PRELIMINARY PROGRAM


TUTORIALS

TUESDAY, JUNE 1st

Location:
Faculty of WINS
Department of Computer Science & Logic
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 403
Amsterdam
9.00 - 13.00 T1 Image Data Models
Peter Stanchev
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

9.00 - 13.00 T2 Shape matching
Remco Veltkamp
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
14.00 - 18.00 T3 Spatial Databases
Hanan Samet
University of Maryland, USA
14.00 - 18.00 T4 Image Search Engines: Techniques and Applications
Theo Gevers, Arnold Smeulders, and Alberto del Bimbo
Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Universita di Firenze, Italy
18.00 Informal get together
Early registration

CONFERENCE

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2nd

8.30 - 9.00 registration
Aula of the University of Amsterdam,
Oude Lutherse Kerk, Singel 411,
Amsterdam.

Opening
9.10 - 9.15 Welcome: Arnold Smeulders, general chair
9.15 - 10.00 Invited talk on visual databases
chair: Alberto del Bimbo

Supporting image-retrieval by database driven interactive 3D information-visualization (1)
Martin Leissler, Matthias Hemmje, and Erich Neuhold
GMD, Darmstadt, Germany
Session A1: Image Databases
chair: Robert Laurini
10.00 - 10.25 The spatial spreadsheet (317)
Glenn Iwerks and Hanan Samet
University of Maryland, USA
10.25 - 10.50 A high level visual language for spatial data management (325)
Marie-Aude Aufarre-Portier and Christine Bonhomme
INSA & UCBL Lyon, France

10.50 - 11.15 Coffee break

Parallel Session P1 : Video analysis
chair: Giopal Pingali
11.15 - 11.40 Motion-based feature extraction and ascendant hierarchical classification for video indexing and retrieval (221)
Ronan Fablet and Patrick Bouthemy
RISA / CNRS, France
11.40 - 12.05 Automatically segmenting movies into logical story units (229)
Alan Hanjalic, Reginald Lagendijk, and Jan Biemond
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
12.05 - 12.30 Local color analysis for scene break detection applied to TV commercials recognition (237)
Juan Maria Sanchez and Xavier Binefa
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Parallel Session Q1 : Object retrieval
chair: Theo Gevers
11.15 - 11.40 Retrieval of similar shapes under affine transform (566)
Farzin Mokhtarian and Sadegh Abbasi
University of Surrey, United Kingdom
11.40 - 12.05 Efficient image retrieval through vantage objects (575)
Jules Vleugels and Remco Veltkamp
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
12.05 - 12.30 Using pen-based outlines for object-based annotation and image-based queries (585)
Lambert Schomaker, Edward de Leau, and Louis Vuurpijl
Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI), The Netherlands

12.30 - 14.15 Lunch

Session A2 : Image search systems
chair: Raimondo Schettini
14.15 - 14.40 Blobworld: a system for region based image indexing and retrieval (509)
Chad Carson, Megan Thomas, Serge Belonge, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Jitendra Malik
University of California, USA
14.40 - 15.05 Structural sensitivity for large scale line pattern recognition (34)
Benoit Huet and Edwin Hancock
University of York, United Kingdom
15.05 - 15.30 Interactive query formulation for object search (593)
Theo Gevers and Arnold Smeulders
Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

15.30 - 15.50 Tea break

Session A3 : Query processing
chair: Martin Kersten
15.50 - 16.15 Query processing and optimization for pictorial query trees (60)
Aya Soffer and Hanan Samet
Technion City, Israel
16.15 - 16.40 Querying multimedia data sources and databases (19)
S-K Chang, Gennaro Costagliola, and Erich Jungert
University of Pittsburgh, USA
16.40 - 17.05 Structured high-level indexing of visual data content (409)
Audrey Tam and Clement Leung
Victoria University of Technology, Australia

