2nd International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization
(SMAP 2007)
December 17-18, 2007, London, United Kingdom  
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Final Program

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Day 1: Monday, December 17, 2007

08:00 - 08:30

Registration

08:30 - 09:00

Early Coffee Break

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome Speech

09:10 - 09:20

SMAP 2008

09:20 - 10:40

Oral Session A1

 

  • Towards MPEG-21-based Cross-layer Multimedia Adaptation

Ingo Kofler, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Toufik Ahmed
Klagenfurt University
, Austria

  • Metadata-based Adaptive Assembling of Video Clips on the Web

Rene Kaiser, Martin Umgeher, Michael Hausenblas
Joanneum Research, Austria

  • Video Adaptation Based on Content Characteristics and Hardware Capabilities

Ozgur Deniz Onur, A. Aydin Alatan
Middle East Technical University
, Turkey

  • Utility based Video Replication

Christian Spielvogel, Laszlo Boeszoermenyi
University of Klagenfurt, Austria


 



 

 


10:40 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:40

Oral Session A2

 

  • Semantic Media in Medical Information Systems

Jung Ren Lee, Payam M. Barnaghi
University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus), Malaysia

  • A Framework for Media Adaptation Using the Web and the Semantic Web

Sébastien Laborie, Antoine Zimmermann
INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France

  • A Representation Language for Multimedia Web Semantic

Ahmed Azough, Alexandre Delteil, Mohand-Said Hacid, Fabien de Marchi
France Telecom R&D, France

  • Multimedia Reasoning with f-SHIN

Nikos Simou, Thanos Athanasiadis, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Stefanos Kollias
National Technical University of Athens, Greece

  • Semantic Web and Knowledge Bases in Learning and Teaching

Kari Oinonen
Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences, Finland

12:40 – 14:00

Lunch Break


14:00 - 15:40

Oral Session A3

 

  • Personalized Interactive Newscast (PINC): Towards a multimodal interface for personalized news

Bilal Zaka, Christian Safran, Frank Kappe
Graz University of Technology, Austria

  • Runtime Personalization of Multi-Device User Interfaces: Enhanced Accessibility for Media Consumption in Heterogeneous Environments by User Interface Adaptation

Carl Bruninx, Chris Raymaekers, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx
Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium

  • Adaptive Educational Gameplay within Smart Multipurpose Interactive Learning Environment

Marko Diveky, Peter Jurnecka, Rudolf Kajan, Lubos Omelina, Maria Bielikova
Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

  • User evaluation challenging personalization of multimedia services

Barbara Schmidt-Belz
Fraunhofer FIT, Germany


 

 


15:40 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00

Cost292 Special Session A4

 

  • Analyzing Image-Text Relations for Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization

Mark Hughes, Andrew Salway, Gareth Jones, Noel O'Connor
Dublin City University, United Kingdom

  • Context Inference in Region-based Image Retrieval

Qianni Zhang, Ebroul Izquierdo
Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

  • High-Level Concept Detection based on Mid-level Semantic Information and Contextual Adaptation

Phivos Mylonas, Evaggelos Spyrou, Yannis Avrithis
National Technical
University of Athens, Greece

  • Comparison of CBIR Systems with Different Number of Feature Vector Components

Stevan Rudinac, Goran Zajic, Marija Ušcumlic, Maja Rudinac, Branimir Reljin
University of Belgrade, Serbia

  • Annotating Film Heritage content using MPEG-7

Yolanda Cobos, Maria Teresa Linaza, Ander Garcia, Isabel Torre
VICOMTech
, Spain

  • Image Description using Scale-Space Edge Pixels Direction Histogram

Antonio Pinheiro
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

18:00 - …

Social Event

 

 


 

 

Day 2: Tuesday, December 18, 2007

08:00 - 08:30

Registration

08:30 - 09:00

Early Coffee Break

09:00 - 10:40

Oral Session B1

 

  • Distributed User Modeling for Personalized News Delivery in Mobile Devices

Maria Papadogiorgaki, Vasileios Papastathis, Evangelia Nidelkou, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Simon Waddington, Ben Bratu, Myriam Ribiere
Center for Research and Technology Hellas – Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece

  • Shape from shading using wavelets

Dongbin Chen, Feng Dong
Brunel University
, United Kingdom

  • Classifying Images from Athletics based on Spatial Relations

Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Sergios Petridis
NCSR “DEMOKRITOS”, Greece

  • Keyframe Extraction using Local Visual Semantics in the form of a Region Thesaurus

