Revision of Theseus/ImageCLEF workshop on visual information retrieval evaluation from Tue, 09/15/2009 - 13:08

Summary

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

• Evaluation of Visual Information Retrieval and Annotation Methods
• Image Retrieval / Image Annotation with Application on Photos, Medical data and Robotic vision
• Multilabel Image Annotation supported by Knowledge Structures (Ontologies)

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)

History

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.

Call for Papers

Here you can find the detailed Call for Papers.

Submission

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.

Program

The Workshop Program is now available.

Keynote Speaker

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"

Important Dates

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

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.

Sponsor

The workshop is sponsored by the THESEUS Programm and co-organized by the Fraunhofer IDMT and the Ionian University Department of Informatics.