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>                          FIRST CALL FOR PAPER
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> 
>                     IARP International Workshop on
>              Multimedia Information Analysis & Retrieval
>                               (MINAR'98)
> 
>              Organised by IAPR TC12 - Multimedia Systems
> 
>             13-14 August 1998 (Thursday-Friday), HONG KONG
> 
> This international workshop will focus on the latest technologies for
> the modelling, indexing, and retrieval of multimedia information with
> emphasis on pictorial data.
> 
> Following a similar highly successful Workshop held in Amsterdam prior
> to ICPR'96, this workshop, to be held in Hong Kong, is located
> conveniently for participants attending ICPR'98 to be held in
> Brisbane, 17-20 August 1998, Australia.
> 
> General Chair: Horace H S Ip (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
> Programme Chair: Arnold Smeulders (Amsterdam University, The
> Netherlands)
> 
> Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ramesh Jain (UCSD,USA)
> 
> Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
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>         Indexing methods: theoretical foundation and performance
> analysis
>         Content-based media retrieval
>         Dynamic composition of multimedia content
>         Invariant and multi-resolution techniques for image/video
> retrieval
>         Multimedia information visualization
>         Content analysis and analysis tools
>         System integration
>         Multimedia databases and information management
>         Applications
> 
> International Programme Committee
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> 
>      S K Chang (Pittsburg U, USA)
>      A del-Bimbo (U of Firenze, Italy)
>      W Grosky (Wayne State, USA)
>      R Kasturi (Penn State, USA)
>      T Kato (ETL, Japan)
>      C Leung (Victoria U, Australia)
>      S D Ma (Academica Sinica, PRC)
>      D Petkovic (IBM, Almaden USA)
>      H Samet (Maryland U, USA)
>      S Smoliar (FXPAL,, USA)
>      R Srihari (Cedar, USA)
>      H Tagare (Yale, USA)
>      J K Wu (NUS, Singapore)
> 
> Proceedings of the workshop will be published by Springer-Verlag as as
> a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series.
> 
> Submission Instruction
> ----------------------
> 
> Authors are requested to submit full paper (in English) of no more
> than 20 pages (double-spaced, 12-point, including text, figures and
> references) describing original results of their research work.  Each
> copy of the paper should have a cover page containing the title of the
> paper, names and addresses of the authors, and an abstract of no more
> than 200 words.
> 
> Deadlines
> ---------
> 
>         Paper Submission                15 January 98
>         Notification of Acceptance      15 March 98
>         Final Camera-ready paper        15 April 98
> 
> Five hard copies of each paper should be sent to:
> 
>          Prof. Horace H S Ip
>          Professor & Head
>          Department of Computer Science
>          City University of Hong Kong
>          Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon,
>          Hong Kong
>          Email: cship@cityu.edu.hk
>          Fax: +852 2788-8614
> 
> Local Organising Committee:
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> 
>         Publicity               Irwin King (CUHK)
>         Local Arrangements      K C K Law (CityU)
>         Publication             T C Pong (HKUST)
> 
> 
> Sponsored by IAPR and the Hong Kong Society for Multimedia and Image
> Computing
> Co-operated with IEEE (HK) Computer Society (to be confirmed)
> 
> Enquiries:      Prof. Horace H S Ip (Email: cship@cityu.edu.hk)

>                 Image Computing Group
>                 Department of Computer Science
>                 City University of Hong Kong
>                 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon,
>                 Hong Kong
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Lep pozdrav,
Bostjan Likar