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 2008

09:40 - 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 form

Please make reservations directly through Palais Stéphanie.
Please complete and email the Palais Stéphanie Reservation form at:
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or fax it at +33(0)4 92 99 70 11.

Transportation details

Nice 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€ 

Contacts:

• Alexandra Lavirotte , Event organizer
• Patricia Ho-Hune , MUSCLE Project Administrator