For authors: Please, once you checked the allocation of your paper in the technical program, prepare your presentation (either oral or poster) according to the guidelines.

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	Tuesday, 17th
	Wednesday, 18th
	Thursday, 19th
	Friday, 20th

Tuesday, 17th

Wednesday, 18th

08:30-09:10	Registration and coffee
09:10-09:20	Opening Remarks
09:20-11:00 Oral Session: Music Indexing and Retrieval Chair: Gaël Richard	Content-Based Indexing of Music Concert Recordings Based on Crossing-Rate Features Suphi Umut Naci and Alan Hanjalic Content-Based Similarity Search and Visualization for Personal Music Categories Wolfgang Theimer, Igor Vatolkin, Martin Botteck and Michael Buchmann What is the Best Segment Duration for Music Mood Analysis? Zhongzhe Xiao, Emmanuel Dellandrea, Weibei Dou and Liming Chen A System for Automatically Annotating Traditional Irish Music Field Recordings Bryan Duggan, Brendan O'Shea and Padraig Cunningham Enhancing Chord Classification through Neighbourhood Histograms Johannes Reinhard, Sebastian Stober and Andreas Nürnberger
11.00-11.20	Coffee Break
11.20-12.20 Oral Session: Video Summarization and Segmentation Chair: Yannis Avrithis	Retrieval of Video Story Units by Markov Entropy Rate Sergio Benini, Pierangelo Migliorati and Riccardo Leonardi Dynamic Layout of Visual Summaries for Scalable Video Janko Calic, Marta Mrak and Ahmet Kondoz Video Shot Meta-Segmentation Based on Multiple Criteria for Gradual Transition Detection Efthymia Tsamoura, Vasileios Mezaris and Ioannis Kompatsiaris
12:20-13:40	Lunch
13:40-15:10 Poster Session I	A Framework for Surveillance Video Indexing and Retrieval Thi-Lan Le, Alain Boucher, Monique Thonnat and Francois Brémond Linear Algebra for Vision-Based Surveillance in Heavy Industry - Convergence Behavior Case Study Pavel Praks, Vojtech Svatek and Jindrich Cernohorsky Recognition of Hand Gesture Based on Gaussian Mixture Model Jia Jia, Jianmin Jiang and Dong Wang Method to Improve the Performance of the Adaboost Algorithm by Combining Weak Classifiers Jeong-Hyun Kim, Bae-Guen Kwon, Jin-Young Kim and Dong-Joong Kang Fast Indexing Method for Image Retrieval Using Tree-Structured Lattices Mahmoud Mejdoub, Leonardo Fonteles, Chokri BenAmar and Marc Antonini A Topology Synthesizing Approach for Classification of Visual Information Le Dong and Ebroul Izquierdo Comparison Between SVM-Light, a Search Engine-Based Approach and the Mediamill Baselines for Assigning Concepts to Video Shot Annotations George Shih-Wen Ke, Michael Oakes, Marco A. Palomino and Yan Xu Image Collection Structuring Based on Evidential Active Learner Hervé Goëau, Olivier Buisson and Marie-Luce Viaud An Image Browsing Application Based on JPEG XR Cristian Perra and Daniele Giusto Slim-Tree and Bitmatrix Index Structures in Image Retrieval System Using MPEG-7 Descriptors Esra Açar, Serdar Arslan, Adnan Yazici and Murat Koyuncu Compressed Domain JPEG2000 Image Indexing Method Employing Full Packet Header Information Farzad Zargari, Ali Mosleh and Mohammad Ghanbari Scalable Indexing of HD Video Claire Morand, Jenny Benois-Pineau and Jean-Philippe Domenger Toward Emotion Indexing of Multimedia Excerpts Marco Paleari and Benoit Huet Joint Global Motion Estimation and Coding for Scalable H.264/SVC High-Definition Video Streams Christian Kaes and Henri Nicolas Image Retrieval over Networks: Ant Algorithm for Long Term Active Learning David Picard, Arnaud Revel and Matthieu Cord Web-scale System for Image Similarity Search: When the Dreams are Coming True David Novak, Michal Batko and Pavel Zezula Designing a Modular System for Direct Search of Video & Audio Content: The Divas Project Nikos Achilleopoulos and Christos Theoharatos An Innovative Content-based Indexing Technique with Linear Response Suitable for Pervasive Environments Constantinos Lalos, Anastasios Doulamis, Kleopatra Konstanteli, Pavlos Dellias and Theodora Varvarigou Gray Level Image Processing Using Contrast Enhancement and Watershed Segmentation with Quantitative Evaluation Zhengmao Ye, Habib Mohamadian and Yongmao Ye
15:10-16:10 Oral Session: MUSCLE Special Session I Chair: Philippe Joly	A Mobile Platform for On-The-Move User-Generated Tourist Contents Ander Garcia, Maria Teresa Linaza, Imanol Arbulu, Isabel Torre and Yolanda Cobos Automatic Human Face Detection for Content-based Image Annotation Richard M. Jiang, Abdul Sadka and Huiyu Zhou Ontology Based Viso-Semantic Similarity for Image Retrieval Claudio Andreatta
16:10-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-17:50 Oral Session: MUSCLE Special Session II Chair: Jenny Benois-Pineau	Visual Scene Classification for Image and Video Home Content Paulo Villegas, Eduard Bru, Blanca Mayayo, Lola Carpio, Eduardo Alonso and Víctor José Ruiz Mediacampaign -- A Multimodal Semantic Analysis System for Advertisement Campaign Detection Herwig Rehatschek, Robert Sorschag, Bernhard Rettenbacher, Herwig Zeiner, Julien Nioche, Franciska de Jong, Roeland Ordelmann and David van Leeuwen Multimodal Indexing of Digital Audio-Visual Documents: A Case Study for Cultural Heritage Data James Carmichael, Martha Larson, Jennifer Marlow, Eamonn Newman, Paul Clough, Johan Oomen and Sorin Sav Wearable Video Monitoring of People With Age Dementia: Video Indexing at the Service of Healthcare Rémi Megret, Daniel Szolgay, Jenny Benois-Pineau, Philippe Joly, Julien Pinquier, Jean-François Dartigues and Catherine Helmer
17:50-	Reception

