Message-Id: <199901141120.EAA26662@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:59:20 GMT From: Margaret Graham <mailto:margaret.graham@unn.ac.uk> Subject: Challenge of Image Retrieval - call for participation To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
A New Year reminder! (and apologies to those on multiple lists)
THE CHALLENGE OF IMAGE RETRIEVAL
CIR 99 - Second UK Conference on Image Retrieval 25 & 26 February 1999
Venue: Forte Posthouse Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fast-growing area of image retrieval, to exchange information and gain some idea of the significance of developments in related disciplines.
Full details of the conference and the online booking form are available at the web site: http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/conference.html
The Conference will be held in the Forte Posthouse Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne. All sessions will be held in the Tyne Suite. Lunches on both days and the Conference Dinner will also be held in the Hotel.
Bed and breakfast accommodation has been arranged for delegates in the Forte Posthouse Hotel at a special price. Delegates are responsible for booking their own accommodation. (see web site for details of the rates and information on alternative hotels).
PROGRAMME DETAILS FOLLOW:
Thursday 25 February 1999:
10.00 Registration and coffee 10.20 Welcome and Introductions: Professor David Harper, Robert Gordon University
10.30 Content-Based Image Retrieval technology: can it satisfy real information needs? Presentations and discussion based on a JISC funded report on the state of the art of CBIR technology, led by Dr John Eakins and Margaret Graham, Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle.
12.00 Lunch, system demonstrations and poster viewing
14.00 Submitted papers, session 1 - CBIR applications: Chair: Martin Nail, British Library Research and Innovation Centre
"The Informedia digital video library system at the Open University" R van der Zwan et al, The Open University, Milton Keynes
"Content-based retrieval for European digital libraries" C L Bird et al, IBM UK Laboratories, Hursley Park,
"Building systems to block pornography" Y Chan et al, University of East Anglia, Norwich
15.30 Tea/coffee, system demonstrations and poster viewing
16.00 Submitted papers, session 2 - CBIR techniques: Chair: Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow
"Colour indexing across illumination" G D Finlayson and G Y Tian, University of Derby
"Robustness of shape similarity retrieval under affine transformation" S Abbassi and F Mokhtarian, University of Surrey
"Trademark image retrieval using multiple features" S Alwis and J Austin, University of York
17.30 System demonstrations and poster viewing
Evening: Conference Dinner
Friday 26 February 1999:
9.00 Keynote Address: Dr Michael Swain, Cambridge Research Laboratory, Compaq Computer Corporation: "Image searching on the Web: experiences and practice" Chair: Dr. John Eakins, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
10.00 Coffee, system demonstrations and poster viewing
10.30 Submitted papers, session 3 - New approaches to image data management: Chair: Dr. Mark Dunlop, University of Glasgow
"Superordinate representation of scenes from power spectrum shapes" A Oliva et al, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France
"Image browsing and navigation using hierarchical classification" T S Lai et al, University of Sunderland
"Evaluation of automatic shot boundary detection on a large video test suite" C O' Toole et al, City University, Dublin, Ireland
"A flexible architecture for content and concept-based multimedia information exploration" SM Dobie et al, University of Southampton
12.00 Lunch, system demonstrations and poster viewing
14.30 Theme: Emerging standards for image retrieval. Chair: Dr. Peter Enser, University of Brighton
Speakers: (Speaker to be announced), Technical Advisory Service for Images; "Importance of standards". Michael Day; UK Office for Library Networking; "Metadata for images" Dr. Edward Hartley, University of Lancaster; "Impact of MPEG-7"
(includes tea/coffee at 15.30)
16.30 Close of Conference
The Conference is sponsored by: The British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group The Institute of Information Scientists The Robert Gordon University The University of Northumbria at Newcastle The British Library Research and Innovation Centre
and supported by: The British Machine Vision Association and the Institution of Electrical Engineers
Full Conference rate = stlg 200 + VAT One Day registration = stlg 110 + VAT There is 10% discount for members of the professional groups sponsoring/supporting the Conference, and for students. (N.B. Accommodation is additional)
All correspondence concerning registration at CIR99 is to be addressed to Cath Frost:
Email: mailto:cath.frost@unn.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)191 227 4646 Fax: +44 (0)191 227 4637
Cath Frost Institute for Image Data Research University of Northumbria at Newcastle Newcastle NE1 8ST
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