Evaggelos Spyrou, Yannis Avrithis
National Technical University of Athens, Greece


 

10:40 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:40

Oral Session B2

 

  • Personalized Faceted Navigation for Multimedia Collections

Michal Tvarozek, Maria Bielikova
Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

  • Reputation metadata for recommending personalized e-learning resources

Tania Kerkiri, Athanassios Manitsaris, Ioannis Mavridis
University of Macedonia, Greece

  • Tuning Local Context Analysis for Farsi Documents

Parsia Hakimian, Fattaneh Taghiyareh
University of Tehran, Iran

  • Web search services’ cache adaptation and user modelling for improving ranking in third-party results

    Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Christos Anagnostopoulos
    University of the Aegean, Greece

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch Break

 

 

 

 


14:00 - 15:40

Oral Session B3

 

  • Personalized Audiovisual Content Delivery at the Palm of your Hand

Elena Sanchez-Nielsen, Francisco Chavez-Gutierrez
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain

  • NINA – Navigating and Interacting with Notation and Audio

Denis Baggi, Adriano Baratè, Goffredo Haus, Luca Andrea Ludovico
LIM - Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

  • Exploiting Cultural Heritage Documentation in Semantic Multimedia Annotations

Alexandros Ntousias, Nektarios Gioldasis, Chrisa Tsinaraki, Stavros Christodoulakis
Technical University of Crete, Greece

  • Achieving Content-User Synergy in MPEG-7

Harry Agius, Marios C. Angelides
Brunel University, United Kingdom


 

 

 

15:40 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:40

Oral Session B4

 

  • Downsizing semantic reasoning to fixed and mobile DTV receivers

Martin Lopez-Nores, Yolanda Blanco-Fernandez, Jose Juan Pazos-Arias, Jorge Garcia-Duque, Alberto Gil-Solla, Manuel Ramos-Cabrer
University of Vigo, Spain

  • Challenges toward User-centric Multimedia

Janine Lachner, Andreas Lorenz, Bernhard Reiterer, Andreas Zimmermann, Hermann Hellwagner
Klagenfurt University, Austria

  • A Semantic Approach of an Adaptive and Personalized Web-based Learning Content – The case of AdaptiveWeb

Panagiotis Germanakos, Nikos Tsianos, Zacharias Lekkas, Constantinos Mourlas, Marios Belk, George Samaras
University of Cyprus
, Cyprus

  • Non-verbal feedback on user interest based on gaze direction and head pose

Stelios Asteriadis, Paraskevi Tzouveli, Kostas Karpouzis, Stefanos Kollias
National Technical University of Athens, Greece

17:40 - 18:00

SMAP 2007 Closing Speech

 

 

 

 


 

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Doctoral Consortium: Sunday, December 16, 2007

13:00 - 14:00

Registration

14:00 - 14:10

Welcome

14:10 – 15:25

Doctoral Consortium Session DC1

 

  • Scriptclud.com: Content Clouds for Screenplays

Stewart McKie
Royal Holloway, London University, United Kingdom

  • Particle Swarm Optimisation and Self Organising Maps based Image Classifier

Krishna Chandramouli
Queen Mary University of London,
United Kingdom

  • Image Based Facial Expression Synthesis for 3D Models

Nikolaos Ersotelos
Brunel University
, United Kingdom

  • A News Video Retrieval Framework for the Study of Implicit Relevance

Frank Hopfgartner
University of Glasgow , United Kingdom

  • Towards Efficient and Interactive Video Navigation

Klaus Schöffmann
University of Klagenfurt, Austria

15:25 - 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 - 17:00

Doctoral Consortium Session DC2

 

  • State of the Art Report: In-flight Entertainment System

Hao Liu
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 

  • Automatic feature extraction to COSMOS-7 content models

Minaz Parmar
Brunel University
, United Kingdom

  • Semantically Holistic and Personalized Views Across Heterogeneous Information Sources Content

Cormac Hampson
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

  • Semantic Content Filtering using Self-Organizing Neural Networks

Damon Daylamani Zad
Brunel University
, United Kingdom

  • A fuzzy contextual approach towards intelligent educational content adaptation

Phivos Mylonas
National Technical University of Athens, Greece

 

17:00 - 17:45

Discussion Session: “SMAP Research Experiences”

17:45 - 18:00

Closing Remarks

 

 

 

Supported by:

IEEE

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
IEEE-SMC Technical Committee on Intelligent Internet Systems

COST 292

Brunel University

National Technical University of Athens

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems

University of Indianapolis

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