CFP : ImageCLEF WS - Budapest, Hungary - 31JUL07

CALL FOR PAPERS

Third MUSCLE/ ImageCLEF Workshop on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation

Date: 18th of September 2007.

Location: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (more
detailed instructions later)

Invited Speakers:
* Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
(Chair of the IAPR TC12)
* Thijs Westerveld, CWI (Netherlands)
(Co-organiser of the XML Multimedia Track at INEX)

Website: http://muscle.prip.tuwien.ac.at/ws_overview_2007.php

Workshop Chairs:
* Allan Hanbury (Vienna University of Technology)
* Henning Müller (University of Geneva)
* Paul Clough (University of Sheffield)


Discussion topics: The workshop is organised as a joint venture by the
ImageCLEF campaign and the MUSCLE EU Network of Excellence. The workshop
focuses on the following topics:
1. Evaluation Campaigns
2. Evaluation of Image Features
3. Datasets, topics and relevance judgement

Other contributions on topics in the scope of image and video retrieval
evaluation are also welcome.

Presentations: Participants are encouraged to present papers on topics
related to the evaluation of video and image retrieval systems. Please
send titles and abstracts of papers you wish to present to Allan Hanbury
(mailto:hanbury@prip.tuwien.ac.at). Proceedings of the workshop will be
published in electronic and paper form. Paper submission instructions
are available on the website. The deadline for paper submission is the
31st of July 2007.

Registration: If you wish to attend the workshop, please register by
sending an e-mail to Allan Hanbury (mailto:hanbury@prip.tuwien.ac.at).
There is no registration fee due to sponsorship by the MUSCLE Network of
Excellence.

Sponsor: The workshop is sponsored by the MUSCLE Network of Excellence.

Related Events: The following events take place in Budapest at this time:
* CLEF workshop from the 19th to the 21st of September 2007
(i.e. from the day after this workshop).
* ECDL 2007 (European Conference on Digital Libraries)
from the 16th to the 21st of September 2007.