CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 Special Session on Similarity Measures for Content-Based Multimedia
 Retrieval 8th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent
 Information and Engineering Systems (KES2004) Wellington, New Zealand
 20-24 September 2004 http://www.kesinternational.org/kes2004/
 
 AIM AND SCOPE
 
   The aim of this session is to provide a forum for researchers to
   exchange ideas on the meaning and measurement of ``similarity'' in
   content-based multimedia retrieval. In information retrieval, the
   terms ``similar'' and ``relevant'' are often used interchangeably,
   usually without any supporting justification.  In many content-based
   multimedia retrieval systems, the (usually tacit) assumption is made
   that similarity is captured by some metric on a feature space---often
   Euclidean. We solicit papers that address these issues, and
   particularly those that investigate the implications of the choice of
   a given similarity measure on retrieval performance, in terms of both
   accuracy and efficiency. 
 
 TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE:
   - the nature of similarity
   - the relationship between similarity and relevance
   - psychological and psychophysical data on visual similarity judgements,
     as applied to multimedia retrieval
   - mathematical approaches to the measurement of similarity
   - performance evaluation of differing similarity measures
 
 PUBLICATION
   Each paper should be no longer than seven pages in LNCS/LNAI format.
   Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two referees in the
   relevant areas.  Accepted papers, after revision according to the
   referee comments, will be included in the conference proceedings,
   which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in
   Artificial Intelligence series. At least one author of accepted papers
   must register and present the paper at the conference. 
 
 INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
   Only electronic copies of the papers in Postscript or PDF format are
   acceptable for review purposes, and must be emailed to the session
   chair. Please refer to the Springer-Verlag web site
   ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) for directions on
   the Final Paper Format, which must be strictly followed for all
   papers that are to appear in the proceedings. 
 
 IMPORTANT DATES (for this special session only)
   Deadline for paper submission:  April 02, 2004
   Notification of acceptance:     April 19, 2004
   Camera-ready papers to session chair by:  April 30, 2004
   Registration deadline:     June 1, 2004
 
 SESSION CHAIR
   Dr. David McG. Squire, Computer Science and Software Engineering
   Monash University, Australia
   mailto:David.Squire@csse.monash.edu.au
   http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davids/
 
 SESSION WEBSITE: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davids/KES2004_SMMR/