Conference Program
Wednesday, 6 December 2006
09:30 - 11:00 LSAS SEMPS Tutorial 1
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break — Room: Lobby
11:30 - 13:00 LSAS SEMPS Tutorial 1
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch — Room: Aspasia
14:00 - 15:30 LSAS SEMPS Tutorial 2 Tutorial 3
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break — Room: Lobby
16:00 - 17:30 LSAS SEMPS Tutorial 2 Tutorial 3
09:00 - 11:00 Industry Day
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 13:00 Industry Day
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:30 Industry Day
19:30 - 22:00 Cocktail Reception — Room: Lobby
19:30 - 22:00 Poster & Demo Session 1 — Room: Aristotelis A&B
Thursday, 7 December 2006
Room: Erechthion
08:30 - 09:15
Registration
09:15 - 09:30
Welcome
09:30 - 10:15
Invited keynote talk — Alan Smeaton
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break — Room: Lobby
10:45 - 12:25
Oral Session 1: Semantic Multimedia Indexing
  • Image Clustering Using Multimodal Keywords
    Rajeev Agrawal, Kettering University, USA
    William Grosky, Wayne State University, USA
    Farshad Fotouhi, The University of Michigan - Dearborn, USA
  • Personal Semantic Indexation of Images using Textual Annotations
    Gregory Smits, Michel Plu, Pascal Bellec
    France Telecom, France
  • Image Classification using an Ant Colony Optimization approach
    Tomas Piatrik, Ebroul Izquierdo
    Queen Mary University of London, UK
  • Extraction of Motion Activity from Scalable-coded Video Sequences
    Luis Herranz, Fabricio Tiburzi, Jesús Bescós
    Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
12:25 - 13:45 Lunch — Room: Aspasia
13:45 - 14:30
Invited keynote talk — Guus Schreiber
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee Break — Room: Lobby
14:45 - 16:00
Oral Session 2: Multimedia Semantics
  • A Scalable Framework for Multimedia Knowledge Management
    Yves Raimond, Samer Abdallah, Mark Sandler, Mounia Lalmas
    Queen Mary University of Lodnon, UK
  • Enabling Multimedia Metadata Interoperability by Defining Formal Semantics of MPEG-7 Profiles
    Raphael Troncy, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Werner Bailer, Michael Hausenblas, Philip Hofmair, Rudolf Schlatte
    Joanneum Research, Austria
  • Trend Detection in Folksonomies
    Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
     Robert Jäschke, Research Center L3S, Germany
    Christoph Schmitz, University of Kassel, Germany
    Gerd Stumme, Research Center L3S, Germany
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break — Room: Lobby
16:30 - 17:45
Oral Session 3: Semantic Multimedia Access and Retrieval
  • A Bayesian Network Approach to Multi-feature Based Image Retrieval
    Qianni Zhang, Ebroul Izquierdo
    Queen Mary University of London, UK
  • Automated speech and audio analysis for semantic access to multimedia
    Franciska de Jong, TNO-ICT, Delft, The Netherlands
    Roeland Ordelman, Marijn Huijbregts
    University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • An engine for content-aware on-line video adaptation
    Luis Herranz, Fabricio Tiburzi, Jesús Bescós
    Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
20:30 - 23:30
Conference Dinner
Friday, 8 December 2006
Room: Erechthion
09:15 - 09:30
Awards
09:30 - 10:15
Invited talk — Roberto Cencioni
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break — Room: Lobby
10:45 - 12:25
  • Use of Image Regions in Context-Adaptive Image Classification
    Ville Viitaniemi, Jorma Laaksonen
    Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
  • BPT Enhancement Based on Syntactic and Semantic Criteria
    Christian Ferran, Xavier Giro, Ferran Marques, Josep Ramon Casas
    Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
  • Semantic image analysis using a learning approach and spatial context
    Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
    Vasileios Mezaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
    Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
    Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
  • A Context-based Region Labeling Approach for Semantic Image Segmentation
    Thanos Athanasiadis, Phivos Mylonas, Yannis Avrithis
    National Technical University of Athens, Greece
12:25 - 14:30 Lunch — Room: Lobby
12:25 - 14:30 Special Poster & Demo Session: Projects — Room: Aristotelis B
14:30 - 15:15
Invited talk — Luis Rodriguez-Rosello
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break — Room: Lobby
15:45 - 17:00
Oral Session 4: Towards 3D in Semantic Multimedia
  • In Search for your own Virtual Individual
    Laurent Moccozet, MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland
    Alejandra Garcia-Rojas, Frédéric Vexo, Daniel Thalmann,
    VRLab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Human Activity Language: Grounding Concepts with a Linguistic Framework
    Gutemberg Guerra-Filho, Yiannis Aloimonos
    University of Maryland, USA
  • A Probability-based Unified 3D Shape Search
    Suyu Hou, Karthik Ramani
    Purdue University, USA