___________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS for the First IEEE ICIP 2008 Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval: New Trends and Challenges October 12, San Diego, CA, USA ____________________________________________________________ The members of the Organizing Committee Prof. Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London, UK (General Chair) Prof. Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (Program Co-Chair) Prof. Jian Zhang, NICTA, Australia (Program Co-Chair) cordially invite you to participate in this exciting workshop that will be organized as a prominent part of the program of the IEEE ICIP 2008 conference to highlight the research field of multimedia information retrieval, to discuss current bottlenecks and challenges in the field and present newest out-of-the-box ideas likely to bring the field to a next development stage. The workshop will have an excellent and inspiring technical program consisting of a number of invited talks, including those of Prof. Ramesh Jain, UC Irvine, and Prof. Edward Delp, Purdue University, a regular paper session and a panel. To provide optimal forum for discussion, the regular paper session will be organized as a poster session accomodating all papers accepted for this Workshop. Paper submission deadlne: March 28, 2008 Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2008 Submission of camera-ready papers: June 6, 2008 Please visit the Workshop's website at http://www.icip08.org (or alternatively at http://icip08-mir.qmul.net/index.htm) for more detail about the mission and scope of the Workshop, for latest information and updates. _____________________________________________________________