ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval

October 30-31, 2008
Vancouver, Canada (colocated with ACM Multimedia 2008)

www.mir2008.org

Invited Speakers

Prof. Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Prof. Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University

Prof. Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine

Important Dates

June 23rd, 2008: Paper Submission

July 14th, 2008: Acceptance Notification

July 20th, 2008: Camera Ready Papers Due

Overview

The ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval is a premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the area of multimedia retrieval. All papers in the main track must be high quality original papers which address important issues in multimedia exploration, summarization and retrieval including, but not limited to:

Exploration of media archives - browsing, experiential computing

Interfaces for multimedia exploration, visualization, query and retrieval

Indexing and search of multimedia data: images, video, audio, multi-modal systems

Digital life experience analysis and retrieval - life logs, digital immortality, life bits

Video surveillance browsing and retrieval, object detection and recognition, archiving

Learning and relevance feedback in multimedia retrieval

Applications - world wide web searching, preserving cultural heritage, trademark search, data mining, person identification, scientific media, bio-computing and medical multimedia mining/indexing (MRI, CT, ...)

Brave New Topics Session - for emerging frontier theories or applications in MIR. Note that the typical novelty requirement in this session is much higher than the regular paper submissions.

Paper Submission

Double-blind full papers (preferably 6-8 pages in the ACM style sheet in English), should be submitted through the website submission system. We recommend the authors not give any indications of authorship in the text.

www.mir2008.org

Organizing Committee

General Chair: Michael Lew (Leiden University)

Program Co-Chairs: Alberto del Bimbo (University of Florence), Erwin Bakker (Leiden University)

Brave New Topics Chair: Mark Zhang (SUNY Binghamton)

Publicity Chair: Mark Huiskes (Leiden University)

Asian Liaison: Kiyo Aizawa (University of Tokyo)