Welcome to the International Conference an Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR2002. Ourconferenceisasnapshotofthecurrentworld-wideresearch inimageandvideoretrievalfromdigitallibraries,databases,andmultimedia collections. Topicsrangefromthestateoftheartinsemanticvisualretrievalto videosummarizationtonewfeaturesandmodelingparadigms. Thisyear82papersfrom24countriesweresubmittedand39wereaccepted forpresentationattheconferenceafterbeingreviewedbyatleast3membersof theProgramCommittee. WewouldliketothankallmembersoftheProgramCommittee,aswell astheadditionalrefereeslistedbelow,fortheirhelpinensuringthequalityof thepapersacceptedforpublication. WewouldalsoliketothanktheOrgan- ingCommitteeforalltheire?ortsinmakingtheconferencehappen,aswellas ourtwokeynotespeakers,ArnoldSmeuldersfromtheUniversityofAmsterdam andAlexHauptmannfromCarnegie-MellonUniversity. Finally,wearegrateful tooursponsors,theBritishComputerSocietyInformationRetrievalSpecialist Group,theBritishMachineVisionAssociation(BMVA),theInstituteforImage DataResearch,UniversityofNorthumbria,theInstitutionofElectricalEn- neers(IEE),andtheLeidenInstituteofAdvancedComputerScience(LIACS), LeidenUniversiy. May2002 MichaelS. Lew NicuSebe JohnP.Eakins International Conference an Image andVideo Retrieval 2002 Organization Organizing Committee OrganizingCommitteeChair: JohnP. Eakins (UniversityofNorthumbria,UK) TechnicalProgramChair: MichaelS. Lew (LIACSMediaLab,LeidenUniversity,NL) PractitionerProgramChair: MargaretGraham (UniversityofNorthumbria,UK) PublicityChair: RichardHarvey (UniversityofEastAnglia,UK) Webmaster: PaulLewis(UniversityofSouthampton,UK) LocalChair: ChrisPorter(GettyImages,London,UK) PeterEnser(UniversityofBrighton,UK) AlanSmeaton(DublinCityUniversity,IRL) ProgramCommittee JimAustin UniversityofYork AlbertoDelBimbo UniversityofFlorence LarryChen KodakResearchLabs JohnP. Eakins UniversityofNorthumbria PeterEnser UniversityofBrighton GrahamFinlayson UniversityofEastAnglia DavidForsyth UCBerkeley TheoGevers UniversityofAmsterdam MargaretGraham UniversityofNorthumbria RichardHarvey UniversityofEastAnglia TomHuang UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign JoemonJose UniversityofGlasgow JosefKittler UniversityofSurrey ClementLeung UniversityofMelbourne MichaelS. Lew LIACSMediaLab,LeidenUniversity PaulLewis UniversityofSouthampton StephaneMarchand-Maillet UniversityofGeneva Ji?r'?(George)Matas CVUTPrague MajidMirmehdi UniversityofBristol ChahabNastar LTUtechnologies EricPauwelsKatholieke UniversityofLeuwen MariaPetrou UniversityofSurrey ChrisPorter GettyImages VIII Organization TonyRose ReutersLimited YongRui MicrosoftResearch PhillipeSalembier UniversityofBarcelona StanSclaro?BostonUniversity NicuSebe LIACSMediaLab,LeidenUniversity AlanSmeaton DublinCityUniversity ArnoldSmeulders UniversityofAmsterdam BarryThomas UniversityofBristol Additional Reviewers ErwinBakker LeidenUniversity IraCohen UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign AshutoshGarg UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Jan-MarkGeusebroek UniversityofAmsterdam AlanHanjalic DelftUniversityofTechnology VickyHodge UniversityofYork NiesHuijsmans LeidenUniversity ThangPham UniversityofAmsterdam CeesSnoek UniversityofAmsterdam QiTian UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign JeroenVendrig UniversityofAmsterdam RoyWang UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign ZiyouXiong UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Sponsors TheBritishComputerSociety,InformationRetrievalSpecialistGroup TheBritishMachineVisionAssociation TheInstituteforImageDataResearch,UniversityofNorthumbria TheInstitutionofElectricalEngineers TheLeidenInstituteofAdvancedComputerScience,LeidenUniversity Table of Contents ChallengesofImageandVideoRetrieval...1 Michael S. Lew,Nicu Sebe,andJohn P. Eakins Image RetrievalI (Oral) Visualization,EstimationandUser-Modeling forInteractiveBrowsingofImageLibraries...7QiTian, Baback Moghaddam, and Thomas S. Huang RobustShapeMatching...17 Nicu Sebeand Michael Lew Semantics-BasedImageRetrievalbyRegionSaliency...29 WeiWang, YuqingSong,andAidong Zhang TheTruthaboutCorel-EvaluationinImageRetrieval...38 HenningM.. uller, Stephane Marchand-Maillet, andThierry Pun Non-retrieval:BlockingPornographicImages...50 Alison Bosson, Gavin C. Cawley, YiChan, and Richard Harvey ModellingI(Poster) ALinearImage-PairModel andtheAssociatedHypothesisTestforMatching ...61 Gregory Cox andGerhard deJager OntheCoupledForwardandBackwardAnisotropicDi?usionScheme forColorImageEnhancement...70 Bogdan Smolka andKonstantinosN. Plataniotis MultipleRegionsandTheirSpatialRelationship-BasedImageRetrieval...81 ByoungChul KoandHyeran Byun Feature Based Retrieval(Poster) QuerybyFaxforContent-BasedImageRetrieval...

