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Home Latest updates: « < January 2010 > » S M T W T F S Call For Papers *** October 20, 2008: Full conference program is now available*** 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 Important Dates ACM International Conference on Multimedia 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Organizing Commitee 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Submission Instructions Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 October 27 – 31, 2008 Information for Presenters 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/ Technical Program 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 Arts Program ACM Multimedia 2008 invites your participation in the premier annual « < February 2010 > » Workshops multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from S M T W T F S MIR 2008 underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 networks to devices. Tutorials 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Registration The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Venue of interest in: 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sponsors (a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval; (b) Multimedia networking and systems support; and News Random Image (c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications; Awards (d) Human-centered multimedia. Student Travel Grant Warning: Blog getimagesize(/var/www/mcrlab/acmmm2008/images/venue/sight5.jpg) Search Conference Events Awards [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Contact Us Key Notes Panels Extended version of the four candidate Best /var/www/mcrlab/acmmm2008/modules/mod_random_image.php Papers (one from each track) will appear in a on line 68 Login Form Full Papers special section in the ACM Transactions on Short Papers Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Brave New Topics Applications (TOM CCAP). Warning: Division by zero in Username Technical Demonstrations /var/www/mcrlab/acmmm2008/modules/mod_random_image.php on line Video Program 74 Arts Program Password Warning: Division by zero in Workshops /var/www/mcrlab/acmmm2008/modules/mod_random_image.php Doctoral Symposium on line 75 Remember me Open Source Software Competition Who's Online Lost Password? Read more... We have 1 guest online Syndicate

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Home Latest updates: « < January 2010 > » S M T W T F S Call For Papers *** October 20, 2008: Full conference program is now available*** 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 Important Dates ACM International Conference on Multimedia 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Organizing Commitee 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Submission Instructions Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 October 27 – 31, 2008 Information for Presenters 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/ Technical Program 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 Arts Program ACM Multimedia 2008 invites your participation in the premier annual « < February 2010 > » Workshops multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from S M T W T F S MIR 2008 underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 networks to devices. Tutorials 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Registration The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Venue of interest in: 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sponsors (a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval; (b) Multimedia networking and systems support; and News Random Image (c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications; Awards (d) Human-centered multimedia. Student Travel Grant Warning: Blog getimagesize(/var/www/mcrlab/acmmm2008/images/venue/yvr_cnimax_grizzly_sxm.jpg) Search Conference Events Awards [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Contact Us Key Notes Panels Extended version of the four candidate Best /var/www/mcrlab/acmmm2008/modules/mod_random_image.php Papers (one from each track) will appear in a on line 68 Login Form Full Papers special section in the ACM Transactions on Short Papers Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Brave New Topics Applications (TOM CCAP). Warning: Division by zero in Username Technical Demonstrations /var/www/mcrlab/acmmm2008/modules/mod_random_image.php on line Video Program 74 Arts Program Password Warning: Division by zero in Workshops /var/www/mcrlab/acmmm2008/modules/mod_random_image.php Doctoral Symposium on line 75 Remember me Open Source Software Competition Who's Online Lost Password? Read more... We have 1 guest online Syndicate

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Workshops MIR 2008 Tutorials Call For Papers Registration ACM Multimedia 2008 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all Venue aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers Sponsors to networks to devices. News ACM Multimedia 2008 will be colocated with ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Awards Retrieval ACM MIR 2008, October 30-31, 2008 Vancouver, Canada. Student Travel Grant The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in: Blog Search (a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval; (b) Multimedia networking and systems support; and Contact Us (c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications; (d) Human-centered multimedia.

*** Due to large number of requests, the deadline for full paper submission has been extended to April 27, 2008 (Firm) ***

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April 11, 2008 Full Paper Registration (Abstract –Submission) Deadline

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June 06, 2008 Short Paper/Video Program/Interactive Art Program/ Short Paper/ Open Source/Doctor Program/Demo Proposal Submission Deadline

June 27, 2008 Notification of Acceptance

Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper as well as to the best demo, best art program paper, and the best-contributed open-source software. Extended version of the four candidate Best Papers (one from each track) will appear in a special section in the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOM CCAP).

Panels will consist of discussions on timely and controversial topics.

Full Papers will be high-quality original contributions that will be presented in the oral sessions.

Short Papers will be presented in poster format and are an opportunity for researchers to present new work and ideas in an interactive setting.

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State-of-the-Art Tutorials lead by experts will precede the technical program. The full- and half-day offerings will span a wide variety of topics.

Brave New Topics is a special session’s track containing papers, which establishes foundational areas and extend the boundaries of multimedia research.

Technical Demos will include leading edge work in every area of multimedia technology and its application.

Video Demonstrations allow researchers and artists to demonstrate their tool, system or application without having to bring the equipment for a “live” demo.

The Interactive Art Program will include long and short papers describing interactive multimedia art works, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology. It will also include an art exhibition.

Workshops on topics of current interest to members of the multimedia research community will follow the technical program.

Doctoral Symposium is an opportunity for students involved in the preparation of a PhD to interactively discuss their research issues and ideas with senior researchers, and receive constructive feedback from members of the research community.

The Open-source Software Competition is a recent addition to the ACM Multimedia program and 2008 will be our fourth year of running the competition.

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Call For Papers April 11, 2008 Full paper registration and abstract submission deadline Important Dates April 27, 2008 Full paper / Panel / Workshop proposal submission deadline (extended) Organizing Commitee May 2, 2008 Art exhibition deadline Submission Instructions May 16, 2008 Brave session proposal submission deadline Information for Presenters Short paper / Video program / Interactive art program short paper / June 06, 2008 Technical Program Open source / Doctor program / Demo proposal submission deadline Arts Program June 21, 2008 TPC meeting Workshops June 27, 2008 Notification of acceptance MIR 2008 August 1, 2008 Camera-ready papers deadline Tutorials Registration Venue

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Technical Program Committees Home Please click here to view the . Call For Papers General Co-Chairs Abdulmotaleb EL Saddik (Univ. of Ottawa) Important Dates Son Vuong (Univ. of British Colombia) Organizing Commitee Program Co-Chairs Submission Instructions Carsten Griwodz (Univ. of Oslo) Information for Presenters Alberto Del Bimbo (Univ. degli Studi di Firenze) K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State Univ.) Technical Program Alejandro Jaimes (Telefonica R&D, Madrid, Spain) Arts Program Short Paper Co-Chairs Workshops Gopal S Pingali (IBM, Watson) MIR 2008 Changsheng Xu (CAS, China) Tutorials Shervin Shirmohammadi (Univ. of Ottawa) Registration Workshop Co-Chairs Venue Max Mühlhäuser (TUD, Germany) Dulce Ponceleon (IBM, Almaden) Sponsors Tutorial Chair News Roger Zimmerman (NUS, Singapore) Awards Publicity Co-Chairs Student Travel Grant Yong Rui (Microsoft, China) Blog Markus Kampmann (Ericsson, Sweden) Search Jiebo Luo (Kodak Research Lab, USA) Wolfgang Effelsberg (Univ. of Mannheim) Contact Us Technical Demo Co-Chairs Pål Halvorsen (Univ. of Oslo) Anup Basu (Univ. of Alberta)

Proceedings Chair Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (Univ. of Texas at Dallas)

Panel Co-Chairs Suzanne Boll (Univ. of Oldenburg) Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood (IBM, Almaden)

Finance Chair Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa)

Doctorial Symposium Co-Chairs Hari Sundaram (Arizona State Univ) Kiyoharu Aizawa (University of Tokyo)

Sponsoring Co-Chairs Panos Nasiopoulos (Univ. of British Columbia) Victor Leung (Univ. of British Columbia)

Brave New Topics Co-Chairs Ling Guan (Ryerson University) Zhengyou Zhang (Microsoft Research)

Travel Grant Co-Chairs Christoph Rensing (HTTC) Shueng-Han Gary Chan (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology)

Interactive Art Program Co-Chairs Frank Nack (Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon) Andruid Kerne (Texas A & M University) Ron Wakarry (Simon Fraser University)

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Video Program Co-Chairs Thomas Haenselmann (Univ. of Mannheim) Michael Smith

History Preservation Chair Matthias Hollick (TU Darmstadt)

Open Source Competition Co-Chairs Oliver Heckman (Google) Arnd Steinmetz (Fachhochschule Darmstadt)

Registration Chair Rosa Iglesias (Ikerlan Research Centre)

Local Arrangement Chair Charles Buck Krasic (Univ. of British Colombia)

SIG MM Chair Klara Nahrstedt (Univ. of Illinois)

SIG MM Director of Conferences Nevenka Dimitrova (Philips)

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Call For Papers Please review the preparation and submission instructions for the final version of your MM 2008 paper at: Important Dates www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/mm1.htm

Organizing Commitee You will be receiving an email from [email protected] shortly with the submission ID for your final version and a link to Submission Instructions submit directly. Kindly adhere to the submission deadline (August 1, 2008), So we ALL can ensure the timely delivery of the proceedings for the conference and co-located workshops. Information for Presenters Technical Program For those traveling or taking holiday in the near future, please make appropriate plans to format and submit your final version on Arts Program time, sign and supply the signed form to Sheridan Printing, or be sure to make arrangements with a co-author or associate so your material is received in a timely fashion. Workshops MIR 2008 ______*** In contrast to previous years, this year the technical program committee of ACM MM will adopt a single blind review Tutorials process. Therefore, the author names should be provided in the submitted papers. *** Registration All the submissions should be prepared in double-column ACM proceedings style. The corresponding latex and word files can be Venue found from the following links: Sponsors Latex files News Word files Formatting instructions for other tools. Awards Student Travel Grant Register and submit a paper for ACM Multimedia: Blog Track Page limit Submit manuscript by Submit Search ACM Multimedia 2008 - Full paper - Systems and Networking Track 10 Apr 27, 2008 23:59 hrs Contact Us ACM Multimedia 2008 Full paper - Applications track 10 Apr 27, 2008 23:59 hrs

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Call For Papers The poster boards will be set up about 2 hours prior to the event, so that you can already pin your poster to the provided poster Important Dates boards. We will provide the pins for this and will also provide tables to place your laptop for the demonstrations. The maximum size of your poster should be 1.20 meters (high) by 1.00 meter (wide). Organizing Commitee Submission Instructions Information for Presenters [ Back ] Technical Program Arts Program Workshops MIR 2008 Tutorials Registration Venue Sponsors News Awards Student Travel Grant Blog Search Contact Us

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Home http://mmart.iat.sfu.ca/ Call For Papers Important Dates The Call for Exhibitions and Long/Short papers is now closed. We are currently reviewing Organizing Commitee submissions, some important dates: artist/author notification June 27, 2008 and camera-ready papers due July 20, 2008. Submission Instructions Information for Presenters This year's fifth version of the Interactive Arts Program will consist of an art exhibition at Science World British Columbia, and a conference track. The exhibition will explore the theme of “BorderZones”. Artworks exhibited will use multimedia to shift, traverse, Technical Program intersect, and combine genres and modalities to provoke the emergence of new frameworks. Arts Program The conference track will include long/short papers describing interactive multimedia artworks, tools, applications, and technical Workshops approaches for the creative use of multimedia content and technology, and management of art-related media collections. MIR 2008 If you have questions, please contact the Vicki Moulder, Arts Program Coordinator [email protected] Tutorials Registration Program Chairs Venue Andruid Kerne, Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University, USA Frank Nack, HCS, University of Amsterdam, NL Sponsors Ron Wakkary, The School of Interactive Arts + Technology SFU, CA News Awards [ Back ] Student Travel Grant Blog Search Contact Us

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Call For Papers Workshop 1: Vision Networks for Behavior Analysis (VNBA) Important Dates Workshop 2: Semantic Ambient Media Experiences (SAME) Organizing Commitee Submission Instructions Workshop 3: TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop (TVS) Information for Presenters Workshop 4: Story Representation, Mechanism and Context (SRMC)

Technical Program Workshop 5: Analysis and Retrieval of Events/Actions and Workflows in Video Streams (AREA) Arts Program Workshop 6: The Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics (MS) Workshops MIR 2008 Workshop 7: Communicability Design and Evaluation in Cultural and Ecological Multimedia Systems (Communicability MS) Tutorials Workshop 8: Human-Centered Computing (HCC). Registration 1. Vision Networks for Behaviour Analysis (VNBA 2008) - Oct 31, 2008 Venue Organizers: Hamid Aghajan (Stanford University, USA) and Andrea Prati (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Sponsors News This workshop marks a new era of the successful series of the Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN) workshops, held until 2006 in conjunction with ACM Multimedia conference (Berkeley 2003, New York 2004, Singapore 2005, and Santa Barbara, Awards 2006). This new version of the workshop inherits from VSSN the experienced Technical Program Committee as well as the Student Travel Grant interests of its community, but shifts the focus to cover higher level topics and applications under the common framework of Blog “behaviour analysis”, hence aiming to adapt to the evolved directions of interest in the field, and reaching out to other research communities with overlapping interests. Search Contact Us 2. Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2008) - Oct 31, 2008

Organizers: Artur Lugmayr (Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc., Finland), Thomas Risse (L3S Research Center, Germany), Bjorn Stockleben (RBB, Germany), Juha Kaario (Nokia, Finland) and Kari Laurila (Nokia, Finland)

The workshop focuses on semantic ambient media, especially multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications. Its strong human- centered focuses due to the orientation to consumer experience combines multimedia technology, consumer focus, and intelligent media systems and fits well with the topics of interest of ACM MM. The viewpoint of the workshop is multidisciplinary and shall attract researchers from the field of ambient multimedia, human centered computing, and content creators.

3. TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop (TVS 2008) - Oct 31, 2008

Organizers: Paul Over (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA) and Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Ireland USA)

TVS 2008 is a workshop devoted to the evaluation of automatic video summarization systems run on rushes from several BBC dramatic series. It is being carried out under the auspices of TRECVid as a follow-up to the video summarization workshop held at ACM Multimedia '07. 31 research teams submitted video summaries of 40 individual rushes video files, aiming to compress out redundant and unsignificant material to at most 2% of the original's duration. The output of a baseline system, which simply presented each full video at 50 times normal speed was contributed by Carnegie Mellon University as a control. Each summary was judged by 3 humans with respect to how much of the important content of the original video was included and how well- formed the summary was. At the workshop several participants will present their research for discussion. All interested parties are invited to attend, listen, and join in the discussion.

4. Story Representation, Mechanism and Context (SRMC 2008) - Oct 31, 2008

Organizers: Kevin Brooks (Motorola Labs, USA), Aisling Kelliher (Arizona State University, USA) and Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam, NL)

In this second SRMC workshop we will investigate the application and practice of story to multimedia story creation, artificial intelligence and social networks. This workshop will be of interest to those investigating traditional multimedia research involving search and retrieval, content analysis, media summarization and semantics, as well as those researchers developing new forms of story expression, narrative based interface design and user-generated story-sharing platforms.

5. Analysis and Retrieval of Events/Actions and Workflows in Video Streams (AREA 2008) - Oct 31, 2008

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Organizers: Anastasios D. Doulamis (Technical University of Crete), Luc Van Gool (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich), Mark Nixon (University of Southampton), Theodora A. Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens) and Nikolaos D. Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens)

Cognitive video supervision and event analysis in video sequences is a critical task in many multimedia applications. This research area has strong impact on many real-life applications such as service quality assurance, compliance to the designed procedures in industrial plants, surveillance of people-dense areas, crisis management in public service areas, security semantic characterization and annotation of video streams in various domains.

This workshop seeks original high innovative research in the area of self configurable cognitive video supervision in several domains. In particular the workshop seeks high research in -

1) multimedia, in the scope of detecting/identifying high level concepts, actions, events and procedures in video streams using largely unsupervised algorithms without the need for external re-programming, re-configuring and re-adjusting

2) robust solutions to targeted problems of high impact in real-life applications

3) ongoing research/progress on national and international research projects (e.g., USA, European, Asian, Australia, etc).

6. The Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics (MS 2008) - Oct 31, 2008

Organizers: Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University, USA), William Grosky (University of Michigan, USA) and Peter Stanchev (Kettering University, USA)

This is the second workshop in a series, the first being held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2007 in Augsburg, Germany. The field of multimedia semantics is in great flux at the present time. From the semantic web’s concentration on author-based semantics to the apparent exclusion of user-based semantics, through the field of emergent semantics, to the emergence of Web 2.0, many different approaches have arisen to help users manage multimedia information. This workshop welcomes papers on all aspects of multimedia semantics and hopes to generate some interesting discussions on the future of this field.

7. Communicability Design and Evaluation in Cultural and Ecological Multimedia Systems (Communicability MS) - Oct 31, 2008

Organizers: Francisco V. C. Ficarra (Universitat de Barcelona)

The Workshop “Communicability Design and Evaluation in Cultural and Ecological Multimedia Systems” is a premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the areas quality design, communication and semiotics, multimedia heuristics evaluation, education, cultural and natural heritage. All papers in the main track must be high quality original papers which address important issues in multimedia and communicability design in cultural and ecological heritage, summarization and retrieval. For details, please click here.

8. The 3rd International Workshop on Human-Centered Computing (HCC) - Oct 31, 2008

Organizers: Alejandro Jaimes (Telefonica Research, Madrid, Spain), Daniela Nicklas (University of Oldenburg, Germany) and Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Human-Centered Computing (HCC) lies at the crossroads of multiple disciplines and research areas that are concerned both with understanding human beings and with the design of computational methods. Researchers and designers of HCC methods and systems include engineers, scholars in psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and graphic designers, among others. Research in HCC deals with understanding humans, both as individuals and in social groups, by focusing on the ways that human beings adopt, adapt, and organize their lives around computational technologies, and on how the development of computational technologies can be informed by human aspects (culture, social setting, human abilities, etc.). Human-Centered Computing addresses problems that the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) does not generally address.

This year´s workshop builds on the discussions on the previous workshops on this topic held with ACM Multimedia 2007 and 2006.

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We’ve assembled a wonderful group of tutorials for this year’s ACM Multimedia. We have something for everybody, from new Home students just starting work in multimedia to the most seasoned researcher. Our presenters have worked hard to distill the essence Call For Papers of their topics into a half-day tutorial. Spend the day learning everything you need to understand and work in these areas. Important Dates The tutorials will be held on Monday, 27 October 2008, and they are grouped into four areas: Organizing Commitee Content Access - How to facilitate end-user access to multimedia content? Submission Instructions Information for Presenters Tutorial 1: Multimedia Content Protection (am) Tutorial 2: Recent Developments in Content-based and Concept-based Image/Video Retrieval (pm) Technical Program Tutorial 3: Music Recommendation (am) Arts Program Ubiquitous Multimedia - Personal and ambient multimedia environments. Workshops MIR 2008 Tutorial 4: A Glimpse of Multimedia Ambient Intelligence (am) Tutorial 5: Storage, Retrieval, and Communication of Body Sensor Network Data (pm) Tutorials Registration Multimedia Devices - How is multimedia effectively delivered?

Venue Tutorial 6: Multimedia Power Management on a Platter: From Audio to Video & Games (am) Sponsors Tutorial 7: Haptics Technologies: Theory and Applications from a Multimedia Perspective (pm) News Tools You Can Use - How do you make your multimedia ideas real? Awards Student Travel Grant Tutorial 8: Mobile Phone Programming for Multimedia (am) Tutorial 9: Authoring Educational Multimedia (pm) Blog Search We hope you will enjoy these tutorials. We think there is something for everyone! Contact Us Schedule (Monday, October 27, 2008)

Time Tutorial Multimedia Content Protection 0830-1200 T1 Dulce Ponceleón and Nelly Fazio Music Recommendation T3 Òscar Celma and Paul Lamere A Glimpse of Multimedia Ambient Intelligence T4 Abdulmotaleb El Saddik and Rosa Iglesias Multimedia Power Management on a Platter: From Audio to Video & Games T6 Samarjit Chakraborty and Ye Wang Mobile Phone Programming for Multimedia T8 Jürgen Scheible 1200-1330 Lunch Recent Developments in Content-based and Concept-based Image/Video Retrieval 1330-1700 T2 Rong Yan and Winston Hsu Storage, Retrieval, and Communication of Body Sensor Network Data T5 Balakrishnan Prabhakaran Haptics Technologies: Theory and Applications from a Multimedia Perspective T7 Kanav Kahol and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik Authoring Educational Multimedia T9 Nalin Sharda

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Tutorial 1: Multimedia Content Protection (Presenters: Dulce Ponceleón and Nelly Fazio)

Multimedia content protection is a controversial topic. Content owners want to protect their rights while consumers want flexible

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usage, privacy, and seamless content flow. In this tutorial we cover content protection from its cryptography fundamentals, to its history, emerging standards, state-of-the-art approaches and live demos. We also review several content protection standards such as 4C and Advanced Access Content System (AACS).

This half-day introductory tutorial teaches multimedia researchers, practitioners and consumers in general, the basic cryptographic techniques used in content protection. In this tutorial we focus on entertainment content. We also provide a brief history of content protection systems giving an insight into their evolution and a peek into current technical and business trends. The tutorial is targeted at a beginner to intermediate audience, i.e. no background on cryptography is assumed. Intermediate students will have the opportunity to get an overview of current content protection systems and emerging standards. We will provide context for all the important ideas, with as much depth as possible, and provide pointers to the literature for those who want more details.

Presenter’s biography: Dr. Nelly Fazio earned her M.Sc. (‘03) and Ph.D. (‘06) in Computer Science from New York University. During her studies, she also conducted research at Stanford University, École Normale Supérieure (France) and Aarhus University (Denmark). In 2003, she was awarded the NYU CIMS Sandra Bleistein prize, for "notable achievement by a woman in Applied Mathematics or Computer Science." Her Ph.D. thesis was nominated with honorable mention for the NYU J. Fabri prize, awarded yearly for the "most outstanding dissertation in Computer Science." Dr. Fazio’s research interests are in cryptography and information security, with a focus on digital content protection. Since July 2006, she is part of the Content Protection group at IBM Almaden Research Center, where she has been conducting research on advanced cryptographic key management, tracing technologies, and authenticated communication in dynamic federated environments. Currently, she is a visiting research scientist in the Security group at IBM T.J. Watson Research center, working on security issues of decentralized environments such as mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) and sensor networks.

Presenter’s biography: Dr. Dulce B. Ponceleón holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford University. She worked in the Advanced Technology Group at Apple Computer, Inc., where she worked on information retrieval, video compression and audio compression technologies for QuickTime. She was a key contributor to the first software-only videoconferencing system. She is currently at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where she manages the Content Protection Competency Center. She has worked on multimedia content analysis and indexing, video summarization, applications of speech recognition, storage systems, and content protection. She contributed to the ISO MPEG-7 standardization efforts, specifically in Multimedia Description Schemes. She is an IBM technical representative in 4C and Advanced Access Content System (AACS). The 4C Entity has developed content protection standards for recordable and pre-recorded media (CPRM/CPPM). Dr. Ponceleón is the Chair of the 4C Technical Group since 2004. AACS is a content protection standards for managing content stored on the next generation of pre-recorded and recorded optical media for consumer use with PCs and CE devices. Dr. Ponceleón has been on the Scientific Advisory Board of a leading NSF multimedia school, and a program committee member of ACM Multimedia, SPIE, SIGIR, IEEE, and several multimedia workshops. She has held workshops on multimedia standards (ACM MM 2000), panels on streaming video (ACM MM 2001), and multimedia information retrieval tutorials (SIGIR 2002, SIGIR 2005 and ICASPP 2006). She holds patents and numerous publications in video and audio compression, multimedia information retrieval, numerical linear algebra and non-linear programming. She holds several patents and numerous publications in video and audio compression, multimedia information retrieval, content protection, human computer interfaces, numerical linear algebra and non-linear programming.

Tutorial 2: Recent Developments in Content-based and Concept-based Image/Video Retrieval (Presenters: Rong Yan and Winston Hsu)

Recent advancements in processor speed, high-speed network, and the availability of massive digital storages have led to an explosive amount of image/video data. Although difficult to approximate the exact amount, its enormous scale can be estimated from the following two statistics: there are about 83 million digital still cameras sold in 2006, and video already account for more than half of the internet traffic, with YouTube alone taking 10%. While many users would like to spend their leisure time watching videos on YouTube or browsing photos through Flickr, effectively searching large-scale multimedia collections for useful information, especially those outside of the open web, is still a problem yet to be addressed.

Visual retrieval systems, with the goal to find images or videos in response to queries, offer an important platform to access and manage this vast amount of image/video content. Increasingly, this technique has drawn more and more attention from existing search engines, such as Google, Yahoo and Blinx. The current commercial visual search engines are mostly built on either plain text information (e.g., caption, file name and so on), or the tags manually provided by the users. However, this is far from sufficient for indexing the semantic content of the image/video data. This is reflected in one of the recent Wired article: "Search engines can not index video files as easily as text. That is tripping up the Web’s next great leap forward."

This tutorial aims to provide the participants a broad and comprehensive coverage on the foundations and recent developments of content-based and concept-based image and video retrieval, including both theoretical and practical results as well as illustrative demos. In contrast to previous tutorials on image/video retrieval, we will focus on presenting and discussing the theoretical advance of the emerging visual retrieval approaches from the perspectives of content and concepts, and offer useful and complementary information to the multimedia researchers who prepare for pursuing this research area.

