Call for Papers

The First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2005) will take place in Irvine, California, USA on December 12-14, 2005. The target audiences will be university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers and graduate students who need to become acquainted with new theories and technologies in multimedia information processing and retrieval. The workshop will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval. IEEE MIPR 2005 will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005).

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• content-based retrieval (image, video, audio, etc.)

• multimodal data analysis

• relevance feedback

• multimedia databases

• image/video/audio databases

• multimedia data mining

• multimedia data modeling

• multimedia data indexing

• multimedia data storage

• new standards

• network support for multimedia data

• distributed multimedia systems

• applications

Instructions for authors:

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on the review results. All questions should be addressed to the PC co-chairs.

An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be submitted by August 25, 2005 to the workshop website (http://www.cs.fiu.edu/mipr05). Papers must be prepared in such a way that ensures they will print anywhere. Thus, you should avoid using special fonts. Manuscripts must be in English and should not exceed 5,000 words (approximately 6 double-column pages). Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address on the first page.