MIR 2008
Program
ACM
International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval
October
30-31, 2008, Vancouver, Canada
Day 1
What are the 7 Millennium Problems
in Multimedia Information Retrieval?
Mining GPS Traces and Visual Words for
Event Classification (Invited)
Junsong Yuan, Jiebo Luo, Ying Wu,
Kodak Research Laboratories
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, Lorant Toth, Weihong Deng,
Jun Guo, Jie
Yang,
Carnegie Mellon University
SpiritTagger: A Geo-Aware Tag
Suggestion Tool Mined from Flickr
Emily Moxley, Jim Kleban, B.S. Manjunath,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Locating Key Views for Image
Indexing of Spaces
Hongyuan Cai, Jiang Yu Zheng,
Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ. Indianapolis
12:10 – 12:30 ACM MIR Flickr Retrieval
Evaluation - Mark
Huiskes, Michael S. Lew
Face Annotation for Personal Photos
Using Context-Assisted Face Recognition
Jae Young Choi, Seungji Yang, Yong Man Ro,
Konstantinos N.
Plataniotis,
Information and Communication University
A String Matching Approach for
Visual Retrieval and Classification
Mei-Chen Yeh, Kwang-Ting Cheng,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Large Scale Image Copy Detection
Evaluation
Bart Thomee, Erwin M. Bakker, Mark J.
Huiskes, Michael S.
Lew,
Leiden University
Diversifying Image Search with User
Generated Content
Roelof van Zwol, Vanessa Murdock, Lluis
Garcia Pueyo,
Georgina Ramirez,
Yahoo! Research
Automatic Image Tagging as a Random
Walk with Priors on the Canonical Correlation Subspace
Timothée Bailloeul, Caizhi Zhu, Yinghui Xu,
Ricoh Software Research Center
15.30 –
16.00 Coffee break
19.00
– 22.00 MIR Dinner Cruise
Day 2
9:00 – 9:40 Frontier Talk 1 - Ramesh
Jain,
University of California,
Irvine (Chair: Michael S. Lew, Leiden University)
Multimedia Information Retrieval: Watershed
Moments
9.40 –
10.00 Poster Boaster Session (Chair: Mark Huiskes,
10.00 –
10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 11:10 Frontier Talk 2 -
Shih-Fu Chang,
CuZero: Embracing the Frontier of Interactive
Visual Search for Informed
Users
11:10 – 12:30 Poster Session 2
A Rectilinearity Measurement for 3D
Meshes
Zhouhui Lian, Paul L. Rosin, Xianfang Sun,
Beihang University and Cardiff University
Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis of
Shape Orientation for 3D Shape Retrieval
Zhenbao Liu, Jun Mitani, Yukio Fukui, Seiichi
Nishihara,
University of Tsukuba
Ranking on Semantic Manifold for
Shape-Based 3D Model Retrieval
Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Toshiya Shimizu,
University of Yamanashi
Unsupervised Modeling and
Recognition of Object Categories with Combination of Visual Contents
and
Geometric Similarity Links
Gunhee Kim,
Christos Faloutsos, Martial Hebert,
Carnegie Mellon University
Outdoors Augmented Reality on Mobile
Phone using Loxel-based Visual Feature Organization
Gabriel Takacs, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Natasha
Gelfand, Yingen
Xiong, Wei-Chao Chen, Thanos Bismpigiannis, Radek Grzeszczuk, Kari
Pulli, Bernd
Girod,
Stanford University
Video Copy Detection Based on Source
Device Characteristics: A Complementary Approach to Content-Based
Methods
Sevinc Bayram, Husrev Taha Sencar, Nasir
Memon,
NYU Poly
Collaborative Learning for Image and
Video Annotation
Bo Geng, Linjun Yang, Chao Xu, Xian-Sheng
Hua,
Peking University
An Efficient Algorithm for
Keyframe-based Motion Retrieval in the Presence of Temporal Deformations
Andreas Baak, Meinard Müller,
Hans-Peter Seidel,
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Assessing Concept Selection for
Video Retrieval
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann,
Maarten de Rijke,
University of Amsterdam
A Framework for Classifier Adaptation
and its Applications in Concept Detection.
