ADVANCED CALL FOR PAPERS


             CIVR '2002 - THE CHALLENGE OF IMAGE AND VIDEO RETRIEVAL

                  European Conference on Image and Video Retrieval

                          July 18-19, 2002, London, UK


IMPORTANT DATES:

March 4, 2002:   Submission of full paper
April 10,  2002:   Notification of acceptance
May 1,  2002:     Camera-ready full paper

GENERAL INFORMATION

Image and video storage and retrieval continues to be one of the most
exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia
technology. However, opportunities within the UK for the exchange of
ideas
between different groups of researchers, and between researchers and
potential users of image retrieval systems, are still limited. The
Challenge
of Image Retrieval series of conferences was originally set up  to
bridge
the gap between the different communities with an interest in image
retrieval.

This conference, the fourth in the series, aims to provide a
European-wide
forum for the discussion of challenges in the fields of    image and
video
retrieval.  A unique feature of this conference is the high level of
participation from practitioners.  Applications papers and presentations

suitable for a wide audience are therefore particularly welcome. Topics
of
interest include but are not limited to:

   Query models, paradigms and languages for image/video retrieval
   Content-based indexing, search and retrieval of images
   Feature extraction and representation
   Visual perception and image/video retrieval
   Image/video search and browsing on the Web
   Similarity measures between images/video
   Semantic retrieval of images and video
   Pattern recognition techniques for image classification and retrieval

   Evaluation of image and video retrieval systems
   Studies of information-seeking behaviour among image/video users
   HCI issues in image/video retrieval
   Database architectures for image/video retrieval
   High performance image/video indexing algorithms
   Novel image data management systems and applications
   Image data management for multimedia systems

Further areas of interest are security and rights management pertaining
to visual data.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

   Prof. David Forsyth, UC Berkeley

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are asked to email full papers (no longer than 8 pages in the
Springer LNCS style in English), to

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with the following information:

1. Title of Paper
2. Short Abstract summarising the main contribution of the paper
3. Contact Author: Name, Email, and Phone Number
4. The paper in postscript or PDF format.

Electronic submissions are preferred.  If electronic submission is not
possible by the author, then 5 paper copies may be sent to

Dr. Michael Lew
Niels Bohrweg 1
Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
Leiden University
2333 CA Leiden
Netherlands

Phone: +31-71-527-7077
Email: [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www.liacs.nl/home/mlew

All submissions will be peer reviewed by the program committee.
Accepted
papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

John Eakins, University of Northumbria (Organising Committee Chair)
Peter Enser, University of Brighton
Margaret Graham, University of Northumbria (Practitioner Program Chair)
Richard Harvey, University of East Anglia (Publicity Chair)
Michael Lew, University of Leiden (Technical Program Chair)
Paul Lewis, University of Southampton
Chris Porter, Getty Images, London (Local Chair)
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence,
Larry Chen, Kodak Research Labs,
Peter Enser, University of Brighton,
David Forsyth, UC Berkeley,
John Eakins, University of Northumbria,
Graham Finlayson, University of East Anglia,
Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam,
Margaret Graham, Univ. Northumbria,
Richard Harvey, University of East Anglia,
Tom Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Josef Kittler, University of Surrey
Clement Leung, University of Melbourne
Michael Lew, University of Leiden
Paul Lewis, University of Southampton
Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University Geneve
Majid Mirmehdi, University of Bristol
Jiri (George) Matas, CVUT Prague
Maria Petrou, University of Surrey
Chris Porter, Getty Images
Tony Rose, Reuters Limited
Yong Rui, Microsoft Research
Phillipe Salembier, University of Barcelona
Stan Sclaroff, Boston University
Nicu Sebe, University of Leiden
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University
Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam

SPONSORS

CIVR is sponsored by:

The Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria
The British Computer Society. Information Retrieval Specialist Group
The British Machine Vision Association
The Institution of Electrical Engineers
The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science