Fourth Annual IBM Watson Workshop
Emerging Leaders in Multimedia
Jointly Hosted by
The Multimedia & Signal Processing PICs
October 9-10, 2008
GN-F15
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY, USA
October 9
8:30 am - 9:15 am Breakfast
9:15 am - 10:00 am John Smith, Perspectives on Multimedia Research
10:15 am - 12:15 pm Research Presentations Session 1
"Image Retrieval on Contextual Spaces", Nikhil Rasiwasia, University of California, San Diego
"Visual Synset: Towards a Higher-level Visual Representation”, Yantao Zheng, National University of Singapore
"Content-Aware Multimedia Processing and Authoring", Feng Liu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Semantic Concept Detection: Cross Concept and Cross Modality", Wei Jiang, Columbia University
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Research Presentations Session 2
"Event detection in large surveillance video archives", Robert Ming-yu Chen, Carnegie-Mellon University
"Recognition and Discovery of Patterns from Video", Pavan Turaga, University of Maryland, College Park
"Geometry-based distributed coding of multi-view images with sparse approximations", Ivana Tosic, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
"Semantic-aware Content Dissemination for Distributed 3D Tele-Immersive Systems", Wanmin Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Research Presentations Session 3
"A new systematic cross-layer optimization framework for delay-sensitive applications", Fangwen Fu, University of California, Los Angeles
"Efficient and robust audio archive management: A study on speaker segmentation and movie dialogue detection", Margarita Kotti, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
"Low-Complexity Video Error Concealment for Mobile Applications Using OBMA", Ping-Hao Wu, University of Southern California
"A novel social media summarization framework", YuRu Lin, Arizona State University
October 10
9:00 am - 10:30 am ISL Demo
For more information, please contact
Gayathri Shaikh (g3@us.ibm.com) or Ying Li (yingli@us.ibm.com)