CBMI-2003

Third International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI'03) 
http://www.irisa.fr/CBMI03
September 22-24, 2003, IRISA, Rennes, France


Objective
CBMI'03 is a leader european workshop on Content-based Multimedia Indexing. It is the third in a series of successful workshops aiming at bringing together various communities (audio, video, and image processing, textual information retrieval, multimedia databases) involved in various aspects of Content-Based Multimedia Indexing.
Following CBMI'99 and CBMI'01 that were held respectively in Toulouse, France, and in Brescia, Italy, CBMI'03 will take place in Rennes, Brittany, France. The scientific program of CBMI'03 will include the presentation of invited plenary talks, contributed research papers and two special sessions devoted to European projects concerned with that domain. Selected papers from CBMI'99 http://www.eurecom.fr/~bmgroup/cbmi99/ and CBMI'01 http://cbmi01.eurecom.fr/ were published in a special issue, respectively, of Multimedia Tools and Applications (14(2), 2001) http://www.kluweronline.com/issuetoc.htm/1380-7501+14+2+2001 and of IEEE Multimedia (9(2), 2002) http://www.computer.org/multimedia/mu2002/u2toc.htm. 

Selected papers from CBMI'03 will appear (after extension and peer-review) in a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Kluwer). Multimedia Tools and Applications (Kluwer) is a very serious international journal, well known by multimedia communities and a pioneer in his field. 

The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
·       Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
·       Multimedia content extraction
·       Matching and similarity search
·       Construction of high level indices
·       Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
·       Representation models
·       Content-based search techniques
·       Video summarization
·       Multimedia data mining
·       Presentation tools
·       Meta-data compression and transformation
·       Handling of very large scale multimedia databases
·       Applications


Paper submission
Full papers (no longer than 8 double-column pages) should be electronically submitted no later than March 15, 2003 on the Workshop website: http://www.irisa.fr/CBMI03/. Style files (Latex and Word) are provided for the convenience of the authors. Please see the website of the conference for further information and instructions.


Schedule
Paper submission deadline:   March 15, 2003
Notification of acceptance:  May 15, 2003
Camera-ready papers due:     June 15, 2003

General chair 
Patrick Bouthemy (IRISA / INRIA Rennes) 

Program committee chair 
Moncef Gabbouj (Tampere University of Technology)

Program Committee members
Régine André-Obrecht (IRIT, Toulouse)
Michel Barlaud (I3S, Sophia-Antipolis)
Jenny Benois-Pineau (LABRI, Bordeaux)
Catherine Berrut (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble)
Frédéric Bimbot (IRISA, Rennes)
Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA, Rocquencourt)
Jean-Cedric Chappelier (EPFL, Lausanne)
Chabane Djeraba (IRIN, Nantes)
Chalapathy Neti (IBM Research USA)
Arjen P. De Vries (CWI, Amsterdam)
Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Florence)
Nevenka Dimitrova (Philips Research USA)
Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp.)
Patrick Gros (IRISA, Rennes)
Benoît Huet (Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis)
Ebroul Izquierdo (QMUL, London)
Jean-Michel Jolion (INSA, Lyon)
Philippe Joly (IRIT, Toulouse)
Riccardo Leonardi (University of Brescia)
Benoît Macq (UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve)
Stéphane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva)
Ferran Marques (UPC, Barcelona)
Philippe Mulhem (IPAL, National University of Singapore) 
François Pachet (Sony Research France) 
Fernando Pereira (IST, Lisbon) 
Ioannis Pitas (AUT, Thessaloniki) 
Françoise Prêteux (INT, Evry) 
Gael Richard (Telecom, Paris) 
Sin'ichi Satoh (NIT, Tokyo) 
Arnold Smeulders (University of Amsterdam) 
Michael Strintzis (ITI, Thessaloniki) 
Murat Tekalp (University of Rochester) 
Nuno Vasconcelos (HP Cambridge Research Lab)
Hong-Jiang Zhang (Microsoft Research, Beijing)