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document map Main Menu Home Coordination The MUSCLE Scientific Coordination is ensure by the Network Steerign Committee, headed by Dr Nozha Boujemaa , INRIA Imedia. The Administrative and Financial oordination of the Network is under the responsibility of ERCIM,  represented by Patricia Ho-Hune... Research & Integration MUSCLE aims at creating and supporting a pan-European Network of Excellence to foster close collaboration between research groups in multimedia datamining on the one hand, and machine learning on the other in order to make breakthrough progress towards... Workpackages WP1: Coordination Scientific Coordination: Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA-IMEDIA) Administrative Coordination: Patricia Ho-Hune & Remi Ronchaud (ERCIM)WP 2: Evaluation, Integration and Standards WP Leader: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna-PRIP) The principal objective... Overview MUSCLE project ended on 28 February 2008 MUSCLE Network of Excellence ended at the end of February 2008. You can find the Final report below. As a follow-up of the project, the partners continue their activities into a MUSCLE ERCIM's Working Group ... MUSCLE final report Download the MUSCLE final report. This brochure will be sent to MUSCLE partners upon request. ... Book on Machine Learning Techniques Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Publication date: 27 February 2008 - Springer link Flyer  Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Case Studies on Organization and Retrieval Series: Cognitive Technologies Cord, Matthieu;... Sponsored Events  The following events and meetings are (co-)sponsored by MUSCLE. Network members are therefore encouraged to submit their work to the appropriate workshops are conferences.  Fourth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing... Public Scientific Deliverables   D.5.1 Single Modality Processing: State of the Art Report   Authors/Eds: Nozha Boujemaa, Valerie Gouet-Brunet   Latest update: Sept 2005   Download: PDF-file (2.0 MB)   D.6.1 Cross-Modal Integration for Performance... MUSCLE Institutes ACV Advanced Computer Vision, Austria ARMINES ARMINES AUTH Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bilkent University Bilkent University (Turkey) CEA Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France CNR-ISTI Consiglio Nazionale... People ... Governance Additional SC members  Sanni Siltanen (VTT)  Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu (ENST)Tamas  Sziranyi (SZTAKI) I ... Mobility The Mobility grant scheme has been suspended in JPA4 To facilitate collaboration within the Network, MUSCLE has earmarked part of its budget to stimulate mobility through its mobility grants. These grants are meant to cover the expenses of MUSCLE researchers... Workpackages Reporting Submit your Activity Report  Submit your Person Month Report Note: Older reports can be accessed on the BSCW server  Bi-Monthly Report #10: Sep-Oct 2005   Bi-Monthly Report #11: Nov-Dec 2005   Bi-Monthly Report... Objectives WP2: EIS (Evaluation, Integration and Standards) The principal objective of this workpackage is to co-ordinate activities that facilitate within and between research workpackage collaboration. This principal objective can be divided into several... Documents & Deliverables Documents and Deliverables The following pages contain WP2-related documents: Information on metadata Conditions of Use of Software and Data, Submission of Software and Data to the repositoryGuidelines of Standards for Representation and Exchange... Demos & Ressources Demos & ResourcesResources MUSCLE data and software repository4M: an infrastructure for MultiMedia Metadata Management ... Meetings MeetingsWorkshops MUSCLE ImageCLEF Workshops on the Evaluation of Image and Video Retrieval E-Team Workshop on ‘Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management’ in occasion of the Fifth International Workshop... E-teams WP2 E-teamsE-team on the Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management The purpose of the E-Team is to facilitate and promote communication and exchange. Since the partners in this E-Team have different areas of interest... Members MembersWP Leader: Allan Hanbury , Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group, Institute of Computer Aided Automation, Vienna University of Technology. WP Sub-Leader: Ovidio Salvetti , Head of Signals and Images Laboratory of the... Muscle Conference The latest Muscle conference was held at Palais Stéphanie by Sofitel in Cannes, France on 11 and 12 February 2008. The videos of the presentations are now available (click on the logo below) This event highlighted and demonstrated the major... VMDL07 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON VISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA DIGITAL LIBRARIES (VMDL07) Modena, Italy, September 13-14, 2007 Joint DELOS-MUSCLE workshop Programme Chairs:   Alberto del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, Italy Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA... MUSCLE @Intersec 2008 MUSCLE  had a stand at INTERSEC'08 Fair which was held at Dubai,UAE between 13-15 January 2008.INTERSEC is the largest Security, Fire, Safety & Health and Police & Homeland Security Exhibition in the Middle East. There are four main... 8th ACM SIGMM 8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval - MIR 200627/10/2006  Santa Barbara, CA, USA In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006 http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/ http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2006/callforpapers... MUSCLE at CIVR 2007 MUSCLE will participate to technical demos at CIVR 2007. The 6th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007) will take place in Amsterdam , the Netherlands during 9-11 July 2007. The showcase events are sponsored by MUSCLE NoE... CHORUS events A two-day event: March 13, 2007, 9:00 to 17:30 hours:  CHORUS Workshop "Use Cases and New Services for Multimedia Content Search" March 14, 2007, 9:00 to 18 hours:  D2 Spring 2007 Concertation Meeting March... MCS 2007: SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS The SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25 2007MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international... RIAO 2007 RIAO 2007 Large Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound)30/05/2007  Pittsburgh, PA, USA -- Carnegie Mellon University Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research that has been validated to... 3rd European Conference... 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production29/11/2006  Savoy Place, London, UK CVMP 2006 is the third in a series of events bringing together practitioners in media production from film, broadcast and games with researchers in imaging and graphics... Intern. Conference on ... Intern. Conference on Mass-Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology and Chemistry MDA´200718/07/2007  Leipzig The automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry is a challenging and... ICDIM 2006 ICDIM 200606/12/2006  Bangalore, India Call For Papers, Workshops and Tutorials IEEE First International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006 Bangalore, India Sponsored by IEEE (http://www.icdim.org) All... MUSCLE Plenary Meeting 6, 7, 8 December 2006 Paris Important Notice: This Plenary Meeting will be the opportunity to actively launch the JPA3 activities. Focus will be on e-Teams driven activities and the presentation of the SHOWCASING activity. Thus several internal projects... ISMIR 2006 ISMIR 2006: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval08/10/2006  Victoria, Canada The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects... International Conference International Conference on Image Processing08/10/2006  Atlanta The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research... International Conference International Conference on Music Information Retrieval08/10/2006  Victoria, Canada The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects the tremendous... IEEE Multimedia... IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop03/10/2006  Victoria, Canada More information   ... Press Release  American Technion Society:Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter Jan 4 2007 [[ Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have found a way to give computers encyclopedic knowledge of the world to help them “think... Download Logo           Muscle large: 5000 * 1600   ... Book Projects Title: Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Editor/Contact person: Matthieu Cord, Padraig Cunningham Table of Contents (Version 1.2) Publication date : 27/02/2008 Springer - Flyer Working title: Multimodal Processing and InteractionEditor/Contact... MUSCLE Courseware Lectures taught at the first MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" (12-17 June 2006, San Vincenzo, Italy). This event was jointly organised with the... Batch 2: March 2006 Multimedia metadata: bridging the gap from low-level media specific features to high-level domain-specific semantic terms  Fellow:    Suzanne Little  Supervision:  ISTI and IBAI  Feature subset selection and multi-sensor... Batch 1: October 2004 Understanding and Benchmarking CBIR Methods  Fellow:    Gareth Loy  Supervision:  KTH and TUVienna-PRIP   Learning Basis Functions for Object Representation  Fellow:    Huicheng Zheng  ... CHORUS Event CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission10th October 2007, Geneva This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will bring together the technical, administrative... CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will **bring together** the technical, administrative and financial representatives of the **various national intitiatives**, which have been established... The first DELOS-MUSCLE The first DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" will be held in San Vincenzo (close to Pisa, Italy) from Mon 12 -- Fri 17 June 2006. ... The DELOS MUSCLE... The DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool Lecture Videos are now available ON-LINE ... ERCIM Fellowship Programme ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship ProgrammeThe fellowships are available for PhD holders from all over the world. Fellowships are generally of 18 month duration, spent in two of the ERCIM institutes. Competitive salary. The application form... Showcases MUSCLE has launched several SHOWCASING projects destined to produce higlhy visual demonstrations of the Multimedia expertise of the different teams involed in the Network of Excellence. The results will be presented to the community mid 2007.  Yet,... MUSCLE @ IBC 2007 MUSCLE will participate to the IBC exhibition 2007 , 6- 11 September in Amsterdam. MUSCLE will demonstrate its showcases in the New Technology Campus together with NEM . article on AlphaGalileo artivle on CORDIS ... The Fith International... The Fifth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing CBMI-2007 will take place in Bordeaux, France on June 25-27, 2007. There will be a special session on MUSCLE-related research. More information will follow shortly.will take place... MUSCLE @ CeBIT The MUSCLE Network of Excellence (NoE) presented its activities and showcases at a booth at CeBIT, the largest IT event worldwide, from 15 to 21.3.2007 in Hanover, Germany. As part of its dissemination activities, various partners of the NoE presented... MCS 2007 The SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25 2007 MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international... University of Freiburg wins ... University of Freiburg wins the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification CompetitionThe prize for the best performing coin classification program in the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification Competition went to Marco Reisert, Olaf Ronneberger and Hans Burkhardt of... MUSCLE Plenary Meeting The next MUSCLE Plenary Meeting wil be held in Paris from the 6 to 8 of December 2006. This Plenary Meeting will be the opportunity to present the new MUSCLE work programme in detail and to launch some specific E-Teams activities and Showcasing projects... Plenary Meeting Photos Muscle Plenary meeting photos of the dinner and the Steering Committee lunch ... Studentship Offer at... Studentship Offer at UCL, UKExploitation of imagery in an ad hoc network environment UCL in conjunction with Thales Optronic Division. This is a 4-year studentship, leading to the award of an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Degree, which offers the opportunity... At ICPR06... At ICPR06, MUSCLE researcher Petra Perner was elected IAPR Fellow for her contributions to image interpretation based on case-based reasoning, machine learning and data mining, and for services to IAPR. ... A report on the... A report on the DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool is published on the CORDIS Wire latest press releases . ... Objectives  The aim of this work-package is to prepare numerical visual data to knowledge extraction and multimodality semantics association. Tasks will focus on visual content indexing and mining (still images and video). There is a progression from low-level,... Documents & Deliverables Demos & Ressources Here is a list of the Showcases shared between WP3 and other WPs Image Retrieval Evaluation Showcase : project leaders: Allan Hanbury, TUV-PRIP and Cees Snoek, UvA; partner INRIA-IMEDIA Dynamic Texture Detection in Video , project leader: Enis Cetin,... Meetings E-teams  E-Team 2: Visual saliency – Leaders:Alexis Joly/Nozha Boujemaa E-Team 3: Person detection and recognition, tracking and analysis – Leaders: Montse Pardas / Enis Cetin E-Team 4: Shape modeling - Leader: Ian Jermyn E-Team 5: Choosing... Members WP Leader: Nicu Sebe , Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.... BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience (previously: Shaping 3-dimensional Environments) Leaders: Michael Dittenbach and Helmut Berger, EC3 Contact person: Johannes Sperlhofer, EC3 Partners: EC3TU Vienna-IFS Summary: Generating, publishing and, most... Object recognition Object recognition showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UVA  Partners: TU Vienna–PRIP (Allan Hanbury, Julian Stottinger)INRIA-IMEDIA (Jaume Amores, Nozha Boujemaa)Goals: The objective of the showcase is to create a demo of object recognition including... Evaluation showcase Evaluation showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UvA and Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna-IFS Partners: TU Vienna–IFS (Andreas Rauber, Thomas Lidy, Jakob Frank)UvA (Nicu Sebe, Cees Snoek)IRIT (Julien Pinquier, Thomas Foures, Philippe Joly)AIIA – AUTH (Costas... CASEWP Content Analysis Showcase and Evaluation Web Portal (CASEWP)This Showcase was integrated into the Evaluation Showcase in JPA4. Please find the results on the Evaluation Showcase page. Leaders: Andreas Rauber, TU WIEN and Joly Philippe, institut... ACADI Automatic Character (in Audiovisual Document) Indexing (ACADI) Leader: Julien Pinquier, UPS-IRIT   Partners: Frederick Gianni, Julien Pinquier (UPS-IRIT) and Ewa Kijak (INRIA-Texmex)Description: We propose a system which permits to describe and... Content-Based Copy... Content-Based Copy Detection for Videos and Still Images Leaders: Nozha Boujemaa and Alexis Joly INRIA-IMEDIA Partners: INRIA - IMEDIA team (France), A. Joly, N. Boujemaa, J. Law-ToINA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France), D.Terouggi, O. Buisson, J... Real Time Detector for Unusual Behaviour Real Time Detector for unusual behaviour Leader: Tamas Sziranyi, MTA SzTAKI  Partners: UPC, SZTAKI, Bilkent, ACVSummary: Visual surveillance and activity analysis has attained great interest in the field of computer vision research. Several... Movie Summarization... Movie Summarisation and Skimming Demonstrator Leader: Petros Maragos, ICCS-NTUA Partners: ICCS-NTUA, Greece (P. Maragos, K. Rapantzikos, G. Evangelopoulos, I. Avrithis)AUTH, Greece (C. Kotropoulos, P. Antonopoulos, V. Moschou, N... Dynamic Texture... Dynamic Texture  Detection in Video Leaders: Enis Cetin, Bilkent University and Dimitry Chetverikov, MTA SZTAKI Partners: Bilkent University (B. Ugur Toreyin, Y. Dedeoglu, A.Enis Cetin (project leader))SZTAKI (S. Fazekas, D. Chetverikov)Tel Aviv... Augmented assembly using... Augmented assembly using a multimodal interface Leader: Sanni Siltanen, VTT Partners: VTT Technical Research Centre of FinlandTechnical University of Crete Description of the system: In this showcase a multimodal user interface for augmented assembly... Real-Time Audio-Visual ... Real-Time Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition Demonstrator Leader: Alexanderos Potamianos, TSI-TUC Partners: TSI-TUC (Alexandros Potamianos, Manolis Perakakis, Eduardo Sanchez-Soto, Fanis Kanetis)ICCS-NTUA (Petros Maragos, George Papandreou, Nassos... Articulatory talking head... Articulatory talking head driven by automatic speech recognition Leader: Jacques Feldmar, INRIA PAROLE  Partners: KTHNRIA-Parole Objective of the showcase project: The objective of the showcase is to recreate in real-time the articulatory movements... Visual Tags for Mobile Services A VIDEO CLIP demonstrates the use of 2D bar codes for physical browsing. The mobile phone automatically detects the code, reads the information, and acts according to it.   Contact: Sanni Siltanen (VTT).   For more... Visual Active Memory Application Understanding and Annotating Tennis The research sets out to explore how an active memory system, operating at several different semantic levels, might lead to a degree of machine understanding when applied to specific scenarios. At present the system... Automatic classification of coins Researchers at Seibersdorf Research developed a visual inspection system that is capable of automatically recognizing and sorting vast quantities of coins. Contact: Michael Noelle (Seibersdorf Research)     This video might have some... Accurate delineation of piecewise smooth optical flow Researchers at Tel Aviv University developed a new algorithm to accurate extract piecewise smooth optical flow-fields by minimizing an appropriate cost functional. Since discontinuities in the vector field... Detecting Falling People Software developed by Enis Cetin's group at Bilkent University is capable of telling the difference between a person sitting down and one actually falling. This technology might prove very useful for intelligent surveillance of vulnerable... Eyetracking improves image retrievalRecent experiments have shown that visual target selection is significantly faster with an eyetracker than with a mouse. This mechanism has now been developed into an interface for image retrieval in which the user is able to... An Online Learning Framework for Object Detection, Tracking and Recognition. ICG (TU Graz) have developed a novel framework for object detection, tracking and recognition. Unlike other approaches we are interested in a seamless integration of these modules. Detection and tracking... Human Detection   in Difficult Scenarios by Combining Motion and Appearance Reliable human detection is a key issue in automated visual surveillance systems. Motion detection provides a strong cue towards accomplishing this task. However, typical scenarios... RETIN An Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval System Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems have attracted large amounts of research attention since 1990's. Contrary to the early systems, focused on full-automatic strategies, recent approaches... Map of Mozart Mozart's complete works analyzed Andi Rauber's team focuses on research for Music Information Retrieval and thus on methods which enable automatic recognition of style, genre or artist of a piece of music or retrieval of similar music. Moreover,... PlaySOM Innovative interfaces for music categorization and access By applying SOM neural nets to automatically analyzed audio content (frequency spectra), researchers at TUWien-IFS have created a very innovative way to organize music by sound similarity... Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image Annotation Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image AnnotationContact person: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna -PRIP) Synopsis: In this e-team, we will work on: Feature extraction and selection for CBIR and image annotation.CBIR using Baysian methods operating on... Statistical analysis of visual processes Statistical analysis of visual processesContact person: Yann Gousseau Synopsis: Keywords: Additonal info: E-Team's n/a ... Multimodal Processing and Multimedia Understanding Multimodal Processing and Multimedia UnderstandingContact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: This e-team will research the following topics: (i) Video Analysis and Integration of Asynchronous Time-evolving Modalities, (ii) Audio-Visual Salient... Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devices Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devicesContact person: Alexandros Potamianos (TSI-TUC) Synopsis: This e-team will investigate how multimodal technology can be used to create efficient and natural interfaces for information retrieval and other applications... Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR) Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR)Contact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: AV Feature ExtractionFeature Fusion Dynamical Models for AV-ASR Evaluation Keywords: feature extraction, speech recognition, multimodal,... Visual Saliency Visual SaliencyContact person: INRIA Imedia Synopsis: We will investigate and develop saliency operators for images and video sequences, e.g. based on local descriptors with point-of interest detection and description. Once salient regions have been... Kernel methods in dynamic classification problems Kernel methods in dynamic classification problemsContact person: Khalid Daoudi Synopsis: Kernel methods have shown their power in static classification problems. The best example is definitely the support vectors machine (SVM) which is the most popular... Active Semi-Supervised Learning Active Semi-Supervised LearningContact person: Michel Crucianu, INRIA Synopsis: Multimedia databases are characterized by large amounts of rather cheap data and small amounts of quite expensive knowledge. Among the many existing frameworks for learning,... Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in Video Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in VideoContact person: Enis Cetin Synopsis: Researchers extensively studied 2-D textures and related problems in the field of image processing. On the other hand, there is very little research on three-dimensional... Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for Music Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for MusicContact person: Andreas Rauber Synopsis: This eTeam will collaborate on different methods for audio feature extraction and their appliance in both supervized classification as well as unsuperviced... Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata managementContact person: Ovidio Salvetti (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: (Semi-)automatic MM metadata specification process - Information extraction techniques - Intelligent approaches - Semantic... Person detection, recognition and tracking Person detection, recognition and trackingContact person: Montse Pardas Synopsis: This e-team is relevant to WP5 (Single modality processing) and WP11 (Integration and Grand Challenges: Detecting and interpreting humans and human behaviour in videos)... Shape modelling Shape modellingContact person: INRIA Ariana Synopsis: Learning shapes and recognizing shapes is a central part of image database indexing strategies. This e-team will focus on shape modelling. Its scope includes shape analysis and learning, prior-based... Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel data Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel dataContact person: Emanuele Salerno (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: The aim of this e-team is to study the problem of identifying and extracting the different components in a multichannel image without... Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Contact person: graziano.bertini AT isti.cnr.it (ISTI) Synopsis: Evaluation of different features sets for audio, music and instruments classification, in several applications - Events “... Objectives WP4: Content Description for Audio, Speech and Text  The aim of this work-package is to prepare numerical multimedia data to knowledge extraction and multimodality semantics association. Tasks will focus on each single modality of text, audio... Documents & Deliverables Documents and DeliverablesReport on Benchmark-Based EvaluationsMUSCLE, the Network of Excellence on Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning consolidates research groups that are exploring methods for knowledge extraction from... Demos & Ressources Showcases:Content Analysis Showcase and Evaluation Web Portal (now: Evaluation Showcase)The goal of this showcase is to bring together and demonstrate the wide range of semantic analysis and annotation capabilities that are present within MUSCLE. Based... Meetings Meetings and EventsMeetingsInternational Workshop on Language Resources for Content-Based Image Retrieval (OntoImage 2006), organized by CEA, May 22 2006, Genoa, Italy E-Team 9 Planning Meeting, CNR - TU Vienna-IFS, San Miniato, Italy, June 8... E-teams E-teams of WP4Semantic from Audio (E-team 7) This eTeam will collaborate on different methods for audio feature extraction and their appliance in both supervized classification as well as unsuperviced organization as a means to access and explore audio... Members Members of WP4WP Leader: Andreas Rauber (TU VIENNA IFS) Deputy WP Leaders:  Khalid Daoudi (Speech Processing) Gregory Grefenstette (Text and Natural Language Processing) Members: KTH BILKENT MTA SZTAKI CNR-ISTI... Software Resources    Below is a list of software that has been developed with the MUSCLE project. It is sorted by type of software and by whether it is proprietary or available under a GNU or similar license. For proprietary software, please contact the person... Public Scientific Deliverables   D.5.1 Single Modality Processing: State of the Art Report   Authors/Eds: Nozha Boujemaa, Valerie Gouet-Brunet   Latest update: Sept 2005   Download: PDF-file (2.0 MB)   D.6.1 Cross-Modal Integration for Performance... Challenges and Roadmaps Introduction The scientific work in the Network is typically urged on by two different driving forces: On the one hand there is the bottom-up, grass roots momentum created by individual researchers pushing their interests and trying to set up... Objectives Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Documents & Deliverables List of D5 and old D6 Deliverables: D6.1: State of the Art in the areas of cross-modal interaction and integration (Due date: 31/08/2004) D6.2: Scientific Papers and Technical Reports - Months 1 to 18 (Due date: 31/08/2005) DN5.2: Scientific... Demos & Ressources Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Meetings Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Members Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Workpackages WP1: Coordination Scientific Coordination: Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA-IMEDIA) Administrative Coordination: Patricia Ho-Hune & Remi Ronchaud (ERCIM)WP 2: Evaluation, Integration and Standards WP Leader: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna-PRIP) The principal objective... Objectives and Description This new workpackage brings together the activities covered by the old workpages WP8  Machine Learning for Multimedia Content  and WP7 Computation. The objectives of this workpackage include: (1) development of new ML techniques specific... Documents & Deliverables Here are links to completed deliverables and a list of outstanding ones. Deliverable 6.1 (Technical reports on completion of each of the tasks, and one intermediate technical report for each task). The intermediate reports are due in Month 36. The final... Demos & Ressources Meetings E-teams There are 3 e-teams directly connected with workpackage 6: Kernel methods in dynamic classification;Active semi-supervised learning;Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multi-channel data. ... Members JPA2 WP1: CoordinationScientific Coordination: Eric Pauwels (CWI)Administrative Coordination: Remi Ronchaud (ERCIM) WP2: Building the Virtual LabWP Leader: Eric Pauwels (CWI)The primary objective of the NoE Virtual Lab is to facilitate collaboration and integration... JPA1 Goals for JPA3 With the start of JPA3 the Network is entering the second half of its lifecycle it therefore becomes increasingly more important to engage outside parties, industry in particular. To this end it is clearly helpful to take advantage of a number of EC-backed... Muscle Objectives MUSCLE aims at creating and supporting a pan-European Network of Excellence to foster close collaboration between research groups in multimedia datamining on the one hand, and machine learning on the other in order to make breakthrough progress towards... Industrial Contacts and Publicity By organizing and attending several conferences, workshops, fairs, competitions MUSCLE-NoE dispersed its results besides academic society to industry and public. This web-page gives information about the newspaper articles about MUSCLE showcases, and... Objectives  The principal objective of this workpackage is reflected in its subtitle "Bringing the Grand Challenges to the End Users": i.e. developing targeted research projects designed to deliver highly demonstrable results for showcasing, while... Documents & Deliverables  DN7.1 Creation and maintenance of WP webpage detailing potential showcase projects  DN7.2 Update of webpage for software components (including specification of Terms of Use).    DN7.3 Organisation of Software Component Exchange Workshop... Dissemination Activities & Resources MUSCLE-NoE organized and attended to several events to disseminate its results. In the first years of the project, more emphasize on the academic events e.g. conferences and workshops were given. Several showcase project teams were formed in those years... Meetings Human Activity Analysis WorkshopBarcelona, 22-23 January, 2007 UPC, Campus Nord, Building D4-Sala de Juntes Meeting Program:22nd January 10:00 ACV-Csaba Beleznai: "Multiple Object Tracking Using Local PCA " 10:30 UVA-Ivo Everts: "Cooperative... E-teams There are no E-teams associated with this WP. ... Members WP-7 Coordinator: A. Enis Cetin, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Associate Coordinator: Andreas Rauber, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria ... E-teams The purpose of E-teams is to stimulate scientific collaboration between different MUSCLE partners. As the success of such collaborations is best measured in terms of scientific output, E-team activity will be evaluated first and foremost in terms of... Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image Annotation Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image AnnotationContact person: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna -PRIP) Synopsis: In this e-team, we will work on: Feature extraction and selection for CBIR and image annotation.CBIR using Baysian methods operating on... Statistical analysis of visual processes Statistical analysis of visual processesContact person: Yann Gousseau Synopsis: Keywords: Additonal info: E-Team's n/a ... Multimodal Processing and Multimedia Understanding Multimodal Processing and Multimedia UnderstandingContact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: This e-team will research the following topics: (i) Video Analysis and Integration of Asynchronous Time-evolving Modalities, (ii) Audio-Visual Salient... Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devices Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devicesContact person: Alexandros Potamianos (TSI-TUC) Synopsis: This e-team will investigate how multimodal technology can be used to create efficient and natural interfaces for information retrieval and other applications... Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR) Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR)Contact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: AV Feature ExtractionFeature Fusion Dynamical Models for AV-ASR Evaluation Keywords: feature extraction, speech recognition, multimodal,... Visual Saliency Visual SaliencyContact person: INRIA Imedia Synopsis: We will investigate and develop saliency operators for images and video sequences, e.g. based on local descriptors with point-of interest detection and description. Once salient regions have been... Kernel methods in dynamic classification problems Kernel methods in dynamic classification problemsContact person: Khalid Daoudi Synopsis: Kernel methods have shown their power in static classification problems. The best example is definitely the support vectors machine (SVM) which is the most popular... Active Semi-Supervised Learning Active Semi-Supervised LearningContact person: Michel Crucianu, INRIA Synopsis: Multimedia databases are characterized by large amounts of rather cheap data and small amounts of quite expensive knowledge. Among the many existing frameworks for learning,... Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in Video Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in VideoContact person: Enis Cetin Synopsis: Researchers extensively studied 2-D textures and related problems in the field of image processing. On the other hand, there is very little research on three-dimensional... Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for Music Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for MusicContact person: Andreas Rauber Synopsis: This eTeam will collaborate on different methods for audio feature extraction and their appliance in both supervized classification as well as unsuperviced... Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata managementContact person: Ovidio Salvetti (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: (Semi-)automatic MM metadata specification process - Information extraction techniques - Intelligent approaches - Semantic... Person detection, recognition and tracking Person detection, recognition and trackingContact person: Montse Pardas Synopsis: This e-team is relevant to WP5 (Single modality processing) and WP11 (Integration and Grand Challenges: Detecting and interpreting humans and human behaviour in videos)... Shape modelling Shape modellingContact person: INRIA Ariana Synopsis: Learning shapes and recognizing shapes is a central part of image database indexing strategies. This e-team will focus on shape modelling. Its scope includes shape analysis and learning, prior-based... Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel data Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel dataContact person: Emanuele Salerno (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: The aim of this e-team is to study the problem of identifying and extracting the different components in a multichannel image without... Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Contact person: graziano.bertini AT isti.cnr.it (ISTI) Synopsis: Evaluation of different features sets for audio, music and instruments classification, in several applications - Events “... Fellowships The MUSCLE Fellowship Programme was launched to enable young scientists to perform research at MUSCLE institutes. The fellowships are available for PhD holders from all over the world. The objective of this Programme is to enable bright young scientists... Batch 2: March 2006 Multimedia metadata: bridging the gap from low-level media specific features to high-level domain-specific semantic terms  Fellow:    Suzanne Little  Supervision:  ISTI and IBAI  Feature subset selection and multi-sensor... Batch 1: October 2004 Understanding and Benchmarking CBIR Methods  Fellow:    Gareth Loy  Supervision:  KTH and TUVienna-PRIP   Learning Basis Functions for Object Representation  Fellow:    Huicheng Zheng  ... Roadmaps Introduction The scientific work in the Network is typically urged on by two different driving forces: On the one hand there is the bottom-up, grass roots momentum created by individual researchers pushing their interests and trying to set up... Deliverables   D.5.1 Single Modality Processing: State of the Art Report   Authors/Eds: Nozha Boujemaa, Valerie Gouet-Brunet   Latest update: Sept 2005   Download: PDF-file (2.0 MB)   D.6.1 Cross-Modal Integration for Performance... Softwares    Below is a list of software that has been developed with the MUSCLE project. It is sorted by type of software and by whether it is proprietary or available under a GNU or similar license. For proprietary software, please contact the person... Papers Dissemination Showcases   The following examples are illustrative and meant to give a flavour of the research that is being conducted within the Network.... MUSCLE project ended on 28 February 2008 MUSCLE Network of Excellence ended at the end of February 2008. You can find the Final report below. As a follow-up of the project, the partners continue their activities into a MUSCLE ERCIM's Working Group ... MUSCLE final report Download the MUSCLE final report. This brochure will be sent to MUSCLE partners upon request. ... Book on Machine Learning Techniques Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Publication date: 27 February 2008 - Springer link Flyer  Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Case Studies on Organization and Retrieval Series: Cognitive Technologies Cord, Matthieu;... Sponsored Events  The following events and meetings are (co-)sponsored by MUSCLE. Network members are therefore encouraged to submit their work to the appropriate workshops are conferences.  Fourth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing... Public Scientific Deliverables   D.5.1 Single Modality Processing: State of the Art Report   Authors/Eds: Nozha Boujemaa, Valerie Gouet-Brunet   Latest update: Sept 2005   Download: PDF-file (2.0 MB)   D.6.1 Cross-Modal Integration for Performance... MUSCLE Institutes ACV Advanced Computer Vision, Austria ARMINES ARMINES AUTH Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bilkent University Bilkent University (Turkey) CEA Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France CNR-ISTI Consiglio Nazionale... People ... Governance Additional SC members  Sanni Siltanen (VTT)  Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu (ENST)Tamas  Sziranyi (SZTAKI) I ... Mobility The Mobility grant scheme has been suspended in JPA4 To facilitate collaboration within the Network, MUSCLE has earmarked part of its budget to stimulate mobility through its mobility grants. These grants are meant to cover the expenses of MUSCLE researchers... Workpackages Reporting Submit your Activity Report  Submit your Person Month Report Note: Older reports can be accessed on the BSCW server  Bi-Monthly Report #10: Sep-Oct 2005   Bi-Monthly Report #11: Nov-Dec 2005   Bi-Monthly Report... Objectives WP2: EIS (Evaluation, Integration and Standards) The principal objective of this workpackage is to co-ordinate activities that facilitate within and between research workpackage collaboration. This principal objective can be divided into several... Documents & Deliverables Documents and Deliverables The following pages contain WP2-related documents: Information on metadata Conditions of Use of Software and Data, Submission of Software and Data to the repositoryGuidelines of Standards for Representation and Exchange... Demos & Ressources Demos & ResourcesResources MUSCLE data and software repository4M: an infrastructure for MultiMedia Metadata Management ... Meetings MeetingsWorkshops MUSCLE ImageCLEF Workshops on the Evaluation of Image and Video Retrieval E-Team Workshop on ‘Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management’ in occasion of the Fifth International Workshop... E-teams WP2 E-teamsE-team on the Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management The purpose of the E-Team is to facilitate and promote communication and exchange. Since the partners in this E-Team have different areas of interest... Members MembersWP Leader: Allan Hanbury , Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group, Institute of Computer Aided Automation, Vienna University of Technology. WP Sub-Leader: Ovidio Salvetti , Head of Signals and Images Laboratory of the... Muscle Conference The latest Muscle conference was held at Palais Stéphanie by Sofitel in Cannes, France on 11 and 12 February 2008. The videos of the presentations are now available (click on the logo below) This event highlighted and demonstrated the major... VMDL07 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON VISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA DIGITAL LIBRARIES (VMDL07) Modena, Italy, September 13-14, 2007 Joint DELOS-MUSCLE workshop Programme Chairs:   Alberto del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, Italy Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA... MUSCLE @Intersec 2008 MUSCLE  had a stand at INTERSEC'08 Fair which was held at Dubai,UAE between 13-15 January 2008.INTERSEC is the largest Security, Fire, Safety & Health and Police & Homeland Security Exhibition in the Middle East. There are four main... 8th ACM SIGMM 8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval - MIR 200627/10/2006  Santa Barbara, CA, USA In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006 http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/ http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2006/callforpapers... MUSCLE at CIVR 2007 MUSCLE will participate to technical demos at CIVR 2007. The 6th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007) will take place in Amsterdam , the Netherlands during 9-11 July 2007. The showcase events are sponsored by MUSCLE NoE... CHORUS events A two-day event: March 13, 2007, 9:00 to 17:30 hours:  CHORUS Workshop "Use Cases and New Services for Multimedia Content Search" March 14, 2007, 9:00 to 18 hours:  D2 Spring 2007 Concertation Meeting March... MCS 2007: SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS The SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25 2007MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international... RIAO 2007 RIAO 2007 Large Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound)30/05/2007  Pittsburgh, PA, USA -- Carnegie Mellon University Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research that has been validated to... 3rd European Conference... 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production29/11/2006  Savoy Place, London, UK CVMP 2006 is the third in a series of events bringing together practitioners in media production from film, broadcast and games with researchers in imaging and graphics... Intern. Conference on ... Intern. Conference on Mass-Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology and Chemistry MDA´200718/07/2007  Leipzig The automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry is a challenging and... ICDIM 2006 ICDIM 200606/12/2006  Bangalore, India Call For Papers, Workshops and Tutorials IEEE First International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006 Bangalore, India Sponsored by IEEE (http://www.icdim.org) All... MUSCLE Plenary Meeting 6, 7, 8 December 2006 Paris Important Notice: This Plenary Meeting will be the opportunity to actively launch the JPA3 activities. Focus will be on e-Teams driven activities and the presentation of the SHOWCASING activity. Thus several internal projects... ISMIR 2006 ISMIR 2006: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval08/10/2006  Victoria, Canada The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects... International Conference International Conference on Image Processing08/10/2006  Atlanta The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research... International Conference International Conference on Music Information Retrieval08/10/2006  Victoria, Canada The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects the tremendous... IEEE Multimedia... IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop03/10/2006  Victoria, Canada More information   ... Press Release  American Technion Society:Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter Jan 4 2007 [[ Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have found a way to give computers encyclopedic knowledge of the world to help them “think... Download Logo           Muscle large: 5000 * 1600   ... Book Projects Title: Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Editor/Contact person: Matthieu Cord, Padraig Cunningham Table of Contents (Version 1.2) Publication date : 27/02/2008 Springer - Flyer Working title: Multimodal Processing and InteractionEditor/Contact... MUSCLE Courseware Lectures taught at the first MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" (12-17 June 2006, San Vincenzo, Italy). This event was jointly organised with the... Batch 2: March 2006 Multimedia metadata: bridging the gap from low-level media specific features to high-level domain-specific semantic terms  Fellow:    Suzanne Little  Supervision:  ISTI and IBAI  Feature subset selection and multi-sensor... Batch 1: October 2004 Understanding and Benchmarking CBIR Methods  Fellow:    Gareth Loy  Supervision:  KTH and TUVienna-PRIP   Learning Basis Functions for Object Representation  Fellow:    Huicheng Zheng  ... CHORUS Event CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission10th October 2007, Geneva This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will bring together the technical, administrative... CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will **bring together** the technical, administrative and financial representatives of the **various national intitiatives**, which have been established... The first DELOS-MUSCLE The first DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" will be held in San Vincenzo (close to Pisa, Italy) from Mon 12 -- Fri 17 June 2006. ... The DELOS MUSCLE... The DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool Lecture Videos are now available ON-LINE ... ERCIM Fellowship Programme ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship ProgrammeThe fellowships are available for PhD holders from all over the world. Fellowships are generally of 18 month duration, spent in two of the ERCIM institutes. Competitive salary. The application form... Showcases MUSCLE has launched several SHOWCASING projects destined to produce higlhy visual demonstrations of the Multimedia expertise of the different teams involed in the Network of Excellence. The results will be presented to the community mid 2007.  