21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Melbourne, Australia
August 24 - 28, 1998
TUTORIAL T1
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Presenter
Norbert
Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany
Time
Monday 24 August, 9:00am--12:30pm.
Description
The aim of this tutorial is to give a survey on the state of the art
in multi-media IR. The focus will be on indexing and retrieval
methods for multimedia retrieval, whereas system-oriented aspects
will not be addressed.
The tutorial will consist of three major parts, dealing with media,
their indexing and their retrieval:
Audience
Attendees should have basic knowledge in IR, but knowledge in
multimedia systems is not required.
Biography of presenter
Norbert Fuhr is Professor in the
Computer Science Department of the University of Dortmund, Germany.
He is well-known for his theoretical and experimental work on
probabilistic indexing and retrieval models. His current research
interests are the integration of IR and database systems, networked IR
systems, digital libraries and multimedia IR. Concerning the latter,
his research group was participating in the joint European ESPRIT
project FERMI (Formalization and Evaluation of Multimedia Information
Retrieval), where logic-based models for multimedia retrieval were
developed. He has given several tutorials at previous SIGIR
conferences.
More information
The tutorial is an excerpt of the course on
multimedia information systems held at the University of Dortmund.
Cost
The charge for registration is $A150 per tutorial.
Registrants will receive a copy of the
notes for the tutorial, and morning/afternoon tea.
All tutorials are offered on an only-if-demand-warrants
basis;
and full refunds will be given for tutorials
that are cancelled because of low enrolments.
Tutorial notes will also be available for sale on an individual basis at the conference registration desk.
sigir98@cs.mu.oz.au,
20 April 1998.