AMR 2006 - 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval
27-28 July 2006, University of Geneva, Switzerland
http://viper.unige.ch/amr2006/
The 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval will be
held on 27-28 July 2006 at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
So far, several approaches have been developed that tackle specific
problems of the retrieval process, e.g. feature extraction methods for
multimedia data, query languages, problem-specific similarity measures
and interactive user interfaces. However, in most cases the user still
needs several steps in order to find the searched objects. The main
reasons for this are on the one hand, the users' difficulty in
specifying their interests in the form of a well defined query (which is
partially caused by inappropriate user interfaces), on the other hand,
the problem of extracting relevant features from the multimedia objects.
Furthermore, user specific interests and the search context are usually
neglected when objects are retrieved.
To improve today's retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction of
a user, it is necessary to develop intelligent methods that are able to
support the user in the search process, e.g. by providing additional
user adapted information about the search results as well as the data
collection itself and especially by adapting the retrieval tool to the
user's needs and interests. The goals of the workshop are to intensify
the exchange of ideas between different research communities, to provide
an overview of current activities in this area and to point out
connections between the diverse involved research communities and
research in AI.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
The workshop focuses especially on researchers that are working on
feature extraction techniques for multimedia, computer linguistic
approaches, (dynamic) data analysis methods, and visualization methods
as well as user interface design. Therefore, contributions to the
workshop should focus on, but are not limited to:
- Multimedia retrieval systems (for text, image, audio, video and
mixed-media)
- Theoretical foundations of multimedia retrieval and mining
- Intelligent multimedia data modelling, indexing and structure extraction
- Adaptive Hypermedia and web based systems
- Metadata for multimedia retrieval
- Multimedia and multi-modal mining
- Semantic content analysis for multimedia
- Semantic web and ontologies
- Adaptive query languages
- Similarity measures (especially user adaptive measures)
- User and preference modelling (including feedback models)
- Methods for adaptive data visualization and user interfaces
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for paper submission: March 17, 2006
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 19, 2006
Deadline for final paper submission: June 2, 2006
Workshop starts: July 27, 2006
HOW TO SUBMIT:
Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for
publication elsewhere. Submissions should be formatted according to
Springer LNCS style (for details see the instructions at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). Papers should have
about 10 pages but must not exceed 15 pages and should be submitted
electronically in PDF or postscript format (see the "Submission" section
on the web site for details). Accepted papers will be published in the
workshop proceedings.
COMMITTEE:
General Chair:
Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Program Chairs:
Eric Bruno, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Andreas Nürnberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Marcin Detyniecki, Laboratoire d'Informatique Paris, CNRS Paris, France
Local Chair:
Nicolas Moënne-Loccoz, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Publicity Chair:
Lila Abes, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Program Committee:
Kobus Barnard University of Arizona, USA
Jenny Benois-Pineau University of Bordeaux, LABRI, France
Stefano Beretti Universitŕ di Firenze, Italy
Susan Boll University of Oldenburg, Germany
Jesper W. Schneider Royal School of Library and Info. Sci, Denmark
Arjen de Vries CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bogdan Gabrys Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Ana M. García Serrano Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Theo Gevers University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alex Hauptmann Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Philippe Joly Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT, Toulouse, France
Gareth Jones Dublin City University, Ireland
Joemon Jose University of Glasgow, UK
R. Manmatha University of Massachusetts, USA
Trevor Martin University of Bristol, United Kingdom
José María Martínez Sánchez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Bernard Merialdo Institut Eurécom , France
Jan Nesvadba Philips Research, The Netherlands
Stefan Rüger Imperial College London, UK
Simone Santini University of California, San Diego, USA
Raimondo Schettini University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Ingo Schmitt University of Magdeburg, Germany
Nicu Sebe University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alan F. Smeaton Dublin City University, Ireland
John R. Smith IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Xian-Sheng Hua Microsoft Research, China