Yet,... MUSCLE @ IBC 2007 MUSCLE will participate to the IBC exhibition 2007 , 6- 11 September in Amsterdam. MUSCLE will demonstrate its showcases in the New Technology Campus together with NEM . article on AlphaGalileo artivle on CORDIS ... The Fith International... The Fifth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing CBMI-2007 will take place in Bordeaux, France on June 25-27, 2007. There will be a special session on MUSCLE-related research. More information will follow shortly.will take place... MUSCLE @ CeBIT The MUSCLE Network of Excellence (NoE) presented its activities and showcases at a booth at CeBIT, the largest IT event worldwide, from 15 to 21.3.2007 in Hanover, Germany. As part of its dissemination activities, various partners of the NoE presented... MCS 2007 The SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25 2007 MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international... University of Freiburg wins ... University of Freiburg wins the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification CompetitionThe prize for the best performing coin classification program in the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification Competition went to Marco Reisert, Olaf Ronneberger and Hans Burkhardt of... MUSCLE Plenary Meeting The next MUSCLE Plenary Meeting wil be held in Paris from the 6 to 8 of December 2006. This Plenary Meeting will be the opportunity to present the new MUSCLE work programme in detail and to launch some specific E-Teams activities and Showcasing projects... Plenary Meeting Photos Muscle Plenary meeting photos of the dinner and the Steering Committee lunch ... Studentship Offer at... Studentship Offer at UCL, UKExploitation of imagery in an ad hoc network environment UCL in conjunction with Thales Optronic Division. This is a 4-year studentship, leading to the award of an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Degree, which offers the opportunity... At ICPR06... At ICPR06, MUSCLE researcher Petra Perner was elected IAPR Fellow for her contributions to image interpretation based on case-based reasoning, machine learning and data mining, and for services to IAPR. ... A report on the... A report on the DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool is published on the CORDIS Wire latest press releases . ... Objectives  The aim of this work-package is to prepare numerical visual data to knowledge extraction and multimodality semantics association. Tasks will focus on visual content indexing and mining (still images and video). There is a progression from low-level,... Documents & Deliverables Demos & Ressources Here is a list of the Showcases shared between WP3 and other WPs Image Retrieval Evaluation Showcase : project leaders: Allan Hanbury, TUV-PRIP and Cees Snoek, UvA; partner INRIA-IMEDIA Dynamic Texture Detection in Video , project leader: Enis Cetin,... Meetings E-teams  E-Team 2: Visual saliency – Leaders:Alexis Joly/Nozha Boujemaa E-Team 3: Person detection and recognition, tracking and analysis – Leaders: Montse Pardas / Enis Cetin E-Team 4: Shape modeling - Leader: Ian Jermyn E-Team 5: Choosing... Members WP Leader: Nicu Sebe , Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.... BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience (previously: Shaping 3-dimensional Environments) Leaders: Michael Dittenbach and Helmut Berger, EC3 Contact person: Johannes Sperlhofer, EC3 Partners: EC3TU Vienna-IFS Summary: Generating, publishing and, most... Object recognition Object recognition showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UVA  Partners: TU Vienna–PRIP (Allan Hanbury, Julian Stottinger)INRIA-IMEDIA (Jaume Amores, Nozha Boujemaa)Goals: The objective of the showcase is to create a demo of object recognition including... Evaluation showcase Evaluation showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UvA and Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna-IFS Partners: TU Vienna–IFS (Andreas Rauber, Thomas Lidy, Jakob Frank)UvA (Nicu Sebe, Cees Snoek)IRIT (Julien Pinquier, Thomas Foures, Philippe Joly)AIIA – AUTH (Costas... CASEWP Content Analysis Showcase and Evaluation Web Portal (CASEWP)This Showcase was integrated into the Evaluation Showcase in JPA4. Please find the results on the Evaluation Showcase page. Leaders: Andreas Rauber, TU WIEN and Joly Philippe, institut... ACADI Automatic Character (in Audiovisual Document) Indexing (ACADI) Leader: Julien Pinquier, UPS-IRIT   Partners: Frederick Gianni, Julien Pinquier (UPS-IRIT) and Ewa Kijak (INRIA-Texmex)Description: We propose a system which permits to describe and... Content-Based Copy... Content-Based Copy Detection for Videos and Still Images Leaders: Nozha Boujemaa and Alexis Joly INRIA-IMEDIA Partners: INRIA - IMEDIA team (France), A. Joly, N. Boujemaa, J. Law-ToINA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France), D.Terouggi, O. Buisson, J... Real Time Detector for Unusual Behaviour Real Time Detector for unusual behaviour Leader: Tamas Sziranyi, MTA SzTAKI  Partners: UPC, SZTAKI, Bilkent, ACVSummary: Visual surveillance and activity analysis has attained great interest in the field of computer vision research. Several... Movie Summarization... Movie Summarisation and Skimming Demonstrator Leader: Petros Maragos, ICCS-NTUA Partners: ICCS-NTUA, Greece (P. Maragos, K. Rapantzikos, G. Evangelopoulos, I. Avrithis)AUTH, Greece (C. Kotropoulos, P. Antonopoulos, V. Moschou, N... Dynamic Texture... Dynamic Texture  Detection in Video Leaders: Enis Cetin, Bilkent University and Dimitry Chetverikov, MTA SZTAKI Partners: Bilkent University (B. Ugur Toreyin, Y. Dedeoglu, A.Enis Cetin (project leader))SZTAKI (S. Fazekas, D. Chetverikov)Tel Aviv... Augmented assembly using... Augmented assembly using a multimodal interface Leader: Sanni Siltanen, VTT Partners: VTT Technical Research Centre of FinlandTechnical University of Crete Description of the system: In this showcase a multimodal user interface for augmented assembly... Real-Time Audio-Visual ... Real-Time Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition Demonstrator Leader: Alexanderos Potamianos, TSI-TUC Partners: TSI-TUC (Alexandros Potamianos, Manolis Perakakis, Eduardo Sanchez-Soto, Fanis Kanetis)ICCS-NTUA (Petros Maragos, George Papandreou, Nassos... Articulatory talking head... Articulatory talking head driven by automatic speech recognition Leader: Jacques Feldmar, INRIA PAROLE  Partners: KTHNRIA-Parole Objective of the showcase project: The objective of the showcase is to recreate in real-time the articulatory movements... Visual Tags for Mobile Services A VIDEO CLIP demonstrates the use of 2D bar codes for physical browsing. The mobile phone automatically detects the code, reads the information, and acts according to it.   Contact: Sanni Siltanen (VTT).   For more... Visual Active Memory Application Understanding and Annotating Tennis The research sets out to explore how an active memory system, operating at several different semantic levels, might lead to a degree of machine understanding when applied to specific scenarios. At present the system... Automatic classification of coins Researchers at Seibersdorf Research developed a visual inspection system that is capable of automatically recognizing and sorting vast quantities of coins. Contact: Michael Noelle (Seibersdorf Research)     This video might have some... Accurate delineation of piecewise smooth optical flow Researchers at Tel Aviv University developed a new algorithm to accurate extract piecewise smooth optical flow-fields by minimizing an appropriate cost functional. Since discontinuities in the vector field... Detecting Falling People Software developed by Enis Cetin's group at Bilkent University is capable of telling the difference between a person sitting down and one actually falling. This technology might prove very useful for intelligent surveillance of vulnerable... Eyetracking improves image retrievalRecent experiments have shown that visual target selection is significantly faster with an eyetracker than with a mouse. This mechanism has now been developed into an interface for image retrieval in which the user is able to... An Online Learning Framework for Object Detection, Tracking and Recognition. ICG (TU Graz) have developed a novel framework for object detection, tracking and recognition. Unlike other approaches we are interested in a seamless integration of these modules. Detection and tracking... Human Detection   in Difficult Scenarios by Combining Motion and Appearance Reliable human detection is a key issue in automated visual surveillance systems. Motion detection provides a strong cue towards accomplishing this task. However, typical scenarios... RETIN An Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval System Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems have attracted large amounts of research attention since 1990's. Contrary to the early systems, focused on full-automatic strategies, recent approaches... Map of Mozart Mozart's complete works analyzed Andi Rauber's team focuses on research for Music Information Retrieval and thus on methods which enable automatic recognition of style, genre or artist of a piece of music or retrieval of similar music. Moreover,... PlaySOM Innovative interfaces for music categorization and access By applying SOM neural nets to automatically analyzed audio content (frequency spectra), researchers at TUWien-IFS have created a very innovative way to organize music by sound similarity... Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image Annotation Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image AnnotationContact person: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna -PRIP) Synopsis: In this e-team, we will work on: Feature extraction and selection for CBIR and image annotation.CBIR using Baysian methods operating on... Statistical analysis of visual processes Statistical analysis of visual processesContact person: Yann Gousseau Synopsis: Keywords: Additonal info: E-Team's n/a ... Multimodal Processing and Multimedia Understanding Multimodal Processing and Multimedia UnderstandingContact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: This e-team will research the following topics: (i) Video Analysis and Integration of Asynchronous Time-evolving Modalities, (ii) Audio-Visual Salient... Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devices Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devicesContact person: Alexandros Potamianos (TSI-TUC) Synopsis: This e-team will investigate how multimodal technology can be used to create efficient and natural interfaces for information retrieval and other applications... Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR) Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR)Contact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: AV Feature ExtractionFeature Fusion Dynamical Models for AV-ASR Evaluation Keywords: feature extraction, speech recognition, multimodal,... Visual Saliency Visual SaliencyContact person: INRIA Imedia Synopsis: We will investigate and develop saliency operators for images and video sequences, e.g. based on local descriptors with point-of interest detection and description. Once salient regions have been... Kernel methods in dynamic classification problems Kernel methods in dynamic classification problemsContact person: Khalid Daoudi Synopsis: Kernel methods have shown their power in static classification problems. The best example is definitely the support vectors machine (SVM) which is the most popular... Active Semi-Supervised Learning Active Semi-Supervised LearningContact person: Michel Crucianu, INRIA Synopsis: Multimedia databases are characterized by large amounts of rather cheap data and small amounts of quite expensive knowledge. Among the many existing frameworks for learning,... Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in Video Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in VideoContact person: Enis Cetin Synopsis: Researchers extensively studied 2-D textures and related problems in the field of image processing. On the other hand, there is very little research on three-dimensional... Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for Music Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for MusicContact person: Andreas Rauber Synopsis: This eTeam will collaborate on different methods for audio feature extraction and their appliance in both supervized classification as well as unsuperviced... Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata managementContact person: Ovidio Salvetti (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: (Semi-)automatic MM metadata specification process - Information extraction techniques - Intelligent approaches - Semantic... Person detection, recognition and tracking Person detection, recognition and trackingContact person: Montse Pardas Synopsis: This e-team is relevant to WP5 (Single modality processing) and WP11 (Integration and Grand Challenges: Detecting and interpreting humans and human behaviour in videos)... Shape modelling Shape modellingContact person: INRIA Ariana Synopsis: Learning shapes and recognizing shapes is a central part of image database indexing strategies. This e-team will focus on shape modelling. Its scope includes shape analysis and learning, prior-based... Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel data Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel dataContact person: Emanuele Salerno (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: The aim of this e-team is to study the problem of identifying and extracting the different components in a multichannel image without... Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Contact person: graziano.bertini AT isti.cnr.it (ISTI) Synopsis: Evaluation of different features sets for audio, music and instruments classification, in several applications - Events “... Objectives WP4: Content Description for Audio, Speech and Text  The aim of this work-package is to prepare numerical multimedia data to knowledge extraction and multimodality semantics association. Tasks will focus on each single modality of text, audio... Documents & Deliverables Documents and DeliverablesReport on Benchmark-Based EvaluationsMUSCLE, the Network of Excellence on Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning consolidates research groups that are exploring methods for knowledge extraction from... Demos & Ressources Showcases:Content Analysis Showcase and Evaluation Web Portal (now: Evaluation Showcase)The goal of this showcase is to bring together and demonstrate the wide range of semantic analysis and annotation capabilities that are present within MUSCLE. Based... Meetings Meetings and EventsMeetingsInternational Workshop on Language Resources for Content-Based Image Retrieval (OntoImage 2006), organized by CEA, May 22 2006, Genoa, Italy E-Team 9 Planning Meeting, CNR - TU Vienna-IFS, San Miniato, Italy, June 8... E-teams E-teams of WP4Semantic from Audio (E-team 7) This eTeam will collaborate on different methods for audio feature extraction and their appliance in both supervized classification as well as unsuperviced organization as a means to access and explore audio... Members Members of WP4WP Leader: Andreas Rauber (TU VIENNA IFS) Deputy WP Leaders:  Khalid Daoudi (Speech Processing) Gregory Grefenstette (Text and Natural Language Processing) Members: KTH BILKENT MTA SZTAKI CNR-ISTI... Software Resources    Below is a list of software that has been developed with the MUSCLE project. It is sorted by type of software and by whether it is proprietary or available under a GNU or similar license. For proprietary software, please contact the person... Public Scientific Deliverables   D.5.1 Single Modality Processing: State of the Art Report   Authors/Eds: Nozha Boujemaa, Valerie Gouet-Brunet   Latest update: Sept 2005   Download: PDF-file (2.0 MB)   D.6.1 Cross-Modal Integration for Performance... Challenges and Roadmaps Introduction The scientific work in the Network is typically urged on by two different driving forces: On the one hand there is the bottom-up, grass roots momentum created by individual researchers pushing their interests and trying to set up... Objectives Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Documents & Deliverables List of D5 and old D6 Deliverables: D6.1: State of the Art in the areas of cross-modal interaction and integration (Due date: 31/08/2004) D6.2: Scientific Papers and Technical Reports - Months 1 to 18 (Due date: 31/08/2005) DN5.2: Scientific... Demos & Ressources Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Meetings Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Members Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Workpackages WP1: Coordination Scientific Coordination: Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA-IMEDIA) Administrative Coordination: Patricia Ho-Hune & Remi Ronchaud (ERCIM)WP 2: Evaluation, Integration and Standards WP Leader: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna-PRIP) The principal objective... Objectives and Description This new workpackage brings together the activities covered by the old workpages WP8  Machine Learning for Multimedia Content  and WP7 Computation. The objectives of this workpackage include: (1) development of new ML techniques specific... Documents & Deliverables Here are links to completed deliverables and a list of outstanding ones. Deliverable 6.1 (Technical reports on completion of each of the tasks, and one intermediate technical report for each task). The intermediate reports are due in Month 36. The final... Demos & Ressources Meetings E-teams There are 3 e-teams directly connected with workpackage 6: Kernel methods in dynamic classification;Active semi-supervised learning;Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multi-channel data. ... Members JPA2 WP1: CoordinationScientific Coordination: Eric Pauwels (CWI)Administrative Coordination: Remi Ronchaud (ERCIM) WP2: Building the Virtual LabWP Leader: Eric Pauwels (CWI)The primary objective of the NoE Virtual Lab is to facilitate collaboration and integration... JPA1 Goals for JPA3 With the start of JPA3 the Network is entering the second half of its lifecycle it therefore becomes increasingly more important to engage outside parties, industry in particular. To this end it is clearly helpful to take advantage of a number of EC-backed... Muscle Objectives MUSCLE aims at creating and supporting a pan-European Network of Excellence to foster close collaboration between research groups in multimedia datamining on the one hand, and machine learning on the other in order to make breakthrough progress towards... Industrial Contacts and Publicity By organizing and attending several conferences, workshops, fairs, competitions MUSCLE-NoE dispersed its results besides academic society to industry and public. This web-page gives information about the newspaper articles about MUSCLE showcases, and... Objectives  The principal objective of this workpackage is reflected in its subtitle "Bringing the Grand Challenges to the End Users": i.e. developing targeted research projects designed to deliver highly demonstrable results for showcasing, while... Documents & Deliverables  DN7.1 Creation and maintenance of WP webpage detailing potential showcase projects  DN7.2 Update of webpage for software components (including specification of Terms of Use).    DN7.3 Organisation of Software Component Exchange Workshop... Dissemination Activities & Resources MUSCLE-NoE organized and attended to several events to disseminate its results. In the first years of the project, more emphasize on the academic events e.g. conferences and workshops were given. Several showcase project teams were formed in those years... Meetings Human Activity Analysis WorkshopBarcelona, 22-23 January, 2007 UPC, Campus Nord, Building D4-Sala de Juntes Meeting Program:22nd January 10:00 ACV-Csaba Beleznai: "Multiple Object Tracking Using Local PCA " 10:30 UVA-Ivo Everts: "Cooperative... E-teams There are no E-teams associated with this WP. ... Members WP-7 Coordinator: A. Enis Cetin, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Associate Coordinator: Andreas Rauber, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria ... Courseware Lectures taught at the first MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" (12-17 June 2006, San Vincenzo, Italy). This event was jointly organised with the... Book Projects Title: Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Editor/Contact person: Matthieu Cord, Padraig Cunningham Table of Contents (Version 1.2) Publication date : 27/02/2008 Springer - Flyer Working title: Multimodal Processing and InteractionEditor/Contact... Press Release  American Technion Society:Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter Jan 4 2007 [[ Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have found a way to give computers encyclopedic knowledge of the world to help them “think... Download Logo           Muscle large: 5000 * 1600   ... Latest Showcases Stuff Press Release  American Technion Society:Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter Jan 4 2007 [[ Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have found a way to give computers encyclopedic knowledge of the world to help them “think... Download Logo           Muscle large: 5000 * 1600   ... Book Projects Title: Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Editor/Contact person: Matthieu Cord, Padraig Cunningham Table of Contents (Version 1.2) Publication date : 27/02/2008 Springer - Flyer Working title: Multimodal Processing and InteractionEditor/Contact... MUSCLE Courseware Lectures taught at the first MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" (12-17 June 2006, San Vincenzo, Italy). This event was jointly organised with the... Showcases   The following examples are illustrative and meant to give a flavour of the research that is being conducted within the Network.... BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience (previously: Shaping 3-dimensional Environments) Leaders: Michael Dittenbach and Helmut Berger, EC3 Contact person: Johannes Sperlhofer, EC3 Partners: EC3TU Vienna-IFS Summary: Generating, publishing and, most... Object recognition Object recognition showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UVA  Partners: TU Vienna–PRIP (Allan Hanbury, Julian Stottinger)INRIA-IMEDIA (Jaume Amores, Nozha Boujemaa)Goals: The objective of the showcase is to create a demo of object recognition including... Evaluation showcase Evaluation showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UvA and Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna-IFS Partners: TU Vienna–IFS (Andreas Rauber, Thomas Lidy, Jakob Frank)UvA (Nicu Sebe, Cees Snoek)IRIT (Julien Pinquier, Thomas Foures, Philippe Joly)AIIA – AUTH (Costas... CASEWP Content Analysis Showcase and Evaluation Web Portal (CASEWP)This Showcase was integrated into the Evaluation Showcase in JPA4. Please find the results on the Evaluation Showcase page. Leaders: Andreas Rauber, TU WIEN and Joly Philippe, institut... ACADI Automatic Character (in Audiovisual Document) Indexing (ACADI) Leader: Julien Pinquier, UPS-IRIT   Partners: Frederick Gianni, Julien Pinquier (UPS-IRIT) and Ewa Kijak (INRIA-Texmex)Description: We propose a system which permits to describe and... Content-Based Copy... Content-Based Copy Detection for Videos and Still Images Leaders: Nozha Boujemaa and Alexis Joly INRIA-IMEDIA Partners: INRIA - IMEDIA team (France), A. Joly, N. Boujemaa, J. Law-ToINA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France), D.Terouggi, O. Buisson, J... Real Time Detector for Unusual Behaviour Real Time Detector for unusual behaviour Leader: Tamas Sziranyi, MTA SzTAKI  Partners: UPC, SZTAKI, Bilkent, ACVSummary: Visual surveillance and activity analysis has attained great interest in the field of computer vision research. Several... Movie Summarization... Movie Summarisation and Skimming Demonstrator Leader: Petros Maragos, ICCS-NTUA Partners: ICCS-NTUA, Greece (P. Maragos, K. Rapantzikos, G. Evangelopoulos, I. Avrithis)AUTH, Greece (C. Kotropoulos, P. Antonopoulos, V. Moschou, N... Dynamic Texture... Dynamic Texture  Detection in Video Leaders: Enis Cetin, Bilkent University and Dimitry Chetverikov, MTA SZTAKI Partners: Bilkent University (B. Ugur Toreyin, Y. Dedeoglu, A.Enis Cetin (project leader))SZTAKI (S. Fazekas, D. Chetverikov)Tel Aviv... Augmented assembly using... Augmented assembly using a multimodal interface Leader: Sanni Siltanen, VTT Partners: VTT Technical Research Centre of FinlandTechnical University of Crete Description of the system: In this showcase a multimodal user interface for augmented assembly... Real-Time Audio-Visual ... Real-Time Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition Demonstrator Leader: Alexanderos Potamianos, TSI-TUC Partners: TSI-TUC (Alexandros Potamianos, Manolis Perakakis, Eduardo Sanchez-Soto, Fanis Kanetis)ICCS-NTUA (Petros Maragos, George Papandreou, Nassos... Articulatory talking head... Articulatory talking head driven by automatic speech recognition Leader: Jacques Feldmar, INRIA PAROLE  Partners: KTHNRIA-Parole Objective of the showcase project: The objective of the showcase is to recreate in real-time the articulatory movements... Visual Tags for Mobile Services A VIDEO CLIP demonstrates the use of 2D bar codes for physical browsing. The mobile phone automatically detects the code, reads the information, and acts according to it.   