Wee-Kheng Leow

Michael S. Lew

Tat-Seng Chua

Wei-Ying Ma

Lekha Chaisorn

Erwin M. Bakker

It was our great pleasure to host the 4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) at the National University of Singapore on 20–22 July 2005. CIVR aims to provide an international forum for the discussion of research challenges and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners in image/video retrieval technologies. It addresses innovative research in the broad ?eld of image and video retrieval. A unique feature of this conference is the high level of participation by researchers from both academia and industry. Another unique feature of CIVR this year was in its format – it o?ered both the traditional oral presentation sessions, as well as the short presentation cum poster sessions. The latter provided an informal alternative forum for animated discussions and exchanges of ideas among the participants. We are pleased to note that interest in CIVR has grown over the years. The number of submissions has steadily increased from 82 in 2002, to 119 in 2003, and 125 in 2004. This year, we received 128 submissions from the international communities:with81(63.3%)fromAsiaandAustralia,25(19.5%)fromEurope, and 22 (17.2%) from North America. After a rigorous review process, 20 papers were accepted for oral presentations, and 42 papers were accepted for poster presentations. In addition to the accepted submitted papers, the program also included 4 invited papers, 1 keynote industrial paper, and 4 invited industrial papers. Altogether, we o?ered a diverse and interesting program, addressing the current interests and future trends in this area.

4th International Conference, CIVR 2005, Singapore, July 20-22, 2005, Proceedings

Image and Video Retrieval

Tat-Jen Cham

Jianfei Cai

Chitra Dorai

Deepu Rajan

Liang-Tien Chia

The two volume set LNCS 4351 and LNCS 4352 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2007, held in Singapore in January 2007. Based on rigorous reviewing, the program committee selected 123 carefully revised full papers of the main technical sessions and 33 revised full papers of four special sessions from a total of 392 submissions for presentation in two volumes.

13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2007, Singapore, January 9-12, 2007, Proceedings, Part II

Advances in Multimedia Modeling

13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2007, Singapore, January 9-12, 2007, Proceedings, Part I

13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2007, Singapore, January 9-12, 2007, Proceedings

Tat-Seng Chua

Books

Your next favorite book is out there