Objectifs and topics:

This is expected to be the first workshop in a series, co-organized by INRIA, IBM T. J. Watson Reseaerch Center, and UC Berkeley, and sponsored, in part, by the NSF Digital Library Initiative phase 2.

This two-day workshop will consists of both position statement presentations by the workshop participants and breakout sessions on focused topics, attended by approximately 35 distinguished researchers from both academia and industry and from both Europe and United States. Partial support for the workshop and US participant expenses are expected to be covered via a grant from the NSF Digital Libraries Initiative.

This workshop will provide a forum for active researchers in this area to exchange ideas on the most recent research progress and challenges in the area of multimedia content browsing, indexing and retrieval.

We hope to discuss:

• How people use collections and what they need, so that researchers generating tools can be guided by real user needs ;
• Appropriate representations for image, video and sound content, so that user needs can be met ;
• How to tell whether systems are successful, so that we can assess research and development in the area;
• Building representative benchmark collections, so that groups around the world can exchange methods and achieve consensus on performance issues ;

For more information :

• Program
• Planning
• Scientific Committee
• Informations
• Contact

 

Scientific Committee :

Nozha Boujemaa,
Nozha.Boujemaa@inria.fr
David Forsyth
daf@cs.berkeley.edu
Chung-Sheng Li
csli@us.ibm.com

 

Steering Committee :

Steve Griffin - NSF
Nozha Boujemaa - INRIA
David Forsyth - Berkeley
Chung-Sheng Li - IBM
John R Smith - IBM
Jitendra Malik - Berkeley
Robert Wilensky - Berkeley
Michael Lesk - NSF
Georges NISSEN - INRIA