mage and Video Retrieval: Third International Conference, CIVR 2004, Dublin, Ireland, July 21-23, 2004

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2004, held in Dublin, Ireland in July 2004.
The 31 revised full papers and 44 pooter papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image annotation and user searching, image and video retrieval algorithms, person and event identification for retrieval, content-based image and video retrieval, and user perspectives.