Our appologies for possible cross-postings CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2001) in conjunction with Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining August 26-29, 2001, San Fransisco, CA, USA (SIG-KDD2001) Paper submission due May 15th 2001. The Web site of the workshop is at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~zaiane/mdm_kdd2001/ INTRODUCTION The increasing application of collaborative computing and multimedia document handling in the majority of government, business and educational intra- and internets provides enormous sources of various data, organized in different structures and formats. No wonder researchers in multimedia turned towards the field of data mining and knowledge discovery in databases in the search for techniques for improving the indexing and retrieval of multimedia information, as well as for extracting useful patterns from within multimedia. In the beginning, a variety of techniques from machine discovery, statistics, databases, knowledge acquisition, machine learning, data visualization, image analysis, high performance computing, and knowledge-based systems, have been used mainly as a research handcraft activity. The development of multimedia databases and their query interfaces recall again the idea of incorporating data mining methods for dynamic indexing. Recently data mining efforts have focused in less formalized fields of art, design, hypermedia information systems, case-based reasoning and computational modeling of creativity. These and similar fields use variety of data sources, incorporated through sophisticated digital media data structures. As a result there is an urgent need for new techniques and tools that can transform these rich data into useful information and knowledge. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts in analysis of digital media content, state-of-art data mining and knowledge discovery in multimedia database systems, knowledge engineers and domain experts from different applied disciplines with potential in multimedia data mining. TOPICS OF INTEREST The major topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: - - multimedia data mining methods and algorithms; - - knowledge discovery and knowledge extraction from image data; - - knowledge discovery and knowledge extraction from sound data; - - knowledge discovery and knowledge extraction from video data; - - automatic video annotation and indexing; - - real-time object detection in video streams; - - electronic documents - multimedia data representation and reuse of discovered knowledge; - - content-based search, retrieval, and discovery methods; - - uncertainty management in multimedia data mining; - - complexity, efficiency and scalability of multimedia data mining algorithms; - - the incorporation of domain knowledge; - - multimedia data mining and interactive exploration; - - multimedia data visualization and man-machine interfaces; - - integrated data mining of text and image data; - - data analysis of video and audio data; - - representation of discovered knowledge - - active storage for data mining in multimedia; - - mining from unstructured and semi-structured data; - - web-content mining; - - data mining from XML documents; - - mining from Geografic Information Systems. - - data mining in collaborative virtual environments and virtual reality systems; We also encourage submissions, which present early stages of research work, software applications and solutions. SUBMISSIONS There is no restriction on the length of submissions. Contact author and email address should be specified. Electronic submission of either paper-oriented PDF, PS, RTF or Microsoft Word Document, or Web-based multimedia format are preferable. Please, e-mail electronic submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject "MDM/KDD2001". If not submitting an electronic version, please send a hard copy original to: Simeon J. Simoff Department of Computer Systems, University of Technology, Sydney NSW 2007, Australia or Osmar R. Zaiane Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2H1, Canada DISSEMINATION Peer-reviewed submissions, accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings. Extended and revised paper-oriented versions of selected submissions will be published in a book by Kluwer Academic Publishers or Springer-Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May 15, 2001 Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2001 Camera ready copy: July 16, 2001 Workshop day: August 26, 2001 CO-CHAIRS Simeon J. Simoff, University of Technology-Sydney, Australia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Osmar R. Zaiane, University of Alberta, Canada ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PROGRAM COMMITTEE . Terry Caelli University of Alberta, Canada . Chabane Djeraba University of Nantes, France . Chitra Dorai IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA . Alex Duffy University of Strathclyde, UK . Max J. Egenhofer University of Maine, USA . William Grosky Wayne State University, USA . Howard J. Hamilton University of Regina, Canada . Jiawei Han Simon Fraser University, Canada . Alexander G. Hauptmann Carnegie Mellon University, USA . Wynne Hsu National University of Singapore, Singapore . Odej Kao Technical University of Clausthal, Germany . Nik Kasabov University of Ottago, New Zealand . Paul Kennedy University of Technology-Sydney, Australia . Latifur Khan University of Texas, USA . Flip Korn AT&T Laboratories, USA . Brian Lovell University of Queensland, Australia . Mark Maybury MITRE Corporation . Mario Nacsimento University of Alberta, Canada . Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh DaimlerChrysler, Germany . Monique Noirhomme-Fraiture - Institut d'Informatique, FUNDP, Belgium . Vincent Oria New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA . Jian Pei Simon Fraser University, Canada . Simone Santini University of California San Diego, USA . Simeon J. Simoff University of Technology-Sydney, Australia . John R. Smith IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA . Duminda Wijesekera George Mason University, USA . Ian H. Written University of Waikato, New Zealand . Osmar R. Zaiane University of Alberta, Canada
