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Objet : Italy: OntoImage'2006 Workshop - Second Call for Papers

      Second Call for Papers
      International Workshop 
      OntoImage'2006  "Language Resources for Content-Based Image
      Retrieva"l
      May 22, 2006, Genoa, Italy 
      
      (in conjunction with LREC'2006)

http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/IMG/pdf/LRECworkshopOntoImage.htm

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Deadline for Abstract Submissions: February 20th 2006
Submission per email to: Gregory.Grefenstette@cea.fr

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Background
The "semantic gap" between low-level image description (texture,
shape, color) and what people perceive in images is recognized as a
difficult and unsolved problem by all content-based image
researchers. With the growing number of images being created and
stored each day, progress must be made on automatic methods for
indexing and retrieving images based on their content. The vocabulary
that would be most effective for this indexing is poorly understood
today.

A number of approaches for using text to retrieve image have been
proposed (hand assignment of descriptions [e.g. FLICKR,
GRAPHICOBSESSION]; extracting terms from captions and from text linked
to images [GOOGLE]; associating word and image characteristics
[Barnard et al., 2003; Dance et al., 2004]. Recently, ontologies have
been suggested as the proper representation for image indexing [Town &
Sinclair, 2004]. Much work remains to be done to understand the
problem from a lexical point of view.

This half-day workshop will present up to 9 papers examining problems
concerning the lexical characteristics of the language that can or
should be used to describe image content. The goal of the workshop is
to address the following questions:

-- What vocabulary should be used to describe images?
-- How can vocabulary items be automatically associated with images
-- for indexing and retrieval?
-- What visual characteristics of images can be discovered by text
-- processing (color, size, location, shape, texture)?
--  What elements in a lexicon correspond to visualisable objects?
-- What language resources exist and what other ones are needed for
-- content-based image retrieval?
-- Can specific ontologies be created and automatically populated for
-- content-based image retrieval?
-- Can text processing identify what objects would appear against what
-- background (e.g. bird against a sky)?

 
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Papers

We expect extended abstracts describing research addressing one of the
above questions of about 1000 words to be submitted as WORD, PDF or
ASCII documents per email to the following address:
Gregory.Grefenstette@cea.fr. The final papers should not have more
than 4 pages.

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Important Dates
Deadline for Abstracts       February 20, 2006
Notification of acceptance   March 10, 2006
Final Papers                 March 31, 2006
Workshop                     May 22, 2006 (afternoon)

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Location

Magazzini del Cotone Conference Center, Genoa, Italy.
Co-located with  LREC'2006 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006


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Organizers
Gregory Grefenstette, Commissariat ` l'Energie Atomique (CEA LIST),
Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

Mark Sanderson, Department of Information Studies, University of
Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Frangoise Preteux, Institut National des Tilicommunications (ARTEMIS),
Evry, France

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Questions

Questions about the workshop can be addressed to:
gregory.grefenstette@cea.fr

See also http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=6