Image and Video Retrieval 5th International Conference, CIVR 2006, T

This volume contains the proceeding of the 5th International Conference on - age and Video Retrieval (CIVR), July 13–15, 2006, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA: http://www. civr2006. org. Image and video retrieval cont- ues to be one of the most e

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Hari Sundaram Milind Naphade John R. Smith Yong Rui (Eds.)

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Volume Editors Hari Sundaram Arizona State University Arts Media and Engineering Program Tempe AZ 85281, USA E-mail: [email protected] Milind Naphade John R. Smith IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Intelligent Information Management Department 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA E-mail: {naphade,jrsmith}@us.ibm.com Yong Rui Microsoft China R&D Group, China E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

This volume contains the proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), July 13–15, 2006, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA: http://www.civr2006.org. Image and video retrieval continues to be one of the most exciting and fast-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. However, opportunities for exchanging ideas between researchers and users of image and video retr