Workshop 10 - 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval


Program


Monday, 15 September
14:00-15:00
Opening Session
Andreas Nürnberger, Marcin Detyniecki: Welcome
Gareth J. F. Jones (Ireland): Adaptive Systems for Multimedia Information Retrieval (Invited Talk)
15:00-16:00
Retrieval Systems
Eric Schwarzkopf, Anthony Jameson (Germany): Personalized Support for Interaction With Scientific Information Portals
Alan Haggerty, Ryen W. White,Joemon M. Jose (UK): NewsFlash: Adaptive TV News Delivery on the Web
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:30
Text and Ontologies
Ana García-Serrano, Alberto Ruiz, Paloma Martínez, José Luis Martínez, Francisco Bueno (Spain): Initial Experiences with Automatic Keyword Extraction in the OmniPaper Project
Ching Kang Cheng, Xiaoshan Pan, Franz Kurfess (USA): Ontology-based Semantic Classification of Unstructured Documents
Thomas Bittner, Barry Smith (Germany/USA): Directly Depicting Granular Ontologies
Andreas Nürnberger (Germany): User Adaptive Categorization of Document Collections
19:00
Welcome Reception

Tuesday, 16 September
14:00-16:00
Image Sequences: Feature Extraction from Video
Paraskevi Tzouveli, Giorgos Andreou, Gabriel Tsechpenakis, Yiannis Avrithis, Stefanos Kollias (Greece): Intelligent Visual Descriptor Extraction from Video Sequences
Thomas Foures, Philippe Joly (France): Defining Search Areas to Localize Limbs in Body Motion Analysis
M. A. Anwar, J. F. Baldwin, Trevor Martin (UK): Learning Fuzzy Rules for Visual Speech Recognition
Marcin Detyniecki (France): Adaptive Discovery of Indexing Rules for Video
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:15
Image and Sound
Andreas D. Lattner, Andrea Miene, Otthein Herzog (Germany): Combination of Machine Learning and Image Processing Technologies for the Classification of Image Regions
Kyoung-Mi Lee (Korea): Neural network-generated image retrieval and refinement
Sung-Phil Heo, Motoyuki Suzuki, Akinori Ito, Shozo Makino, Hyunyeol Chung (Japan): Multiple Pitch Candidate based Music Information Retrieval Method for Query-by-Humming
19:00
Open Meeting of the Participants (Location to be announced)


Description

During the last years several approaches have been developed that tackle specific problems of the retrieval process, e.g. feature extraction methods for multimedia data, problem specific similarity measures and interactive user interfaces. These methods enable the design of efficient retrieval tools if the user is able to provide an appropriate query. However, in most cases the user needs several steps in order to find the searched objects. The main reasons for this are on the one hand, the problem of users to specify their interests in the form of a well defined query (which is partially caused by inappropriate user interfaces), on the other hand, the problem of extracting relevant features from the (multimedia) objects. Furthermore, user specific interests and search context are usually neglected when objects are retrieved.

To improve today’s retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction of a user, it is necessary to develop methods that are able to support the user in the search process, e.g. by providing additional information about the search results as well as the data collection itself and also by adapting the retrieval tool to the user’s needs and interests.

The goals of the workshop are to intensify the exchange of ideas between different research communities to enable the design of improved user adaptive retrieval tools. The workshop focuses especially on researchers that are working on feature extraction techniques for multimedia, computer linguistic approaches, (dynamic) data analysis methods, and visualization methods as well as user interface design. Therefore, contributions to the workshop should focus on, but are not limited to:

Important Dates

May 24, 2003 Deadline for paper submission
June 10, 2003 Notification of acceptance
July 31, 2003 Deadline for submission of camera ready copy

Submissions

Submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (for details see the Springer LNCS web-pages). Papers should have about 10 pages but should not exceed 15 pages and should be submitted electronically in PDF or postscript format to the organizers of the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

Additional Information

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~anuernb/amr2003/

For all enquiries regarding the workshop please contact the workshop organizers:

Andreas Nürnberger
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Marcin Detyniecki
CNRS, Laboratoire d'Informatique Paris 6, France