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                    CALL FOR PAPERS:

           Workshop on MULTIMEDIA DISCOVERY AND MINING

              Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 22, 2003

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Submission Deadline: >>>>   June 13, 2003 <<<<

Workshop Web page: <http://www.kdnet.org/control/multimedia_discovery>

Collocated with:
The 14th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and
The 7th European Conference Principles and Practice of Knowledge
Discovery in Databases (PKDD)

Invited Speaker: Alexander Hauptmann, CMU


Scope:
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For Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery, multimedia mining brings
new challenges as data is extremely large in size, uses different
modalities and has a rich internal structure. Required technologies are
speech recognition, text mining, video and image analysis, information
retrieval, and summarization.

Addressing the above issues requires an awareness of the research
achievements in various research and cross-disciplinary research
efforts. Particular topics of interest for the workshop include but are
not limited to:

* Theoretical framework for multimedia data mining;
* Complexity, and scalability of multimedia mining algorithms;
* Classification of multimedia documents;
* Clustering and proximity of multimedia documents;
* Detection of novel or interesting documents;
* Multimedia data mining methods and algorithms;
* Preprocessing and representation of multimedia data;
* Multimedia data representation and formats;
* Event or Topic detection in multimedia data;
* Selection of novel or interesting documents;
* Learning using different data sources and modalities;
* Extraction and representation of semantic relations for multimedia;
* Working multimedia mining systems.


Submission Guidelines:
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Submissions should be sent by June 13, 2003, in electronic form as a
PDF or PostScript file to
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Subject: MultimediaMining-2003 workshop submission paper.

The papers should be formatted as for the main ECML/PKDD-2003 conference
submissions. This is according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence guidelines. Authors instructions and style files
can be downloaded at <http:/www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html>. The
maximum length of papers is 12 pages.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by referees from the Program
Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the working notes
provided by ECML/PKDD-2003 and possibly the selected papers will be
published as a Springer series book. The authors will be notified about
the acceptance or rejection of their papers by July 4, 2003.
Camera-ready versions of the papers are due July 11, 2003.

Attendance:
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Attendance is not limited to the paper authors. We strongly encourage
interested researchers from related areas to attend the workshop. The
intended audience for the workshop involves researchers and
practitioners interested in mining different type of multimedia data.
Firstly, we would like to attract potential users working in the media
industry (e.g. broadcasters), which can clarify user demands on
multimedia mining. Then we aim for experts on the technical background
and standards (e.g. MPEG7) of multimedia. Finally data mining and
machine learning researchers interested in audio, image, text and
multimedia mining are expected to contribute to the workshop.


Important Dates:
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Submission Deadline: June 13, 2003
Acceptance Notification: July 4, 2003
Camera-ready Copies: July 11, 2003
Workshop date: September 22, 2003


Program Chair
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Dunja Mladenic <http://www-ai.ijs.si/DunjaMladenic/>
J.Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Gerhard Paaß <http://ais.gmd.de/~paass/>
Fraunhofer Institute Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Schloss Birlinghoven
53754 St. Augustin, Germany,
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Program Committee
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Marie-Aude Aufaure (INRIA, Domaine de Voluceau, France)
Alberto Del Bimbo (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
Joachim Diederich (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Chabane Djeraba (University of Nantes, France)
Stefan Eickeler (Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Germany)
Gareth Jones (University of Exeter, UK)
Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)
Odej Kao (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh (Daimler-Benz AG, Germany)
Simeon Simoff (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)