The THESEUS/ImageCLEF Workshop on Visual Information Retrieval Evaluation will be held in Corfu, Greek on September 29, and invites contributions from the following fields
The workshop is open to everyone interested in one of the fields. Registration is free.
The workshop is co-located with the CLEF 2009 Workshop(http://www.clef-campaign.org/)
Date: September 29, 2009
Organizers: Peter Dunker, Henning Müller, Stefanie Nowak, Judith Liebetrau
Location: University of Corfu, Greek, Department of Informatics, Plateia Tsirigoti 7, Aretaios Building, Room 3, Second Floor. (see number 7,8)

The THESEUS/ImageCLEF workshop follows the tradition of preceeding QUAERO and MUSCLE Workshops between 2005 and 2008. The aim of this workshop is similar to the aim of its predecessors in giving better perspective to participants of ImageCLEF and allow for discussion of topics related to visual information retrieval. Additionally, a special focus is set on information retrieval supported by structured knowledge e.g. by using ontologies.
Here you can find the detailed Call for Papers.
Please submit your papers per email to theseus-imageclef@idmt.fraunhofer.de by 24.07.2009. Use the CLEF style sheet to format your submission.
The proceedings will be available on the web and handed out to the participants of the workshop in digital and printed form.
The Workshop Program is now available. Additionally, a Proceedings Preview with all paper titles and all authors is now available. The proceedings are published with ISBN and can later be online accessed at the Fraunhofer Verlag.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30h | Henning Müller | Opening - Welcome to Workshop/ Overview ImageCLEF 2009 |
| 9:45h | Panayiotis Vlamos | Welcome of the University |
| 10:00h | Ralf Schäfer | Invited Keynote: Theseus Project - Semantic and Image Processing Technologies and its Applications (slides) |
| 10:45h | Jussi Karlgren | Affect, Appeal, and Sentiment as Factors Influencing Interaction with Multimedia Information (slides) |
| 11:05h | Coffee Break | |
| 11:25h | Mark Huiskes | Hierarchical Annotation of Large Image Collections (slides) |
| 11:45h | Stefanie Nowak | A Consumer Photo Tagging Ontology: Concepts and Annotations (slides) |
| 12:05h | Theodora Tsikrika | Are clickthrough data reliable as image annotations? (slides) |
| 12:25h | István Petrás | SzTAKI@ImageCLEF 2009 (slides) |
| 12:45h | Lunch | |
| 14:45h | Stefan Rüger | Invited Keynote: More than a thousand words (slides) |
| 15:30h | Hugo Jair | On the SAIAPR TC-12 Benchmark (slides) |
| 15:50h | Teerapong Leelanupab | Application and Evaluation of Multi-Dimensional Diversity (slides) |
| 16:10h | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30h | Alexander Loos | Evaluation of Algorithms for the Summarization of Photo Collections (slides) |
| 16:50h | Alexander Dmitruk | Multidimensional structural descriptors for medical image retrieval (slides) |
| 17:10h | Adil Alpokocak | Ontology-based Annotation and Retrieval System for Digital Mammography Images (slides) |
| 17:30h | Final Discussion | |
| 20:00 | Workshop Dinner | |
Stefan Rüger, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Title: "More than a thousand words"
Abstract:
This talk will examine the challenges and opportunities of Multimedia Search, ie, finding multimedia by fragments, examples and excerpts. What is the state-of-the-art in finding known items in a huge database of images? Can your mobile phone take a picture of a statue and tell you about its artist and significance? What is the importance of geography as local context of queries? To which extent can automated image annotation from pixels help the retrieval process? Does external knowledge in terms of ontologies or other resources help the process along?
Ralf Schäfer, Department Image Processing, Fraunhofer HHI
Title: "Theseus Project - Semantic and Image Processing Technologies and its Applications"
24.07.2009 – Paper Submission Deadline (Extended Abstract)
15.08.2009 – Authors Notification
01.09.2009 – Final Paper Submission (Camera Ready)
29.09.2009 – Theseus/ImageCLEF Workshop in Corfu
Registration for this workshop is free.
Please send a short email before 15.09.2009 to theseus-imageclef@idmt.fraunhofer.de if you would like to attend the workshop.
The workshop is sponsored by the THESEUS Programm and co-organized by the Fraunhofer IDMT and the Ionian University Department of Informatics.