Jun Yang, Alexander G. Hauptmann,
Carnegie Mellon University
Poster
Session 1
Audio
Retrieval
A Critical Assessment of Spoken Utterance
Retrieval through Approximate Lattice Representations
Siavash Kazemian, Frank Rudzicz, Gerald Penn,
Cosmin
Munteanu
A Generalized Graph-Spectral
Approach to Melodic Modeling and Retrieval
Alberto Pinto, Paolo Tagliolato
Content-based Mood Classification
for Photos and Music
Peter Dunker, Stefanie Nowak, André Begau,
Cornelia Lanz
Large-Scale
Content-Based Audio Retrieval from Text Queries
Gal Chechik, Eugene Ie, Martin
Rehn, Samy Bengio, Dick Lyon
On Enabling
Techniques for Personal Audio Content Management
Tommi Lahti, Marko Helén, Olli
Vuorinen, Eero Väyrynen, Juha Partala, Johannes Peltola, Satu-Marja
Mäkelä
Searching Musical Audio Datasets by
a Batch of Multi-Variant Tracks
Yi Yu, J. Stephen Downie, Lei
Chen, Vincent Oria, Kazuki Joe
Image Retrieval
An Efficient Image Normalization
Method for Face Recognition under Varying Illuminations
Moonhwi Lee,
Can Relevance of Images be Inferred
from Eye Movements?
Arto Klami, Craig Saunders, Téofilo E. de
Campos, Samuel
Kaski
Cross-Media Manifold Learning for
Image Retrieval & Annotation
Xianming Liu, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao,
Pengfei Xu,
Xiaoshuai Sun, Tianqiang Liu
Extracting Contextual Information
from Multi-user Systems for Improving Annotation-based Retrieval of
Image Data
Johanna Vompras, Thomas Scholz, and Stefan
Conrad
Graph-based Multiple-Instance
Learning for Object-based Image Retrieval
Changhu Wang, Lei Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang
Image Retrieval using Query by
Contextual Example
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Nuno Vasconcelos
Late Fusion of Heterogeneous Methods
for Multimedia Retrieval of Images
Hugo Jair
Escalante, Carlos A. Hérnandez, L. Enrique Sucar, Manuel Montes
Learning Tag Relevance by Neighbor
Voting for Social Image Retrieval
Xirong Li, Cees G.M. Snoek, Marcel Worring
Multimodal Photo Annotation and
Retrieval on a Mobile Phone
Xavier
Anguera, JieJun Xu, Nuria Oliver
Ontology Enhanced Web Image
Retrieval: Aided by Wikipedia & Spreading Activition Theory
Huan Wang, Xing Jiang,
Liang-Tien Chia, Ah-Hwee Tan
Salient points in Multimedia
Retrieval
Interest Points based on
Maximization of Distinctiveness
Ard Oerlemans, Michael S. Lew
A Salient-Point
Signature for 3D Object Retrieval
Indriyati Atmosukarto, Linda G. Shapiro
Component Based Shape Retrieval
Using Differential Profiles
Lei Ding, Mikhail Belkin
Robust Foreground Segmentation Based
on Two Effective Background Models
Xi Li, Weiming Hu, Zhongfei Zhang, Xiaoqin
Zhang
Poster
Session 2
Video
Concept, Action and Retrieval
Action Video Retrieval based on Atomic
Action Vocabulary
Sang-Hack Jung, Yanlin Guo, Rakesh Kumar
Optimizing Video Search Reranking
via Minimum Incremental Information Loss
Yuan Liu, Tao Mei, Xiuqing Wu, Xian-Sheng Hua
Human Activity Localization via
Sequential Change Detection
Alexia Briassouli, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Place Retrieval with Graph-based
Place-View Model
Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao,
Pengfei Xu,
Tianqiang Liu, Xianming Liu
Solving the Label Resolution Problem
in Supervised Video Content Classification
Ullas Gargi, Jay Yagnik
Spatio-Temporal Features for Robust
Content-Based Video Copy Detection
Geert Willems, Tinne Tuytelaar,
Luc Van Gool
Spatio-Temporal Pyramid Matching for
Sports Videos
Jaesik Choi, Won J. Jeon, Sang-Chul lee
Transductive Multi-Label Learning
for Video Concept Detection
Jingdong Wang, Yinghai Zhao, Xiuqing Wu,
Xian-Sheng Hua
View-Invariant Action Recognition
using Interest Points
Yang Yuedong, Hao Aimin, Zhao Qinping
Multimedia
Retrieval and Modeling
An Efficient Indexing Structure for
Multimedia Data
Thierry Urruty, Chabane Djeraba, Joemon M.
