------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval October 15-16, 2004 New York, NY, USA http://www.liacs.nl/home/mir (Research program available on website) in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2004 EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: September 10, 2004 OVERVIEW Extending beyond the borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. MIR2004 is a peer-reviewed meeting for scientific researchers and users to discuss important challenges in multimedia retrieval. The research program contains 42 high quality papers covering the state of the art in multimedia information retrieval including but not limited to semantic-based multimedia interfaces and retrieval, bio-computing media retrieval, learning paradigms, video summarization and retrieval, WWW analysis and retrieval, and searching cultural heritage collections. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Prof. Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence Prof. John Kender, Columbia University PANEL DISCUSSION "Multimedia Information Retrieval: New challenges" Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy William Grosky, University of Michigan - Dearborn, USA Ramesh Jain, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research China Bernard Merialdo, Institut Eurécom, France Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Michael Lew, LIACS Media Lab, The Netherlands (mlew@liacs.nl) Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (nicu@science.uva.nl) Chabane Djeraba, LIFL, France (Chabane.Djeraba@lifl.fr) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Kiyo Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Youssef Amghar, LIRIS, France Erwin Bakker, LIACS Media Lab, The Netherlands Catherine Berrut, CLIPS, France Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Xavier Binefa, University of Barcelona, Spain 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