Presenter’s biography: Dr. Rong Yan is a Research Staff Member in the Intelligent Information Management Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center since 2006. Dr. Yan received his M.Sc. (2004) and Ph.D. (2006) degrees from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. His research interests include multimedia retrieval, video content analysis, data mining, machine learning and computer vision. Dr. Yan is the principle designer of the automatic/manual video retrieval system that achieves the best performance in the world-wide TRECVID evaluation in 2003 and 2005. He received the Best Paper Runner-Up award in ACM Multimedia 2004 and ACM CIVR 2007. Dr. Yan has authored or co-authored more than 55 international conference and journal papers. He holds 1 U.S. patent and 3 pending patents. He has served in the NSF Career Proposal review panel. Dr. Yan has served or is serving on the Program Committees of ICME’06-08, CIKM’08, SIGIR’07-08, CIVR’07-08, ACM MM’04/07 and several other conferences. He has been a co-chair for the industrial program in ISM’08, the VideOlympics showcase in CIVR’07-08 and a special session in ICSC 2007. Dr. Yan is a reviewer for more than 10 international journals. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

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experiencing Engineer, Project Leader, and R&D Manager. Dr. Hsu’s current research interests are to enable "Next-Generation Multimedia Retrieval" and generally include content analysis, mining, retrieval, and machine learning over large-scale multimedia databases. Dr. Hsu’s research work in video analysis and retrieval had achieved one of the best systems in TRECVID benchmarks since 2003. He received the Best Paper Runner-Up award in ACM Multimedia 2006 and was named in the "Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop 2006" by IBM. Dr. Hsu is a frequent reviewer for major international journals. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Tutorial 3: Music Recommendation (Presenters: Òscar Celma and Paul Lamere)

As the world of online music grows, music recommendation systems become an increasingly important way for music listeners to discover new music. Commercial recommenders such as Last.fm and Pandora have enjoyed commercial and critical success. But how well do these systems really work? How good are the recommendations? How far into the 'long tail' do these recommenders reach? In this tutorial we look at the current state-of-the-art in music recommendation. We examine current commercial and research systems, focusing on the advantages and the disadvantages of the various recommendation strategies. We look at some of the challenges in building music recommenders and we explore some of the ways that Multimedia Information Retrieval techniques can be used to improve future recommenders, including a multi-modal approach merging the different fields (audio, image, video and text).

Presenter’s biography: Òscar Celma is a researcher at Music Technology Group since 2000, and Associate Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain). Since 2006 he is an Invited Expert of the W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group. He is a member of the program committee of the Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS). In 2006, he received 2nd prize in the International Semantic Web Challenge for the system named "Foafing the Music" (a personalized music recommendation and discovery application).

Presenter’s biography: Paul Lamere is the Principal Investigator for a project called Search Inside the Music at Sun Labs where he explores new ways to help people find highly relevant music, even as music collections get very large. Paul is especially interested in hybrid music recommenders and using visualizations to aid music discovery. Paul serves on the program committee for ISMIR 2008, the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval as well as on the program committee for RecSys08, the ACM conference on Recommender Systems. Paul also authors Duke Listens! a blog focusing on music discovery and recommendation.

Ubiquitous Multimedia

Tutorial 4: A Glimpse of Multimedia Ambient Intelligence (Presenters: Abdulmotaleb El Saddik and Rosa Iglesias)

The tutorial first presents a brief overview of systems and technologies that are part of Multimedia AmI. It is then introduced multimedia AmI services, components and access networks, which are essential for the development of AmI enviroments, will be discussed. Next, fundamental technologies are presented such as wired/wireless, gateway, and middleware technologies. Finally, some applications together with the concepts of "Personal Administrator" and "Extended Home Environment" are introduced. These applications range from "Home care and safety" and "Health care" to "Information and Entertainment" and "Follow-me multimedia services". In brief, it will cover the following topics: Introduction of Multimedia AmI, Multimedia AmI Tecnology Roadmap, Multimedia AmI Services, Multimedia AmI Components, Access Networks, Wired Technology, Wireless Technology, Gateway Technology, Middleware Technology, "Personal Administrator (PA)" Concept, PA Scope-of-Work, PA Merging Various User Interface Paradigms, PA Outlines, PA Architecture, "Extended Home Environment (EHE)" Concept, EHE Scope-of-Work, EHE enhancing user experiences, Closing Remarks.

Presenter's biography: Dr. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University Research Chair and Associate Professor, SITE, University of Ottawa and recipient of, among others, the Friedrich Wilhelm-Bessel Research Award from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2007) the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA 2004). He is the director of the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory and of the ICT cluster of the Ontario research Network on E-Commerce. He is leading researcher in haptics, service-oriented architectures, collaborative virtual environments and ambient interactive media and communications. He has authored and co-authored three books and more than 200 publications. His research has been selected for the BEST Paper Award 2 times. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. Visit: http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca or http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~elsaddik

Presenter’s biography: Dr. Rosa Iglesias is currently a researcher at Ikerlan Technological Research Center, Spain. Iglesias has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Her PhD was developed on the subject of networked haptic virtual environments for assembly tasks at Labein (Spain) and it was partly carried out during a visiting stay at MIT and Queen’s University Belfast. She also hold a post-doctoral position at SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada. She obtained the second Thesis Award by the Research Basque association in 2007. Her research interests span ambient intelligent technologies and applications, networked haptic virtual environments and haptic applications. She is currently involved in several European projects on Ambient Intelligence

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including SmartTouch and AmIe. She is a member of IEEE and ACM and of the editorial board of the International Journal of Advanced Media and Communciation (IJAMC).

Tutorial 5: Storage, Retrieval, and Communication of Body Sensor Network Data (Presenter: Balakrishnan Prabhakaran)

Recently, Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) are being deployed for monitoring and managing medical conditions as well as human performance in sports. These BSNs include various sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, EMG (Electro myograms), EKG (Electro-cardiograms), and other sensors depending on the needs of the medical conditions. Data from these sensors are typically Time Series data and the data from multiple sensors form multiple, multidimensional time series data. Analyzing data from such multiple medical sensors pose several challenges: different sensors have different characteristics, different people generate different patterns through these sensors, and even for the same person the data can vary widely depending on time and environment.

This tutorial describes the technologies that go behind BSNs - both in terms of the hardware infrastructure as well as the basic software. First, we outline the BSN hardware features and the related requirements. We then discuss the energy and communication choices for BSNs. Next, we discuss approaches for classification, data mining, visualization, and securing these data. We also show several demonstrations of body sensor networks as well as the software that aid in analyzing the data.

Presenter's biography: Dr. B. Prabhakaran is an Associate Professor with the faculty of Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Dallas. He has been working in the area of multimedia systems : animation & multimedia databases, authoring & presentation, resource management, and scalable web-based multimedia presentation servers. Dr. Prabhakaran received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2003 for his proposal on Animation Databases. He is also the Principal Investigator for US Army Research Office (ARO) grant on 3D data storage, retrieval, and delivery. He has published several research papers in various refereed conferences and journals in this area. He has served as an Associate Chair of the ACM Multimedia Conferences in 2006 (Santa Barbara), 2003 (Berekeley, CA), 2000 (Los Angeles, CA) and in 1999 (Orlando, FL) He has served as guest-editor (special issue on Multimedia Authoring and Presentation) for ACM Multimedia Systems journal. He is also serving on the editorial board of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal, Springer Publishers. He has also served as program committee member on several multimedia conferences and workshops. He has presented tutorials in ACM Multimedia and other multimedia conferences. D. Prabhakaran has served as a visiting research faculty with the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park. He also served as a faculty in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore as well as in the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

Multimedia Devices

Tutorial 6: Multimedia Power Management on a Platter: From Audio to Video & Games (Presenters: Samarjit Chakraborty and Ye Wang)

Multimedia applications today constitute a sizeable workload that needs to be supported by a host of mobile devices ranging from cell phones, to PDAs and portable game consoles. Battery life is a major design concern for all of these devices. Whereas both - the complexity of multimedia applications and the hardware architecture of these devices - have progressed at a phenomenal rate over the last one decade, progress in the area of battery technology has been relatively stagnant. As a result, currently a lot of effort is being spent to develop high-level power management and application tuning techniques to minimize energy consumption and thereby prolong battery life. Such techniques include dynamically scaling the underlying processor's voltage and clock frequency in response to a time-varying workload, powering down certain system components when not being frequently used, and backlight scaling in LCDs with controlled image-quality degradation. Some of the application tuning techniques include selectively ignoring certain perceptually-irrelevant computations during audio decoding, and injecting metadata with workload information into video clips which can then be used to accurately estimate the decoding workload at runtime for better power management. In this tutorial, we plan to give a comprehensive overview of this area and discuss power management schemes for a broad spectrum of multimedia applications. In particular, we will talk about several power management and application tuning techniques specifically directed towards audio decoding, video processing and interactive 3-D game applications. Starting from the basics of power management for portable devices, we will discuss the necessary mathematical techniques, give high-level overviews of relevant algorithms and also present the hardware setup that is necessary to perform research and development in this area.

This tutorial will be specifically directed towards an audience who has a fair amount of background in multimedia systems, but is relatively new to embedded systems and power management techniques. The level of the tutorial will be from introductory to intermediate and no background in embedded systems, computer architecture or hardware design issues will be assumed. The lectures will introduce the relevant background material; give an overview of the current state-of-the-art, focussing some of the important algorithms from each class - audio, video and games; introduce the hardware setup necessary to work in this area; and finally, talk about the issues and challenges currently being faced by the multimedia power management domain. The material to be presented will be useful to researchers, students, and software developers focussing on multimedia applications. It will particularly appeal to those who are familiar with multimedia systems and are interested in working on issues related to power management.

Presenter's biography: Dr. Samarjit Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2003. For his Ph.D. thesis, he received the ETH Medal and the European Design and Automation Association's "Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award" in 2004. His work has also received Best Paper Award nominations at DAC 2005, CODES+ISSS 2006 and ECRTS 2007, all of which are premier conferences in the real-time/embedded systems area. Samarjit's research interests are primarily in system-level power/performance analysis of embedded systems. He has extensively published in major research forums on this topic including DAC, DATE, CODES+ISSS, ASP-DAC, RTSS and RTAS, and regularly serves on the technical program committees of many of these conferences. Over the last few years he has been working on various problems specifically related to

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power management of multimedia applications and have co-authored several papers and patents in this area.

Presenter's biography: Dr. Ye Wang received his Dr.-Tech. degree from the Department of Information Technology, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. In 2001, he spent a research term at the University of Cambridge, U.K., working with Prof. Brian Moore on compressed domain audio processing. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Dr. Wang has had a nine-year career with Nokia Research Center in Finland as research engineer and senior research engineer, where he worked on Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) receiver prototype development, optimization of perceptual audio coding algorithms, error resilient audio content delivery to mobile phones and compressed domain audio processing for multimedia applications on small devices. His research interests include audio compression and content-based processing, perception-aware and low-power audio processing, and error resilient content delivery to handheld devices via wireless networks. He holds a dozen patents in these areas and has published about 30 international journal and conference papers. He is a member of the technical committee, Coding of Audio Signals of the Audio Engineering Society; and a member of the Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, IEEE Communications Society.

Tutorial 7: Haptics Technologies: Theory and Applications from a Multimedia Perspective (Presenters: Kanav Kahol and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik)

This tutorial aims to provide an initial impetus in the direction of enabling multimedia researchers to conduct research in the area of haptic user interfaces. The tutorial will present audience with an introduction to the field of haptics. The presented material will be made accessible to the multimedia community relating material from the haptics domain to multimedia algorithms, systems etc. For example haptic sensing which refers to the systems and algorithms that can record haptic data which included texture, shape will be compared and contrasted with shape from shading, shape from motion approaches. We hope that this approach will catalyze interest in haptics from the multimedia community enabling a growth of research labs in academia and industry that study haptic systems. The advent of recent devices such as multitouch screens, next generation movement based gaming systems such as the Nintendo Wii®, have made touch based interfaces as an intriguing novelty. Our tutorial is timely as it would enable the multimedia community to gain an understanding of haptic devices and systems and how to effectively employ them in their systems and interfaces.

Presenter's biography: Dr. Kanav Kahol is an assistant professor in department of biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University. He is the manager of the Human Machine Symbiosis Lab. He is affiliated with Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix as a research faculty in simulation education and training center (SimET Center). Dr Kanav Kahol’s primary research interest lies in design, development and evaluation of haptic user interfaces. He views haptic interfaces as a major component of developing human machine symbiotic entities. In keeping with this view, Dr Kahol focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to research in haptics spanning cognitive psychology, neurology, computer science, signal processing and informatics. He has conducted applied research in the areas of medical simulation, multimodal user interfaces including mobile device interfaces and assistive and rehabilitative devices. Dr Kahol has published several journal papers and conference papers. He is also the organizer of workshops and special issue in journals pertaining to haptics research. Please visit http://www.public.asu.edu/~kkahol for more information.

Tools You Can Use

Tutorial 8: Mobile Phone Programming for Multimedia (Presenter: Jürgen Scheible)

If you are an enthusiastic mobile phone user who has many ideas and new ways of using your phone, this practical hands-on tutorial will show you how to realize your own novel concepts and ideas without spending too much time and effort. It aims to equip you with some practical skills of programming mobile devices for your projects and to bring inspiration for innovation.

Whether you are a novice programmer having some basic programming or scripting knowledge (Flash, Php, ...) or you are an experienced programmer, you will get a quick overview and understanding about programmable phone features especially for multimedia,. But first of all you will gain practical experience on how to write mobile applications with Mobile Python (Python for S60 - Nokia) - even within this short tutorial time.

Topics to be covered:

1. Introduction to Mobile Python (Python for S60) 2. Demo examples (capabilities and limitations of Python S60)

Hands-on session: 3. GUI programming, SMS sending/receiving 4. Text to speech, Sound recording/playing, MIDI 5. Camera (taking photo & video), 2D Graphics, OpenGL ES 6. Bluetooth, Keyboard key programming, Video playing 7. GPS location reader 8. Networking, HTTP, HTTPS, Socket communication, WLan 9. Motion sensor (e.g., for gesture based UI) 10. Client-server applications (Phones will be provided, but bring your own Laptop along: Mac, Windows, Linux)

Online tutorial of Python for S60: http://www.mobilenin.com/pys60/menu.htm

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Recommended reading: Book: Mobile Python - Rapid prototyping of applications on the mobile platform (2007) Scheible J., Tuulos V., Publisher: Wiley, ISBN: 978-0-470-51505-1. http://www.mobilepythonbook.org/

The mobile space and the internet are rapidly converging and are turning into a rich source of opportunities. Modern mobile phones offer a large set of features including camera, sound, video, messaging, telephony, location, Bluetooth, Wifi, GPS, Internet access, motion sensor, etc. Features that could easily be combined and used for creating new types of applications that kick and bring engaging experiences to users.

The problem: Developing applications on the mobile platform has been time consuming in the past and required a steep learning curve. As a result, people often gave up early or never started to turn their innovative ideas into working solutions. And in research projects we often face the situation that we have lack of time and resources. Additionally we often need to apply a rapid iterative design process for building our applications, but we might lack suitable tools for doing so.

Python for S60 which is introduced in this workshop offers a crucial turning point here. It allows developing mobile applications even by novice programmers, artists and people from the creative communities enabling them to contribute applications and concepts to the mobile space.

Python for S60 is easy to learn It can drastically reduce development time It makes rapid prototyping easy and efficient by wrapping complex low-level technical details behind simple interfaces and above all - it makes programming on the mobile platform fun.

Presenter’s biography: Jürgen Scheible is an Engineer (Telecommunications), a music and media artist. He is a doctoral student at the Media Lab, University of Art and Design, Helsinki where he runs the Mobile Hub, a prototype development environment for mobile client/server applications with a strong focus on artistic approaches and creative design. He spent several months in 2006 as a visiting scientist at MIT, Boston, CSAIL and worked previously for Nokia for 8 years. In 2006 and 2007 Jürgen was recognized as a Forum Nokia Champion for his driving vision to be a bridge builder between art, engineering and research. He is internationally active in teaching innovation workshops on rapid mobile application prototyping in academic but also professional settings e.g. at Stanford University, MIT, NTU Taiwan, Yahoo Research Berkeley, Nokia. In the 2nd half of 2007 his book “Mobile Python” was published by Symbian Press/Wiley, bringing ‘easy programming’of mobile phones to the creative communities. He was one of the ACM Computers in Entertainment Scholarship Award winners in 2006 and Best Arts Paper Award winner at ACM Multimedia 2005 conference. His research focuses on designing multimodal user interfaces for creating and sharing interactive artistic experiences.

Tutorial 9: Authoring Educational Multimedia (Presenter: Nalin Sharda)

The lack of systematic processes for authoring Educational Multimedia content is impeding the realization of its full potential. Catering to the different learning styles is another challenge in creating effective Educational Multimedia content. Story telling has been recognized as an effective pedagogical technique. Nalin Sharda has invented Movement Oriented Design (MOD) to provide a framework for systematically developing Educational Multimedia stories using good story telling principles articulated by the masters of story telling, such as Aristotle and Robert McKee.

This half-day tutorial will first acquaint the participants with Movement Oriented Design principles and imperatives for creating good Educational Multimedia stories. Then each participant will develop an Educational Multimedia story on a topic of their choice, and share it with other participants in a group. This tutorial will be useful for academics as well as industry participants involved in creating educational multimedia. Participants will learn the process for developing Educational Multimedia content using MOD superimposed with good story telling principles, and how to cater for different learning styles. Each participant will develop and take away the outline of an Educational Multimedia story on a topic of their choice. Seminar and other notes will be provided to each participant.

Presenter’s biography: Dr. Nalin Sharda gained B.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Multimedia at Victoria University, Australia. His publications include the Multimedia Information Networking textbook, and over 100 papers and handbook chapters. He has invented Movement Oriented Design (MOD) paradigm for the creation of effective multimedia stories, and applied it to e-Learning and other applications. He has led projects for the Australian Sustainable Tourism CRC, to develop e-Tourism using Semantic Web technologies, and innovative visualization methodologies. Nalin has been invited to present lectures and seminars in the Distinguished Lecturer series of the European Union’s Prolearn program. He has presented over fifty seminars, lectures, and Key Note addresses in Austria, Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Japan, Singapore, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, and USA. For further details visit http://sci.vu.edu.au/~nalin.

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- Extra banquet tickets (Wed. evening) may be purchased for $75 each. - Extra reception tickets (Tues. evening) may be purchased for $25. - Extra lunch tickets may be purchased for $35 each. - Extra DVD proceedings (while available) may be purchased for $25.

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- The registration fees charged will be based on attendee status (member, non-member,student) information, and on the date the registration is completed. Please make cheques payable to ACM/MM08, and indicate your registration reference number on the cheque. Mail the cheque and a copy of the online registration invoice to: Genevieve Freeman R.No.:5016, School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) University of Ottawa 800 King Edward, K1N 6N5 Ottawa, Ontario CANADA Fax: 1 (613) 562 5664

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Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada October 27 – 31, 2008

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Welcome from the General Co-Chairs 3

ACM Multimedia 2008 Conference Organization 5

Organizing Committee 5

Conference Hotel Map 7

ACM Multimedia 2008 Technical Program Committees 8

ACM Multimedia 2008 Program at a Glance 14

ACM Multimedia 2008 Tutorials 17

ACM Multimedia 2008 Main Conference Full Program 18

Day 1 18

Day 2 25

Day 3 33

ACM MIR 2008 Conference Program 40

ACM Workshops 47

Interactive Arts Program 62

Additional Reviewers 69

Key Notes 71

Sponsors & Supporters 74

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WELCOME FROM THE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Welcome to the sixteen ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2008), held October 27-31, 2008 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Vancouver, situated on Canada's east coast, enjoys a milder climate than much of Canada. As hosts to the 2010 winter Olympics, it boasts a plethora of sporting facilities, as well as ample opportunities for outdoor recreation with 3200 acres of parks and 11 miles of beaches. The North Shore Mountains are a 30 minute drive away offering skiing or mountain biking depending on the seasons. The city also features an art gallery with 7900 items valued over $100 million with many items by Emily Carr. In addition to Vancouver museum, there is a museum of Anthropology and a maritime museum, as well as the H.R. Macmillan Space Centre. On Granville St, there is an entertainment district with a vibrant nightlife.

ACM Multimedia is the premier annual professional meeting for communicating the state-of-the-art in multimedia research, technology, and art. As in previous years, starting with the first ACM Multimedia conference in 1993, the conference seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, and government who are interested in exploring and exploiting new and multiple media to create new capabilities for human expression, communication, collaboration, and interaction. The pervasive use of multimedia has permeated into almost every aspect of our life. This is reflected in a wide variety of programs incorporated into the conference. The conference features the usual high-quality technical paper presentations, short poster paper presentations, doctoral symposium for senior graduate students, brave-new emerging topics, as well as tutorials and workshops in various areas. One key aspect of this conference that is different from most other academic conferences is its emphasis on systems and applications. To this end, the conference also includes technical demonstrations of research prototypes and systems, open software competition, video demonstration of concepts and applications, as well as interactive arts which includes an exhibition of multimedia art. The interactive arts program, started in ACM MM 2004, is well integrated into the main activity of the conference this year.

The overall conference encompasses three major parts: interesting tutorials on Monday, October 27, an exciting three day main conference on Tuesday through Thursday, October 28-30, and a set of workshops in hot multimedia areas on, October 31. This year we are also holding the first

ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval on October 30-31 in conjunction with ACM Multimedia. The Content, Applications, Systems, and Multimedia Interactions tracks received 280 long paper submissions (109 in Content, 84 in Applications, 50 in Systems, and 37 in Multimedia Interactions). Each paper was reviewed by at least three qualified reviewers in a single-blind review process. The program committee met on June 20, 2008 in Darmstadt, Germany to discuss the papers and make final selections for papers to be included as oral presentations in the conference program. This rigorous review process resulted in the acceptance of 56 long papers: 23 in the Content track, 16 in the Applications track, 9 in the Systems track, and 8 in the Multimedia Interactions track. This represents an acceptance rate of 20 percent. The short paper program received 236 submissions. After a thorough review process, we accepted 80 papers resulting in an acceptance rate of 33 percent. These short papers will be presented during poster sessions at the conference. This year's fifth version of the Interactive Arts Program will consist of includes long and short papers as well as an art exhibition to be held at the Science World British Columbia

We would like to thank our supporters: FXPAL, Google, IBM, Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, Ricoh California Research Center, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Nokia Products Ltd and LG Electronics Mobile Research, the Hessischen Telemedia Technologie Kompetenz-Center (HTTC), the TU Darmstadt Multimedia Communications Laboratory (KOM), the University of Ottawa, and the University of British Columbia. Their generous support made several key aspects of

October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 4 the conference possible, including the various prizes, student travel, and the Interactive Arts Program. Organizing this event would be difficult without their generous support.

ACM MM 2008 conference is the result of dedicated effort by a large number of volunteers. We would like to express our deep gratitude to everyone on the conference committee and their teams for their devoted work and attention to details in preparing for the conference, and to the program committee and external reviewers who diligently worked to review submissions and provide suggestions and feedback to authors that resulted in a high quality final program. We also thank the ACM Staff for being always available to organize and think through the many little thinks that came up during the planning of this conference and “YOU” the authors for submitting your papers and your continued interest. Finally we would like to acknowledge ACM and thank the special interest group SIGMM for sponsoring this event.

