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WIAMIS 2008 starts today …

The 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) takes place for the next three days in Klagenfurt, Austria. As we (the Multimedia Metadata Community) organized a special session there we will gather on Thursday latest and discuss current and upcoming research topics.

While I still have some things to prepare for tomorrow I will visit Horst Bischof’s keynote talk on “Robust Person Detection for Surveillance using Online Learning” and I hope I will find some time to blog about the conference.

Related Links

• WIAMIS Program

Deadline Extension: I-Media Special Session on Multimedia Metadata

The paper submission deadline has been extended to April 28, 2008.

Original CfP: 

Studies show that sales of digital capture devices like video camera, digital photo cameras, or mobile phones with digital cameras are still rising. Therefore it can be expected that the number of created digital multimedia content will rise dramatically in future. Multimedia metadata is currently the only way to cope with problems like semantics based retrieval or organization of content and provides means to specify adaptation and delivery constraints and rules. Within this special session the importance of metadata for media technologies is discussed. We encourage the submission of high quality scientific work as well as application papers. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Multimedia technologies and metadata in the social web
• Multimedia semantics
• Annotation of multimedia content
• Metadata in pervasive multimedia computing
• Metadata for new media
• Studies and surveys in context of multimedia metadata and new media

We encourage the submission of high quality scientific work as well as application papers.

More Information …

CfP: I-Media Special Session on Multimedia Metadata

I’m happy to announce that there will be a special session of the Multimedia Metadata Community at the TRIPLE-I / I-Media conference in Graz in September.

CfP: I-Media Special Session on Multimedia Metadata

Studies show that sales of digital capture devices like video camera, digital photo cameras, or mobile phones with digital cameras are still rising. Therefore it can be expected that the number of created digital multimedia content will rise dramatically in future. Multimedia metadata is currently the only way to cope with problems like semantics based retrieval or organization of content and provides means to specify adaptation and delivery constraints and rules. Within this special session the importance of metadata for media technologies is discussed. We encourage the submission of high quality scientific work as well as application papers. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Multimedia technologies and metadata in the social web
• Multimedia semantics
• Annotation of multimedia content
• Metadata in pervasive multimedia computing
• Metadata for new media
• Studies and surveys in context of multimedia metadata and new media

We encourage the submission of high quality scientific work as well as application papers.

Organization

The special session is organized by the Multimedia Metadata Community which has already organized a series of 8 successful workshops in the past taking place in Aachen, Berlin, Graz and Klagenfurt. The Multimedia Metadata Community aims to extend the active and successful community and network with new members.

Submission

Submissions for the special session are handled via the submission system of the TRIPLE-I/I-Media and are reviewed by the TRIPLE-I/I-Media program committee.

14 April 2008: Submission of the full papers (4-8 pages)
31 May 2008: Notification of acceptance
30 June 2008: Camera ready version (8 pages)
3-5 September 2008: TRIPLE-I Conference

Special Session Chairs

• Michael Granitzer, Know-Center Graz
• Mathias Lux, ITEC / Klagenfurt University

Contact: mlux <at> itec <dot> uni-klu.ac.at

Related Links

• Special Session Homepage

This years JavaOne is coming …

Last year’s JavaOne had 15,000 attendees so there’s a number to reach and exceed 2008 JavaOne takes place May 6-9 in San Francisco and covers virtually every aspect of Java. Especially interesting is in my opinion th Open Source tracks as Java is really strong there (compared to the open source portfolio offered in .NET/C# and the portability of libraries in other languages). I wish I could go there but I’m chairing another interesting event here in Klagenfurt at the same time.

Related links:

• 2008 JavaOne Conference Homepage 

Call for Papers “Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web” KASW’08

I wanted to write it myself, but Markus did such a good job …

The focus of this workshop is on techniques and algorithms to acquire knowledge of different forms (e.g. commonsense knowledge, knowledge about user intentions, knowledge about social processes) from social web corpora, such as weblogs, wikis and others. The goal is to attract high quality submissions and to gather a strong community of researchers with different backgrounds that share a common interest in knowledge acquisition from the social web. The Call for Papers is out now - the Submission Deadline is April 28 2008.

