EVENT

International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval MIR2000

November 4, 2000
Los Angeles, USA
in conjunction with ACM Multimedia Conference 2000

Presentation

New applications in training, simulating, marketing or electronic commerce now require the development of intelligent multimedia systems combining strengths of intelligent systems with multimedia. Such systems offer integrated tools for modeling, understanding, visualizing, retrieving and accessing large distributed multimedia databases. This leads to the development of novel techniques for image and video analysis, similarity retrieval or intelligent query management.
Following the success of the First International Workshop on Multimedia Intelligent Storage and Retrieval Management (MISRM) held in conjunction with ACM 1999 Multimedia Conference, we are organizing a second edition of this workshop with a focus on multimedia information retrieval.
The purpose of the International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry. The workshop will serve as a forum for discussion, presentation, and exploration of techniques, approaches and experiences in the field of multimedia information retrieval.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Multimedia data modeling
Multimedia visualization
Intelligent agents for multimedia indexing and retrieval
Multimedia indexing
Query languages for multimedia retrieval
Multimedia and media mining
Image and video database systems
Metadata for multimedia retrieval
Tools and standards
Video analyzing and indexing
Image similarity retrieval
Data quality for intelligent retrieval

Invited Speakers

Prof. Ramesh Jain (UCSD, Praja Inc., USA)
Prof. Yasuo Ariki (Ryukoku University, Japan)

Advanced Program

8:30 am - 9:50 am Image Retrieval
Using Hilbert Curve in Image Storing and Retrieving Zhexuan Song and Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland, USA On "Shapes" of Colors for Content-Based Image Retrieval Renato O. Stehling, Mario A. Nascimento, and Alexandre X. Falcão UNICAMP, Brazil; University of Alberta, Canada Learning Image Similarities and Categories from Content Analysis and Relevance Feedback Zijun Yang and C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California, USA Advanced Feature Extraction for Keyblock-Based Image Retrieval Lei Zhu, Aibing Rao, and Aidong Zhang, SUNY Buffalo, USA
9:50 am - 10:00 am Coffee Break
10:00 am - 11:00 am Invited Talk
Contextual Search and Inference in Multimedia Environment(slides) Ramesh Jain, Praja, USA
11:10 am - 12:30 pm Video Content Description
Omni-Face Detection for Video/Image Content Description Gang Wei and Ishwar K. Sethi Oakland University, USA; Wayne State University, USA Video Summarization Based on the Psychological Content in the Track Structure Tsuyoshi Moriyama and Masao Sakauchi, University of Tokyo, Japan Scene Identification in News Video by Character Region Segmentation Ichiro Ide, Reiko Hamada, Shuichi Sakai, and Hidehiko Tanaka National Institute of Informatics, Japan; University of Tokyo, Japan Detection of Text Captions in Compressed Domain Video Yi Zhang and Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm - 2:50 pm Video Retrieval
Linking Live and Replay Scenes in Broadcasted Sports Video Noboru Babaguchi, Yoshihiko Kawai, Yukinobu Yasugi, and Tadahiro Kitahashi Osaka University, Japan Spatio-Temporal Representation and Retrieval Using Moving Objects' Trajectories Choon-Bo Shim and Jae-Woo Chang, Chonbuk National University, Korea Rule-Based Video Classification System for Basketball Video Indexing Wensheng Zhou, Asha Vellaikal, and C.-C. Jay Kuo HRL Laboratories, USA; University of Southern California, USA A New Content-Based Shot Retrieval Approach: Key-Frame Extraction Based Nearest Feature Line (NFL) Classification Li Zhao, Wei Qi, Stan Z. Li, Shi-Qiang Yang, and H.J. Zhang Microsoft Research China, China; Tsinghua University, China
2:50 pm - 3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Invited Talk
Organization and Retrieval of Continuous Media Yasuo Ariki, Ryukoku University, Japan
4:10 pm - 5:30 pm Miscellaneous
Effective Access to Large Audiovisual Assets Based on User Preferences S. Ioannou, G. Moschovitis, K. Ntalianis, K. Karpouzis, and S. Kollias National Technical University of Athens, Greece Document Image Retrieval without OCRing Using a Video Scanning System Ercan E. Kuruoglu and Vern T. Tan INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, France; Trinity College, UK Associating Cooking Video with Related Textbook Reiko Hamada, Ichiro Ide, Shuichi Sakai, and Hidehiko Tanaka University of Tokyo, Japan; National Institute of Informatics, Japan Similarity-Based Retrieval of Temporal Documents Prakash Yamuna and K. Selçuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA

Submission

The program committee solicits condensed research papers describing new results or original ideas related to the workshop topics. Papers should be in English and should not exceed 10 double spaced pages. The cover page should include the title, name and affiliation of the author(s), contact, address, email, fax and telephone. Proceedings of the ACM MM 2000 workshops will be published by the ACM Press. The limit of the final paper size is 4 pages (+ up to 2 extra pages at $100 per page.) and must follow the ACM technical paper submission format. We will need necessary copyright clearance for all the papers for both printed and electronic version of the proceedings.
Papers should be sent electronically (postscript or PDF) not later than June 19th 2000 to the following address: mir@nii.ac.jp

Journal Special Issue

Selected submissions will be recommended for possible publication in the special issue of Elsevier "Information Systems" journal.

Important Dates

Deadline for submission : June 19th
Notification of acceptance/rejection : July 7th
Final version of papers are due on : July 25th
Workshop : November 4, 2000

Workshop Chairs

Prof. Brigitte Kerhervé
UQAM, Canada
kerherve.brigitte@uqam.ca
http://www.info.uqam.ca/~kerherve
Prof. Vincent Oria
Department of Computer and Information Science
NJIT, USA
oria@cis.njit.edu
http://www.cis.njit.edu/~oria
Prof. Shin'ichi Satoh
National Institute of Informatics
satoh@nii.ac.jp
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~satoh

Program Committee Members

Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Yasuo Ariki, Ryukoku University, Japan
Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka University, Japan
Selçuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA
Michael Christel, CMU, USA
Peter Fankhauser, GMD-IPSI, Germany
Pascal Faudemay, LIP6/UPMC, France
Silvia Hollfelder, GMD-IPSI, Germany
Ibrahim Kamel, Panasonic Technologies Inc., USA
Norio Katayama, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Brigitte Kerhervé, UQAM, Canada
Wolfgang Klas, University of Ulm, Germany
Olivier Monga, INRIA, France
Nourredine Mouaddib, IRIN, France
Chahab Nastar, LookThatUp.com, France
Yuichi Nakamura, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada
Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
M. Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo, Canada
T. Radhakrishnan, Concordia University, Canada
Toshio Sato, Toshiba, Japan
Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Takashi Satou, NTT, Japan
Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA
Behzad Shahraray, AT&T, USA
Liyanage C De Silva, The National University of Singapore, Singapore
Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
John Smith, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Uma Srinivasan, CSIRO, Australia
Vassilis Tsotras, University of California at Riverside, USA
Bharadwaj Veeravalli, The National University of Singapore, Singapore

Contact :

For more information on this workshop, please send an e-mail to:mir-chair@nii.ac.jp or contact: Prof. Brigitte Kerhervé (Kerherve.Brigitte@uqam.ca) Prof. Shin'ichi Satoh (satoh@nii.ac.jp) or Prof.Vincent Oria (oria@cis.njit.edu)