Revision of QUAERO/ImageCLEF Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval Evaluation from Fri, 08/22/2008 - 07:34
Summary
The QUAERO/ImageCLEF Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval Evaluation workshop will be held in Aarhus, Denmark on September 16, and invites contributions from the following fields
- Evaluation of Pattern Recognition Methods
- Image retrieval
- Multimedia information retrieval
The workshop is open everyone interested in one of the fields and registration is free
The workshop is co-located with the CLEF Workshop 2008.
Date: September 16, 2008
Location: Aarhus, Denmark, meeting room Ada-333 . The address is Dept. of Computer Science, IT City of Katrinebjerg, Aabogade 34, 8200 Aarhus N. More information available on the website of the Dept. of Computer Science, Aarhus University. NOTE: this Workshop is not in the same building as the main CLEF workshop.
Organisers: Thomas Deselaers, Henning Müller
History
This Quaero/ImageCLEF workshop follows the tradition of preceeding MUSCLE / ImageCLEF Workshops in the years 2005, 2006, and 2007. 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 image and multimedia retrieval.
Call for Papers
See the Call for Papers here
Program
The following program is tentative, might be extended and reordered:
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30h | Thomas Deselaers, Henning Müller | Welcome |
| 9:35h | Edouard Geoffrois | Invited Keynote: Evaluation in Quaero |
| 10:30h | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00h | Stefanie Nowak, Peter Dunker | A generic Framework for the Evaluation of content-based Image and Video Analysis Tasks in the Core Technology Cluster of THESEUS |
| 11:30h | Thomas Deselaers | Bag of Visual Words - The Swiss Army Knife for Image Classification |
| 12:00h | Lunch | |
| 14:00h | Julio Gonzalo | iCLEF: Interactive Image Retrieval from the Web |
| 14:30h | Jussi Karlgren | The CHORUS Coordination Action |
| 15:00h | Peter Dunker, Juan José Bosch Vicente, Judith Liebetrau | Towards Evaluating the Core Technology Cluster of the German Research Program THESEUS |
| 15:30h | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00h | Henning Müler | Towards a medical retrieval benchmark with clinical relevance |
| 16:30h | Balint Daroczy | SZTAKI @ ImageCLEF 2008 |
| 17:00h | Jana Kludas, Theodora Tsikrika | Characteristics of query topics for the wikipediaMM task at ImageCLEF 2008 |
| 17:30h | Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Steven Bedrick, William Hersh | Improving Multimodal Image Retrieval Using Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion |
| 19:00 | Dinner with all participants |
Invited Speaker
Edouard Geoffrois, DGA will give a keynote presentation about the evaluation plans in the Franco-German Research Project Quaero.
Registration
Registration for this workshop is free.
Please register by email with Thomas Deselaers and Henning Müller.
Sponsor
The workshop is sponsored by the QUAERO Programm.
Acknowledgement
We would like to thank Brian Mayoh, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus for helping us finding a room.