We hope you enjoy the event. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa Son Vuong, University of British Columbia ACM Multimedia 2008 General Co-Chairs

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ACM MULTIMEDIA 2008 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

General Chair: Abdulmotaleb EL Saddik (University of Ottawa) General Co-Chair: Son Vuong (University of British Colombia) Program Co-Chairs: Carsten Griwodz (University of Oslo) Alberto Del Bimbo (Univ. degli Studi di Firenze) K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State University) Alejandro Jaimes (Telefonica R&D, Madrid, Spain) Short Paper Co-Chairs: Gopal S Pingali (IBM, Watson) Changsheng Xu (CAS, China) Shervin Shirmohammadi (University of Ottawa) Workshop Co-Chairs: Max Mühlhäuser (TUD, Germany) Dulce Ponceleon (IBM, Almaden) Tutorial Chair: Roger Zimmerman (NUS, Singapore) Publicity Co-Chairs: Yong Rui (Microsoft, China) Markus Kampmann (Ericsson, Sweden) Jiebo Luo (Kodak Research Lab, USA) Wolfgang Effelsberg (Mannheim) Technical Demo Co-Chairs : Pål Halvorsen (University of Oslo) Anup Basu (University of Alberta) Proceedings Chair : Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (University of Texas at Dallas) Panel Co-Chairs: Suzanne Boll (University of Oldenburg) Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood (IBM, Almaden)

Finance Chair: Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa)

Doctorial Symposium Co-Chairs: Hari Sundaram (Arizona State University) Kiyoharu Aizawa (University of Tokyo)

Sponsoring Co-Chairs: Panos Nasiopoulos (University of British Columbia) Victor Leung (University of British Columbia)

Brave New Topics Co-Chairs: Ling Guan (Ryerson University) Zhengyou Zhang (Microsoft Research)

Travel Grant Co-Chairs: Christoph Rensing (Hessischen Telemedia Technologie Kompetenz-Center) Shueng-Han Gary Chan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Interactive Art Program Co-Chairs: Frank Nack (Univ. of Amsterdam) Andruid Kerne (Texas A & M University) Ron Wakarry (Simon Fraser University)

Web Co-Chairs: Pradeep K. Atrey (University of Winnipeg) Atif Alamri (University of Ottawa)

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Video Program Chair: Thomas Haenselmann (University of Mannheim) Michael Smith (University of Trinidad and Tobago)

History Preservation Chair: Matthias Hollick (TU Darmstadt)

Open Source Competition Co-Chairs: Oliver Heckman (Google) Arnd Steinmetz (Fachhochschule Darmstadt)

Registration Chair: Rosa Iglesias (Ikerlan Research Centre)

Local Arrangement Chair: Charles Buck Krasic (University of British Colombia)

SIG MM Chair: Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois)

SIG MM Director of Conferences: Nevenka Dimitrova (Philips)

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ACM MULTIMEDIA 2008 CONFERENCE HOTEL MAP

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ACM MULTIMEDIA 2008 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES

Content Track for Full Paper: Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, Ireland) Edoardo Ardizzone (University of Palermo, Italy) Noboru Babaguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Jenny Benois-Pineau (Université Bordeaux 1/ University Bordeaux 2, France) A.Taylan Cemgil (University of Cambridge, UK) Edward Chang (Google Research, China) Liang-Tien Chia (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Rita Cucchiara (Università degli Studi di Modena, Italy) Ajay Divakaran (Sarnoff Corporation, USA) Ling-Yu Duan (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Jean-luc Dugelay (Institut EURECOM, France) Moncef Gabbouj (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Daniel Gatica-Perez (IDIAP, Switzerland) Yihong Gong (NEC Labs American, USA) Thomas Haenselmann (Univ. of Mannheim, Germany) Alan Hanjalic (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Qingming Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Benoit Huet (Institut Eurecom) Ebroul Izquierdo (Queen Mary University of London, UK) John Kender (Columbia University, USA) Riccardo Leonardi (University of Brescia, Italy) Michael Lew (Leiden University, Netherlands) Rainer Lienhart (Univ. of Augsberg, Germany) Jiebo Luo (Eastman Kodak Company, USA) Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Aleix Martinez (The Ohio State University, USA) Bernard Merialdo (Institut EUROCOM, Fance) Milind R. Naphade (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Apostol Natsev (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Fernando Pereira (IST-TUL, Portugal) Silvia Pfeiffer (Vquence ltd, Australia) Arnold Smeulders (Univ. Amsterdam) John Smith (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam) Qi Tian (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) Remco Veltkamp (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands) James Z. Wang (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Lei Zhang (MSR Asia) Zhenyou Zhang (Microsoft Research, USA) Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China)

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Content Track for Short Papers: Edoardo Ardizzone (University of Palermo, Italy) Jenny Benois-Pineau (University of Bordeaux, France) Jian Cheng (IA/CAS, China) Rita Cucchiara (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Ajay Divakaran (Sarnoff Corporation) Ling-Yu Duan (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Jean-Luc Dugelay (Institut EURECOM, France) Daniel Gatica-Perez (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland) Alan Hanjalic (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Qingming Huang (GU/CAS, China) Benoit Huet (Institut Eurecom, France) Shuqiang Jiang (ICT/CAS, China) John Kender (Columbia University) Michael Lew (Leiden University, Netherlands) Baoxin Li (Arizona State University) Rainer Lienhart (Univ. of Augsburg, Germany) Jing Liu (IA/CAS, China) Lie Lu (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Jiebo Luo (Eastman Kodak Company) Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Bernard Merialdo (Institut Eurecom, France) Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong, China) Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Raimondo Schettini (Milano-Bicocca University, Italy) Xi Shao (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China) John Smith (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Qi Tian (University of Texas at San Antonio) Remco C. Veltkamp (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Jinjun Wang (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.) Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Min Xu (University of Newcastle, Australia) Rong Yan (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Yan-Tao Zheng (National University of Singapore) Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China) Guangyu Zhu (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.)

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Systems & Networking Track: Kevin Almeroth (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Grenville Armitage (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Laszlo Böszörmenyi (University Klagenfurt, Austria) Surendar Chandra (University of Notre Dame, USA) Songqing Chen (George Mason University, USA) Alexander Eichhorn (Simula Research Lab) Wu-chi Feng (Portland State University) David Gotz (IBM Research, USA) Romulus Grigoras (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France) Pål Halvorsen (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway) Mohamed Hefeeda (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Matthias Hollick (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany) Mojtaba Hosseini (University of Ottawa, Canada) Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada) Jin Li (Microsoft Research) Leslie Liu (IBM Research) Dwight Makaroff (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Ketan Mayer-Patel (University of North Carolina, USA) Jauvane Oliveira (National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil) Wei Tsang Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Nabil Sarhan (Wayne State University, USA) Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA) Ye Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Lars Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) Dongyan Xu (Purdue University, USA) Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore, USA) Michael Zink (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

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Applications Track: Kiyoharu Aizawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Laurent Amsaleg (IRISA, France) Pradeep K. Atrey (University of Winnipeg, Canada) Mauro Barbieri (Philips Research, Netherlands) Dick Bulterman (CWI, The Netherlands) Andrea Cavallaro (Queen Mary, University of London, England) Pablo Cesar (CWI, The Netherlands) Lei Chen (HKUST, Hong Kong) Chitra Dorai (IBM T.J. Watson, USA) Berna Erol (Ricoh Research Labs, USA) Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padova, Italy) Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (USC, USA) Forouzan Golshani (California State University, Long Beach, USA) Xiaohui Gu (North Carolina State University, USA) Lynda Hardman (CWI, The Netherlands) Ichiro Ide (Nagoya University, Japan) Giridharan Iyengar (IBM T.J. Watson, USA) Mohan Kankanhalli (NUS, Singapore) Wolfgang Klas (Universität Wien, Austria) Matthew Kyan (Ryerson University, Canada) Max Mühlhäuser (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA) Lina Peng (Arizona SU, USA) Antonio Picariello (Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy) Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (UT Dallas, USA) Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Christoph Rensing (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) Iglesias Rosa (Ikerlan Technological Research Centre, Spain) Lawrence A. Rowe (FXPAL, USA) Maria Luisa Sapino (U. Torino, Italy) Ichiro Satoh (NII, Japan) Doree Duncan Seligmann (Avaya Labs, USA) Uma Srinivasan (PHI Systems, Australia) Eckehard Steinbach (Munich University of Technology, Germany) Hari Sundaram (Arizona SU, USA) Svetha Venkatesh (Curtin University, Australia) Michael Wagner (Danube University Krems, Austria) Lynn Wilcox (FXPAL, USA) Kim-Hui Yap (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Zhongfei Zhang (SUNY Binghamton, USA) Michelle Zhou (IBM T.J. Watson, USA)

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Human Centered Track: Mark Apperley (University of Waikato, New Zealand) Antonis Argyros (University of Crete, Greece) Maribeth Back (FXPAL, USA) Paulo Barthelmess (Adapx, USA) Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Christian Breiteneder (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Amy Bruckman (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Tiziana Catarci (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy) Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside, UK) Jian Chen (Brown University, USA) William J. Clancey (NASA, USA) Matthew Cooper (FXPAL, USA) David Demirdjian (MIT, USA) Andreas Dengel (DFKI, Germany) Chabane Djeraba (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France) Juan E. Gilbert (Auburn University, USA) Tom Gross (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany) Masahi Inoue (National Institute for Informatics, Japan) Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland) Ashish Kapoor (Microsoft Research, USA) Aisling Kelliher (Arizona State University, USA) Andruid Kerne (Texas A&M University, USA) Andreas Kerren (Vaxjo University, Sweden) Christine Lisetti (Florida International University, USA) Mor Naaman (Yahoo!, USA) Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Maja Pantic (Imperial College London, UK) Tapan Parikh (UC Berkeley, USA) Catherine Pelachaud (University of Paris, France) Matthias Rauterberg (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Angela Sasse (University College London, UK) Patrick Schmitz (UC Berkeley, USA) Andrew Sears (UMBC, USA) Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Rainer Stiefelhagen (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Erkki Sutinen (University of Joensuu, Finland) Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research, India)

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Interactive Arts Curatorial Sara Diamond (President, Ontario College of Art & Design, Canada) Members: Kevin Kearns (Vice President, Special Projects & Facility Development, TELUS Science World British Columbia, Canada) Dr. Sally Jane Norman (Director of Culture Lab, Newcastle)

Interactive Arts Track Takumi Endo (Media Artist, Japan) Maia Engeli (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Sidney Fels (UBC, Canada) Monika Fleischmann (Fraunhofer-IAIS, Germany) Elizabeth Goodman (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Andrew Gordon (University of Southern California, USA) Lars Holmquist (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) Hayley Hung (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland) Wolf Ka (Compagnie Respublica, France) George Legrady (UCSB, USA) Jason Lewis (Concordia University, Canada) David Link (Centre for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany) Felipe Londono (Universidad de Caldas. Dean Arts & Humanities Faculty, Colombia) Vicki Moulder (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Wolfgang Muench (LASALLE Singapore, Singapore) Mor Naaman (Yahoo!, USA) Robert Nideffer (University of California, Irvine, USA) Laurence Noel (Mondeca, France) Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Claudio Pinhanez (IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA) Daniela Alina Plewe (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Remi Ronfard (ArtificialLife, Canada) Warren Sack (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Patrick Schmitz (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Justin Thomas, (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Andrew Senior (IBM Research, USA) Xin Wei Sha (Concordia University, Canada) David Shamma (Yahoo!, Research Berkeley, USA) Ryan Shaw (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Yukiko Shikata (NTT InterCommunication Center, Japan) Jack Stenner (University of Florida, USA) Wolfgang Strauss (Fraunhofer, Germany) Atau Tanaka (Sony CSL, Paris, France) Victoria Vesna (UCLA, USA) Kirk Woolford (Lancaster University, United Kingdom) Alexa Wright (University College London, United Kingdom)

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ACM MULTIMEDIA 2008 PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Monday, October 27, Tutorials day 2008

Oceanview 3 Oceanview 4 Cazebo 1 Cazebo 2 Pacific Rim 2

8:00 - 17:00 Registration (Pavillion Foyer)

8:30 - 12:00 T1 T3 T4 T6 T8

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Oceanview suites 5-8)

13:30 - 17:00 T2 T5 T7 T9

Tuesday, October 28, 1st Conference day 2008

Crystal Pavilion Crystal Pavilion Crystal Pavilion Pacific Rim Suite Cazebo 1&2 Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C 1

8:00 - 17:00 Registration (Pavillion Foyer)

8:45 - 9:00 Opening Remark (Christal Pavilion)

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote (Christal Pavilion)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

10:30 - 12:30 Best Papers Session (Christal Pavilion)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Oceanview suites 5-8)

Content Track Content Track Systems Track Application Track TOMCCAP Short Papers 14:00 - 15:30 C1: Duplicate S1: Video A1: Tracing Meeting Session 1: Detection Streaming Content Analysis

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

Content Track Content Track Introduce the Short Papers Applications HCM Track H1: 16:00 - 17:30 C2: Semantic exhibition artists Session 2: Track A2: Watch Application Video Annotation to the conference Content Analysis and Applications

18:30 - 22:00 Conference Reception & Live Arts Exhibition (TELUS World of Science)

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Wednesday, October 29, 2nd Conference day 2008

Crystal Pavilion Crystal Pavilion Crystal Pavilion Pacific Rim Cazebo 1&2 Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C Suite 1

8:00 - 17:00 Registration (Pavillion Foyer)

9:00 - 10:00 Panel: Connecting Artists and Scientists in Multimedia Rese (Christal Pavilion)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

Content Track C3: Image Doctoral Art Track A1: 10:30 - 12:30 Demo Session 1 Annotation and Symposium Adaptation Tagging

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch & ACM MM Business Meeting (Oceanview suites 5-8)

Content Track Applications HCM Track H2: Systems Track 14:00 - 15:30 C4: Video Search Track A3: Photo Experience Short Papers

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

Content Track Art Track A2: Applications C5: Multimedia Brave New Systems Track 16:00 - 17:30 Dancing With . . Track Short Content Analysis Topics S2: Beyond 2D . Papers Session 1 and Applications

19:00 - 22:00 Conference Banquet (Crystal Pavilion Ballroom)

Thursday, October 30, 3rd Conference day 2008

Crystal Crystal Crystal Pacific Rim Pavilion Pavilion Pavilion Cazebo 1&2 Gazebo 2 Suite 1 Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C

8:00 - 17:00 Registration (Pavillion Foyer)

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote (Christal Pavilion) MIR

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

Content Track Applications Art Track Demo Session 10:30 - 12:30 C6: Image Track A4: A3: A MIR 2 Retrieval Context Space . . .

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Oceanview suites 5-8)

Content Track Applications Video Open Applications 14:00 - 15:30 C7: Video Track A5/H3: MIR Abstracts Source Track Short Analysis Browsing Papers Session

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15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

Panel: Multimedia Education — Can we find unity in diversity? Art Track Short 16:00 - 17:30 MIR (Christal Pavilion) Papers

19:00 - 22:00 MIR Dinner

Friday, October Workshops day 31, 2008

Pacific Pacific Ocean- Ocean- Ocean- Ocean- Ocean- Rim Suite Rim Suite Cazebo 1 Gazebo 2 view 3 view 4 view 5 view 6 view 7-8 1 2

8:00 - 17:00 Registration (Pavillion Foyer)

Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop 9:00 - 10:00 MIR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

10:00 - Coffee break (Ocienview Foyer) 10:30

10:30 - Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop MIR 12:30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

12:30 - Lunch (Cypress Suite) 14:00

14:00 - Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop MIR 15:30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

15:30 - Coffee break (Ocienview Foyer) 16:00

16:00 - Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop MIR 17:30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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ACM MULTIMEDIA 2008 TUTORIALS

Monday, October 27, 2008

Session Chair: Roger Zimmermann Monday October 27, 2008 08:30 – 12:00 Tutorial on Content Protection Hall: Oceanview Nelly Fazio (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) 3 Dulce Ponceleón (IBM Almaden Research Center)

13:30 – 17:00 Recent Developments in Content-based and Concept-based Image/Video Hall: Oceanview Retrieval 3 Rong Yan (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Winston Hsu (National Taiwan University) 08:30 – 12:00 If You Like the Beatles You Might Like ... A Tutorial on Music Hall: Oceanview Recommendation 4 Òscar Celma (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Paul Lamere (Sun Microsystems) 13:30 – 17:00 A Glimpse of Multimedia Ambient Intelligence Hall: Oceanview Rosa Iglesias (Ikerlan Technological Research Center) 4 Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa)

08:30 – 12:00 Storage, Retrieval, and Communication of Body Sensor Network Data Hall: Cazebo 1 Gaurav Pradhan (University of Texas at Dallas) Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (University of Texas at Dallas) 13:30 – 17:00 Haptics Technologies: Theory and Applications from a Multimedia Hall: Cazebo 1 Perspective Abdulmotaleb Saddik (University of Ottawa) Jongeun Cha (University of Ottawa) Kanav Kahol (Arizona State University) 08:30 – 12:00 Multimedia Power Management on a Platter: From Audio to Video & Hall: Cazebo 2 Games Samarjit Chakraborty (National University of Singapore) Ye Wang (National University of Singapore) 13:30 – 17:00 Mobile Phone Programming for Multimedia Hall: Cazebo 2 Jürgen Scheible (University of Art and Design Helsinki) 08:30 – 12:00 Workshop Process for Authoring Educational Multimedia Using Movement Hall: Pacific Rim Oriented Design (MOD) 2 Nalin Sharda (Victoria University)

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ACM MULTIMEDIA 2008 MAIN CONFERENCE FULL PROGRAM

Day 1: Tuesday, October 28, 2008

8:45 - 9:00 Conference Opening Remark

Hall: Christal Pavilion

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote

Hall: Christal Pavilion

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

Session: Best Paper Session Session Chair: Selcuk Candan Tuesday October 28, 2008 10:30-12:30 Hall: Christal Pavilion Streaming of Plants in Distributed Virtual Environments Sebastien Mondet (University of Toulouse) Wei Cheng (National University of Singapore) Geraldine Morin (University of Toulouse) Romulus Grigoras (University of Toulouse) Frederic Boudon (CIRAD) Wei Tsang Ooi (National University of Singapore) Enhancing Social Sharing of Videos: Fragment, Annotate, Enrich, and Share Pablo Cesar (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica) Dick C.A. Bulterman (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica) David Geerts (Centre for Usability Research) Jack Jansen (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica) Hendrik Knoche (University College London) William Seager (University College London) The Sweet Spot: How People Trade off Size and Definition on Mobile Devices Hendrik Knoche (University College London) M Sasse (University College London) . Flickr Distance Lei Wu (University of Science and Technology of China) Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia) Nenghai Yu (University of Science and Technology of China) Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia) Shipeng Li (Microsoft Research Asia)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Oceanview suites 5-8)

Session: Content Track C1: Duplicate Detection Session Chair: Nicu Sebe Tuesday October 28, 2008 14:00-15:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom A Near-Duplicate Keyframe Retrieval by Nonrigid Image Matching Jianke Zhu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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Steven C. H. Hoi (Nanyang Technological University) Michael R. Lyu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Shuicheng Yan (National University of Singapore) Scene Duplicate Detection Based on the Pattern of Discontinuities in Feature Point Trajectories Xiaomeng Wu (National Institute of Informatics) Masao Takimoto (The University of Tokyo) Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics) Jun Adachi (National Institute of Informatics) Scalable Mining of Large Video Databases Using Copy Detection Sébastien Poullot (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel and CEDRIC – CNAM) Michel Crucianu (CEDRIC-CNAM) Olivier Buisson (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel) Session: Applications Track A1: Tracing Session Chair: Max Muhlhauser Tuesday October 28, 2008 14:00-15:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom B Discovering Panoramas in Web Videos Feng Liu (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Yu-hen Hu (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Michael Gleicher (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Search Trails using User Feedback to Improve Video Search Frank Hopfgartner (University of Glasgow) David Vallet (University of Glasgow and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Martin Halvey (University of Glasgow) Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow) Internet Image Archaeology: Automatically Tracing the Manipulation History of Photographs on the Web Lyndon Kennedy (Columbia University) Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia University) Session: Systems Track S1: Video Streaming Session Chair: Wei Tsang Ooi Tuesday October 28, 2008 14:00-15:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom C The Effectiveness of a QoE-Based Video Output Scheme for Audio-Video IP Transmission Shuji Tasaka (Nagoya Institute of Technology) Hikaru Yoshimi (Nagoya Institute of Technology) Akifumi Hirashima (Nagoya Institute of Technology) Toshiro Nunome (Nagoya Institute of Technology) On Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems with Network Coding Chen Feng (University of Toronto) Baochun Li (University of Toronto) On ISP-Friendly Rate Allocation for Peer-Assisted VoD Jiajun Wang (University of California at Berkeley) Cheng Huang (Microsoft Research) Jin Li (Microsoft Research) Configuring Topologies of Distributed Semantic Concept Classifiers for Continuous Multimedia Stream Processing Deepak Turaga (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Brian Foo (University of California at Los Angeles) Olivier Verscheure (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Rong Yan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

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Session: Content Track Short Papers Session 1: Content Analysis Session Chair: Chong-Wah Ngo Tuesday October 28, 2008 14:00-15:30 Hall: Cazebo 1&2 Attention-Driven Action Retrieval with DTW-based 3D Descriptor Matching Rongrong Ji (Harbin Institute of Technology) Xiaoshui Sun (Harbin Institute of Technology) Hongxun Yao (Harbin Institute of Technology) Pengfei Xu (Harbin Institute of Technology) Tianqiang Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology) Xianming Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology) Precise Object Cutout from Images Ming Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Shifeng Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Jianzhuang Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Image Near-Duplicate Retrieval Using Local Dependencies in Spatial-Scale Space Xiangang Cheng (Nanyang Technological University) Yiqun Hu (Nanyang Technological University) Liang-Tien Chia (Nanyang Technological University) Integrated Graph-based Semi-supervised Multiple/Single Instance Learning Framework for Image Annotation Jinhui Tang (National University of Singapore) Haojie Li (National University of Singapore) Guo-Jun Qi (University of Science and Technology of China) Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore) A Novel Region-based Approach to Visual Concept Modeling Using Web Images Yongqing Sun (NTT Corporation) Satoshi Shimada (NTT Corporation) Yukinobu Taniguchi (NTT Corporation) Akira Kojima (NTT Corporation) Finding Image Exemplars Using Fast Sparse Affinity Propagation Yangqing Jia (Tsinghua University) Jingdong Wang (Microsoft Research Asia) Changshui Zhang (Tsinghua University) Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia) Deep Networks for Image Retrieval on Large-Scale Databases Eva Hörster (University of Augsburg) Rainer Lienhart (University of Augsburg) Study on the Combination of Video Concept Detectors Meng Wang (Microsoft Research Asia) Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia) Keyword-based Concept Search on Consumer Photos by Web-based Kernel Function Po-Tun Wu (National Taiwan University) Yi-Hsuan Yang (National Taiwan University) KuanTing Chen (National Taiwan University) Winston Hsu National Taiwan University) Tien-Hsu Li (Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.) Chun-Jen Lee (Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.) Heterogeneous Multimedia Data Semantics Mining Using Content and Location Context Yi Yang (Zhejiang University) Yueting Zhuang (Zhejiang University) Wenhua Wang (Zhejiang University) Modeling Video Hyperlinks with Hypergraph for Web Video Reranking Hung-Khoon Tan (City University of Hong Kong) Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong) Xiao Wu (City University of Hong Kong) October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 21

Boosting Relative Spaces for Categorizing Objects with Large Intra-Class Variation Yi Ouyang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Ming Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Jinqiao Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Hanqing Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Songde Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences) A Novel Chroma Representation of Polyphonic Music Based on Multiple Pitch Tracking Techniques Matthias Varewyck (University of Gent) Johan Pauwels (University of Gent) Jean-Pierre Martens (University of Gent) Real-Time Human Action Recognition by Luminance Field Trajectory Analysis Zhu Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Yun Fu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Thomas Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Shuicheng Yan (National University of Singapore) Hierarchical Movie Affective Content Analysis Based on Arousal and Valence Features Min Xu (University of Newcastle) Jesse Jin (University of Newcastle) Suhuai Luo (University of Newcastle) Lingyu Duan (Peking University) Image Annotation Using Personal Calendars as Context Andrew Gallagher (Eastman Kodak Company) Carman Neustaedter (Eastman Kodak Company) Liangliang Cao (University of Illinois) Jiebo Luo (Eastman Kodak Company) Tsuhan Chen (Carnegie Mellon University)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

Session: Content Track C2: Semantic Video Annotation Session Chair: Alexander Hauptmann Tuesday October 28, 2008 16:00-17:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom A Multi-Cue Fusion for Semantic Video Indexing Ming-Fang Weng (National Taiwan University) Yung-Yu Chuang (National Taiwan University) Fusing Semantics, Observability, Reliability and Diversity of Concept Detectors for Video Search Xiao-Yong Wei (City University of Hong Kong) Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong) Active Post-refined Multimodality Video Semantic Concept Detection with Tensor Representation Yanan Liu (Zhejiang University) Fei Wu (Zhejiang University) Yueting Zhuang (Zhejiang University) Jun Xiao (Zhejiang University) Session: Applications Track A2: Watch Session Chair: B. Prabhakaran Tuesday October 28, 2008 16:00-17:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom B A Camera-based Mobile Data Channel: Capacity and Analysis Xu Liu (University of Maryland) David Doermann (University of Maryland) October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 22

Huiping Li (Applied Media Analysis Inc.) Localization and Mapping of Surveillance Cameras in City Map Wee Kheng Leow (National University of Singapore) Cheng-Chieh Chiang (Takming University of Science and Technology) Yi-Ping Hung (National Taiwan University) A Generic Virtual Content Insertion System Based on Visual Attention Analysis Huiying Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences China-Singapore Institute of Digital Media) Shuqiang Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences Qingming Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences China-Singapore Institute of Digital Media) Changsheng Xu (China-Singapore Institute of Digital Media and Chinese Academy of Sciences) Session: HCM Track H1: Application Session Chair: Eckehard Steinbach Tuesday October 28, 2008 16:00-17:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom C EasyToon: An Easy and Quick Tool to Personalize a Cartoon Storyboard Using Family Photo Album Shifeng Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Yuandong Tian (Shanghai Jiaotong University) Fang Wen (Microsoft Research Asia) Ying-Qing Xu (Microsoft Research Asia) Xiaoou Tang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Mixed-Initiative Photo Collage Authoring Jun Xiao (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories) Xuemei Zhang (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories) Phil Cheatle (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories) Yuli Gao (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories) C. Brian Atkins (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories) MultiPresenter: A Presentation System for (Very) Large Display Spaces Joel Lanir (University of British Columbia) Kellogg Booth (University of British Columbia) Anthony Tang (University of British Columbia) Session: Content Track Short Papers Session 2: Content Analysis and Applications Session Chair: Shuqiang Jiang Tuesday October 28, 2008 16:00-17:30 Hall: Cazebo 1&2 Motion Extrapolation for Video Story Planning Nick Tang (Tamkang University) Timothy Shih (National Taipei University of Education) Hong-Yuan Mark Liao (Academia Sinica) Joseph Tsai (Tamkang University) Hsing-Ying Zhong (Tamkang University) Multilayer Adaptation for MGS-based SVC Bitstream Truong Thang (Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute) Jung Won Kang (Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute) Jeong-Ju Yoo (Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute) Jae-Gon Kim (Korea Aerospace University and Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute) Role Recognition for Meeting Participants: An Approach Based on Lexical Information and Social Network Analysis Neha Garg (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and International Computer Science Institute) Sarah Favre (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and Idiap research institute) Hugues Salamin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and Idiap October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 23

research institute) Dilek Hakkani Tür (International Computer Science Institute) Alessandro Vinciarelli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and Idiap research institute) Multi-channel Segmental Hidden Markov Models for Sports Video Mining Yi Ding (Oklahoma State University) Guoliang Fan (Oklahoma State University) Rate Allocation for Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding without Feedback Tao Sheng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology Guogang Hua (Qualcomm Inc.) Hongxing Guo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) Jingli Zhou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) Chang Wen Chen (State University of New York Buffalo) Randomized Sub-Vectors Hashing for High-Dimensional Image Feature Matching Heng Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China) Qing Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China) Zhoucan He (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China) An Ontology Based Approach for Activity Recognition from Video Umut Akdemir (University of Maryland) Pavan Turaga (University of Maryland) Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland) Noisy Video Super-Resolution Feng Liu (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Jinjun Wang (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.) Shenghuo Zhu (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.) Michael Gleicher (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Yihong Gong (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.) Naming Faces in Broadcast News Video by Image Google Chunxi Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences and China-Singapore Institute of Digital Media) Shuqiang Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Qingming Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences and China-Singapore Institute of Digital Media) Facial Age Estimation by Nonlinear Aging Pattern Subspace Xin Geng (Deakin University) Kate Smith-Miles (Deakin University) Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University ) Gender Recognition from Body Liangliang Cao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Mert Dikmen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Yun Fu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Thomas Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Real Time Google and Live Image Search Re-ranking Jingyu Cui (Tsinghua University) Fang Wen (Microsoft Research Asia) Xiaoou Tang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Audio Privacy: Reducing Speech Intelligibility While Preserving Environmental Sounds Francine Chen (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) John Adcock (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Shruti Krishnagiri (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) SheepDog — Group and Tag Recommendation for Flickr Photos by Automatic Search- based Learning Hong-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University) Ming-Hsiu Chang (National Taiwan University) Ping-Chieh Chang (National Taiwan University) October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 24

