CFP: Special Session on Machine Learning with Multimedia Data
Jens Grivolla
== Call for Papers ==
Special Session on Machine Learning with Multimedia Data
at the The Eighth International Conference on Machine Learning and
Applications (ICMLA 2009)
13-15 Dec. 2009, Miami, Florida, USA
http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla09/
AIMS AND SCOPE
The web, as well as TV and radio archives and other sources, give
access
to a growing amount of data in a large variety of formats and media
modalities, often containing useful information.
However, much of this information is not easily accessible and usable,
be it for users or for automatic systems that could make use of it.
While information extraction from written text has seen great advances
and is used by search engines, news aggregators, opinion monitoring
systems, mail filters, and many more, access to information in other
modalities (audio, images, video, ...) is still a very difficult
problem. Machine learning is used with varying success for diverse
tasks
dealing with multimedia data, but many problems remain, ranging from
finding good machine readable representations of the data, extracting
higher level (semantic) features to the development of machine
learning
algorithms capable of dealing with high-dimension spatio-temporal
data.
An important aspect is also the integration of information obtained
from
various modalities, and the possibility for cross-modal access to
information (e.g. textual querying of video recordings).
TOPICS
This session would solicit original research papers including but not
limited to the following:
* Low level feature extraction, selection and transformation
* High level feature extraction from multimedia/cross-media
* Semantic content analysis, classification, and automatic annotation
* Machine learning and statistical models for spoken document
retrieval
* Speech recognition and speaker recognition
* User-access pattern monitoring, modeling, and prediction
* Learning and relevance feedback in multimedia retrieval
* Semi-supervised learning in multimedia data analysis
* Transfer or multitask learning in multimedia/cross-media data
analysis
* Semantic organization/visualization of multimedia and cross-media
data
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: *** July 15, 2009 ***
Notification of acceptance: September 7, 2009
Camera-ready papers & Pre-registration: October 1, 2009
The ICMLA Conference: December 13-15, 2009
The special session will be held as a part of the ICMLA'09 conference.
The authors would submit papers through the main conference submission
website. Papers must correspond to the requirements detailed in the
instructions to authors. Accepted papers must be presented by one of
the
authors to be published in the conference proceeding. If you have any
questions, do not hesitate to direct your questions to Dr. Jens
Grivolla
<jens.g...@barcelonamedia.org>.
All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed
instructions for submitting the papers are provided on the conference
home page at http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla09/
Special Session Organizers:
* Jens Grivolla (Barcelona Media, Information Retrieval and Data
Mining Group, Spain)
* Rafael Banchs (Barcelona Media, Information Retrieval and Data
Mining Group, Spain)
Program Comittee Members:
* Cyril Laurier (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Music Technology Group,
Spain)
* Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Barcelona Media, Information, Technology, and
Society Research Group, Spain)
* Joan Codina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Web Research Group, Spain)
* Joachim Neumann (Telefonica Research, Spain)
* Xavier Anguera (Telefonica Research, Spain)
* Oscar Celma (BMAT, Spain/Mexico)
* Benoit Favre (ICSI-Berkeley, USA)
* Christian Raymond (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France)
* Marc El-Beze (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France)
* Jose San Pedro Wandelmer (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Paul Lamere (The Echo Nest, USA)
* Alberto Messina (RAI - Centre for Research and Technological
Innovation, Italy)
* Maurizio Montagnuolo (RAI - Centre for Research and Technological
Innovation, Italy)
* Elie El Khoury (IRIT, France)
* David Crandall (Cornell University, USA)
* Lyndon Kennedy (Yahoo! Research, USA)
* Roberto Basili (Univ. of Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy)
* Pierre Jourlin (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, France)
* Paul Brossier (Fluendo, Spain)
* Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research Singapore)
* Teva Merlin (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite du Maine,
France)
* Nicolas Scheffer (SRI International, USA)
* Jialie Shen (School of Information Systems, Singapore Management
University)
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