Programme

Sunday (15th of July)
18:00 — 21:00 Welcome Event @ the University's Research Club, including a whisky tasting session
Monday (16th of July)
08:00 — 08:45 Registration/Breakfast
08:45 — 09:00 Opening of SSMS 2007
09:00 — 10:30 Audio processing — GaĆ«l Richard
10:30 — 11:00 Tea/Coffee break
11:00 — 12:30 Semantic Web 1— Steffen Staab
12:30 — 13:30 Lunch
13:30 — 15:00 Semantic Web 2 — Steffen Staab
15:00 — 15:30 Tea/Coffee break
15:30 — 17:00 Human Language Technology for Multimedia Analysis — Thierry Declerck
17:00 — 19:00 Reception (partially sponsored by Yahoo! Research, Barcelona) & poster session
Tuesday (17th of July)
08:00 — 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 — 10:30 Speech processing — Steve Renals
10:30 — 11:00 Tea/Coffee break
11:00 — 12:30 Image processing — Noel O'Connor
12:30 — 13:30 Lunch
13:30 — 15:00 Video processing — Noel O'Connor
15:00 — 15:30 Tea/Coffee break
15:30 — 17:00 Cross-modal analysis 1 — Alex Hauptmann
17:00 — 18:00 Poster session
19:00 — 23:00 Dinner
Wednesday (18th of July)
08:00 — 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 — 10:30 Cross-modal analysis 2 —- Alex Hauptmann
10:30 — 11:00 Tea/Coffee break
11:00 — 12:30 Concept-based video indexing — Cees Snoek
12:30 — 13:30 Lunch
14:00 — 19:00 Social Activity
Thursday (19th of July)
08:00 — 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 — 10:30 Concept-based video retrieval — Cees Snoek
10:30 — 11:00 Tea/Coffee break
11:00 — 12:30 IR foundations — Keith van Rijsbergen
12:30 — 13:30 Lunch
13:30 — 15:00 Multimedia IR evaluation initiatives — Alan Smeaton
15:00 — 15:30 Tea/Coffee break
15:30 — 17:00 Character retrieval and annotation in multimedia - or "How to find Buffy" — Andrew Zisserman
17:00 — 18:00 Reception and poster session
Friday (20th of July)
08:00 — 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 — 10:30 Music Information Retrieval — Stephen Downie
10:30 — 11:00 Tea/Coffee break
11:00 — 12:30 Multimodal interaction 1— Lynda Hardman
12:30 — 13:30 Lunch
13:30 — 15:00 Multimodal interaction 2 — Lynda Hardman
15:00 — 15:30 Feedback session
15:30 — 16:00 Tea/Coffee break
16:00 — 17:00 Panel discussion
17:00 — 18:00. Summer school close and Reception
In the poster sessions participants can exchange ideas and establish new partnerships. Therefore each participant is required to prepare a poster presenting recent research activities. There will be a prize sponsored by Yahoo! Research Barcelona for the best poster!