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The following workshops will be held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008:Workshop 1: Vision Networks for Behavior Analysis (VNBA) Workshop 2: Semantic Ambient Media Experiences (SAME) Workshop 3: TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop (TVS) Workshop 4: Story Representation, Mechanism and Context (SRMC) Workshop 5: Analysis and Retrieval of Events/Actions and Workflows in Video Streams (AREA) Workshop 6: The Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics (MS) Workshop 7: Communicability Design and Evaluation in Cultural and Ecological Multimedia Systems (Communicability MS) Workshop 8: Human-Centered Computing (HCC). 1. Vision Networks for Behaviour Analysis (VNBA 2008) - Oct 31, 2008Organizers: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (Stanford University, USA) and This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) This workshop marks a new era of the successful series of the Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN) workshops, held until 2006 in conjunction with ACM Multimedia conference (Berkeley 2003, New York 2004, Singapore 2005, and Santa Barbara, 2006). This new version of the workshop inherits from VSSN the experienced Technical Program Committee as well as the interests of its community, but shifts the focus to cover higher level topics and applications under the common framework of “behaviour analysis”, hence aiming to adapt to the evolved directions of interest in the field, and reaching out to other research communities with overlapping interests. 2. Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2008) - Oct 31, 2008Organizers:
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(Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc., Finland), Thomas Risse (L3S Research Center, Germany), Bjorn Stockleben (RBB, Germany), Juha Kaario (Nokia, Finland) and Kari Laurila (Nokia, Finland) The workshop focuses on semantic ambient media, especially multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications. Its strong human-centered focuses due to the orientation to consumer experience combines multimedia technology, consumer focus, and intelligent media systems and fits well with the topics of interest of ACM MM. The viewpoint of the workshop is multidisciplinary and shall attract researchers from the field of ambient multimedia, human centered computing, and content creators. 3. TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop (TVS 2008) - Oct 31, 2008Organizers:
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(National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA) and
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(Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Ireland USA) TVS 2008 is a workshop devoted to the evaluation of automatic video summarization systems run on rushes from several BBC dramatic series. It is being carried out under the auspices of TRECVid as a follow-up to the video summarization workshop held at ACM Multimedia '07. 31 research teams submitted video summaries of 40 individual rushes video files, aiming to compress out redundant and unsignificant material to at most 2% of the original's duration. The output of a baseline system, which simply presented each full video at 50 times normal speed was contributed by Carnegie Mellon University as a control. Each summary was judged by 3 humans with respect to how much of the important content of the original video was included and how well-formed the summary was. At the workshop several participants will present their research for discussion. All interested parties are invited to attend, listen, and join in the discussion. 4. Story Representation, Mechanism and Context (SRMC 2008) - Oct 31, 2008Organizers: Kevin Brooks (Motorola Labs, USA), Aisling Kelliher (Arizona State University, USA) and Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam, NL) In this second SRMC workshop we will investigate the application and practice of story to multimedia story creation, artificial intelligence and social networks. This workshop will be of interest to those investigating traditional multimedia research involving search and retrieval, content analysis, media summarization and semantics, as well as those researchers developing new forms of story expression, narrative based interface design and user-generated story-sharing platforms. 5. Analysis and Retrieval of Events/Actions and Workflows in Video Streams (AREA 2008) - Oct 31, 2008Organizers: Anastasios D. Doulamis (Technical University of Crete), Luc Van Gool (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich), Mark Nixon (University of Southampton), Theodora A. Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens) and Nikolaos D. Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens) Cognitive video supervision and event analysis in video sequences is a critical task in many multimedia applications. This research area has strong impact on many real-life applications such as service quality assurance, compliance to the designed procedures in industrial plants, surveillance of people-dense areas, crisis management in public service areas, security semantic characterization and annotation of video streams in various domains. This workshop seeks original high innovative research in the area of self configurable cognitive video supervision in several domains. In particular the workshop seeks high research in - 1) multimedia, in the scope of detecting/identifying high level concepts, actions, events and procedures in video streams using largely unsupervised algorithms without the need for external re-programming, re-configuring and re-adjusting 2) robust solutions to targeted problems of high impact in real-life applications 3) ongoing research/progress on national and international research projects (e.g., USA, European, Asian, Australia, etc). 6. The Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics (MS 2008) - Oct 31, 2008Organizers:
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(Wayne State University, USA),
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(University of Michigan, USA) and
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(Kettering University, USA) This is the second workshop in a series, the first being held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2007 in Augsburg, Germany. The field of multimedia semantics is in great flux at the present time. From the semantic web’s concentration on author-based semantics to the apparent exclusion of user-based semantics, through the field of emergent semantics, to the emergence of Web 2.0, many different approaches have arisen to help users manage multimedia information. This workshop welcomes papers on all aspects of multimedia semantics and hopes to generate some interesting discussions on the future of this field. 7. Communicability Design and Evaluation in Cultural and Ecological Multimedia Systems (Communicability MS) - Oct 31, 2008Organizers:
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(Universitat de Barcelona) The Workshop “Communicability Design and Evaluation in Cultural and Ecological Multimedia Systems” is a premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the areas quality design, communication and semiotics, multimedia heuristics evaluation, education, cultural and natural heritage. All papers in the main track must be high quality original papers which address important issues in multimedia and communicability design in cultural and ecological heritage, summarization and retrieval. For details, please click here. 8. The 3rd International Workshop on Human-Centered Computing (HCC) - Oct 31, 2008Organizers:
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(Telefonica Research, Madrid, Spain),
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(University of Oldenburg, Germany) and
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(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Human-Centered Computing (HCC) lies at the crossroads of multiple disciplines and research areas that are concerned both with understanding human beings and with the design of computational methods. Researchers and designers of HCC methods and systems include engineers, scholars in psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and graphic designers, among others. Research in HCC deals with understanding humans, both as individuals and in social groups, by focusing on the ways that human beings adopt, adapt, and organize their lives around computational technologies, and on how the development of computational technologies can be informed by human aspects (culture, social setting, human abilities, etc.). Human-Centered Computing addresses problems that the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) does not generally address. This year´s workshop builds on the discussions on the previous workshops on this topic held with ACM Multimedia 2007 and 2006. General Workshop Co-Chairs
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(TU Darmstadt, Germany)
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