7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing CBMI'2009 Following the six successful previous events (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008), 2009 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) will be held on June 3-5, 2009 at the picturesque city of Chania, in Crete Island, Greece. It will be organized by Image, Video and Multimedia Laboratory of National Technical University of Athens. CBMI 2009 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, such as image processing and information retrieval with current industrial trends and developments. CBMI 2009 is supported by IEEE, EURASIP, University of Athens. The technical program of CBMI 2009 will include presentation of invited plenary talks, special sessions as well as regular sessions with contributed research papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text) Matching and similarity search Construction of high level indices Multimedia content extraction Identification and tracking of semantic regions in scenes Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing Content-based search Multimedia data mining Metadata generation, coding and transformation Large scale multimedia database management Summarisation, browsing and organization of multimedia content Presentation and visualization tools User interaction and relevance feedback Personalization and content adaptation Evaluation and metrics Paper Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers at the conference web site: http://www.cbmi2009.org/submission. Style files (Latex and Word) will be provided for the convenience of the authors. Important Dates Submission of full papers: January 8, 2009 Notification of acceptance: February 23, 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers: March 13, 2009 Early registration due: March 13, 2009 Main Workshop: June 3-5, 2009 Venue CBMI 2009 will be hosted at KAM - Mediterranean Centre of Architecture, Chania, at the island of Crete, one of the most exciting Greek destinations. KAM was settled by Chania municipality in 1996 and is situated since 2002 at Great Arsenali, the old port of Chania. On behalf of CBMI'2009 Organising Committee, CBMI'2009 Publicity chair