With the recent increase in both volume and diversity of multimedia data, effective browsing and retrieval methods become increasingly important in order to deal with the available data and find the relevant documents. While this problem is well understood for textual documents, where an information need can often be expressed in sufficient detail with a textual query, the effective search in multimedia documents is generally more difficult.

The 1st International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Retrieval, held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2020 in London, calls for submissions related to interactive retrieval in and across all types of multimedia content. We invite submissions reporting on current work done in the context of e.g., the Video Browser Showdown or the Lifelog Search Challenge, as well as interactive variants of solutions to TRECVID, MediaEval or similar tasks. Submissions should describe methods, but also insights and lessons learned from participating in such benchmarks. In this context, contributions related (but not limited) to the following topics are invited:


-Interactive Retrieval Approaches and Methods
-Browsing and Interactive Search User Interfaces
-Multi-User Search, Retrieval and Browsing
-Understanding User Behaviour and Information Needs
-Cross/Multi-Modal Retrieval Methods
-Datasets, Evaluation Metrics and Protocols
-Multimedia Indexing Methods
-Video Summarization Methods
-Interactive Multimedia System Design and Architecture


Papers for oral and poster presentations shall be submitted as 4 page papers using the IEEE proceedings format and need not be anonymized (i.e. we use single blind review). Selected papers will be presented in an oral or poster presentation. All presenters are encouraged to also demonstrate their interactive retrieval solutions in a dedicated demo session.