Reports from SIGMM Sponsored and Co-sponsored Events

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December 2009

Reports from SIGMM Sponsored and Co-sponsored Events

ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval 2009 (CIVR 2009)

Conference Chairs: Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Stephane Marchand-Maillet (Conference Chairs), Yannis Avrithis, Noel O Connor, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Tat-Seng Chua (Program Chairs), Edward Chang, Sebastien Marcel, Roelof van Zwol (Practitioner Chairs)

Event location: Island of Santorini, Greece

Event date: 8-10 July 2009

URL: http://www.civr2009.org/

In cooperation with ACM SIG Multimedia

Report by Yiannis Kompatsiaris and Stephane Marchand-Maillet, on behalf of the organising committee.

CIVR is one of the most important and influential conferences in the area of image and video analysis and retrieval and gathers many important researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. Following this tradition, CIVR 2009 has been a very successful event. This year 138 submissions from 29 countries were received and, after being reviewed by the Program Committee members, 45 were accepted for presentation (18 orals and 27 posters). Additionally, the program included two excellent invited presentations given by Prof. Luis von Ahn from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, and Prof. Luc van Gool, from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Leuven (Belgium).

Snapshot of the VideOlympics event

Another snapshot

The potential of academic results is best communicated through demos. We have therefore included a rich demo session in the program. We also continued the tradition of VideOlympics initiated 2 years ago. VideOlympics is an informal competition in which several state-of-the-art systems are competing simultaneously on a video retrieval task. VideoOlympics event was very successful this year with 8 search engines participating and for the first time there were also runs from non-expert users making the event even more exiting. A unique feature of the conference is the high level of participation from practitioners such as content owners, producers, creators, archivists, service providers, and policy makers. CIVR2009 practitioner chairs have gathered an impressive list of speakers representing the key players in the Multimedia Management and Retrieval industry.

Papers

Keynote

Luis von Ahn:
Human computation.

Interactive Systems: Retrieval and Browsing

Peter Wilkins, Raphaël Troncy, Martin Halvey, Daragh Byrne, Alia Amin, P. Punitha, Alan F. Smeaton, Robert Villa:
User variance and its impact on video retrieval benchmarking.
Grant Strong, Minglun Gong:
Organizing and browsing photos using different feature vectors and their evaluations.
Qizhen He, Zhiwu Lu, Horace Ho-Shing Ip:
View topics: automatically generated characteristic view for content-based 3D object retrieval.
Edward H. S. Lo, Mark R. Pickering, Michael R. Frater, John F. Arnold:
Query by example using invariant features from the double dyadic dual-tree complex wavelet transform.

Best Paper Candidates

J. R. R. Uijlings, Arnold W. M. Smeulders, R. J. H. Scha:
Real-time bag of words, approximately.
Lyndsey C. Pickup, Andrew Zisserman:
Automatic retrieval of visual continuity errors in movies.
Martin Halvey, Joemon M. Jose:
The role of expertise in aiding video search.
Rainer Lienhart, Stefan Romberg, Eva Hörster:
Multilayer pLSA for multimodal image retrieval.

Keynote

Luc J. Van Gool, Michael D. Breitenstein, Stephan Gammeter, Helmut Grabner, Till Quack:
Mining from large image sets.

Geo-tagging and High-Level Annotation

Adrian Popescu, Pierre-Alain Moëllic:
MonuAnno: automatic annotation of georeferenced landmarks images.
Jim Kleban, Emily Moxley, Jiejun Xu, B. S. Manjunath:
Global annotation on georeferenced photographs.
Keiji Yanai, Hidetoshi Kawakubo, Bingyu Qiu:
A visual analysis of the relationship between word concepts and geographical locations.
Theodora Tsikrika, Christos Diou, Arjen P. de Vries, Anastasios Delopoulos:
Image annotation using clickthrough data.
Xiao-Yong Wei, Yu-Gang Jiang, Chong-Wah Ngo:
Exploring inter-concept relationship with context space for semantic video indexing.

Image and Video Processing

Ruixuan Wang, Stephen J. McKenna, Junwei Han:
High-entropy layouts for content-based browsing and retrieval.
Hideki Nakayama, Tatsuya Harada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi:
Dense sampling low-level statistics of local features.
Wei-Ta Chu, Che-Cheng Lin, Jen-Yu Yu:
Using cross-media correlation for scene detection in travel videos.
Matthijs Douze, Herve Jegou, Harsimrat Sandhawalia, Laurent Amsaleg, Cordelia Schmid:
Evaluation of GIST descriptors for web-scale image search.
Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Prabir Bhattacharya:
Image retrieval with automatic query expansion based on local analysis in a semantical concept feature space.

