CFP: MIPR-2006

************************************************************************** The Second IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval IEEE MIPR-2006 Call for Papers December 11-13, 2006 San Diego, California, USA ************************************************************************** The Second IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2006) will take place in San Diego, California, USA on December 11-13, 2006. 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 2006 will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006). 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multimedia data - distributed multimedia systems - applications Instructions for Authors: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited.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 1, 2006 to the workshop website (http://www.cs.fiu.edu/mipr06). 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. Important Dates: Full Paper Submission Deadline: August 1, 2006 (PDF format) Notification of Results: September 10, 2006 Camera-Ready Due: September 25, 2006 (PDF, black and white only) Author Registration: September 25, 2006 Organizing Committee: Program Co-chairs Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA Mei-Ling Shyu University of Miami, USA Program Committee: Elaine Chew University of Southern California, USA Liang-Tien Chia Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chabane Djeraba LIFL, France John M. Gauch University of Kansas, USA William I. Grosky University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA James Joshi Uiversity of Pittsburgh, USA Chung-Sheng Li IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Qing Li City University of Hong Kong, P.R. China Ying Li IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Tiecheng Liu University of South Carolina, USA Hongli Luo Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA Chong Wah Ngo City University of Hong Kong, China Nilesh Patel The University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Balakrishnan Prabhakaran The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Marie Roch San Diego State University, USA Ishwar K. Sethi Oakland University, USA Yuqing Song The University of Michigan at Dearborn, USA V.S. Subrahmanian University of Maryland, College Park, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Yi-Leh Wu National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C Chengcui Zhang University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Lei Zhang Microsoft Research, Asia Zhongfei Zhang State University of New York - Binghamton, USA ***************************************************************************