Program

Wednesday, 3 June 2009
08:30 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 10:00	Fusion of Information for Content Based Multimedia Database Retrieval Invited keynote talk — Josef Kittler,University of Surrey, UK
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30	Oral Session 1: Image and Video Classification Chair: Bernard Merialdo Kernel Discriminant Analysis using Triangular Kernel for Semantic Scene Classification Muhammad Atif Tahir, Josef Kittler, Fei Yan, Krystian Mikolajczyk Action Categorization in Soccer Videos using String Kernels Lamberto Ballan, Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo and Giuseppe Serra An Empirical Study of Multi-Label Learning Methods for Video Annotation Anastasios Dimou, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and Ioannis Vlahavas News Story Segmentation in Multiple Modalities Gert-Jan Poulisse, Marie-Francine Moens and Tomas Dekens
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00	Poster Session 1: Feature Extraction, Classification and Object Detection Classification of images based on Hidden Markov Models Marc Mouret, Christine Solnon and Christian Wolf Compound document analysis by fusing evidence across media Spiros Nikolopoulos, Christina Lakka, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Christos Varytimidis, Konstantinos Rapantzikos and Yannis Avrithis Dominant Color Extraction based on Dynamic Clustering by Multi-Dimensional Particle Swarm Optimization Serkan Kiranyaz, Stefan Uhlmann and Moncef Gabbouj 3D Object detection and viewpoint selection in sketch images using local patch-based Zernike moment Anh-Phuong Ta, Christian Wolf, Guillaume Lavoue and Atilla Baskurt Hierarchical Ontology-based Robust Video Shots Indexation using Global MPEG-7 Visual Descriptors Rachid Benmokhtar and Benoit Huet Motion Vector Based Moving Object Detection and Tracking in the MPEG Compressed Domain Takanori Yokoyama, Toshiki Iwasaki and Toshinori Watanabe Sperm whales records indexation using passive acoustics localization Frederic Benard and Herve Glotin Demonstrations High-dimensional Indexing for Video Retrieval Catalin Calistru, Cristina Ribeiro and Gabriel David A Semi-Automatic Indexing Tool for Daily News, based on Text and Audio Keyword Spotting M. Jottrand, A. Moinet, L. Couvreur and T. Dutoit Visual Image Retrieval and Localization Yannis Kalantidis, Giorgos Tolias, Evaggelos Spyrou, Phivos Mylonas and Yannis Avrithis A Fast Vehicle Retrieval Demonstrator Based on Compressed Video Stream Analysis Marc Leny, Cedric Le Barz, Didier Nicholson and Francoise Preteux Visualization of Multi-Video Summaries Yingbo Li, Feng Wang and Bernard Merialdo TagCaptcha: Annotating Images with CAPTCHAs Donn Morrison TRENDS: Image Indexing and Retrieval for Car Designers Jean-Francois Omhover, Carole Bouchard, Aranza Bereciartua Perez, Guillaume Logerot and Hichem Houissa
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:30	Special Session: Scalable Video Indexing Chairs: Jenny Benois-Pineau and Ewa Kijak Compressed domain copy detection of scalable SVC videos Christian Kas and Henri Nicolas Scalable spatio-temporal video indexing using sparse multiscale patches Paolo Piro, Sandrine Anthoine, Eric Debreuve and Michel Barlaud Embedded Indexing in Scalable Video Coding Nicola Adami, Alberto Boschetti, Riccardo Leonardi and Pierangelo Migliorati Hierarchical Summarisation of Video using Ant-Tree Strategy Tomas Piatrik and Ebroul Izquierdo

