C A L L     F O R     P A P E R S

      CIVR (Conference on Image and Video Retrieval) 2005
  20 - 22 July 2005, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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              *  Date: 20-22 July 2005, Singapore    *
              *  Submission Deadline: 11 Feb 2005    *
              *     (see website for instructions)   *
              *  Website: www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~civr  *
              *           www.civr2005.org           *
              *  Email: civr@comp.nus.edu.sg         *
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GENERAL:
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Image and video storage and retrieval continues to be one of the most
exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia
technology. The International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval
(CIVR) series was set up to highlight the state-of-the-art in image and
video retrieval. It aims to provide an international forum for the
discussion of research challenges and the exchange of ideas among
researchers and practitioners in image/video retrieval technologies.
CIVR2005 is calling for original, high quality submissions that address
innovative research in the broad field of image and video retrieval. A
unique feature of the conference is the high level of participation from
practitioners. Applications papers and presentations suitable for a wide
audience are therefore particularly welcomed.

TOPICS:
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
     * HCI issues in image/video retrieval
     * Affective/Emotional interaction or interfaces
     * Information-seeking behavior of users
     * Evaluation of image/video retrieval systems
     * Database architectures for retrieval
     * Novel data management systems
     * High performance indexing algorithms
     * Interaction with medical image databases
     * Satellite imagery analysis and retrieval
     * Query models, paradigms, and languages
     * Advanced descriptors and similarity measures
     * Content analysis and understanding
     * Image/video summarization and visualization
     * Content-based indexing, search and, retrieval
     * Semantic-based retrieval
     * Human perception-based retrieval
     * Learning and relevance feedback in retrieval
     * Search and browsing on the Web
The proceedings of CIVR2005 will be published by Springer-Verlag as part
of their series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). In
addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an
extended version of their work to a special section of the IEE
Proceedings on Vision, Image & Signal Processing (VIS).


IMPORTANT DATES:
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* Submission Deadline: 11 February 2005
* Notification of Acceptance: 25 March 2005
* Camera-Ready Papers Due: 18 April 2005


ORGANIZATING COMMITTEE:
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Conference Co-Chairs:
   Tat-Seng Chua (National Univ. of Singapore)
   Weiying Ma (Microsoft Research, Asia)
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
   Wee Kheng Leow (National Univ. of Singapore)
   Michael Lew (LIACS Media Lab)
Practitioner Co-Chairs:
   Liang Tien Chia (Nanyang Technological Univ.)
   Sebastien Gilles (LTU Technologies)
Poster and Demo Chair:
   Terence Sim (National Univ. of Singapore)
Publication Chair:
   Erwin Bakker (LIACS Media Lab)
   Lekha Chaisorn (National Univ. of Singapore)
Publicity Co-Chairs:
   Yi-Ping Hung (National Taiwan Univ.)
   Yelizaveta Marchenko (National Univ. of Singapore)
Local Arrangements Chair:
   Rui Shi (National Univ. of Singapore) Conference Secretariat:
   Catharine Tan (National Univ. of Singapore)


ORGANIZED IN CO-OPERATION WITH:
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ACM SIGIR
IEE
Singapore Computer Society