ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, July 9-11 2007
 
 
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
 

Program

Wednesday, July 11

Practitioner Day

8:50 AM - 9:00 AM

Introduction

Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Session European Activities

Chair: Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Intelligent Content in FP7: Progress and Prospects
Roberto Cencioni, EU Commission, Head of Unit Knowledge and Interactive Content Technologies
Convergence of multimedia and knowledge technologies in the framework of the EC funded IPs and STREPs: AceMedia, Aim@Shape, BOEMIE, MESH, X-Media, K-Space, Vitalas and VICTORY
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Mobilisation of joint industry-academia collaboration in the audiovisual domain. Analysis and overview of the projects PHAROS, RUSHES, and iAD.
Stefan Debald, FAST, Norway
Audio visual search engines in FP6 and in the Netherlands: MUSCLE, VIDI-Video, MultimediaN
Arnold Smeulders, UvA, The Netherlands
Searching for Multimedia: EU Research to master the networked media future
Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, EU Commission, Head of Unit Networked Media Systems

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Coffee Break

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

MUSCLE Demos

12:00 AM - 13:15 PM

Lunch

13:15 PM - 15:20 PM

Session Content Providers and Services

Chair: Johan Oomen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, The Netherlands
Digital Audiovisual Archive in the Heart of TV Production
Eerde Hovinga, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Director user services
The Cutting Edge of Interactive TV
George Wright, Senior Producer, BBC Interactive Television, United Kingdom
Quaero: An industrial research program on multimedia search and navigation
Pieter van der Linden, Thomson, France
Search beyond Mobile Portals
Javier Lorente Martinez, Telefonica, Spain
Tribler: A social-based peer-to-peer system
Dick Epema & Freek Zindel, Tribler / TU Delft, The Netherlands

15:20 PM - 15:50 PM

Coffee Break

15:50 PM - 17:10 PM

Session Science to Business

Chair: Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA, France
The Strategic Research Agenda developed by the European Technology Platform NEM (Networked and Electronic Media)
Christophe Dosch, IRT Germany
Implementation of NEM SRA through NEM R&D Clusters"
Pierre-Yves Danet, France Telecom R&D, France
First Operational application of Information Image Mining in Earth Observation
Mihai Datcu, DLR - German Aerospace Center
Facilitating User-Centered Business to Efficiently Apply Research’s Valuable Know-How
Emile Aarts, Scientific Director Philips Research

17:10 PM - 18:00 PM

Panel Session

Moderators: P. vd Linden, Jan Nesvadba
Participants: Roberto Cencioni, Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, Emile Aarts, Arnold Smeulders, Javier Lorente Martinez, Christophe Dosch
Including questions from the audience and press