Program

April 15, 2007
09:00am - 09:05am Welcome and Opening
(Shu-Ching Chen, Arif Ghafoor, Mei-Ling Shyu)
09:05am - 10:30am Keynote: Remaining Challenges in Multimedia Data Modeling
(Dr. M. Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo, Canada)
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Session 1: Image/Video/Audio Databases

A Data and Query Model for Dynamic Playlist Generation

Claus Aage Jensen, Ester M. Mungure, Torben Bach Pedersen, Kenneth Sorensen

(Aalborg University, Denmark)

An Automatic and Robust Method for Microarray Image Analysis and the Related Information Retrieval for Microarray Databases

Wei-Bang Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Wen-Lin Liu

(University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)

A Partial Retrieval of Music Data with Different Bit Rate using MPEG-4 TwinVQ Audio Compression

Michihiro Kobayakawa, Mamoru Hoshi

(The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

12:30pm - 14:00pm Lunch
14:00pm - 15:30pm Session 2: Multimedia Data Indexing, Organization and   Retrieval

An Evaluation Framework for Multidimensional Multimedia Descriptor Indexing

Bruno Gonalves (INESC-Porto, Portugal)

Catalin Calistru (INESC-Porto, Portugal)

Cristina Ribeiro (da Universidade do Porto/INESC-Porto, Portugal)

Gabriel David (da Universidade do Porto/INESC-Porto, Portugal)

mm-GNAT: index structure for arbitrary Lp norm

Kensuke Onishi (Tokai University, Japan)

Michihiro Kobayakawa (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Mamoru Hoshi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

A Comprehensive Motion Videotext Detection Localization and Extraction Method

Tsung-Han Tsai, Yung-Chien Chen and Chih-Lun Fang

(National Central University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

15:30pm - 16:00pm Break 
16:00pm - 17:30pm Session 3: Multimedia Data Mining and Applications

A Multiple Instance Learning Framework for Incident Retrieval in Transportation Surveillance Video Databases

Xin Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Wei-Bang Chen

(University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)

Finding Important People in Large News Video Databases Using Multimodal and Clustering Analysis

Duy-Dinh Le (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Michael E. Houle (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Dat Phuoc Tat Nguyen (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Hierarchical Temporal Association Mining for Video Event Detection in Video Databases

Min Chen (Florida International University, USA)

Shu-Ching Chen (Florida International University, USA)

Mei-Ling Shyu (University of Miami, USA)