We greeted the attendees of CIVR 2004 with the following address: T aimid an- bhroduil failte a chur romhaibh chuig Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Atha Cliath agus chuig an triu Comhdh ail Idirn aisiun ta ar Aisghabh ail Iomh anna agus F ?se an. T asuil againn go mbeidh am iontach agaibh anseo in Eirinn agus go mbeidh bhur gcuairt taitneamhnach agus sas uil. T aimid an-bhroduil go hairithe failte a chur roimh na daoine on oiread sin t ?ortha difriula agus na daoine a th ainig as i bhfad i gc ein. T aanoireadsinpaip ear curtha isteach chuig an chomhdh ail seo go bhfuil caighde an na bp aip ear agus na bp ostaer an-ard ar fad agus taimid ag s uil go mor le h ocaid iontach. rd We were delighted to host the 3 International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval in Dublin City University. We hope that all attendees had a wonderful stay in Ireland and that their visits were enjoyable and rewarding. There were 125 papers in total submitted to the CIVR2004 conference and each was reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. We are grateful to the 64 members of the technical programme committee and the 29 other rev- wers who completed these reviews and allowed us to put together a very strong technical programme.