With the growth of multimedia content in many areas of our daily lives, the ability to efficiently retrieve relevant content becomes increasingly vital for the content to be relevant. Despite the recent advances in deep learning-based semantic extraction and annotation methods, in many cases, a single query is insufficient to express an information need precisely enough to produce the desired result. Therefore, iterative and more importantly interactive retrieval methods need to be employed. There are however few dedicated venues for work in the area of interactive retrieval and even fewer that consider more than one media domain. This workshop aims at addressing this lack by creating a venue for the discussion of the current state of the art in interactive multimedia retrieval, independent of media type.

The 1st International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Retrieval will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2020 in London.

Since the Conference adopted a purely virtual format, all presentations will be pre-recorded. During the time allocated for the workshop, these recordings will be played back live, with subsequent time for questions. The time allocation per paper looks as follows: 10 minutes for the talk (pre-recorded video, played back live) + 8 minutes for live Q&A + 2 minutes buffer.