Contact: Sanni Siltanen (VTT).   For more... Visual Active Memory Application Understanding and Annotating Tennis The research sets out to explore how an active memory system, operating at several different semantic levels, might lead to a degree of machine understanding when applied to specific scenarios. At present the system... Automatic classification of coins Researchers at Seibersdorf Research developed a visual inspection system that is capable of automatically recognizing and sorting vast quantities of coins. Contact: Michael Noelle (Seibersdorf Research)     This video might have some... Accurate delineation of piecewise smooth optical flow Researchers at Tel Aviv University developed a new algorithm to accurate extract piecewise smooth optical flow-fields by minimizing an appropriate cost functional. Since discontinuities in the vector field... Detecting Falling People Software developed by Enis Cetin's group at Bilkent University is capable of telling the difference between a person sitting down and one actually falling. This technology might prove very useful for intelligent surveillance of vulnerable... Eyetracking improves image retrievalRecent experiments have shown that visual target selection is significantly faster with an eyetracker than with a mouse. This mechanism has now been developed into an interface for image retrieval in which the user is able to... An Online Learning Framework for Object Detection, Tracking and Recognition. ICG (TU Graz) have developed a novel framework for object detection, tracking and recognition. Unlike other approaches we are interested in a seamless integration of these modules. Detection and tracking... Human Detection   in Difficult Scenarios by Combining Motion and Appearance Reliable human detection is a key issue in automated visual surveillance systems. Motion detection provides a strong cue towards accomplishing this task. However, typical scenarios... RETIN An Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval System Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems have attracted large amounts of research attention since 1990's. Contrary to the early systems, focused on full-automatic strategies, recent approaches... Map of Mozart Mozart's complete works analyzed Andi Rauber's team focuses on research for Music Information Retrieval and thus on methods which enable automatic recognition of style, genre or artist of a piece of music or retrieval of similar music. Moreover,... PlaySOM Innovative interfaces for music categorization and access By applying SOM neural nets to automatically analyzed audio content (frequency spectra), researchers at TUWien-IFS have created a very innovative way to organize music by sound similarity... Community ACV Advanced Computer Vision, Austria (ACV) ... Herbert Ramoser:, , , .video surveillance, image processing applications, machine learning applications, biomedical signal processing ... Dieter Honigmann:, , , .... Csaba Beleznai:, , , Austria.Expertise : automated visual surveillance, human detection, tracking, object recognition, informative low-level features... ARMINES ARMINES ... Fernand Meyer:http://cmm.ensmp.fr, , , .2D and 3D image and video processing and analysis. Scene analysis. Mathematical morphology, in particular contour preserving filtering of still images and video sequences, watershed based segmentation, multiscale... Beatriz Marcotegui:http://cmm.ensmp.fr, , , .Multiscale Image Segmentation, Image Analysis, Text extraction, Image annotation.... Serge Beucher:, , , France.... AUTH Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece ... Ioannis Pitas:, , , .Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision, Computational Intelligence... Constantine Kotropoulos:http://poseidon.csd.auth.gr, , , .Digital Signal Processing, Speech and Audio Processing, Text and natural language processing... M. Gavriilides:, , , .... Bilkent University Bilkent University (Turkey) ... Ozgur Oulusoy:, , , .... Ugur Gudukbay:http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~gudukbay, , , .Multimedia databases, including data modeling and query processing... Pinar Duygulu:http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~duygulu, , , .Multi-modal integration of visual and textual or audial data on image databases and video... Enis Cetin:www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~cetin, , , .Expertise: Signal,speech and image processing, wavelet analysis, statistical signal processing... Selim Aksoy:, , , Turkey.Web page : http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~saksoy... CEA Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique ... Pierre-Alain Moellic:, , , .Image indexing... Patrick Hede:, , , .... Gregory Grefenstette:http://www-drt.cea.fr/fr/prog/list/systemes_interactifs/labo_ingenierie_list.htm, , , .natural language processing; cross language retrieval; corpus lingusitics; language modeling... Christian Fluhr:, , , .... Pascal Adam:, , , .... CNR-ISTI Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ... Ovidio Salvetti:http://www.isti.cnr.it/php-pers/iselpers.php?Salvetti+Ovidio, , , .Image analysis, pictorial information systems, spatial modelling and intelligent processes for image understanding... Graziano Bertini:, , Italy, .... Sergio Di Bona:http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/S.Di_Bona, , , .Neural Networks, Medical Imaging, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Machine Learning ... CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ... Fathi Debili:, , , .... CWI Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) ... Marie-Colette van Lieshout:www.cwi.nl/~colette, , , .stochastic geometry, spatial statistics ... Eric J. Pauwels:http://www.cwi.nl/pna4/, , , . Image and video, machine learning , Clustering, image segmentation, saliency, content-based image retrieval;... Mark Huiskes:, , , .computer vision; content-based image retrieval; perceptual grouping; statistical modeling and learning; machine learning... Paul de Zeeuw:http://homepages.cwi.nl/~pauldz, , , .Expertise: computation, PDE solving, multiresolution methods ... Margriet Brouwer (Administrative and Financial Support Team) Margriet Brouwer:http://homepages.cwi.nl/~margriet/, , , .Expertise : PHP-MySQL, Dynamic webpages, HTML, XML... EC3 E-Commerce Competence Center ... Michael Dittenbach:, , , .... Michael Tremmel:, , , .... ENSEA Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications ... ERCIM European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics ... Alexandra Lavirotte (Event organizer) Alexandra Lavirotte:, , France, .... ERCIM Office (Office) ERCIM Office:2004 route des Lucioles Sophia-Antipolis, Biot, , France.... Remi Ronchaud (Administrative Coordinator) Remi Ronchaud:2004 route des Lucioles Sophia-Antipolis, Biot, , France.... Bruno Le Dantec (Administrative and Financial coordinator) Bruno Le Dantec:, , , .... Emma Liére (Administrative support) Emma Liére:http://www.ercim.eu, , , .... Patricia Ho-Hune (Administrative Coordinator) Patricia Ho-Hune:2004 route des Lucioles BP 93, Sophia-Antipolis, , France.... Administrator (Webmaster) Administrator:2004 route des Lucioles Sophia-Antipolis, Biot, , France.... FORTH Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas ... Panos Trahanias:http://www.ics.forth.gr/~trahania, , , .3D computer vision autonomous robot navigation pattern recognition... FT France Telecom SA ... GET Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Telecommunications ... Maria Trocan:http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~trocan/, , , .wavelet-based video and image coding, robust video compression, joint source-channel coding... Christophe Tillier:, , , .... Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu:http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~pesquet, , , .image and video, multimedia standards, image analysis, scalable and robust video compression, image and video watermaking, standardization... Grégoire Pau:http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~gpau, , , .image and video, multimedia standards, spatial transforms, scalable video coding, adaptive wavelets... Yann Gousseau:www.tsi.enst.fr/~gousseau/index_eng.html, , , .image analysis, natural images statistics, morphological methods, stochastic geometry... Georgia Feideropoulou:, , , .statistical modeling of wavelet coefficients, joint source-channel coding, vector quantization... IBAI Institute fur Bildverarbeitung und angewandte Informatik e.V ... Horst Perner:, , , .... Petra Perner:www.ibai-research.de, www.ibai-institute.de, , , .data mining , machine learning,image mining, image interpretation, image processing, case-based reasoning, image data base, artificial intelligenceBook P. Perner Data Mining on Multimedia... ICCS National Technical University of Athens, Greece ... ICCS-NTUA Computer Vision Speech Communication and Signal Processing Group ... Petros Maragos (Professor) Petros Maragos:http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr , , , .... George Papandreou:, , , .... INRIA-Ariana Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ... Ian Jermyn:http://www-sop.inria.fr/ariana/personnel/Ian.Jermyn, , , .Still image processing: probabilistic and variational models of shape, geometry, and texture, esp. multiscale/wavelet approaches; level set and graph algorithms ... Josianne Zerubia:INRIA-Ariana, , , France.... INRIA-Imedia Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ... Alexis Joly:http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~ajoly/, , , .content-based image and video retrieval, indexing structures... Valérie Gouet:http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~gouet/index_anglais.html, , , .Image matching, Image retrieval, Multidimensional index structures... Donald Geman:, , , .... Michel Crucianu:http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~crucianu/, , , .Expertise: Machine learning Interactive search... Nozha Boujemaa (Scientific Coordinator) Nozha Boujemaa:http://www-rocq.inria.fr/imedia/, , , .Expertise: Image retrieval by content ... INRIA-Parole Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ... Yves Laprie:http://www.loria.fr/equipes/parole, , , .Automatic speech processing speech analysis (F0 detection, formant tracking...) Acoustic-to-Articulatory inversion Phonetics... INRIA-Texmex Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ... Patrick Gros:, , , .... Laurent Amsaleg:, , , .INRIA-Texmex ... INRIA-Vista Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ... Ivan Laptev:, , , .computer vision, motion analysis, event and object recognition... Frederic Cao:http://www.irisa.fr/vista, , , .Expertise : image and video analysis, event detection and recognition, motion estimation, video summarization. ... Patrick Bouthemy:INRIA-Vista , , , France.... KTH Royal Institute of Technologie, Sweden ... Björn Granström (Professor) Björn Granström:, , , .... Olov Engwall (Assistant Professor) Olov Engwall:, , , .... Jan-Olof Eklundh:, , , .... Stefan Carlsson:, , , .... LTU LTU Technologies ... Sébastien Gilles:http://www.ltutech.com, , , .Image indexing and retrieval, text/image retrieval. Statistical classification, case-based reasoning, information theory... MTA-SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences- Distributed Events Analysis Research Group ... István Petrás:, , , .... Tamas Sziranyi:http://www.sztaki.hu/~sziranyi/, , , .Surveillance systems for panoramic and multiple camera systems, Digital film restoration,Texture and motion analysis, Image Quality Assessment, Scale-space methods Markov Random Fields and stochastic... NUID / UCD University College Dublin ... Padraig Cunningham:http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Padraig.Cunningham/, , , .Expertise: Machine Learning, Case-Based Reasoning, Neural Networks, Decision Trees, Ensembles, Feature Selection, Clustering. ... TAU-speech Tel Aviv University, Israel ... Arie Yeredor:www.eng.tau.ac.il/~arie, , , .Statistical Signal Processing, Estimation Theory, Blind Source Separation, Independent Component Analysis, Speech Processing.... TAU-visual Tel Aviv University, Israel (TAU-visual) ... Nir Sochen:www.math.tau.ac.il/~sochen, , , .Image Processing, Computer Vision ... Nahum Kiryati:http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~nk , , , .computer vision, image processing, biomedical image analysis, video surveillance... David Burshtein:http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~burstyn, , , .Experstise : Information Theory. Codes on graphs and iterative decoding algorithms, LDPC codes. Capacity of associative neural networks. Statistical pattern recognition. Signal and speech processing... TCD Trinity College Dublin, Ireland ... Simon Wilson:, , , .image segmentation, content based image retrieval, general Bayesian methods, Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation... Alexey Tsymbal:http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Alexey.Tsymbal/, , , .data mining and machine learning, knowledge-based systems, multilevel models, meta-learning, ensemble learning, learning from data streams, feature selection, weighting and extraction... Rozenn Dahyot:http://www.mee.tcd.ie/~dahyot, , , .Expertise: multimedia understanding - image, video, audio processing- Object/event detection/recognition in data stream ... Technion-ML Israel Institute of Technology, Israel ... Ehud Rivlin:http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/People/Faculty/ehudr.html, , , .Robot Vision; Robot Navigation; Motion Planning; Visual Servoing; Active Vision; Object Recognition; Artificial Intelligence; Image Understanding, Image Processing; Image Databa... Shaul Markovitch:http://www.cs.technion.ac.il, , , .Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Multi-agent systems... Michael Lindenbaum:http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~mic, , , .Computer vision, learning ... Technion-MM Israel Institute of Technology, Israel ... Ron Kimmel:www.cs.technion.ac.il/~ron, , , .Applications: Image Processing, Analysis (Computer Vision), and Synthesis (Computer Graphics), Biometrics. ... TSI-TUC Technical University of Crete, Greece ... Chris Vosnidis:, , , .text-to-speech synthesis... Micael Toutoudakis:, , , .Speech Processing, Natural Language Processing, User Interface Design... Alexandros Potamianos:http://www.telecom.tuc.gr/~potam, , , .speech processing, automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, spoken dialog systems... Vassilis Digalakis:http://www.telecom.tuc.gr/~vas/ , , , .automatic speech recognition... TUG Graz University of Technology ... Martina Uray:, , , .... Horst Bischof:http://www.icg.tu-graz.ac.at, , , .Expertise : Computer vision... TUVienna-IFS Vienna University of Technology, Austria ... Andreas Rauber:http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~andi , , , .Digital Libraries, Text an Music Information Retrieval, Machine Learning and Neural Networks... Georg Poelzlbauer:http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~poelzlbauer, , , .... Rudolf Mayer:www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~mayer, , , .... Thomas Lidy:http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~lidy, , , .... TUVienna-PRIP Vienna University of Technology, Austria ... Walter Kropatsch:http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at, , , .graph pyramids, visual abstraction, hierarchical representations... Allan Hanbury:http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/~hanbury, , , .Mathematical morphology, colour image analysis, texture analysis, image segmentation.... Seibersdorf Research Austria Research Centers, Seibersdorf Research, Gmbh, Austria ... Helmut Schwabach:, , , .... Michael Noelle:http://www.arcs.ac.at, , , .image processing -pattern recognition -parallel processing -qunatum computing... UCAM-DENG Cambridge University UK ... Nick Kingsbury:, , , .... Simon Godsill:, , , .... Julien Fauqueur:http://www.eng.cam.uk/~jf330/, , , .... UCL University College London, UK ... Fred Stentiford:http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~fstentif/, , , .Pattern recognition, Visual Attention, Content based image retrieval... Niall Rooney:http://nikel.ulster.ac.uk, , , .Machine Learning... UniS University of Surrey, UK ... Bill Christmas:http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/showstaff?ees1wc, , , .Expertise: video understanding; sports video annotation; tracking and motion analysis... UFR Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (UFR) ... Nikos Canterakis:http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/index.en.html?1000000000000, , , .Expertise : Invariance Theory for 2D images and 3D objects * Image content based Searching Machines * Design of Classifiers (SVM, Invariance in kernel methods)* Pollen... Hans Burkhardt:, , , .... UPC Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya ... Montse Pardas:http://gps-tsc.upc.es/imatge, , , .Image and video analysis, object tracking, body analysis, emotion recognition.... UPMC Universite Pierre et Marie Curie ... Patrick Gallinari:, , , .... Marcin Detyniecki:, , , .... Matthieu Cord:http://perso-etis.ensea.fr/~cord/, , , .Expertise: Still image processing, segmentation, clustering and classification Content-based image retrieval, applications of machine learning to CBIR Computer vision... UPS-IRIT Universite Paul Sabatier - Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse ... Régine André-Obrecht:, , , .... Julien Pinquier:, , , .... Philippe Joly:http://www.irit.fr/, , , France.... Khalid Daoudi:, , , .Expertise: speech recognition, Bayesian networks, machine learning, statistical estimation and modeling, language modeling, signal processing, wavelets, fractals.... UTIA Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic ... Jana Novovicova:, , , .multidimensional probabilistic models, dimensionality reduction, text document categorization... Michael Haindl:www.utia.cas.cz/RO, , , .multidimensional probabilistic models, Markov random fields, texture modelling, segmentation, pattern recognition... Jiri Grim:, , , .... UU University of Ulster, UK ... David Patterson:http://www.nikel.ulster.ac.uk, , , .machine learning... UVA University of Amsterdam. Netherlands ... Arnold Smeulders:http://carol.science.uva.nl/~smeulder/, , , .computer vision from first principles, content based image retrieval... Nicu Sebe:, , , .... VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland ... Seppo Valli:, , , .... Sanni Siltanen:, , , .image processing, marker detection, mathematics, pattern recognition, augmented reality... News Select a news topic from the list below, then select a news article to read.... Latest news The latest news from the MUSCLE Web site ... MUSCLE project ended on 28 February 2008 MUSCLE Network of Excellence ended at the end of February 2008. You can find the Final report below. As a follow-up of the project, the partners continue their activities into a MUSCLE ERCIM's Working Group ... MUSCLE final report Download the MUSCLE final report. This brochure will be sent to MUSCLE partners upon request. ... Book on Machine Learning Techniques Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Publication date: 27 February 2008 - Springer link Flyer  Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Case Studies on Organization and Retrieval Series: Cognitive Technologies Cord, Matthieu;... Sponsored Events  The following events and meetings are (co-)sponsored by MUSCLE. Network members are therefore encouraged to submit their work to the appropriate workshops are conferences.  