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

Computer Vision and Image Understanding: Special Issue on
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
mirflickr-AT-yahoo.com.
Chengcui Zhang Ph.D.
Associate Professor
IEEE TCMC Secretary and Newsletter Editor
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham