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ICMR 2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval ICMR 2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval The First ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), puts together Home the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR. It is the ideal forum to Call for Papers present and encounter the most recent developments and applications in the area of multimedia content retrieval. Originally set up to illuminate the state-of-the-art in image and Technical Program video retrieval, ICMR aims at becoming the world reference event in this exciting field of Practitioner Day research, where researchers and practitioners can exchange knowledge and ideas. Keynotes Special Sessions Tutorials HIGHLIGHTS Organizing Committee Paper Submission Technical Program Demo Session Practitioner Day Welcome Reception & Social dinner Registration Venue and Directions Welcome and Social Dinner Hotel Information About Trento Contacts Sponsors www.acmICMR.org ICMR2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval http://www.icmr2011.org/[25/11/2011 5:23:28 PM] ICMR 2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval The First ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), puts together Home the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR. It is the ideal forum to Call for Papers present and encounter the most recent developments and applications in the area of multimedia content retrieval. Originally set up to illuminate the state-of-the-art in image and Technical Program video retrieval, ICMR aims at becoming the world reference event in this exciting field of Practitioner Day research, where researchers and practitioners can exchange knowledge and ideas. Keynotes Special Sessions Tutorials HIGHLIGHTS Organizing Committee Paper Submission Technical Program Demo Session Practitioner Day Welcome Reception & Social dinner Registration Venue and Directions Welcome and Social Dinner Hotel Information About Trento Contacts Sponsors www.acmICMR.org ICMR2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval http://www.icmr2011.org/index.php[25/11/2011 5:23:35 PM] ICMR 2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval CALL FOR PAPERS Home Call for Papers Technical Program Download the Call for Papers Practitioner Day ICMR 2011 is seeking original high quality submissions addressing innovative research in Keynotes the broad field of multimedia retrieval. We wish to highlight significant contributions Special Sessions addressing the main problem of search and retrieval but also the related and equally important issues of multimedia content management, user interaction, and community- Tutorials based management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Organizing Committee Paper Submission Content- and context-based indexing, search and retrieval of images and video Multimedia content search and browsing on the Web Demo Session Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio, image, video and 3D data Registration Multimedia content analysis and understanding Venue and Directions Semantic retrieval of visual contents Learning and relevance feedback in media retrieval Welcome and Social Query models, paradigms, and languages for multimedia retrieval Dinner Multimodal media search Hotel Information Human perception based multimedia retrieval About Trento Studies of information-seeking behaviour among image/video users Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for image/video retrieval Contacts HCI issues in multimedia retrieval Sponsors Evaluation of multimedia retrieval systems High performance multimedia indexing algorithms Database architectures for multimedia retrieval Novel multimedia data management systems and applications Community-based multimedia content management Retrieval from multimodal lifelogs Interaction with medical image databases Satellite imagery analysis/retrieval www.acmICMR.org Image/video summarization and visualization IMPORTANT DATES October 15, 2010 : Special Session and Tutorials Proposals November 5, 2010 : Special Session and Tutorials Selection December 15, 2010 : Paper Submission February 23, 2011 : Notification of acceptance March 4, 2011 : Submission of camera-ready papers http://www.icmr2011.org/call.php[25/11/2011 5:23:40 PM] ICMR 2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval ICMR2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval http://www.icmr2011.org/call.php[25/11/2011 5:23:40 PM] ICMR 2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval Home TECHNICAL PROGRAM Call for Papers Technical Program Program at a glance Practitioner Day Keynotes Special Sessions Tutorials Organizing Committee Paper Submission Demo Session Registration Venue and Directions Welcome and Social Dinner Hotel Information About