Fourth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing... Public Scientific Deliverables   D.5.1 Single Modality Processing: State of the Art Report   Authors/Eds: Nozha Boujemaa, Valerie Gouet-Brunet   Latest update: Sept 2005   Download: PDF-file (2.0 MB)   D.6.1 Cross-Modal Integration for Performance... MUSCLE Institutes ACV Advanced Computer Vision, Austria ARMINES ARMINES AUTH Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bilkent University Bilkent University (Turkey) CEA Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France CNR-ISTI Consiglio Nazionale... People ... Governance Additional SC members  Sanni Siltanen (VTT)  Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu (ENST)Tamas  Sziranyi (SZTAKI) I ... Mobility The Mobility grant scheme has been suspended in JPA4 To facilitate collaboration within the Network, MUSCLE has earmarked part of its budget to stimulate mobility through its mobility grants. These grants are meant to cover the expenses of MUSCLE researchers... Workpackages Reporting Submit your Activity Report  Submit your Person Month Report Note: Older reports can be accessed on the BSCW server  Bi-Monthly Report #10: Sep-Oct 2005   Bi-Monthly Report #11: Nov-Dec 2005   Bi-Monthly Report... Objectives WP2: EIS (Evaluation, Integration and Standards) The principal objective of this workpackage is to co-ordinate activities that facilitate within and between research workpackage collaboration. This principal objective can be divided into several... Documents & Deliverables Documents and Deliverables The following pages contain WP2-related documents: Information on metadata Conditions of Use of Software and Data, Submission of Software and Data to the repositoryGuidelines of Standards for Representation and Exchange... Demos & Ressources Demos & ResourcesResources MUSCLE data and software repository4M: an infrastructure for MultiMedia Metadata Management ... Meetings MeetingsWorkshops MUSCLE ImageCLEF Workshops on the Evaluation of Image and Video Retrieval E-Team Workshop on ‘Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management’ in occasion of the Fifth International Workshop... E-teams WP2 E-teamsE-team on the Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management The purpose of the E-Team is to facilitate and promote communication and exchange. Since the partners in this E-Team have different areas of interest... Members MembersWP Leader: Allan Hanbury , Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group, Institute of Computer Aided Automation, Vienna University of Technology. WP Sub-Leader: Ovidio Salvetti , Head of Signals and Images Laboratory of the... Muscle Conference The latest Muscle conference was held at Palais Stéphanie by Sofitel in Cannes, France on 11 and 12 February 2008. The videos of the presentations are now available (click on the logo below) This event highlighted and demonstrated the major... VMDL07 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON VISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA DIGITAL LIBRARIES (VMDL07) Modena, Italy, September 13-14, 2007 Joint DELOS-MUSCLE workshop Programme Chairs:   Alberto del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, Italy Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA... MUSCLE @Intersec 2008 MUSCLE  had a stand at INTERSEC'08 Fair which was held at Dubai,UAE between 13-15 January 2008.INTERSEC is the largest Security, Fire, Safety & Health and Police & Homeland Security Exhibition in the Middle East. There are four main... 8th ACM SIGMM 8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval - MIR 200627/10/2006  Santa Barbara, CA, USA In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006 http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/ http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2006/callforpapers... MUSCLE at CIVR 2007 MUSCLE will participate to technical demos at CIVR 2007. The 6th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007) will take place in Amsterdam , the Netherlands during 9-11 July 2007. The showcase events are sponsored by MUSCLE NoE... CHORUS events A two-day event: March 13, 2007, 9:00 to 17:30 hours:  CHORUS Workshop "Use Cases and New Services for Multimedia Content Search" March 14, 2007, 9:00 to 18 hours:  D2 Spring 2007 Concertation Meeting March... MCS 2007: SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS The SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25 2007MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international... RIAO 2007 RIAO 2007 Large Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound)30/05/2007  Pittsburgh, PA, USA -- Carnegie Mellon University Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research that has been validated to... 3rd European Conference... 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production29/11/2006  Savoy Place, London, UK CVMP 2006 is the third in a series of events bringing together practitioners in media production from film, broadcast and games with researchers in imaging and graphics... Intern. Conference on ... Intern. Conference on Mass-Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology and Chemistry MDA´200718/07/2007  Leipzig The automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry is a challenging and... ICDIM 2006 ICDIM 200606/12/2006  Bangalore, India Call For Papers, Workshops and Tutorials IEEE First International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006 Bangalore, India Sponsored by IEEE (http://www.icdim.org) All... MUSCLE Plenary Meeting 6, 7, 8 December 2006 Paris Important Notice: This Plenary Meeting will be the opportunity to actively launch the JPA3 activities. Focus will be on e-Teams driven activities and the presentation of the SHOWCASING activity. Thus several internal projects... ISMIR 2006 ISMIR 2006: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval08/10/2006  Victoria, Canada The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects... International Conference International Conference on Image Processing08/10/2006  Atlanta The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research... International Conference International Conference on Music Information Retrieval08/10/2006  Victoria, Canada The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects the tremendous... IEEE Multimedia... IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop03/10/2006  Victoria, Canada More information   ... Press Release  American Technion Society:Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter Jan 4 2007 [[ Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have found a way to give computers encyclopedic knowledge of the world to help them “think... Download Logo           Muscle large: 5000 * 1600   ... Book Projects Title: Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Editor/Contact person: Matthieu Cord, Padraig Cunningham Table of Contents (Version 1.2) Publication date : 27/02/2008 Springer - Flyer Working title: Multimodal Processing and InteractionEditor/Contact... MUSCLE Courseware Lectures taught at the first MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" (12-17 June 2006, San Vincenzo, Italy). This event was jointly organised with the... Batch 2: March 2006 Multimedia metadata: bridging the gap from low-level media specific features to high-level domain-specific semantic terms  Fellow:    Suzanne Little  Supervision:  ISTI and IBAI  Feature subset selection and multi-sensor... Batch 1: October 2004 Understanding and Benchmarking CBIR Methods  Fellow:    Gareth Loy  Supervision:  KTH and TUVienna-PRIP   Learning Basis Functions for Object Representation  Fellow:    Huicheng Zheng  ... CHORUS Event CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission10th October 2007, Geneva This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will bring together the technical, administrative... CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will **bring together** the technical, administrative and financial representatives of the **various national intitiatives**, which have been established... The first DELOS-MUSCLE The first DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" will be held in San Vincenzo (close to Pisa, Italy) from Mon 12 -- Fri 17 June 2006. ... The DELOS MUSCLE... The DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool Lecture Videos are now available ON-LINE ... ERCIM Fellowship Programme ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship ProgrammeThe fellowships are available for PhD holders from all over the world. Fellowships are generally of 18 month duration, spent in two of the ERCIM institutes. Competitive salary. The application form... Showcases MUSCLE has launched several SHOWCASING projects destined to produce higlhy visual demonstrations of the Multimedia expertise of the different teams involed in the Network of Excellence. The results will be presented to the community mid 2007.  Yet,... MUSCLE @ IBC 2007 MUSCLE will participate to the IBC exhibition 2007 , 6- 11 September in Amsterdam. MUSCLE will demonstrate its showcases in the New Technology Campus together with NEM . article on AlphaGalileo artivle on CORDIS ... The Fith International... The Fifth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing CBMI-2007 will take place in Bordeaux, France on June 25-27, 2007. There will be a special session on MUSCLE-related research. More information will follow shortly.will take place... MUSCLE @ CeBIT The MUSCLE Network of Excellence (NoE) presented its activities and showcases at a booth at CeBIT, the largest IT event worldwide, from 15 to 21.3.2007 in Hanover, Germany. As part of its dissemination activities, various partners of the NoE presented... MCS 2007 The SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25 2007 MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international... University of Freiburg wins ... University of Freiburg wins the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification CompetitionThe prize for the best performing coin classification program in the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification Competition went to Marco Reisert, Olaf Ronneberger and Hans Burkhardt of... MUSCLE Plenary Meeting The next MUSCLE Plenary Meeting wil be held in Paris from the 6 to 8 of December 2006. This Plenary Meeting will be the opportunity to present the new MUSCLE work programme in detail and to launch some specific E-Teams activities and Showcasing projects... Plenary Meeting Photos Muscle Plenary meeting photos of the dinner and the Steering Committee lunch ... Studentship Offer at... Studentship Offer at UCL, UKExploitation of imagery in an ad hoc network environment UCL in conjunction with Thales Optronic Division. This is a 4-year studentship, leading to the award of an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Degree, which offers the opportunity... At ICPR06... At ICPR06, MUSCLE researcher Petra Perner was elected IAPR Fellow for her contributions to image interpretation based on case-based reasoning, machine learning and data mining, and for services to IAPR. ... A report on the... A report on the DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool is published on the CORDIS Wire latest press releases . ... Objectives  The aim of this work-package is to prepare numerical visual data to knowledge extraction and multimodality semantics association. Tasks will focus on visual content indexing and mining (still images and video). There is a progression from low-level,... Documents & Deliverables Demos & Ressources Here is a list of the Showcases shared between WP3 and other WPs Image Retrieval Evaluation Showcase : project leaders: Allan Hanbury, TUV-PRIP and Cees Snoek, UvA; partner INRIA-IMEDIA Dynamic Texture Detection in Video , project leader: Enis Cetin,... Meetings E-teams  E-Team 2: Visual saliency – Leaders:Alexis Joly/Nozha Boujemaa E-Team 3: Person detection and recognition, tracking and analysis – Leaders: Montse Pardas / Enis Cetin E-Team 4: Shape modeling - Leader: Ian Jermyn E-Team 5: Choosing... Members WP Leader: Nicu Sebe , Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.... BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience (previously: Shaping 3-dimensional Environments) Leaders: Michael Dittenbach and Helmut Berger, EC3 Contact person: Johannes Sperlhofer, EC3 Partners: EC3TU Vienna-IFS Summary: Generating, publishing and, most... Object recognition Object recognition showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UVA  Partners: TU Vienna–PRIP (Allan Hanbury, Julian Stottinger)INRIA-IMEDIA (Jaume Amores, Nozha Boujemaa)Goals: The objective of the showcase is to create a demo of object recognition including... Evaluation showcase Evaluation showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UvA and Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna-IFS Partners: TU Vienna–IFS (Andreas Rauber, Thomas Lidy, Jakob Frank)UvA (Nicu Sebe, Cees Snoek)IRIT (Julien Pinquier, Thomas Foures, Philippe Joly)AIIA – AUTH (Costas... CASEWP Content Analysis Showcase and Evaluation Web Portal (CASEWP)This Showcase was integrated into the Evaluation Showcase in JPA4. Please find the results on the Evaluation Showcase page. Leaders: Andreas Rauber, TU WIEN and Joly Philippe, institut... ACADI Automatic Character (in Audiovisual Document) Indexing (ACADI) Leader: Julien Pinquier, UPS-IRIT   Partners: Frederick Gianni, Julien Pinquier (UPS-IRIT) and Ewa Kijak (INRIA-Texmex)Description: We propose a system which permits to describe and... Content-Based Copy... Content-Based Copy Detection for Videos and Still Images Leaders: Nozha Boujemaa and Alexis Joly INRIA-IMEDIA Partners: INRIA - IMEDIA team (France), A. Joly, N. Boujemaa, J. Law-ToINA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France), D.Terouggi, O. Buisson, J... Real Time Detector for Unusual Behaviour Real Time Detector for unusual behaviour Leader: Tamas Sziranyi, MTA SzTAKI  Partners: UPC, SZTAKI, Bilkent, ACVSummary: Visual surveillance and activity analysis has attained great interest in the field of computer vision research. Several... Movie Summarization... Movie Summarisation and Skimming Demonstrator Leader: Petros Maragos, ICCS-NTUA Partners: ICCS-NTUA, Greece (P. Maragos, K. Rapantzikos, G. Evangelopoulos, I. Avrithis)AUTH, Greece (C. Kotropoulos, P. Antonopoulos, V. Moschou, N... Dynamic Texture... Dynamic Texture  Detection in Video Leaders: Enis Cetin, Bilkent University and Dimitry Chetverikov, MTA SZTAKI Partners: Bilkent University (B. Ugur Toreyin, Y. Dedeoglu, A.Enis Cetin (project leader))SZTAKI (S. Fazekas, D. Chetverikov)Tel Aviv... Augmented assembly using... Augmented assembly using a multimodal interface Leader: Sanni Siltanen, VTT Partners: VTT Technical Research Centre of FinlandTechnical University of Crete Description of the system: In this showcase a multimodal user interface for augmented assembly... Real-Time Audio-Visual ... Real-Time Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition Demonstrator Leader: Alexanderos Potamianos, TSI-TUC Partners: TSI-TUC (Alexandros Potamianos, Manolis Perakakis, Eduardo Sanchez-Soto, Fanis Kanetis)ICCS-NTUA (Petros Maragos, George Papandreou, Nassos... Articulatory talking head... Articulatory talking head driven by automatic speech recognition Leader: Jacques Feldmar, INRIA PAROLE  Partners: KTHNRIA-Parole Objective of the showcase project: The objective of the showcase is to recreate in real-time the articulatory movements... Visual Tags for Mobile Services A VIDEO CLIP demonstrates the use of 2D bar codes for physical browsing. The mobile phone automatically detects the code, reads the information, and acts according to it.   Contact: Sanni Siltanen (VTT).   For more... Visual Active Memory Application Understanding and Annotating Tennis The research sets out to explore how an active memory system, operating at several different semantic levels, might lead to a degree of machine understanding when applied to specific scenarios. At present the system... Automatic classification of coins Researchers at Seibersdorf Research developed a visual inspection system that is capable of automatically recognizing and sorting vast quantities of coins. Contact: Michael Noelle (Seibersdorf Research)     This video might have some... Accurate delineation of piecewise smooth optical flow Researchers at Tel Aviv University developed a new algorithm to accurate extract piecewise smooth optical flow-fields by minimizing an appropriate cost functional. Since discontinuities in the vector field... Detecting Falling People Software developed by Enis Cetin's group at Bilkent University is capable of telling the difference between a person sitting down and one actually falling. This technology might prove very useful for intelligent surveillance of vulnerable... Eyetracking improves image retrievalRecent experiments have shown that visual target selection is significantly faster with an eyetracker than with a mouse. This mechanism has now been developed into an interface for image retrieval in which the user is able to... An Online Learning Framework for Object Detection, Tracking and Recognition. ICG (TU Graz) have developed a novel framework for object detection, tracking and recognition. Unlike other approaches we are interested in a seamless integration of these modules. Detection and tracking... Human Detection   in Difficult Scenarios by Combining Motion and Appearance Reliable human detection is a key issue in automated visual surveillance systems. Motion detection provides a strong cue towards accomplishing this task. However, typical scenarios... RETIN An Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval System Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems have attracted large amounts of research attention since 1990's. Contrary to the early systems, focused on full-automatic strategies, recent approaches... Map of Mozart Mozart's complete works analyzed Andi Rauber's team focuses on research for Music Information Retrieval and thus on methods which enable automatic recognition of style, genre or artist of a piece of music or retrieval of similar music. Moreover,... PlaySOM Innovative interfaces for music categorization and access By applying SOM neural nets to automatically analyzed audio content (frequency spectra), researchers at TUWien-IFS have created a very innovative way to organize music by sound similarity... Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image Annotation Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image AnnotationContact person: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna -PRIP) Synopsis: In this e-team, we will work on: Feature extraction and selection for CBIR and image annotation.CBIR using Baysian methods operating on... Statistical analysis of visual processes Statistical analysis of visual processesContact person: Yann Gousseau Synopsis: Keywords: Additonal info: E-Team's n/a ... Multimodal Processing and Multimedia Understanding Multimodal Processing and Multimedia UnderstandingContact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: This e-team will research the following topics: (i) Video Analysis and Integration of Asynchronous Time-evolving Modalities, (ii) Audio-Visual Salient... Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devices Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devicesContact person: Alexandros Potamianos (TSI-TUC) Synopsis: This e-team will investigate how multimodal technology can be used to create efficient and natural interfaces for information retrieval and other applications... Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR) Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR)Contact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: AV Feature ExtractionFeature Fusion Dynamical Models for AV-ASR Evaluation Keywords: feature extraction, speech recognition, multimodal,... Visual Saliency Visual SaliencyContact person: INRIA Imedia Synopsis: We will investigate and develop saliency operators for images and video sequences, e.g. based on local descriptors with point-of interest detection and description. Once salient regions have been... Kernel methods in dynamic classification problems Kernel methods in dynamic classification problemsContact person: Khalid Daoudi Synopsis: Kernel methods have shown their power in static classification problems. The best example is definitely the support vectors machine (SVM) which is the most popular... Active Semi-Supervised Learning Active Semi-Supervised LearningContact person: Michel Crucianu, INRIA Synopsis: Multimedia databases are characterized by large amounts of rather cheap data and small amounts of quite expensive knowledge. Among the many existing frameworks for learning,... Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in Video Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in VideoContact person: Enis Cetin Synopsis: Researchers extensively studied 2-D textures and related problems in the field of image processing. On the other hand, there is very little research on three-dimensional... Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for Music Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for MusicContact person: Andreas Rauber Synopsis: This eTeam will collaborate on different methods for audio feature extraction and their appliance in both supervized classification as well as unsuperviced... Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata managementContact person: Ovidio Salvetti (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: (Semi-)automatic MM metadata specification process - Information extraction techniques - Intelligent approaches - Semantic... Person detection, recognition and tracking Person detection, recognition and trackingContact person: Montse Pardas Synopsis: This e-team is relevant to WP5 (Single modality processing) and WP11 (Integration and Grand Challenges: Detecting and interpreting humans and human behaviour in videos)... Shape modelling Shape modellingContact person: INRIA Ariana Synopsis: Learning shapes and recognizing shapes is a central part of image database indexing strategies. This e-team will focus on shape modelling. Its scope includes shape analysis and learning, prior-based... Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel data Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel dataContact person: Emanuele Salerno (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: The aim of this e-team is to study the problem of identifying and extracting the different components in a multichannel image without... Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Contact person: graziano.bertini AT isti.cnr.it (ISTI) Synopsis: Evaluation of different features sets for audio, music and instruments classification, in several applications - Events “... Objectives WP4: Content Description for Audio, Speech and Text  The aim of this work-package is to prepare numerical multimedia data to knowledge extraction and multimodality semantics association. Tasks will focus on each single modality of text, audio... Documents & Deliverables Documents and DeliverablesReport on Benchmark-Based EvaluationsMUSCLE, the Network of Excellence on Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning consolidates research groups that are exploring methods for knowledge extraction from... Demos & Ressources Showcases:Content Analysis Showcase and Evaluation Web Portal (now: Evaluation Showcase)The goal of this showcase is to bring together and demonstrate the wide range of semantic analysis and annotation capabilities that are present within MUSCLE. Based... Meetings Meetings and EventsMeetingsInternational Workshop on Language Resources for Content-Based Image Retrieval (OntoImage 2006), organized by CEA, May 22 2006, Genoa, Italy E-Team 9 Planning Meeting, CNR - TU Vienna-IFS, San Miniato, Italy, June 8... E-teams E-teams of WP4Semantic from Audio (E-team 7) This eTeam will collaborate on different methods for audio feature extraction and their appliance in both supervized classification as well as unsuperviced organization as a means to access and explore audio... Members Members of WP4WP Leader: Andreas Rauber (TU VIENNA IFS) Deputy WP Leaders:  Khalid Daoudi (Speech Processing) Gregory Grefenstette (Text and Natural Language Processing) Members: KTH BILKENT MTA SZTAKI CNR-ISTI... Software Resources    Below is a list of software that has been developed with the MUSCLE project. It is sorted by type of software and by whether it is proprietary or available under a GNU or similar license. For proprietary software, please contact the person... Public Scientific Deliverables   D.5.1 Single Modality Processing: State of the Art Report   Authors/Eds: Nozha Boujemaa, Valerie Gouet-Brunet   Latest update: Sept 2005   Download: PDF-file (2.0 MB)   D.6.1 Cross-Modal Integration for Performance... Challenges and Roadmaps Introduction The scientific work in the Network is typically urged on by two different driving forces: On the one hand there is the bottom-up, grass roots momentum created by individual researchers pushing their interests and trying to set up... Objectives Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Documents & Deliverables List of D5 and old D6 Deliverables: D6.1: State of the Art in the areas of cross-modal interaction and integration (Due date: 31/08/2004) D6.2: Scientific Papers and Technical Reports - Months 1 to 18 (Due date: 31/08/2005) DN5.2: Scientific... Demos & Ressources Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Meetings Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Members Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Workpackages WP1: Coordination Scientific Coordination: Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA-IMEDIA) Administrative Coordination: Patricia Ho-Hune & Remi Ronchaud (ERCIM)WP 2: Evaluation, Integration and Standards WP Leader: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna-PRIP) The principal objective... Objectives and Description This new workpackage brings together the activities covered by the old workpages WP8  Machine Learning for Multimedia Content  and WP7 Computation. The objectives of this workpackage include: (1) development of new ML techniques specific... Documents & Deliverables Here are links to completed deliverables and a list of outstanding ones. Deliverable 6.1 (Technical reports on completion of each of the tasks, and one intermediate technical report for each task). The intermediate reports are due in Month 36. The final... Demos & Ressources Meetings E-teams There are 3 e-teams directly connected with workpackage 6: Kernel methods in dynamic classification;Active semi-supervised learning;Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multi-channel data. ... Members JPA2 WP1: CoordinationScientific Coordination: Eric Pauwels (CWI)Administrative Coordination: Remi Ronchaud (ERCIM) WP2: Building the Virtual LabWP Leader: Eric Pauwels (CWI)The primary objective of the NoE Virtual Lab is to facilitate collaboration and integration... JPA1 Goals for JPA3 With the start of JPA3 the Network is entering the second half of its lifecycle it therefore becomes increasingly more important to engage outside parties, industry in particular. To this end it is clearly helpful to take advantage of a number of EC-backed... Muscle Objectives MUSCLE aims at creating and supporting a pan-European Network of Excellence to foster close collaboration between research groups in multimedia datamining on the one hand, and machine learning on the other in order to make breakthrough progress towards... Industrial Contacts and Publicity By organizing and attending several conferences, workshops, fairs, competitions MUSCLE-NoE dispersed its results besides academic society to industry and public. This web-page gives information about the newspaper articles about MUSCLE showcases, and... Objectives  The principal objective of this workpackage is reflected in its subtitle "Bringing the Grand Challenges to the End Users": i.e. developing targeted research projects designed to deliver highly demonstrable results for showcasing, while... Documents & Deliverables  DN7.1 Creation and maintenance of WP webpage detailing potential showcase projects  DN7.2 Update of webpage for software components (including specification of Terms of Use).    DN7.3 Organisation of Software Component Exchange Workshop... Dissemination Activities & Resources MUSCLE-NoE organized and attended to several events to disseminate its results. In the first years of the project, more emphasize on the academic events e.g. conferences and workshops were given. Several showcase project teams were formed in those years... Meetings Human Activity Analysis WorkshopBarcelona, 22-23 January, 2007 UPC, Campus Nord, Building D4-Sala de Juntes Meeting Program:22nd January 10:00 ACV-Csaba Beleznai: "Multiple Object Tracking Using Local PCA " 10:30 UVA-Ivo Everts: "Cooperative... E-teams There are no E-teams associated with this WP. ... Members WP-7 Coordinator: A. Enis Cetin, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Associate Coordinator: Andreas Rauber, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria ... Previous news MUSCLE project ended on 28 February 2008 MUSCLE Network of Excellence ended at the end of February 2008. You can find the Final report below. As a follow-up of the project, the partners continue their activities into a MUSCLE ERCIM's Working Group ... MUSCLE final report Download the MUSCLE final report. This brochure will be sent to MUSCLE partners upon request. ... Book on Machine Learning Techniques Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Publication date: 27 February 2008 - Springer link Flyer  Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Case Studies on Organization and Retrieval Series: Cognitive Technologies Cord, Matthieu;... Sponsored Events  The following events and meetings are (co-)sponsored by MUSCLE. Network members are therefore encouraged to submit their work to the appropriate workshops are conferences.  Fourth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing... Public Scientific Deliverables   D.5.1 Single Modality Processing: State of the Art Report   Authors/Eds: Nozha Boujemaa, Valerie Gouet-Brunet   Latest update: Sept 2005   Download: PDF-file (2.0 MB)   D.6.1 Cross-Modal Integration for Performance... MUSCLE Institutes ACV Advanced Computer Vision, Austria ARMINES ARMINES AUTH Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bilkent University Bilkent University (Turkey) CEA Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France CNR-ISTI Consiglio Nazionale... People ... Governance Additional SC members  Sanni Siltanen (VTT)  Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu (ENST)Tamas  Sziranyi (SZTAKI) I ... Mobility The Mobility grant scheme has been suspended in JPA4 To facilitate collaboration within the Network, MUSCLE has earmarked part of its budget to stimulate mobility through its mobility grants. These grants are meant to cover the expenses of MUSCLE researchers... Workpackages Reporting Submit your Activity Report  Submit your Person Month Report Note: Older reports can be accessed on the BSCW server  Bi-Monthly Report #10: Sep-Oct 2005   Bi-Monthly Report #11: Nov-Dec 2005   Bi-Monthly Report... Objectives WP2: EIS (Evaluation, Integration and Standards) The principal objective of this workpackage is to co-ordinate activities that facilitate within and between research workpackage collaboration. This principal objective can be divided into several... Documents & Deliverables Documents and Deliverables The following pages contain WP2-related documents: Information on metadata Conditions of Use of Software and Data, Submission of Software and Data to the repositoryGuidelines of Standards for Representation and Exchange... Demos & Ressources Demos & ResourcesResources MUSCLE data and software repository4M: an infrastructure for MultiMedia Metadata Management ... Meetings MeetingsWorkshops MUSCLE ImageCLEF Workshops on the Evaluation of Image and Video Retrieval E-Team Workshop on ‘Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management’ in occasion of the Fifth International Workshop... E-teams WP2 E-teamsE-team on the Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management The purpose of the E-Team is to facilitate and promote communication and exchange. Since the partners in this E-Team have different areas of interest... Members MembersWP Leader: Allan Hanbury , Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group, Institute of Computer Aided Automation, Vienna University of Technology. WP Sub-Leader: Ovidio Salvetti , Head of Signals and Images Laboratory of the... Muscle Conference The latest Muscle conference was held at Palais Stéphanie by Sofitel in Cannes, France on 11 and 12 February 2008. The videos of the presentations are now available (click on the logo below) This event highlighted and demonstrated the major... VMDL07 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON VISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA DIGITAL LIBRARIES (VMDL07) Modena, Italy, September 13-14, 2007 Joint DELOS-MUSCLE workshop Programme Chairs:   Alberto del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, Italy Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA... MUSCLE @Intersec 2008 MUSCLE  had a stand at INTERSEC'08 Fair which was held at Dubai,UAE between 13-15 January 2008.INTERSEC is the largest Security, Fire, Safety & Health and Police & Homeland Security Exhibition in the Middle East. There are four main... 8th ACM SIGMM 8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval - MIR 200627/10/2006  Santa Barbara, CA, USA In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006 http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/ http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2006/callforpapers... MUSCLE at CIVR 2007 MUSCLE will participate to technical demos at CIVR 2007. The 6th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007) will take place in Amsterdam , the Netherlands during 9-11 July 2007. The showcase events are sponsored by MUSCLE NoE... CHORUS events A two-day event: March 13, 2007, 9:00 to 17:30 hours:  CHORUS Workshop "Use Cases and New Services for Multimedia Content Search" March 14, 2007, 9:00 to 18 hours:  D2 Spring 2007 Concertation Meeting March... MCS 2007: SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS The SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25 2007MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international... RIAO 2007 RIAO 2007 Large Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound)30/05/2007  Pittsburgh, PA, USA -- Carnegie Mellon University Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research that has been validated to... 3rd European Conference... 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production29/11/2006  Savoy Place, London, UK CVMP 2006 is the third in a series of events bringing together practitioners in media production from film, broadcast and games with researchers in imaging and graphics... Intern. Conference on ... Intern. Conference on Mass-Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology and Chemistry MDA´200718/07/2007  Leipzig The automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry is a challenging and... ICDIM 2006 ICDIM 200606/12/2006  Bangalore, India Call For Papers, Workshops and Tutorials IEEE First International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006 Bangalore, India Sponsored by IEEE (http://www.icdim.org) All... MUSCLE Plenary Meeting 6, 7, 8 December 2006 Paris Important Notice: This Plenary Meeting will be the opportunity to actively launch the JPA3 activities. Focus will be on e-Teams driven activities and the presentation of the SHOWCASING activity. Thus several internal projects... ISMIR 2006 ISMIR 2006: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval08/10/2006  Victoria, Canada The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects... International Conference International Conference on Image Processing08/10/2006  Atlanta The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research... International Conference International Conference on Music Information Retrieval08/10/2006  Victoria, Canada The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects the tremendous... IEEE Multimedia... IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop03/10/2006  Victoria, Canada More information   ... Press Release  American Technion Society:Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter Jan 4 2007 [[ Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have found a way to give computers encyclopedic knowledge of the world to help them “think... Download Logo           Muscle large: 5000 * 1600   ... Book Projects Title: Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Editor/Contact person: Matthieu Cord, Padraig Cunningham Table of Contents (Version 1.2) Publication date : 27/02/2008 Springer - Flyer Working title: Multimodal Processing and InteractionEditor/Contact... MUSCLE Courseware Lectures taught at the first MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" (12-17 June 2006, San Vincenzo, Italy). This event was jointly organised with the... Batch 2: March 2006 Multimedia metadata: bridging the gap from low-level media specific features to high-level domain-specific semantic terms  Fellow:    Suzanne Little  Supervision:  ISTI and IBAI  Feature subset selection and multi-sensor... Batch 1: October 2004 Understanding and Benchmarking CBIR Methods  Fellow:    Gareth Loy  Supervision:  KTH and TUVienna-PRIP   Learning Basis Functions for Object Representation  Fellow:    Huicheng Zheng  ... CHORUS Event CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission10th October 2007, Geneva This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will bring together the technical, administrative... CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will **bring together** the technical, administrative and financial representatives of the **various national intitiatives**, which have been established... The first DELOS-MUSCLE The first DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" will be held in San Vincenzo (close to Pisa, Italy) from Mon 12 -- Fri 17 June 2006. ... The DELOS MUSCLE... The DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool Lecture Videos are now available ON-LINE ... ERCIM Fellowship Programme ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship ProgrammeThe fellowships are available for PhD holders from all over the world. Fellowships are generally of 18 month duration, spent in two of the ERCIM institutes. Competitive salary. The application form... Showcases MUSCLE has launched several SHOWCASING projects destined to produce higlhy visual demonstrations of the Multimedia expertise of the different teams involed in the Network of Excellence. The results will be presented to the community mid 2007.  Yet,... MUSCLE @ IBC 2007 MUSCLE will participate to the IBC exhibition 2007 , 6- 11 September in Amsterdam. MUSCLE will demonstrate its showcases in the New Technology Campus together with NEM . article on AlphaGalileo artivle on CORDIS ... The Fith International... The Fifth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing CBMI-2007 will take place in Bordeaux, France on June 25-27, 2007. There will be a special session on MUSCLE-related research. More information will follow shortly.will take place... MUSCLE @ CeBIT The MUSCLE Network of Excellence (NoE) presented its activities and showcases at a booth at CeBIT, the largest IT event worldwide, from 15 to 21.3.2007 in Hanover, Germany. As part of its dissemination activities, various partners of the NoE presented... MCS 2007 The SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25 2007 MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international... University of Freiburg wins ... University of Freiburg wins the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification CompetitionThe prize for the best performing coin classification program in the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification Competition went to Marco Reisert, Olaf Ronneberger and Hans Burkhardt of... MUSCLE Plenary Meeting The next MUSCLE Plenary Meeting wil be held in Paris from the 6 to 8 of December 2006. This Plenary Meeting will be the opportunity to present the new MUSCLE work programme in detail and to launch some specific E-Teams activities and Showcasing projects... Plenary Meeting Photos Muscle Plenary meeting photos of the dinner and the Steering Committee lunch ... Studentship Offer at... Studentship Offer at UCL, UKExploitation of imagery in an ad hoc network environment UCL in conjunction with Thales Optronic Division. This is a 4-year studentship, leading to the award of an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Degree, which offers the opportunity... At ICPR06... At ICPR06, MUSCLE researcher Petra Perner was elected IAPR Fellow for her contributions to image interpretation based on case-based reasoning, machine learning and data mining, and for services to IAPR. ... A report on the... A report on the DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool is published on the CORDIS Wire latest press releases . ... Objectives  The aim of this work-package is to prepare numerical visual data to knowledge extraction and multimodality semantics association. Tasks will focus on visual content indexing and mining (still images and video). There is a progression from low-level,... Documents & Deliverables Demos & Ressources Here is a list of the Showcases shared between WP3 and other WPs Image Retrieval Evaluation Showcase : project leaders: Allan Hanbury, TUV-PRIP and Cees Snoek, UvA; partner INRIA-IMEDIA Dynamic Texture Detection in Video , project leader: Enis Cetin,... Meetings E-teams  E-Team 2: Visual saliency – Leaders:Alexis Joly/Nozha Boujemaa E-Team 3: Person detection and recognition, tracking and analysis – Leaders: Montse Pardas / Enis Cetin E-Team 4: Shape modeling - Leader: Ian Jermyn E-Team 5: Choosing... Members WP Leader: Nicu Sebe , Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.... BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience (previously: Shaping 3-dimensional Environments) Leaders: Michael Dittenbach and Helmut Berger, EC3 Contact person: Johannes Sperlhofer, EC3 Partners: EC3TU Vienna-IFS Summary: Generating, publishing and, most... Object recognition Object recognition showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UVA  Partners: TU Vienna–PRIP (Allan Hanbury, Julian Stottinger)INRIA-IMEDIA (Jaume Amores, Nozha Boujemaa)Goals: The objective of the showcase is to create a demo of object recognition including... Evaluation showcase Evaluation showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UvA and Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna-IFS Partners: TU Vienna–IFS (Andreas Rauber, Thomas Lidy, Jakob Frank)UvA (Nicu Sebe, Cees Snoek)IRIT (Julien Pinquier, Thomas Foures, Philippe Joly)AIIA – AUTH (Costas... CASEWP Content Analysis Showcase and Evaluation Web Portal (CASEWP)This Showcase was integrated into the Evaluation Showcase in JPA4. Please find the results on the Evaluation Showcase page. Leaders: Andreas Rauber, TU WIEN and Joly Philippe, institut... ACADI Automatic Character (in Audiovisual Document) Indexing (ACADI) Leader: Julien Pinquier, UPS-IRIT   Partners: Frederick Gianni, Julien Pinquier (UPS-IRIT) and Ewa Kijak (INRIA-Texmex)Description: We propose a system which permits to describe and... Content-Based Copy... Content-Based Copy Detection for Videos and Still Images Leaders: Nozha Boujemaa and Alexis Joly INRIA-IMEDIA Partners: INRIA - IMEDIA team (France), A. Joly, N. Boujemaa, J. Law-ToINA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France), D.Terouggi, O. Buisson, J... Real Time Detector for Unusual Behaviour Real Time Detector for unusual behaviour Leader: Tamas Sziranyi, MTA SzTAKI  Partners: UPC, SZTAKI, Bilkent, ACVSummary: Visual surveillance and activity analysis has attained great interest in the field of computer vision research. Several... Movie Summarization... Movie Summarisation and Skimming Demonstrator Leader: Petros Maragos, ICCS-NTUA Partners: ICCS-NTUA, Greece (P. Maragos, K. Rapantzikos, G. Evangelopoulos, I. Avrithis)AUTH, Greece (C. Kotropoulos, P. Antonopoulos, V. Moschou, N... Dynamic Texture... Dynamic Texture  Detection in Video Leaders: Enis Cetin, Bilkent University and Dimitry Chetverikov, MTA SZTAKI Partners: Bilkent University (B. Ugur Toreyin, Y. Dedeoglu, A.Enis Cetin (project leader))SZTAKI (S. Fazekas, D. Chetverikov)Tel Aviv... Augmented assembly using... Augmented assembly using a multimodal interface Leader: Sanni Siltanen, VTT Partners: VTT Technical Research Centre of FinlandTechnical University of Crete Description of the system: In this showcase a multimodal user interface for augmented assembly... Real-Time Audio-Visual ... Real-Time Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition Demonstrator Leader: Alexanderos Potamianos, TSI-TUC Partners: TSI-TUC (Alexandros Potamianos, Manolis Perakakis, Eduardo Sanchez-Soto, Fanis Kanetis)ICCS-NTUA (Petros Maragos, George Papandreou, Nassos... Articulatory talking head... Articulatory talking head driven by automatic speech recognition Leader: Jacques Feldmar, INRIA PAROLE  Partners: KTHNRIA-Parole Objective of the showcase project: The objective of the showcase is to recreate in real-time the articulatory movements... Visual Tags for Mobile Services A VIDEO CLIP demonstrates the use of 2D bar codes for physical browsing. The mobile phone automatically detects the code, reads the information, and acts according to it.   Contact: Sanni Siltanen (VTT).   For more... Visual Active Memory Application Understanding and Annotating Tennis The research sets out to explore how an active memory system, operating at several different semantic levels, might lead to a degree of machine understanding when applied to specific scenarios. At present the system... Automatic classification of coins Researchers at Seibersdorf Research developed a visual inspection system that is capable of automatically recognizing and sorting vast quantities of coins. Contact: Michael Noelle (Seibersdorf Research)     This video might have some... Accurate delineation of piecewise smooth optical flow Researchers at Tel Aviv University developed a new algorithm to accurate extract piecewise smooth optical flow-fields by minimizing an appropriate cost functional. Since discontinuities in the vector field... Detecting Falling People Software developed by Enis Cetin's group at Bilkent University is capable of telling the difference between a person sitting down and one actually falling. This technology might prove very useful for intelligent surveillance of vulnerable... Eyetracking improves image retrievalRecent experiments have shown that visual target selection is significantly faster with an eyetracker than with a mouse. This mechanism has now been developed into an interface for image retrieval in which the user is able to... An Online Learning Framework for Object Detection, Tracking and Recognition. ICG (TU Graz) have developed a novel framework for object detection, tracking and recognition. Unlike other approaches we are interested in a seamless integration of these modules. Detection and tracking... Human Detection   in Difficult Scenarios by Combining Motion and Appearance Reliable human detection is a key issue in automated visual surveillance systems. Motion detection provides a strong cue towards accomplishing this task. However, typical scenarios... RETIN An Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval System Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems have attracted large amounts of research attention since 1990's. Contrary to the early systems, focused on full-automatic strategies, recent approaches... Map of Mozart Mozart's complete works analyzed Andi Rauber's team focuses on research for Music Information Retrieval and thus on methods which enable automatic recognition of style, genre or artist of a piece of music or retrieval of similar music. Moreover,... PlaySOM Innovative interfaces for music categorization and access By applying SOM neural nets to automatically analyzed audio content (frequency spectra), researchers at TUWien-IFS have created a very innovative way to organize music by sound similarity... Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image Annotation Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image AnnotationContact person: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna -PRIP) Synopsis: In this e-team, we will work on: Feature extraction and selection for CBIR and image annotation.CBIR using Baysian methods operating on... Statistical analysis of visual processes Statistical analysis of visual processesContact person: Yann Gousseau Synopsis: Keywords: Additonal info: E-Team's n/a ... Multimodal Processing and Multimedia Understanding Multimodal Processing and Multimedia UnderstandingContact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: This e-team will research the following topics: (i) Video Analysis and Integration of Asynchronous Time-evolving Modalities, (ii) Audio-Visual Salient... Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devices Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devicesContact person: Alexandros Potamianos (TSI-TUC) Synopsis: This e-team will investigate how multimodal technology can be used to create efficient and natural interfaces for information retrieval and other applications... Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR) Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR)Contact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: AV Feature ExtractionFeature Fusion Dynamical Models for AV-ASR Evaluation Keywords: feature extraction, speech recognition, multimodal,... Visual Saliency Visual SaliencyContact person: INRIA Imedia Synopsis: We will investigate and develop saliency operators for images and video sequences, e.g. based on local descriptors with point-of interest detection and description. Once salient regions have been... Kernel methods in dynamic classification problems Kernel methods in dynamic classification problemsContact person: Khalid Daoudi Synopsis: Kernel methods have shown their power in static classification problems. The best example is definitely the support vectors machine (SVM) which is the most popular... Active Semi-Supervised Learning Active Semi-Supervised LearningContact person: Michel Crucianu, INRIA Synopsis: Multimedia databases are characterized by large amounts of rather cheap data and small amounts of quite expensive knowledge. Among the many existing frameworks for learning,... Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in Video Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in VideoContact person: Enis Cetin Synopsis: Researchers extensively studied 2-D textures and related problems in the field of image processing. On the other hand, there is very little research on three-dimensional... Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for Music Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for MusicContact person: Andreas Rauber Synopsis: This eTeam will collaborate on different methods for audio feature extraction and their appliance in both supervized classification as well as unsuperviced... Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata managementContact person: Ovidio Salvetti (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: (Semi-)automatic MM metadata specification process - Information extraction techniques - Intelligent approaches - Semantic... Person detection, recognition and tracking Person detection, recognition and trackingContact person: Montse Pardas Synopsis: This e-team is relevant to WP5 (Single modality processing) and WP11 (Integration and Grand Challenges: Detecting and interpreting humans and human behaviour in videos)... Shape modelling Shape modellingContact person: INRIA Ariana Synopsis: Learning shapes and recognizing shapes is a central part of image database indexing strategies. This e-team will focus on shape modelling. Its scope includes shape analysis and learning, prior-based... Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel data Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel dataContact person: Emanuele Salerno (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: The aim of this e-team is to study the problem of identifying and extracting the different components in a multichannel image without... Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Contact person: graziano.bertini AT isti.cnr.it (ISTI) Synopsis: Evaluation of different features sets for audio, music and instruments classification, in several applications - Events “... Objectives WP4: Content Description for Audio, Speech and Text  The aim of this work-package is to prepare numerical multimedia data to knowledge extraction and multimodality semantics association. Tasks will focus on each single modality of text, audio... Documents & Deliverables Documents and DeliverablesReport on Benchmark-Based EvaluationsMUSCLE, the Network of Excellence on Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning consolidates research groups that are exploring methods for knowledge extraction from... Demos & Ressources Showcases:Content Analysis Showcase and Evaluation Web Portal (now: Evaluation Showcase)The goal of this showcase is to bring together and demonstrate the wide range of semantic analysis and annotation capabilities that are present within MUSCLE. Based... Meetings Meetings and EventsMeetingsInternational Workshop on Language Resources for Content-Based Image Retrieval (OntoImage 2006), organized by CEA, May 22 2006, Genoa, Italy E-Team 9 Planning Meeting, CNR - TU Vienna-IFS, San Miniato, Italy, June 8... E-teams E-teams of WP4Semantic from Audio (E-team 7) This eTeam will collaborate on different methods for audio feature extraction and their appliance in both supervized classification as well as unsuperviced organization as a means to access and explore audio... Members Members of WP4WP Leader: Andreas Rauber (TU VIENNA IFS) Deputy WP Leaders:  Khalid Daoudi (Speech Processing) Gregory Grefenstette (Text and Natural Language Processing) Members: KTH BILKENT MTA SZTAKI CNR-ISTI... Software Resources    Below is a list of software that has been developed with the MUSCLE project. It is sorted by type of software and by whether it is proprietary or available under a GNU or similar license. For proprietary software, please contact the person... Public Scientific Deliverables   D.5.1 Single Modality Processing: State of the Art Report   Authors/Eds: Nozha Boujemaa, Valerie Gouet-Brunet   Latest update: Sept 2005   Download: PDF-file (2.0 MB)   D.6.1 Cross-Modal Integration for Performance... Challenges and Roadmaps Introduction The scientific work in the Network is typically urged on by two different driving forces: On the one hand there is the bottom-up, grass roots momentum created by individual researchers pushing their interests and trying to set up... Objectives Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Documents & Deliverables List of D5 and old D6 Deliverables: D6.1: State of the Art in the areas of cross-modal interaction and integration (Due date: 31/08/2004) D6.2: Scientific Papers and Technical Reports - Months 1 to 18 (Due date: 31/08/2005) DN5.2: Scientific... Demos & Ressources Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Meetings Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Members Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Workpackages WP1: Coordination Scientific Coordination: Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA-IMEDIA) Administrative Coordination: Patricia Ho-Hune & Remi Ronchaud (ERCIM)WP 2: Evaluation, Integration and Standards WP Leader: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna-PRIP) The principal objective... Objectives and Description This new workpackage brings together the activities covered by the old workpages WP8  Machine Learning for Multimedia Content  and WP7 Computation. The objectives of this workpackage include: (1) development of new ML techniques specific... Documents & Deliverables Here are links to completed deliverables and a list of outstanding ones. Deliverable 6.1 (Technical reports on completion of each of the tasks, and one intermediate technical report for each task). The intermediate reports are due in Month 36. The final... Demos & Ressources Meetings E-teams There are 3 e-teams directly connected with workpackage 6: Kernel methods in dynamic classification;Active semi-supervised learning;Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multi-channel data. ... Members JPA2 WP1: CoordinationScientific Coordination: Eric Pauwels (CWI)Administrative Coordination: Remi Ronchaud (ERCIM) WP2: Building the Virtual LabWP Leader: Eric Pauwels (CWI)The primary objective of the NoE Virtual Lab is to facilitate collaboration and integration... JPA1 Goals for JPA3 With the start of JPA3 the Network is entering the second half of its lifecycle it therefore becomes increasingly more important to engage outside parties, industry in particular. To this end it is clearly helpful to take advantage of a number of EC-backed... Muscle Objectives MUSCLE aims at creating and supporting a pan-European Network of Excellence to foster close collaboration between research groups in multimedia datamining on the one hand, and machine learning on the other in order to make breakthrough progress towards... Industrial Contacts and Publicity By organizing and attending several conferences, workshops, fairs, competitions MUSCLE-NoE dispersed its results besides academic society to industry and public. This web-page gives information about the newspaper articles about MUSCLE showcases, and... Objectives  The principal objective of this workpackage is reflected in its subtitle "Bringing the Grand Challenges to the End Users": i.e. developing targeted research projects designed to deliver highly demonstrable results for showcasing, while... Documents & Deliverables  DN7.1 Creation and maintenance of WP webpage detailing potential showcase projects  DN7.2 Update of webpage for software components (including specification of Terms of Use).    DN7.3 Organisation of Software Component Exchange Workshop... Dissemination Activities & Resources MUSCLE-NoE organized and attended to several events to disseminate its results. In the first years of the project, more emphasize on the academic events e.g. conferences and workshops were given. Several showcase project teams were formed in those years... Meetings Human Activity Analysis WorkshopBarcelona, 22-23 January, 2007 UPC, Campus Nord, Building D4-Sala de Juntes Meeting Program:22nd January 10:00 ACV-Csaba Beleznai: "Multiple Object Tracking Using Local PCA " 10:30 UVA-Ivo Everts: "Cooperative... E-teams There are no E-teams associated with this WP. ... Members WP-7 Coordinator: A. Enis Cetin, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Associate Coordinator: Andreas Rauber, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria ... Latest The latest news from the MUSCLE Web site ... MUSCLE project ended on 28 February 2008 MUSCLE Network of Excellence ended at the end of February 2008. You can find the Final report below. As a follow-up of the project, the partners continue their activities into a MUSCLE ERCIM's Working Group ... MUSCLE final report Download the MUSCLE final report. This brochure will be sent to MUSCLE partners upon request. ... Book on Machine Learning Techniques Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Publication date: 27 February 2008 - Springer link Flyer  Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Case Studies on Organization and Retrieval Series: Cognitive Technologies Cord, Matthieu;... Previous news CHORUS Event CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission10th October 2007, Geneva This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will bring together the technical, administrative... CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will **bring together** the technical, administrative and financial representatives of the **various national intitiatives**, which have been established... The first DELOS-MUSCLE The first DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" will be held in San Vincenzo (close to Pisa, Italy) from Mon 12 -- Fri 17 June 2006. ... The DELOS MUSCLE... The DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool Lecture Videos are now available ON-LINE ... ERCIM Fellowship Programme ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship ProgrammeThe fellowships are available for PhD holders from all over the world. Fellowships are generally of 18 month duration, spent in two of the ERCIM institutes. Competitive salary. The application form... Showcases MUSCLE has launched several SHOWCASING projects destined to produce higlhy visual demonstrations of the Multimedia expertise of the different teams involed in the Network of Excellence. The results will be presented to the community mid 2007.  Yet,... MUSCLE @ IBC 2007 MUSCLE will participate to the IBC exhibition 2007 , 6- 11 September in Amsterdam. MUSCLE will demonstrate its showcases in the New Technology Campus together with NEM . article on AlphaGalileo artivle on CORDIS ... The Fith International... The Fifth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing CBMI-2007 will take place in Bordeaux, France on June 25-27, 2007. There will be a special session on MUSCLE-related research. More information will follow shortly.will take place... MUSCLE @ CeBIT The MUSCLE Network of Excellence (NoE) presented its activities and showcases at a booth at CeBIT, the largest IT event worldwide, from 15 to 21.3.2007 in Hanover, Germany. As part of its dissemination activities, various partners of the NoE presented... MCS 2007 The SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25 2007 MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international... University of Freiburg wins ... University of Freiburg wins the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification CompetitionThe prize for the best performing coin classification program in the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification Competition went to Marco Reisert, Olaf Ronneberger and Hans Burkhardt of... MUSCLE Plenary Meeting The next MUSCLE Plenary Meeting wil be held in Paris from the 6 to 8 of December 2006. This Plenary Meeting will be the opportunity to present the new MUSCLE work programme in detail and to launch some specific E-Teams activities and Showcasing projects... Plenary Meeting Photos Muscle Plenary meeting photos of the dinner and the Steering Committee lunch ... Studentship Offer at... Studentship Offer at UCL, UKExploitation of imagery in an ad hoc network environment UCL in conjunction with Thales Optronic Division. This is a 4-year studentship, leading to the award of an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Degree, which offers the opportunity... At ICPR06... At ICPR06, MUSCLE researcher Petra Perner was elected IAPR Fellow for her contributions to image interpretation based on case-based reasoning, machine learning and data mining, and for services to IAPR. ... A report on the... A report on the DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool is published on the CORDIS Wire latest press releases . ... Events Past events MUSCLE project ended on 28 February 2008 MUSCLE Network of Excellence ended at the end of February 2008. You can find the Final report below. As a follow-up of the project, the partners continue their activities into a MUSCLE ERCIM's Working Group ... MUSCLE final report Download the MUSCLE final report. This brochure will be sent to MUSCLE partners upon request. ... Book on Machine Learning Techniques Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Publication date: 27 February 2008 - Springer link Flyer  Book on Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Case Studies on Organization and Retrieval Series: Cognitive Technologies Cord, Matthieu;... Sponsored Events  The following events and meetings are (co-)sponsored by MUSCLE. Network members are therefore encouraged to submit their work to the appropriate workshops are conferences.  Fourth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing... Public Scientific Deliverables   D.5.1 Single Modality Processing: State of the Art Report   Authors/Eds: Nozha Boujemaa, Valerie Gouet-Brunet   Latest update: Sept 2005   Download: PDF-file (2.0 MB)   D.6.1 Cross-Modal Integration for Performance... MUSCLE Institutes ACV Advanced Computer Vision, Austria ARMINES ARMINES AUTH Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bilkent University Bilkent University (Turkey) CEA Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France CNR-ISTI Consiglio Nazionale... People ... Governance Additional SC members  Sanni Siltanen (VTT)  Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu (ENST)Tamas  Sziranyi (SZTAKI) I ... Mobility The Mobility grant scheme has been suspended in JPA4 To facilitate collaboration within the Network, MUSCLE has earmarked part of its budget to stimulate mobility through its mobility grants. These grants are meant to cover the expenses of MUSCLE researchers... Workpackages Reporting Submit your Activity Report  Submit your Person Month Report Note: Older reports can be accessed on the BSCW server  Bi-Monthly Report #10: Sep-Oct 2005   Bi-Monthly Report #11: Nov-Dec 2005   Bi-Monthly Report... Objectives WP2: EIS (Evaluation, Integration and Standards) The principal objective of this workpackage is to co-ordinate activities that facilitate within and between research workpackage collaboration. This principal objective can be divided into several... Documents & Deliverables Documents and Deliverables The following pages contain WP2-related documents: Information on metadata Conditions of Use of Software and Data, Submission of Software and Data to the repositoryGuidelines of Standards for Representation and Exchange... Demos & Ressources Demos & ResourcesResources MUSCLE data and software repository4M: an infrastructure for MultiMedia Metadata Management ... Meetings MeetingsWorkshops MUSCLE ImageCLEF Workshops on the Evaluation of Image and Video Retrieval E-Team Workshop on ‘Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management’ in occasion of the Fifth International Workshop... E-teams WP2 E-teamsE-team on the Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management The purpose of the E-Team is to facilitate and promote communication and exchange. Since the partners in this E-Team have different areas of interest... Members MembersWP Leader: Allan Hanbury , Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group, Institute of Computer Aided Automation, Vienna University of Technology. WP Sub-Leader: Ovidio Salvetti , Head of Signals and Images Laboratory of the... Muscle Conference The latest Muscle conference was held at Palais Stéphanie by Sofitel in Cannes, France on 11 and 12 February 2008. The videos of the presentations are now available (click on the logo below) This event highlighted and demonstrated the major... VMDL07 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON VISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA DIGITAL LIBRARIES (VMDL07) Modena, Italy, September 13-14, 2007 Joint DELOS-MUSCLE workshop Programme Chairs:   Alberto del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, Italy Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA... MUSCLE @Intersec 2008 MUSCLE  had a stand at INTERSEC'08 Fair which was held at Dubai,UAE between 13-15 January 2008.INTERSEC is the largest Security, Fire, Safety & Health and Police & Homeland Security Exhibition in the Middle East. There are four main... 8th ACM SIGMM 8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval - MIR 200627/10/2006  Santa Barbara, CA, USA In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006 http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/ http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2006/callforpapers... MUSCLE at CIVR 2007 MUSCLE will participate to technical demos at CIVR 2007. The 6th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007) will take place in Amsterdam , the Netherlands during 9-11 July 2007. The showcase events are sponsored by MUSCLE NoE... CHORUS events A two-day event: March 13, 2007, 9:00 to 17:30 hours:  CHORUS Workshop "Use Cases and New Services for Multimedia Content Search" March 14, 2007, 9:00 to 18 hours:  D2 Spring 2007 Concertation Meeting March... MCS 2007: SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS The SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25 2007MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international... RIAO 2007 RIAO 2007 Large Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound)30/05/2007  Pittsburgh, PA, USA -- Carnegie Mellon University Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research that has been validated to... 3rd European Conference... 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production29/11/2006  Savoy Place, London, UK CVMP 2006 is the third in a series of events bringing together practitioners in media production from film, broadcast and games with researchers in imaging and graphics... Intern. Conference on ... Intern. Conference on Mass-Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology and Chemistry MDA´200718/07/2007  Leipzig The automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry is a challenging and... ICDIM 2006 ICDIM 200606/12/2006  Bangalore, India Call For Papers, Workshops and Tutorials IEEE First International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006) December 06-08, 2006 Bangalore, India Sponsored by IEEE (http://www.icdim.org) All... MUSCLE Plenary Meeting 6, 7, 8 December 2006 Paris Important Notice: This Plenary Meeting will be the opportunity to actively launch the JPA3 activities. Focus will be on e-Teams driven activities and the presentation of the SHOWCASING activity. Thus several internal projects... ISMIR 2006 ISMIR 2006: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval08/10/2006  Victoria, Canada The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects... International Conference International Conference on Image Processing08/10/2006  Atlanta The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research... International Conference International Conference on Music Information Retrieval08/10/2006  Victoria, Canada The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects the tremendous... IEEE Multimedia... IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop03/10/2006  Victoria, Canada More information   ... Press Release  American Technion Society:Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter Jan 4 2007 [[ Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have found a way to give computers encyclopedic knowledge of the world to help them “think... Download Logo           Muscle large: 5000 * 1600   ... Book Projects Title: Machine Learning Techniques for Multimedia Editor/Contact person: Matthieu Cord, Padraig Cunningham Table of Contents (Version 1.2) Publication date : 27/02/2008 Springer - Flyer Working title: Multimodal Processing and InteractionEditor/Contact... MUSCLE Courseware Lectures taught at the first MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" (12-17 June 2006, San Vincenzo, Italy). This event was jointly organised with the... Batch 2: March 2006 Multimedia metadata: bridging the gap from low-level media specific features to high-level domain-specific semantic terms  Fellow:    Suzanne Little  Supervision:  ISTI and IBAI  Feature subset selection and multi-sensor... Batch 1: October 2004 Understanding and Benchmarking CBIR Methods  Fellow:    Gareth Loy  Supervision:  KTH and TUVienna-PRIP   Learning Basis Functions for Object Representation  Fellow:    Huicheng Zheng  ... CHORUS Event CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission10th October 2007, Geneva This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will bring together the technical, administrative... CHORUS Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission This workshop is being organised in cooperation with the European Commission.  