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Best Paper Award

“SPCD – SPATIAL COLOR DISTRIBUTION DESCRIPTOR – A Fuzzy Rule based Composite Descriptor Appropriate for Hand Drawn Color Sketches Retrieval” received the best paper award at the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Valencia-Spain, January 22-24, 2010.

Congratulations to Savvas!

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WS on Multimedia Metadata (WMM’09) – Proceedings

Just in case someone missed it: the workshop proceedings of our last multimedia community workshop:

• Case Studies on Context-aware Mobile Multimedia Services -Timo Ojala
• Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems – Reviewing and Benchmarking -Harald Kosch and Paul Maier
• Delivery Context Descriptions – A Comparison and Mapping Model -Christian Timmerer, Johannes Jabornig, and Hermann Hellwagner
• A Novel Tool for Quick Video Summarization using Keyframe Extraction Techniques -Mathias Lux, Klaus Schöffmann, Oge Marques, and Laszlo Böszörmenyi
• Authoring Interactive Mobile Services Using MPEG-7 and MPEG-4 LASeR -Albert Hofmann, Andreas Kriechbaum, and Werner Bailer
• An User Study on Rich Media Mobile Guide Applications – Omar Choudary, Benoit Baccot, Romulus Grigoras, Vincent Charvillat
• What Algorithms for Urban Routing on Mobile Devices? -Tristram Gräbener, Alain Berro, and Yves Duthen
• Towards the Use of Multimedia Contents to Represent Events in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks – Nicolas Cenerario, Thierry Delot, Sergio Ilarri
• A Multimedia Service with MPEG-7 Metadata and Context Semantics – Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma, and Maziar Khodaei
• A Standards-Based Generic Approach for Complex Multimedia Management -Anna Carreras, Ruben Tous, Eva Rodríguez, Jaime Delgado, Giovanni Cordara, Gianluca Francini, and Diego Gibellino
• Contribution to the Modelling of Multimedia Metadata in a Distributed Architecture -Ana-Maria Manzat, Florence Sedes, and Romulus Grigoras
• Media Center Oriented Linux Operating System -Tudor Miu, Olivia Stanescu, Ana Constantin, Sorin Lacriteanu, Roxana Grigore, Domnina Burca, Tudor Constantinescu, and Alexandru Radovici
• A Multi-level Access Control Scheme For Multimedia Database – Vanessa El-Khoury

via CEUR-WS.org/Vol-441 – Multimedia Metadata (WMM’09).

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.

CfP: International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web KASW’08

… a reminder

This workshop aims to develop and bring together a community of researchers interested in discussing the manifold challenges and potentials of knowledge acquisition from the social web.

With the advent of the Social Web, a new breed of web applications has enriched the social dimension of the web. On the social web, actors can be understood as social agents – technological or human entities – that collaborate, pursue goals, are autonomous, and are capable of exhibiting flexible problem solving and social behavior. By participating in the social web, both technological and human agents leave complex traces of social interactions and their motivations behind, which can be studied, analyzed and utilized for a range of different purposes. The broad availability and open accessibility of these traces in social web corpora, such as in del.icio.us, Wikipedia, weblogs and others, provides researchers with opportunities for, for example, novel knowledge acquisition techniques and strategies, as well as large scale, empirically coupled in the field studies of social processes and structures.

This workshop aims to develop and bring together a diverse community of researchers interested in the social web by seeking submissions that are focusing on understanding and evaluating the role of agents, goals, structures, concepts, context, knowledge and social interactions in a broad range of social web applications. Examples for such applications include, but are not limited to social authoring (e.g. wikis, weblogs), social sharing (e.g. del.icio.us, flickr), social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn) and social searching (e.g. wikia, eurekster, mahalo) applications.

Important Dates:

• Submission deadline: April 28, 2008
• Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2008
• Camera-ready version: June 30, 2008
• Workshop: One day format, between September 3-5, 2008

Related Links:

• KASW08 web page

Multimedia Information Systems: Guest Lecture Tomorrow

Tomorrow a guest lecturer is coming to talk about social network analysis in my course on multimedia information systems. Markus Strohmaier is assistant professor at the Knowledge Management Institute at Graz University of Technology.

CSKGOI Proceedings Online @ CEUR-WS

Last Monday the post proceedings of the Common Sense and Goal Oriented Interfaces Workshop (CSKGOI 08) in January in Gran Canaria went online. We chose the Ceur Workshop Proceedings server for post publication. It’s an open access server with a rather easy submission procedure and papers normally get indexed by Google Scholar and Citeseer. All papers are available along with a nice short preface as Vol. 323:

• ScratchTalk: A Natural Language framework for Social Computation
  Ian Eslick
• Thematically Related Words toward Creative Information Retrieval
  Eiko Yamamoto and Hitoshi Isahara
• Paving the Path to Automatic User Task Identification
  Anne Gutschmidt, Clemens H. Cap and Friedemann W. Nerdinger
• Different Degrees of Explicitness in Intentional Artifacts: An Exploratory Study of User Goals in a Search Query Log
  Markus Strohmaier, Peter Prettenhofer and Mathias Lux
• Using Spreading Activation through Ontologies to Support Personal Information Management
  Akrivi Katifori, Costas Vassilakis and Alan Dix