Indexing and Retrieval, SIGIR'99 Workshop Summary

The workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval(MMIR) was held on 19 August, 1999 after the SIGIR'99 conference in Berkeley, CA, USA. The workshop started with a presentation by the organizers with an overview of the general issues in MMIR without concentrating on specific media. One of the expected outcomes of the workshop was set out to be a consensus on the role of SIGIR in multimedia information retrieval research. The user need for semantic retrieval in different domain was stressed and this theme reappeared in the different panel discussions held during the workshop. The overview was followed by a session of technical paper presentations. Papers on combining text and image information for content labeling of images, framework for information retrieval over multimedia documents, and experiences on a real-time system for multidimensional browsing of video archives were presented.