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               Fourth International Workshop on 
         Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2005
 
                       June 21-23, 2005
              Reval Hotel Latvija, Riga, Latvia
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Following the three successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999,
Brescia 2001 and Rennes 2003),  Tampere University of Technology  will
organize the  next CBMI event.  CBMI'05 aims  at bringing together the
various communities involved in the different aspects of Content-Based
Multimedia Indexing  (audio,  video   and  image   processing, textual
information retrieval, multimedia  databases).  The scientific program
of   CBMI'05 will include the   presentation of invited plenary talks,
special sessions as well as regular sessions with contributed research
papers.

Selected papers will appear (after   extension and peer-review) in   a
Special Issue of the journal Multimedia Tools and Applications. Topics
of interest for submissions include, but are not limited to:

* Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
* Multimedia content extraction
* Matching and similarity search
* Construction of high level indices
* Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
* Representation models
* Content-based search techniques
* Multimedia data mining
* Presentation tools
* Meta-data compression and transformation
* Handling of very large scale multimedia database
* Organisation, summarisation and browsing of multimedia documents
* Applications


PAPER SUBMISSION	

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of not more than
eight (8) pages including results, figures and references. Papers will
be  accepted only by  electronic submission through the conference web
site:  http://cbmi05.cs.tut.fi/.   Style  files (Latex   and Word) are
provided for the convenience of the authors.


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Submission of full paper (to be received by):       February 18, 2005
Notification of acceptance:                         March 31, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers:                  April 29, 2005
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WORKSHOP VENUE

With the  clear intention  of opening the   event to the  new European
countries, CBMI'05 will  be held in Riga (Latvia)  at the  Reval Hotel
Latvija: http://www.revalhotels.com/eng/latvija/


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:       http://cbmi05.cs.tut.fi/

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