4th Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval
December 6, Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera
in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2002
In order to have an application focus, this year we will have a special invited session on Multimedia content-based retrieval for cultural heritage applications. The special session will focus on content-based retrieval in the framework of cultural heritage applications and will be organized in cooperation with DELOS-NSF working group on "Digital Imagery for Significant Cultural and Historical Materials".
SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR
Professor Alberto DelBimbo, University of Florence (delbimbo@dsi.unifi.it)
The special session on Multimedia content-based retrieval for cultural heritage applications will gather recognized experts in image and video databases as well as experts from the field. Addressed subjects will cover, among the others: user requirement modeling; construction of cultural heritage object databases, 2D information modeling; relevance of 3D content-based retrieval. The session chair will provide an overview of the state of the art and focus on perspective issues and challenges. Each of the experts will present research activities presently carried out at his site. Submission to this session will be on invitation only.