======================================================================= ACM CIVR 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval July 7-9, 2008 Sheraton Fallsview Hotel, Niagara Falls, Canada http://www.civr2008.org ======================================================================= Overview The International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) series of conferences was originally set up to illuminate the state of the art in image and video retrieval between researchers and practitioners throughout the world. This conference aims to provide an international forum for the discussion of challenges in the fields of image and video retrieval. CIVR2008 is seeking original high quality submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field of image and video retrieval. Topics of interest (not limited to) • Content-based indexing, search, and retrieval of images & videos • Semantic-based indexing, search, and retrieval of images & videos • Affect-based indexing, search, and retrieval of images & videos • Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for images and video • Learning and relevance feedback in image/video retrieval • Ontologies for annotation and search of images and videos • Fusion of multimedia • 3D images and models • Image/video summarization and visualization • Evaluation of image and video retrieval systems • Database architectures for image/video retrieval • Novel image data management systems and applications • High performance image/video indexing algorithms • Image/video search and browsing on the Web • Retrieval from multimodal lifelogs • Applications in satellite, forensic, biomedical image and video collections • HCI issues in image and video retrieval • Novel image data management systems and applications Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 28, 2008 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2008 Camera ready papers due: March 31, 2008 Lei Zhang, Ph.D, Lead Researcher Microsoft Research, Asia 49 Zhichun Road, Haidian District Beijing 100080, China Tel: (86-10) 58963197 Fax: (86-10) 88097306 http://research.microsoft.com/users/leizhang