Launch International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval
Leiden University and Springer launched International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval.
This is the first journal worldwide which covers the field of multimedia retrieval. Editor-In-Chief is Dr. Michael S. Lew of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science.
The International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR) is a scholarly archival journal publishing original, peer-reviewed research contributions. Its editorial board strives to present the most important research results in areas within the field of multimedia information retrieval. Core areas include exploration, search, and mining in general collections of multimedia consisting of information from the WWW to scientific imaging to personal archives.
Comprehensive review and survey papers that offer up new insights, and lay the foundations for further exploratory and experimental work, are also relevant.
Relevant topics include
- Image and video retrieval - theory, algorithms, and systems
- Social media interaction and retrieval - collaborative filtering, social voting and ranking
- Music and audio retrieval - theory, algorithms, and systems
- Scientific and Bio-imaging - MRI, X-ray, ultrasound imaging analysis and retrieval