SSMS 2006Chalkidiki, Greece

3rd – 9th September

About

• Cca 100 applications

• 78 participants

• 33 posters (divided into 3 days)

• 10 lecturers (2 lectures a day)

• Participants mostly from Europe

• 3 social events ;)

Lecturers• Philipp Cimiano, Institute AIFB

– Text Analysis and Ontologies • Lynda Hardman, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)

– Providing Flexible Interfaces to Annotated Multimedia Repositories • Thorsten Hermes, University of Bremen

– Multimedia Reasoning • Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University

– Multimedia Signal Processing • Stephane Marchand-Maillet, Viper Group, University of Geneva

– Multimedia Retrieval and Management • Milind Naphade, Watson Research Center

– Multimedia Ontologies and Analysis • Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven

– Semantic Multimedia Analysis • Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow

– Information Retrieval • Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University

– Multimedia (Image & Video) Retrieval • Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz

– Knowledge for Multimedia Applications

Monday• Aggelos Katsaggelos

– Multimedia Signal Processing• Image and video restoration and super resolution• Segmentation• Tracking• Wireless devices

Monday

• Jan Nesvadba– Semantic Multimedia Analysis

• Phillips Labs• Passive -> Active consumption• Distributed home systems• Intro to content analysis• Video Segmentation Tool• Boundary detection, face recognition, nonlinear

browsing, moves based on the audio - left-right, scene, chapter detection

Tuesday

• Steffen Staab– Knowledge for Multimedia Applications

• Rationale to Semantic Web• Multimedia Semantics {content, retrieval,

situational, social semantics}• Ontologies + Query Languages• MM Annotation

– Semantic based services – Flickr, M-OntoMat,

Tuesday

• Milind Naphade – MM Ontologies and Analysis: Extraction of

MM information and construction of relevant ontologies

• IBM research• Data for TrecVid• Logic & Reasoning vs Machine Learning

Wednesday

• Keith van Rijsbergen– Information Retrieval

• History• Intro (DB vs IR, Inference (deduction, P etc))• Practical and theoretical examples (TREC etc)• Models (boolean, vector space, probabilistic,

logical, language models, divergence from randomness)

• Query languages

Thursday

• Philipp Cimiano– Text Analysis and Ontologies

• SmartWeb – data + vision• PANKOW system• MM IE

Friday

Lynda Hardman– Providing Flexible Interfaces to Annotated

Multimedia Repositories• Ontologies for creating a presentational layer

• Stephane Marchant-Maillet– Multimedia Retrieval and Management

• Multimedia document management• Multimodal video indexing and retrieval

Good bye SSMS 06

see you in Glasgow