{"title":"Multimedia Metadata Management and Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community","authors":"M. Lux","doi":"10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.69","url":null,"abstract":"In times of ubiquitous access to the internet multimedia systems utilizing networks gains more and more importance. Multimedia systems support features beyond the download and display of videos and images:Adaptation of data and metadata, caching and distribution of multimedia content and metadata over different types of networks and integration of the user as critical factor. Focus of the special session on Multimedia MetadataManagement & Retrieval (M3R 08) is put on multimedia metadata. Aspects include digital rights management, mobile multimedia, user context, metadata for content adaptation, bottom up and top down annotation, retrieval and extension of existing standards. 8 out of 11 submissions were selected for presentation on the conference and publication in the proceedings. The special session is organized by the Multimedia Metadata Community that has already organized a series of 7 successful workshops in the past taking place in Aachen, Berlin, Graz and Klagenfurt.","PeriodicalId":325635,"journal":{"name":"2008 Ninth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133680899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Service Monitoring System for Dynamic Service Adaptation in Multi-domain and Heterogeneous Networks","authors":"M. Sidibé, A. Mehaoua","doi":"10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.55","url":null,"abstract":"Access to multimedia services over heterogeneous networks and terminals is of increasing market interest, while providing end-to-end quality of service (QoS) guarantees in multi-domain environment is still a challenge. This paper describes a service oriented monitoring system designed for use in multi-domain heterogeneous networking environment for the purpose of supporting cross-network audiovisual service offering. The presented monitoring system is that developed in the IST ENTHRONE II project for providing monitoring information to (1) service providers for providing quantified QoS-based services and its dynamic adaptation; (2) network operators for making provisioning decisions and allowing dynamic resource allocation for optimizing the usage of network resources.","PeriodicalId":325635,"journal":{"name":"2008 Ninth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131153978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Celik, Andoni Martin Ortigosa, A. Hanjalic, E. Hendriks
{"title":"Autonomous and Adaptive Learning of Shadows for Surveillance","authors":"H. Celik, Andoni Martin Ortigosa, A. Hanjalic, E. Hendriks","doi":"10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.26","url":null,"abstract":"Object detection is a critical step in automating the monitoring and surveillance tasks. To maximize its reliability, robust algorithms are needed to separate real objects from moving shadows. In this paper we propose a framework for detecting moving shadows caused by moving objects in video, which first learns autonomously and on-line the characteristic features of typical shadow pixels at various parts of the observed scene. The collected knowledge is then used to calibrate itself for the given scene, and to identify shadow pixels in subsequent frames. Experiments show that our system has a good performance, while being more adaptable and using only brightness information.","PeriodicalId":325635,"journal":{"name":"2008 Ninth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134336556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient Method of Detecting Globally Blurry or Sharp Images","authors":"E. Tsomko, Hyoung-Joong Kim","doi":"10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.28","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a simple and efficient method for detecting the blurriness in the pictures. Recently, many digital cameras are equipped with auto-focusing functions to help the users take well-focused pictures. However, digital images can be degraded by limited contrast, inappropriate exposure, imperfection of auto-focusing or motion compensating devices, limited knowledge of amateur photographers, and so on. In order to detect blurry images for deleting them or making them go through an enhancement process automatically, a reliable measure of image degradation is needed. This paper presents a blurriness/sharpness detection algorithm based on the prediction-error variance, and demonstrates its feasibility by using extensive experiments. This method is fast, easy to implement and accurate. Regardless of the detection accuracy, the proposed method in this paper is not demanding on computation time.","PeriodicalId":325635,"journal":{"name":"2008 Ninth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127480857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Type of Contextual Information Based on the Adaptation Authorisation","authors":"A. Carreras, J. Delgado","doi":"10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.51","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new type of context description metadata based on the information extracted from the authorisation of adaptation in a generic multimedia scenario. After a deep study of the state-of-the-art in the use and representation of contexts for multimedia content adaptation, we conclude that MPEG-21 digital item adaptation is the most suited standardisation initiative in this area. We, then, present a flexible and interoperable way to express contextual information based on profiles and on MPEG-21 DIA usage environment descriptors. Furthermore, our results are applied to a virtual collaboration system which is being developed under the VISNET-II European network of excellence (NoE).","PeriodicalId":325635,"journal":{"name":"2008 Ninth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123589806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. A. Sadlier, Hyowon Lee, C. Gurrin, A. Smeaton, N. O’Connor
