Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval

Abstract

Warm welcome to the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, ACM-CIVR 2009. CIVR now runs as an official ACM Conference. CIVR is one of the most important and influential conferences in this area and successfully gathers many important researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. Image and video retrieval continue to be among the most exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. ACM-CIVR is set up to present the state of the art in image and video retrieval by researchers and practitioners from throughout the world and to provide an international forum for the discussion of challenges in the fields of image and video retrieval. This year 138 submissions from 29 countries were received and, after being reviewed by the Program Committee members, 45 were accepted for presentation (18 orals and 27 posters). Additionally, we have two excellent invited presentations given by Prof. Luis von Ahn from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, and Prof. Luc van Gool, from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Leuven (Belgium). The potential of academic results is best communicated through demos. We have therefore included a rich demo session in the program. We also continue the tradition of VideOlympics initiated 2 years ago. VideOlympics is an informal competition in which several state-of-the-art systems are competing simultaneously on a video retrieval task. The SEMEDIA project (co-funded by the European Union) will also demonstrate the group of search tools they have developed for video environments, such as audiovisual production, film industry postproduction and online communications media.