Themes of interest include but are not limited to:

• Multimedia content for representation and analysis of multimedia information, creation, analysis and manipulation.
• Multimedia Tools and Architecture
• Video on Demand
• Content/Semantic -based indexing, search, and retrieval of images & videos
• Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for images, audio and video
• Learning and relevance feedback in image/video retrieval
• 3D images and models
• Face recognition and Face Detection
• Fusion of multimedia
• Image/video summarization and visualization
• Query models, paradigms, and languages for image/video retrieval
• Database architectures for image/video retrieval
• Novel image data management systems and applications
• High performance image/video indexing algorithms
• Image/video search and browsing on the Web
• Applications in broadcast, biometrics, web, satellite, forensic, and (bio-) medical image and video collections