22nd January

10:00 ACV-Csaba Beleznai: "Multiple Object Tracking Using Local PCA "
10:30 UVA-Ivo Everts: "Cooperative Object Tracking with Multiple PTZ Cameras "

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 TECHNION-Leonid Raskin: "3D Human Tracking with Gaussian Process Annealed Particle Filter "
12:00 UPC-Ferran Marques: "Silhouette-based Posture estimation using geodesic distance maps "
12:30 SZTAKI-Havasi Laszlo: "Framework for geometrical scene analysis "

13:00 LUNCH

14:30 UPC-Cristian Canton: "Human body model tracking in a multicamera setup with particle filtering strategies" 

15:00 BILKENT-Yigithan Dedeoglu: "Detection of fighting people using both audio and video "
15:30 SZTAKI-István Petrás: "Real-Time Detector For Unusual Behavior, "
16:00 Smart room visit
16:30 E-team discussion: BODY ANALYSIS

23rd January

9:00 VTT-Sanni Siltaten: "4D-Live project presentation "
9:30 INRIA-Emilie Dexter: "INRIA-VISTA activities in human analysis "
10:00 BILKENT-Ibrahim Onaran: "Feature vectors for acoustic signal processing"

10:30 Coffee break

10:50 UPC-Montse Pardas: "Foreground detection and tracking in 2D/3D . Facial expression analysis "
11:20 UPC-Veronica Vilaplana "Region based face detection"
11:40 GRAZ-Peter Roth: "Autonomous Learning a Person Model with Minimal Labeling Effort "
12:10 UVA-Roberto Valenti: "Facial Expressions Recognition - A step by step walkthrough "
12:40 BILKENT-Ugur Gudukbay: "Data modelling for visual surveillance "

13:00 LUNCH

14:30 SURREY-Bud Goswami: "Statistical Estimators for Use in Automatic Lip Segmentation"
15:00 BILKENT-Mehmet Türkan: "Human eye localization using edge projections "
15:30 E-team discussion: FACE ANALYSIS
16:00 Conclusion

Monday, February 12, 2007

10:00 Welcome
10:15 Ahmed Tewfik, University of Minnesota, “Subset Selection and Classification”.
          Summary of the talk is attached .
11:15 Mark Huiskes, University of Leiden and Renaud Peteri, University of  La Rochelle
          “DynTex video database ”:  www.cwi.nl/projects/dyntex/
11:45 Renaud Peteri, University of La Rochelle, “Tracking of Dynamic Textures".

12:05  Lunch Break

13:30 Dmitry Chetverikov, Sztaki, Hungary “On motion periodicity of dynamic textures,”
14:00 Sandor Fazekas, Sztaki, Hungary, “Non-regular optical flow for dynamic texture,”
14:30 Ugur Toreyin, Bilkent University, “Detection of moving tree branches in video ”

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Ugur Toreyin, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, “Fire and smoke detection in infrared video ”
16:00 Christophe Tillier, ENST, Paris "Multiresolusion analyses for dynamic
          texture characterization".
16:30 Caglar Ari, Bilkent University, “Motion information based comparison of videos”.
17:00 UPC-Cristian Canton,"3D Human Action Recognition in Multiple View Scenarios "  

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

10:00 E-team meeting
11:00 Showcase project meeting

12:00 Lunch Break

13:30 Showcase project meeting (cont’d)

MUSCLE WP5/Eteam & Showcase Technical Meeting

Athens, 15 March 2007
Meeting Place: Hotel TITANIA, 52 Panepistimiou Str., Athens center
Meeting Room: “PLATON”, 10th Floor

 Meeting Program:

Thursday, 15 March 2007, Morning: WP5 and Eteam Research Progress

09:00 – 09:15 Opening of the Meeting
09:15 – 10:30 Research Progress on WP5 Tasks and Eteams:
Brief Research Presentations (~15-20 min each).

    -Adaptive Multi-modal fusion - G. Papandreou NTUA
    -Visual Saliency Detection - K. Rapartzkas NTUA
    -Audio-visual saliency detection - G. Evangopoulos NTUA
    -Audio-visual inversion - N. Katsananis NTUA
   
10.30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 13:00 Research Presentations (cont’d).

