Full Prog ACMMM08 - SIGMM

ACM International Conference on Multimedia

2008

Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC,

Canada October 27 – 31, 2008

http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/

October 27-31, 2008

2 ACM Multimedia 2008

TABLE CF CONTENTS

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

October 27-31, 2008


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


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

October 27-31, 2008


ACM MULTIMEDIA 2008 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

General Chair: General Co-Chair:

Abdulmotaleb EL Saddik (University of Ottawa) 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)

October 27-31, 2008


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)

October 27-31, 2008


ACM MULTIMEDIA 2008 CONFERENCE HOTEL MAP

October 27-31, 2008


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)

October 27-31, 2008


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.)

October 27-31, 2008


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)

October 27-31, 2008


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)

October 27-31, 2008


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)

October 27-31, 2008


Interactive Arts Curatorial Members:

Interactive Arts Track

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

October 27-31, 2008


ACM MULTIMEDIA 2008 PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Monday,

October 27, 2008

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, October 28,

2008 1st Conference day

Crystal Pavilion

Ballroom A Crystal Pavilion

Ballroom B Crystal Pavilion

Ballroom C Pacific Rim Suite

1 Cazebo 1&2


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)


14:00 - 15:30 Content Track C1: Duplicate

Detection

Application Track A1: Tracing

Systems Track S1: Video Streaming

TOMCCAP Meeting

Content Track Short Papers

Session 1: Content Analysis


16:00 - 17:30 Content Track C2: Semantic

Video Annotation

Applications Track A2: Watch

HCM Track H1: Application

Introduce the exhibition artists

to the conference

Content Track Short Papers

Session 2: Content Analysis and Applications

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

October 27-31, 2008


Wednesday, October 29,

2008 2nd Conference day

Crystal Pavilion

Ballroom A Crystal Pavilion

Ballroom B Crystal Pavilion

Ballroom C Pacific Rim

Suite 1 Cazebo 1&2


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

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

10:30 - 12:30

Content Track C3: Image

Annotation and Tagging

Doctoral

Symposium Art Track A1: Adaptation

Demo Session 1

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

14:00 - 15:30 Content Track

C4: Video Search Applications

Track A3: Photo HCM Track H2:

Experience

Systems Track Short Papers


16:00 - 17:30

Content Track C5: Multimedia

Content Analysis and Applications

Brave New Topics

Systems Track S2: Beyond 2D

Art Track A2: Dancing With . .

.

Applications Track Short

Papers Session 1

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

Thursday, October 30,

2008 3rd Conference day

Crystal Pavilion

Ballroom A

Crystal Pavilion

Ballroom B

Crystal Pavilion

Ballroom C

Pacific Rim Suite 1

Cazebo 1&2 Gazebo 2


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



C6: Image Retrieval

Applications Track A4: Context

Art Track

A3: A Space . . .

Demo Session 2

MIR



C7: Video Analysis

Applications Track A5/H3:

Browsing

Video Abstracts

Open Source

Applications Track Short

Papers Session

MIR

October 27-31, 2008


2


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

Art Track Short Papers

MIR

19:00 - 22:00 MIR Dinner

Friday, October 31, 2008

Workshops day

Pacific

Rim Suite 1

Pacific Rim Suite

2

Ocean-view 3

Ocean-view 4

Ocean-view 5

Ocean-view 6

Ocean-view 7-8

Cazebo 1 Gazebo 2


9:00 - 10:00 Workshop

1 Workshop

2 Workshop

3 Workshop

4 Workshop

5 Workshop

6 Workshop

7 Workshop

8 MIR

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break (Ocienview Foyer)

10:30 - 12:30

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

Workshop 3

Workshop 4

Workshop 5

Workshop 6

Workshop 7

Workshop 8

MIR

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch (Cypress Suite)

14:00 - 15:30

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

Workshop 3

Workshop 4

Workshop 5

Workshop 6

Workshop 7

Workshop 8

MIR

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break (Ocienview Foyer)

16:00 - 17:30

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

Workshop 3

Workshop 4

Workshop 5

Workshop 6

Workshop 7

Workshop 8

MIR

October 27-31, 2008


ACM MULTIMEDIA 2008 TUTORIALS

Monday, October 27, 2008

Session Chair: Roger Zimmermann Monday October 27, 2008

Tutorial on Content Protection Nelly Fazio (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

08:30 – 12:00 Hall: Oceanview

3

Dulce Ponceleón (IBM Almaden Research Center)

