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Thursday, July 13, 2006:

 

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8:45AM

9:00AM

 

John R. Smith, Yong Rui

Welcome

9:00AM

10:30AM

Oral

Mike Christel, CMU              

“Interactive Image and Video Retrieval”

 

"Interactive Experiments in Object-Based Retrieval"

Sorin Sav, Gareth Jones, Hyowon Lee, Noel O'Connor, Alan Smeaton (Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University, IE)

"Learned Lexicon-driven Interactive Video Retrieval"

Cees Snoek, Marcel Worring, Dennis Koelma, Arnold Smeulders (University of Amsterdam, NL)

"Mining Novice User Activity with TRECVID Interactive Retrieval Tasks"

Michael Christel, Ronald Conescu (Carnegie Mellon University, US)

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10:45AM

12:15PM

Oral

Stefan Ruger, Imperial College London

“Semantic Image Retrieval”

 

"A Linear-Algebraic Technique with an Application in Semantic Image Retrieval"

Jonathon Hare, Paul Lewis (University of Southampton, UK); Peter Enser, Christine Sandom (University of Brighton, UK)

"Logistic Regression of Generic Codebooks for Semantic Image Retrieval"

Joao Magalhaes, Stefan Rüger (Imperial College London, UK)

"Query by Semantic Example"

Nikhil Rasiwasia, Nuno Vasconcelos (University of California, San Diego, US); Pedro Moreno (Google, Inc., US)

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12:15PM

12:45PM

Boaster

Apostol Natsev, IBM Research

Boaster Session for Poster Session #1

12:45PM

2:30PM

Poster

Apostol Natsev, IBM Research

Poster Session #1

 

"A Novel Framework for Robust Annotation and Retrieval in Video Sequences"

Arasanathan Anjulan, Nishan Canagarajah (University of Bristol, UK)

"Feature Re-weighting in Content-Based Image Retrieval"

Gita Das (Monash University, AU)

"Objectionable Image Detection by ASSOM Competition"

Gregoire Lefebvre (France Telecom R&D, FR); Huicheng Zheng (Trinity College, IE); Christophe Laurent (France Telecom, FR)

"Image Searching and Browsing by Active Aspect-based Relevance Learning" 

Mark Huiskes (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, NL)

"Finding Faces in Gray Scale Images Using Locally Linear Embeddings"

Samuel Kadoury, Martin Levine (McGill University, CA)

"ROI-based Medical Image Retrieval using Human-perception and MPEG-7 Visual Descriptors"

 Seo MiSuk, Ko ByoungChul, Jung Hong, Nam JaeYeal (University of Keimyung, KR)

"Hierarchical Hidden Markov Model for Rushes Structuring and Indexing"

Chong-Wah Ngo, Zailiang Pan, Xiaoyong Wei (City University of Hong Kong, HK)

"Retrieving Objects using Local Integral Invariants"

Alaa Halawani (University of Freiburg, DE); Hashem Tamimi (University of Tuebingen, DE)

"Retrieving Shapes Efficiently by a Qualitative Shape Descriptor: The Scope Histogram"

 Arne Schuldt, Björn Gottfried, Otthein Herzog (University of Bremen, DE)

"Relay Boost Fusion for Learning Rare Concepts in Multimedia"

Dong Wang, Jianmin Li, Bo Zhang (Tsinghua University, CN)

"Comparison between Motion Verbs using Similarity Measure for Semantic Representation of Moving Object"

Miyoung Cho, Dan Song, Chang Choi, Junho Choi, JongAn Park, Pankoo Kim  (Chosun Univ., KR)

"Coarse-to-Fine Classification for Image-based Face Detection"

 Han Jin Ryu (Korea University, KR)

"Using Topic Concepts For Semantic Video Shots Classification"

Stephane Ayache, George Quenot (CLIPS/IMAG Laboratory, FR); Jerome Gensel (Université Joseph Fourier, FR); Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, JP)

"A Multi-Feature Optimization Approach to Object-Based Image Classification"

Qianni Zhang, Ebroul Izquierdo (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

"Eliciting Perceptual Ground Truth for Image Segmentation"

Victoria Hodge, Garry Hollier, John Eakins, Jim Austin (University of York, UK)

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2:30PM

3:30PM

Keynote

Hari Sundaram, Arizona State

“Exploratory Search Interfaces to Support Image Discovery,” Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, Founding Director, Human Computer Interaction Laboratory

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3:30PM

5:00PM

Oral

Marcel Worring,University of Amsterdam

“Visual Feature Analysis”

 

"Corner Detectors for Affine Invariant Salient Regions: Is Color Important?"

Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam, NL)

"Keyframe Retrieval by Keypoints: Can Point to Point Matching Help?"

