Program

Thursday, 28th July

9:00 - 9:15

 Opening Session
9:15 - 10:15

Keynote Speech
"Leveraging Context for Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: A Matter of Control", Prof. Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:30

Invited Talks
- "Representing Context for Rich Associative Exploration", Dr. mc schraefel (University of Southampton)
- "Putting the user in the loop: visual resource discovery", Dr. Stefan Rüger (Imperial College)
- "Using Relevance Feedback to Bridge the Semantic Gap", Prof. Ebroul Izquierdo (Queen Mary, University of London)
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 - 14:45 Ranking
- "Rank-ordering Documents According to their Relevance in Information Retrieval Using Refinements of Ordered-weighted Aggregations", Mohand Boughanem, Yannick Loiseau, Henri Prade
- "Ranking Invariance based on Similarity Measures in Document Retrieval", Marcin Detyniecki et al.		 Multimedia Retrieval - Road Map Activities (MMKM network)
14:45 - 15:00 Refreshment Break
15:00 -16:45

Systems
- "Developing AMIE: an Adaptive Multimedia Integrated Environment", Osama El Demerdash, Sabine Bergler, Leila Kosseim and PK Langshaw
- "Exploring the Structure of Media Stream Interactions for Multimedia Browsing", Saturnino Luz and Matt-Mouley Bouamrane
-"CARSA - An Architecture for the Development of Context Adaptive Retrieval Systems", Korinna Bade, Ernesto W. De Luca, Andreas Nürnberger and Sebastian Stober
- "Integrating Media Management towards Ambient Intelligence", Willem Fontijn, Jan Nesvadba, Alexander Sinitsyn
- "CANDELA - Storage, Analysis and Retrieval of
Video Content in Distributed Systems", E. Jaspers, R. Wijnhoven, R. Albers, J. Nesvadba, X. Desurmont, R. Truyen, P. Pietarila, and J. Palo

16:45 - 17:00

 Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:00

Panel on "Adaptive Content-Based Image Retrieval"
Chair: Prof. Alan Smeaton
Panelists: Arjen de Vries, Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, Stefan Rüger, Andreas Nürnberger

19:00

Conference Dinner
at The Conservatory, Oran Mor (www.oranmor.co.uk), Byres Road
 
Friday, 29th July

9:00 - 10:00

 Keynote Speech
"Features are the Key", Prof. Arnold Smeulders (University of Amsterdam)
10:00 - 11:00 Temporal Relations
- "Interactive Retrieval of Video Sequences from Local Features Dynamic", Nicolas Moënne-Loccoz, Eric Bruno, and Stéphane Marchand-Maillet
- "Temporal relation analysis in audiovisual documents for complementary descriptive information", Zein Al Abidin Ibrahim, Isabelle Ferrane and Philippe Joly
11:00 - 11:30 Coffe Break and System Demos
11:30 - 13:00 Feedback
- "Using Segmented Objects in Ostensive Video Shot Retrieval", Sorin Sav, Hyowon Lee, Alan F. Smeaton, and Noel E. O'Connor
- "Learning User Queries in Multimodal Dissimilarity Spaces", Eric Bruno, Nicolas Moënne-Loccoz, Stéphane Marchand-Maillet
- "Surface features in video retrieval", Thijs Westerveld, Arjen P. de Vries and Georgina Ramírez
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 System Studies
- "Toward Consistent Evaluation of Relevance Feedback Approaches in Multimedia Retrieval", Xiangyu Jin, James French, and Jonathan Michel
- "An Explorative Study of Interface Support for Image Searching", Jana Urban and Joemon M. Jose
- "Context-based Image Similarity Queries", Ilaria Bartolini
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break and System Demos
16:00 - 17:30 Meta-Data
- "Information Retrieval of Sequential Data in Heterogeneous XML Databases", Eugen Popovici, Pierre-François Marteau, Gildas Ménier
- "A Visual Annotation Framework Using Common- Sensical and Linguistic Relationships or Semantic Media Retrieval", Bageshree Shevade, Hari Sundaram
- "Improving access to multimedia using multi-source hierarchical meta-data", Trevor Martin, Yun Shen
17:30 - 17:35 Closing Remarks