CIVR 2009 - Call for Organizers The goal of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) series of conferences is to illuminate the state of the art in image and video retrieval between researchers and practitioners throughout the world. The steering committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to host CIVR2009. Submission Deadline: 7 September 2007 Email proposals or questions to Michael Lew, mlew@liacs.nl Details are available at http://staff.science.uva.nl/~civr2007/civr2009bid.php and http://staff.science.uva.nl/~civr2007/CIVR2009BidInvitation.pdf All decisions are made by majority vote by the steering committee (2007): Chair: Michael Lew, Leiden University Committee Members: Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore Peter Enser, University of Brighton John Eakins, University of York Thomas Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yong Rui, Microsoft Research Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University John R Smith, IBM Research