18.00 Social Event
Reception at the Townhall

THURSDAY, JUNE 3rd

9.15 - 10.00 Invited talk on color: Jan Koenderink
chair: Ruud Bolle

10.00 - 11.20 Poster Session M1, coffee is being served

Parallel Session P2 : Video
chair: Anastasios Venetsanopoulos
11.20 - 11.45 Lucent vision (TM): a system for enhanced sports viewing (689)
Gopal Sarma Pingali, Yves Jean, and Ingrid Carlbom
Lucent Technologies, USA
11.45 - 12.10 Scene segmentation and image feature extraction for video indexing and retrieval (245)
Patrick Bouthemy, Christophe Garcia, Remi Ronfardi, George Tziritas, Emmanuel Veneau, and Didier Zugaj
INRIA-IRISA, France
12.10 - 12.35 Improvement of shot detection using illumination invariant metric and dynamic threshold selection (277)
Weixin Kong, Xianfeng Ding, Hanqing Lu, Songde Ma
Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, China

Parrallel Session Q2 : Database and recognition
chair: Hanan Samet
11.20 - 11.45 A compact and retrieval-oriented video representation using mosaics (171)
G. Baldi, C. Colombo, Alberto Del Bimbo
Universita di Firenze, Italy
11.45 - 12.10 Similarity search using multiple examples in MARS (68)
Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Ortega, and Kaushik Chakrabarti
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
12.10 - 12.35 Error tolerant database for structured images (51)
A.Ferro, G. Gallo and R. Giugno
Universita di Catania, Italy

12.35 - 14.00 Lunch

Session A4 : Image retrieval
chair: Micheal Swain
14.00 - 14.25 Content-based image retrieval based on local affinely invariant regions (493)
Tinne Tuytelaars and Luc Van Gool
University of Leuven, Belgium
14.25 - 14.50 Automatic deformable shape segmentation for image database search applications (601)
Lifeng Liu and Stan Sclaroff
Boston University, USA
14.50 - 15.15 A framework for object-based image retrieval at semantic level (501)
Linhui Jia and Leslie Kitchen
Melbourne University, Australia

15.15 Special Event
Guided tour to the Rijksmuseum

17.15 Social Event
Boat at canal dock opposite the Rijksmuseum

18.00 - 22.00 Dinner

FRIDAY, JUNE 4th

9.15 - 10.00 Invited talk on video
chair: Clement Leung

Video libraries: from ingest to distribution (15)
Ruud Bolle and Hampapu
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

10.00 - 11.20 Poster Session M2, coffee is being served

Parallel Session P3 : Indexing and classification
chair: Aya Soffer
11.20 - 11.45 Categorizing visual contents by matching visual "keywords" (367)
Joo-Hwee Lim
RWCP/Information-Base Functions KRDL Lab, Singapore
11.45 - 12.10 Detection of interest points for image indexation (427)
Stephane Bres and Jean-Michael Jolion
INSA, France
12.10 - 12.35 Image database assisted classification (727)
Simone Santini, Marcel Worring, Edd Hunter, Valentina Kouznetsova, Michael Goldbaum, and Adam Hoover
University of California San Diego, USA

11.20 - 12.35 Parallel Session Q3 : Panel discussion
chairs: Clement Leung and Horace Ip
Performance assessment and international corpus to that end
12.35 - 14.00 Lunch

Session A5 : Information space interaction
chair: Stan Sclaroff
14.00 - 14.25 Task analysis for information visualization (139)
Stacie Hibino
Lucent Technologies, USA
14.25 - 14.50 Filter image browsing exploiting interaction in retrieval (147)
Jeroen Vendrig, Marcel Worring, and Arnold Smeulders
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
14.50 - 15.15 Visualization of the information space to retrieve and browse image data base (155)
Atsushi Hiroike, Yoshinori Musha, Akihiro Sugimoto, and Yasuhide Mori
Hitachi Laboratory/RWCP, Japan
15.15 - 15.40 Assessment of effectiveness of content based image retrieval systems (525)
Alexander Dimai
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EHT, Switzerland

15.40 - 16.00 Tea break

Session A6 : Miscellaneous
chair: Nies Huijsmans
16.00 - 16.25 Excluding specified colors from image queries using a multidimensional query space (76)
Dimitrios Androutsos, Kostas N. Plataniotis, Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos
University of Toronto, Canada
16.25 - 16.50 Image retrieval using fuzzy triples (657)
Seon Ho Jeong, Jae Dong Yang, Hyung Jeong Yang, Jae Hun Choi
Chonbuk National Universiy, South Korea
16.50 - 17.15 Automatic Index Expansion for Concept-Based Image Query (399)
Dwi Sutanto , C.H.C. Leung
Victoria University of Technology, Australia

17.15 - 17.40 Complex visual activity recognition using a temporally ordered database (97)
Shailendra Bhonsle, Amarnath Gupta, Simone Santini, Marcel Worring, and Ramesh Jain
University of California San Diego, USA

POSTERS

Poster Session M1
  1. General Image Database Model (375)

  2. Peter Stanchev

    Bulgarian Academy of Science

  3. System for medical image retrieval the MIMS model (37)

  4. Richard Chbeir, Youssef Amghar, Andre Flory

    LISI INSA, France

  5. An agent-based visualisation architechture (43)

  6. Jonathan Meddes, Eric McKenzie

    The University of Edinburg, UK

  7. Generic viewer interaction semantics for dynamic virtual video synthesis (83)

  8. Craig A. Lindley

    CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia

  9. Category oriented analysis for visual data mining (91)

  10. H. Shiohara, Y. Iizuka, T. Maruyama, S. Isobe

    NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories, Japan

  11. User interaction in region-based color image segmentation (99)

  12. Nicolaos Ikonomakis, Kostas N. Plataniotis, Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos

    University of Toronto, Canada

  13. Using a relevance feedback mechanism to improve content-based image retrieval (107)

  14. G. Ciocca, R. Schettini

    ITIM Istituto per le Tecnologie Informatiche Multimediali, Italy

  15. Region queries without segmentation for image retrieval by content (115)
  16. Jamal Malki, Nozha Boujemaa, Chahab Nastar, Alexandre Winter

    INRIA, France

  17. Content-based image retrieval over the web using query by sketch and relevance feedback (123)
  18. E. Di Sciascio, G. Mingolla, M. Mongiello

    Politecnico di Bari, Italy

  19. Visual learning of simple semantics in ImageScape (131)
  20. Jean Marie Buijs, Michael S. Lew

    Leiden University, The Netherlands

  21. Mandala: An architecture for using images to access and organize web information (163)
  22. Jonathan I. Helfman

    AT&T Labs Research, USA

  23. Visual Web plant: an Internet based presentation environment for plant layour (15)
  24. Gausemeier, Krumm, Ebbesmeyer, Gehrmann

  25. Crawling, indexing and retrieval of three-dimensional data on the web in the framework of MPEG-7 (179)
  26. Eric Paquet, Marc Rioux

    National Research Council, Canada

  27. A visual search engine for distributed image and video database retrieval applications (187)
  28. Jens-Rainer Ohm, F. Bunjamin, W. Liebsch, B. Makai, K. Müller, B. Saberdest, D. Zier

    Heinrich Hertz Institute for Communications Technology, Germany

  29. Indexing multimedia for the internet (195)
  30. Brian Eberman, Blair Fidler, Robert Iannucci, Chris Joerg, Leonidas Kontothanassis, David E. Kovalcin, Pedro Moreno, Michale J. Swain, Jean-Manuel Van Thong

    Cambridge Research Laboratory, USA

  31. Crawling for images on the WWW (203)
  32. Junghoo Cho, Sougata Mukherjea

    Stanford University, USA

  33. A dynamic JAVA-based intelligent interface for online image database searches (211)
  34. Konstantinou, Psarrou

  35. A novel image compression technique unifying fractal and DCT encoding (1)
  36. Yuxuan, Toh Guan Nge

  37. Automatic recognition of camera zooms (253)
  38. Sephan Fischer, Ivica Rimac, Ralf Steinmetz

    Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

  39. A region tracking method with failure detection for an interactive video indexing environment (261)
  40. Marc Gelgon, Patrick Bouthemy, Thierry Dubois

    IRISA/INRIA, France

  41. Integrated parsing of compressed video (269)
  42. Suchendra M. Bhandarkar, Yashodhan S. Warke, Aparna A. Khombhadia

    The University of Georgia, USA

  43. Temporal segmentation of MPEG video sequences (283)
  44. Edoardo Ardizzone, Carmelo Lodato, Salvatore Lopes

    CNR-CERE Centro Studi sulle reti di Eleaboratori, Italy

  45. Detecting abrupt scene change using neural network (291)
  46. Lu, Zhang

  47. Multi-modal feature-map: an approach to represent digital video sequences (299)
  48. Uma Srinivasan, Craig Lindley

    CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia

  49. Robust Tracking of Video Objects through Topological Constraint on Homogeneous Motion (307)
  50. Liao, Li, Ma, Lu

  51. A Global Graph Model of Image Registration (333)
  52. S.G. Nikolov, D.R. Bull, C.N. Canagarajah

    University of Bristol, UK

  53. A Graph Theoretic Approach to Image Database Retrieval (341)
  54. Selim Aksoy, Robert M. Haralick

    University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

  55. Motion Capture of Arm from a Monocular Image Sequence (349)
  56. Chunhong PAN, Songde MA

    Chinese Academy Sciences, China

  57. Comparing Dictionaries for the Automatic Generation of Hypertextual Links: A Case Study (358)
  58. Isabella Gagliardi, Bruna Zonta

    ITIM Istituto per le Tecnologie Informatiche Multimediali, CNR, Italy

  59. Design of the Presentation Language for Distributed Hypermedia System (29)
  60. Michiaki Katsumoto, Shun-ichi Iisaku

    Communications Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Japan

  61. A Generic Annotation Model for Video Databases (383)
  62. Herwig Rehatschek, Heimo Muller

    Institute of Information Systems, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria

  63. Design and Implementation of COIRS (A COncept-based Image Retrieval System) (391)
  64. Hyungjeong Yang, Hoyoung Kim, Jaedong Yang

    Chonbuk National University, South Korea

Poster Session M2
  1. Feature Extraction: Issues, New Features, and Symbolic Representation (418)
  2. Maziar Palang, Arcot Sowmya

    The University of New South Wales, Australia

  3. Highly Discriminative Invariant Features for Image Matching (435)
  4. Ronald Alfarez, Yuan-Fang Wang

    University of California, U.S.A.

  5. Image retrieval using Schwarz representation of one-dimensional feature (443)
  6. Xianfeng Ding, Weixing Kong, Changbo Hu, Songde Ma

    Chinese Academyof Sciences, PR. China

  7. Invariant image retrieval using wavelet maxima moment (451)
  8. Minh Do, Serge Ayer, Martin Vetterli

    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland

  9. Detecting regular structures for invariant retrieval (459)
  10. Dmitry Chetverikov

    Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungary

  11. Color image texture indexing (467)
  12. Niels Nes, Marcos Cordeiro d'Ornellas

    University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  13. Improving image classification using extended run length features (475)
  14. Syed M. Rahman, Gour C. Karmaker, Robert J. Bignall

    Monash University, Australia

  15. Feature extraction using fractal codes (483)
  16. Ben A.M. Schouten, Paul M. de Zeeuw

    Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI), The Netherlands

  17. A physics-based approach to interactive segmentation (517)
  18. Bruce A. Maxwell

    Swarthmore College, U.S.A.

  19. Adapting k-d trees to visual retrieval (533)
  20. Rinie Egas, Nies Huijsmans, Michael Lew, Nicu Sebe

    Leiden University, The Netherlands

  21. Content-based image retrieval using self-organizing maps (541)
  22. Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, Erkki Oja

    Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

  23. Relevance feedback and term weighting schemes for content-based image retrieval (549)
  24. David Squire, Wolfgang Müller, Henning Müller

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

  25. Genetic algorithm for weights assignment in dissimilarity function for trademark retrieval (557)
  26. David Yuk-Ming Chan, Irwin King

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong kong

  27. Automatic deformable shape segmentation for image database search applications (73)
  28. Lifeng Liu, Stan Sclaroff

    Boston University, U.S.A.