Thursday, 4 June 2009
09:00 - 10:00	Research Challenges in Understanding and Indexing Media Invited keynote talk — Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, US
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30	Oral Session 2: Visual Indexing, Retrieval and Summarization Chair: Patrick Gros Semi-Automatic Bpt For Image Retrieval Shirin Ghanbari, John Woods and Simon M. Lucas Subspace Tree Andrzej Wichert Rushes video parsing using video sequence alignment Emilie Dumont and Bernard Merialdo Multimodal Space For Rushes Representation And Retrieval Sergio Benini, Luca Canini, Pierangelo Migliorati and Riccardo Leonardi
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00	Poster Session 2: Browsing, Indexing and Retrieval Content Based Copy Detection with Coarse Audio-Visual Fingerprints Ahmet Saracoglu, Ersin Esen, Tugrul K. Ates, Banu Oskay Acar, Unal Zubari, Ezgi C. Ozan, A. Aydin Alatan and Tolga Ciloglu BlockWeb: an IR Model for Block Structured Web Pages Emmanuel Bruno, Nicolas Faessel, Jacques Le Maitre and Michel Scholl A Database Architecture for Real-Time Motion Retrieval Charly Awad, Nicolas Courty and Sylvie Gibet ESPI Image Indexing and Similarity Search in Radon Transform Domain Remi Vieux, Jenny Benois-Pineau, Jean-Philippe Domenger and Achille Braquelaire A Multi-faceted Browsing Interface for Digital Photo Collections Ilaria Bartolini Video Browsing Using Interactive Navigation Summaries Klaus Schoffmann and Laszlo Boeszoermenyi Picadomo: Faceted Image Browsing for Mobile Devices Adrian Hub, Daniel Blank, Andreas Henrich and Wolfgang Mueller Semantic Video Clustering in Ad Hoc Networks for Content-Based Retrieval Bo Yang and Manohar Mareboyana Demonstrations High-dimensional Indexing for Video Retrieval Catalin Calistru, Cristina Ribeiro and Gabriel David A Semi-Automatic Indexing Tool for Daily News, based on Text and Audio Keyword Spotting M. Jottrand, A. Moinet, L. Couvreur and T. Dutoit Visual Image Retrieval and Localization Yannis Kalantidis, Giorgos Tolias, Evaggelos Spyrou, Phivos Mylonas and Yannis Avrithis A Fast Vehicle Retrieval Demonstrator Based on Compressed Video Stream Analysis Marc Leny, Cedric Le Barz, Didier Nicholson and Francoise Preteux Visualization of Multi-Video Summaries Yingbo Li, Feng Wang and Bernard Merialdo TagCaptcha: Annotating Images with CAPTCHAs Donn Morrison TRENDS: Image Indexing and Retrieval for Car Designers Jean-Francois Omhover, Carole Bouchard, Aranza Bereciartua Perez, Guillaume Logerot and Hichem Houissa
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:30	Oral Session 3: Audio Analysis Chair: Georges Quenot Spectral similarity metrics for sound source formation based on the common variation cue Mathieu Lagrange and Martin Raspaud Combining Cohort and UBM Models in Open Set Speaker Identification Anthony Brew and Padraig Cunningham Monophony vs. Polyphony: A new method based on Weibull bivariate models Helene Lachambre, Andre-Obrecht Regine and Julien Pinquier Audiocycle: Browsing Musical Loops Libraries Stephane Dupont, Thomas Dubuisson, Jerome Urbain, Raphael Sebbe, Nicolas d'Alessandro, Christian Frisson Content-aware web browsing and visualization tools for cantillation and chant research Steven Ness, George Tzanetakis, Daniel Peter Biro

Friday, 5 June 2009
09:00 - 11:00	Special Session: Multimedia Indexing for Content Based Search (Part A) Chairs: Marco Brambilla and Francesco Saverio Nucci Search Computing Invited talk — Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy A Compact Multi-View Descriptor for 3D Object Retrieval Petros Daras and Apostolos Axenopoulos Model-Driven Design of Audiovisual Indexing Processes for Search-Based Applications Piero Fraternali, Marco Brambilla, Alessandro Bozzon Structured Named Entity Retrieval in Audio Broadcast News Azeddine Zidouni, Mohamed Quafafou and Herve Glotin RUSHES - Retrieval of Multimedia Semantic Units for Enhanced Reusability OOliver Schreer, Ingo Feldmann, Isabel Alonso, Pedro Concejero, Abdul Sadka and Mohammed Rafiq Swash
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30	Practitioner Session: Multimedia Content Access and Europeana Chair: Stefanos Kollias
13:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:30	Special Session: Multimedia Indexing for Content Based Search (Part B) Chairs: Marco Brambilla and Francesco Saverio Nucci Query Generation From Multiple Multimedia Examples Reede Ren and Joemon Jose Semantic High-Level Features for Automated Cross-Modal Slideshow Generation Peter Dunker, Christian Dittmar, Andre Begau, Stefanie Nowak and Matthias Gruhne Content-Based Search in Multi-Lingual Audiovisual Documents using the International Phonetic Alphabet Georges Quenot, Tien Ping Tan, Le Viet Bac, Stephane Ayache, Laurent Besacier and Philippe Mulhem Music Mood Annotator Design and Integration Cyril Laurier, Owen Meyers, Joan Serra, Martin Blech and Perfecto Herrera Biometric Responses to Music-Rich Segments in Films: The CDVPlex Alan Smeaton and Sandra Rothwell