Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Wiley International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

Special Issue on Multimedia Information Retrieval

Wiley International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
(IJIST) hunts for original research results for a Special Issue on
Multimedia Information Retrieval. It has demonstrated the urgency of
practically applicable techniques in multimedia information
retrieval by the recent vehement competition between Microsoft and
Google on search engines. This is arisen from the explosive growth
of multimedia databases in both size and variety. Therefore,
effective and efficient techniques on indexing, retrieval,
annotation, and feedback become to be more and more important in
recent years.

The past years witnessed very significant contributions of
techniques in artificial intelligence, computer vision, data mining,
and machine learning for multimedia information organization. For
example, the support vector machine for small samples learning, the
random sampling technique to reduce the training set imbalance
problem, the active learning for feedback samples selection, the
density estimation and machine translation for image annotation,
statistical discriminant analysis for feature selection and data
visualization, the semisupervised learning for improving retrieval
precision, the convex optimization for metric learning, graph cut
for image segmentation and object extraction, and the local
descriptors for image representation.

The goals of this special issue are: 1) investigating novel ideas
for multimedia information organization, 2) finding or developing
techniques in artificial intelligence, computer vision, data mining,
and machine learning for specific tasks in multimedia information
retrieval, 3) targeting effective and efficient methods for
multimedia information representation, and 4) exploring interesting
and practical applications.

Manuscripts are solicited to address a wide range of topics in
multimedia information retrieval, but not limit to the following:

  * Indexing, retrieval, annotation, and feedback for multimedia information
  * Relevance feedback in multimedia information retrieval
  * Multimedia information annotation models
  * Human perceptions in multimedia information retrieval
  * Metrics between images/video
  * Semantic analysis and understanding from multimedia information
  * Logo files learning
  * Intelligent user interface
  * Multimedia information summarization
  * Query models for multimedia information retrieval
  * Database architectures for multimedia information retrieval
  * Evaluation of multimedia information retrieval systems
  * Applications in multimedia products
  * Specific database applications, e.g., video surveillance database retrieval
    and organization
  * Web based applications


Submission: authors should submit their manuscripts via the IJIST on-line
submission system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ima It should also be
stated clearly that the submission is for Special Issue on Multimedia
Information Retrieval.


Important Dates

Manuscript submission: 10 November 2007
Preliminary results: 10 January 2008
Revised version: 10 April 2008
Notification: 10 May 2008
Final manuscripts due: 10 June 2008
Anticipated publication: Autumn 2008


Guest editors:

Dacheng Tao
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
dacheng.tao@gmail.com


Jialie Shen
Singapore Management University
jlshen@smu.edu.sg


Xuelong Li
University of London
xuelong_li@ieee.org