CFP

MDM/KDD2002 - The Third International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining

in conjunction with

8th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining July 23 - 26, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Workshop Website: http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~simeon/mdm_kdd2002/ Workshop contact: mdm-chairs@cs.ualberta.ca Workshop Date: 23 July, 2002

Workshop chairs: Simeon J. Simoff (simeon@it.uts.edu.au) and Chabane Djeraba (djeraba@irin.univ-nantes.fr)

Local chair: Osmar R. Zaiane (zaiane@cs.ualberta.ca)

Paper submission due 24th May 2002.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The major topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

• theoretical frameworks for multimedia data mining;
• multimedia data mining methods and algorithms;
• multimedia data sampling and preprocessing;
• data sonification and visualization;
• representation and reuse of discovered knowledge;
• multimedia data descriptions languages and formats;
• evaluation of 'interestingness', 'novelty' and validity of results;
• topic and event detection in multimedia data (including video);
• extracting semantics from multimedia databases;
• integrated data mining of text and image data;
• integrated mining of medical multimedia data;
• mining scientific multimedia data
• integrated data mining in multimedia information systems
• discovering patterns in musical and architectural data
• knowledge discovery in facial data
• man-machine interfaces for multimedia data mining;
• complexity, efficiency and scalability of multimedia data mining algorithms;
• data mining virtual communities and virtual worlds;
• data mining in collaborative virtual environments and virtual reality systems;
• visual and audio support for multimedia mining;
• visual data mining of multimedia data;
• multiagent environments for concurrent mining of heterogeneous data;
• real-time multimedia data mining systems;
• mining digital video, audio and other multimedia components.