Recent Developments in Content-based and Concept-based Image/Video Retrieval Rong Yan (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)


3 Winston Hsu (National Taiwan University)

If You Like the Beatles You Might Like ... A Tutorial on Music Recommendation Òscar Celma (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)


4 Paul Lamere (Sun Microsystems)

A Glimpse of Multimedia Ambient Intelligence Rosa Iglesias (Ikerlan Technological Research Center)


4

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa)

Storage, Retrieval, and Communication of Body Sensor Network Data Gaurav Pradhan (University of Texas at Dallas)

08:30 – 12:00 Hall: Cazebo 1

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (University of Texas at Dallas) Haptics Technologies: Theory and Applications from a Multimedia Perspective Abdulmotaleb Saddik (University of Ottawa) Jongeun Cha (University of Ottawa)

13:30 – 17:00 Hall: Cazebo 1

Kanav Kahol (Arizona State University) Multimedia Power Management on a Platter: From Audio to Video & Games Samarjit Chakraborty (National University of Singapore)

08:30 – 12:00 Hall: Cazebo 2

Ye Wang (National University of Singapore) Mobile Phone Programming for Multimedia 13:30 – 17:00

Hall: Cazebo 2 Jürgen Scheible (University of Art and Design Helsinki) Workshop Process for Authoring Educational Multimedia Using Movement Oriented Design (MOD)

08:30 – 12:00 Hall: Pacific Rim

2 Nalin Sharda (Victoria University)

October 27-31, 2008


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



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 Environm ents 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)

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Shipeng Li (Microsoft Research Asia)


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)

October 27-31, 2008


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)

October 27-31, 2008


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 V ideo 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


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


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


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


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)

October 27-31, 2008


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)


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


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


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)


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 M obile 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


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


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)


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 Appli cations 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


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)

October 27-31, 2008


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)

October 27-31, 2008


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)

October 27-31, 2008


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



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-di mensional 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


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


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)


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


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

October 27-31, 2008


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


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)


October 27-31, 2008


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)

October 27-31, 2008


ACM M IR 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


− 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

October 27-31, 2008


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

10. Extracting Contextual Information from Multi-user S ystems 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

October 27-31, 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)

October 27-31, 2008


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

October 27-31, 2008


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

20. Multimedia Ontology Learning for Automatic Annotati on 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


Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, and Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)

− A Framework for Classifier Adaptation and its Appli cations in Concept Detection

Jun Yang and Alexander G. Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University)

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

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October 27-31, 2008


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)


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 th e 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)

October 27-31, 2008


− 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

October 27-31, 2008


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


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 C ontents Acquisition

October 27-31, 2008


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


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

15:30-16:00 Group 1

16:00-16:30 Group 2

16:30-17:00 Group 3

October 27-31, 2008


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)


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


− 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

Vítězslav Beran, Michal Hradiš, Pavel Zemčík, Adam Herout, and Ivo Řezniček, Brno University of Technology

3.30 - 4.00 Coffee

4.00 - 5.00 Plenary discussion on lessons learned, future of video summarization (evaluation)

October 27-31, 2008


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

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



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 Dramat ization 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

October 27-31, 2008


WORKSHOP 5: ANALYSIS AND RETRIEVAL OF EVENTS/ACTIONS 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)



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 Ev aluation

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


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)


12:40-14:00 Lunch Break

October 27-31, 2008


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)



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)


October 27-31, 2008


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)



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

October 27-31, 2008


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)

October 27-31, 2008


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.)


Location: Oceanview 7&8

9:00-9:15 Presentation and Welcome Message


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)


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

October 27-31, 2008


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)


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

October 27-31, 2008


WORKSHOP 8: HUMAN -CENTERED COMPUTING (HCC)

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


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


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)

October 27-31, 2008


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

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

SIAT, SFU Tour Chair: Ron Wakkary Time: 1:30 – 3:00PM RVSP [email protected]

Opening Reception ACM Attendees Time: 6- 8:00PM Science World Public Open 8 - 11:00PM (All Artists should be present.)

