ICMR

We are delighted to welcome you, on behalf of the entire organizing committee, to the 3rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2013), held between April 16-19, 2013, in Dallas, Texas, USA.

ACM ICMR is the premier scientific conference for multimedia retrieval held worldwide, with the stated mission "to illuminate the state of the art in multimedia retrieval by bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field of multimedia retrieval". The conference aims to promote intellectual exchanges and interactions among scientists, engineers, students, multimedia researchers in academia as well as industry through various events, including keynote talk, oral, special, and poster sessions focused on research challenges and solutions, technical and industrial demonstrations of prototypes, tutorials, research and industrial panel.

In terms of numbers, we had around 96 valid submissions for the regular research papers of which 17 were accepted for oral presentation (17.7% acceptance rate) and 15 were accepted for poster presentation (giving an overall acceptance of 33 papers with 33.3% acceptance rate). We also have 5 research papers that were accepted as oral presentation papers for the special session on Social Events in Web Multimedia. We then have 15 technical demonstrations of systems showcasing key research contributions. Last, but not the least, the conference also has 2 state-of-the-art tutorials on advances in machine learning and similarity indexing for multimedia data.

One key new aspect of this 3rd ICMR is that we added a new event on doctoral symposium where we will have six research students presenting their dissertation research problems and get advice from leading multimedia retrieval researchers from all over the world. We believe this event would help us mentor future multimedia retrieval research leaders.