4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR2005)

The 4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR2005), the 6th conference in the series of visual information retrieval meetings which began with CIR'98, will take place in School of Computing, National University of Singapore (Singapore) on 20 - 22 July 2005.

CIVR aims to provide an international forum for the discussion of research challenges and the exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners in image/video retrieval technologies. It addresses innovative research in the broad field of image and video retrieval. A unique feature of the conference is the high level of participation from practitioners.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

1. Alex Hauptmann (CMU) - Lessons for the Future from a Decade of Informedia Video Analysis Research

2. Alan F. Smeaton, Dublin City University- Large Scale Evaluations of Multimedia Information Retrieval: The TRECVid Experience

3. Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg, Germany)- Interactive Video Retrieval from a User-Centered Mobile Multimedia Perspective

4. John R. Smith (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) - Multimedia Research Challenges for Industry

SPEAKERS FOR INDUSTRIAL SESSIONS

1. Keynote Industrial Talk: Ramesh Jain (UC Irvine) - Practical Applications of Multimedia Search

2. Keiichiro Hoashi (KDDI, Japan) - Video story segmentation and its application to personal video recorders

3. Hisashi Aoki (Toshiba Corporation) - High-speed dialog detection for automatic segmentation of recorded TV program

4. Sheng-Mei Shen (Panasonic Singapore Lab) - Intellectual Property Management & Protection and Digital Right Management in MPEG

5. Qibin Sun (Institute of Infocomm Research)- Towards media semantics: an I2R perspective