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Special session at the INNS-BigData’2015

„Soft computing methods in large-scale content-based image retrieval”

San Francisco, USA, 8-10 August 2015 (http://innsbigdata.org/)

Up to now the only way to search vast collections of images and video which are generated every day in tremendous amount is by keywords and meta tags or by just browsing them. Emergence of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in 1990s enabled automatic retrieval of images to a certain extent. The goal can be searching for similar images to the query image, classification of the query image or retrieving images of a certain class. Such content-based image matching remains challenging problem of computer science as large multimedia datasets generate big data to analyze. Image matching consists in two relatively difficult tasks: identifying objects on images and fast searching through large collections of identified objects. Identifying objects on images is still a challenge as the same objects and scenes can be viewed under different imaging conditions. There are many previous work dedicated to such formed problem. Some of them bases on color representation, textures, shape or edge detectors. Recently local invariant features has gained wide popularity. To find similar images to a query one, we need to compare all local features descriptors of all images usually by some distance measure. Such a comparison is enormously time consuming and there is ongoing research to speed up the process. Yet the current state-of-the-art in case of high dimensional, computer vision applications is not fully satisfactory. The literature presents countless methods and variants. Mostly they are based on some form of approximate search. One of the solutions of the problem can be hashing descriptor vectors. The session will focus on application of different soft computing techniques in content-based image retrieval and classification, such us:

Paper Submission

Please submit you paper by March 22, 2015.

Organizers:

Marcin Korytkowski
Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland
e-mail: marcin.korytkowski@iisi.pcz.pl

Leszek Rutkowski
Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland
http://www.kik.pcz.czest.pl/~rutkowski/
e-mail: leszek.rutkowski@iisi.pcz.pl

Rafal Scherer
Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland
http://iisi.pcz.pl/Rafal_Scherer/
e-mail: rafal.scherer@iisi.pcz.pl

We look forward to meeting you in San Francisco!

Yours Sincerely,
Marcin Korytkowski, Leszek Rutkowski and Rafal Scherer