Keynote Speakers
We are very pleased to have acquired the services of an excellent selection of keynote speakers for IIMSS-09. The speakers and the titles of their talks are shown below.
Vincent Oria
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USAModeling Semantics in Multimedia: An Event-Based Approach
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Harald Kosch
University of Passau, GermanyInteroperability in Image Retrieval
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Borko Furht
Florida Atlantic University, USAVisions of Computing in the New Global Economy
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Paolo Nesi
University of Florence, DSI DISIT Lab, Florence, ItalyTowards Socially Intelligent Media Content
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Abstracts and Biographies
Vincent Oria
New Jersey Institute of TechnologyModeling Semantics in Multimedia: An Event-Based Approach
Abstract:
Multimedia in principle means data of more than one medium (text, images, audio, and video). Multimedia research has focused on finding the best descriptors for effective content-based retrieval. Solutions were developed for each media type based on low-level features. Although progress was made in specific areas such fingerprint the solutions proposed in general fail to retrieve media objects semantically related. This problem is known as semantic gap. Multimedia data are normally used to capture information and experiences related to events (e.g. wedding, anniversary, graduation, and birthday) or objects (e.g. buildings, people, and pets). Modeling the multimedia data along with the event they are about and the objects involved can help bridge the semantic gaps integrate data from more than one medium.
Biography:
Vincent Oria is an associate professor of computer science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He got a Bachelor and a Master degree in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique of Cote d'Ivoire (ex INSET) respectively in 1983 and 1989 and a PhD from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France in 1994. From 1996 to 1999 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Alberta Canada before joining NJIT in January 2000. His main research interest is multimedia databases but he has also interests in spatial databases, database privacy and security and recommender systems. He has held visiting professor positions at different institutions including the Chinese University of Hong-Kong (China), the National Institute of Informatics, (Tokyo, Japan), FhG-IPSI (Darmstadt, Germany), ENST (Paris, France), University of Paris-IX Dauphine (Paris, France), INRIA (Roquencourt, France), CNAM (Paris France) and the University of Versailles St Quentin (Versailles, France).
Harald Kosch
University of Passau, GermanyInteroperability in Image Retrieval
Abstract:
Interoperability in image retrieval investigates methods and models for interoperable querying and processing of images over heterogeneous and distributed image archives and databases. To go for interoperability, one has to interoperate the manifold image representations available in existing image repositories. The underlying metadata description formats differ much in syntax and semantics, as well as in the way they should be consumed. Recent formats comprise P_META 2.0 (2007), MPEG-7 (continuously updated), NISO MIX 2.0 (2008) and IPTC Photo Metadata 2008. Then, a unified query format to address heterogeneous image archives is another important requirement for interoperability. Finally, an efficient middleware to allow interoperable retrieving, processing and managing of images is required. Each of these problems has been addressed separately, but only few works try to approach the different levels of interoperability in one view. Recently, the ISO/IEC SC29 WG1 (more commonly known as JPEG) established the JPSearch project, which aims to standardize interfaces of an abstract image retrieval framework. In a broader context, the W3C Media Annotations Working Group is to provide an ontology and API designed to facilitate cross-community multimedia data integration. In this talk, I will first present selected solutions to a better interoperability at the different levels pointed out. Then I will expose approaches for combined solutions and explain how the JPSearch project may contribute to a better interoperability. Finally, I will discuss the still open gap among the database-oriented efforts in SQL/MM and the retrieval community for interoperable solutions in image retrieval and databases.
Biography:
Harald Kosch is a full professor at the University of Passau. His actual research topics are multimedia meta-data and databases, multimedia semantics, middleware and Internet applications. He started his research career at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 1993 as a postgraduate student and entered the PhD program in 1994, completing it in June 1997. In 2002, he attained the habilitation at the University of Klagenfurt. In March 2006, he took over the Chair of Distributed Information Systems. Harald Kosch successfully participates in the MPEG and JPEG standardization process, recently in the MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation for intelligent content adaptation, in the definition of the MPEG Query Language (MPQF) and in the JPSearch project aiming to provide a standard for interoperability for image search and retrieval systems. He is one of the co-founders of the multimedia metadata community, and owns several patents. He has been organizing many international conferences and workshops, as well as special issues covering different aspects of multimedia engineering, e.g., recently the Special Issue of IEEE MultiMedia -Multimedia-Metadata and Semantic Management.
Borko Furht
Florida Atlantic University, USAVisions of Computing in the New Global Economy
Abstract:
The first part of our talk is focusing on new trends in computer industry and their impact on computer education. We will address the issues relating to globalization of science including software and hardware development, the interdisciplinary trends, the emergence and integration of computing and life sciences, and other critical issues. We will also discuss new avenues in developing industry/university collaboration in this changing economic world, which we have implemented at FAU. We present several successful projects based on these new collaboration models including the Center for Ocean Energy, High-Definition Telemedicine, Bioinformatics Research Consortium, Mobile Technology Consortium, and High Performance Computing Projects. In the second part of our talk, we present the recent research results from our Multimedia Group including the innovative technique for 3D video compression, and an interactive system for navigation, visualization, and retrieval of video and image data.
Biography:
Borko Furht is a professor and chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. His current research is in multimedia systems, video coding and compression, 3D video and image systems, video databases, wireless multimedia, and Internet computing. He has been Principal Investigator and Co-PI of several multiyear, multimillion dollar projects including the Center for Coastline Security Technologies, funded by the Department of Navy, One Pass to Production, funded by Motorola, the NSF PIRE project on Global Living Laboratory for Cyber Infrastructure Application Enablement, and the NSF funded High-Performance Computing Center. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the areas of multimedia, computer architecture, real-time computing, and operating systems. He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer, 1993). His latest books include "Handbook of Multimedia for Digital Entertainment and Arts" (Springer, 2009) and "Handbook of Media Broadcasting" (CRC Press, 2008). He has received several technical and publishing awards, and has consulted for many high-tech companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, General Electric, JPL, NASA, Honeywell, and RCA, and has been an expert wetness for Cisco and Qualcomm. He has also served as a consultant to various colleges and universities. He has given many invited talks, keynote lectures, seminars, and tutorials. He served on the Board of Directors of several high-tech companies.
Paolo Nesi
University of Florence, DSI DISIT Lab, Florence, ItalyTowards Socially Intelligent Media Content
Abstract:
The evolution of media content passed in last years from simple resources to cross media and rich content towards intelligent content. At the same time, the solutions for content management and distribution passed from simple local applications to grid and cloud computing applications. Large-scale problems and scalability in media intelligent management and distribution have to be addressed to satisfy the needs and requirements of the next years. The talk will report the experience in designing and managing one of the largest European Commission R&D Projects, AXMEDIS, which produced a large integrated framework for automated content production, protection and distribution, addressing multichannel, grid computing, on-demand, descriptors.. The talk will put the accent on addressed complexity and future challenges.
Biography
Paolo Nesi is a full professor at the University of Florence. He founded and is at present responsible of the DISIT research group and LAB working mainly on distributed systems and media, media software engineering, digital rights management, cloud and grid computing, intelligent content, content distribution, p2p, temporal logics, and formal methods. He has been the recipient of several international awards, general chair of international conferences such as IEEE ICSM, IEEE ICECCS, CSMR, and of workshops; scientific committee member of international conferences; tutorial speaker and special issue coordinator. He has been the coordinator of large international R&D projects such as: AXMEDIS, WEDELMUSIC, MUSICNETWORK, MOODS, etc. And, co-Editor of the MPEG ISO SMR standard, contributor to MPEG-21, MPEG M3W, MPEG-4. Paolo Nesi published more than 200 articles for conferences and journals with international reviews, and books.
