Report from the Third International Workshop on Computer Vision meets Databases - CVDB 2007

The presentations and discussions of the Third International Workshop on Computer Vision meets Databases, or CVDB 2007, which was held in Beijing, China, on June 10, 2007 are presented. The goal of the CVDB workshop series is to offer interdisciplinary work between the areas of computer vision and databases. The first keynote speech, titled 'Challenges of and Remedies for Large-scale Multimedia Information Retrieval' was delivered by Edward Chang, director of research at Google, Beijing. Kwietnewski et al. presented the design of a multimedia database application for representing and reasoning about crime scene data. The second keynote speech, titled 'Modeling Events with Media Evidences', was delivered by Amarnath Gupta, who told that media data such as images and videos often play the role of snapshot evidences of some realworld phenomena. The goal of the workshop was to bridge the gap between the database and computer vision communities and to define some research directions that can benefit both communities.