The Fifth IASTED International Conference on
Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications
SPPRA 2008

February 13 – 15, 2008
Innsbruck, Austria

SPECIAL SESSION

Perceptually Relevant Retrieval of Figurative Images

Remco C. Veltkamp
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Remco.Veltkamp@cs.uu.nl

Prof. John P. Eakins
Northumbria University , United Kingdom
john.eakins@northumbria.ac.uk

Guy Coene
AKTOR Knowledge Technology NV, Belgium
guy.coene@thomson.com

Abstract

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Timeline

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Tutorial Materials

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Target Audience

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Background Knowledge Expected of the Participants

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Biographies of the Participants

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Special Session Portrait

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Remco Veltkamp (Remco.Veltkamp@cs.uu.nl) is an associate professor at Utrecht University, heading the Multimedia and Geometry research group. He is editor of the International Journal on Shape Modelling and the international journal Pattern Recognition, and guest editor of the special issues on Shape Algorithmics in Algorithmica and on Multimedia Algorithmics in Multimedia Tools & Applications. Veltkamp organised the Dagstuhl Seminars on Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval of 1999, 2002, and 2004. He is also coordinator of the FP6 project PROFI (Perceptually-relevant Retrieval of Figurative Images).

Special Session Portrait

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John P Eakins has over ten years of research experience in storage and retrieval techniques for drawings and images. He is the author of over twenty papers on the subject, including commissioned reviews of the state of the art in CBIR and Trademark Retrieval. He has given invited presentations on the topic of Image Retrieval in Britain, Holland, France, Germany and Italy. For four years, he has been co-chair of the Challenge of Image and Video Retrieval conferences set up to promote exchange between researchers and practitioners in this field. He led the ARTISAN, SPIRIT and SHREW projects.

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Guy Coene has degrees in Computer Science and a Master of Science degree in Artificial Intelligence, and has a consulting background in the field of Knowledge Technology. He developed knowledge solutions for numerous clients in finance, insurance and industry. In 1993 he became involved in the knowledge management and technology solutions for trademark comparison systems of Thomson Compu-Mark, which delivers trademark research products and services for the European market. Together with their affiliates in UK, Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands, and France, and with their US sister-company Thomson&Thomson, they are world leader in global trademark research.

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Important Deadlines

Latest Submissions DueOctober 26, 2007
Notification of Acceptance StartingNovember 19, 2007
Final Manuscripts DueNovember 30, 2007
Registration DeadlineDecember 5, 2007

Papers will be reviewed on an ongoing basis. Authors who submit early will receive their feedback and notification early.