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1st International MXM Developer’s Day

Recently the 1st International MXM Developer’s Day which will be held in London, UK on the 30th of June 2009 from 9am to 1pm has been announced. The event is free of charge but registration is needed. Further details can be found here.

WIAMIS 2008 talk: Video summarization through acceleration

With the contribution “Redundancy Removing by Adaptive Acceleration and Event Clustering for Video Summarization” Bernard Mérialdo presented a very interesting approach to video summarization. Beside other methods the video is accelerated. Based on the overall motion the actual amount of acceleration is adapted. Furthermore they apply hierarchical clustering on fixed size segments to select most important parts. Therefore the video is faster when not very much motion is going on and slower if fast motion is characteristics for a video segment. Nice added value was hat he described the RUSHES track of TRECVID and the evaluation process. Experts evaluate the accuracy of the summaries and weight them with extraction time and size of the summary.

Some thoughts on the WIAMIS keynote of H. Bischof

In the morning I was listenting to the talk of Horst Bischof on robust people detection in surveillance scenarios. In my opinion he gave a great talk: He manages to show the nature and results of their research and motivate the usefulness and significance of results based on context and related work. He points out what the achievements are and what hasn’t been touched by his research group and why. He also visualized his results using videos which was appreciated by the audience. If I findout where the videos can be found I’ll blog the link.

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 (Reminder): Workshop on Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces

Here is a reminder as the deadline is approaching (2021-11-19): The workshop CSKGOI’08 takes place at the at IUI’08 in January 2008. Topics include, but are not limited to

Knowledge Acquisition:

• Mining of common sense knowledge and goals from different corpora
• Algorithms and techniques for collaborative knowledge acquisition
• Methods for knowledge validation

Knowledge Representation

• Representational theories of commonsense knowledge
• Distributed forms of knowledge representation, such as goal-oriented ontologies and metadata
• Goal-oriented modeling languages and frameworks
• Algorithms for goal-centered reasoning and inference

User Interfaces

• Integrating commonsense knowledge and inference into user interfaces
• Observational and interactive techniques for goal elicitation and recognition
• Evaluation of goal-oriented user interfaces
• Goal-oriented software configuration

Full papers as well as demo descriptions (+ screen shots) are accepted for submission. Submission deadline is Nov. 19th 2007. The full CfP as well as additional information are available on the CSKGOI’08 homepage.  Hope to meet you there …

CfP: Workshop on Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces

The workshop CSKGOI’08 takes place at the at IUI’08 in January 2008. Topics include, but are not limited to: 

Knowledge Acquisition:

• Mining of common sense knowledge and goals from different corpora
• Algorithms and techniques for collaborative knowledge acquisition
• Methods for knowledge validation

Knowledge Representation

• Representational theories of commonsense knowledge
• Distributed forms of knowledge representation, such as goal-oriented ontologies and metadata
• Goal-oriented modeling languages and frameworks
• Algorithms for goal-centered reasoning and inference

User Interfaces

• Integrating commonsense knowledge and inference into user interfaces
• Observational and interactive techniques for goal elicitation and recognition
• Evaluation of goal-oriented user interfaces
• Goal-oriented software configuration

Full papers as well as demo descriptions (+ screen shots) are accepted for submission. Submission deadline is Nov. 11th 2007. The full CfP as well as additional information are available on the CSKGOI’08 homepage.