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International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing
(CBMI 2024).<br>
18-20 September 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland -<span
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style="color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">Disaster
management in all its phases from preparedness, prevention,
response, and recovery is in abundance of multimedia data,
including valuable assets like satellite images, videos from
UAVs or static cameras, and social media streams. The value of
such multimedia data for operational purposes in disaster
management is not only useful for civil protection agencies
but also for the private sector that quantifies risk. Indexing
data from crisis events presents Big Data challenges due to
its variety, velocity, volume and veracity for effective
analysis and retrieval.</span></font></p>
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advent of deep learning and multimodal data fusion offers an
unprecedented opportunity to overcome these challenges and
fully unlock the potential of disaster event multimedia data.
Through the strategic utilization of different data
modalities, researchers can significantly enhance the value of
these datasets, uncovering insights that were previously
beyond reach, giving actionable information and supporting
real-life decision-making procedures.</span></font></p>
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style="color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">This
special session actively seeks research papers in the domain
of multimodal analytics and their applications in the context
of crisis event monitoring through knowledge extraction and
multimedia understanding. Emphasis is placed on recognizing
the intrinsic value of spatial information when integrated
with other data modalities.</span></font></p>
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style="color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">The
special session serves as a collaborative platform for
communities focused on specific crisis events, such as forest
fires, volcano unrest or eruption, earthquakes, floods,
tsunamis and extreme weather events, which have increased
significantly due to the climate crisis in our era. It fosters
the exchange of ideas, methodologies, and software tailored to
address challenges in these domains, aiming to encourage
fruitful collaborations and the mutual enrichment of insights
and expertise among diverse communities.</span></font></p>
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special session includes presentation of novel research within
the following domains:</span></font></p>
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<li><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">Lifelog
computing</span></font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
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size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">Urban
computing</span></font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
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size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">Satellite
computing and earth observation</span></font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
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size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">Multimodal
data fusion</span></font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
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size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">Social
media</span></font></li>
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size="2" face="Arial">Within these domains, the topics of
interest include (but are not restricted to):</font></p>
<ul
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<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Multimodal analytics and retrieval
techniques for crisis event multimedia data.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Deep learning and neural networks
for interpretability, understanding, and explainability in
artificial intelligence applied to natural disasters.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Satellite image analysis and
fusion with in-situ data for crisis management.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Integration of multimodal data for
comprehensive risk assessment.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Application of deep learning
techniques to derive insights for risk mitigation.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Development of interpretative
models for better understanding of risk factors.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Utilization of diverse data
modalities (text, images, sensors) for risk management.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Implementation of multimodal
analytics in predicting and managing natural disasters.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Application of multimodal insights
in insurance risk assessment.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Enhanced decision-making through
the fusion of geospatial and multimedia data.</font></li>
</ul>
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size="2" face="Arial"><b>Important Dates:</b><br>
Submission of papers: 22 March 2024<br>
Notification of acceptance: 3 June 2024<br>
CBMI conference: 18-20 September 2024</font><br>
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size="2" face="Arial"><b>Organisers:</b><br>
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<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Maria Pegia, Information
Technologies Institute / Centre for Research and Technology
Hellas, Greece.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Ilias Gialampoukidis, Information
Technologies Institute / Centre for Research and Technology
Hellas, Greece.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Ioannis Papoutsis, National
Observatory of Athens & National Technical University of
Athens, Greece.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Krishna Chandramouli, Venaka
Treleaf GbR, Germany.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Stefanos Vrochidis, Information
Technologies Institute / Centre for Research and Technology
Hellas, Greece.</font></li>
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