Call for Papers 
Following the six successful previous events (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008), CBMI 2009 will be held on June 3-5, 2009 at the picturesque city of Chania, in Crete Island, Greece. It will be organized by Image, Video and Multimedia Laboratory of National Technical University of Athens. CBMI 2009 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, such as image processing and information retrieval with current industrial trends and developments. CBMI 2009 is supported by IEEE and EURASIP. The technical program of CBMI 2009 will include presentation of invited plenary talks, special sessions as well as regular sessions with contributed research papers.
Matching and similarity search
Construction of high level indices
Multimedia content extraction
Identification and tracking of semantic regions in scenes
Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
Content-based search
Multimedia data mining
Metadata generation, coding and transformation
Large scale multimedia database management
Summarisation, browsing and organization of multimedia content
Presentation and visualization tools
User interaction and relevance feedback
Personalization and content adaptation
Evaluation and metrics
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers at the conference web site: http://www.cbmi2009.org/submission. Style files (Latex and Word) will be provided for the convenience of the authors.
Important Dates
| Submission of full papers: |
January 15, 2009 (extended)
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| Notification of acceptance: | February 27, 2009 |
| Submission of camera-ready papers: | March 13, 2009 |
| Early registration due: | March 13, 2009 |
| Main Workshop: | June 3-5, 2009 |
CBMI 2009 will be hosted at KAM - Mediterranean Centre of Architecture, Chania, at the island of Crete, one of the most exciting Greek destinations. KAM was settled by Chania municipality in 1996 and is situated since 2002 at Great Arsenali, the old port of Chania.
CBMI 2009 proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Following the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) all publications will also be available through IEEE Xplore™ and through the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library.
Exceptional papers are solicited for inclusion in a Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) special issue after extension and re-evaluation. More information are available in the call for papers. For any inquiry, please contact Jenny Benois-Pineau.