Multi-modal event detection and recognition Retrieval from multi-modal life logs High performance multimedia databases Fusion of Multimedia Content based retrieval of novel media Content-based indexing, search, and retrieval of multimedia data PAPER SUBMISSION Email full papers (no longer than 8 pages in the ACM style sheet in English), to mir@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. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Michael Lew, LIACS Media Lab, Netherlands Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Chabane Djeraba, LIFL, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Kiyo Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Youssef Amghar, LIRIS, France Erwin Bakker, LIACS Media Lab, The Netherlands Xavier Binefa, University of Barcelona, Spain Catherine Berrut, CLIPS, France Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, USA Theo Gevers, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Alan Hanjalic, TU Delft, The Netherlands Thomas Huang, Univ. of Illinois at UC, USA Alex Jaimes, FujiXerox, Japan Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK Brigitte Kerherve, University of Quebec, Canada Anil Kokaram, Trinity College, Ireland Wei Ying Ma, Microsoft Research, China Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Stefan Rueger, Imperial College London, UK Yong Rui, Microsoft Research, USA Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Claudia Schremmer, CSIRO, Australia Florence Sedes, IRIT, France Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland Arnold Smeulders, Univ. 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 Univ. of Tech., Australia Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China Zhongfei Zhang, Binghamton University, USA Xiang (Sean) Zhou, Siemens Research, USA