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 Sixth International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI'08)

                          http://cbmi08.qmul.net/

                      18-20th June, 2008, London, UK



CBMI is the main international forum for the presentation and discussion
of the latest technological advances, industrial needs and product 
developments in multimedia indexing, search, retrieval, navigation and 
browsing. Following the five successful previous events (Toulouse 1999, 
Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, and Bordeaux 2007), CBMI'08 will be 
hosted by Queen Mary, University of London in the vibrant city of London. 
The focus of CBMI'08 is the integration of what could be regarded as 
unrelated disciplines including image processing, information retrieval, 
human computer interaction and semantic web technology with industrial 
trends and commercial product development. The technical program of 
CBMI'08 will include presentation of invited plenary talks, special 
sessions as well as regular sessions with contributed research papers.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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  * Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio
  * Matching and similarity search
  * Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
  * Content-based search
  * Multimedia data mining
  * Summarisation and browsing of multimedia content

  * Semantic web technology
  * Semantic inference
  * Semantic mapping and ontologies
  * Identification and tracking of semantic regions in scenes

  * Presentation and visualization tools
  * Graphical user interfaces for navigation and browsing
  * Personalization and content adaptation
  * User modelling, interaction and relevance feed-back

  * Metadata generation and coding
  * Large scale multimedia database management

  * Applications of multimedia information retrieval
  * Analysis and social content applications
  * Evaluation metrics


Prospective authors are invited to submit papers using the on-line system 
at the conference website http://cbmi08.qmul.net/. Accepted papers will 
be published in the Conference Proceedings. Extended and improved 
versions of CBMI papers will be reviewed and considered for publication 
in Special Issues of IET Image Processing (formerly IEE Proceedings 
Vision, Image and Signal Processing) and EURASIP journal on Image and 
Video Processing.


Important Dates:
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Submission of full papers (to be received by): 15th February, 2008
Notification of acceptance:                    20th March, 2008
Submission of camera-ready papers:             10th April, 2008
Conference:                                    18-20th June, 2008


Organisation Committee:
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General Chairs:
    Ebroul Izquierdo          Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Technical Co- Chairs:
    Jenny Benois-Pineau       University of Bordeaux, France
    Arjen P. de Vries         Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, NL
    Alberto Del Bimbo         Universita` degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
    Bernard Merialdo          Institut Eurecom, France

EU Commission:
    Roberto Cencioni          (Head of Unit INFSO E2) European Commission
    Luis Rodriguez Rosello    (Head of Unit INFSO D2) European Commission

Special Session Chairs:
    Stefanos Kollias          National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    Gael Richard              GET-Telecom Paris, France

CBMI Practitioners:
    Nikos Sarris              Athens Technology Center, Greece
    Paulo Villegas            Telefonica I+D, Spain
    Li-Qun Xu                 British Telecommunications Plc, UK

Publicity and Publications Co-chairs:
    Alan Hanjalic             Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
    Noel O'Connor             Dublin City University, Ireland
    Ioannis Patras            Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Far East Liaison:
    Hyoung Joong Kim          Korea University Seoul, Korea

North American Liaison:
    Aggelos K. Katsaggelos    Northwestern University, USA

Local Organisation Committee:
    Krishna Chandramouli      Queen Mary, University of London, UK
    Divna Djordjevic          Queen Mary, University of London, UK
    Giuseppe Passino          Queen Mary, University of London, UK
    Qianni Zhang              Queen Mary, University of London, UK


Contacts:
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    Ebroul Izquierdo          [log in to unmask]
    Giuseppe Passino          [log in to unmask]
    Qianni Zhang              [log in to unmask]