{"title":"User-Feedback on a Feature-Rich Photo Organiser","authors":"D. A. Sadlier, Hyowon Lee, C. Gurrin, A. Smeaton, N. O’Connor","doi":"10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.16","url":null,"abstract":"As the proliferation of digital photography increases, the software used to manage our increasingly large collections of digital photos becomes ever more important. In this paper we present the findings of a study which investigates how people view and interact with a set of photo management features. Specifically, a group of users are set the task of managing their own photos using a system built to encompass a wide range of photo organization functionality. They are then quizzed about their experiences in terms of their feature preferences, the general usability of the system, and other suggestions/requirements. Given these opinions, a basic estimation is then formed on what they like/dislike about the various aspects of the system, towards obtaining a more learned understanding of how we may develop a photo organizer that is optimal in terms of user satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":325635,"journal":{"name":"2008 Ninth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130294699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redundancy Removing by Adaptive Acceleration and Event Clustering for Video Summarization","authors":"Emilie Dumont, B. Mérialdo","doi":"10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.13","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel approach to summarize rushes. Our processing is composed of several steps. First, we remove unusable content and we dynamically accelerate video according to motion activity to maximize the content per time unit. Then, one-second video segments are clustered into similarity clusters. The most important nonredundant pieces of shot are selected such that they maximize the coverage of those similarity clusters. The produced summaries have been evaluated by an automatic method with a strong positive correlation with the TRECVID campaign evaluation.","PeriodicalId":325635,"journal":{"name":"2008 Ninth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114241443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Evaluation of Local Features for Face Detection and Localization","authors":"M. Asbach, Peter Hosten, M. Unger","doi":"10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.58","url":null,"abstract":"Local features have the ability to overcome the major drawback of traditional, holistic object detection approaches, because they are inherently invariant to geometric deformation and pose; in addition scale and rotation invariance can be easily achieved as well. However, the selection of discriminative feature locations and local descriptions is a complex task that has not been generally solved. In case of face detection, features must possess the discriminative power to differentiate between facial parts and cluttered backgrounds while they have to remain person agnostic. A multitude of suggestions for selecting facial features for tracking or identification / recognition can be found in literature, most of which rely on semi-automatic or manual definition of the feature locations. In contrast, fully automatic feature selection and generic description approaches like SIFT and SURF have been shown to provide excellent performance for rigid as well as non-rigid registration and even for object class recognition. While quantitative evaluations exist that give a hint on the registration performance of the competing designs, these scenarios are not directly transferable to object detection. In this paper we provide qualitative and quantitative analysis of existing interest point detectors as well as local descriptions in the context of face detection and localization.","PeriodicalId":325635,"journal":{"name":"2008 Ninth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125814609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robust Person Detection for Surveillance Using Online Learning","authors":"H. Bischof","doi":"10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.63","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, there has been considerable amount of research in methods for person detection. This talk will focus on methods for person detection in a surveillance setting (known environment). We will demonstrate that in this setting one can build robust and highly reliable person detectors by using on-line learning methods. In particular, I will first discuss ldquoconservative learningrdquo which is able to learn a person detector without any hand labelling effort. As a second example I will discuss a recently developed grid based person detector. The basic idea is to considerably simplify the detection problem by considering individual image locations separately. Therefore, we can use simple adaptive classifiers which are trained on-line. Due to the reduced complexity we can use a simple update strategy that requires only a few positive samples and is stable by design. This is an essential property for real world applications which require operation for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. During the talk we will illustrate our results on video sequences and standard benchmark databases.","PeriodicalId":325635,"journal":{"name":"2008 Ninth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130068797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fernando López Hernández, D. Jannach, J. Sanchez, C. Timmerer, H. Hellwagner, N. García
{"title":"Multimedia Adaptation Decisions Modelled as Non-deterministic Operations","authors":"Fernando López Hernández, D. Jannach, J. Sanchez, C. Timmerer, H. Hellwagner, N. García","doi":"10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.35","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes how a multimedia adaptation framework can automatically decide the sequence of operations to be executed in order to adapt an MPEG-21 Digital Item to the MPEG-21 description of the usage environment in which it will be consumed. The main innovation of this work with respect to previous multimedia adaptation decision models is that in the proposed approach decisions can be made without knowing the exact behaviour of the operations that are going to be executed.","PeriodicalId":325635,"journal":{"name":"2008 Ninth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130319609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}