The event will **bring together** the technical, administrative and financial representatives of the **various national intitiatives**, which have been established... The first DELOS-MUSCLE The first DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" will be held in San Vincenzo (close to Pisa, Italy) from Mon 12 -- Fri 17 June 2006. ... The DELOS MUSCLE... The DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool Lecture Videos are now available ON-LINE ... ERCIM Fellowship Programme ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship ProgrammeThe fellowships are available for PhD holders from all over the world. Fellowships are generally of 18 month duration, spent in two of the ERCIM institutes. Competitive salary. The application form... Showcases MUSCLE has launched several SHOWCASING projects destined to produce higlhy visual demonstrations of the Multimedia expertise of the different teams involed in the Network of Excellence. The results will be presented to the community mid 2007.  Yet,... MUSCLE @ IBC 2007 MUSCLE will participate to the IBC exhibition 2007 , 6- 11 September in Amsterdam. MUSCLE will demonstrate its showcases in the New Technology Campus together with NEM . article on AlphaGalileo artivle on CORDIS ... The Fith International... The Fifth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing CBMI-2007 will take place in Bordeaux, France on June 25-27, 2007. There will be a special session on MUSCLE-related research. More information will follow shortly.will take place... MUSCLE @ CeBIT The MUSCLE Network of Excellence (NoE) presented its activities and showcases at a booth at CeBIT, the largest IT event worldwide, from 15 to 21.3.2007 in Hanover, Germany. As part of its dissemination activities, various partners of the NoE presented... MCS 2007 The SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS will be held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 23-25 2007 MCS 2007 is the seventh workshop in a well-established series of meetings providing an international... University of Freiburg wins ... University of Freiburg wins the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification CompetitionThe prize for the best performing coin classification program in the MUSCLE CIS Coin Classification Competition went to Marco Reisert, Olaf Ronneberger and Hans Burkhardt of... MUSCLE Plenary Meeting The next MUSCLE Plenary Meeting wil be held in Paris from the 6 to 8 of December 2006. This Plenary Meeting will be the opportunity to present the new MUSCLE work programme in detail and to launch some specific E-Teams activities and Showcasing projects... Plenary Meeting Photos Muscle Plenary meeting photos of the dinner and the Steering Committee lunch ... Studentship Offer at... Studentship Offer at UCL, UKExploitation of imagery in an ad hoc network environment UCL in conjunction with Thales Optronic Division. This is a 4-year studentship, leading to the award of an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Degree, which offers the opportunity... At ICPR06... At ICPR06, MUSCLE researcher Petra Perner was elected IAPR Fellow for her contributions to image interpretation based on case-based reasoning, machine learning and data mining, and for services to IAPR. ... A report on the... A report on the DELOS-MUSCLE Summerschool is published on the CORDIS Wire latest press releases . ... Objectives  The aim of this work-package is to prepare numerical visual data to knowledge extraction and multimodality semantics association. Tasks will focus on visual content indexing and mining (still images and video). There is a progression from low-level,... Documents & Deliverables Demos & Ressources Here is a list of the Showcases shared between WP3 and other WPs Image Retrieval Evaluation Showcase : project leaders: Allan Hanbury, TUV-PRIP and Cees Snoek, UvA; partner INRIA-IMEDIA Dynamic Texture Detection in Video , project leader: Enis Cetin,... Meetings E-teams  E-Team 2: Visual saliency – Leaders:Alexis Joly/Nozha Boujemaa E-Team 3: Person detection and recognition, tracking and analysis – Leaders: Montse Pardas / Enis Cetin E-Team 4: Shape modeling - Leader: Ian Jermyn E-Team 5: Choosing... Members WP Leader: Nicu Sebe , Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.... BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience BEYOND: The Virtual MUSCLE Experience (previously: Shaping 3-dimensional Environments) Leaders: Michael Dittenbach and Helmut Berger, EC3 Contact person: Johannes Sperlhofer, EC3 Partners: EC3TU Vienna-IFS Summary: Generating, publishing and, most... Object recognition Object recognition showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UVA  Partners: TU Vienna–PRIP (Allan Hanbury, Julian Stottinger)INRIA-IMEDIA (Jaume Amores, Nozha Boujemaa)Goals: The objective of the showcase is to create a demo of object recognition including... Evaluation showcase Evaluation showcase Leader: Nicu Sebe, UvA and Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna-IFS Partners: TU Vienna–IFS (Andreas Rauber, Thomas Lidy, Jakob Frank)UvA (Nicu Sebe, Cees Snoek)IRIT (Julien Pinquier, Thomas Foures, Philippe Joly)AIIA – AUTH (Costas... CASEWP Content Analysis Showcase and Evaluation Web Portal (CASEWP)This Showcase was integrated into the Evaluation Showcase in JPA4. Please find the results on the Evaluation Showcase page. Leaders: Andreas Rauber, TU WIEN and Joly Philippe, institut... ACADI Automatic Character (in Audiovisual Document) Indexing (ACADI) Leader: Julien Pinquier, UPS-IRIT   Partners: Frederick Gianni, Julien Pinquier (UPS-IRIT) and Ewa Kijak (INRIA-Texmex)Description: We propose a system which permits to describe and... Content-Based Copy... Content-Based Copy Detection for Videos and Still Images Leaders: Nozha Boujemaa and Alexis Joly INRIA-IMEDIA Partners: INRIA - IMEDIA team (France), A. Joly, N. Boujemaa, J. Law-ToINA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France), D.Terouggi, O. Buisson, J... Real Time Detector for Unusual Behaviour Real Time Detector for unusual behaviour Leader: Tamas Sziranyi, MTA SzTAKI  Partners: UPC, SZTAKI, Bilkent, ACVSummary: Visual surveillance and activity analysis has attained great interest in the field of computer vision research. Several... Movie Summarization... Movie Summarisation and Skimming Demonstrator Leader: Petros Maragos, ICCS-NTUA Partners: ICCS-NTUA, Greece (P. Maragos, K. Rapantzikos, G. Evangelopoulos, I. Avrithis)AUTH, Greece (C. Kotropoulos, P. Antonopoulos, V. Moschou, N... Dynamic Texture... Dynamic Texture  Detection in Video Leaders: Enis Cetin, Bilkent University and Dimitry Chetverikov, MTA SZTAKI Partners: Bilkent University (B. Ugur Toreyin, Y. Dedeoglu, A.Enis Cetin (project leader))SZTAKI (S. Fazekas, D. Chetverikov)Tel Aviv... Augmented assembly using... Augmented assembly using a multimodal interface Leader: Sanni Siltanen, VTT Partners: VTT Technical Research Centre of FinlandTechnical University of Crete Description of the system: In this showcase a multimodal user interface for augmented assembly... Real-Time Audio-Visual ... Real-Time Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition Demonstrator Leader: Alexanderos Potamianos, TSI-TUC Partners: TSI-TUC (Alexandros Potamianos, Manolis Perakakis, Eduardo Sanchez-Soto, Fanis Kanetis)ICCS-NTUA (Petros Maragos, George Papandreou, Nassos... Articulatory talking head... Articulatory talking head driven by automatic speech recognition Leader: Jacques Feldmar, INRIA PAROLE  Partners: KTHNRIA-Parole Objective of the showcase project: The objective of the showcase is to recreate in real-time the articulatory movements... Visual Tags for Mobile Services A VIDEO CLIP demonstrates the use of 2D bar codes for physical browsing. The mobile phone automatically detects the code, reads the information, and acts according to it.   Contact: Sanni Siltanen (VTT).   For more... Visual Active Memory Application Understanding and Annotating Tennis The research sets out to explore how an active memory system, operating at several different semantic levels, might lead to a degree of machine understanding when applied to specific scenarios. At present the system... Automatic classification of coins Researchers at Seibersdorf Research developed a visual inspection system that is capable of automatically recognizing and sorting vast quantities of coins. Contact: Michael Noelle (Seibersdorf Research)     This video might have some... Accurate delineation of piecewise smooth optical flow Researchers at Tel Aviv University developed a new algorithm to accurate extract piecewise smooth optical flow-fields by minimizing an appropriate cost functional. Since discontinuities in the vector field... Detecting Falling People Software developed by Enis Cetin's group at Bilkent University is capable of telling the difference between a person sitting down and one actually falling. This technology might prove very useful for intelligent surveillance of vulnerable... Eyetracking improves image retrievalRecent experiments have shown that visual target selection is significantly faster with an eyetracker than with a mouse. This mechanism has now been developed into an interface for image retrieval in which the user is able to... An Online Learning Framework for Object Detection, Tracking and Recognition. ICG (TU Graz) have developed a novel framework for object detection, tracking and recognition. Unlike other approaches we are interested in a seamless integration of these modules. Detection and tracking... Human Detection   in Difficult Scenarios by Combining Motion and Appearance Reliable human detection is a key issue in automated visual surveillance systems. Motion detection provides a strong cue towards accomplishing this task. However, typical scenarios... RETIN An Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval System Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems have attracted large amounts of research attention since 1990's. Contrary to the early systems, focused on full-automatic strategies, recent approaches... Map of Mozart Mozart's complete works analyzed Andi Rauber's team focuses on research for Music Information Retrieval and thus on methods which enable automatic recognition of style, genre or artist of a piece of music or retrieval of similar music. Moreover,... PlaySOM Innovative interfaces for music categorization and access By applying SOM neural nets to automatically analyzed audio content (frequency spectra), researchers at TUWien-IFS have created a very innovative way to organize music by sound similarity... Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image Annotation Choosing Features for CBIR and Automated Image AnnotationContact person: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna -PRIP) Synopsis: In this e-team, we will work on: Feature extraction and selection for CBIR and image annotation.CBIR using Baysian methods operating on... Statistical analysis of visual processes Statistical analysis of visual processesContact person: Yann Gousseau Synopsis: Keywords: Additonal info: E-Team's n/a ... Multimodal Processing and Multimedia Understanding Multimodal Processing and Multimedia UnderstandingContact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: This e-team will research the following topics: (i) Video Analysis and Integration of Asynchronous Time-evolving Modalities, (ii) Audio-Visual Salient... Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devices Mutlimodal interfaces on mobile devicesContact person: Alexandros Potamianos (TSI-TUC) Synopsis: This e-team will investigate how multimodal technology can be used to create efficient and natural interfaces for information retrieval and other applications... Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR) Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR)Contact person: Petros Maragos (ICCS-NTUA) Synopsis: AV Feature ExtractionFeature Fusion Dynamical Models for AV-ASR Evaluation Keywords: feature extraction, speech recognition, multimodal,... Visual Saliency Visual SaliencyContact person: INRIA Imedia Synopsis: We will investigate and develop saliency operators for images and video sequences, e.g. based on local descriptors with point-of interest detection and description. Once salient regions have been... Kernel methods in dynamic classification problems Kernel methods in dynamic classification problemsContact person: Khalid Daoudi Synopsis: Kernel methods have shown their power in static classification problems. The best example is definitely the support vectors machine (SVM) which is the most popular... Active Semi-Supervised Learning Active Semi-Supervised LearningContact person: Michel Crucianu, INRIA Synopsis: Multimedia databases are characterized by large amounts of rather cheap data and small amounts of quite expensive knowledge. Among the many existing frameworks for learning,... Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in Video Dynamic Texture Analysis and Detection in VideoContact person: Enis Cetin Synopsis: Researchers extensively studied 2-D textures and related problems in the field of image processing. On the other hand, there is very little research on three-dimensional... Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for Music Semantic from Audio and Genre Classification for MusicContact person: Andreas Rauber Synopsis: This eTeam will collaborate on different methods for audio feature extraction and their appliance in both supervized classification as well as unsuperviced... Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata management Integration of structural and semantic models for multimedia metadata managementContact person: Ovidio Salvetti (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: (Semi-)automatic MM metadata specification process - Information extraction techniques - Intelligent approaches - Semantic... Person detection, recognition and tracking Person detection, recognition and trackingContact person: Montse Pardas Synopsis: This e-team is relevant to WP5 (Single modality processing) and WP11 (Integration and Grand Challenges: Detecting and interpreting humans and human behaviour in videos)... Shape modelling Shape modellingContact person: INRIA Ariana Synopsis: Learning shapes and recognizing shapes is a central part of image database indexing strategies. This e-team will focus on shape modelling. Its scope includes shape analysis and learning, prior-based... Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel data Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel dataContact person: Emanuele Salerno (ISTI-CNR) Synopsis: The aim of this e-team is to study the problem of identifying and extracting the different components in a multichannel image without... Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Semantic from Audio: features, perception and synthesis Contact person: graziano.bertini AT isti.cnr.it (ISTI) Synopsis: Evaluation of different features sets for audio, music and instruments classification, in several applications - Events “... Objectives WP4: Content Description for Audio, Speech and Text  The aim of this work-package is to prepare numerical multimedia data to knowledge extraction and multimodality semantics association. Tasks will focus on each single modality of text, audio... Documents & Deliverables Documents and DeliverablesReport on Benchmark-Based EvaluationsMUSCLE, the Network of Excellence on Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning consolidates research groups that are exploring methods for knowledge extraction from... Demos & Ressources Showcases:Content Analysis Showcase and Evaluation Web Portal (now: Evaluation Showcase)The goal of this showcase is to bring together and demonstrate the wide range of semantic analysis and annotation capabilities that are present within MUSCLE. Based... Meetings Meetings and EventsMeetingsInternational Workshop on Language Resources for Content-Based Image Retrieval (OntoImage 2006), organized by CEA, May 22 2006, Genoa, Italy E-Team 9 Planning Meeting, CNR - TU Vienna-IFS, San Miniato, Italy, June 8... E-teams E-teams of WP4Semantic from Audio (E-team 7) This eTeam will collaborate on different methods for audio feature extraction and their appliance in both supervized classification as well as unsuperviced organization as a means to access and explore audio... Members Members of WP4WP Leader: Andreas Rauber (TU VIENNA IFS) Deputy WP Leaders:  Khalid Daoudi (Speech Processing) Gregory Grefenstette (Text and Natural Language Processing) Members: KTH BILKENT MTA SZTAKI CNR-ISTI... Software Resources    Below is a list of software that has been developed with the MUSCLE project. It is sorted by type of software and by whether it is proprietary or available under a GNU or similar license. For proprietary software, please contact the person... Public Scientific Deliverables   D.5.1 Single Modality Processing: State of the Art Report   Authors/Eds: Nozha Boujemaa, Valerie Gouet-Brunet   Latest update: Sept 2005   Download: PDF-file (2.0 MB)   D.6.1 Cross-Modal Integration for Performance... Challenges and Roadmaps Introduction The scientific work in the Network is typically urged on by two different driving forces: On the one hand there is the bottom-up, grass roots momentum created by individual researchers pushing their interests and trying to set up... Objectives Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Documents & Deliverables List of D5 and old D6 Deliverables: D6.1: State of the Art in the areas of cross-modal interaction and integration (Due date: 31/08/2004) D6.2: Scientific Papers and Technical Reports - Months 1 to 18 (Due date: 31/08/2005) DN5.2: Scientific... Demos & Ressources Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Meetings Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Members Please visit the dedicated MUSCLE WP5 web site at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/projects/muscle... Workpackages WP1: Coordination Scientific Coordination: Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA-IMEDIA) Administrative Coordination: Patricia Ho-Hune & Remi Ronchaud (ERCIM)WP 2: Evaluation, Integration and Standards WP Leader: Allan Hanbury (TU Vienna-PRIP) The principal objective... Objectives and Description This new workpackage brings together the activities covered by the old workpages WP8  Machine Learning for Multimedia Content  and WP7 Computation. The objectives of this workpackage include: (1) development of new ML techniques specific... Documents & Deliverables Here are links to completed deliverables and a list of outstanding ones. Deliverable 6.1 (Technical reports on completion of each of the tasks, and one intermediate technical report for each task). The intermediate reports are due in Month 36. The final... Demos & Ressources Meetings E-teams There are 3 e-teams directly connected with workpackage 6: Kernel methods in dynamic classification;Active semi-supervised learning;Unsupervised segmentation and classification of multi-channel data. ... Members JPA2 WP1: CoordinationScientific Coordination: Eric Pauwels (CWI)Administrative Coordination: Remi Ronchaud (ERCIM) WP2: Building the Virtual LabWP Leader: Eric Pauwels (CWI)The primary objective of the NoE Virtual Lab is to facilitate collaboration and integration... JPA1 Goals for JPA3 With the start of JPA3 the Network is entering the second half of its lifecycle it therefore becomes increasingly more important to engage outside parties, industry in particular. To this end it is clearly helpful to take advantage of a number of EC-backed... Muscle Objectives MUSCLE aims at creating and supporting a pan-European Network of Excellence to foster close collaboration between research groups in multimedia datamining on the one hand, and machine learning on the other in order to make breakthrough progress towards... Industrial Contacts and Publicity By organizing and attending several conferences, workshops, fairs, competitions MUSCLE-NoE dispersed its results besides academic society to industry and public. This web-page gives information about the newspaper articles about MUSCLE showcases, and... Objectives  The principal objective of this workpackage is reflected in its subtitle "Bringing the Grand Challenges to the End Users": i.e. developing targeted research projects designed to deliver highly demonstrable results for showcasing, while... Documents & Deliverables  DN7.1 Creation and maintenance of WP webpage detailing potential showcase projects  DN7.2 Update of webpage for software components (including specification of Terms of Use).    DN7.3 Organisation of Software Component Exchange Workshop... Dissemination Activities & Resources MUSCLE-NoE organized and attended to several events to disseminate its results. In the first years of the project, more emphasize on the academic events e.g. conferences and workshops were given. Several showcase project teams were formed in those years... Meetings Human Activity Analysis WorkshopBarcelona, 22-23 January, 2007 UPC, Campus Nord, Building D4-Sala de Juntes Meeting Program:22nd January 10:00 ACV-Csaba Beleznai: "Multiple Object Tracking Using Local PCA " 10:30 UVA-Ivo Everts: "Cooperative... E-teams There are no E-teams associated with this WP. ... Members WP-7 Coordinator: A. Enis Cetin, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Associate Coordinator: Andreas Rauber, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria ... Sponsored events  The following events and meetings are (co-)sponsored by MUSCLE. Network members are therefore encouraged to submit their work to the appropriate workshops are conferences.  Fourth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing... Links Project VITALAS VITALAS is an innovative project designed to provide advanced solution for indexing, searching and accessing large scale digital audio-visual content.... Project RUSHES RUSHES is a STREP funded by the European Commission from Call 6 of the 6th framework programme. RUSHES brings together complimentary expertise of 9 leading EU partners from both academia and industry with view to develop and demonstrate technologies...

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