Call for Papers - ACM MIR2008
http://www.mir2008.org

ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval

October 30-31, 2008, Vancouver, Canada
(colocated with ACM Multimedia)

Send questions/requests by email to mir@liacs.nl


DEADLINES

- June 20, 2008: Submission of full paper
- July 14, 2008: Notification of acceptance
- July 20, 2008: Camera-ready full paper
- October 30-31, 2008: Conference


KEYNOTE SPEAKER

- Prof. Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

FRONTIERS SESSION INVITED SPEAKER

- Prof. Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine


GOALS

The ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval
is a premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances
in the area of multimedia retrieval. All papers in the main track
must be high quality original papers which address important issues
in multimedia exploration, summarization and retrieval including,
but not limited to:

- Exploration of media archives - browsing, experiential computing

- Interfaces for multimedia exploration, visualization, query and retrieval

- Indexing and search of multimedia data: images, video, audio, 
multi-modal systems

- Digital life experience analysis and retrieval - life logs, digital 
immortality, life bits

- Video surveillance browsing and retrieval, object detection and 
recognition, archiving

- Learning and relevance feedback in multimedia retrieval

- Applications - WWW searching, trademarks, scientific and medical 
media, etc.

- Brave New Topics Session - for pioneering new theories or applications
  (This is a special session - see the paper submission page on the site 
for more instructions)


Double-blind full papers should be submitted using the paper submission 
web system at

http://www.mir2008.org

(preferably 6-8 pages in the ACM Conference style in English).

All papers will be peer-reviewed.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair: Michael Lew (Leiden University)

Program Co-Chairs: Alberto del Bimbo (University of Florence), Erwin 
Bakker (Leiden University)

Brave New Topics Chair: Mark Zhang (SUNY Binghamton)

Publicity Chair: Mark Huiskes (Leiden University)

Asian Liaison: Kiyo Aizawa (University of Tokyo)

Local Arrangements: Brooke Hardy (ACM), Charles Krasic (Univ. British 
Columbia)

SIG MM Chair: Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

SIG MM Director of Conferences: Nevenka Dimitrova (Philips Research)


SPONSORS

ACM (with SIG Multimedia)

Getty Images

HeliosTek

LIACS Media Lab, Leiden University

Microsoft Research

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
under FOCUS/BRICKS grant number 642.066.603

Philips Research