Ming-Chun Tien (National Taiwan University) Winston H. Hsu (National Taiwan University) Ja-Ling Wu (National Taiwan University) Hierarchical Clustering-Based Navigation of Image Search Results Haoyang Ding (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Jing Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Hanqing Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

18:30 – 21:00 Conference Reception and Arts Exhibition (Telus Science World)

Session Chair: Frank Nack Tuesday October 28, 2008 18:30 - 21:00 Sound/tracks: Real-Time Synaesthetic Sonification of Train Journeys Peter Knees (Johannes Kepler University) Tim Pohle (Johannes Kepler University) Gerhard Widmer (Johannes Kepler University) In a thousand drops... refracted glances Aleksandra Dulic (Universty of British Columbia) Kenneth Newby (Emily Carr Institute) Martin Gotfrit (Simon Fraser University) The Emotion Organ Amanda Steggell (Bergen National Academy of the Arts) Imposition John Cayley (Brown University) Giles Perring (Independent Artist) Ghosts in the Machine Alan Dunning (Alberta College of Art + Design) Paul Woodrow (University of Calgary) Morley Hollenberg (University of Calgary) Le Salon de Récurrence Yuri Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Soonil Kwon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Yong Ho Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Exploring Open Narrative Structures with Tangibles Pamela Jennings (Banff New Media Institute) Portage: Locative, Streetscape Art Geoffrey Shea (Ontario College of Art & Design) Wearable Forest-Feeling of Belonging to Nature Hiroki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo) Ryoko Ueoka (University of Tokyo) Michitaka Hirose (University of Tokyo) nite_aura: Audio-visual Immersive Installation Jinsil Seo (Simon Fraser University) Greg Corness (Simon Fraser University) Super Atari Poetry Yucef Merhi (Universidad de Los Andes) FWDrift [remix] Julie Andreyev (Emily Carr University of Art & Design)

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Day 2: Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Session: Panel: Connecting Artists and Scientists in Multimedia Research Session Chairs: Suzanne Boll & Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood Wednesday October 29, 2008 9:00-10:00 Hall: Christal Pavilion. Organizers Andruid Kerne (Texas A&M University) Ron Wakkary (Simon Fraser University) Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam) Panelists Amanda Steggell (Free Artist) Alejandro Jaimes (Telefonica R&D) Selçuk Candan (Arizona State University) Alberto Del Bimbo (University degli Studi di Firenze) Pamela Jennings (Carnegie Mellon University) Aleksandra Dulic (University of British Columbia)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

Session: Content Track C3: Image Annotation and Tagging Session Chair: Jiebo Luo Wednesday October 29, 2008 10:30-12:00 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom A. Exploring Multimedia in a Keyword Space João Magalhães (Imperial College London and The University of Sheffield) Fabio Ciravegna (The University of Sheffield) Stefan Rüger (Imperial College London and The Open University) Resolving Tag Ambiguity Kilian Weinberger (Yahoo! Research) Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research) Roelof van Zwol (Yahoo! Research) Annotating Photo Collections by Label Propagation According to Multiple Similarity Cues Liangliang Cao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Jiebo Luo (Eastman Kodak Company) Thomas Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Session: Doctoral Symposium Session Chairs: Hari Sundaram & Kiyoharu Aizawa Wednesday October 29, 2008 10:30 – 12:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom C Head Pose Estimation for Visual Field Projection Adel Lablack (Université de Lille 1) Interaction Design for Public Spaces Karen Johanne Kortbek (University of Aarhus) A Learner, is a Learner, is a User, is a Customer Sabine Moebs (Dublin City University) A Scheduling Algorithm for Time Bounded Delivery of Packets on the Internet Ishan Vaishnavi (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica ) Video Communication Systems with Heterogeneous Clients Cheng-Hsin Hsu (Simon Fraser University) Mohamed Hefeeda (Simon Fraser University) Streaming of 3D Progressive Meshes October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 26

Wei Cheng (National University of Singapore) Session: Art Track A1: Adaptation Session Chair: Andruid Kerne Tuesday October 29, 2008 10:30 – 12:30 Hall: Pacific Rim Suite 1 Eavesdropping: Audience Interaction in Networked Audio Performance Jack Stockholm (Simon Fraser University) Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University) Lost Cause, an Interactive Film Project Kirsten Johnson (Simon Fraser University) Demo Session 1 Session Chair: Anup Basu Wednesday October 29, 2008 10:30 – 12:30 Hall: Cazebo 1&2 Map-Based Music Interfaces for Mobile Devices Jakob Frank (Vienna University of Technology) Thomas Lidy (Vienna University of Technology) Peter Hlavac (Vienna University of Technology) Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology) HOTPAPER Demonstration: Multimedia Interaction with Paper Using Mobile Phones Berna Erol (Ricoh Innovations) Jamey Graham (Ricoh Innovations) Emilio Antúnez (Stanford University) Jonathan J. Hull (Ricoh Innovations) i. MTV - An Integrated System for MTV Affective Analysis Shiliang Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Qingming Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Qi Tian (University of Texas at San Antonio) Shuqiang Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences ) Wen Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University) COSIN: Content-Based Retrieval System for Cover Songs Yi Yu (Nara Women's University J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Fabian Moerchen (Siemens Corporate Research) Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Kazuki Joe (Nara Women's University) Vincent Oria (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Reduced-Reference Estimation of Channel-Induced Video Distortion using Distributed Source Coding Shih-Wei Chu (University of California at Santa Barbara) Mei-Chen Yeh (University of California at Santa Barbara) Kwang-Ting Cheng (University of California at Santa Barbara) A System for Automatic Detection and Recognition of Advertising Trademarks in Sports Videos Lamberto Ballan (University of Florence) Marco Bertini (University of Florence) Arjun Jain (University of Florence) Timeline-Based Video Browsing on Handheld Devices Wolfgang Hürst (Utrecht University) Konrad Meier (Albert-Ludwigs-University) Georg Götz (Albert-Ludwigs-University) Testbed and Experiments for Mobile TV (DVB-H) Networks Mohamed Hefeeda (Simon Fraser University) Cheng-Hsin Hsu (Simon Fraser University) Yi Liu (Simon Fraser University) October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 27

IntentSearch: Interactive On-line Image Search Re-ranking Jingyu Cui (Tsinghua University) Fang Wen (Microsoft Research Asia) Xiaoou Tang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Food Log by Analyzing Food Images Keigo Kitamura (The University of Tokyo) Toshihiko Yamasaki (The University of Tokyo) Kiyoharu Aizawa (The University of Tokyo) Personalized News Video Recommendation Hangzai Luo (East China Normal University) Jianping Fan (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Daniel Keim (University of Konstanz) Mr. Emo: Music Retrieval in the Emotion Plane Yi-Hsuan Yang (National Taiwan University) Yu-Ching Lin (National Taiwan University) Heng-Tze Cheng (National Taiwan University) Homer Chen (National Taiwan University)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Oceanview suites 5-8)

Session: Content Track C4: Video Search Session Chair: Marcel Worring Wednesday October 29, 2008 14:00-15:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom A Bayesian Video Search Reranking Xinmei Tian (University of Science & Technology of China) Linjun Yang (Microsoft Research Asia) Jingdong Wang (Microsoft Research Asia) Yichen Yang (Zhejiang University) Xiuqing Wu (University of Science & Technology of China) Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia) Online Multi-Label Active Annotation: Towards Large-Scale Content-Based Video Search Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia) Guo-Jun Qi (University of Science and Technology of China) Probabilistic Integration of Sparse Audio-Visual Cues for Identity Tracking Keni Bernardin (Universität Karlsruhe) Rainer Stiefelhagen (Universität Karlsruhe) Alex Waibel (Universität Karlsruhe) Session: Applications Track A3: Photo Session Chair: Hari Sundaram Wednesday October 29, 2008 14:00-15:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom B Photo-based Question Answering Tom Yeh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) John Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Trevor Darrell (University of California at Berkeley) HOTPAPER: Multimedia Interaction with Paper using Mobile Phones Berna Erol (RICOH Innovations) Emilio Antúnez (Stanford University) Jonathan Hull (RICOH Innovations) Snap and Share Your Photobooks Niels Henze (OFFIS—Institute for Information Technology) Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg) October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 28

Photo Navigator Chi-Chang Hsieh (National Taiwan University) Wen-Huang Cheng (National Taiwan University) Chia-Hu Chang (National Taiwan University) Yung-Yu Chuang (National Taiwan University) Ja-Ling Wu (National Taiwan University) Session: HCM Track H2: Experience Session Chair: Daniel Gatica-Perez Wednesday October 29, 2008 14:00-15:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom C A Context-Aware Virtual Secretary in a Smart Office Environment Maria Danninger (Universität Karlsruhe) Rainer Stiefelhagen (Universität Karlsruhe) Requirements and Recommendations for an Enhanced Meeting Viewing Experience Sasa Junuzovic (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Rajesh Hegde (Microsoft Research) Zhengyou Zhang (Microsoft Research) Phil Chou (Microsoft Research) Zicheng Liu (Microsoft Research) Cha Zhang (Microsoft Research) Deadband-based Offline-Coding of Haptic Media Julius Kammerl (Technische Universität München) Eckehard Steinbach (Technische Universität München) Session: Systems Track Short Papers Session Chair: Shervin Shirmohammadi Wednesday October 29, 2008 14:00 - 15:30 Hall: Cazebo 1&2 Supporting Region-of-Interest Cropping Through Constrained Compression Wu-chi Feng (Portland State University) Thanh Dang (Portland State University) John Kassebaum (Portland State University) Tim Bauman (Portland State University) SenseCoding: Accelerometer-Assisted Motion Estimation for Efficient Video Encoding Guangming Hong (National University of Singapore) Ahmad Rahmati (Rice University) Ye Wang (National University of Singapore) Lin Zhong (Rice University) Interactivity and Scalability Enhancements for Quality-Adaptive Streaming Charles Krasic (University of British Columbia) Jean-Sébastien Légaré (University of British Columbia) VSYNC — A Novel Video File Synchronization Protocol Hao Zhang (University of California at Berkeley) Chuohao Yeo (University of California at Berkeley) Kannan Ramchandran (University of California at Berkeley) Understanding Video Interactions in YouTube Fabricio Benevenuto (Federal University of Minas Gerais) Fernando Duarte (Federal University of Minas Gerais) Tiago Rodrigues (Federal University of Minas Gerais) Virgilio Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais) Jussara Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais) Keith Ross (Polytechnic University) Toward the Optimal Multirate Multicast for Lossy Packet Network Mingkai Shao (McMaster University) Sorina Dumitrescu (McMaster University) Xiaolin Wu (McMaster University) LACING: An Improved Motion Estimation Framework for Scalable Video Coding October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 29

Wei Siong Lee (Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)) Yih Han Tan (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) Jo Yew Tham (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) Kwong Huang Goh (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) Dajun Wu (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) Reduced-Reference Estimation of Channel-Induced Video Distortion using Distributed Source Coding Giuseppe Valenzise (Politecnico di Milano) Matteo Naccari (Politecnico di Milano) Marco Tagliasacchi (Politecnico di Milano) Stefano Tubaro (Politecnico di Milano) High Quality Video Streaming Using Content-Aware Adaptive Frame Scheduling with Explicit DeadlineAdjustment Sachin Deshpande (Sharp Laboratories of America) View-Dependent Real-Time 3D Video Compression for Mobile Devices Shu Shi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Roy Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) On Optimal Scheduling for Layered Video Streaming in Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Networks Xin Xiao (Tsinghua University) Yuanchun Shi (Tsinghua University) Yuan Gao (Tsinghua University)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

Session: Content Track C5: Multimedia Content Analysis and Applications Session Chair: Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood Wednesday October 29, 2008 16:00-17:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom A Combination of Audio and Lyrics Features for Genre Classification in Digital Audio Collections Rudolf Mayer (Vienna University of Technology) Robert Neumayer (Vienna University of Technology and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology) Object Fingerprints for Content Analysis with Applications to Street Landmark Localization Wen Wu (Carnegie Mellon University) Jie Yang (Carnegie Mellon University) Efficiently Matching Sets of Features with Random Histograms Wei Dong (Princeton University) Zhe Wang (Princeton University) Moses Charikar (Princeton University) Kai Li (Princeton University) Session: Brave New Topics Session Chairs: Ling Guan & Zhengyou Zhang Thursday October 29, 2008 16:00-17:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom B Delivering Online Advertisements Inside Images Zhiwei Li (Microsoft Research Asia) Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia) Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia) October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 30

Social Signal Processing: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives of an Emerging Domain Alessandro Vinciarelli (Idiap Research Institute and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Maja Pantic (Imperial College and University of Twente) Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Alex Pentland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Event Recognition: Viewing the World with a Third Eye Jiebo Luo (Eastman Kodak Company) Jie Yu (Eastman Kodak Company) Dhiraj Joshi (Eastman Kodak Company) Wei Hao (Eastman Kodak Company) Session: Systems Track S2: Beyond 2D Session Chair: Leslie Liu Wednesday October 29, 2008 16:00-17:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom C Spatialized Audio Streaming for Networked Virtual Environments Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore) Ke Liang (National University of Singapore) Viewable Scene Modeling for Geospatial Video Search Sakire Arslan Ay (University of Southern California) Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore) Seon Kim (University of Denver) Mitigating the Impact of Hardware Defects on Multimedia Applications — A Cross-Layer Approach Kyoungwoo Lee (University of California at Irvine) Aviral Shrivastava (Arizona State University) Minyoung Kim (University of California at Irvine) Nikil Dutt (University of California at Irvine) Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California at Irvine) Session: Art Track A2: Dancing With . . . Session Chair: Frank Nack Wednsday October 29, 2008 16:00-17:30 Hall: Pacific Rim Suite 1 Advancing Interactive Collaborative Mediums through Tele-immersive Dance (TED): A Symbiotic Creativity and Design Environment for Art and Computer Science Renata Sheppard (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Mahsa Kamali (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Raoul Rivas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Morihiko Tamai (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) Zhenyu Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Wanmin Wu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Feasibility of the Living Canvas — Restricting Projection to a Performer on Stage Martin Naef (Glasgow School of Art) Cathie Boyd (Cryptic) Session: Applications Track Short Papers Session 1 Session Chair: Dulce Ponceleon Wednesday October 29, 2008 16:00 – 17:30 Hall: Cazebo 1&2 An Efficient Approach to Detecting Pedestrians in Video Jie Xu (National ICT Australia and The University of New South Wales) Getian Ye (National ICT Australia) Gunawan Herman (National ICT Australia)

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Bang Zhang (National ICT Australia) Intuitive Page-turning Interface of E-books on Flexible E-paper Based on User Studies Taichi Tajika (Osaka University ) Tomoko Yonezawa (ATR IRC) Noriaki Mitsunaga (Kanazawa Institute of Technology) Interactive Retrieval for Multi-Camera Surveillance Systems Featuring Spatio-Temporal Summarization Toshihiko Yamasaki (The University of Tokyo) Yoshifumi Nishioka (The University of Tokyo) Kiyoharu Aizawa (The University of Tokyo) UCam: Direct Manipulation Using Handheld Camera for 3D Gesture Interaction

Liang Zhang (Tsinghua University China ) Yuanchun Shi (Tsinghua University China ) Mingming Fan (Tsinghua University China ) Automatic Text Discovering through Stroke-based Segmentation and Text String Combination Lei Xu (Nokia Research Center and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) Yingfei Liu (Nokia Research Center) Kongqiao Wang (Nokia Research Center) Hao Wang (Nokia Research Center) Predicting the Dominant Clique in Meetings through Fusion of Nonverbal Cues

Dinesh Babu Jayagopi (Idiap Research Institute and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Hayley Hung (Idiap Research Institute) Chuohao Yeo (University of California at Berkeley) Daniel Gatica-Perez (Idiap Research Institute) Word2Image: Towards Visual Interpreting of Words Haojie Li (National University of Singapore and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Jinhui Tang (National University of Singapore) Guangda Li (National University of Singapore) Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore) Content Based Automatic Zooming: Viewing Documents on Small Displays Patrick Chiu (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Koichi Fujii (Fuji Xerox) Qiong Liu (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Blocked Recursive Image Composition C. Atkins (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories) Multi-Progressive Model for Web Image Annotation Fang He (University of Science and Technology of China) Nenghai Yu (University of Science and Technology of China) Xiaoguang Rui (University of Science and Technology of China) Automatic Selection of Representative Photo and Smart Thumbnailing Using Near- Duplicate Detection Wei-Ta Chu (National Chung Cheng University) Chia-Hung Lin (National Chung Cheng University) Contextual Navigation in a Multimedia Journal Stewart Greenhill (Curtin University of Technology) Svetha Venkatesh (Curtin University of Technology) ViSA: Virtual Spotlighted Advertising Chia-Hu Chang (National Taiwan University) Kuei-Yi Hsieh (National Taiwan University)

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Ming-Che Chung (National Taiwan University) Ja-Ling Wu (National Taiwan University) Eye Tracking Based Interaction with 3D Reconstructed Objects Sang Min Yoon (TU Darmstadt) Holger Graf (ZGDV, Computer Graphics Center) An Event-Based Model for Interactive Live TV Shows Manoel Marques Neto (Salvador University) Celso Santos (Salvador University) What Did You Do Today? Discovering Daily Routines from Large-Scale Mobile Data Katayoun Farrahi (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ) Daniel Gatica-Perez (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ) Online Adaptation for Video Sharing Applications Razib Iqbal (University of Ottawa) Shervin Shirmohammadi (University of Ottawa) Topickr: Flickr Groups and Users Reloaded Radu-Andrei Negoescu (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ) Daniel Gatica-Perez (Idiap research institute / Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Accelerating Near-Duplicate Video Matching by Combining Visual Similarity and Alignment Distortion Hung-Khoon Tan (City University of Hong Kong) Xiao Wu (City University of Hong Kong) Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong) Wan-Lei Zhao (City University of Hong Kong) Audio Puzzler: Piecing Together Time-Stamped Speech Transcripts with a Puzzle Game Nicholas Diakopoulos (Georgia Institute of Technology) Kurt Luther (Georgia Institute of Technology) Irfan Essa (Georgia Institute of Technology) PicNTell: A Camcorder Metaphor for Screen Recording Scott Carter (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Laurent Denoue (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)

19:00 - 22:00 Conference Banquet (Crystal Pavilion Ballroom)

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Day 3: Thursday, October 30, 2008

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote by Professor David Roberts (University of Salford, UK)

Topic: Face to Face: communicating appearance, attention and activity across a distance

Hall: Christal Pavilion

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

Session: Content Track C6: Image Retrieval Session Chair: Qi Tian Thursday October 30, 2008 10:30-12:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom A. Boosting Image Retrieval through Aggregating Search Results Based on Visual Annotations Ximena Olivares (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Massimiliano Ciaramita (Yahoo! Research ) Roelof van Zwol (Yahoo! Research) ContextSeer: Context Search and Recommendation at Query Time for Shared Consumer Photos Yi-Hsuan Yang (National Taiwan University) Po-Tun Wu (National Taiwan University) Ching-Wei Lee (National Taiwan University) Kuan-Hung Lin (National Taiwan University) Winston Hsu (National Taiwan University) Homer Chen (National Taiwan University) A Posteriori Multi-Probe Locality Sensitive Hashing Alexis Joly (INRIA Rocquencourt) Olivier Buisson (INA) Locality Condensation: A New Dimensionality Reduction Method for Image Retrieval Zi Huang (The University of Queensland) Heng Tao Shen (The University of Queensland) Jie Shao (The University of Queensland) Stefan Rüger (The Open University) Xiaofang Zhou (The University of Queensland) Session: Applications Track A4: Context Session Chair: Dick Bulterman Thursday October 30, 2008 10:30-12:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom B Distribution-based Similarity Measures for Multi-dimensional Point Set Retrieval Applications Jie Shao (The University of Queensland) Zi Huang (The University of Queensland) Heng Tao Shen (The University of Queensland) Jialie Shen (Singapore Management University) Xiaofang Zhou (The University of Queensland) Contextual In-Image Advertising Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia) Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia) Shipeng Li (Microsoft Research Asia) Evaluation of Video Browser Features and User Interaction with VAST MM Alexander Haubold (Columbia University) Promiti Dutta (Columbia University) October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 34

John Kender (Columbia University) Session: Art Track A3: A Space . . . Session Chair: Ron Wakkary Thursday October 30, 2008 10:30-12:30 Hall: Pacific Rim Suite 1 sound/tracks: Real-Time Synaesthetic Sonification and Visualisation of Passing Landscapes Tim Pohle (Johannes Kepler University) Peter Knees (Johannes Kepler University) Gerhard Widmer (Johannes Kepler University) Interactive Spatial Multimedia for Communication of Art in the Physical Museum Space Karen Johanne Kortbek (University of Aarhus) Kaj Grønbæk (University of Aarhus) Demo Session 2 Session Chair: Pål Halvorsen Thursday October 30, 2008 10:30-12:30 Hall: Cazebo 1&2 iDVT: An Interactive Digital Violin Tutoring System Based on Audio-Visual Fusion Huanhuan Lu (National University of Singapore) Bingjun Zhang (National University of Singapore) Ye Wang (National University of Singapore) Wee Kheng Leow (National University of Singapore) Free Viewpoint Video Generation for Walk-through Experience Using Image-based Rendering Akio Ishikawa (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. ) Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. ) Sei Naito (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. ) Shigeyuki Sakazawa (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. ) Atsushi Koike (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. ) Interactive Content Presentation Based on Expressed Emotion and Physiological Feedback Tien-Lin Wu (National Taiwan University) Hsuan-Kai Wang (National Taiwan University) Chien-Chang Ho (National Taiwan University) Yuan-Pin Lin (National Taiwan University) Ting-Ting Hu (National Taiwan University) Ming-Fang Weng (National Taiwan University) Li-Wei Chan (National Taiwan University) Chang-Hua Yang (National Taiwan University) Yi-Hsuan Yang (National Taiwan University) Yi-Ping Hung (National Taiwan University) Yung-Yu Chuang (National Taiwan University) Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University) Homer Chen (National Taiwan University) Jyh-Horng Chen (National Taiwan University) Shyh-Kang Jeng (National Taiwan University) Video Demo: NMP with SDSL Access Network Zefir Kurtisi (Technische Universität Braunschweig) Xiaoyuan Gu (Technische Universität Braunschweig) Lars Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig) Crowd Behaviour Monitoring Nacim Ihaddadene (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille) Md. Haidar Sharif (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille) Chabane Djeraba (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille) Document Finder Qiong Liu (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Patrick Chiu (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Lynn Wilcox (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 35

Live Speaker Identification in Conversations Gerald Friedland (International Computer Science Institute) Oriol Vinyals (University of California at San Diego) XS3: A System for Similarity Evaluation in Multimedia-based Heterogeneous XML Repositories Joe Tekli (University of Bourgogne) Richard Chbeir (University of Bourgogne) Kokou Yetongnon (University of Bourgogne) EasyToon: Cartoon Personalization Using Face Photos Fang Wen (Microsoft Research Asia) Shifeng Chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Xiaoou Tang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Rate-Efficient, Real-Time CD Cover Recognition on a Camera-Phone Sam Tsai (Stanford University) David Chen (Stanford University) Jatinder Singh (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories) Bernd Girod (Stanford University) Bi-Layer Video Segmentation with Foreground and Background Infrared Illumination Qiong Wu (University of Alberta) Pierre Boulanger (University of Alberta) Walter Bischof (University of Alberta) ImageSense Lusong Li (Beihang University) Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia) Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia) Shipeng Li (Microsoft Research Asia)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Oceanview suites 5-8)