Thursday, 19th

09:00-11:00 Oral Session: COST292 Special Session Chair: A. Aydin Alatan	On-Board Video Based System for Robust Road Modeling Marcos Nieto, Jon Arróspide, Luis Salgado and Fernando Jaureguizar Behavior and Event Detection for Annotation and Surveillance Zoltan Szlavik, Levente Kovacs, Laszlo Havasi, Csaba Benedek, Istvan Petras, Akos Utasi, Laszlo Czuni, Tamas Sziranyi and Attila Licsar Intelligent Traffic Monitoring and Surveillance with Multiple Cameras Alexandra Koutsia, Theodoros Semertzidis, Kosmas Dimitropoulos, Nikos Grammalidis and Kyriakos Georgouleas Vision-based Analysis of Pedestrian Traffic Data Philip Kelly and Noel O'Connor Exploitation of Multi-Camera Configurations for Visual Surveillance Oytun Akman, A. Aydın Alatan and Tolga Ciloglu Regions of Interest for Accurate Object Detection Petros Kapsalas, Konstantinos Rapantzikos, Natasa Sofou and Yannis Avrithis
11.00-11.20	Coffee Break
11.20-12.20 Keynote Speech Chair: Patrick Gros	Title: "Sensible Visual Search" Speaker: Prof. Shih-Fu Chang Digital Video and Multimedia Lab, Columbia University
12:20-13:40	Lunch
13:40-15:10 Poster Session II	MPEG-7 Service Oriented System - MPEG-7 SOS Margaret Florian and Maria Trujillo Towards Standard Semantic Image Annotation and Search Sergej Rinc A Robust Compressed Domain Feature Vector for Texture Based Image Retrieval Farzad Zargari, Mahdi Mehrabi and Mohammad Ghanbari Adaptive Similarity Search in Large Databases - Application to Image/Video Copy Detection Nicolas Gengembre, Sid-Ahmed Berrani and Patrick Lechat Character Localization in Video Sequences Balazs Enyedi, Lajos Konyha, Kalman Fazekas and Jan Turan A Saliency Based Object Tracking Method Shijie Zhang and Fred Stentiford Automatic Evaluation Method for Rushes Summarization: Experimentation and Analysis Emilie Dumont and Bernard Merialdo Robust Directional Features for Wordspotting in Degraded Syriac Manuscripts Petra Bilane, Stephane Bres and Hubert Emptoz A Location Data Annotation System for Personal Photograph Collections: Evaluation of a Searching and Browsing Tool Chufeng Chen, Michael Oakes and John Tait Affordable Access to Multimedia by Exploiting Collateral Data Willemijn Heeren, Roeland Ordelman and Franciska de Jong Noise Removal from Polygonal Shapes Using Combined Inverse Diffusion Filter and Triangle Method Robert Vincelette, Claude Tameze, Vesna Zeljkovic and Ebroul Izquierdo Automatic Low-Dimensional Analysis of Audio Databases Jose A. Arias Aguilar, Régine Andre-Obrecht and Jérôme Farinas VideoTrees: Improving Video Surrogate Presentation Using Hierarchy Michel Jansen, Willemijn Heeren and Betsy Van Dijk VisualFlamenco: Dependable, Interactive Image Browsing Based on Visual Properties Wolfgang Müller, Markus Zech, Andreas Henrich and Daniel Blank ThemExplorer : Finding and Browsing Geo-Referenced Images Adrian Popescu, Pierre-Alain Moëllic and Ioannis Kanellos A new Semantic Text-Image Search Engine for Car Designers Arantza Bereciartua, Carole Bouchard, Jean-Francois Omhover, Marin Ferecatu, Hichem Houissa, Fabienne Gandon and Guillaume Logerot
15:10-16:10 Oral Session: Speech Analysis and Classification Chair: Björn Þór Jónsson	Automatic Correspondence Calculation between Text and Speech for Authoring Digital Talking Book Katsuyuki Watanabe and Masahide Sugiyama Towards the Detection and the Characterization of Conversational Speech Zones in Audiovisual Documents Benjamin Bigot, Isabelle Ferrané and Zein Al Abidin Ibrahim Feature Extraction for Speech and Music Discrimination Huiyu Zhou, Abdul Sadka and Richard M. Jiang
16:10-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-17:50 Oral Session: Image Classification and Indexing Chair: Franciska de Jong	Dynamic Behavior of Balanced NV-Trees Arnar Olafsson, Bjorn Thor Jonsson and Laurent Amsaleg Object-Based Evaluation of Hierarchical Region-Based Representations Based on Information Theory Statistical Measures Felipe Calderero and Ferran Marques Real AdaBoost for Large Vocabulary Image Classification Wei-Chao Lin, Michael Oakes and John Tait Image Color Content Description Utilizing Perceptual Correlogram Murat Birinci, Serkan Kiranyaz and Moncef Gabbouj
18:30-	Social Event

