2:00-3:00 pm

Opening Remarks

Hongjiang Zhang (Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Center, China)

Keynote Speech

Weiying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia

From Relevance to Intelligence: Toward Next Generation Web Search

3:00 – 5:00 pm

Poster Session

Session Chair: Qi Tian (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

Poster Session 1: Video Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval

Enhanced Ontologies for Video Annotation and Retrieval

Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, and Carlo Torniai

Semi-Automatic Video Annotation Based on Active Learning with Multiple Complementary Predictors

Song Yan, Xian-Sheng Hua, Li-Rong Dai, and Meng Wang

A Motion-Flow-Based Fast Video Retrieval System

Chih-Wen Su, Kuo-Chin Fan, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao, Chia-Wen Lin, Hsiao-Rong Tyan

Video Booklet – A Natural Video Searching and Browsing Interface

Caizhi Zhu, Xian-Sheng Hua, Tao Mei, and Xiu-Qing Wu

A New General Framework for Shot Boundary Detection and Key-Frame Extraction

Huamin Feng

A Unified Framework for Semantic Shot Representation of Sports Video

Xiaofeng Tong, Hanqing Lu, Lingyu Duan, and Qingshan Liu

Poster Session 2: Image/WWW-based System and Applications

Semantic Image Classification with Hierarchical Feature Subset Selection

Yuli Gao

Photo-to-Search: Using Multimodal Queries to Search the Web from Mobile Devices

Xin Fan, Xing Xie, Mingjing Li, Zhiwei Li, and Wei-Ying Ma

Multiple Random Walk and Its Application

Mingjing Li, Jingrui He, and Hanghang Tong

Scenario optimization for interactive category search

Giang Phuong Nguyen and Marcel Worring

Macroblock Mode Decision for H.264

Tran Duc Hai Du

4:00 – 4:30 pm

5:00 – 6:40 pm

Special Session 1: Machine Learning for Visual Information Retrieval
Session Chair: Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA, France)

A Cluster-wise Semantics Endorsement Approach to Image Retrieval

Jia Li

Exploiting Temporal Discontinuities for Event Detection and Manipulation in Video Streams

Hugh Denman, Erika Doyle, Anil Kokaram, Niall Rea, Rozenn Dahyot, and Ray Fuller

An Interactive System for Mental Face Retrieval

Yuchun Fang, Donald Geman

Discriminant Local Features Selection using Efficient Density Estimation in a Large Database

Alexis Joly and Olivier Buisson

Hybrid visual and conceptual image representation within active relevance feedback context

Marin Ferecatu, Nozha Boujemaa, and Michel Crucianu

9:00 – 10:00 am

Keynote Speech

Ramesh Sarukkai, Yahoo! Inc

Video Search: Opportunities & Challenges

10:00-10:30 am

10:30-12:10 am

Oral Session 1: Image/Video/Learning

Session Chair: John Smith (IBM T. J Watson Research Center, USA)

Active Semi-Supervised Fuzzy Clustering for Image Database Categorization

Nizar Grira, Michel Crucianu, and Nozha Boujemaa

Mutual Relevance Feedback for Multimodal Query Formulation in Video Retrieval

Arnon Amir, Marco Berg, and Haim Permuter

Player Identification in Soccer Videos

Alberto Del Bimbo, Marco Bertini, and Walter Nunziati

Tracking Concept Drifting with an Online-Optimized Incremental Learning Framework

Jun Wu, Dayong Ding, Xian-Sheng Hua, and Bo Zhang

Low-cost Distributed Learning of A Probabilistic Mixture Model for Multimedia Content-based Indexing on A Large Scale

Afshin Nikseresht, Marc Gelgon

Lunch

1:10-2:50 pm

Oral Session 2: Web Searching and Applications

Session Chair: Hongjiang Zhang (Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Center, China)

SSP: Similarity Space Projection, A Novel Framework for Web Image Search and Annotation

Tie-Yan Liu, Ying Liu, Tao Qin, Lei Zhang, and Wei-Ying Ma

Probabilistic Web Image Gathering

Keiji Yanai and Kobus Barnard

Multi-Graph Enabled Active Learning for Multimodal Web Image Retrieval

Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma, Lei Zhang, and Xing Li

Inferring Similarity Between Music Objects with Application to Playlist Generation

Chris Burges, Cormac Herley, and Robert Ragno

Framework for Personalized Multimedia Summarization

Lalitha Agnihotri, John Kender, Nevenka Dimitrova, and John Zimmerman

2:50 - 3:10 pm

3:10-4:50 pm

Special Session 2: Multimedia Information Retrieval: Challenges and Real-world Applications
Session Chair: James Z. Wang (The Penn State University, USA)

Evaluation Strategies for Image Understanding and Retrieval

Keiji Yanai, Nikhil Shirahatti, Prasad Gabbur, and Kobus Barnard

Localized Content-Based Image Retrieval

Rouhollah Rahmani, Sally Goldman, Hui Zhang, and Jason Fritts

A Content-Based Image Retrieval System for Fish Taxonomy

Yixin Chen, Henry L. Bart, Jr., and Fei Teng

Extracting Information from Multimedia Meeting Collections

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dong Zhang, and Samy Bengio

Content-Based Image Retrieval - Approaches and Trends in the New Age

Ritendra Datta, Jia Li, and James Z. Wang

5:00 -6:30 pm

Panel Session: Multimedia Information Retrieval: What is it and Why isn't Anyone Using It?
Session Chair: Alejandro (ALEX) Jaimes (FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.)

Ramesh Sarukki, Yahoo! Inc

Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia

Sbastien Gilles, LTU technologies

Mike Christel, Carnegie Mellon University