Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

Abstract

Welcome to the 2nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2012. ICMR is the premier conference in the area of multimedia retrieval, offering great opportunities for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. Multimedia computing, indexing and retrieval continue to be one of the most exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. However, opportunities for the exchange of ideas between different groups of researchers, and between researchers and potential users of multimedia retrieval systems, are still limited. ICMR is set up to present the state of the art in multimedia retrieval by researchers and practitioners from throughout the world and to provide an international forum for the discussion of challenges. The conference, puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR series, was set up to illuminate the state of the art in multimedia (including image, video and audio) retrieval. This year 145 regular paper submissions were received. After being reviewed by the Technical Program Committee members, 50 papers from 18 countries were accepted for presentation. The acceptance rate is around 34%. Additionally, 11 papers were submitted to two special sessions, "Socio-Video Semantics" and "Social Events in Web Multimedia", among them, 6 papers from 7 countries were accepted for presentation. The potential of academic results are best communicated through demos. This year the demo session contains 11 technical demos from 10 countries.