Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval

["Mark T. Maybury" <[e-mail]>]

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   			   IJCAI-95 Workshop on 
               INTELLIGENT MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95)
			   Montreal, Canada

          1 day during 19th-21st August 1995 (to be determined) 

BACKGROUND

In the past there has been concerted effort, largely performed in independent
research communities, addressing the automated processing of single media
(e.g., text, imagery, audio).  The advent of large, multimedia digital
libraries has focused attention on the integrated processing and coordination
of multiple media including the traditional focus on textual sources and the
increasing emphasis on media with spatial and temporal properties (e.g.,
sound, maps, graphics, images, video).  While there have been focused
workshops on integration and coordination of multimedia in interfaces and a
national conference on the general subject of multimedia, to date there has
been no targeted forum to address processing issues which cross media
boundaries but have a fundamental basis in processing human language and
artifacts.  

OBJECTIVES

Research in this area is in the formative stages and is just now beginning to
address difficult fundamental problems, such as the representation and
reasoning about spatial and temporal media.  IJCAI-95 presents an opportunity
to move toward an integrated view of media processing by addressing a
specific technical area:  multimedia information retrieval.  The language
processing, speech processing, image/video processing and spatial/temporal
reasoning communities have much to offer and much to learn from one another. 
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners to report on current advances in multimedia information
retrieval systems and their underlying theories, to foster scientific
interchange among these individuals, and as a group to evaluate current
efforts and make recommendations for future investigations.  A report on the
workshop will be submitted to appropriate magazines (e.g., AI Magazine, IEEE
Expert, ACL's FINITE String).  An edited collection to include the best
papers is planned.   

ISSUES

Submissions (papers and/or video/computer demonstrations) are invited on
original research in all aspects of multimedia information retrieval,
including, but not limited to:

* Content-based analysis and retrieval of multimedia sources (e.g., parsing
   and integrating text, imagery, maps, audio, video) 
* Application of speech, language, and image processing methods and
   techniques to multimedia (e.g., signal analysis, parsing, generation,
   discourse and user modeling)
* Multimedia browsing/visualization tools and cross-media query 
   (e.g, visual, linguistic, and auditory) 
* Multimedia document/presentation design and display
* Tailoring multimedia interaction to particular users, tasks, and contexts
* Intra- and inter-media representation languages
* Architectures for multimedia information retrieval 
* Evaluation methods and metrics for multimedia information retrieval
* Psychoperceptual and cognitive issues in multimodal information retrieval
* Control of user's attention, tension, mood, and sense of continuity by 
   use of appropriate sound, color, and editing 
* Innovative applications of multimedia information retrieval

SUBMISSIONS

Interested participants should e-mail (prefered) or forward FIVE copies of a
2,000 to 3,000 word position paper (4-5 pages, double spaced)
addressing a specific intelligent multimedia information retrieval
issue or reporting novel results to:

Mark Maybury, MS-K331, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730 Tel: (617)
271-7230.  [e-mail]

Submissions must be *received* by February 1, 1994.  Please include
name, affiliation, address, phone, and e-mail address.  Video
submissions should be complemented with a written abstract or position
paper.  Criteria for selection will include clarity, orginality,
relevance, and significance of results.  Attendance at the workshop
will be limited to approximately 30 participants.  All participants must 
register with the main IJCAI conference.  The IJCAI WWW home pge is    
http://ijcai.org/.  

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Mark Maybury (chair) The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 
  ([e-mail])
Bill Hefley, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ. 
  ([e-mail])
Peter Schauble, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich 
  ([e-mail])
Alex "Sandy" Pentland, MIT Media Lab ([e-mail])
Stephen Smoliar, Inst of Systems Science, Univ Singapore, 0511 
  ([e-mail])
Oliviero Stock, IRST, Italy ([e-mail])
Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI, Germany ([e-mail])
Kent Wittenburg, Bellcore ([e-mail])
Kazuo Tanaka, NTT, Japan ([e-mail])
Philippe Aigrain, IRIT, France ([e-mail])

IJCAI SCHEDULE 

December 1, 1994	-- Call for participation
February 1, 1995	-- Submission deadline 
February 2, 1995	-- Allocation to reviewers
February 30, 1995	-- Notification of acceptance (via e-mail)
March 15, 1995      	-- Camera-ready workshop paper due
April 5, 1995		-- Workshop schedule/participants finalized
May 5, 1995             -- Workshop notes due to CRC
???, 1995		-- IJCAI early registration deadline
???, 1995     		-- IJCAI late registration deadline
August 19, 20, or 21    -- Workshop
November 1, 1995	-- Workshop report to Workshops Chair

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