Session: Content Track C7: Video Analysis Session Chair: Zhengyou Zhang Thursday October 30, 2008 14:00-15:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom A SIFT-Bag Kernel for Video Event Analysis Xi Zhou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Xiaodan Zhuang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Shuicheng Yan (ECE, NUS) Shih-Fu Chang (ECE, Columbia University) Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Thomas Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Video Event Detection Using Motion Relativity and Visual Relatedness Feng Wang (City University of Hong Kong) Yu-Gang Jiang (City University of Hong Kong) Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong) Exploring Knowledge of Sub-domain in a Multi-resolution Bootstrapping Framework for Concept Detection in News Video Gang Wang (National University of Singapore) Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore) Ming Zhao (Google Inc.) Session: Applications Track A5/H3: Browsing Session Chair: Pradeep Atrey Thursday October 30, 2008 14:00-15:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom B Annotating Personal Albums via Web Mining October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 36

Jimin Jia (University of Science and Technology of China) Nenghai Yu (University of Science and Technology of China) Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia) Interfaces for Timeline-based Mobile Video Browsing Wolfgang Hürst (Utrecht University) Konrad Meier (Albert-Ludwigs-University) A Comprehensive Human Computation Framework—with Application to Image Labeling Yang Yang (University of Science and Technology of China) Bin Zhu (Microsoft Research Asia) Rui Guo (Beihang University) Linjun Yang (Microsoft Research Asia) Shipeng Li (Microsoft Research Asia) Nenghai Yu (University of Science and Technology of China) FacetBrowser: A User Interface for Complex Search Tasks Robert Villa (University of Glasgow) Nicholas Gildea (University of Glasgow) Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow) Video Abstracts Session Chair: Thomas Haenselmann Thursday October 30, 2008 14:00-15:30 Hall: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom C Video Falsifying for Special Effect Production Nick Tang (Tamkang University) Timothy Shih (National Taipei University of Education) Hsing-Ying Zhong (Tamkang University) Joseph Tsai (Tamkang University) Chin-Yao Tang (Tamkang University) Automatic Lecture Recording Fleming Lampi (University of Mannheim) Stephan Kopf (University of Mannheim) Wolfgang Effelsberg (University of Mannheim) Tele-Immersive Dance (TED): Evolution in Progress Renata Sheppard (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Mahsa Kamali (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Morihiko Tamai (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) Raoul Rivas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Zhenyu Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Wanmin Wu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) mTable: Browsing Photos and Videos on a Tabletop System Patrick Chiu (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Jeffrey Huang (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Maribeth Back (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Nicholas Diakopoulos (Georgia Institute of Technology) John Doherty (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Wolf Polak (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Xiaohua Sun (Clarkson University) Virtual Physics Circus Don Kimber (FXPAL) Eleanor Rieffel (FXPAL) Jim Vaughan (FXPAL) John Doherty (FXPAL) Analyzing Eye Fixations and Gaze Orientations on Films and Pictures Anthony Martinet (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille) Jean Martinet (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille Nacim Ihaddadene (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille

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Stanislas Lew (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille Chabane Djeraba (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille Open Source Session Chair: Arnd Steinmetz Thursday October 30, 2008 14:00-15:30 Hall: Pacific Rim Suite 1 Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) Marco Lohse (Motama GmbH) Florian Winter (Motama GmbH) Michael Repplinger (Saarland University) Philipp Slusallek (Saarland University) LIRe: Lucene Image Retrieval — An Extensible Java CBIR Library Mathias Lux (Klagenfurt University) Savvas Chatzichristofis (Democritus University of Thrace) GpuCV: An OpenSource GPU-Accelerated Framework for Image Processing and Computer Vision Yannick Allusse (Telecom & Management, SudParis) Patrick Horain (Telecom & Management, SudParis) Ankit Agarwal (Telecom & Management, SudParis) Cindula Saipriyadarshan (Telecom & Management, SudParis) An Open Source Software Framework for DVB-* Transmission Andreas Berger (ftw. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna) Lorenzo Pallara (Avalpa Digital Engineering Srl) Raimund Schatz (ftw. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna) Fobs : An Open Source Object-Oriented Library for Accessing Multimedia Content Jose San Pedro (The University of Sheffield) Session: Applications Track Short Papers Session 2 Session Chair: Changsheng Xu Thursday October 30, 2008 14:00 – 15:30 Hall: Cazebo 1&2 MarsyasX: Multimedia Dataflow Processing with Implicit Patching Luis Teixeira (INESC Porto) Luis Martins (INESC Porto) Mathieu Lagrange (University of Victoria) George Tzanetakis (University of Victoria) Collaborative Awareness in Multimedia Search Robert Villa (Glasgow University) Nicholas Gildea (Glasgow University) Joemon Jose (Glasgow University) Finding Near-duplicate Images on the Web using Fingerprints S. Srinivasan (Yahoo! Laboratories) Neela Sawant (Yahoo! Laboratories) Confidence Based Multimodal Fusion for Person Identification Philipp Große (University Karlsruhe) Hartwig Holzapfel (University Karlsruhe) Alex Waibel (University Karlsruhe) Determining Activity Patterns in Retail Spaces through Video Analysis Andreas Girgensohn (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. Frank Shipman (Texas A&M University) Lynn Wilcox (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Post-recording Tool for Instant Casting Movie System Shin-ichi Kawamoto (ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories) Tatsuo Yotsukura (ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories) Shigeo Morishima (Waseda University) October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 38

Satoshi Nakamura (ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories) Impact of User Context on Song Selection Olufisayo Omojokun (Georgia Institute of Technology) Michael Genovese (Georgia Institute of Technology) Charles Isbell, Jr. (Georgia Institute of Technology) Mobile Guide Applications Using Representative Visualizations Omar Choudary (University of Toulouse) Vincent Charvillat (University of Toulouse) Romulus Grigoras (University of Toulouse) Tagboards for Video Tagging S. Srinivasan (Yahoo! Laboratories India) Mayank Kukreja (IIT, India ) Hybrid Tracking and Visual Search Jiang Gao (Nokia Corporation) Video-based CPR Analysis System Yi-Tang Wang (National Taiwan University) Ming-Chun Tien (National Taiwan University) Ja-Ling Wu (National Taiwan University) Chih-Wei Yang (National Taiwan University Hospital) Matthew Huei-Ming Ma (National Taiwan University Hospital) Personal Location Based Services on Place-enhanced Blog Hideki Kaji (The University of Tokyo) Masatoshi Arikawa (The University of Tokyo) Proxima: A Mobile Augmented-Image Search System George Edwards (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Leslie Liu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Randy Moulic (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Dennis Shea (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Hierarchical Temporal Memory Bruce Bobier (University of Guelph) Michael Wirth (University of Guelph) Image-based Quiz Generation from News Video Archives Based on Principal Object Masanori Sano (NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories) Nobuyuki Yagi (NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories) Norio Katayama (National Institute of Informatics) Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics) Multimodal Observation Systems Mukesh Saini (National University of Singapore) Vivek Singh (University of California at Irvine) Ramesh Jain (University of California at Irvine) Mohan Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore) Biometric User Verification Using Haptics and Fuzzy Logic Andrea Kanneh (University of Trinidad and Tobago) Ziad Sakr (University of Trinidad and Tobago) To Catch a Thief — You Need at Least 8 Frames per Second: The impact of frame rates on user performance in a CCTV detection task Hina Keval (University College London) M. Angela Sasse (University College London)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer)

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Panel: Multimedia Education — Can we find unity in diversity? Session Chairs: Suzanne Boll & Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood Wednesday October 30, 2008 16:00 – 17:30 Hall: Christal Pavilion. Organizers Gerald Friedland (International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) ) Wolfgang Hürst (Utrecht University) Lars Knipping (Technische Universität Berlin) Panelists Ramesh Jain (University of California, Irvine) Max Mühlhäuser (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany) Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) Trevor Darrell (University of California, Berkeley) Session: Art Track Short Papers Thursday October 30, 2008 16:00 – 17:30 Hall: Cazebo 1&2 E-Tree: Emotionally Driven Augmented Reality Art Stephen Gilroy (University of Teesside) Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside) Rémi Chaignon (University of Teesside) Satu-Marja Mäkelä (VTT Electronics) Markus Niranen (VTT Electronics) Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg) Thurid Vogt (University of Augsburg) Jérôme Urbain (Faculté Polytechnique de Mons) Mark Billinghurst (HITLabNZ) Hartmut Seichter (HITLabNZ) Maurice Benayoun (Université Paris 1) Winterscape and Ambient Video — an Intermedia Border Zone Jim Bizzocchi (Simon Fraser University) PINS: A Prototype Model Towards the Definition of Surface Games Travis Kirton (University of Art and Design Linz) Hideaki Ogawa (University of Art and Design Linz) Christa Sommerer (University of Art and Design Linz) Laurent Mignonneau (University of Art and Design Linz) MobiToss: A novel gesture based interface for creating and sharing mobile multimedia art on large public displays Jürgen Scheible (University of Art and Design Helsinki) Timo Ojala (University of Oulu) Paul Coulton (Lancaster University) Allegra: A New Instrument for Bringing Interactive Graphics to Life Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS & University Paris) Mixed-Reality Learning in the Art Museum Context David Birchfield (Arizona State University) Brandon Mechtley (Arizona State University) Sarah Hatton (Arizona State University) Harvey Thornburg (Arizona State University) The Palimpsest System Philippe Codognet (Keio University) Analytic Capacities of an Original Tonality Analysis Method, Based on the Example of Chopin's Preludes op.28 Miroslaw Majchrzak (Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences) Transactional Arts - Interaction as Transaction Daniela Plewe (National University Singapore)

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ACM MIR 2008 FULL PROGRAM

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Location: Gazebo 2

9:00-9:05 Opening - Michael S. Lew

9:05-10:00 Keynote on “What are the 7 Millennium Problems in Multimedia Information Retrieval?” Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois at UC

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:10 Session - Brave New Topics (Chair: Mark Zhang, SUNY Binghamton)

− Mining GPS Traces and Visual Words for Event Classification (Invited) Junsong Yuan (Northwestern University), Jiebo Luo (Kodak Research Laboratories), Henry Kautz (University of Rochester), and Ying Wu (Northwestern University) − Combining Image Descriptors to Effectively Retrieve Events from Visual Lifelogs Aiden R. Doherty, Ciarán Ó Conaire, Michael Blighe, Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O’Connor (Dublin City University) − Monitoring Visual Focus of Attention via Local Discriminant Projection − Honggang Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Lorant Toth (Carnegie Mellon University), Weihong deng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), and Jun Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) − SpiritTagger: A Geo-Aware Tag Suggestion Tool Mined from Flickr Emily Moxley, Jim Kleban, and B. S. Manjunath (University of California at Santa Barbara) − Locating Key Views for Image Indexing of Spaces Hongyuan Cai and Jiang Yu Zheng (Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis) − The MIR Flickr Retrieval Evaluation Mark J. Huiskes and Michael S. Lew (Leiden University)

12:10-12:30 ACM MIR Flickr Retrieval Evaluation - Mark J. Huiskes, Michael S. Lew

12:30-13:50 Lunch

13:50-15:30 Session - Image Retrieval (Chair: Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University)

− Face Annotation for Personal Photos Using Context-Assisted Face Recognition Jae Young Choi, Seungji Yang, and Yong Man Ro (Information and Communication University), and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis (University of Toronto) − A String Matching Approach for Visual Retrieval and Classification Mei-Chen Yeh and Kwang-Ting Cheng (University of California at Santa Barbara) October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 41

− Large Scale Image Copy Detection Evaluation Bart Thomee, Erwin M. Bakker, Mark J. Huiskes, and Michael S. Lew (Leiden University) − Diversifying Image Search with User Generated Content Roelof van Zwol, Vanessa Murdock, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, and Georgina Ramirez (Yahoo! Research Spain) − Automatic Image Tagging as a Random Walk with Priors on the Canonical Correlation Subspace Timothée Bailloeul (Ricoh Software Research Center (Beijing) Co., Ltd.), Caizhi Zhu (Ricoh Software Research Center (Beijing) Co., Ltd.), and Yinghui Xu (Advanced Technology R&D Center)

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16:00-16:20 Poster Boaster Session (Chair: Mark J. Huiskes, Leiden University)

16:20-17:30 Poster Session 1

Audio Retrieval

1. A Critical Assessment of Spoken Utterance Retrieval through Approximate Lattice Representations

Siavash Kazemian, Frank Rudzicz, Gerald Penn, and Cosmin Munteanu (University of Toronto)

2. A Generalized Graph-Spectral Approach to Melodic Modeling and Retrieval

Alberto Pinto and Paolo Tagliolato (Università Degli Studi di Milano)

3. Content-based Mood Classification for Photos and Music

Peter Dunker, Stefanie Nowak, André Begau, and Cornelia Lan (Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology)

4. Large-Scale Content-Based Audio Retrieval from Text Queries

Gal Chechik, Eugene Ie, Martin Rehn, Samy Bengio, and Dick Lyon (Google)

5. On Enabling Techniques for Personal Audio Content Management

Tommi Lahti (Nokia Research Center), Marko Helén (Tampere University of Technology), Olli Vuorinen (VTT Technical Research Center of Finland), Eero Väyrynen and Juha Partala (University of Oulu), Johannes Peltola (VTT Technical Research Center of Finland)

6. Searching Musical Audio Datasets by a Batch of Multi-Variant Tracks

Yi Yu (Nara Women's University), J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Vincent Oria (New Jersey Institute of Technology), and Kazuki Joe (Nara Women's University)

Image Retrieval

7. An Efficient Image Normalization Method for Face Recognition under Varying Illuminations

Moonhwi Lee and Cheong Hee Park (Chungnam National University)

8. Can Relevance of Images be Inferred from Eye Movements?

Arto Klami (Helsinki University of Technology), Craig Saunders (University of Southampton), Teófilo E. de Campos (Xerox Research Centre Europe), and Samuel Kaski (Helsinki University of Technology)

9. Cross-Media Manifold Learning for Image Retrieval & Annotation

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Xianming Liu, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Pengfei Xu, Xiaoshuai Sun, and Tianqiang Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology)

10. Extracting Contextual Information from Multi-user Systems for Improving Annotation-based Retrieval of Image Data

Johanna Vompras, Thomas Scholz, and Stefan Conrad (Heinrich Heine University)

11. Graph-based Multiple-Instance Learning for Object-based Image Retrieval

Changhu Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia), and Hong-Jiang Zhang (Microsoft Advanced Technology Center, China)

12. Image Retrieval using Query by Contextual Example

Nikhil Rasiwasia and Nuno Vasconcelos (University of California at San Diego)

13. Late Fusion of Heterogeneous Methods for Multimedia Retrieval of Images

Hugo Jair Escalante, Carlos A. Hérnandez, L. Enrique Sucar, and Manuel Montes (National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics)

14. Learning Tag Relevance by Neighbor Voting for Social Image Retrieval

Xirong Li, Cees G.M. Snoek, and Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam)

15. Multimodal Photo Annotation and Retrieval on a Mobile Phone

Xavier Anguera (Telefónica Research), JieJun Xu (University of California at Santa Barbara), and Nuria Oliver (Telefónica Research)

16. Ontology Enhanced Web Image Retrieval: Aided by Wikipedia & Spreading Activition Theory

Huan Wang, Xing Jiang, Liang-Tien Chia, Ah-Hwee Tan (Nanyang Technological University)

Salient Points in Multimedia Retrieval

17. Interest Points based on Maximization of Distinctiveness

Ard Oerlemans and Michael S. Lew (Leiden University)

18. A Salient-Point Signature for 3D Object Retrieval

Indriyati Atmosukarto and Linda G. Shapiro (University of Washington)

19. Component Based Shape Retrieval Using Differential Profiles

Lei Ding, Mikhail Belkin (The Ohio State University)

20. Robust Foreground Segmentation Based on Two Effective Background Models

Xi Li, Weiming Hu, Zhongfei Zhang, and Xiaoqin Zhang (National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition)

19.00-22.00 MIR-Dinner

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Friday, October 31, 2008

Location: Gazebo 2

9:00-9:40 Frontier Talk 1 - Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine

Multimedia Information Retrieval: Watershed Moments. (Invited)

(Chair: Michael S. Lew, Leiden University)

9.40-10.00 Poster Boaster Session (Chair: Mark J. Huiskes, Leiden University)

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11:10 Frontier Talk 2 - Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University

CuZero: Embracing the Frontier of Interactive Visual Search for Informed Users (Invited)

(Chair: Mark Zhang, SUNY Binghamton)

11:10-12:30 – Poster Session 2

Video Concept, Action and Retrieval

1. Action Video Retrieval based on Atomic Action Vocabulary

Sang-Hack Jung, Yanlin Guo, and Rakesh Kumar (Sarnoff Corporation)

2. Optimizing Video Search Reranking via Minimum Incremental Information Loss

Yuan Liu (University of Science and Technology of China), Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia), Xiuqing Wu (University of Science and Technology of China), and Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia)

3. Human Activity Localization via Sequential Change Detection

Alexia Briassouli and Ioannis Kompatsiaris (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas)

4. Place Retrieval with Graph-based Place-View Model

Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Pengfei Xu, Tianqiang Liu, and Xianming Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology)

5. Solving the Label Resolution Problem in Supervised Video Content Classification

Ullas Gargi, Jay Yagnik (Google, Inc.)

6. Spatio-Temporal Features for Robust Content-Based Video Copy Detection

Geert Willems (K.U. Leuven), Tinne Tuytelaars (K.U. Leuven), and Luc Van Gool (K.U. Leuven and ETH Zürich)

7. Spatio-Temporal Pyramid Matching for Sports Videos

Jaesik Choi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Won J. Jeon (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign), and Sang-Chul Lee (Inha University)

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8. Transductive Multi-Label Learning for Video Concept Detection

Jingdong Wang (Microsoft Research Asia), Yinghai Zhao (University of Science & Technology of China), Xiuqing Wu (University of Science & Technology of China), and Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia)

9. View-Invariant Action Recognition using Interest Points

Yang Yuedong, Hao Aimin, and Zhao Qinping (Beihang University)

Multimedia Retrieval and Modeling

10. An Efficient Indexing Structure for Multimedia Data

Thierry Urruty, Chabane Djeraba, and Joemon M. Jose (University of Glasgow)

11. Applications of Description Logics to Improve Multimedia Information Retrieval for Efficient Educational Tools

Serge Linckels (University of Luxembourg), and Christoph Meinel (University of Potsdam)

12. Improving Object Detection by Removing Noisy Samples from Training Sets

Gunawan Herman, Getian Ye, Jie Xu, and Bang Zhang (National ICT Australia and University of New South Wales)

13. Perplexity-based Evidential Neural Network Classifier Fusion using MPEG-7 Low-level Visual Features

Rachid Benmokhtar and Benoit Huet (Institut Eurécom)

14. Semantic Lattices for Multiple Annotation of Images

Anne-Marie Tousch (ONERA and Université Paris-Est), Stéphane Herbin (ONERA), and Jean-Yves Audibert (CERTIS and Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech)

15. Towards a Structure-based Multimedia Retrieval Model

Mouna Torjmen, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, and Mohand Boughanem (Paul Sabatier University)

Multimedia Browsing and Summarization

16. A Novel Approach to Enable Semantic and Visual Image Summarization for Interactive Exploration

Jianping Fan (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Yuli Gao (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Hangzai Luo (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Daniel A. Keim (University of Konstanz), and Zongmin Li (China University of Petroleum)

17. A Set Theoretical Method for Video Synopsis

Min Xu (University of Science and Technology of China), Stan Z. Li (National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition), Bin Li (University of Science and Technology of China), Xiao-Tong Yuan (National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition), and Shi-Ming Xiang (National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition)

18. Aggregated Cross-Media News Visualization and Personalization

Cyril Rohr and Dian Tjondronegoro (Queensland University of Technology)

19. “Inside the Bible”: Segmentation, Annotation and Retrieval for a New Browsing Experience

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Costantino Grana, Daniele Borghesani, Simone Calderara, and Rita Cucchiara (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

20. Multimedia Ontology Learning for Automatic Annotation and Video Browsing

Anupama Mallik, P. Poornachander, and Santanu Chaudhury (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)

12:30-14:00 – Lunch

14:30-15:40 – 3D Object Retrieval (Chair: Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence)

− A Rectilinearity Measurement for 3D Meshes

Zhouhui Lian (Beihang University), Paul L. Rosin (Cardiff University), and Xianfang Sun (Beihang University and Cardiff University)

− Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis of Shape Orientation for 3D Shape Retrieval

Zhenbao Liu, Jun Mitani, Yukio Fukui, and Seiichi Nishihara (University of Tsukuba)

− Ranking on Semantic Manifold for Shape-Based 3D Model Retrieval

Ryutarou Ohbuchi (University of Yamanashi) and Toshiya Shimizu (Hitachi Ltd.)

− Unsupervised Modeling and Recognition of Object Categories with Combination of Visual Contents and Geometric Similarity Links

Gunhee Kim, Christos Faloutsos, and Martial Hebert (Carnegie Mellon University)

− Outdoors Augmented Reality on Mobile Phone using Loxel-based Visual Feature Organization

Gabriel Takacs (Stanford University), Vijay Chandrasekhar (Stanford University), Natasha Gelfand (Nokia Research Center), Yingen Xiong (Nokia Research Center), Wei-Chao Chen (Nokia Research Center), Thanos Bismpigiannis (Stanford University), Radek Grzeszczuk (Nokia Research Center), Kari Pulli (Nokia Research Center), and Bernd Girod (Stanford University)

15:40-16:00 – Coffee break

16:00-17:40 – Video Retrieval and Concept Detection (Chair: Mark Zhang, SUNY Binghamton)

− Video Copy Detection Based on Source Device Characteristics: A Complementary Approach to Content-Based Methods Sevinc Bayram, Husrev Taha Sencar, and Nasir Memon (Polytechnic University) − Collaborative Learning for Image and Video Annotation Bo Geng (Peking University), Linjun Yang (Microsoft Research Asia), Chao Xu (Peking University), and Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia) − An Efficient Algorithm for Keyframe-based Motion Retrieval in the Presence of Temporal Deformations Andreas Baak, Meinard Müller, and Hans-Peter Seidel (Max Planck Institut für Informatik) − Assessing Concept Selection for Video Retrieval October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 46

Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, and Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam) − A Framework for Classifier Adaptation and its Applications in Concept Detection Jun Yang and Alexander G. Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University)

17:40-17:45 – Closing - Michael S. Lew

Sponsors: ACM (with SIG Multimedia) Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Getty Images under FOCUS/BRICKS grant number 642.066.603 HeliosTek Philips Research LIACS Media Lab. Leiden University

Microsoft Research

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ACM WORKSHOPS 2008

WORKSHOP 1: VISION NETWORKS FOR BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS (VNBA)

Organizers : Hamid Aghajan (Stanford University) and Andrea Prati (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

Friday, October 31, 2008

Location: Pacific Rim Suite 1

Oral Session 1: Smart Environments: Pose, Gesture, HCI

09:00 – 09:20 Real-time 3D Arm Pose Estimation from Monocular Video for Enhanced HCI S. Salti (University of Bologna, Italy), O. Schreer (Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany), L. Di Stefano (University of Bologna, Italy)

09:20 – 09:40 Pose Robust Human Detection Using Multiple Oriented 2D Elliptical Filters D. Kim, S.-H. Cho, T. Kim, D. Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)

09:40 – 10:00 Active-GNG: Model Acquisition and Tracking in Cluttered Backgrounds A. Angelopoulou, A. Psarrou, G. Gupta (University of Westminster, UK), J. Garcia (University of Alicante, Spain)

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

Oral Session 2: Surveillance Systems: Detection, Tracking

10:30 – 10:50 Enhancing Change Detection in Low-Quality Surveillance Footage using Markov Random Fields D. Tweed, J. Ferryman (University of Reading, UK)

10:50 – 11:10 People Tracking and Segmentation Using Spatiotemporal Shape Constraints J. Wang, Y. Makihara, Y. Yagi (Osaka University, Japan)

11:10 – 11:30 Example based Learning for Object Detection in Images T. Kim, D. Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)

Poster Session

11:30 – 11:55 Five minutes spot presentations of the posters

11:55 – 12:30 Poster session:

− A Novel Fitting Algorithm using the ICP and the Particle Filters for Robust 3D Human Body Motion Tracking D. Kim, D. Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)

− ViHASi: Virtual Human Action Silhouette Data for the Performance Evaluation of Silhouette-Based Action Recognition Methods H. Ragheb, S. Velastin, P. Remagnino, T. Ellis (Kingston University, UK)

− People Detection in Image and Video Data N.C. Pramod, S. Rao, C. K. Paturu (Honeywell - Bangalore, India)

− Unsupervised approach for building non-parametric background and foreground models of scenes with significant foreground activity N. Martel-Brisson, A. Zaccarin (Laval University, Quebec, Canada)

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− Enabling technologies on multi-modal camera networks for behavioral analysis of unattended indoor environments and their surroundings G. Gualdi, A. Prati, R. Cucchiara, E. Ardizzone, M. La Cascia, L. Lo Presti, M. Morana (Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - Univ. of Palermo, Italy)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Invited talk: "Steps towards Biometric Surveillance" Isaac Cohen - Honeywell Advanced Technology Laboratory

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

Oral Session 3: Selected Topics

15:30 – 15:50 Gaze-based Interaction in Various Environments S. Bardins, T. Poitschke, S. Kohlbecher (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany)

15:50 – 16:10 Categorizing Bi-Object Video Activities using Bag of Segments and Causality Features Y. Zhou, S. Yan, T.S. Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

16:10 – 16:30 Video Measurement of Resident-on-Resident Physical Aggression in Nursing Homes H. Wactlar, D. Chen, M-Y. Chen, C. Gao, A. Bharucha (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

