One day workshop (Co-located with SSMS 2007)
University of Glasgow
Friday, 20th July 2007

Due to the proliferation of technology, large amounts of multimedia data have been generated. However, such creation prowess is not matched by any comparable facility for retrieval and management. The search for digital information is a major challenge of our time with applications in entertainment, science, art and education. Online video archives, social media gathering activities like Flickr, other professional digital libraries, cultural heritage collections and peer-2-peer networks have created new forms of search and browsing needs. In order to address the management of multimedia data sets we need highly innovative ways of analyzing, browsing and searching multimedia collections. A number of workshops, symposiums and conferences are dedicated to this field, highlighting the importance of this research area.

This one day workshop, co-located with SSMS 2007, will review the current state-of-the-art in the field and brain storm future directions. The objectives are to discuss issues surrounding the analysis and retrieval of multimedia data and new applications.

Topics

The workshop will contain position statements, invited talks, break-out sessions and conclude with a panel session. The main discussion points will revolve around the following themes:

  • Multimedia Analysis & Mining
    • Multimedia semantics
    • Audio/video/multi-modal processing
    • Object and event detection and recognition
    • Affective content analysis
  • Multimedia Search & Browsing
    • Multimedia retrieval model
    • Innovative ways of interaction
    • Context sensitive and personalized systems
    • Multimedia modeling and fusion
    • Multimedia content description and indexing
    • Content-based retrieval with emphasis on multiple and novel media
    • Evaluation issues
    • Multimodal interaction
  • Multimedia Applications
    • P2P applications
    • Multimedia broadcasting
    • Social collections & networking
    • Lifelogging

Confirmed Participants

  • Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Alex Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Stefan Rüger, Open University, UK
  • Lynda Hardman, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands
  • J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany
  • Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
  • Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London, UK
  • Jurij F. Tasic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Chabane Djeraba, University of Science and Technology of Lille, France
  • Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Paul Siebert, University of Glasgow, UK

Programme

9:00 Welcome – Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow
  Opening Talk
9:10 – 9:50 Video Summarisation: A new Challenge – Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
  Provocative Short Talks
9:50 – 10:10 Communication Scene Analysis – Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh
10:10– 10:30 Face detection and recognition: Achievements and open research challenges – Ebroul Izquierdo, QMUL, London
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
  Provocative Short Talks
11:00 – 11:20 Can Multimedia Retrieval get away without using metadata? – Stefan Rüger, The Open University
11:20 – 11:40 Challenges in Cross-modal Analysis – Alex Hauptmann, CMU, USA
11:40 – 12:05 Challenges of Multimodal Interaction – Chabane Djeraba, University of Sciences and Technology of Lille, France
12:05 – 12:30 Artificial Retina and Image Annotation – Paul Siebert
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 Break-out Sessions
  Session 1: Semantic and Interaction – Raphael Troncy, CWI
Session 2: Analysis and Retrieval – Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam
Session 3: Emerging Multimedia Applications and Challenges – Jana Urban, University of Glasgow
14:30 – 15:30 Plenary & Challenges Ahead
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Panel
  Chair: C. J. van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow
Panellists (to be finalized) : Lynda Hardman, CWI, Stefan Rüger, The Open University, Alex Hauptman, CMU and Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh
17:00 – 18:00 Reception

 

Call for Participation

If you are interested in participating, please contact, Joemon Jose (jj@dcs.gla.ac.uk), by sending a title and abstract of your position statement (subject line: MAR workshop abstract). The maximum number of participants is 30 and if you are interested in participating please contact us ASAP (not later than May 30th).

Please note that this is workshop runs in parallel to the SSMS. If you are participating in SSMS you cannot register for this workshop, but there will be a joint panel discussion where both groups of participants can interact.

Registration

The registration fee is £50 (£30 for students) to attend the workshop. The fee includes breakfast, coffee/tea breaks, lunch and an evening reception.

To register please follow the steps below:

  1. Download the Registration Form
  2. Fill the form on computer, then print it.
  3. Fax it to: May Gallagher (+44) 141-330-4439
    (or mail to: May Gallagher, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, United Kingdom)
  4. E-mail us at ssms07 (AT) dcs.gla.ac.uk once you have successfully sent the registration form.

A confirmation email will be sent after receiving your fax/mail. You will get a receipt of your payment when registering at the summer school in Glasgow.

Location

Venue

The workshop will be held in the Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre (WILT) in the University of Glasgow. The WILT is a self contained complex containing a 292 seat lecture theatre, a foyer area which is ideal for catering/exhibits and two seminar rooms. The WILT is just at a 1-minute walking distance from the Computing Science Department, and a few minutes away from a variety of cafés, pubs, bistros and restaurants. The WILT is building B9 on maps of the campus. It is most easily accessed via University Place, off Byres Road just south of University Avenue.

Accommodation

You can find a list of hotels close to Glasgow University at http://www.cvso.co.uk/accommodation/accm_intro_300905.htm.