CVIU 2012 - Computer Vision and Image Understanding: Special Issue on Visual Concept Detection

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Category CVIU 2012

Deadline: November 01, 2011 | Date: June 15, 2012

Venue/Country: Online, Online

Updated: 2012-03-27 23:39:07 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Visual Concept Detection

http://press.liacs.nl/cviu

Guest editors:

Bart Thomee, Yahoo! Research, Spain

Mark J. Huiskes, Leiden University, Netherlands

Michael S. Lew, Leiden University, Netherlands

Important dates:

Submission of manuscript: 1 November 2011

First notification of acceptance: 1 March 2012

Revised manuscript submission: 1 May 2012

Final notification of acceptance: 15 June 2012

Publication of special issue: Fall 2012

Description:

One of the grand challenges in multimedia information retrieval

is automatic visual concept detection. This special issue calls on

researchers that aim to raise the bar with novel approaches and

techniques. All contributions are welcomed that address the topic

of visual concept detection using the MIRFLICKR image collection,

which is a popular large-scale open test benchmark. This special

issue provides an excellent venue to publish high-quality work on

novel ideas and insights that will significantly advance the state

of the art.

Dataset:

The special issue centers around the MIRFLICKR image collection

for the visual concept detection challenge. This set consists of

one million images from thousands of real world users that were

published to the Flickr social photography website under a

creative commons license. To facilitate training and testing a

subset of the collection has been carefully annotated by hand.

The dataset can be obtained from http://mirflickr.liacs.nl. It is at

the discretion of the authors to use the collection in its entirety

or only partially.

Besides the annotations already supplied with the dataset, the

ImageCLEF organization has additionally defined 99 concepts

and 40 topics that can be expressed as a logical combination

of these concepts. Please refer to

http://www.imageclef.org/2011/Photo for more details on this dataset.

Results based on the ImageCLEF annotations are within the scope

of this special issue.

Submissions:

All submissions for this special issue are required to follow the

same format as regular full-length Computer Vision and Image

Understanding papers. Manuscripts must be submitted through

the CVIU online submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/cviu.

Please ensure to select 'Special Issue: Visual Concept Detection'

as the 'Article Type'. All manuscripts should contain at least 30%

original material. When submitting a manuscript that is an

expanded version of a conference or workshop paper, this prior

paper must be included as 'Supplementary Material' during

submission. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed according to

the CVIU reviewing procedures.

Contact:

If you have any questions, please contact Bart Thomee at

mirflickryahoo.com.

Chengcui Zhang Ph.D.

Associate Professor

IEEE TCMC Secretary and Newsletter Editor

Department of Computer and Information Sciences

University of Alabama at Birmingham