CALL FOR PAPERS
Computer Vision and Image Understanding: Special Issue on Visual Concept 
Detection
http://press.liacs.nl/cviu

Guest editors:
Bart Thomee, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Mark J. Huiskes, Leiden University, Netherlands
Michael S. Lew, Leiden University, Netherlands

Important dates:
Submission of manuscript: 1 November 2011
First notification of acceptance: 1 March 2012
Revised manuscript submission: 1 May 2012
Final notification of acceptance: 15 June 2012
Publication of special issue: Fall 2012

Description:
One of the grand challenges in multimedia information retrieval is automatic 
visual concept detection. This special issue calls on researchers that aim to 
raise the bar with novel approaches and techniques. All contributions are 
welcomed that address the topic of visual concept detection using the MIRFLICKR 
image collection, which is a popular large-scale open test benchmark. This 
special issue provides an excellent venue to publish high-quality work on novel 
ideas and insights that will significantly advance the state of the art.

Dataset:
The special issue centers around the MIRFLICKR image collection for the visual 
concept detection challenge. This set consists of one million images from 
thousands of real world users that were published to the Flickr social 
photography website under a creative commons license. To facilitate training 
and testing a subset of the collection has been carefully annotated by hand. 
The dataset can be obtained from http://mirflickr.liacs.nl. It is at the 
discretion of the authors to use the collection in its entirety or only 
partially.

Besides the annotations already supplied with the dataset, the ImageCLEF 
organization has additionally defined 99 concepts and 40 topics that can be 
expressed as a logical combination of these concepts. Their custom MIRFLICKR 
collection is available to registered participants of the ImageCLEF Photo 
Annotation task. Please refer to http://www.imageclef.org/2011/Photo for more 
details on this dataset. Results based on the ImageCLEF annotations are within 
the scope of this special issue.

Submissions:
All submissions for this special issue are required to follow the same format 
as regular full-length Computer Vision and Image Understanding papers. 
Manuscripts must be submitted through the CVIU online submission system at 
http://ees.elsevier.com/cviu. Please ensure to select 'Special Issue: Visual 
Concept Detection' as the 'Article Type'. All manuscripts should contain at 
least 30% original material. When submitting a manuscript that is an expanded 
version of a conference or workshop paper, this prior paper must be included as 
'Supplementary Material' during submission. All manuscripts will be 
peer-reviewed according to the CVIU reviewing procedures.

Contact:
If you have any questions, please contact Bart Thomee at mirfli...@yahoo.com.
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