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Joint Program of ACM LS-MMRM’09 and ACM WSMC’09 (Oct. 23)


Time Program
9:00 – 9:05am Opening Remark
9:05 – 10:00am
Keynote Talk: Rethinking Multimedia Search in the “Clients + Cloud” Era
Wei-Ying Ma (Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia)
Session Chair: Benoit Huet (EURECOM)

10:00 – 10:30am Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30am Session 1: Large-Scale Image Annotation and Retrieval
Session Chair: Rong Yan (IBM Research)
 
Canonical Contextual Distance for Large-Scale Image Annotation and Retrieval
Hideki Nakayama (The University of Tokyo)

Image Categorization Combining Neighborhood Methods and Boosting
Matthew Cooper (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)

Semantics-Preserving Bag-of-Words Models for Efficient Image Annotation
Lei Wu (University of Science and Technology of China); Steven Chu-Hong Hoi (Nanyang Technological University); Nenghai Yu (University of Science and Technology of China); Jianke Zhu (ETH Zurich)

11:30 – 11:40am Short break
11:40 – 12:40am Session 2: Web-Scale Multimedia Corpus
Session Chair: Alexander Hauptmann (CMU)
 
Visual Tag Dictionary: Interpreting Tags with Visual Words
Meng Wang (Microsoft Research Asia); Kuiyuan Yang (Microsoft Research Asia); Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia); Hong-Jiang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)

Understanding Tag-Cloud and Visual Features for better Annotation of Concepts in NUS-WIDE Dataset
Shenghua Gao (Nanyang Technological University); Liang-Tien Chia (Nanyang Technological University)

Reliable Tags Using Image Similarity: Mining Specificity and Expertise
from Large-Scale Multimedia Databases

Lyndon Kennedy (Yahoo! Research); Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research); Kilian Weinberger (Yahoo! Research)

12:40 – 2:00pm Lunch
2:00 – 3:20pm Session 3: Large-Scale Media Learning and Copy Detection
Session Chair: Qi Tian (Universityof University of Texas Texas, San Antonio )
 
Harvesting Large-Scale Online Weakly-Tagged Images for Enhancing Inter-Related Classifier Training
Jianping Fan (University of North Carolina)

Large-Scale Multimedia Semantic Concept Modeling using Robust Subspace Bagging and MapReduce
Rong Yan (IBM TJ Watson Research Center); Marc-Olivier Fleury (EPFL); Michele Merler (Columbia University); Apostol (Paul) Natsev (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center); John R. Smith (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

Indexing Local Configurations of Features for Scalable Content-Based Video Copy Detection
Sebastien Poullot (National Institute of Informatics); Michel Crucianu (CNAM); Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics)

From Text Question-Answering to Multimedia QA
Tat-Seng Chua (National Univ. of Singapore); Richang Hong (National Univ. of Singapore); Guangda Li (National Univ. of Singapore); Jinhui Tang (National Univ. of Singapore)

3:20 – 4:00pm Coffee break
4:00 – 5:00pm Poster Session
Session Chair: Jinhui Tang (NationalUniversityof University of Singapore )
 
Creating a web-scale video collection for research
Paul Over (National Institute of Standards and Technology), George Awad (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Alan F. Smeaton (Dublin City University),Colum Foley (Dublin City University), James Lanagan (Dublin City University)

Large Scale Incremental Web Video Categorization
Zhang Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Song Yicheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Juan Cao (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Yong-Dong Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Jintao Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

MovieBase: A Movie Database for Event Detection and Behavioral Analysis
Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore); Sheng Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Trichet Remi (National University of Singapore); Hung-Khoon Tan (City University of Hong Kong); Yan Song (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

On Improving Robustness of Video Fingerprints based on Projections of Features
Claus Bauer (Dolby Laboratories); Regunathan Radhakrishnan (Dolby Laboratories)

Image Copy Detection Using a Robust Gabor Texture Descriptor
Zhi Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University); Guizhong Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University); Haixia Jiang (Xi'an Jiaotong University); Xueming Qian (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

Near-Duplicate Detection for Images and Videos
Xin Yang (Unversity of California, Santa Barbara)

Unsupervised Image Ranking
Eva Hoerster (Univeristy of Augsburg); Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research); Marc'Aurelio Ranzato (University of Toronto); Kilian Weinberger (Yahoo! Research)

An Efficient Key Point Quantization Algorithm for Large Scale Image Retrieval
Fengjie Li (Michigan State University); Wei Tong (Michigan State University); Rong Jin (Michigan State University); Anil Jain (Michigan State University)

Large Scale Content Analysis Engine
David Gibbon (AT&T Labs - Research); Zhu Liu (AT & T Laboratories)

Tagging and Retrieving Images with Co-Occurrence Models: from Corel to Flickr
Nikhil Garg (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne); Daniel Gatica-Perez (Idiap Research Institute)

Topology Selection for Stream Mining Systems
Raphael Ducasse (UCLA); Deepak S. Turaga (IBM); Mihaela van der Schaar (UCLA)

Visual ContextRank for Web Image Re-ranking
Wang Shuhui (Chinese Academy of Science); Qingming Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Shuqiang Jiang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Lei Qin (Institute of Computing Tech, Chinese Academy of Science); Qi Tian (Microsoft Research Asia)

Large-Scale News Topic Tracking and Key-scene Ranking with Video Near-Duplicate Constraints
Xiaomeng Wu (National Institute of Informatics); Ichiro Ide (Nagoya University); Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics)

5:00 – 6:00pm Panel: Large-Scale Multimedia Corpus, Mining and Retrieval
Panel Chair: John R. Smith (IBM Research)


Panelists: Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research), Alex Hauptmann (CMU), Yihong Gong (NEC), Michelle X. Zhou (IBM Research)
 

© The 1st Workshop on Large-Scale Multimedia Retrieval and Mining, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2009