International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval - Call for Papers: Special Issue on Open-domain Image Retrieval in the Wild

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Open-domain Image Retrieval in the Wild

Guest Editors

Yu Liu, Dalian University of Technology
Yanming Guo, Hunan Institute of Advanced Technology
Yusuke Matsui, The University of Tokyo

Aims and Scope

We are now living in a large-scale image data era. Facing the explosive growth of image samples in the real world, it is urgently needed to explore new methods for efficient image retrieval. However, existing works on content-based image retrieval are typically devoted to closed-domain scenarios, where all the classes are pre-defined and trained in a single-task fashion. In fact, in many open-domain applications (e.g. recommendation for online shopping and person re-identification in a security scenario), the data distributions are complex, dynamic, or even unpredictable. This poses a major challenge and new research topics for open-domain image retrieval in the wild. Since there has not been enough discussion about overcoming this challenge, this special issue aims to capture state-of-the-art research works being focused particularly on open-domain image retrieval tasks, where the model enables to (1) retrieve novel and unseen classes with no access to their labels in a zero-shot transfer fashion; (2) continually learn a sequence of new tasks instead of one fixed task; (3) perform multi-modal retrieval between images and other modalities (e.g. sketch, text, audio), as well as their emerging applications in fashion recommendation, biometrics and social media.

Numerous image retrieval works have appeared in top conferences and journals. Nevertheless, there has been yet no special issue to systematically collect mature research and to boost future work in the area of open-domain image retrieval. This special issue provides a venue for researchers and practitioners from different fields (in particular, multimedia and computer vision) to present high-quality research work and to provide a cross-fertilization ground for stimulating discussions on the next steps in this important research area.

Topics of Interest

This special issue advances new theories, algorithms, applications and benchmarks on open-domain image retrieval. It invites submissions related to the broad topic area of open-domain image retrieval, including but not limited to the following topic areas:

• Open-domain image retrieval with few-/zero-shot learning methods
• Open-domain image retrieval with continual/incremental learning methods
• Open-domain image retrieval with self-supervised learning methods
• Open-domain image retrieval with domain adaptation/generalization methods
• Open-domain image retrieval with fast, efficient and scalable algorithms 
• Open-domain image retrieval with new datasets or task designs
• Their emerging application areas such as ecommerce search and recommendation systems

Important Dates

Open for Submissions: December 20, 2022
Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2023
First Notification: April 30, 2023
Paper Revisions Deadline: June 30, 2023
Final Notification: August 1, 2023
Tentative Publication: Fall, 2023

Submission Guidelines:

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval website (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site (this opens in a new tab) and select “SI Open-domain Image Retrieval in the Wild" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to 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. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.