Wanlei Zhao, Yu-Gang Jiang, Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong, HK)

"Local Feature Trajectories for Efficient Event-Based Indexing of Video Sequences"

Nicolas Moënne-Loccoz, Eric Bruno, Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva, CH)

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5:15PM

6:30PM

Panel

John Kender, Columbia University

“Imagery vocabulary, computer vision and machine learning for semantics and performance measures”

 

Friday, July 14, 2006:

 

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9:00AM

10:30AM

Oral

Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore

Learning and Classification

 

"A Cascade of Unsupervised and Supervised Neural Networks for Natural Image Classification"

Julien Ros, Christophe Laurent, Gregoire Lefebvre (France Telecom R&D, FR)

"Bayesian Learning of Hierarchical Multinomial Mixture Models of Concepts for Automatic Image Annotation"

Rui Shi, Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, SG); Chin-Hui Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Sheng Gao (Institute for Infocomm Research, SG)

"Efficient Margin-based Rank Learning Algorithms for Information Retrieval"

Rong Yan, Alexander Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University, US)

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10:45AM

12:15PM

Oral

Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University

Image and Video Retrieval Metrics

 

"Leveraging Active Learning for Relevance Feedback using an Information Theoretic Diversity Measure"

Charlie Dagli, Shyamsundar Rajaram, Thomas Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)

"Video Clip Matching using MPEG-7 descriptors and Edit Distance"

Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Walter Nunziati (Università di Firenze, IT)

"Video Retrieval using High Level Features: Exploiting Query Matching and Confidence-basedWeighting"

Shi-Yong Neo, Jin Zhao, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, SG)

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12:15PM

12:45PM

Boaster

Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University

Boaster Session for ASU Poster Session

12:45PM

2:30PM

Poster

Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University

ASU Poster Session

 

"Estimating The Physical Effort of Human Poses"

Yinpeng Chen, Hari Sundaram, Jodi James (Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University)

"Context-Aware Media Retrieval"

Ankur Mani, Hari Sundaram (Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University)

"Modular Design of Media Retrieval Workflows using ARIA"

Lina Peng, Gisik Kwon1, Yinpeng Chen, K. Sel¸cuk Candan, Hari Sundaram, Karamvir Chatha (Arizona State University); Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Torino, Italy)

"Image Rectification for Stereoscopic Visualization without 3D Glasses"

Jin Zhou, Baoxin Li (Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Arizona State University)

"Human Movement Analysis for Interactive Dance"

Gang Qian, Jodi James, Todd Ingalls, Thanassis Rikakis, Stjepan Rajko, Yi Wang, Daniel Whiteley, Feng Guo (Arizona State University)

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2:30PM

3:30PM

Invited Talk

John R. Smith, IBM Research

“Embrace and Tame the Digital Content,” Gulrukh Ahanger

Tuner Broadcasting Systems

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3:30PM

4:00PM

Boaster

Nice Sebe, University of Amsterdam

Boaster Session for Demo Session

4:00PM

5:30PM

Demo

Nice Sebe, University of Amsterdam

Demo Session

 

"VideoSOM: A SOM-based Interface for Video Browsing"

Thomas B¨arecke, Ewa Kijak (LIP6, Universit´e Pierre et Marie Curie), Andreas N¨urnberger (IWS, Otto-von-Guericke Universit¨at), Marcin Detyniecki (LIP6, Universit´e Pierre et Marie Curie)

"iBase: Navigating Digital Library Collections"

Paul Browne1, Stefan Rüger(Imperial College London), Li-Qun Xu (BT Research), Daniel Heesch (Imperial College London)

"Exploring The Dynamics of Visual Events In The Multi-Dimensional Semantic Concept Space"

Shahram Ebadollahi, Lexing Xie, Andres Abreu, Mark Podlaseck, Shih-Fu Chang, John R. Smith (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

"Exploring the Synergy of Humans and Machines in Extreme Video Retrieval"

Alexander G. Hauptmann, Wei-Hao Lin, Rong Yan, Jun Yang, Robert V. Baron, Ming-Yu Chen, Sean Gilroy, Michael D. Gordon (Carnegie Mellon University)

"Efficient Summarizing of Multimedia Archives using Cluster Labeling"

Jelena Tesic, John R. Smith (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

"Collaborative Concept Tagging for Images Based on Ontological Thinking"

Alireza Kashian, Prof. Robert Kheng Leng Gay, Abdul Halim Abdul Karim (Nanyang Technological University)

"Multimodal Search for Effective Video Retrieval"

Apostol (Paul) Natsev (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

"MediAssist: Using Content-Based Analysis and Context to Manage Personal Photo Collections"

Neil O’Hare, Hyowon Lee, Saman Cooray, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J.F. Jones, Jovanka Malobabic, Noel E. O’Connor, Alan F. Smeaton, Bartlomiej Uscilowski (Dublin City University)

"Mediamill: advanced browsing in news video archives"

 Marcel Worring, Cees Snoek, Ork de Rooij Giang Nguyen, Richard van Balen, Dennis Koelma (University of Amsterdam)

"A large scale system for searching and browsing images from the World Wide Web"

Alexei Yavlinsky, Daniel Heesch, Stefan R¨uger (Imperial College London)

                                   

Saturday, July 15, 2006:

 

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9:00AM

10:00AM

Invited Talk