16:30 – 16:45 Concluding remarks

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WORKSHOP 2: SEMANTIC AMBIENT MEDIA EXPERIENCES (SAME) NAMU SERIES

Friday, October 31, 2008

Location: Pacific Rim Suite 2

09:00-09:10 Introduction

− Semantic Ambient Media Experiences: SAME 2008 Pre-Workshop Review

Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), Finland Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, Germany Bjorn Stockleben, RBB, Germany Juha Kaario, Nokia, Finland Kari Laurila, Nokia, Finland

09:10-10:00 First Five Papers

− Towards Environment-to-Environment (E2E) Multimedia Communication Systems Vivek Singh, University of California, Irvine, USA Hamed Pirsiavash, University of California, Irvine, USA Ish Rishabh, University of California, Irvine, USA Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine, USA − Ambient Assisted Living: Elderly people’s needs and how to face them Verena Fuchsberger, University of Innsbruck, Austria − Ambient Media in Public Spaces Andrew Schloss, University of Victoria, CANADA Dale Stammen, n/n, USA − Red Light Spotters, Images-driven sound and rhythm landscape Philippe Codognet, Keio University DMC, Research Institute for Digital Media and Content, Japan Gilbert Nouno, University of Paris 6, LIP6 - Ircam, France − A Case Study for A Multimedia Program Szu-Ming Chung, Ling Tung University, Taiwan Pei-Chi Ho, Ling Tung University, Taiwan Chun-Hsiung Huang, Ling Tung University, Taiwan

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 Second Six Papers

− Dynamic Gain Estimation in Ambient Media Services M. Anwar Hossain, University of Ottawa, Canada Pradeep K. Atrey, University of Winnipeg, Canada Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada − Virtual Assistant: Artificial Agent for Enhancing Contents Acquisition October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 50

Motoyuki Ozeki, Kyoto University, Japan Shunichi Maeda, Kyoto University, Japan Kanako Obata, Kyoto University, Japan Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan − Information Overload: A Collaborative Dance Performance Lauren Mandilian, Drexel University, USA − Ambient Music Experience in Real and Virtual Worlds Using Audio Jakob Frank, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Thomas Lidy, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ewald Peiszer, n/n, Austria Ronald Genswaider, n/n, Austria Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria − Creating Ambient Multimedia Experience On-Demand: Opportunities, Challenges and Research Models Nalin Sharda, Victoria University, Australia − Mid-air Displays Enabling Novel User Interfaces Ismo Rakkolainen, University of California, USA

11:30-12:30 Group Building and Working Theme Definition

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Horizontal Integration of Papers

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Presentation of Each Group Work

15:30-16:00 Group 1

16:00-16:30 Group 2

16:30-17:00 Group 3

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WORKSHOP 3: TRECVID BBC RUSHES SUMMARIZATION (TVS)

Organizers : Paul Over (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA) and Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Ireland USA)

Friday, October 31, 2008

Location: Oceanview 3

09.00 - 09.40 The TRECVID 2008 BBC Rushes Summarization Evaluation Pilot Paul Over (NIST), Alan F. Smeaton (DCU), George Awad (NIST) 09.40 - 10.00 Comparison of Content Selection Methods for Skimming Rushes Video Werner Bailer and Georg Thallinger, JOANNEUM RESEARCH 10.00 - 10.30 Break 10.30 - 10.50 Brief and High-Interest Video Summary Generation: Evaluating the AT&T Labs Rushes Summarizations Zhu Liu, Eric Zavesky, Behzad Shahraray, David Gibbon, and Andrea Basso, AT&T Labs Research 10.50 - 11.10 Binary Tree Based On-line Video Summarization Victor Valdés and José Martinez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 11.10 - 11.30 Summary montage Neil O'Hare, Dublin City University 11.30 - 11.50 Video Rushes Summarization Using Spectral Clustering and Sequence Alignment Vasileios Chasanis, Aristidis Likas, and Nikolaos Galatsanos, University of Ioannina 11.50 - 12.10 Exploring the Utility of Fast-Forward Surrogates for BBC Rushes Michael G. Christel, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Wei-Hao Lin, Ming-Yu Chen, Jun Yang, Bryan Maher, and Robert V. Baron, Carnegie Mellon University

12.10 - 12.30 The COST292 experimental framework for RUSHES task in TRECVID 2008 S. U. Naci, Jenny Benois-Pineau, Uros Damnjanovic, Christian Kaes, Boris Mansencal, Marzia Corvaglia COST292 12.30 - 2.00 Lunch in the Cypress Suite 2.00 - 2.20 Boasters (preview of demos/posters) 2.20 - 3.30 Combined demos and posters − Hierarchical Modeling and Adaptive Clustering for Realtime Summarization of Rush Videos in TRECVID'08 Jinchang Ren and Jianmin Jiang, University of Bradford − Dublin City University at the TRECVid 2008 BBC Rushes Summarisation Task Hervé Bredin, Daragh Byrne, Hyowon Lee, Noel E. O'Conor, and Gareth J.F.Jones, Dublin City University − Rushes Summarization by IRIM Consortium: Redundancy Removal and Multi-feature Fusion G. Quénot, J. Benois-Peneau, B. Mansencal, F. Precioso, D. Gorisse, P. Lambert, B. Augereau, L Granjon, D. Pellerin, M. Rombaut, and S. Ayache, IRIM consortium − Automatically Estimating Number of Scenes for Rushes Summarization Koji Yamasaki, Koichi Shinoda, and Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 52

− Video Summarization from Spatio-Temporal Features Robert Laganière, Raphael Bacco, Arnaud Hocevar, Patrick Lambert, Grégory Païs, and Bogdan Ionescu, VIVA-LISTIC − Video Rushes Summarization utilizing Retake Characteristics Masanori Sano, Yoshihiko Kawai, Shin'ichi Satoh, and Nobuyuki Yagi, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories − Combining activity and temporal coherence with low-level information for summarization of video rushes Pablo Toharia, Oscar D. Robles, Ángel Rodriguez, and Luis Pastor, GMRV-University Rey Juan Carlos − THU-Intel at Rush Summarization of TRECVID 2008 Tao Want, Shangping Feng, Patricia P. Wang, Wei Hu, Shuang Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yangzhou Du, Jianguo Li, Jianmin Li, and Yimin Zhang, Tsinghua University - Intel China Research Center − A Simplified Approach to Rushes Summarization Francine Chen, John Adcock, and Matthew Cooper, FX Palo Alto Laboratory − REGIM, Research Group on Intelligent Machines, Tunisia, at TRECVID 2008, BBC Rushes Summarization Mehdi Ellouze, Hichem Karray, and Adel M. Alimi, REGIM - Research Group on Intelligent Machines, University of Sfax − Efficient Generation of Pleasant Video Summaries Johannes Sasongko, Cyril Rohr, and Dian Tjondronegoro, Queensland University of Technology − Rushes Summarization Based on Color, Motion and Face − Akitsugu Noguchi and Keiji Yanai, The University of Electro-Communications − Rushes Video Summarization using Audio-Visual Information and Sequence Alignment − Yang Liu, Yan Liu, and Tongwei Ren, Hong Kong Polytechic University, Nanjing University − Rushes Redundancy Detection − Reede Ren, P. Punitha, and Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow − Rushes Video Summarization Using a Collaborative Approach Emilie Dumont, Bernard Merialdo, Slim Essid, Werner Bailer, Herwig Rehatchek, Daragh Byrne, Hervé Bredin, Noel E. O'Connor, Gareth J.F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton, Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora, and Tomas Piatrik, K- Space − Sequence alignment for redundancy removal in video rushes summarization Emilie Dumont and Bernard Mérialdo, Institut Eurécom − Rushes Summarization Using Different Redundancy Elimination Approaches Duy-Dinh Le, Narongsak Putpuek, Nagul Cooharojananone, Chidchanok Lurinsap, and Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics − Adaptive Acceleration and Shot Stacking for Video Rushes Summarization Marcin Detyniecki and Christophe Marsala, University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris − Summarization scheme based on near-duplicate analysis David Gorisse, Frderic Precioso, Sylvie Philipp-Foliguet, and Matthieu Cord, ENSEA, LIP6 − Video Summarization at Brno University of Technology Vít ězslav Beran, Michal Hradiš, Pavel Zem čík, Adam Herout, and Ivo Řezni ček, Brno University of Technology 3.30 - 4.00 Coffee 4.00 - 5.00 Plenary discussion on lessons learned, future of video summarization (evaluation)

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WORKSHOP 4: STORY REPRESENTATION , MECHANISM AND CONTEXT (SRMC)

Organizers : Kevin Brooks (Motorola Laboratories), Aisling Kelliher (Arizona State University), Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam)

Friday, October 31, 2008

Location: Oceanview 4

8.30 – 9.00 Registration 9.00 – 9.15 Opening Remarks 9.15 – 10.45 Session 1: Reality kills the cat? Chair: Aisling Kelliher − Realism in Gameplay: Digital Fiction and Embodiment Filipe Luz, Manuel Damasio, and Patricia Gouveia, ULHT/Moclab, Portugal − Towards Computational Autobiographical Narratives through Human Digital Memories Daragh Byrne and Gareth J. F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland − Using Screenplays as a Source of Context Data Driss Choujaa and Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London, UK 10.45 – 11.00 Coffee 11.00 – 12.30 Session 2: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the controliest of them all? Chair: Frank Nack − A Nondeterministic Model for Controlling the Dramatization of Interactive Stories Thiago R. Doria, Angelo E. M. Cialrini, and Alexandre Andreatta, UNRIO, Brazil − Planning-Integrated Story Graph for Interactive Narratives Wook-Hee Min, Eok-Soo Shim, Yeo-jin Kim, and Yun-Gyung Cheong, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea − Representing and Playing User Selected Video Narrative Domains Carlos Teixeira and Ana Respicio, University of Lisbon, Portugal 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 15.00 Session 3: The valiant little tailor Chair: Kevin Brooks − Sofia – A Framework for the development of Group Storytelling Tools Claudio de M. Luz, Marcos R.S. Borges, and Maria Luzia M. Campos, UFRJ, Brazil − VIBES: Visualizing Changing Emotional States in Personal Stories April Marie Wensel and Sara Owsley Sood, Pomona College, USA − A Multimedia-Driven Ambient Edutainment System for the Young Children Ali Karime, M. Anwar Hossain, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, and Wail Gueaieb, University of Ottawa, Canada 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee 15.30 – 17.30 pm Discussion of Session Findings

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WORKSHOP 5: ANALYSIS AND RETRIEVAL OF EVENTS /A CTIONS AND WORKFLOWS IN VIDEO STREAMS (AREA)

Organizers : Anastasios D. Doulamis (Technical University of Crete), Luc Van Gool (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich), Mark Nixon (University of Southampton), Theodora A. Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens) and Nikolaos D. Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens)

Friday, October 31, 2008

Location: Oceanview 5

9.00-10.40 Session 1: Object Tracking and Surveillance in Videos

Session Chairs: Mark Nixon (University of Southampton) and Klimis Ntalianis (National Technical University of Athens)

− Unsupervised Mesh based Segmentation of Moving Objects Andreas Kriechbaum, Roland Mörzinger, and Georg Thallinger (Joanneum Research) − Object Detection and Matching in a Mixed Network of Fixed and Mobile Cameras Alexandre Alahi, Pierre Vandergheynst, Michel Bierlaire, and Murat Kunt (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) − Multi-Object Tracking driven Event Detection for Evaluation Daniel Roth, Esther Koller-Meier, and Luc Van Gool (ETH Zurich) − Angle Spectrum for Estimation of Trajectory Deviation using combined Tracking and Neural Network Labeling Nikolaos Doulamis, Vassilios Vescoukis, and Andreas Georgopoulos (National Technical University of Athens) − Panel Discussions by the Authors

10:40-11:00 Coffee Break

11.00-12.40 Session 2: Detection of Events in Videos

Session Chairs: Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research) and Nicolas Tsapatsoulis (Cyprus University of Technology)

− Sports Event Detection using Temporal Patterns Mining and Web-casting Text Minh-Son Dao and Noburu Babaguchi (Osaka University) − Using decision trees to recognize visual events Cedric Simon, Jerome Meessen, and Christophe De Vleeschouwer (UCL) − Event Detection for Video Surveillance Using an Expert System Barbara Krausz (Fraunhofer IAIS) and Rainer Herpers (FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg) − Salient Event-detection In Video Surveillance Scenarios Kenneth Ellingsen (Gjøvik University College) − Panel Discussions by the Authors

12:40-14:00 Lunch Break

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14:00-16:00 Session 3: Event-Driven Video Analysis

Session Chairs: Luc van Gool (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich) and Nikolaos Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens)

− Human Action Analysis, Annotation and Modeling in Video Streams Based on Implicit User Interaction Klimis Ntalianis (National Technical University of Athens), Anastasios Doulamis (Technical University of Crete), Nicolas Tsapatsoulis (Cyprus University of Technology), and Nikolaos Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens) − Performance Analysis for Gait in Camera Networks Michela Goffredo, Imed Bouchrika, John N. Carter, and Mark S. Nixon (University of Southampton) − Temporal Video Analysis Dong-Jun Park and Davd A. Eichmann (The University of Iowa) − An Adaptive Multiple Model Approach for Fast Content-Based Skin Detection in On-Line Videos Rehanullah Khan, Julian Stöttinger, and Martin Kampel (Vienna University of Technology) − Panel Discussions by the Authors

15:40-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:00 Special Session on Ongoing Research Projects

Session Chairs: Nikolaos Papaoulakis (National Technical University of Ahens) and Dimitrios Kosmopoulos (NCSR Demokritos)

− An Architecture for A Self Configurable Video Supervision Anastasios Doulamis (Technical University of Crete), Dimitrios Kosmopoulos (NCSR Demokritos), Manolis Sardis (National Technical University of Athens), and Theodora Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens) − Real-Time Analysis and Personalized Media Streaming Environments for Large Scale Athletic Events Nikolaos Papaoulakis (National Technical University of Athens), Nikolaos Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens), Charalampos Patrikakis (National Technical University of Athens), John Soldatos (Athens Information Technology), Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis (Athens Information Technology), and Emmanuel Protonotarios (National Technical University of Athens) − Fast Video Search Using Scene Durations George Stassinopoulos, Serafeim Papastefanos, and Fotis Andritsopoulos (National Technical University of Athens) − Realtime-enabled Workflow Management in Service Oriented Infrastructures Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, George Kousiouris, Kleopatra Konstanteli, Theodoros Polychniatis, Andreas Menychtas, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, and Theodora Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens) − Panel Discussions by the Authors

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WORKSHOP 6: THE MANY FACES OF MULTIMEDIA SEMANTICS (MS)

Organizers : Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University, USA), William Grosky (University of Michigan, USA) and Peter Stanchev (Kettering University, USA)

Friday, October 31, 2008

Location: Oceanview 6

8:30 - 10:00 Keynote Talk by Alberto Del Bimbo

Session Chair: William I. Grosky (University of Michigan, Dearborn) Learning Ontology Rules for Semantic Video Annotation Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Giuseppe Serra (Università di Firenze)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 Session 1: Annotation: Ad-Hoc and Standards-Based

Session Chair: Farshad Fotouchi (Wayne State University) − Chants and Orcas: Semi-Automatic Tools for Audio Annotation and Analysis in Niche Domains Steven R. Ness (University of Victoria), Matthew Wright (University of Victoria), L. Gustavo Martins (INESC Porto), and George Tzanetakis (University of Victoria) − The Semantics of MPEG-21 Digital Items Revisited Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University), Maria Teresa Andrade (INESC Porto), Pedro Carvalho (INESC Porto), Antonio Penta (Università di Napoli Federico II), and Giovanni Cordara (Telecom Italia Laboratory) − Multimedia Knowledge Management Using Ontologies Antonio Picariello (Università di Napoli Federico II), Letizia Tanca (Politecnico di Milano), Davide Rogai (Comm-it)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Session 2: User-Based and Event Semantics Session Chair: Giuseppe Amato (ISTI, CNR) − Affective Ranking of Movie Scenes Using Physiological Signals and Content Analysis Mohammad Soleymani, Guillaume Chanel, Joep J. M. Kierkels, and Thierry Pun (University of Geneva) − An Exploratory Study on Joint Analysis of Visual Classification in Narrow Domains and the Discriminative Power of Tags Oge Marques (Florida Atlantic University) and Mathias Lux (Klagenfurt University) − Spatio-Temporal Query for Multimedia Database Sujal Subhash Wattamwar and Hiranmay Ghosh (Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.)

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

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15:30 - 16:30 Session 3: Short Papers and Demos Session Chair: Peter Stanchev (Kettering University) − Employing a Photo’s Life Cycle for Multimedia Retrieval Philipp Sandhaus (Institute for Information Technology), Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg), and Reiner Fageth (CeWe Color AG & Co. OHG) − Use of Weighted Visual Terms for Machine Learning Techniques for Image Content Recognition Relying on MPEG-7 Visual Descriptors Giuseppe Amato, Pasquale Savino, and Vanessa Magionami (ISTI-CNR)

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WORKSHOP 7: COMMUNICABILITY DESIGN AND EVALUATION IN CULTURAL AND ECOLOGICAL MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS (COMMUNICABILITY MS)

Organizers : Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra (Asociación Internacional de la Comunicación Interactiva, Asociación Latina de Interacción Persona Ordenador and F&F Multimedia Communic@ations Corp.)

Friday, October 31, 2008

Location: Oceanview 7&8

9:00-9:15 Presentation and Welcome Message

9:15-9:45 Coffee Break

9:45 Keynote Address Session Chair: Francisco V. C. Ficarra (HCI Lab, ALAIPO and AINCI)

Session 1: Communicability: Past, Present and Future Session Chair: Miguel C. Ficarra (AINCI) − Communicability Design and Evaluation in Cultural and Ecological Multimedia Systems Cipolla Ficarra, F. (HCI Lab., ALAIPO and AINCI). − Web 3.0: A Vision for Bridging the Gap between Real and Virtual Silva-Salmerón, J., Rahman, M., El Saddik, A. (University of Ottawa, Canada). − Realism and Cultural Layout in Tourism and Video Games Multimedia Systems. Cipolla Ficarra, F. (HCI Lab., ALAIPO and AINCI), Cipolla Ficarra, M. (AINCI and ALFACIS) and Harder, T. (ALAIPO and Contract Design, Japan)

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

Session 2: Cultural and Natural Heritage: Examples Session Chair: Juan M. Silva (University of Ottawa) − Multicultural Videos: An Interactive Online Museum Based On An International Artistic Video Database Mora-Fernández, J. (University of Southern California, USA). − Analyzing e-Governance Mainstays on Municipalities Websites Giulianelli, D., Larrosa, M., Marko, I., Rodríguez, R., Trigueros, A., Vera, P. (National University of La Matanza, Argentina). − Quality of Service (QoS) of Voice over MAC Protocol 802.11 using NS-2 Dileep, K., Yeonseung, R., Hyksoo, J. (Myongji University, South Korea)

12:00-13:30 Lunch

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Demos - Special Session: Communication Visual, Design and Media Arts Invited talk on “The Imaginary 20th Century: Re-Constructing Imagination” Prof. Andreas Kratky, USC Interactive Media Departament (University of Southern California, USA)

15:15-15:45 Coffee Break

Session 3: Conclusions and Future Works: Round Table Session Chairs: Jorge Mora Fernández, PhD (University of Southern California) and Prof. Daniel Giulianelli (National University of La Matanza)

16:45 Final Remarks

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WORKSHOP 8: HUMAN -CENTERED COMPUTING (HCC)

Organizers : Alejandro Jaimes (Telefonica Research), Daniela Nicklas (University of Oldenburg), and Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam)

Friday, October 31, 2008

Location: Cazebo 1

9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk by Prof. Angela Sasse & initial discussion

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 12:30 5 minute presentations (1 hour, all papers below) − Interaction and User Experiences with Multimedia Technologies — Challenges and Future Topics Ansgar Scherp (University of Koblenz-Landau), Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam), Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois), Masashi Inoue (National Institute of Informatics), Andreas Girgensohn (FX Palo Alto Laboratory), Andreas Henrich (University of Bamberg), Philipp Sandhaus (OFFIS e.V.), Sabine Thieme (CeWe Color), Michelle Zhou (IBM Research Center) − Broadcast Yourself on YouTube — Really? Gijs Kruitbosch and Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam) − Evoking Gesture in Interactive Art Ann J. Morrison (Helsinki University of Technology and University of Helsinki), Peta Mitchell (The University of Queensland), and Stephen Viller (The University of Queensland) − Studying Vision-Based Multiple-User Interaction with In-home Large Displays (Page 19) Wei You, Sidney Fels, and Rodger Lea (University of British Columbia) − An Image-Centred "Search and Indexation System" Based in User's Data and Perceived Emotion (Page 27) David Fonseca, Oscar García, Jaume Duran, Marc Pifarré, and Eva Villegas (Universitat Ramon LLull) − Enriched Human-Centered Multimedia Computing through Inspirations from Disabilities and Deficit-Centered Computing Solutions Sethuraman Panchanthan, Narayanan C. Krishnan, Sreekar Krishna, Troy McDaniel, and Vineeth Nallure Balasubramanian (Arizona State University) − Quality-driven Human-centered Approach for Service Provisioning in Ambient Environment M. Anwar Hossain and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa) − Effect of Screen Configuration and Interaction Devices in Shared Display Groupware Andriy Pavlovych and Wolfgang Stuerzlinger (York University) − Architecting Ambient Intelligence Systems Hari Kalva and Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic University) − Presentation Tools for High-Resolution and Multiple Displays Joel Lanir and Kellogg S. Booth (University of British Columbia) − Exploring a Human Centered Approach to Managing Visual Privacy Concerns during Collaboration October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 61

Kirstie Hawkey (University of British Columbia)

Thematic break-out group meetings (1 hour, 3 to 4 groups, each given a scenario and a task)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:30 Thematic break-out group meetings & presentation preparations (same groups as above)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 18:00 Break-out Group presentations (30 minutes) Process break-out groups (1 hour, 3 to 4 groups, asked to “abstract” a process based on the presentations) Final presentations & summary (30 minutes)

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INTERACTIVE ARTS PROGRAM

Exhibition Statement

ACM Multimedia 2008 is the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing. The Interactive Art Program seeks to bring together the arts and multimedia communities to create the stage to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia technology. This year's fifth version of the Interactive Arts Program will consist of an art exhibition at Science World British Columbia and a conference track:

The exhibition will show artworks that explore BorderZones. The zone that uses multimedia to shift, traverse, intersect, and combine genres and modalities to provoke the emergence of new frameworks. The conference track, will include Full/Short Papers describing interactive multimedia artworks, tools, applications, and technical approaches for the creative use of multimedia content and technology, and management of art-related media collections.

Program Chairs Andruid Kerne, Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University, USA Frank Nack, HCS, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ron Wakkary, The School of Interactive Arts + Technology SFU, CA

Curatorial Committee Sara Diamond, President, Ontario College of Art & Design, CA Kevin Kearns, Vice President, Special Projects & Facility Development, Science World British Columbia, CA Dr. Sally Jane Norman, Director of Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK

Interactive Arts Program Overview Sat Nov Mon. Oct 27/08 Tues. Oct 28/08 Wed. Oct 29/08 Thurs. Oct 30/08 Fri. Oct 31/08 1/08

Opening Reception Exhibition Panel Paper Panel ACM Attendees Connecting Artists and A3: A3: A Space Exhibition Time: 6- 8:00PM Scientists in Chair: Ron Wakkary Closes SIAT, SFU Tour Science World Multimedia Research Time: 10:30 – Chair: Ron Wakkary Public Open Time: 9 – 10:00AM 12:30PM Time: 1:30 – 8 - 11:00PM Crystal Pavilion Pacific Rim Suite 1 3:00PM (All Artists should be RVSP present.) Paper Panel ACM Artist Party [email protected] A1: Adaptation Time: 7:00 – Chair: A. Kerne 10:00PM Time: 10:30 – 12:30 PM RVSP Pacific Rim Suite 1 [email protected]

Paper Panel A2: Dancing Chair: Frank Nack Time: 4 – 5:30PM Pacific Rim Suite 1

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Interactive Arts Program Details

Tour The School of Interactive Arts + Technology SFU, Surrey Monday, Oct.27, 2008 Time: 1:30 – 3:00PM Location: The School of Interactive Arts + Technology SFU, Surrey Guide: Ron Wakkary, The School of Interactive Arts + Technology SFU, CA

If you are interested in joining a small group of people for a tour of The School of Interactive Arts + Technology SFU, Surrey, please contact Ron Wakkary, [email protected]

Opening Reception Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008

Time Details 6:00PM - Shuttle Service to Science World Begins - Exhibition Opening Reception Begins

6:30- 7:00PM Speakers Introduction, ACM Chair, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik - Interactive Arts Program, Chair Frank Nack, Ron Wakkary and Andruid Kerne. - Science World, Kevin Kearns - SIAT Director, John Bowes - House Keeping issues

8:00 – 10:00PM - Exhibition Opens to the public - 9:00 - Shuttle service stops back to Canada Place

Connecting Artists and Scientists in Multimedia Research Wednesday Oct. 29, 2008 Time: 9:00AM – 10:00AM Location: Crystal Pavilion Chairs: Andruid Kerne, Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University, USA Frank Nack, HCS, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ron Wakkary, The School of Interactive Arts + Technology SFU, CA Artist: Pamela Jennings, School of Art / HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA Artist: Aleksandra Dulic, Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada Artist: Amanda Steggell, Independent Artist, Oslo, Norway Scientist: Selcuk Candan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, USA Scientist: Alberto Del Bimbo, Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Univ. degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Scientist: Alejandro Jaimes, Telefonica R&D, Spain

The goal of this panel is to bridge the “semantic gap” between disciplines by creating a space in which ACM Multimedia scientists learn from artists, and arts from science. We need to discover new connections between modalities of research. In order to create the most exciting and powerful future forms of interactive multimedia systems, the ones that will create the most beneficial broader impact on humanity, we need to foster new collaborations between artists and scientists. This panel seeks to bridge the great divide of language and communities that has fragmented us, creating a new space for developing connections between the arts and sciences of multimedia research, as embodied through the artists and scientists of ACM Multimedia.

