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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
for the
First IEEE ICIP 2008 Workshop on 
Multimedia Information Retrieval: New Trends and Challenges 
October 12, San Diego, CA, USA
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The members of the Organizing Committee

Prof. Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London, UK (General Chair)

Prof. Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (Program Co-Chair)

Prof. Jian Zhang, NICTA, Australia (Program Co-Chair)

 

cordially invite you to participate in this exciting workshop that
will be organized as a prominent part of the program of the IEEE ICIP
2008 conference to highlight the research field of multimedia
information retrieval, to discuss current bottlenecks and challenges
in the field and present newest out-of-the-box ideas likely to bring
the field to a next development stage.

The workshop will have an excellent and inspiring technical program
consisting of a number of invited talks, including those of
Prof. Ramesh Jain, UC Irvine, and Prof. Edward Delp, Purdue
University, a regular paper session and a panel. To provide optimal
forum for discussion, the regular paper session will be organized as a
poster session accomodating all papers accepted for this Workshop.

Paper submission deadlne:                  March 28, 2008
Notification of acceptance:                   April 25, 2008
Submission of camera-ready papers:    June 6, 2008

 
Please visit the Workshop's website at http://www.icip08.org (or
alternatively at http://icip08-mir.qmul.net/index.htm) for more detail
about the mission and scope of the Workshop, for latest information
and updates.
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