    -Dialogue Detection System - AUTH
    -Lip Activity Detection - AUTH
    -Speaker Change Detection - AUTH
    -SIFT based Face Detector - AUTH
    -Falling Person Detection using Multimodal Signal Processing - BILKENT
    -Multi-modal PDA GUI Design - TUC (Crete)
    -General Info About TEXMEX-INRIA - Patrick Gros

Eteam Collaboration.
Discussion on Muscle Edited Book Contributions.

13:00 – 14:00 Cocktail

Thursday, 15 March 2007, Afternoon: Showcases

14:00 – 15:30 Showcase progress presentations,
Collaboration and Implementation Discussion.

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00 Showcase progress presentations,
Collaboration and Implementation Discussions

Meeting Program:

Monday 23 April 2007
09:00 – 09.10  Introduction
09.10 - 10:40  3 Showcase progress presentations

09.10 – 09.40  Dynamic Texture Detection in Video (Presentations-1 & Presentation-2 ), lead by Enis Cetin, BILKENT and Dmitry Chetverikov, MTA SZTAKI

09.40 – 10.10  Real-Time Detector For Unsual Behavior (Demo videos) , lead by Tamas Sziranyi, MTA SzTAKI

10.10 – 10.40  Object recognition showcase , lead by Nicu Sebe, UvA

10:40 - 11:00   Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30   3 Showcase progress presentations

11.00 – 11.30: Content-Based Copy Detection , lead by Nozha Boujemaa &Alexis Joly, INRIA – IMEDIA

11.30 – 12.00: Evaluation showcase , lead by Allan Hanbury, TU Vienna-PRIP and Cees Snoek, UvA

12.00 – 12.30: CASEWP : Content analysis and Segmentation Evaluation Web Portal , lead by Andreas Rauber, TUWIEN, and Joly Philippe, IRIT-UPS

14.00 – 14.30: Movie Summarization and Skimming demonstrator , lead by Petros Maragos, ICCS-NTUA

14.30 – 15.00: Real-Time Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition Demonstrator , lead by Alexandros Potamianos, TSI-TUC

15.00 – 15.30: Augmented assembly using a multimodal interface , lead by Sanni Siltanen, VTT

15:30 – 16.00 : Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 : 3 Showcase progress presentations 

16.00 -  16.30: Articulatory talking head driven by automatic speech recognition , lead by Jacques Feldmar, INRIA-PAROLE

16.30 – 17.00: Shaping 3-dimensional Music Environments , lead by Michael Dittenbach & Helmut Berger, EC3

17.00 – 17.30: ACADI: Automatic Character (in Audiovisual Document) Indexing , lead by Julien Pinquier, UPS-IRIT

End of meeting for showcase projects

17.30 – 18.30 : SC discussion

There will be a special session based on MUSCLE Showcase Projects at 6th ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), to be held in Amsterdam, Holland between July 9-11, 2007. Each showcase project has to be finished during the summer of 2007 and partners will demonstrate their software/system in this special session.

The demo session is organized by Allan Hanbury ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Hari Sundaram ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

MUSCLE Showcase project leaders submitted proposals to the demo session in April 2007.

Allan Hanbury's presentation about Video Olympics

MUSCLE Plenary Meeting

Paris, 29-30 November 2007
Location: Hotel BREBANT
32 Boulevard Poissoniere, 75009 Paris

Meeting Agenda

Thursday 29 November 2007
11.00 – 11.15 :     Welcome and introduction
11.15 – 11.30 :     Overview of last review meeting and  JPA4 overview
11.30 – 12.00 :      Information about MUSCLE final conference, review meeting
        Admin & Financial Issues for the final year report
12.00 – 12.45 :     2 showcase demos (20 min /showcase)
12.45 – 14.15 :     Lunch
14.15 – 16.15 :     6 showcase demos
16.15 – 16.45 :     coffee break
16.45 – 17.45 :     3 showcase demos
17.45 – 18.00 :     Questions- Discussion

Friday 30 November 2007
09.00 – 10.30 :    3 presentations of e-Teams
10.30 – 10.50 :    Coffee break
10.50 – 12.20 :    3 presentations of e-Teams
12.20 – 13.30 :    Lunch
13.30 – 15.30 :    4 presentations of e-Teams
15.30 – 17.00 :    3 presentations of e-Teams