Jose
Applications of Description Logics
to Improve Multimedia Information Retrieval for Efficient Educational
Tools
Serge Linckels, Christoph Meinel
Improving Object Detection by
Removing Noisy Samples from Training Sets
Gunawan Herman, Getian Ye, Jie Xu, Bang Zhang
Perplexity-based Evidential Neural
Network Classifier Fusion using MPEG-7 Low-level Visual Features
Rachid Benmokhtar, Benoit Huet
Semantic Lattices for Multiple
Annotation of Images
Anne-Marie Tousch, Stéphane
Herbin, Jean-Yves Audibert
Towards a Structure-based Multimedia
Retrieval Model
Mouna Torjmen, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand
Boughanem
Multimedia
Browsing and Summarization
A Novel Approach to Enable Semantic
and Visual Image Summarization for Interactive Exploration
Jianping Fan
A Set Theoretical Method for Video
Synopsis
Min Xu, Stan Z. Li, Bin Li, Xiao-Tong Yuan,
Shi-Ming Xiang
Aggregated Cross-Media News
Visualization and Personalization
Cyril Rohr, Dian Tjondronegoro
“Inside the Bible”: Segmentation,
Annotation and Retrieval for a New Browsing Experience
Costantino Grana, Daniele
Borghesani, Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara
Multimedia Ontology Learning for
Automatic Annotation and Video Browsing
Anupama
Mallik, P. Poornachander, Santanu Chaudhury
Organizing
Committee
General
Chair:
Michael
Lew, Leiden University
Program
Co-Chairs: Alberto
del Bimbo, University of Florence; Erwin Bakker, Leiden University
Brave
New Topics Chair:
Mark Zhang, SUNY Binghamton
Publicity
Chair:
Mark
Huiskes, Leiden University
Asian
Liaison:
Kiyo
Aizawa, University of Tokyo
Local
Arrangements:
Brooke Hardy, ACM; Charles Buck Krasic, Univ. of British Colombia
SIG MM
Chair:
Klara
Nahrstedt, Univ. of Illinois
SIG MM
Director of Conferences: Nevenka Dimitrova,
Philips Research
Program
Committee
Narendra
Ahuja, University of Illinois at UC, USA
Kiyo
Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Erwin
Bakker, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Alberto
Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Xavier
Binefa, University of Barcelona, Spain
Shih-Fu
Chang, Columbia University, USA
Tsuhan
Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Qiang
Cheng, Wayne State University, USA
Tat-Seng
Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
William
Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Alan
Hanjalic, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Richard
Harvey, University of East Anglia, UK
Thomas
Huang, University of Illinois at UC, USA
Mark
Huiskes, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Horace
Ip, City University of Hong Kong, China
Alex
Jaimes, FujiXerox, Japan
Joemon
Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
Avi Kak,
Purdue University, USA
Anil
Kokaram, Trinity College, Ireland
Suh-Yin
Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Michael
Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Clement
Leung, Victoria University, Australia
Paul
Lewis, University of Southampton, UK
Jan
Nesvadba, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Vincent
Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Stefan
Rueger, Imperial College, UK
Shin'ichi
Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Stan
Sclaroff, Boston University, USA
Behzad
Shahraray, ATT Research, USA
Linda
Shapiro, University of Washington, USA
Alan
Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Sanghoon
Sull, Korea University, South Korea
Qi Tian,
University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
James
Wang, Penn State University, USA
Xin-Jing
Wang, Microsoft Research Asia
Zhongfei
Zhang, Binghamton University, USA
Xiang
(Sean) Zhou, Siemens Research, USA