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September 9, 2010: Workshop Programme online

June 15, 2009: *** DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL June 25th ***

May 30, 2010: Two invited talks will be given at the workshop:

• Prof. Alan Smeaton, DCU, Ireland
• Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy

May 3rd, 2010: Call for Participation opened!

Workshop Description

Humans think in terms of events and entities. Events provide a natural abstraction of happenings in the real world. The concept of events has a long history in foundational sciences such as philosophy and linguistics. After first developing objects-based and entity-based approaches, computer science research is now addressing the concept of events and building many applications that consider events at least as important as objects. Consequently, we find many different solutions and approaches for modeling, detecting, and processing events. In addition, we find different applications that are based on events and make use of events.

Conferences and workshops on events in computer science typically deal with the capturing, processing, and management of low-level events such as publish/subscribe-approaches, middleware-based architectures, complex event processing, and event stream processing. Although this work is very essential for an efficient execution of the applications build on top of such approaches, the understanding of the concept of events is disconnected from the domain-level of events that the actual users of such applications have to deal with. However, considering multimedia data, its semantics is naturally closely tied to the event(s) it documents.

The workshop focuses on how to detect, model, and process domain-level events and applications that make use of domain-level events in the context of multimedia data. We aim at bringing together researchers from the different fields that are interested in understanding the concept of events on domain-level. We invite original work in the areas of domain event modeling, detection of events from multimedia data, processing of events, organization of multimedia data using events as unifying mechanism, and applications of these techniques. The submissions should explicitly explain how they deal with the events of the considered domain and what kind of benefit is provided to the users by using events. Example application areas for events are multimedia-based experience sharing, lifelogs, emergency response, cultural heritage, news, surveillance, and others.

The participants of the workshop will gain an insight into the current state-of-the-art of computer science research on domain-level events. They will get concrete examples of how events can be leveraged for human-centered research and how it can be detected, processed, modeled, and used for creating human-centered applications. They will also have the opportunity to discuss their approach with other researchers from the multimedia community in the hands-on part of the workshop.

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Topics

Research topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Event Detection and Processing in Multimedia Data
  • Recognition of events from large scale, unreliable and/or noisy media data and media streams
  • Event clustering towards domain level-events
  • Combining low-level events with domain-level events
• Event Representation and Event Models
  • Modeling of events on domain-level
  • Ontology-based representation of events
  • Languages for events
  • Formal modeling of events, activities, accomplishments, achievements, context, and other related concepts
  • Reasoning with events under consideration of causality, uncertainty, similarity, and others
  • Semantic description and annotation for events and event sources
• Events in the Context of Web 2.0
  • Collaborative event creation and sharing
  • Events in social networks
  • Event syndication (e.g., RSS) and attention management
• Architectures for Event Management
  • Middleware solutions for event management
  • Event-driven architectures
  • Experimental methodologies
  • Domain-specific solutions for event management such as for emergency response
• Applications and Tools
  • Interactive event-based applications and tools
  • (Collaborative) authoring of events
  • Events in mobile computing and ubiquituous computing
  • Applications that show benefits of using events in practical settings
  • User experience, requirements, use cases, and evaluations of event-based applications

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Important Dates

Submission of papers: June 20th

Notification of acceptance: July 8th

Camera ready papers: July 15th

Workshop at ACM Multimedia: October 25-29, 2010

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Paper Submission, Review, and Publication

Submissions for the workshop must follow the standard style guidelines of the ACM Multimedia conference and will be single-blinded. They shall be submitted in PDF format and not be longer than 6 pages. Papers will be submitted using EDAS system: http://edas.info/N9112
In submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another workshop, conference, or journal.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings together with the proceedings of the ACM Multimedia conference. PLEASE NOTE: Like in the last year, selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of the Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) journal of Springer.

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Workshop Program

• Keynote Address: Alan Smeaton - Sensor Nets Discover Search
• Event detection from multimedia content
  • A Logic Programming Approach to Activity Recognition - Alexander Artikis (NCSR "Demokritos", GR); Marek Sergot (Imperial College London, UK); Georgios Paliouras (NCSR Demokritos, GR)
  • Detecting Events by Clustering Videos from Large Media Databases - Jarmo Makkonen (Tampere University of Technology, FI); Riitta Kerminen (Tampere University of Technology, FI); Igor Curcio (Nokia Research Center, FI); Sujeet Mate (Nokia Research Center, FI); Ari Visa (Tampere University of Technology, FI)
  • Automatic event-based indexing of multimedia content using a joint content-event model - Nikolaos Gkalelis (Informatics and Telematics Institute, GR); Vasileios Mezaris (Informatics and Telematics Institute / CERTH, GR); Yiannis Kompatsiaris (Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), GR)
• Keynote Address: Fausto Giunchiglia - Events as media and knowledge aggregators
• Event models
  • On the semantics of complex events in videos - Simone Santini (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ES)
  • The Interaction Ontology: low-level cue processing in real-time group conversations - Rene Kaiser (JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, AT), Pedro Torres (Goldsmiths College London, UK), Martin Höffernig (JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, AT)
  • STEVIE - Collaborative Creation and Exchange of Events and POIs on a Mobile Phone - Daniel Schmeiß (University of Koblenz-Landau, DE); Max Braun (University of Koblenz-Landau, DE); Ansgar Scherp (University of Koblenz-Landau, DE); Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau, DE)
• Event-based applications
  • Using Event Representation and Semantic Enrichment for Managing and Reviewing Emergency Incident Logs - Symeon Papadopoulos (Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), GR); Ansgar Scherp (University of Koblenz-Landau, DE); Neil Ireson (University of Sheffield, UK); Ioannis Tsampoulatidis (Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), GR); Yiannis Kompatsiaris (Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), GR)
  • Event-Centric Multisource Stream Processing and Multimedia Assimilation For Geospatiotemporal Phenomenon - Ashit Talukder (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, CA, US)
  • Detection of Spatial Events in CommonSens - Jarle Søberg (University of Oslo, NO); Vera H. Goebel (University of Oslo, NO); Thomas Plagemann (University of Oslo, NO)
• Concluding Discussion

Program Committee

Pradeep Atrey, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University, Athens, Greece
Pablo Cesar, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Krishna Chandramouli, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Ivan Damnjanovic, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Thomas Franz, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Andreas Girgensohn, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, CA, USA
Marcin Grzegorzek, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Niels Henze, OFFIS Research Institute, Oldenburg, Germany
Aisling Kelliher, ASU - Tempe, USA
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH ITI, Greece
Vita Lanfranchi, University of Sheffield, UK
Artur Lugmayer, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University, Athens, Greece
Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Klara Nahrstedt, University at Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Setareh Rafatirad, University of California at Irvine (UCI), USA
Carsten Saathoff, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Philipp Sandhaus, OFFIS Research Institute, Oldenburg, Germany
Tania Stathaki, Imperial College London, UK
Ashit Talukder, NASA, Pasadena, California
Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France
Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin Univ. of Tech., Perth, Australia
Utz Westermann, mercatis, Ulm, Germany
Weiqi Yan, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Toni Zgaljic, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Qianni Zhang, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

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Organizers

Ansgar Scherp, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Ramesh Jain, University of California at Irvine (UCI), USA
Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Vasileios Mezaris, CERTH ITI, Greece

For questions and inquiries please contact: scherp {a t] uni-koblenz.de.

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