[Asis-l] 7th DELOS International Workshop on AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT AND INFORMATION VISUALIZATION IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES

[Francesca Borri]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Organizing Committee of the 7th Seventh International Workshop of
the EU Network of Excellence DELOS on AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT AND
INFORMATION VISUALIZATION IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES (AVIVDiLib'05), is
pleased to invite you to participate in this international event that
will be held on May 4-6, 2005, in Cortona, Italy.

You can find more information about the workshop at the following
address: http://delos.dis.uniroma1.it/Workshops.

Audiovisual digital libraries require new solutions for content
organization, access and interaction. In particular, user interfaces,
querying, browsing and visualization solutions, query languages for
multimedia data, metadata extraction, ontologies, efficient data base
organizations, are important and critical subjects of investigation.
Based on tailorable interaction and visualization models, future
interface functionality will include options for selection, filtering,
linking, ranking, and recommendation of multimedia documents, for
collaboration with peer groups in various contexts, for re-using and
re-interpreting information objects in different contexts. All these
modes of operation have to be designed taking into account various
aspects such as: user type, user characteristics and their needs.
Selection of appropriate metadata for the representation of the objects'
properties, and suitable data organization and management will support
retrieval by content either based on local or global characteristics of
the objects.

This workshop, promoted by the DELOS Network of Excellence
(http://www.delos.info/), jointly organized by WP3 and WP4, aims at
providing a forum to present the latest research results, new technology
development and new applications in the areas of multimedia content and
information visualization in digital libraries.


The following non-restrictive list is given to illustrate items of
particular interest for this conference:

* Interface Design
* Visual Filtering
* Visual Mining
* Metadata extraction
* Efficient data base structures
* Content based retrieval and browsing
* Personalization support
* Audio, sound digital libraries
* Image, Video, 3D data digital libraries
* Multimedia digital libraries
* Large Data and High Dimensional Visualization
* Visualization in Non-traditional Devices
* Universal Accessibility

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

MAY 4

9:00 Opening 

9.30: Invited Talk 
The Cognitive Structure of User Sense Making
Peter Pirolli, XeroX PARC, USA

10.30: Coffee Break 

11: Session: Making Sense Out of Information
PatMan: A Visual Database System to Manipulate Path Patterns and Data in
Hierarchical Catalogs 
Aggeliki Koukoutsaki, Theodore Dalamagas, Timos Sellis, Panagiotis
Bouros 
3-D Environment to Represent Textual Documents for Duplicate Detection
and Collection Examination 
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
Similarity based visualization of image collections
Giang Phuong Nguyen, Marcel Worring
THE PIVOTAL ROLE OF VISUALIZATION IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES 
Stephen Kimani, Enrico Bertini, Lucia Di Bello

13: Lunch

14.30: Session: Retrieving Information from DLs

Functionalities of a content management system specialized for digital
library applications Giuseppe Amato, Claudio Gennaro, Fausto Rabitti,
Pasquale Savino 
Animate Image-Matching for Retrieval in Digital Libraries 
Giuseppe Boccignone, Vittorio Caggiano, Angelo Chianese, Vincenzo
Moscato, Antonio Picariello    
Layout based document image retrieval in digital libraries Simone
Marinai Filtering Methods for Similarity-Based Multimedia Retrieval
Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, George Kollios

16: Coffee Break

16.30: Poster Group 1/Demos

MAY 5

9:30 Invited Talk
Video Content Representation: Challenges and New Thought 
Hong-Jiang Zhang, MSR Asia Advanced Technology Center

10.30: Coffee Break

11: Session : Retrieving Images and Video Shots
A Comparison of User Strategies in Image Retrieval with Relevance
Feedback Michel Crucianu, Jean-Philippe Tarel, Marin Ferecatu Shot
Detection for Formula 1 Video Digital Libraries Rita Cucchiara,
Costantino Grana, Giovanni Tardini 
Comparing Images using the Color Distribution Vector Subramaniam
Krishnasamy, Ulrich Thiel 
Players Identification in Sports Videos
Marco Bertini

13: Lunch

15: Poster Group 2/Demos

20: Social Dinner

MAY 6

9: Panel: TBA

10.30: Coffee Break

11: Session: Sound and Video in a Multimedia World Syllable-based
Language Models in Speech Recognition for English Spoken Document 
Christian Schrumpf, Martha Larson, Stefan Eickeler
OntoNL: An Ontology-based Natural Language Interface Generator for
Multimedia Repositories 
Anastasia Karanastasi, Stavros Christodoulakis
Audio-Visual VQ Shot Clustering for Video Programs 
Sergio Benini, Li-Qun Xu, Riccardo Leonardi 
PlaySOM: An Alternative Approach to Track Selection and Playlist
Generation in Large Music Collections   
Michael Dittenbach, Robert Neumayer, Andreas Rauber

13: Closing 

POSTERS

Group 1

Digital Libraries of Learner-Adapted Courseware 
Margherita Antona  
Constraint-based Techniques for Personalized Multimedia Presentation
Authoring 
Elisa Bertino, Elena Ferrari, Andrea Perego, Diego Santi 
User-centered strategies for enhanced DL accessibility 
Davide Bolchini 
GraphOnto: A Component and a User Interface for the Definition and Use
of Ontologies in Multimedia Information Systems 
Chrisa Tsinaraki, Stavros Christodoulakis, Panagiotis Polydoros 
A dialogue-driven design model for multi-channel digital libraries 
Davide Bolchini, Paolo Paolini
Pompeii's "fortuna visiva" project 
Maria Emilia Masci, Benedetto Benedetti 
Digital Library Content Annotation with the MADCOW System
Paolo Bottoni, Roberta Civica, Stefano Levialdi, Emanuele Panizzi, Laura
Orso, Rosa Trinchese   
Annotations as a mean to personalize an image digital archive Nicola
Ferro, Maristella Agosti, Nicola Orio 

Group 2

A Survey of Recent Work in Video Shot Boundary Detection 
Constantinos Cotsaces, Marios Gavrielides, Ioannis Pitas
Which statistics for audio-visual data processing 
Driss Aboutajdine, Hocine Cherifi, Mohammed El Hassouni 
Instantaneous mental image search with range queries on multiple region
descriptors 
Julien Fauqueur 
Graph Clustering using Differential Invariants 
Edwin R. Hancock 
An Environment for Modelling Telecast Structures 
Lars Bankert, Arne Jacobs, Andrea Miene, Thorsten Hermes, George
Ioannidis, Otthein Herzog 
Collection Guiding: A new framework for handling large multimedia
collections 
Stephane Marchand-Maillet, Eric Bruno 
Graphical models for skin detection 
Mohamed Daoudi 
A Reconfigurable Mobile Agent Architecture Enhanced with Recursive
Relevance Feedback Mechanism for Interactive Multimedia Retrieval in
Digital Libraries 
Nikolaos Doulamis, Panagiotis Karagiannis, Konstantinos Paparrizos,
Angelo Sifaleras, Anastasios Doulamis 
Using Audio-Video Information for Automatic Segmentation of News Videos
M. De Santo, G. Percannella, C. Sansone, and M. Vento.

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ISTI-CNR
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