  29. A multiscale turning angle representation of object shapes for image retrieval (609)
  30. Giancarlo Iannizzotto, Lorenzo Vita

    University of Messina, Italy

  31. Contour-based shape similarity (617)
  32. Longin Jan Latecki, Rolf Lakämper

    University of Hamburg, Germany

  33. Computing dissimilarity between hand-drawn sketches and digitized images (625)
  34. Folco Banfi, Rolf Ingold

    University of Fribourg, Switzerland

  35. Document generation and picture retrieval (632)
  36. Kees van Deemter

    University of Brighton, UK

  37. FLORES: a JAVA based image database for ornamentals (641)
  38. Gerie van der Heijden, Gerrit Polder, Jan Wouter van Eck

    CPRO-DLO, the Netherlands

  39. Pictorial portrait indexing using view-based Eigen-eyes (649)
  40. C. Saraceno, M. Reiter, P. Kammerer, E. Zolda,

    W. Kropatsch

    Vienna University of Technology, Austria

  41. Variable bit-length coding:an efficient coding method (665)
  42. Sahni, Vemuri, Chen, Kapoor

  43. Block-constrained fractal coding scheme for image retrieval (673)
  44. Zhiyong Wang, Zheru Chi, Da Deng, Yinlin Yu

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

  45. Efficient algorithms for lossless compression of 2D/3D images (681)
  46. F. Chen, S. Sahni, B.C. Vemuri

    University of Florida, USA

  47. Building 3D models of vehicles for computer vision (697)
  48. Roberto Fraile, Stephen J. Maybank

    The University of Reading, UK

  49. Integrating applications into interactive virtual environments (703)
  50. Alberto Biancardi, Vincenzo Moccia

    Università di Pavia, Italy

  51. Structural sensitivity for large-scale line-pattern recognition (711)
  52. Benoit Huet, Edwin R. Hancock

    University of York, UK

  53. Complex visual activity recognition using a temporally ordered database (719)
  54. Shailendra Bhonsie, Amarnath Gupta, Simone Santini, Marcel Worring, Ramesh Jain

    University of California San Diego, USA

  55. A visual processing system for facial prediction (735)
  56. Changsheng Xu, Jiankang Wu, Songde Ma

    Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore

  57. Semi-interactive structure and fault analysis of (111)7X7 silicon micrographs (745)
  58. Panagiotis Androutsos, Harry E. Ruda, Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos

    University of Toronto, Canada

  59. Using wavelet transforms to match photographs of individual sperm whales identified by the contour of the trailing edge of the fluke (753)
  60. R. Huele, J.N. Ciano

    Leiden University, The Netherlands

  61. From gaze to focus of attention (761)
  62. Rainer Stiefelhagen, Michael Finke, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel

    Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

  63. Automatic interpretation based on robust segmentation and shape-extraction (769)
  64. Greet Frederix, Eric J. Pauwels

    K.U. Leuven, Belgium

  65. A pre-filter enabling fast frontal face detection (777)
  66. Stephen C.Y. Chan, Paul H. Lewis

    University of Southampton, UK

  67. A technique for generating graphical abstractions of program data structures (785)
  68. Camil Demetrescu, Irene Finocchi

    Università di Roma, Italy

  69. Visual presentations in multimedia learning: conditions that overload visual working memory (793)
  70. Roxana Moreno, Richard E. Mayer

    University of California, USA

  71. Visualization of spatial Neuroanatomical data (105)
  72. Cyrus Shahabi, Ali Esmail Dashti, Gully Burns, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Ning Jian, Larry W. Swanson

    University of Southern California, USA

  73. Visualization of the cortical potential field by medical imaging data fusion (809)
  74. Marie C. Erie, C. Henry Chu, Robert D. Sidman

    The University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA

  75. Applying visualization research towards design (817)
  76. Paul Janecek

    Université de Paris-Sud, France