MIR 2006 Santa Barbara; by QT Luong / terragalleria.com

MIR 2006

8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval

In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006
October 26-27, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Panel Session: Diversity in Multimedia Retrieval Research

The goal of the panel is to have important industrial and academic players of the field discuss how best to bring the field forward. This year, the topic will be surrounding the importance of diversity in multimedia research. Subtopics may include "does benchmarking kill innovation", "is there still needs for image retrieval research", "is there a need for a wide spectrum of research areas"...

Panelists:

James Z. Wang, The Pennsylvania State University (moderator)
Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA, France
Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Donald Geman, Johns Hopkins University
Alex Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University
Jelena Tesic, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
 

You can now download the slides used during the panel.