International Workshop on
“Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web” KASW’08

held in conjunction with the Triple-I Conference
http://kmi.tugraz.at/workshop/KASW08/

CfP: TRIPLE-I Conference

From the web page: The TRIPLE-I Conference series is a joint venture of the conferences I-KNOW, I-MEDIA and I-SEMANTICS. TRIPLE-I reflects the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management, new media technologies and semantic systems. This unique concept aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and their technology fields.

Last years  TRIPLE-I  was a great success, so I’m looking forward to this event. It’s scheduled 3-5 September in Graz. Austria. Full paper submission deadline is April, 14th.

My Presentation @ Barcamp Senza Confini

Today the barcamp senza confini started. The organization was a charm, everything went perfect (kudos go to Georg Holzer and the whole team). The first day was great and I heard of a lot of interesting ideas and talked to a lot of interesting people. For myself I chose a short slot and I did the presentation on “Popularity, Power Laws and Interestingness” mentioned in the last post. Although a bit technical I hope I managed to describe some basic concepts as well as my idea. However for later review, here are my slides:

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CSKGOI: Workshop Report

Yesterday the CSKGOI workshop took place. We were a rather small group and 4 presentations took place (one presenter unfortunately did not show up):

• ScratchTalk and Social Computation: Towards a natural language scripting model (Ian Eslick) [pdf]
• Thematically Related Words toward Creative Information Retrieval (Eiko Yamamoto, Hitoshi Isahara) [pdf]
• Paving the Path to Automatic User Task Identification (Anne Gutschmidt, Clemens H. Cap, Friedemann W. Nerdinger) [pdf]
• Different Degrees of Explicitness in Intentional Artifacts: Studying User Goals in a Large Search Query Log (Markus Strohmaier, Peter Prettenhofer, Mathias Lux) [pdf]

Afterwards we had a very lively discussion about user goals and common sense in user interfaces and applications. Henry Lieberman joined us for the workshop and the discussion. One of the interesting things he said was that at his group they investigated the explicitness of common sense in kid’s books. They found that common sense is only explicit in books intended for kids up to a certain age (around 8). For older kids it is assumed that they already know about theses things. They also found a very interesting corpus for common sense knowledge: Stories for people with autism, where every day tasks and situations are explained like for instance getting your hair cut at a barber shop. It contains hints and associations capturing things one might not think about like “There will be hair on the floor, but you are not meant to touch it”.

All in all the workshop was very successful and we already talked about a possible follow up event.

CfP: Sixth International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI’08)

The CBMI’08 takes place on 18-20th June, 2008, London, UK. Submission deadline is 5th of February. Conference homepage can be found at http://cbmi08.qmul.net/.

From the CfP: CBMI is the main international forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances, industrial needs and product developments in multimedia indexing, search, retrieval, navigation and browsing. Following the five successful previous events (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, and Bordeaux 2007), CBMI’08 will be hosted by Queen Mary, University of London in the vibrant city of London. The focus of CBMI’08 is the integration of what could be regarded as unrelated disciplines including image processing, information retrieval, human computer interaction and semantic web technology with industrial trends and commercial product development. The technical program of CBMI’08 will include presentation of invited plenary talks, special sessions as well as regular sessions with contributed research papers.

Call For Participation: CSKGOI

On January 13th 2008 the CSKGOI, the Workshop on Common Sense Knowledge and Goal Oriented Interfaces, is taking place in Gran Canaria in the context of the IUI 2008. If you plan to attend the workshop be sure to register for the IUI conference before Dec. 17th 2007. 6 Papers have been accepted and will be presented there:

• Different Degrees of Explicitness in Intentional Artifacts
• PACO-T: A Common Sense Aided Tool to Support Teachers on Planning Learning Activities
• Paving the Path to Automatic User Task Identification
• ScratchTalk: A Natural Language framework for Social Computation
• Thematically Related Words toward Creative Information
• Using Spreading Activation through Ontologies