The challenge of image retrieval

A conference on image retrieval will be held in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, on 25 and 26 February 1999. The event will bring together practitioners in the field of image storage and retrieval, one of the fastest growing research areas in multimedia technology, to exchange information and gain an insight into developments in related disciplines.

The conference organisers are currently seeking papers for presentation during the conference which describe research and innovation in any area related to image or video storage and retrieval. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- Studies of information seeking behaviour among users;
- HCI issues in image retrieval;
- Evaluation of image retrieval systems;
- Novel image data management systems and applications;
- Query models, paradigms and languages for image retrieval;
- Feature extraction and representation;
- Visual perception and image retrieval;
- Image search and browsing on the Web;
- Semantic retrieval of images and video;
- Neural network techniques for image classification and retrieval;
- Database architectures for image retrieval;
- Image data management for multimedia systems.
For further information, please contact:

University of Northumbria
Institute for Image Data Research
Dr John Eakins
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST
United Kingdom
E-mail: john.eakins@unn.ac.uk