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The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on
Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval

IEEE MIPR-2008
Call for Papers

Berkeley, California, USA
December 15-17, 2008
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Huge amounts of multimedia data are increasingly available and the
knowledge of spatial and/or temporal phenomena becomes critical
for many applications, which requires techniques for the processing,
analysis, search, mining, and management of multimedia data.
The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information
Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2008) will take place in
Berkeley, California, USA on December 15-17, 2008, in conjunction
with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2008).
The workshop will provide a forum for original research contributions
and practical system design, implementation, and applications of
multimedia information processing and retrieval. 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.

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Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above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 chair.

An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be submitted
by the paper submission deadline to the workshop website
(http://www.cis.fiu.edu/conferences/mipr08). Papers must be prepared
in such a way that ensures they will print anywhere. Thus, please 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: July 15, 2008 (PDF format)
Notification of Results: August 31, 2008
Camera-Ready Due: September 19, 2008

Program Chair
Mei-Ling Shyu University of Miami, USA
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