Multimedia information retrieval is a cross-cutting field. Extending beyond the borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-computing & medical science, the Internet and social networking sites, streaming video, multimedia databases, cultural heritage collections and P2P 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.

The 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) is the premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the area of multimedia retrieval. MIR 2010 is on its second year as a full ACM conference, following nine successful years as a workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conference. The growth of MIR is a result the growing importance of multimedia content in our lives. In MIR 2008, there were 308 submitted papers with an overall (full and short papers) acceptance rate of 18%. The conference was attended by more than 150 registered participants.

Group Tour Information:

We are planning a group tour to the world renowned Barnes Foundation on the afternoon of Sunday, March 28, 2010, prior to the first day of the conference. The Foundation houses one of the finest collections of French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early Modern paintings in the world, including an extraordinary number of masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (181), Paul Cézanne (69), and Henri Matisse (59). The collection also includes important works by Pablo Picasso (46), Chaim Soutine (21), Henri Rousseau (18), Amedeo Modigliani (16), Edgar Degas (11), Vincent van Gogh (7), Georges Seurat (6), Edouard Manet (4), and Claude Monet (4). Information on participation of the tour will be available here later. Do not miss this unique opportunity to enjoy the best of Philadelphia!

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Organizing Committee

General Chairs:
James Z. Wang, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA, France

Program Committee Chairs:
Nuria Oliver Ramirez, Telefonica, Spain
Apostol Natsev, IBM Research

Special Sessions Chair:
Jia Li, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Panel Chair:
Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Industrial and Demo Programs Chair:
Jinbo Bi, Mass General Hospital, USA
Xin Chen, Navteq Corporation, USA

Local Arrangement Chairs:
Ritendra Datta, Google, Pittsburgh
Jose Piedra, University of Almeria, Spain

Registration Chair: Dhiraj Joshi, Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory

Publicity Chair: Xavier Anguera, Telefonica, Spain

Treasurer: Yixin Chen, University of Mississippi

Steering Committee Chair: Michael Lew

SIG MM Chair: Klara Nahrstedt, Univ. of Illinois

SIG MM Director of Conferences: Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research

Previous MIR meetings:
10th : Vancouver, Canada, October 2008
9th : Augsburg, Germany, September 2007
8th : Santa Barbara, California, October 2006
7th : Singapore, November 2005
6th : New York, New York, October 2004
5th : Berkeley, California, November 2003
4th : Juan-les-Pins, France, December 2002
3rd : Ottawa, Canada, October 2001
2nd : Los Angeles, California, November 2000
1st: Orlando, Florida, November 1999