This event highlighted and demonstrated the major results achieved by the members of its community in the field of Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Machine Learning.
The Conference was open to the scientific community at large, including the whole Muscle Community, the European Commission, as well as all EU funded projects.
Venue:Palais Stéphanie ****
50 boulevard de la Croisette
BP 224
06414 Cannes Cedex
France
Tel: (+33)4/92997000
Fax: (+33)4/92997011
Registration:Registration is now closed
Draft Agenda:
The MUSCLE scientific conference will be co-chaired by Nozha Boujemaa and Eric Pauwels
In addition to the keynote talks, this event includes MUSCLE e-Team presentations and showcase demonstrations as well as presentations from other EU-funded projects.
Monday 11 February 200809:40 - 10:00 Registration - Welcome coffee
10:00 - 10:15 Introduction - MUSCLE achievements
10:15 - 11:00 Keynote speaker: Prof. Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break - Muscle showcase demonstrations
11:30 - 12:00 Shape modelling via higher-order active contours and phase fields - Ian Jermyn,
INRIA Ariana
12:00 - 12:30 A contrario matching of local features between images, Yann Gousseau, ENST
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Recognising Animals, Allan Hanbury, TU Vienna-PRIP
14:30 - 15:00 Person detection and recognition, tracking and analysis - Montse pardas, UPC
15:00 - 15:30 Action class detection and recognition - Ivan Laptev, INRIA Vista
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break – MUSCLE showcase demonstrations
16:00 - 16:30 On Sequence Kernels for SVM classification of sets of vector -
Khalid Daoudi, IRIT
16:30 - 17:00 Active machine learning based on kernels on bags and on graphs -
Sylvie Philipp-Foliguet, ENSEA
17:00 - 17:20 Crossing textual and visual content in different application scenarios - Gabriela Csurka
& Jean-Michel Renders, Xerox (PASCAL)
17:20 - 17:50 Fully Bayesian Source Separation with Application to the CMB - Simon Wilson, TCD
Tuesday 12 February 2008
09:00 - 09:45 Keynote speaker: Joachim Köhler, Fraunhofer IAIS, "Audio Content Search"
09:45 - 10:15 Audio-Visual Speech Analysis & Recognition - Nassos Katsamanis, NTUA
10:15 - 10:45 Multimodal Interfaces - Alexandros Potamianos, TUC
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break – MUSCLE showcase demonstrations
11:15 - 11:45 Multimodal Processing and Multimedia Understanding: Image Retrieval Using Eye
Movements – Fred Stentiford, UCL
11:45 - 12:05 Interactive Visualization tool with Graphic Table of Video ContentsHervé Goëau, INA (VITALAS)
12:05 - 12:30 Open Vocabulary Speech Analysis in VITALAS, Daniel Schneider, FhG (VITALAS)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Feature extraction from audio and their application in music organization and transient enhancement in recorded music, Jakob Frank, TUWIEN and Massimo Magrini, CNR-ISTI
14:30 - 15:00 BilVideo: MPEG-7 Compliant Video Database Management System, Onur Kucuktunc,
Bilkent University
15:00 - 15:20 Implicit feedback learning in semantic and collaborative information retrieval systems,
Gérard Dupont, EADS (VITALAS)
15:30 End
Hotel Accommodation:Rooms have been set aside at the Palais Stéphanie
The discount room rates:- Single room: 149€/night
- Double or twin room: 179€/night
- Breakfast (buffet): included in room rate
- Stay tax: included in room rate
Discount room rate is available until 10 February 2008
Hotel reservation formPlease make reservations directly through Palais Stéphanie.
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or fax it at +33(0)4 92 99 70 11.
Transportation detailsNice International Airport is the closest international airport to the meeting site. The Hotel Palais Stéphanie is located about 30 kms from the airport. The travel time between the airport and the hotel (meeting site) will vary between 30 minutes to one hour depending on traffic conditions. Taxi fares will range between 60-70 &euros;.
By car:
If you are renting a car at the airport, please take the highway A8 to the West, in the direction of Cannes and Aix en Provence. This is a toll road.
Via the A8 from Nice or Aix en Provence, take exit no. 42 for Cannes, Mougins. Follow the signs for Cannes Centre, head along Boulevard Carnot (D6285) for 3 km, then take La Croisette following the shoreline until you reach the hotel (900 m). From the Gare de Cannes train station, take Rue Jean Jaures (160 m), turn right into Rue Chabaud (120 m), continue along Rue Jean Mace (210 m), then turn left into Boulevard de la Croisette (510 m).
By train:
Most of the trains stop in “Cannes”. The train station is a 10 minute walk from the hotel.
From the train station, walk down the street named “Rue du 24 août” until “Rue d’Antibes”. Then walk down rue des Belges and turn on the left to Boulevard Croisette.
Train schedule.
By bus:
There are buses services from the airport to Cannes for a fee of 1.30€
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