Conference History

Before CIVR, there were several UK based meetings on the Challenge of Image Retrieval (CIR): CIR98 (Newcastle, UK), CIR99 (Newcastle, UK), and CIR2000 (Brighton, UK).

In 2002, the first CIVR was held in London, UK. The new aspects of CIVR were that it would be a truly international meeting and that an equal focus would be on video retrieval. Thus, CIVR2003 is the 2nd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval and it is the 5th conference in the series of visual information retrieval meetings which began with CIR'98.