CISST03: Content-based and Semantic-based Multimedia Retrieval Technical Session

C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

Deadline extended to March 3rd, 2003
CISST03: Content-based and Semantic-based Multimedia Retrieval Technical Session

Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
June 23-26, 2003

Dear Colleagues:

You are invited to submit original work (see instructions below) to the 
Content-based and Semantic-based Multimedia Retrieval Technical Session of the 
2003 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems and Technology 
(CISST03).  The conference is part of the 2003 International Multiconference in 
Computer Science & Computer Engineering composed of 15 conferences held 
simultaneously at the same location and date.  For more information about the 
events, please visit http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences.

Session Description & Topics

In our multimedia rich society, searching efficiently through digital libraries 
containing large number of multimedia documents has become very crucial. Every 
day, many people use the Internet for browsing and retrieval through different 
multimedia databases. To make such searching practical and successful, 
effective indexing and retrieval techniques based on both multimedia semantics 
content and compositional aspects will be necessary. There are several 
approaches to retrieve documents by the exclusive use of keywords or primitive 
multimedia features.   However, users who are not well versed with the domain 
characteristics might be more comfortable in working with content-based 
retrieval systems that allow users to specify a query in terms of keywords, 
thus eliminating the usually intimidation in dealing with very primitive 
features.  

The aim of this session is to bring together researchers who are developing 
methods to address these issues and to exchange their ideas.  The main topics 
include but are not limited to: 
* Feature extraction and dimension reduction techniques 
* Multidimensional-indexing 
* Similarity measures 
* Semi-automatic and automatic multimedia annotation 
* Relevance feedback 
* Intelligent browsing and visualization of multimedia data sets 
* Multimodal indexing and retrieval 

SESSION CHAIR:
Dr. Daniela Stan Raicu
Assistant Professor 
School of Computer Science, Telecommunications & Information Systems (CTI)
DePaul University
243 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60604, USA
Email: dstan-3OFKzk7aIKxkZI0wD67Jjg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
URL: http://facweb.cti.depaul.edu/dstan/CISST03/ 

SESSION CO-CHAIR:
Dr. Yong Rui
Researcher
Communication, Collaborative and Signal Processing Group
Microsoft Research 
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
Email: yongrui-0li6OtcxBFHby3iVrkZq2A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
URL: http://research.microsoft.com/~yongrui/ 

IMPORTANT DATES: 

    Submission                                  March 3rd, 2003 (Extended)
    Notification of acceptance                  March 21, 2003
    Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration      April 22, 2003                  
        
    Conference Dates                            June 23-26, 2003        

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by email to Daniela Stan 
Raicu, the session chair, by the due date at 
dstan-3OFKzk7aIKyOkWjFvPCD3Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  If electronic submission is not 
possible, please mail three copies of the paper to the session chair.  

The electronic format of the submission should be in PDF or PostScript format.  
The initial submission should be less than 10 single spaced pages in length 
with font size of 10 to 12.  The first page of the paper should include: title 
of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, telephone 
number, & fax number for each author; in addition, the first page should also 
include a maximum of 5 keywords.  The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if 
accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been 
previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  

PUBLICATION:

All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. 
 The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN) in 
hardcopy/book.  The proceedings will be available at the conference.  Some 
accepted papers will also be considered for publication in the Journal of 
Digital Information Management.

HISTORY:

The International Multi-conference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering 
is a major annual international research event.  The last Multi-conference 
attracted over 1,550 Computer Science and Engineering researchers from 72 
countries.  It is anticipated that the 2003 Int'l Multi-conference will attract 
about 2000 participants.  The 2003 event is composed of 15 (planned) major 
conferences - attendees will have full access to all 15 conferences' sessions & 
tracks.

SPONSORS:

The conferences will be sponsored by World Academy of Sciences & co-sponsored 
by Computer Science Research, Education, & Applications Press (CSREA: USA 
Federal EIN # 58-2171953) together with research centers, international 
associations, international research groups, & developers of high-performance 
machines & systems.  Previous conferences' sponsors included: CSREA, the 
National Supercomputing Center for Energy & the Environment - DOE, The Int'l 
Association for Mathematics & Computers in Simulation, The Int'l Technology 
Institute (ITI), Java High Performance Computing research group, World 
Scientific & Engineering Society, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc., 
Computer Vision R&A Tech., Hewlett-Packard Inc., Korea Information Processing 
Society (KIPS), Society of Japan (SIGMPS/IPSJ), IEEE, and a number of 
publishers of books & journals.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel in Las Vegas, 
Nevada, USA.  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel with excellent conference 
facilities & over 3,000 rooms.  The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport 
with 24-hour shuttle service to & from the airport.  It has many vacation & 
recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, casino, spa, pools & kiddy 
pools, sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted 
tennis courts, health spa, arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly shows, 
snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, and much more.  The 
negotiated hotel's room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable (79USD 
+ tax) per night for the duration of the conference.  
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