CALL FOR PAPERS
The 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
(DEXA 2008)
September 1 - 5, 2008 Turin, Italy
1st Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production (AIEMPro08)
http://www.crit.rai.it/AIEMPro08/
MOTIVATIONS
The Media Industry, with television broadcasters in the first line, are being
revolutionized by the development of Information and Communication Technology
and by the new working models introduced by the Internet 2.0. Media production
workflows are substantially influenced by new ways of acquiring, elaborating
and publishing audiovisual material. In this context, automatic information
extraction techniques based on audiovisual content analysis are seen as an
interesting and promising option to streamline these processes and lower
the total cost of new productions, and as a way to help to disseminate existing
archives. This line of development has been recently recognized by the European
Broadcasting Union as of crucial importance, by setting up a specific technical
group on the subject (P/SCAIE).
Though an immense amount of resources are spent by the research community in
the broadly recognized area of multimedia semantic extraction, unfortunately
little exploitation of these efforts has happened in industrial applications.
The workshop aims at attracting the attention of researchers and practitioners
in the field of automatic information extraction based on audiovisual content
analysis on the problems related with media industry production processes.
In particular, the objective is to analyze the impact and performances of these
tools in real-life applications, and on real-life material.
Authors are encouraged to submit papers on which they enlighten the features of
existing or novel tools in the key aspects of media production, including
acquisition, editing, publishing, archiving and repurposing of audiovisual
material.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
I) Efficient and real-time audiovisual indexing in acquisition
II) Automated repurposing of archived material on new media channels
III) Automated news production
IV) Efficient indexing and retrieval of multimedia streams
V) Automatic speech recognition and personality identification
VI) Collaborative systems for media production
VII) Information Retrieval systems from Multimedia Archives
VIII) Automated material copyright infraction detection and material fingerprinting
IX) Content summarization (e.g., sports highlights)
X) Audiovisual genre and editorial format detection and characterization
XI) Cross-media indexing and integration
XII) Content segmentation tools (e.g., shot and scene segmentation)
XIII) Evaluation methods for multimedia analysis tools
To make the event even more challenging, the organizing committee will
make available a considerable amount of audiovisual material taken
from some of the major European broadcasters archives (see website of
the workshop for further information).
Prospective authors may decide to test their technologies on this
material, in order to further prove the effectiveness of their
research in a real scenario.
PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW
The full paper submission is limited to 5 pages in length, following
the IEEE format (information downloadable at http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp).
Simultaneous submission to another conference/workshop/journal is not
allowed.
Papers must be original and have not been published or under
consideration for publications elsewhere. Each paper will be reviewed
by at least three members of the programme committee recognized for
their competence in the field covered by the paper.
Final decision about inclusion in the workshop proceedings will be
taken by the PC members exclusively on the basis of the obtained
reviews and levels of recommendation.
Papers must be registered using the DEXA conference management software
(https://www.dexa.org/dexadriver)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Full Papers: March 15, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2008
Camera-ready Copies: May 15, 2008
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Alberto Messina (chair) (RAI R&D, Italy)
Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research, Austria)
Prof. Matteo Baldoni (University of Turin, Italy)
Prof. Robetro Basili (University of Rome Torvergata, Italy)
Dr. Gloria Bordogna (National Council of Research IDPA, Italy)
Roberto Borgotallo (RAI R&D, Italy)
Prof. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State University, USA)
Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Florence, Italy)
Prof. Hermann Hellwagner (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Prof. Franciska de Jong (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Prof. Rosa Meo (University of Turin, Italy)
Dr. Maurizio Montagnuolo (euriX s.r.l., Italy)
Prof. Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy)
Natalia Pavlova (VGTRK Archives, Russia)
Prof. Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Turin, Italy)
Birgit Schroeter (Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik , Germany)
Prof. Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Birgitte Stannius (Danish Radio Archives, Denmark)
Dr. Robbie De Sutter (Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep R&D, Belgium)
Dr. Nobuyuki Yagi (NHK R&D, Japan)
Prof. Rik Van de Walle (Ghent University, IBBT Multimedia Lab, Belgium)
WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
Alberto Messina
RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Centre for Research and Technological Innovation,
Corso Giambone, 68 I-10135 Turin (Italy)
Tel: +39 011 8103184
Fax: +39 011 6193779
e-mail: a.messina@rai.it
Jean-Pierre Evain
European Broadcasting Union . Union Européenne de Radiotélévision
L'Ancienne-Route, 17A CH-1218 Grand-Saconnex (Switzerland)
Tel: +41 22 717 27 34
Fax: +41 22 747 47 34
e-mail : evain@ebu.ch
Dr. Robbie De Sutter
Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep - Medialab
Zuiderpoort Gaston Crommenlaan, 10 B-9050 Gent - Ledeberg (Belgium)
Tel: +32 (0) 9 331 48 49
Fax: + 32 (0) 9 331 48 05
e-mail: robbie.desutter@vrt.be