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Principles of Visual Information Retrieval introduces the basic concepts and techniques in VIR and develops a foundation that can be used for further research and study.Divided into 2 parts, the first part describes the fundamental principles. A chapter is devoted to each of the main features of VIR, such as colour, texture and shape-based search. There is coverage of search techniques for time-based image sequences or videos, and an overview of how to combine all the basic features described and integrate context into the search process.The second part looks at advanced topics such as multimedia query, specification, visual learning and semantics, and offers state-of-the-art coverage that is not available in any other book on the market.This book will be essential reading for researchers in VIR, and for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses such as Multimedia Information Retrieval, Multimedia Databases, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Principles of Visual Information Retrieval introduces the basic concepts and techniques in VIR and develops a foundation that can be used for further research and study. Divided into 2 parts, the first part describes the fundamental principles. A chapter is devoted to each of the main features of VIR, such as colour, texture and shape-based search. There is coverage of search techniques for time-based image sequences or videos, and an overview of how to combine all the basic features described and integrate context into the search process. The second part looks at advanced topics such as multimedia query, specification, visual learning and semantics, and offers state-of-the-art coverage that is not available in any other book on the market. This book will be essential reading for researchers in VIR, and for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses such as Multimedia Information Retrieval, Multimedia Databases, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2004, held at ECCV 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic in May 2004.The 19 revised full papers presented together with an introductory overview and an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on human-robot interaction, gesture recognition and body tracking, systems, and face and head.

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.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) lies at the crossroads of many scienti?c areas including arti?cial intelligence, computer vision, face recognition, motion tracking, etc. In order for HCI systems to interact seamlessly with people, they need to understand their environment through vision and auditory input. Mo- over, HCI systems should learn how to adaptively respond depending on the situation. The goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers from the ?eld of computer vision whose work is related to human-computer interaction. The selected articles for this workshop address a wide range of theoretical and - plication issues in human-computer interaction ranging from human-robot - teraction, gesture recognition, and body tracking, to facial features analysis and human-computer interaction systems. This year 74 papers from 18 countries were submitted and 22 were accepted for presentation at the workshop after being reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. We had therefore a very competitive acceptance rate of less than 30% and as a consequence we had a very-high-quality workshop. Wewouldliketo thankallmembersofthe ProgramCommitteefor their help in ensuring the quality of the papers accepted for publication. We are grateful to Dr. Jian Wang for giving the keynote address. In addition, we wish to thank the organizers of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and our sponsors, University of Amsterdam, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for support in setting up our workshop.

The interests and goals of HCI (human–computer interaction) include understanding, designing, building, and evaluating complex interactive systems - involving many people and technologies. Developments in software and hardware technologies are continuously driving applications in supporting our collaborative and communicative needs as social beings, both at work and at play. At the same time, similar developments are pushing the human–computer interface beyond the desktop and into our pockets, streets, and buildings. Developments in mobile, wearable, and pervasive communications and computing technologies provide exciting challenges and opportunities for HCI. This volume presents the proceedings of the HCI 2006 Workshop, held in conjunction with ECCV 2006 (European Conference on Computer Vision) in Graz, Austria. The goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers from the field of computer vision whose work is related to human–computer interaction.The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. They address a wide range of theoretical and application issues in human–computer interaction. There were four thematic sessions named: face analysis; gesture and emotion recognition; event detection; and applications.

The refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2003, held in Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA in July 2003. The 46 revised full papers presented together with an introduction and 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image retrieval, indexing strategies and structures, feature based retrieval, semantic and learning, video retrieval, user studies, applications, video summarization and analysis, and performance.

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...

The 2010 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2010) was held in Shanghai at Fudan University, during September 21–24, 2010. Since its inauguration in 2000, PCM has been held in various places around the Pacific Rim, namely Sydney (PCM 2000), Beijing (PCM 2001), Hsinchu (PCM 2002), Singapore (PCM 2003), Tokyo (PCM 2004), Jeju (PCM 2005), Zhejiang (PCM 2006), Hong Kong (PCM 2007), Tainan (PCM 2008), and Bangkok (PCM 2009). PCM is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. PCM 2010 featured a comprehensive technical program which included 75 oral and 56 poster presentations selected from 261 submissions from Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Norway, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK, and the USA. Three distinguished researchers, Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou from Nanjing University, Dr. Yong Rui from Microsoft, and Dr. Tie-Yan Liu from Microsoft Research Asia delivered three keynote talks to the conference. We are very grateful to the many people who helped to make this conference a s- cess. We would like to especially thank Hong Lu for local organization, Qi Zhang for handling the publication of the proceedings, and Cheng Jin for looking after the c- ference website and publicity. We thank Fei Wu for organizing the special session on large-scale multimedia search in the social network settings.