ACM Multimedia TPC Meeting and Multimedia Workshop

June 21-22, 2006, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

Multimedia Workshop

June 22, 2006

Building 113/Room 1021, Microsoft Research

One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052

 

There will be a local Multimedia Workshop at MSR organized by the ACM Multimedia Organizing Committee on June 22, 2006. This workshop has been held in conjunction with the ACM MM TPC meeting in the past three years, and it has offered great opportunities for local researchers and students as well as PC members to interact with each other and discuss latest multimedia research.  

Organization Committee

General Co-Chairs:

Yong Rui (Microsoft Research)

Wolfgang Klas (Universität Wien)

Ketan Mayer-Patel (UNC)

Program Chairs:

Cha Zhang (Microsoft Research)

Jie Liu (Microsoft Research)

 

Program

 

Keynote

 

08:30¡ª09:00

Rico Malvar

Distinguished Engineer and Director, Microsoft Research

 

An Overview of MSR

09:00¡ª09:10

Break

 

 

Session 1

Index and search

09.10¡ª09:30      

Wei-Ying Ma

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

 

Multimedia Search ¨C Recent Research Progress at MSR Asia

09:30¡ª09:50

Benoit Huet

Institut Eurecom, France

 

Multimedia Indexing @eurecom.fr

09:50¡ª10:10

Apostol Natsev

Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

 

Lexical, Statistical and Hybrid Query Expansion Approaches for Multimodal Video Retrieval and Fusion

10:10¡ª10:30

Chitra Dorai

Research Manager, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

 

MAGIC: Tools for the Automatic Generation of Learning Object Metadata

10:30¡ª10:50

Break

 

 

Session 2

Peer to Peer Networking

10:50¡ª11:10

Dick Bulterman

Senior Researcher, CWI, Amsterdam

 

Consumer-Oriented iTV in a P2P Environment

11:10¡ª11:30

Reza Rejaie

Dept. of CIS, University of Oregon

 

Understanding Mesh-based Peer-to-Peer Streaming

11:30¡ª11:50

Surendar Chandra

Dept. of CSE, University of Notre Dame

 

Collaborative Multimedia Storage in a Campus Environment

11:50¡ª12:10

Klara Nahrstedt

Dept. of CS, University  of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

TEEVE: Next Generation Architecture for Tele-immersive Environments

12:10¡ª13:30

Lunch  break

 

 

Session 3

Multimedia Environment

13:30¡ª13:50

El Saddik

School of ITE, University of Ottawa

 

Ambient Intelligent Haptic Environments

13:50¡ª14:10

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Senior Researcher, IDIAP Research Institute

 

Title TBD

14:10¡ª14:30

Hari Sundaram

Arizona State University

 

Situated Multimedia Systems

14:30¡ª14:50

Susanne Boll

Dept. of CS, University of Oldenburg, Germany

 

Multimedia - Hear It and Feel It to Find Your Way Around

14:50¡ª15:10

Break

 

 

Session 4

Applications

15:10¡ª15:30

Wu-Chi Feng

Portland State University

 

Making Sense of Multimedia Sensor Networks

15:30¡ª15:50

Lynda Hardman

CWI, Amsterdam

 

Presenting Knowledge on the Semantic Web

15:50¡ª16:10

Gopal Pingali

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

 

Experience Management Research