Posters

Costantino Grana, Daniele Borghesani, Rita Cucchiara:
Picture extraction from digitized historical manuscripts.
Motoaki Kawanabe, Shinichi Nakajima, Alexander Binder:
A procedure of adaptive kernel combination with kernel-target alignment for object classification.
Mihir Jain, Sreekanth Vempati, Chandrika Pulla, C. V. Jawahar:
Example based video filters.
Georgios Goudelis, Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas:
Using mutual information to indicate facial poses in video sequences.
Takahiko Furuya, Ryutarou Ohbuchi:
Dense sampling and fast encoding for 3D model retrieval using bag-of-visual features.
José Iria, Fabio Ciravegna, João Magalhães:
Web news categorization using a cross-media document graph.
Ina Döhring, Rainer Lienhart:
Mining TV broadcasts for recurring video sequences.
Ioannis Arapakis, Yashar Moshfeghi, Hideo Joho, Reede Ren, David Hannah, Joemon M. Jose:
Enriching user profiling with affective features for the improvement of a multimodal recommender system.
Zhiwu Lu, Horace Ho-Shing Ip, Qizhen He:
Context-based multi-label image annotation.
Hideo Joho, Joemon M. Jose, Roberto Valenti, Nicu Sebe:
Exploiting facial expressions for affective video summarisation.
Philip DeCamp, Deb Roy:
A human-machine collaborative approach to tracking human movement in multi-camera video.
Philip Kelly, Ciarán O. Conaire, Noel E. O'Connor:
Exploiting contextual data for event retrieval in surveillance video.
Ceyhun Burak Akgül, Devrim Unay, Ahmet Ekin:
Automated diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using image similarity and user feedback.
Vasileios Chasanis, Argyris Kalogeratos, Aristidis Likas:
Movie segmentation into scenes and chapters using locally weighted bag of visual words.
Jianping Fan, Hangzai Luo, Yi Shen, Chunlei Yang:
Integrating visual and semantic contexts for topic network generation and word sense disambiguation.
Ville Viitaniemi, Jorma Laaksonen:
Spatial extensions to bag of visual words.
Stefanie Tellex, Deb Roy:
Towards surveillance video search by natural language query.
Thomas Deselaers, Tobias Gass, Philippe Dreuw, Hermann Ney:
Jointly optimising relevance and diversity in image retrieval.
Thi-Lan Le, Monique Thonnat, Alain Boucher, François Brémond:
Appearance based retrieval for tracked objects in surveillance videos.
Manni Duan, Adrian Ulges, Thomas M. Breuel, Xiuqing Wu:
Style modeling for tagging personal photo collections.
Songhua Xu, Hao Jiang, Francis C. M. Lau:
Learning to rank videos personally using multiple clues.
Alexandre Hervieu, Patrick Bouthemy, Jean-Pierre Le Cadre:
Trajectory-based handball video understanding.
Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Arjen de Vries:
Reusing annotation labor for concept selection.
Mei-Chen Yeh, Kwang-Ting Cheng:
Video copy detection by fast sequence matching.
Hongtao Xu, Xiangdong Zhou, Mei Wang, Yu Xiang, Baile Shi:
Exploring Flickr's related tags for semantic annotation of web images.
Thierry Urruty, Frank Hopfgartner, David Hannah, Desmond Elliott, Joemon M. Jose:
Supporting aspect-based video browsing: analysis of a user study.
Tat-Seng Chua, Jinhui Tang, Richang Hong, Haojie Li, Zhiping Luo, Yantao Zheng:
NUS-WIDE: a real-world web image database from National University of Singapore.

VideOlympics

Ork de Rooij, Cees G. M. Snoek, Marcel Worring:
MediaMill: guiding the user to results using the ForkBrowser.
Jianmin Li, Zhikun Wang, Bo Zhang:
The interactive video retrieval system in SMARTV 2009.
Yan-Tao Zheng, Shi-Yong Neo, Xiangyu Chen, Tat-Seng Chua:
VisionGo: towards true interactivity.
Colum Foley, Peter Wilkins, Alan F. Smeaton:
DCU collaborative video search system.
Juan Cao, Yong-Dong Zhang, Jun-Bo Guo, Lei Bao, Jin-Tao Li:
VideoMap: an interactive video retrieval system of MCG-ICT-CAS.
Stefanos Vrochidis, Paul King, Lambros Makris, Anastasia Moumtzidou, Spiros Nikolopoulos, Anastasios Dimou, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris:
MKLab interactive video retrieval system.
Stéphane Ayache, Georges Quénot, Laurent Besacier:
The LIG multi-criteria system for video retrieval.

MMSJ, Volume 15, Issue 6, December 2009

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