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Multimedia Tools and Applications - Call for Papers: Content-Based Image Retrieval [1227]

Twenty years ago, in the last year of the XX century, the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence published the paper "Content-based image retrieval at the end of the early years", by A. Smeulders et al. (IEEE TPAMI, 22(12):1349--80, 2000), a much-cited review that collected and analyzed the work on Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) in the 1990s and points out possible directions of research for the (then) foreseeable future. 

Much of that future is now in the past, and many things have changed since then both in technology, in our cultures, and in our societies. Twenty years is a sizable chunk in the life of a person, a significant amount of time in any modern culture, and a very long time in the life of contemporary technology.  We want to take a look at the Content-Based Image Retrieval twenty years after the "early years", what are the recent advancements in the field in the era of Deep Learning, and try to see what the next years will look like.

This Special Issue is focused on every aspect of Content-Based Image Retrieval, from the theoretical aspects to the most recent advances in the field. We are also interested in new methods, reviews, forecasts, applications, and system design for visual search.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Content- and context-based indexing, search, and retrieval
  • Search and browsing on big image collections
  • Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics Usage of prior knowledge and semantic information in retrieval systems
  • Matching learning for image retrieval Learned features
  • Query models, and new paradigms
  • Multimodal retrieval
  • Human/Computer interaction and browsing issues
  • Evaluation of Content-Based Image Retrieval systems
  • Relevance feedback in the Content-Based Image Retrieval systems
  • Application and challenges of Content-Based Image Retrieval to medical images, e-commerce, design, fashion, cultural heritage, personal photo collections, and other specific application domains

Guest Editors
Gianluigi Ciocca (lead Guest Editor)
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
E-mail: gianluigi.ciocca@unimib.it (this opens in a new tab)

Marco Bertini
University of Florence, Italy
E-mail: marco.bertini@unifi.it (this opens in a new tab)

Simone Santini
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
E-mail: simone.santini@uam.es (this opens in a new tab)

Raimondo Schettini
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
E-mail: raimondo.schettini@unimib.it (this opens in a new tab)
 
Important Dates

Submission deadline: 31 July, 2022
 
Submission Guidelines

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx (this opens in a new tab) and select “SI 1227- Content-Based Image Retrieval" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at CBIR 2020 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of CBIR papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.

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