Exhibition Panel Connecting Artists and Scientists in Multimedia Research Time: 9 – 10:00AM Crystal Pavilion Paper Panel A1: Adaptation Chair: A. Kerne Time: 10:30 – 12:30 PM Pacific Rim Suite 1

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

Paper Panel A3: A3: A Space Chair: Ron Wakkary Time: 10:30 – 12:30PM Pacific Rim Suite 1 ACM Artist Party Time: 7:00 – 10:00PM RVSP [email protected]

Exhibition Closes

October 27-31, 2008


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

Directions from Canada Place (Conference Site) to Science World (Exhibition Site) Start out going EAST on CANADA PL toward HOWE ST. 0.0 mi CANADA PL becomes HOWE ST. 0.1 mi Turn LEFT onto W CORDOVA ST. 0.4 mi Turn RIGHT onto ABBOTT ST. 0.4 mi Turn LEFT onto PACIFIC BLVD. 0.2 mi PACIFIC BLVD becomes QUEBEC ST. 0.2 mi End at 1455 Quebec Street Vancouver, BC V6A Estimated Time: 5 minutes Estimated Distance: 1.39 miles

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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) Dewan T. Ahmed (University of Ottawa, Canada) Erwin Aitenbichler (Darmstadt University of

Technology, Germany) Alina Albu (Philips Research, The Netherlands) Majid Bagheri (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Lamberto Ballan (University of Florence, Italy) Stefano Berretti (University of Florence, Italy) Marco Bertini (University of Florence, Italy) Ralf Biedert (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany) David Birchfield (Arizona State University, USA) Jens Brandt (IBR, Technische Universität

Braunschweig, Germany) Mario Cataldi (U. of Torino, Italy) Bin Cui (Beijing University, China) Brian DeRenzi (University of Washington, USA) Betsy van Dijk (U. Twente, The Netherlands) Markus Fauster (ITEC, Klagenfurt University, Austria) Pedro Fonseca (Philips Research, The Netherlands) Alejandro Garcia-Alonso (University of the Basque

Country, Spain) Stewart Greenhill (Curtin Univ. of Technology,

Australia) Lei Guo (Yahoo! Inc., USA) Gina Haeussge (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Peter Hinterseer (Munich Univ. of Technology, Germany) Cheng-Hsin Hsu (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Razib Iqbal (University of Ottawa, Canada) Verena Kahmann (IBR, Technische Universität

Braunschweig, Germany) Kanav Kahol (Arizona State University, USA) Kunio Kashino (NTT Communication Science Labs,

Japan) Thomas Kieninger (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany) Herman Koppelman (U. Twente, The Netherlands) Bart Kroon (Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands) Zefir Kurtisi (IBR, Technische Universität

Braunschweig, Germany) Mihai Lazarescu (Curtin University, Australia) Fei Li (George Mason University, USA) Marcus Liwicki (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Mathias Lux (ITEC, Klagenfurt University, Austria) Martin Memmel (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany) Kianoosh Moktharian (Simon Fraser Univ., Canada) Simon Moncrieff (Curtin University, Australia) Christopher Morris (IBM, USA) Pietro Pala (University of Florence, Italy) Neil Patel (Stanford University, USA) Federico Pernici (University of Florence, Italy) Patrick Peursum (Curtin Univ. of Technology, Australia) Claudio Pinhanez (IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA) Daniela Alina Plewe (National University of Singapore,

Singapore) Mark Podlaseck (IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, USA) K. K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs. Research, USA) Matthias Rauterberg (Eindhoven University of

Technology, The Netherlands) Dennis Reidsma (U. Twente, The Netherlands) Christoph Rensing (KOM, TU Darmstadt, Germany) Eleanor Rieffel (FX Palo Alto Lab, USA) Bodo Rosenhahn (MPI Saarbrücken, Germany) Giuseppe Serra (University of Florence, Italy) Klaus Schöffmann (ITEC, Klagenfurt Univ., Austria) Oliver Schreer (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut,

Germany) Daniel Schreiber (Darmstadt Univ. of Technology,

Germany) Yael Schwartzman (UC Berkeley, USA) Caifeng Shan (Philips Research, The Netherlands) Shahin Shayandeh (USC, USA) Palaiahnakote Shivakumara (National University of

Singapore, Singapore) Anite Sobe (ITEC, Klagenfurt University, Austria) Tomokazu Takahashi (Gifu Shotoku Gakuen Univ., Japan) Tele Tan (Curtin University, Australia) Romain Tavenard (Irisa-Ens, France) Christian Theobalt (Stanford University, USA) Harvey Thornburg (Arizona State University, USA) Ying-Li Tian (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Tsvetomira Tsoneva (Philips Research, The Netherlands) Dhaval Vyas (U. Twente, The Netherlands)

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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

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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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KOM – Multimedia Communications