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Artists will be asked: - How can multimedia content analysis, processing, retrieval, networking, applications, and human-centered systems contribute to your art? - How can your art contribute to multimedia research in content analysis, processing, retrieval, networking, applications, and human-centered systems?

Scientists will be asked : - How can conceptual and embodied components of interactive multimedia artworks, creativity support tools, and art- based media collections contribute to your research? - How can your research contribute to interactive multimedia art?

A1: Adaptation, Chair: Andruid Kerne Wednesday Oct. 29, 2008 Time: 10:30 – 12:30 Location: Pacific Rim Suite 1 Jack Stockholm (artfp3241) Eavesdropping: Audience Interaction in Networked Audio Performance Kirsten Johnson (artfp7685) Lost Cause, an interactive film project

A2: Dancing, Chair: Frank Nack Wednesday Oct. 29, 2008 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 Location: Pacific Rim Suite 1 Renata Sheppard (artfp3283) Advancing Interactive Collaborative Mediums through Tele-immersive Dance (TED): a Symbiotic Creativity and Design Environment for Art and Computer Science Martin Naef (artfp0237) Feasibility of the Living Canvas – Restricting Projection to a Performer on Stage

A3: A Space, Chair: Ron Wakkary Thursday Oct. 30, 2008 Time: 10:30 – 12:30 Location: Pacific Rim Suite 1 Tim Pohle (artfp7489) sound/tracks: Real-Time Synaesthetic Sonification and Visualisation of Passing Landscapes Karen Kortbek (artfp7647) Interactive Spatial Multimedia for Communication of Art in the Physical Museum Space

ACM Artist Party Thursday Oct. 30, 2008 Host: Vicki Moulder, ACM Exhibition Co-ordinator Time: 7 - 10:00PM Location: TBA (Will send out invitations closer to the date) RVSP – Vicki Moulder [email protected] This party will be a small (re) union of ACM. It is not uncommon for Artists to experience "post-exhibition blues" and parties like this can help alleviate the feeling of disconnect and foster future multimedia explorations long after the ACM Multimedia Exhibition.

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Directions from Conference to Exhibition Site

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Artist Exhibit Information Listed below are the names of invited artists and a description work. Reference www.mmart.iat.sfu.ca

Title: imposition Artist: John Cayley Providence, USA (CA), with Giles Perring, UK Duration: Installation and Performance Event Tuesday Oct. 28, 2008 Time: 6:00 – 10:00PM

Description: imposition is the networked installation/performance of an evolving collaborative work engaged with ambient, time-based poetics and harmonically organised, language-driven sound.

Title: FWDrift [remix] Artist: Julie Andreyev Vancouver Duration: Performance Event Tuesday Oct. 28, 2008 Time: 6:00 – 10:00PM

Description: FWDrift [remix] is an event that will take place Halloween day concluding with a DJ/VJ performance at the Science World parking lot. The artist will first drive through the city collecting video images from a camera mounted on the car. The video imagery of the city will be manipulated by the interaction of the car and using VJ techniques. Then the captured video footage will be displayed back to a audience on large screens in the SW parking lot I the evening.

Title: sound/tracks Artists: Peter Knees and Tim Pohle, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Duration: Performance Event Tuesday Oct. 28, 2008 Time: 6:00 – 10:00PM

Description: This is a real-time DJ/VJ happening scheduled to take place on the Skytrain. The artists has created a system for translating moving visual impressions (like that capture from a train ride) into a musical composition in real-time - producing an immediate and unique soundtrack to the train journey based on the passing landscape. To this end, the outside impressions are captured with a camera and translated into instantaneously played back piano music.

Title: Emotion Organ Artist: Amanda Steggell, Oslo, Norway Duration: Performance Event Tuesday Oct. 28, 2008 Time: 6:00 – 10:00PM

Description: The Emotion Organ (2007) is an interactive installation, or rather a “synaesthetic simulacrum machine” where players (the public) can explore the sensational interplay of feeling, seeing, hearing, smelling and motion. The organ is a re- engineered pump/parlour organ from 1895 that combines both old and emerging technology. Without electricity it can be played as a conventional musical instrument, but when plugged in the organ produces varying cross-wired combinations and intensities of sound, light, colour, scent, vibration and movement.

Title: Le Salon de Recurrence Artist: Yuri Choi, Daejeon, Korea Duration: Performance Event Tuesday Oct. 28, 2008 Time: 6:00 – 10:00PM

Description: This is a hair salon installation where a person can sit in an old-fashioned hair dryer chair and view a multimedia work that attempts to show a visualization of a fantasy hairstyle. The visual part of the installation works by a person’s simple gestures including eye movement or foot tapping, and the audio is created according to the eye-tracking information to offer multi-modal feedback.

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Title: Ghosts in the machine Artist: The Einstein's Brain Project: Alan Dunning and Paul Woodrow, Calgary, Alberta Duration: Interactive Play Activity Oct. 28 - Nov. 1, 2008

Description: This is an installation where electronic Voice recordings are made by recording controlled static. The work uses the strategies of EVP, voice and pattern recognition, and face tracking to generate voices, and images from apparently closed, silent and empty spaces and systems.

Title: Promoting Social Awareness with Tangibles Artist: Pamela Jennings, Advanced Research Technology Labs, Banff New Media Institute with Paul Cunningham and David Castro Duration: Interactive Play Activity Oct. 28 �C Nov. 1, 2008

Description: The "Constructed Narratives Construction Kit" is a tangible game interface built on the 802.15.4 wireless protocol designed for supporting players social awareness of others who are also engaged in a collaborative building activity. Blocks are placed on a table and people are encouraged to build and play with them.

Title: nite_aura: audio-visual immersive installation Artists: Jinsil Seo and Greg Corness, SIAT, SFU Surrey, CA Duration: Interactive Play Activity Oct. 28 – Nov. 1, 2008

Description: The enchantment of the night sky has inspired flights of imagination and whispered wishes in humans of all ages. nite_aura embodies these memories and experiences allowing for visitors to whisper to the air and play with fields of stars surrounding them in an interactive immersive art piece focusing on sensual and physical interaction with audio and visual aspects. The work investigates the effect of the texture of space, light and sound in providing a comforting, relaxed immersion

Title: super atari poetry Artist: Yucef Merhi, Caracas, Venezuela Duration: Interactive Play Activity Oct. 28 – Nov. 1, 2008

Description : Super Atari Poetry is a multiplayer game installation consisting of 3 Atari 2600 consoles, joysticks, self- manufactured cartridges, and TV monitors. Each cartridge holds a group of verses that are constantly changing colours, which can be manipulated using a joystick. The reading of the 3 verses printed on the screens produces a coherent poem that's always changing its meaning and chromatic structure.

Title: Portage Artist : Geoffrey Shea, Durham Ontario Duration : Interactive Play Activity Oct. 28 – Nov. 1, 2008

Portage was originally a streetscape installation of instruments, experiences and games activated by users with mobile phones. Here we see three of them: a drum machine, a glockenspiel and a networked newspaper box. These whimsical,interactive objects begin to use the seemingly contradictory vocabularies of mobility and location specificity for artistic purposes. Each is a system more than an object or image, and invokes an aesthetic relationship with the viewer. Our always-on, networked reality is leaking off the screen and into the physical world that surrounds us.

These, and the other works in Portage, were created by the artists and researchers in the Mobile Lab at the Ontario College of Art & Design. (www.mobilelab.ca)

Title: in a thousand drops…refracted glances Artists: Aleksandra Dulic: MAGIC, University of British Columbia Kenneth Newby: Visual Arts, University of the Fraser Valley Martin Gotfrit: School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University Duration: Visual Art Installation Oct. 28 – Nov. 1, 2008

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Description: This artwork is a digital mosaic made with 1000 screens or can be projected on a wall to appear if it’s made with 1000 screens. This is a dynamic cinematic environment encompassing multiple screens and audio channels that work to present fragments of the bodies of humans in hybrid relations to themselves. The participants' movement is tracked by a motion sensing system that maps their flows and locations onto a set of generative video animations and musical processes.

Title: Wearable Forest-feeling of belonging to nature Artists: Hiroki Kobayashi, Ryoko Ueoka and, Michitaka Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan Duration: Interactive Play Activity Oct. 28 – Nov. 1, 2008

Description: The Wearable Forest is an installation piece that involves a SW attendant to usher one person on to a stage so that they can wear the "forest garment". The artists claim that this is an attempt at creating a human-wildlife bio-acoustical experience. The person while wearing the garment will hear the forest soundscape as if he/she were actually standing in the forest.

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ACM MULTIMEDIA 2008 ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS

Benjamin Adrian (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany) Mathias Lux (ITEC, Klagenfurt University, Austria) Dewan T. Ahmed (University of Ottawa, Canada) Martin Memmel (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany) Erwin Aitenbichler (Darmstadt University of Kianoosh Moktharian (Simon Fraser Univ., Canada) Technology, Germany) Simon Moncrieff (Curtin University, Australia) Alina Albu (Philips Research, The Netherlands) Christopher Morris (IBM, USA) Majid Bagheri (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Pietro Pala (University of Florence, Italy) Lamberto Ballan (University of Florence, Italy) Neil Patel (Stanford University, USA) Stefano Berretti (University of Florence, Italy) Federico Pernici (University of Florence, Italy) Marco Bertini (University of Florence, Italy) Patrick Peursum (Curtin Univ. of Technology, Australia) Ralf Biedert (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany) Claudio Pinhanez (IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA) David Birchfield (Arizona State University, USA) Daniela Alina Plewe (National University of Singapore, Jens Brandt (IBR, Technische Universität Singapore) Braunschweig, Germany) Mark Podlaseck (IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, USA) Mario Cataldi (U. of Torino, Italy) K. K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs. Research, USA) Bin Cui (Beijing University, China) Matthias Rauterberg (Eindhoven University of Brian DeRenzi (University of Washington, USA) Technology, The Netherlands) Betsy van Dijk (U. Twente, The Netherlands) Dennis Reidsma (U. Twente, The Netherlands) Markus Fauster (ITEC, Klagenfurt University, Austria) Christoph Rensing (KOM, TU Darmstadt, Germany) Pedro Fonseca (Philips Research, The Netherlands) Eleanor Rieffel (FX Palo Alto Lab, USA) Alejandro Garcia-Alonso (University of the Basque Bodo Rosenhahn (MPI Saarbrücken, Germany) Country, Spain) Giuseppe Serra (University of Florence, Italy) Stewart Greenhill (Curtin Univ. of Technology, Klaus Schöffmann (ITEC, Klagenfurt Univ., Austria) Australia) Oliver Schreer (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Lei Guo (Yahoo! Inc., USA) Germany) Gina Haeussge (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Daniel Schreiber (Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Peter Hinterseer (Munich Univ. of Technology, Germany) Germany) Cheng-Hsin Hsu (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Yael Schwartzman (UC Berkeley, USA) Razib Iqbal (University of Ottawa, Canada) Caifeng Shan (Philips Research, The Netherlands) Verena Kahmann (IBR, Technische Universität Shahin Shayandeh (USC, USA) Braunschweig, Germany) Palaiahnakote Shivakumara (National University of Kanav Kahol (Arizona State University, USA) Singapore, Singapore) Kunio Kashino (NTT Communication Science Labs, Anite Sobe (ITEC, Klagenfurt University, Austria) Japan) Tomokazu Takahashi (Gifu Shotoku Gakuen Univ., Japan) Thomas Kieninger (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany) Tele Tan (Curtin University, Australia) Herman Koppelman (U. Twente, The Netherlands) Romain Tavenard (Irisa-Ens, France) Bart Kroon (Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands) Christian Theobalt (Stanford University, USA) Zefir Kurtisi (IBR, Technische Universität Harvey Thornburg (Arizona State University, USA) Braunschweig, Germany) Ying-Li Tian (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Mihai Lazarescu (Curtin University, Australia) Tsvetomira Tsoneva (Philips Research, The Netherlands) Fei Li (George Mason University, USA) Dhaval Vyas (U. Twente, The Netherlands) Marcus Liwicki (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany) October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 70

Hans Weda (Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands) Oliver Wellnitz (IBR, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) Zhen Wen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Peter Westerink (IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, USA) Lexing Xie (IBM, USA) Bas Zoetekouw (Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands) Job Zwiers (U. Twente, The Netherlands)

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KEY NOTE 1

Internet 3.0: The Next Generation Internet

Raj Jain Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis

ABSTRACT Multimedia over Internet has been growing rapidly. However, several design choices that were made 40 years ago are proving to be limiting. For example, the host centric design of the current Internet does not recognize data and end-users as integral entities of the system. The first generation of Internet has been very successful and yet business, organizations, governments are finding it difficult to enforce their policies on their networks with the same ease that they do other methods of communications and transport. Ad-Hoc solutions e.g. firewalls, NAT, middleboxes etc, that try to mitigate these issues end up providing localized myopic fixes which often hurt the basic underlying principles of the original design. We envision the future internet to be a dynamic, heterogeneous, secure, energy efficient ubiquitous network flexible enough to support innovations and policy enforcements both at the edge and the core. This talk is a discussion of the how we would redesign the Internet given the knowledge we have gained in the last 40 years.

BIOGRAPHY Raj Jain is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Dr. Jain is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM. He has served on the Board of Technical Advisors to several companies including Nexabit Networks, Westborough, MA acquired by Lucent Corporation. (March 1997-1999), Amber Networks, Fremont, CA acquired by Nokia (1999-2001). He is the author of ``Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis,’’ which won the 1991 ``Best-Advanced How-to Book, Systems'' award from Computer Press Association. His fourth book entitled "High-Performance TCP/IP: Concepts, Issues, and Solutions," was published by Prentice Hall in November 2003. Based on his active participation in the computer industry, Dr. Jain was awarded 1999 siliconindia Leadership Awards for Excellence and Promise in Business and Technology. He is also a winner of ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time award. For his publications and talks, see http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/

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KEY NOTE 2

Face to Face: communicating appearance, attention and activity across a distance

Prof. David Roberts

Abstract:

Communication technology brings people together across a distance but is presently little substitute for being together. This keynote looks at the balance of communicating appearance, attention and activity through technology, within a framework of social and technical factors. Presently it is hard to communicate together in one medium: what someone looks like, where they are looking and what they are working with. The balance between believability and faithfulness across attention, appearance and activity impacts on the applications in which a technology can be used. Video conferencing faithfully depicts what people look like, but can only communicate eye-gaze by constraining people to seats and does not allow the manipulation of shared artefacts. In contrast, immersive collaborative virtual environments allow people to share the same virtual space through avatar embodiments representing where someone is standing, moving and looking, and allowing intuitive gesturing and shared manipulation of virtual objects, but hiding identity and appearance. Tele-immersion has the potential to combine the best of video and virtual mediums by placing vision based reconstructions of people in a shared virtual context, however, much work is needed before this becomes a generally usable technology. The issue of balance is further complicated when the technology needs to pervade everyday life. While immersive technologies support rich collaboration, pervasive, mobile and embedded technologies do not yet possess many of the important characteristics. Underlying issues of bandwidth and consistency control must be addressed to support multi-modality across the many and various medium streams. The findings of a decade of investigation into these issues by the speaker and his colleagues are summarised in this talk.

BIOGRAPHY

Professor David Roberts (PI) is researching the reproduction of the face-to-face meeting across a distance. This year he has lead an eight partner research project "Eye-catching" which has advanced both immersive collaborative virtual environments and Access Grid Video conferencing to support communicational eye gaze, and lead the design of two collaborative visualisation facilities, one to further research in balancing the communication of appearance, attention, and activity and the other to teach students about the issues. He has previously led the widely published extensive five year study "Gazebo" which investigated supporting closely coupled collaboration between separately immersed people. Currently at the University of Salford in the UK he is Professor in Collaborative Visualisation, Scientific Director of THINKLab, and the Head of the Centre for Virtual Environments Research Group within the IRIS research institute, which scored the maximum rating in the national research assessment exercise. He has contributed to a variety of large international projects in the area of collaborative and populated virtual environments, including cohabited mixed reality spaces, large scale gaming, and large scale simulation of virtual people and their emotions. Roberts directed research at three major visualisation facilities, and has designed four. His sabbatical at GMD IMK Germany in 1999

October 27-31, 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 73 began the immersive dimension to his research. His PhD developed the first hard real time networked virtual environment. Contributions to international conferences include General and previously Program Chair of IEEE ACM Distributed Simulation and Real Time applications DS-RT, member of program committee of many of the leading conferences in the field including IEEE VR and CHI, and a number of key notes and session chairs. He has reviewed articles for seven major journals including Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Journal of Multimedia, and Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, as well as project proposals around the world including in, Canada, Europe and China.

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How can multimedia content analysis, processing, retrieval, networking, applications, and human-centered systems contribute to your art? How can your art contribute to multimedia research in content analysis, processing, retrieval, networking, applications, and human-centered systems?

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How can conceptual and embodied components of interactive multimedia artworks, creativity support tools, and art-based media collections contribute to your research? How can your research contribute to interactive multimedia art?

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[1] Kerne, A., doing interface ecology: the practice of metadisciplinarity, Proc SIGGRAPH 2005, Art and Animation, 181-185.

Organizers

Andruid Kerne is ACM Multimedia 2008 Program Co-Chair (Interactive Art), associate professor of computer science, Texas A&M University, and director, Interface Ecology Lab [http://ecologylab.net]. His research addresses human computer interaction, multimedia, creativity support tools, digital games, and education. National Science Foundation (NSF) awards are from the CAREER, Advanced Learning Technologies, and Human-Centered Computing (IIS) programs. He has published over 60 articles. Art work has been presented in the Guggenheim Museum (New York), New York Digital Salon (New York, Spain, London, Beijing), ISEA (Paris, San Jose), Ars Electronica Center (Linz), Boston Cyber Arts Festival, and Pan-African Theater Festival. Kerne holds a B.A. Harvard, Applied Mathematics / Electronic Media, an M.A. Music / Composition, Wesleyan, and a Ph.D. Computer Science, NYU. He is the PI of the mixed-initiative information composition tool, combinFormation.

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Ron Wakkary is ACM Multimedia 2008 Program Co-Chair (Interactive Art), and Associate Professor, School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. His primary research is in interaction design, with a focus on tangible computing and responsive environment, and the study of "everyday design." Wakkary has led the Am-I-able Network for Responsive and Mobile Environments, a research network in the design of wearable and ambient intelligence computing. He was the co-leader of the Interactivity Theme in the Canadian Design Research Network and is currently a lead researcher in the Team North Solar Decathlon 2009 project and CATGames, a leading Canadian research network in tools for digital games. Wakkary has published over fifty refereed articles and book chapters.

Ron Wakkary

Frank Nack is ACM Multimedia 2008 Program Co-Chair (Interactive Art), and associate professor, Human-Computer Studies Group (HCS), Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam (UvA). The main thrust of his research is on the representation, retrieval and reuse of media in distributed hypermedia systems, systems that enhance human communication and creativity, computational applications of media theory & semiotics, automated video editing, interactive storytelling, and computational humor theory. He has published more than 60 papers on these topics.

Frank Nack

Panel Members

Alberto del Bimbo is ACM Multimedia 2008 Program Co-Chair (Content). At the University of Florence, he is full professor, Computer Engineering, Director, Masters in Multimedia, and Director, Media Integration and Communication Center. His scientific interests are pattern recognition, image databases, human computer interaction and multimedia. He published over 230 publications in scientific journals and international conferences. He is fellow of IAPR and was President of the IAPR Italian Chapter and Member at Large of the IEEE Pubs Board. He was General Chair of IAPR ICIAP’97, IEEE ICMCS’99, and IEEE ISM2008. He is Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Pattern Analysis and Applications, and International Journal of Image and Video Processing, and was Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Multimedia and IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

Alberto del Bimbo

Selcuk Candan is ACM Multimedia 2008 Program Co-Chair (Applications), associate professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, and visiting research scientist, NEC Laboratories. He is associate director of the Arts, Media, and Engineering (AME) program at ASU and as a founding member for the Center for the Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing. He holds a Ph.D., computer science, from University of Maryland. Candan's primary research interest is the area of management of multimedia, web, and scientific data. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and DES/RSA. He has published over 100 articles and many book chapters. He has authored 9 patents.

Selcuk Candan

Aleksandra Dulic is an artist exhibiting in ACM Multimedia 2008 and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre, University of British Columbia. She is an award-winning media artist and theorist working at the intersections of multimedia installation and live performance with research foci in computational poetics and media across cultures. Her work includes animated media performances, interactive computer installations; software tools for interactive animation, and interdisciplinary collaborations with composers and artists in music, dance, theatre, and poetry. She received a Ph.D., School of Interactive Art and Technology, Simon Fraser University in 2006. She is working on a research project entitled, “An intelligent instrument: composition, structure and improvisation in visual music.” She has received research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Aleksandra Dulic

Alejandro Jaimes is ACM Multimedia 2008 Program Co-Chair (Human-Centered Multimedia), and Senior Research Scientist and Manager, Telefonica Research in Madrid, Spain, where he leads the Data Mining and User Modeling research group, focusing on human-centered data mining approaches for personalization, and decision support. Dr. Jaimes is founder of the ACM Multimedia Interactive Arts Program, Human-Centered Computing area chair of IEEE Computer Magazine, and a founding member of the IEEE Computer Society Taskforce on Human-Centered Computing. He is a media artist working in interactive, photo, and video. His art, which has been exhibited internationally, explores cultural differences and similarities. Jaimes received a Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (2003) and M.S., Computer Science (1997) from Columbia University. He has published over 60 articles, and been granted several patents.

Alejandro Jaimes

Pamela Jennings is an artist exhibiting in ACM Multimedia 2008, the Research Manager of the Advanced Research Technology Lab, and Visiting Professor at the Banff New Media Institute. She has exhibited at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; FE Gallery and Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh; Parsons School of Design, New York; MIT List Center for Visual Arts,; 707 Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe; and Studio Museum of Harlem; Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa. She is a MacDowell Artists Colony fellow and has received funding from Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence, National Science Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Jennings received a Ph.D. in Human Centered Systems Design from the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom; M.F.A. Computer Art from School of Visual Arts; M.A. in Studio Art from Intl. Center of Photography and NYU; and B.A., Psychology, Oberlin.

Pamela Jennings

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Amanda Steggell is an independent artist exhibiting in ACM Multimedia 2008. She is, in principle, a choreographer, exploring the body as it engages with media inventions - and the hopes, dreams and fears that occur therein. Fresh out of the National College of Dance in Oslo, in 1996, she co-founded the Motherboard project [www.liveart.org] with Per Platou to explore the materiality of the internet as a mediating, modulating influence in performance, installations, social and sites-specific settings. Through a research scholarship (2003-06), she conducted a practical and theoretical investigation of synaesthetic phenomena as they have appeared in art and science over the centuries, and in relation to contemporary live art practices. The Emotion Organ is the artistic result of this work.

Amanda Steggell

Panel 2: "Multimedia Education — Can we find unity in diversity?"

"... MultiMedia as a field does not get the respect it deserves. In most departments in the country, there are no required courses on MultiMedia and when people try to hire faculty

members, Multimedia is not listed as a field."

Ramesh Jain, UC Irvine, USA [source]

Multimedia education is not in a good state - a situation which is not only critical for students and teachers but for the entire community. For example, how can we expect respect from colleagues working in other fields of computer science and engineering if we don't even have a generally accepted curriculum or share a common terminology? Multimedia is composed of a variety of research areas. This diversity makes it such a special and interesting research field. However, the different vocabularies, methods, and cultures of the involved communities also introduce barriers that make it difficult to teach and also recognize the field as a unified subject. In a related panel at the ACM EMME 2007 workshop at last year's ACM Multimedia, several problems of today's multimedia education and their relevance for the whole multimedia community have been identified and summarized in a position statement [1]. Based on this and the organizers' statement [2], we will discuss with experts from education, research, and industry what the community should do and how we should deal with these problems. Establishing multimedia as a unified, single subject is a challenging task, of course, that raises many questions, including: What is the critical mass that belongs into a multimedia curriculum? What can we do to improve education, e.g. how can ACM SIGMM help to foster a unified and accepted curriculum? How can we be specialists and yet be broad, in other words: How can we find unity in diversity?

The answers to these questions are of high relevance for everyone in the community because the way in which we teach our students (who will be tomorrows researchers and developers) also influences how our field develops in the future and how it is recognized among other disciplines. We encourage everyone to participate, join the discussion, and be inspired!

