Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia information retrieval

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 11th ACM SIG Multimedia International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval - MIR'10. The search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, biomedical sciences, the Internet and social networking sites, streaming video, multimedia databases, cultural heritage collections and peer-topeer networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techniques on how to browse, search and summarize multimedia collections and more generally how to afford efficient multimedia content consumption. Here in this extraordinary city of Philadelphia, at the National Constitution Center in the Independence National Historical Park, where just across the street is one of the most prominent icons of liberty and justice - the Liberty Bell, we meet to discuss new approaches to tackle this global challenge. Let's free our mind and seek for the most innovative solutions. The MIR 2010 conference received 79 completed submissions for peer-reviewed tracks. The authors of these submissions are from all over the world. The Program Committee selected 14 (17.7% acceptance rate) contributions to include in the program as regular papers and an additional 11 as poster papers, yielding a combined acceptance rate of 31.6%. There are also oral and poster special sessions on emerging frontier theories and applications. Their session proposals were peer-reviewed. The session organizers selected the papers. The themes of these sessions are (1) medical retrieval, (2) statistical modeling and learning, (3) multimodal music retrieval, (4) body sensor networks, (5) networked communities, and (6) evaluation for visual concept detection. A peer-reviewed demo session will showcase some of the latest technologies and prototype systems. We are very delighted to have outstanding keynote and invited speakers. They are B.S. Manjunath, Professor of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Alberto Del Bimbo, Professor of the University of Florence, Gregory Grefenstette, Chief Science Officer of Exalead, and Stephen Griffin, Program Director at the US National Science Foundation. Additionally, an Industrial Leadership Invited Speaker Session will feature a few of the latest R&D efforts in the industry. The panel this year, moderated by Alan Hanjalic, will concentrate on the influence of Internet hypes on research in our field. The panelists include Nuria Oliver Ramirez, Apostol Natsev, Alberto Del Bimbo, and Michael Lew.