Automated production of TV program trailer using electronic program guide

摘要

Welcome to the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2007. After 5 editions, the CIVR conference has now become an official ACM Conference and an IAPR co-sponsored event. The conference is one of the most important and influential events in this area and successfully gathers the important researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. Image and video retrieval continue to be among the most exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. However, opportunities for the exchange of ideas between different groups of researchers, and between researchers and potential users of image/video retrieval systems, are still limited. CIVR is set up to present the state of the art in image and video retrieval by researchers and practitioners from throughout the world and to provide an international forum for the discussion of challenges in the fields of image and video retrieval. >This year 191 submissions from 41 countries were submitted and, after being reviewed by the Program Committee members, 71 were accepted for presentation (22 orals and 49 posters). Additionally, we have two excellent invited presentations given by Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen from the University of Glasgow, UK, and Prof. Andrew Zisserman, from the University of Oxford, UK. >The potential of academic results are best communicated through demos. This year the demo session contains 15 technical demos. In addition we have three life competitions on image retrieval, video copy detection and video retrieval. The latter, called the VideOlympics, is a competition in which several state-of-the-art systems are competing simultaneously on a video retrieval task.