References

[1] Gerald Friedland, Wolfgang Hürst, Lars Knipping: Multimedia Education in Computer Science: A Little Bit of Everything Is Not Enough, IEEE MultiMedia, Vol.15(2), April-June 2008, pp. 78-82. (Download PDF)

[2] Gerald Friedland, Wolfgang Hürst, Lars Knipping: Multimedia Education - Can we find Unity in Diversity?, to appear in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2008. (Download PDF)

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Gerald Friedland, ICSI, Berkeley (CA), USA Wolfgang Hürst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Lars Knipping, Berlin Inst. of Technology, Germany

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Ramesh Jain has been an active researcher in multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems. While professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego, he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual computing labs. He was also the founding Editor- in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine and Machine Vision and Applications journal and serves on the editorial boards of several magazines in multimedia, business and image and vision processing. He has co-authored more than 250 research papers in well-respected journals and conference proceedings. Among his co-authored and co-edited books include Machine Vision, a textbook used at several universities. Ramesh has been elected Fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR, AAAI, and SPIE.

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Max Mühlhäuser is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. He received his Doctorate in Informatics from the University of Karlsruhe and founded a research center for Digital Equipment. Since 1989, he worked as either a professor or visiting professor at Universities in Germany, Austria, France, Canada, and the US. Max published more than 260 articles, co-authored and edited books about computer-aided authoring/learning, ubiquitous computing, and distributed / multimedia software engineering, and has patents in mCommerce pending. Max is a member of GI, ACM, and IEEE.

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Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Professor, University of Ottawa Research Chair and recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm-Bessel Research Award from Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2007) the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA 2004), and the National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT) New Professorship Incentive Award (2004). He is the director of the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab). He is a Theme co-Leader in the LORNET NSERC Research Network. He is Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (TCIAIG) and Guest Editor for several IEEE Transactions and Journals. Dr. El Saddik has been serving on several technical program committees of numerous IEEE and ACM events. He has been the General Chair and/or Technical Program Chair of more than 18 international conferences on collaborative hapto-audio-visual environments, multimedia communications and instrumentation and measurement. He is leading researcher in haptics, collaborative environments and ambient interactive media and communications. He has authored and co-authored two books and more than 200 publications. He has received research grants Abdulmotaleb El Saddik and contracts totaling more than $10 million and has supervised more than 90 researchers. His research has been selected for the BEST Paper Award three times. Dr. El Saddik is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Professor Trevor Darrell is on the faculty of the Computer Science Division of the University of California, Berkeley, and currently leads the Vision Group at the International Computer Science Institute. His interests include object and activity recognition, person tracking, gesture recognition and perpcetually grounded human-robot interaction. Prof. Darrell is the author of over 100 peer reviewed publications, serves on the IEEE PAMI and AI Journal editorial boards, and is a member of the IEEE and ACM.

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Home Call for Short Papers Call For Papers Short papers should present interesting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready for a regular full- Important Dates length paper. We are looking for interesting and bold papers in all areas of multimedia technology and its application. Submissions are encouraged in areas including multimedia databases, content analysis, media processing, compression, multimedia storage, Organizing Commitee networking, multimedia and hypermedia authoring, multimedia user interfaces and innovative applications. Submissions will be Submission Instructions peer-reviewed by the same reviewers as the regular papers to ensure quality. Accepted short papers will be presented in an interactive poster format at the conference and appear in the ACM DL along with the accepted long papers. Information for Presenters Technical Program Deadline for shot paper submission is June 6, 2008. The page limit is 4. Submission instructions are available here.

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Home Call for Technical Demonstrations Call For Papers For PDF version click here. Important Dates ACM Multimedia 2008 invites you to submit a technical demo. Technical Demos should demonstrate leading edge work in any area Organizing Commitee of multimedia technology and its application.

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Home Call for Doctoral Symposium Call For Papers The Doctoral Symposium is an opportunity for students involved in the preparation of a PhD in any area of Multimedia to Important Dates interactively discuss their research issues and ideas with senior researchers, receive constructive feedback from members of the research community and expose themselves as up and coming multimedia researchers. During the Doctoral Symposium, Selected Organizing Commitee students will present their thesis topic, the work they have performed so far and the results that they have obtained. They will also Submission Instructions reveal the difficulties, problems and questions that they encounter in the continuation of their work and can ask for comments from the audience. Information for Presenters Technical Program Interested students should submit 2-3 page abstracts describing their research using the standard paper submission template for the conference. The abstract should be in Portable Document Format (PDF) and formatted in two-column conference style. Please Arts Program see the ACM proceedings template available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Please email your proposal Workshops abstract to the Doctoral Symposium Co-chairs.

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Home Call for Open Source Software Competition Call For Papers The open-source software competition is a relatively recent and highly successful addition to the ACM Multimedia program. 2008 Important Dates will be our fifth year in running the competition. Organizing Commitee The competition celebrates the invaluable contribution of open source programmers who advance the field by providing the community with implementations of codecs, middleware, frameworks, toolkits, libraries, and other multimedia software. Submission Instructions Information for Presenters To qualify, software must be provided with source code and licensed in such a manner that it can be used free of charge in academic and research settings. For the competition, the software will be built from the sources. Submissions should be made in Technical Program the form of a compressed zip or tar archive file and must include the following: Arts Program A text file named README.txt which summarizes the purpose of the software and its overall design and use. Workshops A text file named INSTALL.txt which includes any and all instructions on building and installing the software and any system MIR 2008 requirements. The judging committee will make a reasonable effort to build any submitted software. However, if we are unable Tutorials to make the software run given a reasonable effort, we must unfortunately exclude it from the competition. Therefore, complete and clear build and install instructions are a crucial component of any submission. Registration Venue Additionally, authors are highly encouraged to provide as much documentation as possible, including examples of how the provided Sponsors software might be used. Entries may be made available to the research community via the ACM Multimedia SIG website and the judging committee may employ feedback from the community at large to help determine the winning entry. In order to encourage News participation, non-winning entries are encouraged to submit again in the future. Student-led efforts are particularly encouraged. Awards Authors of the winning entry will be recognized formally at ACM Multimedia 2007, awarded a prize (to be announced), and invited to demonstrate their software as part of the conference demonstration program. Student Travel Grant

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ACM Multimedia 2008 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices.

ACM Multimedia 2008 will be colocated with ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval ACM MIR 2008, October 30-31, 2008 Vancouver, Canada.

The technical program will consist of plenary sessions and talks with topics of interest in:

(a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval; (b) Multimedia networking and systems support; and (c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications; (d) Human-centered multimedia.

*** Due to large number of requests, the deadline for full paper submission has been extended to April 27, 2008 (Firm) ***

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April 11, 2008 Full Paper Registration (Abstract –Submission) Deadline

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June 27, 2008 Notification of Acceptance

Panels will consist of discussions on timely and controversial topics.

Full Papers will be high-quality original contributions that will be presented in the oral sessions.

Short Papers will be presented in poster format and are an opportunity for researchers to present new work and ideas in an interactive setting.

State-of-the-Art Tutorials lead by experts will precede the technical program. The full- and half-day offerings will span a wide variety of topics.

Brave New Topics is a special session’s track containing papers, which establishes foundational areas and extend the boundaries of multimedia research.

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Technical Demos will include leading edge work in every area of multimedia technology and its application.

Video Demonstrations allow researchers and artists to demonstrate their tool, system or application without having to bring the equipment for a “live” demo.

Workshops on topics of current interest to members of the multimedia research community will follow the technical program.

The Open-source Software Competition is a recent addition to the ACM Multimedia program and 2008 will be our fourth year of running the competition.

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General Co-Chairs Abdulmotaleb EL Saddik (Univ. of Ottawa) Son Vuong (Univ. of British Colombia)

Program Co-Chairs Carsten Griwodz (Univ. of Oslo) Alberto Del Bimbo (Univ. degli Studi di Firenze) K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State Univ.) Alejandro Jaimes (Telefonica R&D, Madrid, Spain)

Short Paper Co-Chairs Gopal S Pingali (IBM, Watson) Changsheng Xu (CAS, China) Shervin Shirmohammadi (Univ. of Ottawa)

Workshop Co-Chairs Max Mühlhäuser (TUD, Germany) Dulce Ponceleon (IBM, Almaden)

Tutorial Chair Roger Zimmerman (NUS, Singapore)

Publicity Co-Chairs Yong Rui (Microsoft, China) Markus Kampmann (Ericsson, Sweden) Jiebo Luo (Kodak Research Lab, USA) Wolfgang Effelsberg (Univ. of Mannheim)

Technical Demo Co-Chairs Pål Halvorsen (Univ. of Oslo) Anup Basu (Univ. of Alberta)

Proceedings Chair Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (Univ. of Texas at Dallas)

Panel Co-Chairs Suzanne Boll (Univ. of Oldenburg) Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood (IBM, Almaden)

Finance Chair Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa)

Doctorial Symposium Co-Chairs Hari Sundaram (Arizona State Univ) Kiyoharu Aizawa (University of Tokyo)

Sponsoring Co-Chairs Panos Nasiopoulos (Univ. of British Columbia) Victor Leung (Univ. of British Columbia)

Brave New Topics Co-Chairs Ling Guan (Ryerson University) Zhengyou Zhang (Microsoft Research)

Travel Grant Co-Chairs Christoph Rensing (HTTC) Shueng-Han Gary Chan (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology)

Interactive Art Program Co-Chairs Frank Nack (Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon) Andruid Kerne (Texas A & M University) Ron Wakarry (Simon Fraser University)

Web Co-Chairs Pradeep K. Atrey (Univ. of Winnipeg) Atif Alamri (Univ. of Ottawa)

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Open Source Competition Co-Chairs Oliver Heckman (Google) Arnd Steinmetz (Fachhochschule Darmstadt)

Registration Chair Rosa Iglesias (Ikerlan Research Centre)

Local Arrangement Chair Charles Buck Krasic (Univ. of British Colombia)

SIG MM Chair Klara Nahrstedt (Univ. of Illinois)

SIG MM Director of Conferences Nevenka Dimitrova (Philips)

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Ajay Divakaran, Sarnoff Corporation Ling-Yu Duan, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jean-Luc Dugelay, Institut EURECOM, France Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia, China Qingming Huang, GU/CAS, China Benoit Huet, Institut Eurecom, France Shuqiang Jiang, ICT/CAS, China John Kender, Columbia University Michael Lew, Leiden University, Netherlands Baoxin Li, Arizona State University Rainer Lienhart, Univ. of Augsburg, Germany Jing Liu, IA/CAS, China Lie Lu, Microsoft Research Asia, China Jiebo Luo, Eastman Kodak Company Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland Bernard Merialdo, Institut Eurecom, France Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong, China Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Raimondo Schettini, Milano-Bicocca University, Italy Xi Shao, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China John Smith, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Qi Tian, Univresity of Texas at San Antonio Remco C. Veltkamp, Utrecht University, Netherlands Jinjun Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc. Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Min Xu, University of Newcastle, Australia Rong Yan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China Yan-Tao Zheng, National University of Singapore Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Guangyu Zhu, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

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Alexander Eichhorn (Simula Research Lab) Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada) David Gotz (IBM Research, USA) Dongyan Xu (Purdue University, USA) Dwight Makaroff (University Of Saskatchewan, Canada) Grenville Armitage (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Jauvane Oliveira (National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil) Jin Li (Microsoft Research) Ketan Mayer-Patel (University of North Carolina, USA) Kevin Almeroth (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Lars Wolf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) Laszlo Böszörmenyi (University Klagenfurt, Austria) Leslie Liu, IBM Research Matthias Hollick (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany) Michael Zink (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Mohamed Hefeeda (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Mojtaba Hosseini (University of Ottawa, Canada) Nabil Sarhan (Wayne State University, USA) Pål Halvorsen (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway) Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA) Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore, USA) Romulus Grigoras (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France) Songqing Chen (George Mason University, USA) Surendar Chandra (University of Notre Dame, USA) Wei Tsang Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Wu-chi Feng (Portland State University) Ye Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

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Andrea Cavallaro (Queen Mary, University of London, England) Antonio Picariello (Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy) Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (UT Dallas, USA) Berna Erol (Ricoh Research Labs, USA) Chitra Dorai (IBM TJ Watson, USA) Christoph Rensing (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) Dick Bulterman (CWI, The Netherlands) Doree Duncan Seligmann (Avaya Labs, USA) Eckehard Steinbach (Munich University of Technology, Germany) Forouzan Golshani (California State University, Long Beach, USA) Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Giridharan Iyengar (IBM TJ Watson, USA) Hari Sundaram (Arizona SU, USA) Ichiro Ide (Nagoya University, Japan) Ichiro Satoh (NII, Japan)

Iglesias Rosa (Ikerlan Technological Research Centre, Spain) Kim-Hui Yap (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Kiyoharu Aizawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Laurent Amsaleg IRISA, France) Lawrence A. Rowe (FXPAL, USA) Lei Chen (HKUST, Hong Kong) Lina Peng (Arizona SU, USA) Lynda Hardman (CWI, The Netherlands) Lynn Wilcox (FXPAL, USA) Maria Luisa Sapino (U.Torino,Italy) Matthew Kyan (Ryerson University, Canada) Mauro Barbieri (Philips Research, Netherlands) Max Mühlhäuser (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) Michael Wagner (Danube University Krems, Austria) Michelle Zhou (IBM TJ Watson, USA) Mohan Kankanhalli (NUS, Singapore) Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padova, Italy) Pablo Cesar (CWI, The Netherlands) Pradeep K. Atrey (University of Winnipeg, Canada) Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (USC, USA) Svetha Venkatesh (Curtin University, Australia) Uma Srinivasan (PHI Systems, Australia) Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA) Wolfgang Klas (Universität Wien, Austria) Xiaohui Gu (North Carolina State University, USA) Zhongfei Zhang (SUNY Binghamton, USA)

Human Centered track

Aisling Kelliher (Arizona State University, USA) Amy Bruckman (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Andreas Dengel (DFKI, Germany) Andreas Kerren (Vaxjo University, Sweeden) Andrew Sears (UMBC, USA) Andruid Kerne (Texas A&M University, USA) Angela Sasse (University College London, UK) Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Antonis Argyros (University of Crete, Greece) Ashish Kapoor (Microsoft Research, USA) Catherine Pelachaud (University of Paris, France) Chabane Djeraba (University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France) Christian Breiteneder (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Christine Lisetti (Florida International University, USA) David Demirdjian (MIT, USA) Erkki Sutinen (University of Joensuu, Finland) Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland) Jian Chen (Brown University, USA) Juan E. Gilbert (Auburn University, USA) Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research, India) Maja Pantic (Imperial College London, UK) Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside, UK) Maribeth Back (FXPAL, USA) Mark Apperley (University of Waikato, New Zealand) Masahi Inoue (National Institute for Informatics, Japan) Matthew Cooper (FXPAL, USA) Matthias Rauterberg (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Mor Naaman (Yahoo!, USA) Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Patrick Schmitz (UC Berkeley, USA) Paulo Barthelmess (Adapx, USA) Rainer Stiefelhagen (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Tapan Parikh (UC Berkeley, USA) Tiziana Catarci (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy) Tom Gross (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany) William J. Clancey (NASA, USA)

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Camera Ready Paper Submission

Please review the preparation and submission instructions for the final version of your MM 2008 paper at: www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/mm1.htm

You will be receiving an email from [email protected] shortly with the submission ID for your final version and a link to submit directly. Kindly adhere to the submission deadline (August 1, 2008), So we ALL can ensure the timely delivery of the proceedings for the conference and co-located workshops.

For those traveling or taking holiday in the near future, please make appropriate plans to format and submit your final version on time, sign and supply the signed form to Sheridan Printing, or be sure to make arrangements with a co-author or associate so your material is received in a timely fashion.

______*** In contrast to previous years, this year the technical program committee of ACM MM will adopt a single blind review process. Therefore, the author names should be provided in the submitted papers. ***

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ACM Multimedia 2008 - Full paper - Systems and Networking Track 10 Apr 27, 2008 23:59 hrs

ACM Multimedia 2008 Full paper - Applications track 10 Apr 27, 2008 23:59 hrs

ACM Multimedia 2008 Full paper - Content track 10 Apr 27, 2008 23:59 hrs

ACM Multimedia 2008 Full paper - Human-Centered track 10 Apr 27, 2008 23:59 hrs

ACM Multimedia 2008 - Interactive Arts Program - Exhibition - May 2, 2008 23:59 hrs

ACM Multimedia 2008 - Interactive Arts Program -Full paper 10 May 2, 2008 23:59 hrs

ACM Multimedia 2008 - Interactive Arts Program -Short paper 4 Jun 6, 2008 23:59 hrs

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ACM Multimedia 2008 Short Paper -Applications track 4 Jun 6, 2008 23:59 hrs

ACM Multimedia 2008 Short Paper -Content track 4 Jun 6, 2008 23:59 hrs

ACM Multimedia 2008 Short Paper -Systems and Networking track 4 Jun 6, 2008 23:59 hrs

ACM Multimedia 2008 Technical Demonstrations 2 Jun 6, 2008 23:59 hrs

ACM Multimedia 2008 Brave New Topics 10 May 30, 2008 23:59 hrs

ACM Multimedia 2008 Video Program - Jun 6, 2008 23:59 hrs

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Poster Presentation The poster boards will be set up about 2 hours prior to the event, so that you can already pin your poster to the provided poster boards. We will provide the pins for this and will also provide tables to place your laptop for the demonstrations. The maximum size of your poster should be 1.20 meters (high) by 1.00 meter (wide).

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Monday Oct. 27 Tutorials day Oceanview 3 Oceanview 4 Cazebo 1 Cazebo 2 Pacific Rim 2 8:00 - 17:00 Registration (Pavillion Foyer) 8:30 - 12:00 T1 T3 T4 T6 T8 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Oceanview suites 5-8) 13:30 - 17:00 T2 T5 T7 T9

Tuesday Oct. 28 1st Conference day Crystal Pavilion Crystal Pavilion Crystal Pavilion Pacific Rim Suite 1 Cazebo 1&2 Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C 8:00 - 17:00 Registration (Pavillion Foyer) 8:45 - 9:00 Opening Remark (Christal Pavilion) 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote (Christal Pavilion) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer) 10:30 - 12:30 Best Papers Session (Christal Pavilion) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Oceanview suites 5-8) Content Track Short Content Track C1: Application Track A1: Systems Track S1: 14:00 - 15:30 TOMCCAP Meeting Papers Session 1: Duplicate Detection Tracing Video Streaming Content Analysis 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer) Content Track Short Content Track C2: Applications Track A2: HCM Track H1: Introduce the exhibition Papers Session 2: 16:00 - 17:30 Semantic Video Watch Application artists to the conference Content Analysis and Annotation Applications 18:30 - 22:00 Conference Reception & Live Arts Exhibition (TELUS World of Science)

Wednesday Oct. 29 2nd Conference day Crystal Pavilion Crystal Pavilion Crystal Pavilion Pacific Rim Suite 1 Cazebo 1&2 Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C 8:00 - 17:00 Registration (Pavillion Foyer) 9:00 - 10:00 Panel: Connecting Artists and Scientists in Multimedia Rese (Christal Pavilion) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer) Content Track C3: 10:30 - 12:30 Image Annotation and Doctoral Symposium Art Track A1: Adaptation Demo Session 1 Tagging 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch & ACM MM Business Meeting (Oceanview suites 5-8) Content Track C4: Video Applications Track A3: HCM Track H2: Systems Track Short 14:00 - 15:30 Search Photo Experience Papers 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer) Content Track C5: Multimedia Content Systems Track S2: Art Track A2: Dancing Applications Track Short 16:00 - 17:30 Brave New Topics Analysis and Beyond 2D With . . . Papers Session 1 Applications 19:00 - 22:00 Conference Banquet (Crystal Pavilion Ballroom)

Thursday Oct. 30 3rd Conference day Crystal Pavilion Crystal Pavilion Crystal Pavilion Pacific Rim Suite 1 Cazebo 1&2 Gazebo 2 Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C 8:00 - 17:00 Registration (Pavillion Foyer) 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote (Christal Pavilion) MIR Conference 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer) Content Track C6: Applications Art Track A3: A 10:30 - 12:30 Demo Session 2 MIR Conference Image Retrieval Track A4: Context Space . . . 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Oceanview suites 5-8) Applications Applications Track Content Track C7: 14:00 - 15:30 Track A5/H3: Video Abstracts Open Source Short Papers MIR Conference Video Analysis Browsing Session 2 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Crystal Pavillion Foyer) Art Track Short 16:00 - 17:30 Panel: Multimedia Education (Christal Pavilion) MIR Conference Papers 19:00 - 22:00 MIR Dinner

Friday Oct. 31 Workshops day Pacific Rim Pacific Rim Oceanview Oceanview 3 Oceanview 4 Oceanview 5 Oceanview 6 Cazebo 1 Gazebo 2 Suite 1 Suite 2 7-8 8:00 - 17:00 Registration (Pavillion Foyer) MIR 9:00 - 10:00 Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Workshop 4 Workshop 5 Workshop 6 Workshop 7 Workshop 8 Conference 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break (Ocienview Foyer) MIR 10:30 - 12:30 Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Workshop 4 Workshop 5 Workshop 6 Workshop 7 Workshop 8 Conference 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Cypress Suite) MIR 14:00 - 15:30 Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Workshop 4 Workshop 5 Workshop 6 Workshop 7 Workshop 8 Conference 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break (Ocienview Foyer) MIR 16:00 - 17:30 Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Workshop 4 Workshop 5 Workshop 6 Workshop 7 Workshop 8 Conference

ACM Multimedia 2008 Arts Program

http://mmart.iat.sfu.ca/ The Call for Exhibitions and Long/Short papers is now closed. We are currently reviewing submissions, some important dates: artist/author notification June 27, 2008 and camera-ready papers due July 20, 2008.

This year's fifth version of the Interactive Arts Program will consist of an art exhibition at Science World British Columbia, and a conference track. The exhibition will explore the theme of “BorderZones”. Artworks exhibited will use multimedia to shift, traverse, intersect, and combine genres and modalities to provoke the emergence of new frameworks.

The conference track will include long/short papers describing interactive multimedia artworks, tools, applications, and technical approaches for the creative use of multimedia content and technology, and management of art-related media collections. If you have questions, please contact the Vicki Moulder, Arts Program Coordinator [email protected] Program Chairs Andruid Kerne, Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University, USA Frank Nack, HCS, University of Amsterdam, NL Ron Wakkary, The School of Interactive Arts + Technology SFU, CA

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http://mmart.iat.sfu.ca/

The Call for Exhibitions and Long/Short papers is now closed. We are currently reviewing submissions, some important dates: artist/author notification June 27, 2008 and camera-ready papers due July 20, 2008.

If you have questions, please contact the Vicki Moulder, Arts Program Coordinator [email protected]

Program Chairs

Andruid Kerne, Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University, USA Frank Nack, HCS, University of Amsterdam, NL Ron Wakkary, The School of Interactive Arts + Technology SFU, CA

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Workshops

The following workshops will be held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008:

Workshop 1: Vision Networks for Behavior Analysis (VNBA)

Workshop 2: Semantic Ambient Media Experiences (SAME)

Workshop 3: TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop (TVS)

Workshop 4: Story Representation, Mechanism and Context (SRMC)

Workshop 5: Analysis and Retrieval of Events/Actions and Workflows in Video Streams (AREA)

Workshop 6: The Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics (MS)

Workshop 7: Communicability Design and Evaluation in Cultural and Ecological Multimedia Systems (Communicability MS)

Workshop 8: Human-Centered Computing (HCC).

1. Vision Networks for Behaviour Analysis (VNBA 2008) - Oct 31, 2008

Organizers: Hamid Aghajan (Stanford University, USA) and Andrea Prati (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

This workshop marks a new era of the successful series of the Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN) workshops, held until 2006 in conjunction with ACM Multimedia conference (Berkeley 2003, New York 2004, Singapore 2005, and Santa Barbara, 2006). This new version of the workshop inherits from VSSN the experienced Technical Program Committee as well as the interests of its community, but shifts the focus to cover higher level topics and applications under the common framework of “behaviour analysis”, hence aiming to adapt to the evolved directions of interest in the field, and reaching out to other research communities with overlapping interests.

2. Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2008) - Oct 31, 2008

The workshop focuses on semantic ambient media, especially multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications. Its strong human-centered focuses due to the orientation to consumer experience combines multimedia technology, consumer focus, and intelligent media systems and fits well with the topics of interest of ACM MM. The viewpoint of the workshop is multidisciplinary and shall attract researchers from the field of ambient multimedia, human centered computing, and content creators.

3. TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop (TVS 2008) - Oct 31, 2008

Organizers: Paul Over (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA) and Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Ireland USA)

TVS 2008 is a workshop devoted to the evaluation of automatic video summarization systems run on rushes from several BBC dramatic series. It is being carried out under the auspices of TRECVid as a follow-up to the video summarization workshop held at ACM Multimedia '07. 31 research teams submitted video summaries of 40 individual rushes video files, aiming to compress out redundant and unsignificant material to at most 2% of the original's duration. The output of a baseline system, which simply presented each full video at 50 times normal speed was contributed by Carnegie Mellon University as a control. Each summary was judged by 3 humans with respect to how much of the important content of the original video was included and how well-formed the summary was. At the workshop several participants will present their research for discussion. All interested parties are invited to attend, listen, and join in the discussion.

4. Story Representation, Mechanism and Context (SRMC 2008) - Oct 31, 2008

Organizers: Kevin Brooks (Motorola Labs, USA), Aisling Kelliher (Arizona State University, USA) and Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam, NL)

5. Analysis and Retrieval of Events/Actions and Workflows in Video Streams (AREA 2008) - Oct 31, 2008

This workshop seeks original high innovative research in the area of self configurable cognitive video supervision in several domains. In particular the file:///C|/...ettings/hsu.cheng-hsin/Desktop/acmmm08/index2.php-option=com_content&task=view&id=25&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=32.htm[1/28/2010 9:13:44 AM] ACM Multimedia 2008 - Workshops

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