Friday, 20th

09:00-11:00 Oral Session: Descriptors and Metrics Chair: Aggelos Katsaggelos	Affine Invariant Curve Matching Using Normalization and Curvature Scale-Space Vasiliki Giannekou, Paraskevi Tzouveli, Yannis Avrithis and Stefanos Kollias Object Recognition and Retrieval by Context Dependent Similarity Kernels Hichem Sahbi, Jean-Yves Audibert, Jaonary Rabarisoa and Renaud Keriven Boosting of Factorial Correspondence Analysis for Image Retrieval Nguyen-Khang Pham, Annie Morin and Patrick Gros Image Retrieval via Kullback-Leibler Divergence of Patches of Multiscale Coefficients in the KNN Framework Paolo Piro, Sandrine Anthoine, Eric Debreuve and Michel Barlaud A Fast Method for Animated TV Logo Detection Ersin Esen, Medeni Soysal, Tuğrul K. Ateş, Ahmet Saracoğlu and A. Aydın Alatan The Extended Edit Distance Metric Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad and Pierre-François Marteau
11.00-11.20	Coffee Break
11.20-12.20 Oral Session: 3D Content Retrieval Chair: Mohammad Ghanbari	Content Based 3D Model Retrieval: A Survey Zheng Qin, Ji Jia and Jun Qin Analysis and Retrieval of 3D Facial Models Using Iso-geodesic Stripes Stefano Berretti, Alberto Del Bimbo and Pietro Pala Semantic Annotation and Retrieval of Unedited Video Based on Extraction of 3D Camera Motion Wolfgang Waizenegger, Ingo Feldmann and Oliver Schreer
12:20-13:40	Lunch
13:40-14:50 Panel Session: The Future of Multimedia Retrieval Research Chair: Aggelos Katsaggelos	Panel Session: "The Future of Multimedia Retrieval Research" Panellists:  Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA  Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA, France  Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, USA  Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland  Stefan Rüger, Imperial College, UK  Thomas Sikora, TU Berlin, Germany
15:10-16:10 Oral Session: MIR in Specific Application Domains Chair: Andreas Wichert	An Architecture for Fast Semantic Retrieval in the Film Heritage Domain Yolanda Cobos, Carlos Toro, Cristina Sarasua, Javier Vaquero, Maria Teresa Linaza and Jorge Posada Knowledge-Assisted Cross-Media Analysis of Audio-Visual Content in the News Domain Vasileios Mezaris, Spyros Gidaros, Georgios Papadopoulos, Walter Kasper, Roeland Ordelman, Franciska de Jong and Ioannis Kompatsiaris Merging Technology and Users: Applying Image Browsing to the Fashion Industry for Design Inspiration Annette Ward, Stephen J McKenna, Anna Buruma, Peter Taylor and Junwei Han Cross-Media Semantic Indexing in the Soccer Domain Paul Buitelaar, Thierry Declerck, Jan Nemrava and David Sadlier
16:10-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-18:10 Oral session: Fundamental Techniques Chair: Vasileios Mezaris	Wavelet Domain Binary Partition Trees for Image Segmentation Shirin Ghanbari, John C. Woods, Hamid R. Rabiee and Simon M. Lucas A Tracking Repositioning Algorithm Using Keypoint Labeling Remi Trichet and Bernard Merialdo Composite Interpolation Approach to Super-Resolution for Image Database Browsing over the Web Giaime Ginesu, Tiziana Dessì, Luigi Atzori and Daniele Giusto Semantic Clustering of Images Using Patterns of Relevance Feedback Donn Morrison, Stéphane Marchand-Maillet and Eric Bruno Subspace Indexing for Extremely High-Dimensional CBIR Andrzej Wichert
18:10-	CBMI close