Call for Technical Demos at CIVR 2006 The 5th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2006) will take place in Tempe, Arizona, during 13-15 July 2006. CIVR is the premier technical conference dedicated exclusively to image and video retrieval and is attended by an international community of researchers from both academia and industry. This year's Technical Demonstrations will showcase leading edge work and work in progress in every areas of image and video retrieval. All submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality. An award will be given for the best technical demonstration, as judged by an evaluation panel. Demonstrators will be provided with space and access to a local (wired) network. Participants will be required to provide their own computing equipment and any additional network, display, etc., hardware needed for the demonstration. What to submit: A short paper (4 page maximum) describing your technical demo. Please use the standard LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) In addition to the short paper, you may optionally submit one or more of the following multimedia documents that describe or illustrate the demonstration: - a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation - a Macromedia Flash presentation, or - an MPEG video clip (not more than 3 minutes long) Please submit your demonstration proposal by sending email with the paper and other supporting materials as attachments to Nicu Sebe (nicu at science.uva.nl). Important Dates Technical Demo Submission Deadline 9 March 2006 Technical Demo Acceptance Notification 20 April 2006 Camera-ready papers 4 May 2006