Trento Contacts Sponsors www.acmICMR.org Detailed Program http://www.icmr2011.org/program.php[25/11/2011 5:23:47 PM] ICMR 2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval Session 1: Social media retrieval Social Negative Bootstrapping for Visual Categorization 40 X. Li, C. Snoek, M. Worring, A. Smeulders Social Media Driven Image Retrieval 95 A. Popescu, G. Grefenstette ShotTagger: Tag Location for Internet Videos 101 L. Guangda, M. Wang , Y-T. Zheng Active Learning through Notes Data in Flickr: An Effortless Training Data Acquisition Approach for 123 Object Localization Z. Lei, J. Ma, C. Cui Session 2: Image analysis and categorization Exploiting Photographic Style for Category-Level Image Classification by Generalizing the Spatial 50 Pyramid J. Van Gemert Person-specific Age Estimation under Ranking Framework 102 Y. Ma, T. Xiong, Y. Zou, K. Wang Saliency Moments for Image Categorization 104 M. Redi, B. Merialdo 3D Model Retrieval using Accurate Pose Estimation and View-based Similarity 106 A. Axenopoulos, G. Litos, P. Daras Session 3: Large-scale retrieval Learning Reconfigurable Hashing for Diverse Semantics 24 Y. Mu, X. Chen, T-S. Chua, S. Yan Lost in Binarization: Query-Adaptive Ranking for Similar Image Search with Compact Codes 59 Y-G. Jiang, J. Wang, S-F. Chang A Kernel Density Based Approach for Large Scale Image Retrieval 88 W. Tong, F. Li, R. Jin, A. Jain Pairwise Weak Geometric Consistency for Large Scale Image Search 110 H. Xie, K. Gao, Y. Zhang, J. Li, Y. Liu Large scale visual-based event matching 153 M.R. Trad, A. Joly, N. Boujemaa Session 4: Special session - Automatic Tagging and Geo-Tagging in Video Collections and Communities Automatic Tagging and Geotagging in Video Collections and Communities 146 M. Larson, M. Soleymani, P. Serdyukov, S. Rudinac, C. Wartena, V. Murdock, G. Friedland, R. Ordelman, G.J.F.Jones Multi-modal, Multi-resource Methods for Placing Flickr Videos on the Map 152 S. Schmiedeke, P. Kelm, T. Sikora Finding Media Illustrating Events 169 R. Troncy, X. Liu, B. Huet Session 5: Information fusion Consumer Video Understanding: A Benchmark Database and An Evaluation of Human and Machine 89 Performance Y-G. Jiang, G. Ye, S-F. Chang, D. Ellis, A. Loui Accurate Video Content-Based Copy Detection with Efficient Feature Indexing 68 Y. Uchida, M. Agrawal, S. Sakazawa Semantic Combination of Textual and Visual Information in Multimedia Retrieval 117 S. Clinchant, G. Csurka, J. Ah-Pine Fusing Heterogeneous Modalities for Video and Image Re-ranking 56 H.K. Tan, C-W. Ngo Session 6: Object retrieval Synthetically trained multi-view object class and viewpoint detection for advanced image retrieval 18 J. Schels, J. Liebelt, K. Schertler, R. Lienhart Biometric Animal Databases from Field Photographs: Identification of Individual Zebra in the Wild 22 M. Lahiri, C. Tantipathananandh, R. Warungu, D. Rubenstein, T. Berger-Wolf Attribute-based Vehicle Search in Crowded Surveillance Videos 63 R. Feris, B. Siddiquie, Y. Zhai, J. Petterson, L. Brown, S. Pankanti Scalable Logo Recognition in Real-world Images 77 S. Romberg, L. Garcia Pueyo, R. Lienhart, R. van Zwol Session 7: Interaction aspects Exploration of Surveillance Video using Interactive Schematic Summaries 29 http://www.icmr2011.org/program.php[25/11/2011 5:23:47 PM] ICMR 2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval M. Höferlin, B. Höferlin, D. Weiskopf, G. Heidemann Learning Crop Regions for Content-Aware Generation of Thumbnail Images 91 L. Kennedy, R. van Zwol, N. Torzec, B. Tseng Adaptive Clustering and Interactive Visualizations to Support the Selection of Video Clips 96 A. Girgensohn, F. Shipman, L. Wilcox Locally Regressive G-Optimal Design for Image Retrieval 177 Z-J. Zha, Y-T. Zheng, M. Wang , F. Chang, T-S. Chua Poster Session 1 MuMIe: A New System for Multimedia Metadata Interoperability 10 S. Amir, Y. Benabbas, I. M. Bilasco, C. Djeraba A color-action perceptual approach to the classification of animated movies 34 B. Ionescu, C. Vertan, P. Lambert, A. Benoit Exploiting Contextual Spaces for Image Re-Ranking and Rank Aggregation 41 D. Pedronette, R. Torres Interpretable Visual Models for Human Perception-Based Object Retrieval 72 A. Rebai, A. Joly, N. Boujemaa A Comprehensive Neural-Based Approach for Text Recognition in Videos using Natural Language 74 Processing K. Elagouni, C. Garcia, P. Sébillot STELA: Sketch-Based 3D Model Retrieval using a Structure-Based Local Approach 86 J. Saavedra, B. Bustos, M. Scherer, T. Schreck Folksonomy-boosted Social Media Search and Ranking 87 M. Rawashdeh, H-N. Kim, A. El Saddik Large-Scale EMM Identification Based on Geometry- Constrained Visual Word Correspondence 97 Voting X. Yang, Q. Liu, C. Liao, T. Cheng, A. Girgensohn Botanical Data Retrieval System Supporting Discovery Learning 100
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