Welcome to the International Conference an Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR2002. Ourconferenceisasnapshotofthecurrentworld-wideresearch inimageandvideoretrievalfromdigitallibraries,databases,andmultimedia collections. Topicsrangefromthestateoftheartinsemanticvisualretrievalto videosummarizationtonewfeaturesandmodelingparadigms. Thisyear82papersfrom24countriesweresubmittedand39wereaccepted forpresentationattheconferenceafterbeingreviewedbyatleast3membersof theProgramCommittee. WewouldliketothankallmembersoftheProgramCommittee,aswell astheadditionalrefereeslistedbelow,fortheirhelpinensuringthequalityof thepapersacceptedforpublication. WewouldalsoliketothanktheOrgan- ingCommitteeforalltheire?ortsinmakingtheconferencehappen,aswellas ourtwokeynotespeakers,ArnoldSmeuldersfromtheUniversityofAmsterdam andAlexHauptmannfromCarnegie-MellonUniversity. Finally,wearegrateful tooursponsors,theBritishComputerSocietyInformationRetrievalSpecialist Group,theBritishMachineVisionAssociation(BMVA),theInstituteforImage DataResearch,UniversityofNorthumbria,theInstitutionofElectricalEn- neers(IEE),andtheLeidenInstituteofAdvancedComputerScience(LIACS), LeidenUniversiy. May2002 MichaelS. Lew NicuSebe JohnP.Eakins International Conference an Image andVideo Retrieval 2002 Organization Organizing Committee OrganizingCommitteeChair: JohnP. Eakins (UniversityofNorthumbria,UK) TechnicalProgramChair: MichaelS. Lew (LIACSMediaLab,LeidenUniversity,NL) PractitionerProgramChair: MargaretGraham (UniversityofNorthumbria,UK) PublicityChair: RichardHarvey (UniversityofEastAnglia,UK) Webmaster: PaulLewis(UniversityofSouthampton,UK) LocalChair: ChrisPorter(GettyImages,London,UK) PeterEnser(UniversityofBrighton,UK) AlanSmeaton(DublinCityUniversity,IRL) ProgramCommittee JimAustin UniversityofYork AlbertoDelBimbo UniversityofFlorence LarryChen KodakResearchLabs JohnP. Eakins UniversityofNorthumbria PeterEnser UniversityofBrighton GrahamFinlayson UniversityofEastAnglia DavidForsyth UCBerkeley TheoGevers UniversityofAmsterdam MargaretGraham UniversityofNorthumbria RichardHarvey UniversityofEastAnglia TomHuang UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign JoemonJose UniversityofGlasgow JosefKittler UniversityofSurrey ClementLeung UniversityofMelbourne MichaelS. Lew LIACSMediaLab,LeidenUniversity PaulLewis UniversityofSouthampton StephaneMarchand-Maillet UniversityofGeneva Ji?r'?(George)Matas CVUTPrague MajidMirmehdi UniversityofBristol ChahabNastar LTUtechnologies EricPauwelsKatholieke UniversityofLeuwen MariaPetrou UniversityofSurrey ChrisPorter GettyImages VIII Organization TonyRose ReutersLimited YongRui MicrosoftResearch PhillipeSalembier UniversityofBarcelona StanSclaro?BostonUniversity NicuSebe LIACSMediaLab,LeidenUniversity AlanSmeaton DublinCityUniversity ArnoldSmeulders UniversityofAmsterdam BarryThomas UniversityofBristol Additional Reviewers ErwinBakker LeidenUniversity IraCohen UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign AshutoshGarg UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Jan-MarkGeusebroek UniversityofAmsterdam AlanHanjalic DelftUniversityofTechnology VickyHodge UniversityofYork NiesHuijsmans LeidenUniversity ThangPham UniversityofAmsterdam CeesSnoek UniversityofAmsterdam QiTian UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign JeroenVendrig UniversityofAmsterdam RoyWang UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign ZiyouXiong UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Sponsors TheBritishComputerSociety,InformationRetrievalSpecialistGroup TheBritishMachineVisionAssociation TheInstituteforImageDataResearch,UniversityofNorthumbria TheInstitutionofElectricalEngineers TheLeidenInstituteofAdvancedComputerScience,LeidenUniversity Table of Contents ChallengesofImageandVideoRetrieval...1 Michael S. Lew,Nicu Sebe,andJohn P. Eakins Image RetrievalI (Oral) Visualization,EstimationandUser-Modeling forInteractiveBrowsingofImageLibraries...7QiTian, Baback Moghaddam, and Thomas S. Huang RobustShapeMatching...17 Nicu Sebeand Michael Lew Semantics-BasedImageRetrievalbyRegionSaliency...29 WeiWang, YuqingSong,andAidong Zhang TheTruthaboutCorel-EvaluationinImageRetrieval...38 HenningM.. uller, Stephane Marchand-Maillet, andThierry Pun Non-retrieval:BlockingPornographicImages...50 Alison Bosson, Gavin C. Cawley, YiChan, and Richard Harvey ModellingI(Poster) ALinearImage-PairModel andtheAssociatedHypothesisTestforMatching ...61 Gregory Cox andGerhard deJager OntheCoupledForwardandBackwardAnisotropicDi?usionScheme forColorImageEnhancement...70 Bogdan Smolka andKonstantinosN. Plataniotis MultipleRegionsandTheirSpatialRelationship-BasedImageRetrieval...81 ByoungChul KoandHyeran Byun Feature Based Retrieval(Poster) QuerybyFaxforContent-BasedImageRetrieval...