W’MAPS 2009
1st IEEE International Workshop on
Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications (W’MAPS)
July 3rd, 2009, Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with IEEE ICME 2009 conference
Schedule
| 8.30AM | Registration |
| 8.40AM – 8.50AM | Welcome Speech by Workshop Chair (Alexander Loui, Kodak Research Labs, USA) |
| Oral Session I: New Challenges in Social Media 8:40AM-9:45AM ( Chair – Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland) |
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| 8.50AM - 9.20AM | “Making Sense of Meaning: Leveraging Social Processes to Understand Media Semantics” (Invited Paper) Hari Sundaram (Arizona State University) |
| 9.20AM – 09.40AM | “Close & Closer: Discover Social Relationship From Photo Collections” Peng Wu, Weimin Ding, Zhidong Mao, Dan Tretter (Hewlett-Packard Company) |
| 09.40AM – 09.45AM | Open Discussions |
| 09.45AM – 10.15AM | Coffee break |
| Oral Session II: Semantic Media Analysis (10:15AM - 11:30AM (Chair – Lekha Chaisorn, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore) |
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| 10.15AM - 10.45AM | “Towards Developing a Unified Multimodal Image Retrieval Framework” (Invited Paper) Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Zhen Guo (SUNY Binghamton), Ruofei Zhang (Yahoo! Inc.) |
| 10.45AM – 11.05AM | “Event Classification in Personal Image Collections” Madirakshi Das, Alexander Loui (Eastman Kodak Company) |
| 11.05AM – 11.25AM | Facial Pose Estimation Using A Symmetrical Feature Model Raymond Ptucha, Andreas Savakis (Rochester Institute of Technology) |
| 11.25AM – 11.30AM | Open Discussions |
| 11:30AM – 1.00PM | Lunch |
| Oral Session III: New Media Applications 1.00PM - 2.10PM ( Chair – Alexander Loui, Kodak Research Labs, USA) |
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| 1.00PM – 1.30PM | Towards Next-Generation Map Making (Invited Paper) Xin Chen, Matei Stroila, James Lynch, Narayanan Alwar, Brad Kohlmeyer, Jeff Bach, Roger Hui (NAVTEQ Corporation) |
| 1.30PM – 1.50PM | New Social Networking Experience using Eyetap Devices Lekha Chaisorn and Corey Manders (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR) |
| 1.50PM – 2.10PM | Integrating A Gesture Interface To A Commercial Online Dance Game Ka Yin Tang, Corey Mason Manders, Farzam Farbiz, Mei Hwan Loke, Gim Guan Chua (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR), Chee Yue Ho (Honor Game International) |
| Oral Session IV: Advances in Audio/Music Processing 2:10PM - 3:10PM ( Chair - Corey Manders, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore) |
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| 2.10PM – 2:40PM | Acoustic Segment Modeling for Speaker Recognition (Invited Paper) Bin Ma, Donglai Zhu, Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR) |
| 2.40PM – 3.00PM | Rhythm Analysis For Personal And Social Music Applications Using Drum Loop Patterns Hui Li Tan, Yongwei Zhu, Susanto Rahardja, Lekha Chaisorn (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR) |
| 3.00PM – 3.10PM | Open Discussions & Wrap-up by Workshop Chairs and TPC Chairs |