AIMS AND SCOPE

Several billions of multimedia files exist in loosely structured repositories (e.g. the Web) and their number grows rapidly every day. Currently less than 10 % of this information is professionally annotated, while the rest is either incompletely annotated or not annotated at all. As a result in most cases multimedia search engines achieve low precision and recall, while users are not satisfied by the retrieved content. To overcome these problem advanced multimedia annotation tools and methods should be implemented.

The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of multimedia annotation from various disciplines. It aims at providing an integrated platform to present original methods, tools, and applications of Multimedia Annotation, emphasizing on semantics Therefore, the session serves as a forum enabling experience exchange between academia and industry, as well as between researchers working in different research branches.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Multimedia annotation tools

• Hierarchical Video Annotation

• Image Annotation through Machine Learning

• Automatic annotation of broadcast news

• Integrated annotation systems

• Annotation of cultural content

• Automatic annotation through content authentication

• Automatic annotation by event authentication

• Annotation by user interaction

• Annotation by content matching

• Annotation by keyword matching

• Ontologies and Multimedia Annotation

PAPER SUBMISSION
Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of MAMECTIS’08 Conference. These proceedings are covered by several indices (see http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/corfu/mamectis/call.htm ).

Additionally the authors of the Best Papers will be invited to send extended versions of their papers after the conference to the Editors-in-Chief of WSEAS Journals. These extended versions might be published in the WSEAS Journals after the conference with additional review. This very limited number of high-quality papers will be announced in the Post-Conference report of the Conference.

Furthermore, instructions for authors and paper format can be found at:
http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/corfu/mamectis/authors.htm
and
http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/corfu/mamectis/kit.htm
 

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: September 19th, 2008
Decision Notification: September 26th, 2008
Camera-Ready Submission: October 1st, 2008
 

SESSION ORGANIZERS
Dr. Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology,
31 Archbishop Kyprianos Str.,
CY-3036, Limassol, Cyprus, Tel.:+357 25002614
Email: nicolas.tsapatsoulis@cut.ac.cy  ,
URL: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~nicolast/

Dr. Anastasis Kounoudes, Chief Technical Officer,
SignalGenerix Ltd.,
Archiishop Leontiou Α' Str., Maximos Court B',
CY- 3504, Limassol, Cyprus, Tel.: + 357 25870072
Email: info@signalgenerix.com ,
URL: http://www.philips.ac.cy/cgibin/hweb?-A=731&-V=organization

Dr. Klimis Ntalianis, Senior Researcher,
Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
9, Iroon Polytechniou Str.,
15780, Zografou, Athens, Greece,
Phone: +30-210- 6812434
Email: kntal@image.ntua.gr ,
URL: http://www.image.ntua.gr/~kntal
 

Brief Biographies of the Organizers:

Dr. Nicolas Tsapatsoulis graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the National Technical University of Athens in 1994 and received his Ph.D degree in 2000 from the same University. He has worked at the School of Electrical and Computer Eng. of the National Technical University of Athens (2000-2002) as a Research Assistant, being responsible for the project "ORESTEIA" IST-2000-26091, and at the Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece, being a Class C' Researcher (2002-2003). During the academic period 2003-2004 he was with the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Cyprus being a Visiting Lecturer. The academic period 2004 - 2005 he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the same department. Since September 2005 he works as a Technical Manager for the CRPF project OPTOPOIHSH: Development of knowledge-based Visual Attention models for Perceptual Video Coding.
He is a member of the Technical Chambers of Greece and Cyprus and a member of IEEE Signal Processing and Computer societies. He has published fourteen papers in international journals, eight papers in books and more than 52 in proceedings of international conferences. His research has been recognized by the international research community through more than 320 citations.
He served as Technical Program Co-Chair for the VLBV'01 workshop and he is a reviewer of several scientific journals (IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, etc). His current research interests lie in the areas of visual-attention based video coding, advanced human computer interaction, machine vision, and image and video processing.

Dr. Anastasis Kounoudes received his Meng in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1997 and his PhD in Digital Signal Processing from Imperial College in 2000. During the period 2000-2002 he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Communications and Digital Signal Processing Group of Imperial College. He also worked with DERA (UK Ministry of Defence) and Qinetiq as researcher and technical consultant. In February 2002 he joined Domain Dynamics Ltd in London as a senior researcher and application engineer. Since January 2004, Dr Kounoudes holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems at the Philips College. His research interests include speaker verification, speech recognition, image processing for medical applications, underwater and wireless communications and ad-hoc networks. He recently received two grants from the Research Promotion Foundation for research in the area of speech biometric security systems. Dr Kounoudes serves as a reviewer of IEEE signal processing letters and a full member of the IEEE, the IEEE Communication Society and Cyprus Computer Society, and associate member of the City & Guilds, Imperial College (ACGI).

Dr. Klimis Ntalianis is a Senior Researcher at the National Technical University of Athens. He received the B.Sc. and the Ph.D. both from National Technical University of Athens. He is the author of more than 60 scientific papers. He has received scholarships and awards from the Institute of Computer and Communication Systems, the National Scholarships Foundation, the National Technical University of Athens and other Foundations. His research interests lie in the areas of encryption systems, data/information hiding algorithms, advanced human authentication technologies and multimedia analysis.
 

Program Committee:

• Anastasios Doulamis, University of Crete, GREECE

• Anthony G. Constantinides, Imperial College London, UK

• Angelos Amditis, i-sense Group - ICCS, GREECE

• George Bebis, University of Nevada, USA

• Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE

• Nikolaos Doulamis, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE

• Antonis Karatzias, DIAS Publishing House, CYPRUS

• Andreas Schmidt, FZI, GERMANY

• Ioan Mihu, University of Sibiu, ROMANIA

• Ole Hansen, University College Nordjylland, DENMARK

• Georgios Karagiannis, Ormylia Art Diagnosis Center, GREECE

• Nikos Papadakis, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE

• Guido Cortelazzo, University of Padova, ITALY

• Marios Hadjieleftheriou, AT&T, USA

• Emmanouil Piperakis, Deutsche Securities Inc., JAPAN