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CALL FOR PAPERS
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ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (ACM-CIVR'07)
July 9-11, 2007
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.civr2007.com
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Important Dates
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Paper Submission : February 5, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2007
Camera-Ready Paper Due : April 9, 2007
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Overview
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Image and video storage and retrieval continue to be one of the most exciting and
fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. However, opportunities
for the exchange of ideas between different groups of researchers, and between researchers
and potential users of image/video retrieval systems, are still limited. The ACM International
Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) series 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. ACM-CIVR2007 is
seeking original high quality submissions addressing 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. Application papers and presentations suitable for a wide
audience are therefore particularly welcome.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Content-based indexing, search, and retrieval of images and videos
* Semantic-based indexing, search, and retrieval of images and videos
* Affect-based indexing, search, and retrieval of images and videos
* Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for images, audio and video
* Learning and relevance feedback in image/video retrieval
* 3D images and models
* Ontologies for annotation and search of images and videos
* Fusion of multimedia data sources
* Image/video summarization and visualization
* Multimodal human computer interaction
* Evaluation of image and video retrieval systems
* Studies of information-seeking behavior among image/video users
* Query models, paradigms, and languages for image/video retrieval
* 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 broadcast, web, cultural heritage,
satellite, forensic, and (bio-)medical image and video collections
Besides regular paper submissions we are asking for submissions of special sessions
and technical demos.
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Keynote Speaker
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Keith van Rijsbergen
University of Glasgow, UK
Andrew Zisserman
University of Oxford, UK
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Venue
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University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The conference will be held in the Old
Lutheran Church where during the academic year the PhD Ceremonies are being held.
The conference venue is a traditional conference location in the historical city
center of Amsterdam and has several auditoria for oral presentations and additional
space for poster presentations.
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Airport and Accessibility
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Amsterdam is a major hub for the whole of Europe. Schiphol International Airport,
located about 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the centre of Amsterdam, has direct scheduled
connections to many cities in the world. Since Schiphol Railway Station is located in
the arrival/departure building of the airport, the centre of Amsterdam can be reached
by train easily in approximately 20 minutes. Apart from taxis, there are frequent train
connections (approximately every 15 minutes throughout the day) from Schiphol Airport to
Amsterdam Central Station, from where you can take a taxi or tram to your hotel or to the
conference venue.
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Sponsors
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University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
IAPR
MultimediaN
MUSCLE
CHORUS
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Organizing Committee
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Conference Chairs
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Program Chairs
Kiyo Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Alex Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Practitioner Chairs
Annemieke de Jong, Sound and Vision, The Netherlands
Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Local Chair
Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Special Session/Panel Chair
Alex Jaimes, FXPAL, Japan
Publication Chairs
Pietro Pala, University of Florence, Italy
Yi Wu, Intel Research, USA
Publicity Chairs
Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Demo Chairs
Allan Hanbury, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, USA
Financial Chair
Jeroen van Rest, TNO, The Netherlands
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Program Committee
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Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA
Patrick Bouthemy, IRISA / INRIA
Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University
Michael Christel, CMU
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore
Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena
Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research
Chabane Djeraba, LIFL
Pinar Duygulu-Sahin, Bilkent University
Peter Enser, University of Brighton
Andrew Fitzgibbon, Microsoft Research
David Forsyth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research Institute / EPFL
Jan-Mark Geusebroek, University of Amsterdam
Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam
Luc van Gool, University of Leuwen/ETH
Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology
Thomas Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ichiro Ide, National Institute of Informatics
Horace Ip, City University of Hong Kong
Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine
Franciska de Jong, University of Twente
Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore
Josef Kittler, University of Surrey
Anil Kokaram, Trinity College Dublin
Wessel Kraaij, TNO
Clement Leung, Victoria University
Michael Lew, Leiden University
Paul Lewis, University of Southampton
Rainer Lienhart, University of Augsburg
Raghavan Manmatha, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jiri Matas, CVUT Prague
Milind Naphade, IBM
Eric Pauwels, CWI
Dragutin Petkovic, San Francisco State University
Gopal Pingali, IBM Research
Andreas Rauber, Vienna Technical University
Stefan Rueger, Imperial College London
Yong Rui, Microsoft Research
Lloyd Rutledge, CWI
Andrew Salway, University of Surrey
Stan Sclaroff, Boston University
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University
Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam
John R. Smith, IBM
Michael Strintzis, Informatics and Telematics Institute
Sanghoon Sull, Korea University
Arjen P. de Vries, CWI
Thijs Westerveld, CWI
Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University
Li-Qun Xu, British Telecom
HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia
Xiang (Sean) Zhou, Siemens Research
Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford