************************************************************** ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2010) ACM MIR-2010 Call for Participation Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA March 29-31, 2010 ************************************************************** Call for Participation Early registration period finishes February 5th 2010 Multimedia information retrieval is a cross-cutting field. Extending beyond the borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-computing & medical science, the Internet and social networking sites, streaming video, multimedia databases, cultural heritage collections and P2P networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techniques on how to browse, search and summarize multimedia collections and more generally how to afford efficient multimedia content consumption. The 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) is the premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the area of multimedia retrieval. MIR 2010 is on its second year as a full ACM conference, following nine successful years as a workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conference. The growth of MIR is a result the growing importance of multimedia content in our lives. You can find the preliminary program here: http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2010/program.html Keynote and invited talks --------------------- Academic Keynote (on Day 1) Bio-Image Informatics: Advances and Challenges B. S. Manjunath, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara Industrial Leadership Invited Speaker Session (on Day 2) Multimedia Processing for Advanced Content Services Behzad Shahraray, Executive Director, Video and Multimedia Technologies Research, AT&T Labs Semantic Understanding of Geotagged Pictures Dhiraj Joshi, Research Scientist, Intelligent Systems Group, Eastman Kodak Research Labs Next Generation Map Making: Automation from Mobile Data Collection Alwar Narayanan, Director of Research and Emerging Technologies, NAVTEQ Corporation. Banquet Speech (on Day 2) Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Invited Speakers Session (on Day 3) Implementing a Content-Based Public-Oriented Audio and Video News Retrieval System Gregory Grefenstette, Chief Science Officer, Exalead Recovering the Past through Computation - New Techniques for Cultural Heritage Stephen M. Griffin, Program Director, National Science Foundation Special Sessions --------------------- Oral Session 1: Multi-Modal Music Information Retrieval Organizers: D. Ellis, Y. Kim, D. Turnbull Oral Session 2: Statistical Modeling and Learning for Multimedia Organizers: J. Li, G. Michailidis Oral Session 3: Medical Multimedia Retrieval Organizers: Yu Cao, Henning Muller Poster Session 1: Processing Data Streams from Body Sensor Networks Organizers: B. Prabhakaran, D. S. Turaga Poster Session 2: Multimedia Retrieval in Networked Communities Organizers: N. Ramzan, M. Larson, F. Dufaux, K. Cluver Poster Session 3: MIRFLICKR Evaluation: The Challenge of Visual Concept Detection Organizers: M. Huiskes, M. S. Lew Panel Session --------------------- The role of "hypes" in the multimedia search and retrieval research Moderator: Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Panelists: Nuria Oliver Ramirez, Telefonica, Spain Apostol Natsev, IBM Research Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Michael Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands