CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems
Applications
(DEXA 2008)
September 1 - 5, 2008 Turin, Italy
1st Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production
(AIEMPro08)
http://www.crit.rai.it/AIEMPro08/
MOTIVATIONS
The Media Industry, with television broadcasters in the first line, are being revolutionised by the
development of Information and Communication Technology and by the new working models
introduced by the Internet 2.0. Media production workflows are substantially influenced by new
ways of acquiring, elaborating and publishing audiovisual material. In this context, automatic
information extraction techniques based on audiovisual content analysis are seen as an interesting
and promising option to streamline these processes and lower the total cost of new productions, and
as a way to help to disseminate existing archives. This line of development has been recently
recognised by the European Broadcasting Union as of crucial importance, by setting up a specific
technical group on the subject (P/SCAIE).
Though an immense amount of resources are spent by the research community in the broadly
recognised area of multimedia semantic extraction, unfortunately little exploitation of these efforts
has happened in industrial applications.
The workshop aims at attracting the attention of researchers and practitioners in the field of
automatic information extraction based on audiovisual content analysis on the problems related
with media industry production processes. In particular, the objective is to analyse the impact and
performances of these tools in real-life applications, and on real-life material.
Authors are encouraged to submit papers on which they enlighten the features of existing or novel
tools in the key aspects of media production, including acquisition, editing, publishing, archiving
and repurposing of audiovisual material.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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VII)
Efficient and real-time audiovisual indexing in acquisition
Automated repurposing of archived material on new media channels
Automated news production
Efficient indexing and retrieval of multimedia streams
Automatic speech recognition and personality identification
Collaborative systems for media production
Information Retrieval systems from Multimedia Archives
VIII)
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XI)
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XIII)
Automated material copyright infraction detection and material fingerprinting
Content summarisation (e.g., sports highlights)
Audiovisual genre and editorial format detection and characterisation
Cross-media indexing and integration
Content segmentation tools (e.g., shot and scene segmentation)
Evaluation methods for multimedia analysis tools
To make the event even more challenging, the organising committee will make available a
considerable amount of audiovisual material taken from some of the major European broadcasters
archives (see website of the workshop for furhter information).
Prospective authors may decide to test their technologies on this material, in order to further prove
the effectiveness of their research in a real scenario.
PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW
The full paper submission is limited to 5 pages in length, following the IEEE format (information
downloadable at http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp). Simultaneous submission to
another conference/workshop/journal is not allowed.
Papers must be original and have not been published or under consideration for publications
elsewhere. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee
recognised for their competence in the field covered by the paper.
Final decision about inclusion in the workshop proceedings will be taken by the PC members
exclusively on the basis of the obtained reviews and levels of recommendation.
Papers must be registered using the DEXA conference management software
(https://www.dexa.org/dexadriver)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Full Papers:
Notification of Acceptance:
Camera-ready Copies:
March 15, 2008
April 20, 2008
May 15, 2008
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Alberto Messina (chair)
(RAI R&D, Italy)
Werner Bailer
Prof. Matteo Baldoni
Prof. Robetro Basili
Dr. Gloria Bordogna
Roberto Borgotallo
Prof. Selcuk Candan
Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo
Prof. Hermann Hellwagner
Prof. Franciska de Jong
Prof. Rosa Meo
Dr. Maurizio Montagnuolo
Prof. Gabriella Pasi
Natalia Pavlova
Prof. Maria Luisa Sapino
Birgit Schroeter
Prof. Nicu Sebe
Birgitte Stannius
Dr. Robbie De Sutter
Dr. Nobuyuki Yagi
Prof. Rik van de Walle
(Joanneum Research, Austria)
(University of Turin, Italy)
(University of Rome Torvergata, Italy)
(National Council of Research IDPA, Italy)
(RAI R&D, Italy)
(Arizona State University, USA)
(University of Florence, Italy)
(University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
(University of Twente, The Netherlands)
(University of Turin, Italy)
(euriX s.r.l., Italy)
(University of Milano Bicocca, Italy)
(VGTRK Archives, Russia)
(University of Turin, Italy)
(Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik , Germany)
(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
(Danish Radio Archives, Denmark)
(Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep R&D, Belgium)
(NHK R&D, Japan)
(Ghent University . IBBT Multimedia Lab, Belgium)
WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
Alberto Messina
RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Centre for Research and Technological Innovation,
Corso Giambone, 68 I-10135 Turin (Italy)
Tel: +39 011 8103184
Fax: +39 011 6193779
e-mail: [email protected]
Jean-Pierre Evain
European Broadcasting Union . Union Européenne de Radiotélévision
L'Ancienne-Route, 17A CH-1218 Grand-Saconnex (Switzerland)
Tel: +41 22 717 27 34
Fax: +41 22 747 47 34
e-mail : [email protected]
Dr. Robbie De Sutter
Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep - Medialab
Zuiderpoort Gaston Crommenlaan, 10 B-9050 Gent - Ledeberg (Belgium)
Tel: +32 (0) 9 331 48 49
Fax: + 32 (0) 9 331 48 05
e-mail: [email protected]