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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems
Applications
(DEXA 2008)
September 1 - 5, 2008 Turin, Italy
1st Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production
(AIEMPro08)
http://www.crit.rai.it/AIEMPro08/
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===MOTIVATIONS===
The Media Industry, with television broadcasters in the first line, are
being revolutionised by the development of Information and Communication
Technology and by the new working models introduced by the Internet 2.0.
Media production workflows are substantially influenced by new ways of
acquiring, elaborating and publi****ng audiovisual material. In this
context,
automatic information extraction techniques based on audiovisual content
analysis are seen as an interesting and promising option to streamline
these
processes and lower the total cost of new productions, and as a way to
help
to disseminate existing archives. This line of development has been
recently
recognised by the European Broadcasting Union as of crucial im****tance, by
setting up a specific technical group on the subject (P/SCAIE).
Though an immense amount of resources are spent by the research community
in
the broadly recognised area of multimedia semantic extraction,
unfortunately
little exploitation of these efforts has happened in industrial
applications.
The workshop aims at attracting the attention of researchers and
practitioners in the field of automatic information extraction based on
audiovisual content analysis on the problems related with media industry
production processes. In particular, the objective is to analyse the
impact
and performances of these tools in real-life applications, and on
real-life
material.
Authors are encouraged to submit papers on which they enlighten the
features
of existing or novel tools in the key aspects of media production,
including
acquisition, editing, publi****ng, archiving and repurposing of audiovisual
material.
===TOPICS OF INTEREST====
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
I) Efficient and real-time audiovisual indexing in acquisition
II) Automated repurposing of archived material on new media
channels
III) Automated news production
IV) Efficient indexing and retrieval of multimedia streams
V) Automatic speech recognition and personality identification
VI) Collaborative systems for media production
VII) Information Retrieval systems from Multimedia Archives
VIII) Automated material copyright infraction detection and
material
fingerprinting
IX) Content summarisation (e.g., s****ts highlights)
X) Audiovisual genre and editorial format detection and
characterisation
XI) Cross-media indexing and integration
XII) Content segmentation tools (e.g., shot and scene
segmentation)
XIII) Evaluation methods for multimedia analysis tools
To make the event even more challenging, the organising committee will
make
available a considerable amount of audiovisual material taken from some of
the major European broadcasters archives (see website of the workshop for
furhter information).
Prospective authors may decide to test their technologies on this
material,
in order to further prove the effectiveness of their research in a real
scenario.
===PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW===
The full paper submission is limited to 5 pages in length, following the
IEEE format (information downloadable at
http://www.computer.org/****tal/site/cscps/index.jsp).
Simultaneous
submission to another conference/workshop/journal is not allowed.
Papers must be original and have not been published or under consideration
for publications elsewhere. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three
members of the programme committee recognised for their competence in the
field covered by the paper.
Final decision about inclusion in the workshop proceedings will be taken
by
the PC members exclusively on the basis of the obtained reviews and levels
of recommendation.
Papers must be registered using the DEXA conference management software
(https://www.dexa.org/dexadriver)
===IM****TANT DATES===
Submission of Full Papers: March 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance:
April
20, 2008
Camera-ready Copies: May 15, 2008
===PROGRAMME COMMITTEE===
Alberto Messina (chair) (RAI R&D, Italy)
Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research, Austria)
Prof. Matteo Baldoni (University of Turin, Italy)
Prof. Robetro Basili (University of Rome Torvergata, Italy)
Dr. Gloria Bordogna (National Council of Research IDPA, Italy)
Roberto Borgotallo (RAI R&D, Italy) Prof. Selcuk Candan
(Arizona State University, USA)
Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Florence, Italy)
Prof. Hermann Hellwagner (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Prof. Franciska de Jong (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Prof. Rosa Meo (University of Turin, Italy)
Dr. Maurizio Montagnuolo (euriX s.r.l., Italy)
Prof. Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy)
Natalia Pavlova (VGTRK Archives, Russia)
Prof. Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Turin, Italy)
Birgit Schroeter (Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik , Germany)
Prof. Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Birgitte Stannius (Danish Radio Archives, Denmark)
Dr. Robbie De Sutter (Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep R&D,
Belgium)
Dr. Nobuyuki Yagi (NHK R&D, Japan)
Prof. Rik van de Walle (Ghent University . IBBT Multimedia Lab,
Belgium)
===WORKSHOP ORGANISERS===
Alberto Messina RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Centre for Research and
Technological Innovation, Corso Giambone, 68 I-10135 Turin (Italy)
Tel: +39 011 8103184
Fax: +39 011 6193779
e-mail: a.messina@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Evain European Broadcasting Union . Union Européenne de
Radiotélévision
L'Ancienne-Route, 17A CH-1218 Grand-Saconnex (Switzerland)
Tel: +41 22 717 27 34
Fax: +41 22 747 47 34
e-mail : evain@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robbie De Sutter
Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep - Medialab Zuiderpoort Gaston
Crommenlaan,
10 B-9050 Gent - Ledeberg (Belgium)
Tel: +32 (0) 9 331 48 49
Fax: + 32 (0) 9 331 48 05
e-mail: robbie.desutter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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